4:05 PM - Who’s To Blame?

OK, a little reference material before the blog... Check out this article on CNN.com, about a 13 year old girl who commits suicide after a Myspace prank...

Fake Online "Friend" Leads To Suicide

Now, the knee-jerk reaction is, "What kind of a pathetic twit commits suicide over an internet prank?"  And yes, it's rather easy to go there - Suicide because someone is picking on you is, to say the very least, a permanent solution to a dumb-ass problem.  However, let's examine something here: in the past, when you were being picked on at school, it rarely went beyond the school or neighborhood.  Now, thanks to the internet, literally the whole world gets to be in on the joke.

This is something people seem to forget about this modern era.  It can't at all be comfortable knowing that, every time someone wants to berate you "just because" (which, let's face it, is a trademark of children and young adults), that they can do so on a global scale.  And of course, we're talking about kids here - hyperbole is par for the course.  They have no sense of scale, no moral objections to taking things too far, and no ability to comprehend things in the same scale that they express them.  A teenager might say something is "the greatest thing ever, in the whole freakin' world", but really, what do they know of greatness, or of the world?  This may explain why they tend to use such grand terms to extol the virtues of celebrities, video games, and fast food.

However, what disturbed me the most, is the idea that a whole family was in on this prank - How sick is that?  How bad are you at parenting, if your idea of 'family bonding' is to brow-beat a clinically depressed tweener?  How desperate are you to prove your coolness to your children, if you encourage this behavior?

As fir the Myspace portion of the prank, everyone should know by now that I've never really liked Myspace that much to begin with.  However, I'm not going to hold too much against Myspace for this particular incident, mainly because it really could have happened on any other social networking site just as easily.  I'll just stick to hating Myspace for the classic reasons - Rampant spamming, sexual predators, adware distribution, abysmal loading times, and apathetic staff who would rather defend their right to exist than police their own product. I dunno about the rest of you, but if I discovered that a building I owned was a haven for hackers, crackheads, and child molestors, the last thing I'd be telling the police is, "Well, it'd be too expensive and time consuming for me to fix the problem."

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3:31 PM - Cry Me A River, Sex Offenders
Category: Blogging

I caught a headline on a newspaper today, can't remember exactly what it said, but the basic jist of it was "Sex Offenders Just Want To Get On With Their Lives". I parused a bit of it, and the story was about a convicted child molester who, after his release from prison, feels that people's negative reactions to him are unwarranted and detrimental to his ability to move on with life.

Imagine that - Sex offender status, as it turns out, is an experience that makes it incredibly difficult to live a normal life. How ironic.

Now, I'm not focusing this tyrade on people who got put on the list for accidentally taking an underage girl home from a bar, or because a parent overreacts to a family friend touching their child in a bathing suit area by accident, or 13-year-olds placed on the list because they committed sex acts out of simple non-malicious curiosity, basically any of the "honest mistakes" that can, unfortunately, get you placed on the Sex Offenders List - heck, if anything, they're an argument FOR a more detailed disclosure of the nature of the act (and in the last example, also an argument for better and more frank sex-ed). I'm talking about actual child molesters, rapists, and perverts, people who let their dangerously malformed sex drives supercede their sense of community and decency. These people should be thankful that they're actually being given a shot at proving their rehabilitation.

Two things in my own life have convinced me that our treatment of convicted sex offenders is, in fact, not harsh enough: my own experience as a victim of molestation, and my own attempts to reconcile it by helping a Level 3 Sex Offender who needed a place to live. In the first instance (which occured pre-Megan's Law), the offender was a friend of the family, and when I presented my experience to my father and stepmother, absolutely NOTHING was done about it. To this day, I experience certain issues that I will leave to your imagination, let me simply assure you that they DO affect my life, in a highly negative and disturbing fashion. Over 20 years have passed since the incident, and I still have nightmares about it. Every time the subject comes up, I can't help but to be reminded that the man who molested me suffered far less than I do.

