INTELLECTUAL PROPRETY THEFT

As many of you might have heard the Writers Guild of America is on strike out here in the Land of Broken Dreams. And the big thing is do you really know what the strike is about? Sure you're going to miss your favorite TV shows, and you probably think that Hollywood scribes are overpaid -- and many are, but no more so than any other author that you can think of -- music or book included, yes I'm including songWRITERS in the category -- as they get a nice royalty check anytime a song is played on the radio or a CD is bought or a song is legally downloaded.

Here's a video that breaks down what's really going out and why the so-called high priced writers are on strike.

http://weblogs.variety.com/wga_strike_blog/2007/11/writers-strike-.html

As a WGA member in bad standing (i.e. I haven't paid my dues in over a year, because I haven't had a WGA job in longer than that), I feel for the writers who are losing their jobs, but not that much.

Although the one thing that kills me is how shitty Hollywood producers and executives STILL treat us. Think about it this way -- projects GO FORWARD when the writing has reached a level to attract the necessary talent and to excite the marketing people.
Actors who make $20 million a movie (plus all the other obscene bonuses like first dollar gross and shit like that) forego all the ego-driven shit and will work for scale (roughly a few grand a week) IF AND ONLY IF said talent responds to the words on the page put there by none other than the writer!

Not the wily producer, not the studio executive, not the director (unless he's the writer) and the lawyer or marketing whiz or the D-Girl with the big tits who'd suck someone's dick to get a better job - THE WRITER, the scoffed at person who creates the words that come out of the rugged star's mouth those words that make the heroine swoon and all the women in the audience wet with envy.

Maybe the writer's ARE greedy for wanting $.08 instead of $.04 on EVERY DVD sold - at the retail price. Considering how they got ass-raped by VHS sales and the previous DVD boom (which now ain't shit, as people aren't interested in having movie libraries too much anymore).

The sad thing is that the producers were supposed to pay the writers back from the pay cut they took back in the early days of VHS... and that's NEVER going to happen. that money has been snorted, pissed, smoked, driven and built up, up and away for the rapaciously wealthy producers, actors and studio people.

And they'd all be nothing without the writers concocting stories.

I tell you whats going to happen, is that we'll have another year like 2005 -- when everyone thought that the movie industry was a few steps away from the grave because of ALL THE SHITTY MOVIES that got released in late '04 and throughout '05. See, back in late 2002 there was the threat of a WGA strike, so the studios stockpiled all these scripts and rushed them into production without really getting them ready or just buying shit and doing films so producers could get stuff in the distribution pipeline. Now that strike was averted, but not before some of the worst and expensive films were releases, stuff that was so bad the media were claiming that Hollywood was over.

But all that really happened is that the audiences were sick of gagging on the shit that was being spooled out weekend after weekend with huge marketing campaigns... if you remember during 2005, there were some great films -- BATMAN BEGINS, WEDDING CRASHERS, CRASH... to name a few, that really underscored the point -- if you make a great movie, people will come.

And where does a great movie start, from a writer staring at a blank page deciding where and how to begin.

Drinks On You

Ever notice at those do-it-yourself soda machines people blend up the wildest concoctions of soft drinks? Just this afternoon I was at the Trimana Grill in my office building (incidentally for those who’ve been an avid reader of this blog, I’m no longer homeless and I have a job in tony Century City to pay bills and get back on my feet), and this woman is playing chemist with the soda machine – mixing Hi-C Pink Lemonade with Coke and Fanta orange… yeah, that’s what I said, “Fanta orange?” Maybe Fanta cherry for a poor muthafucka’s Cherry Coke, but caramel flavoring and orange, who knew? Not I, that’s for damn sure!

The Damage Control Presidency

Unkle Ruckus
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So the 2008 Presidential Race is all about damage control. It's like that one mid80s Marvel Comic called "Damage Control" , where the people in the comic were tasked with cleaning up New York City after a superhero whupped the muthafuckin' ass of a super villain.

I was remarking that Benazir Bhutto became head of state in a gender repressive country, and it's tripped out because the US -- the bastion of freedom and democracy -- is having trouble electing a female head of state. And even if Hilary Clinton wins the White House, her presidency will be effectively dealing with the skunkshit that she's going to be inheriting. And if she can't really make heads of the mess, do you think the GOP will allow another female President? Unless it's Anne Coulter!

An Environmental Nobel Prize

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So Al Gore won the Noble Peace Prize a few days ago for his work to educate the global public on the dangers of unbridled human activity (all in the name of greed?), and yet I have to believe what ever he's saying as a persuasive message to get people to change their behavior is falling on deaf ears.