The second incident, otherwise known as my former roomate, started as an honest attempt to help another human being, who for various reasons (including his Level 3 status) had a hard time making ends meet, and was being kicked out of his apartment. So, I took him in. Long story short, I was presented with PLENTY of evidence that he deserved his status - here he was, almost a decade out of federal prison, and he was still chasing and stalking younger men on the internet (sometimes using my computer to do so), and sometimes even bringing his questionable hook-ups home with him. Furthermore, he had a penchant for bragging about his conquests, past and present, not with a tone of guilt or remorse, but sick pleasure. Turns out, he even videotaped some of them. This same guy would grumble and groan about "constitutional rights" and "unfair discrimination" every time the subject of post-incarcerational treatment of sex offenders came up, as if he was ignorant to the depraved and selfish acts he had committed as early as a day ago.

Molestation and rape are acts which, by their very nature, denote selfishness and a callous attitude towards the feelings of others, on a dangerous and detrimental level. As far as I'm concerned, any sorrow a sex offender feels, more than likely has to do with having been caught. How many sex offenders make a genuine attempt to reconcile with the victims? When's the last time you heard of a child molester paying for his victims' therapy, for instance? How often do you hear a sex offender complain that children need MORE protection from internet stalkers? No, usually, whatever it is they're complaining about, has more to do with their own desires and "rights" than those of anyone else. When a parent pulls their child away from a convicted pederast, the pederast should NOT be thinking "hey, that hurts my feelings, I think I'll go write my congressman." They should instead hang their head in shame, and be completely sympathetic towards a parent who is trying to protect their children. Nobody forced them to touch children, and nobody discouraged them from seeking professional help before the problem got out of hand. Molesters and rapists made their own lives miserable, they shouldn't be allowed to blame law-abiding citizens for that. They made their beds, now they can lie in them.

NOTE: this attitude does NOT carry over to the real and present danger of sex offenders being the victims of vigilante justice. I don't support that AT ALL. Ostracize, insult, and discriminate against perverts all day, but do so in a morally acceptable and LEGAL fashion.

So here's what I have to say to all those sex offenders, who find the idea of spending the rest of their lives as pariahs unpalatable, who just want to "get on with their lives"… SO DO YOUR VICTIMS. You do have a purpose in this life. You serve as living reminders of why adults should keep their hands off the little boys and girls. Every time you sickos crow about "scarlet letters" and "having already paid your debt to society", you're only further demonstrating your inherent selfishness and lack of empathy. I don't hate you, and I sincerely hope you have rehabilitated yourselves, but be reasonable - society at large already trusted you once to keep your hands to yourself, and you betrayed that trust. Do you seriously think that changing Megan's Law, and forcing people against their will to live next door to you and hire you, is going to reinstate that trust?

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7:36 PM - PETITION TO HAVE THIS PROFILE IGNORED
Category: News and Politics

PERMISSION TO SPEAK FREELY, SIR!!!

Permission granted - Thanks to the First Amendment.

It's really funny how many times I hear the ol' "I'm all for free speech, but..." chestnut, usually in regards to something we're supposed to be poo-pooing on as a society.  Here's a bulletin post that's been making the rounds recently...

--------- POST BEGINS HERE, NAMES HAVE BEEN REMOVED ----------------

Hey everyone-- I haven't seen this profile yet, but if it really is out there, we should definitely see if we can have it removed. I am all for freedom of speech, but this alleged profile violates decency because 1.) We're AT WAR, and 2.) it's Memorial Day weekend, when we honor our fallen military heroes.

If this profile does exist, I'd like to see what the Marines would do to this guy. SEMPER FI!!!!!!!!!!

And GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*poster's name withheld*


----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: *name withheld*
Date: 26 May 2007, 20:54


Petition to have this profile removed
Body: Petition to have this profile removed
Body: Petition to have "FUCK THE SOLDIERS" space removed

What I'm wanting is your help in Creating a Petition to send to Tom to get the group " Fuck The Soldiers" removed.

Anyone who is willing to help please repost this bulletin and I will send a message to Tom from Iraq when I get there.

Thanks.
Scott

Keep it Going!

1. Scott Hazlinsky U.S. Army
2. SGT. Jessamyn Sobecki U.S. Army
3. SGT. Richard Aller U.S. Army
4. SGT Kelsey Houser U.S. Army
5. SGT. Patrick Poore U.S Army
6. kevin
(and so on and so on)

-------------- ENDING OF THE POST, BACK TO ZILLA'S RANTING --------------------

Let me start things off by saying I DO SUPPORT THE TROOPS, the same way that the majority of Americans do - by saying "I support the troops", wishing them good fortune and a speedy trip home, and VERY LITTLE ELSE.

Oh, don't act all surprised, I probably just described you too, and if you ARE by any chance one of those people sending soldiers gift packages and such, then THANK YOU, SERIOUSLY.  They need all the actual support they can get, because the majority of us aren't doing anything constructive to "support the troops".

That being said, I could give a rat's hindquarters about someone with a profile called "FUCK THE TROOPS".  But thanks to this petition, I'm forced to, as are thousands of other people, who would have either never found out about the profile's owner or would have just blown him off entirely.

First off, note that the recent poster has "not even seen this profile yet".  Showing outrage at something you haven't even bothered to check out for yourself is, for a lack of a better term, kind of dumb.  Especially when you figure out that, with just a few keystrokes in the "Search" bar and a wait of about, oh, ten seconds, you could have found this profile and looked at it yourself, to see what all the fuss was about.  Heck, I'd post a link, if it wasn't for the fact that I'd prefer people ignore this loser, rather than play into this obvious attempt at getting attention, by any means necessary.

Now let's move on to what REALLY torques me about this petition - the whole implication that "free speech" only extends to things that are within the guidelines of what Americans, as a whole, are supposed to consider decent and respectful.  Every time something on the internet/TV/radio/newspaper/cellphone alert/whatever crosses one of these lines, there seems to be a whole mess of people who, instead of IGNORING THE DAMN THING, go up in arms and try to have the "offensive" message stricken from the public record.

Let me ask you: do you honestly think this will change the way people think?

If we outlawed KKK and Nazi rallies, would this get rid of racism?  If we ban nudity and swearing on television, will people stop thinking about "that slutty piece of ass they'd like to fuck"?  If we burned every book and movie about serial killers, would murders disappear as well?

No, but it would make it a heck of a lot harder to identify racists, murderers and sexists.

Think about it: these people, thanks to FREE SPEECH, are identifying themselves for you.  They're taking advantage of our Constitution, to warn you in advance, that they are the kind of people you wouldn't want to associate with.  Why would you want to silence them?  Clearly, they aren't changing any minds with this drivel.  They aren't recruiting new troop-haters, only attracting people who already hate the troops to begin with, thus identifying THOSE people for you as well.  THIS IS WHY FREE SPEECH WORKS.

I'm of Jewish descent, and let me tell you, I'm all for Nazis wearing their swastikas all they please.  Go ahead, wave that red flag of yours.  Shout your hatred for the hook-nosed heebies to the heavens, as loud as you like.  This will make it easier for me to STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM YOU.  I would rather keep my distance from a clearly-marked bigot, rather than move in next door to one unwittingly.  And I feel the same principle applies here.

I also take issue with the idea that "we're at war" and "Memorial Day weekend" are sufficient excuses for censorship.  First of all, the idea that free expression needs to cease during wars just doesn't follow logic.  Clearly, there are two groups of people disagreeing about something very violently, that's what a war is.  If it's OK for countries to bomb the crap out of one another over disagreements, then why is it taboo for a person to drop a few "F" bombs for what they believe too?  And, for that matter, what's stopping you from either spamming his message box, offering a rebuttal, making a profile called "NO, DON'T FUCK THE TROOPS, SUPPORT THEM!", or blocking him entirely?  I also note the "if I see this guy in public..." comment, which implies you're willing to physically harm someone for speaking their mind - hey, that's kind of like a war, isn't it?  While I certainly don't condone ass-beatings for everyone you don't agree with, I can also honestly say that if this person DOES get beat up, well, they merely suffered the consequences of their own actions, which is as it should be.

As for the Memorial Day excuse... OK, look, I'm sure there are people out there who use this day to honor the people of our Armed Forces, however to those people I have some depressing news - The same majority that parrots the whole "Support The Troops" thing, well, they're mostly celebrating a day off of work with hot dogs and beer.  Check your local supermarket for evidence of this.

In conclusion, censoring people who have offensive messages accomplishes nothing.  It doesn't change minds, and it makes it harder for us, as a society, to know who to keep an eye on and avoid.  And clearly, this "FUCK THE TROOPS" person is dancing gleefully in their computer chair, at the prospect that they can get thousands of Americans to take time out of their busy lives, to focus on them for something which, in the long run, doesn't mean ANYTHING.  The person who made this profile, whoever they are, is little more than an anti-social jackass who takes pleasure in getting a cheap rise out of people.

And here we are, giving them what they want, while the troops, who we're "supporting", don't get what they want either way.

Come on, America, grow up.  Either debate them like scholars, fight them like soldiers, or ignore them because they're clueless morons.  Censoring mouthy boneheads is NOT the solution.  Sweeping dirt under a rug doesn't make the floor clean.

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1:44 PM - Starve Yourself For Your American Idol!

I used to think that people had an inherent knowledge of what was stupid and pointless. Otherwise, I reasoned, what prevents them from sitting the wrong way on a toilet seat, or knowing not to drink spoiled milk? Well, thanks to one li'l Indian boy from American Idol, I'm now aware of just how generous this assessment was.

This dork to the right is Sanjaya Malakar, and if you don't know who he is yet, I envy you. Deeply. And I will even advise you to stop reading, otherwise your blood's gonna start boiling soon. It appears that Sanjaya, like many other American Idol contenders, can't sing very well. Also, judging by this photo, he's not exactly up to date on the latest fashions either, but since I'm a bit of an eccentric myself, I'll give 'em a B+ anyways. And believe it or not, there are people starving themselves half to death because of him.

No, really. I just overheard a podcast, in which a woman had to explain, with great sadness, that she'd have to end her hunger strike in protest of Sanjaya, for medical reasons, but that others aligned with her in this pointless cause will continue the strike until, get this, PEOPLE STOP VOTING FOR SANJAYA.

I avoided writing a blog entry when the news reports started coming in. I narrowly dodged the urge to "dim mak" finger-poke my keyboard to death when I heard about the death threats and proposed lawsuits against Sanjaya's supporters. Now I hear that people are staging hunger strikes over this crap. All because some kid is getting voted for despite his lack of ability for the position he's being voted into. Which of course, never happens in this country.

No, this isn't a metaphor for the presidency. For that to happen, Sanjaya would have to win without getting voted for. At least Ol' "Mohawk" Malakar is getting votes.

Anyways, back on topic... If you are the kind of person that fears your children's disillusionment with American Idol's voting process... If you are the kind of person that needs to starve yourself, press charges, or threaten other people's lives because you don't want Sanjaya to be placed in the same limelight as people like Clay "Web-Cam" Aiken, William Hung, and whoever the hell else has been on that vapid excuse for prime-time programming... If this is seriously a huge issue for you, then I must ask you to stay at least 20 feet away from me at all times. I don't want to even risk breathing the same air as you, just in case your brand of idiocy is contageous.

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1:07 PM - Why I Denied Your Friend Request

To: User #2903875098, aka "Haley", aka, "Ms. Fakey McSellyoustuff"
From: Z. Mann Zilla, aka "The 800lb. Vanilla Gorilla" aka "Professor Tor Coolguy Jr."
Subject: Why I Denied You

Hello, potential friend-person.  I see that you took the time to read my profile, and after having considered the numerous pros and complete lack of cons involved in befriending me, you have requested to add me as a friend to your profile.  I am touched.

However, and this truly breaks my heart that I must tell you this, I am afraid that your request is denied.  No, no, crying won't solve anything, please dry those tears and listen to me for a moment.

You see, Haley, or Michelle, or Daisy, or whatever you're calling yourself this week, I noticed some, shall we say, flaws in your profile.  First of all, according to your survey information, you like ham on your pizza, but not chicken.  I simply can't abide by a person who can't appreciate a lil' pizza con pollo from time to time.  And you also committed the following boo-boos:

1) PERSONAL URL IS A NUMBER: C'mon, fuck-tard.  Do people really call you "2903875098" in public?  If they do, it's because you're a prisoner, in which case, no, I still don't want to add you.  At least flip through a phone book or something next time.

2) SPAM COMMENTS LEFT UNDELETED ON YOUR PAGE: Listen dumb-ass, if you only have four comments, and three of them are people telling you the great news about penis enlargement, free iPhones, "kewl" ringtones, and/or working from home, and you haven't deleted them despite the fact that they're a week old and your friend request arrived yesterday, then I have no interest in being associated with you.  Either you're a spammer, or a cellphone-obsessed homebody with a small penis, or more than likely, both.  That ain't the kind of people I roll with, ya dig?

3) TOM IS IN YOUR TOP 8: Look, I appreciate all the effort that "Tom" has put into Myspace, really I do, but name one person who puts him in his Top 8.  C'mon, be real.  I think Tom's closest friends don't even put Tom in their Top 8 anymore, because if they did we'd think they were spammers.  Either that or it's because they already changed to a Top 16/24/whatever.

4) CLEARLY YOU DIDN'T READ MY PAGE: If you did, you'd have seen the paragraph explaining in detail, that I don't OK friend requests without verification of identity, either because I actually know you or because you sent me a message first, requesting to be added.  If the half-dozen bands that request an add can do that for me, then why can't you?  Answer: because you have a big, busy day of spamming to get back to.

5) YOU ARE A BARNACLE ON SOCIETY: Please refer to my previous blog entry, "Make Money At Home You Say...?", and see why I don't even tolerate contemplating the possibility that maybe by some twist of fate you deserve a chance in hell of even coming within visual distance of an off-chance that I'll add you as a friend.  Spammers are not my friends, they are the bugs that I squish with my brand new boots.

6) I GOT BRAND NEW BOOTS: Oh, they are sweet, lemmie tell ya.  All leather, motorcycle style, with steel toe and shank, non-slip treads, and they make me feel like putting a foot in some asses.  Possibly yours.

7) PROFILE PICS ARE INCONSISTENT: According to your survey, you like a quiet night at home in front of the TV and you detest heavy drinkers.  Great, so why was the only picture in your profile taken at a large party, with you holding a plastic cup full of what I can only hope is beer?  Or, why was the request I got last week from a home maker in Nebraska who likes chess and pizza (again, no chicken pizza, what the hell is wrong with you anyways?), yet the photo was obviously taken during a swimsuit photo shoot?  And why only one photo?  The only time I saw multiple photos on one of these bullshit profiles, they didn't even look like the same person.  I'm not that dense, spammer scum.

So, there you have it, 2903875098.  I regret to inform you that we will never be friends, no matter how hard you try.  And I have a feeling that this isn't much of a dissappointment for you, since after making your friend request, you'll probably never come look at my profile again.  No skin off your ample ass, huh?  I just hope someday, you find something more useful and enriching to do with your life, like possibly throw it under a truck or get addicted to bug poison.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a chicken pizza to consume.

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9:50 AM - Make Money At Home, You Say...? BLOCK USER!

Whee, time for another rant...

I get about a half dozen friend requests every week from people who want me to "make money at home" or "check out my 'other' site, which has naked pics of me" or some such other nonsense.  To these cretins, I have the following message:

The monetary system was designed to replace barter, because you can't put livestock in your wallet and carry it around.  Global society has adopted this system to compensate people for the things they do to contribute.  And this system has worked quite well - you are able to get up in the morning, after sleeping on a bed made by compensated workers, and get in your car (also made by compensated workers) and go to Starbucks for your morning coffee (developed, built, and serviced by compensated workers) before taking a trip to the mall to buy clothing, appliances, and electronics to make your life easier (also built, developed, staffed, stocked, and featuring products and services produced by, you guessed it, COMPENSATED WORKERS).  Every one of us encounters literally thousands of reasons in their daily lives, why the monetary system works.We have the internet, electricity, architecture, public and personal transportation, medical services and technology, delicious food and drink, heck, even toys and television programs, in vast amounts, because people get paid to make them.

And then there are you jack-offs.

You sit at home, sending out thousands of messages that annoy and waste the time of 99.9% of the population, while converting the other .1% into useless pieces of crap like yourself.  You contribute nothing positive to the things that make society able to work.  You take advantage of a system that owes you nothing, operates without any need of your "services", and sees no tangible benefit from your actions.  Then, presumably, you take the money you "earn" from this worthless activity, and use the self-same products and services being staffed, deveopled and produced by the rest of us, who wouldn't exist if we decided en masse to take your suggestion and "work from home".

YOU ARE A BARNACLE ON SOCIETY.  While the rest of the world is contributing to the products and services you spend money on, you are at home "providing" a service nobody wants, and "producing" a product that doesn't exist.  How does it feel to be lower on the ladder of social importance than a Taiwanese 10-year-old making sneakers for seven cents an hour?  How does it feel to know that, in a face-to-face encounter, most people would rather give $5 to a homeless person than to you?  The only thing justifying your existence are the jobs of programmers who labor endlessly to develop software that BLOCKS you.  Yes... People in society actually get PAID to find ways to stop you from doing what you do.  It's pretty close to the way we treat criminals, which you would probably be if you weren't so useless and lazy.

Modified addendum for the "naked lady website" people: OK, fine, you provide a service - a glimpse at your naked body.  You are providing a service people want.  Good for you.  However, you're still a lazy piece of shit.  Thousands of sites offer free amateur porn, made by people doing exactly what you do, nearly as "well" as you do it, and in their spare time as a hobby.  Then they get up for work the next day and CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY.  Unlike you.  Of course, time will take its toll on your "business", and unless you were smart enough to both use that money to get through college and to obfuscate your identity so that future employers don't find out you used to strip and suck mullet-man wang on camera for a "living", this problem will solve itself, one case at a time.

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11:04 AM - Let's Start The New Year With A Rant...

OK, MySpacers, listen up... I have a few suggestions, just in case you want to avoid pissing me off this new year.  First one... If you have a business proposition to make, or you're trying to secure my services, or you have an important message with time sensitive information, do it at my real website, okay?  The address is zmannzilla.com just in case you don't know where to look for this information on my main page, and I receive those messages far more often than I do MySpace messages.  Due to some problems I'll be discussing soon, I don't check MySpace messages that often.

Secondly, all that useless crap in your profiles is crashing my browser.  Nobody should have to download crap from Adobe, restart Mozilla twice, get hit in the face with "unexpected errors", and tear what little hair that they have left out of their scalps because you want to cram too much code and gadgetry into your MySpace profile.  Not every section of your profile needs its own YouTube link, okay?

Speaking of unexpected errors... This is my NEW RULE to people sending friend requests: if I can't figure out who the hell you are in real life, and you're too lazy to send me a message before making a friend request, you get denied.  Do it again, and you get blocked.  I'm sick of this shit.  MySpace is for getting to know people, not further obscuring what little personality you actually have behind an idiotic curtain of slow-loading songs, Flash modules and Java-based garbage.  I shouldn't have to comb your pictures and friends list to figure out that you're someone I met at a show once upon a time, or you're actually a very good friend of mine from back in the day, but you're too hung up on anime montages and My Chemical Romance for me to figure that out before Mozilla takes a fat crap on me.

And to the hardcore stalkers out there, sending me repeated messages and friend requests, despite my consistent ignoring of them (and you KNOW who you are, Ms. Inbox Clogger...) Get ready for a year of big dissapointments, because I've just discovered the Block User feature, and I am no longer in the mood to put up with your time-wasting nonsense.  Here's a hint: if the people you talk to, obsess over, and stalk online are more important to you than the people you can actually reach out and touch in a reality near you, then you are a useless pile of skin and you are sponging off the system.  The internet was not designed as a lifestyle alternative - people actually use this pinnacle of technology to get work done, stay in touch with their ACTUAL loved ones, and eventually, step away from the doggone computer once in a while to resume their lives, already in progress.  If this does not resemble you, then get help, seriously!  At the very least, stop haranguing me.  I have better things to do, only a handful of which involve the internet or human relations.

Well, that's all for now, I guess... I promise to not be so grumpy in my next blog, so long as people start doing a better job identifying themselves without the assistance of Naruto, YouTube and Virtual Pets.  It's as simple as a follow-up message with your friend request!

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8:33 AM - They're Doing An Iron Man Movie!!!

YESSSSSSSS!!!

Finally, after years of begging, they're gonna do a live action Iron Man movie, with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark!!!  This ROCKS!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/29/film.ironman.reut/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

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5:28 AM - From "NegativePositive.org"
Current mood: bored

Found this on a page entitled "Things That Need To Die", I didn't write it but it expresses my feelings exactly.  It's also why you don't see a lot of blog entries from me...

"Ennui addicts that update their page to tell you that they're BORED. SO AM I, FUCKHEAD! THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO LOOK AT WEBPAGES! IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY, DON'T FUCKING MAKE A WEBPAGE! See... Let me explain something that has probably slipped by all you uncreative little web-heads who do blogger pages and live journals about NOTHING and link to each other's bloggers that are all about NOTHING. Being bored is DUMB. It's not Hardcore. It's not Artsy. It's not Dramatic. It's not Hip. It's DUMB. You are not a tortured artist. You are not a jaded intellectual. You are not a diamond in the rough. You're FILLER. Nobody is going to see you and your little boring webpage and think, "Holy shit she's so fucking cool and intense! I must get close to her radiant coolness! God! The way she updated her webcam archive to include pics of her new haircolor kept me enthralled for hours. When she had the ends dyed blonde I thought she was God Incarnate, but now that she dyed the tips PINK!... Oh My God! I think I'm gonna CUM! A couple of days ago, she pasted the lyrics to a Linkin Park song as her entire update, along with a closeup pic of her eye. I don't know when I've been so moved. Every day her little Livejournal emoticon says, "Bored," and has a picture of a little anime guy pouting. I know it's just a stock emoticon, but somehow she makes it her own and I can hear it calling out to me, 'Delve deep inside my abyss of ennui and boredom and you will see that I'm just too cool for this world.' I wanna sell my house and my car and be her man-slave and rub scented oils on her flesh!" If anybody does, then it's because they're EVEN MORE BORING AND PATHETIC THAN YOU! NO! You are NOT interesting. You are not too cool for "the scene." You're fucking DULL and LIFELESS! Is that something you want publicized? It sure as hell isn't something I want to read about. If you're boring and stupid, KEEP IT QUIET!"

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10:45 PM - Getting Married Is So Gay...

OK, this may not be the best or brightest forum to address this issue, but I just wanted to type something about it and get it off my chest.  This whole thing, about "gays getting married", is really blown to ridiculous proportions.  I'm getting sick of this whole "consenting adults who love one another should get married" argument, because it ignores one big, humungous glaring error in the logic behind gay marriage:

"LOVE" AND "MARRIAGE" ARE ACTUALLY EXCLUSIVE FROM ONE ANOTHER.

Take one long look at history, and observe that marriage has been used to unite countries, shift property, and preserve geneology.  Sure, it's a trend for people who love one another to get married, but people who DON'T love one another get married all the time too (Anna Nicole, I'm looking in your direction).  Furthermore, there's a rising contingency of unmarried people who stay together for decades, out of sheer love for one another.  Upon observing this, it's clear to see that "love" and "marriage" can exist without one another, contrary to whatever Sinatra may sing.

If gay people want to get hitched, they're going to have to change their argument slightly.  No more of this "we're doing it for love" stuff, because marriage isn't really about the love, it's about the property, and the government know this.  Heck, some of the people arguing against gay marriage probably got their jobs by marrying into the right families.

Another argument that I feel has no steam behind it, is that denying gay people the right to marry is like telling them they are different.  I agree with this argument, because by their own admission, gay people ARE DIFFERENT.  The gay community embraces these differences quite vehemently, as a matter of fact - ever hear of a Straight Pride Festival, or seen a Heterosexual Flag hanging outside of a business?  The differences may not be horrible, or even wrong, but they are THERE.  Which is why this debate exists in the first place.  And, the differences are of a nature that is prohibited by the very institution that invented marriage in the first place: THE CHURCH.

Ultiumately, this is what the other side of the argument is about.  Religious organizations, whose historical duty has been to institute marriages, have decided the criteria for marriage is that it can only occur between a man and a woman.  Homosexuals arguing their right to marry, to an organization which all but completely owns the concept of what marriage is, ranks somewhere near men arguing their right to be on the wait staff at Hooters (which has also happened).

For anyone reading this, and assuming me to be a homophobe, perish the thought.  I simply wish to submit to you that this is an argument for civil unions, something which I am in support of, but which elements of the gay community have been arguing against because "it isn't marriage".  Seeking approval from an organization which has a deep-seated and centuries-spanning practice of demonizing your lifestyle is ridiculous.  Legislating against their beliefs would only deny them their First Amendment rights to worship as they see fit.  And ultimately, it doesn't matter.  If two people truly love each other enough, they would be able to overlook the technical terms.

Oh, and a word to the active persecutors of gays: YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME.  If you actually believe what you think you believe, you'd let God do the judging and get on with your own lives, assuming you have any to speak of.  And citing Leviticus to support your arguments only makes you look like a moron, especially if you like to eat clams and haven't stoned at least one of your children to death yet.  If you're so sure that God has it all under control, then prove it by backing off.  I guarantee the gay people won't chase you down.

They'll be too busy trying to get married.

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