In every house I've been in since his documentary AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH came out last year, I haven't seen anybody use compact fluorescent light bulbs to at least cut down on electrical energy consumption, which would have a trickle up effect. And the number of gas guzzling SUVs - those rude rebukes to anyone claiming "green" status -- hasn't seemed to decrease on the roads of Los Angeles -- where regular gas is now $3.19/gallon!

I work really hard to recycle all the plastic bottles and aluminum cans that I can, and any kind of paper product - because

Although the public is more concerned that Britney lost her children (and doesn't want them back!) or that Jennifer Aniston FINALLY told Brad, "I hate you" (I would have thought knowing he was dicking down Angelina when they were married would have prompted that response! Shows what I know) than paying more than water cooler talk about the environment.

Some how talking about environmental issues falls into the category of politics and religion -- taboo public subjects... and I have to ask myself, what the FUCK is that about? We need to have the most open dialog possible about environment impact issues. But I guess like every other social issue of the day, Americans refuse to have an open public discourse about the environment -- and we do all we can to ignore how bad we're pissing on it with Syphilis-infected urine!

I was taking one of those online quizzes about my carbon footprint, and I have to say it wasn't that good, and I make an effort to reduce wasteful consumption of all sorts of shit. The move is to actively find ways to conserve, not just cut back and then foist those views and behavior modifications on those closest to you, who will listen and won't think you're a quack.

Women In Power Positions

Heidi Klum
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Today former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Karachi after 8 years of exile... now it's hard to believe that a woman ran a Middle Eastern Muslim theocracy, but it happened (ironically enough, we'll probably not a see a woman in the White House for at least another decade if Hillary Clinton loses, if she wins and her One Term presidency is a fiasco because she'll be forced to clean-up Dubya's supreme fuck-ups, then we'll probably never have another one in my lifetime -- at least another 50 years!).

But back to Bhutto... apparently she had to come to some sort of "arrangement/agreement" with current military strongman Parviz Musharif, the current Paki president in order to return -- otherwise, her assassination or imprisonment would be all but foreordained.

it's hard to believe that woman was in the position of supreme power in a Muslim state, considering that just next door in Afghanistan women -- under the Taliban rule -- where treated like the worst type of garbage! Truth be told in almost all Muslim states (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria) women are 3rd Class citizens (maybe camels get more love?), it's dictated by the Qu'ran (or so I'm told, I haven't read that tome of freedom masquerading as a tool for oppression).

if you think about a woman on top, it's not such a bad proposition... why? Because they're a little more group oriented when it comes to decisions. My experience is that they consult their peers more than men when it comes to making a decision.

And when a woman's on top she can control men and women... in different ways. They can use their sexuality in ways that men can't to invite suggestion... although female sexuality engenders a greater amount of Haters for irrational reasons.

Does Bhutto represent the future of world politics in the world's most troubled region? We'll only know that when we know what her Side Deal for returning is with the current leader. I would suspect that what ever that deal was, she's going to break it in a matter of months; once she solidifies her power base and re-establishes herself as an alternative voice. And when she gets some clandestine supporters inside Musharif's organizations.

Jail time could occur, but it seems unlikely. However, you can never rule anything out in a Muslim country. Suicide bombers can damn near make anything happen.

Keeping It Interesting... Part II

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As I mentioned in the last post, I'd was going to be talking about injecting a little S&M in a long standing relationship. When I previously wrote on this topic, I wasn't in a serious relationship and any S&M experiences I had where with Pro Dominatrices...

S&M is the ultimate role-playing, and role playing adds a certain spice to a couple's sex life that is not only fun, but creative and re-explores one's inner child.

Unless you're really into kink, then light S&M is the way to go -- who hasn't thought about using handcuffs or ropes to immobilize their partner, so they can have their way with him or her? Imagine tying up your man, and then sitting on his face? He's licking and flicking and sucking and poking for as long as it takes the woman to cum... and maybe she wants a few oral orgasms before sucking the life out of his painfully erect cock or riding him like a jockey in the Kentucky Derby!

Conversely, blindfolding, handcuffing and tickling your woman with a feather will not only get her pussy super-lubed up, hearing her slowly moan with pleasure will stiffen your dick just the way you like.

Other light S&M activities -- including but not limited to -- such as using a crop or a whip or a cat o-nine tails, candle wax, ice cubes, etc., add a different dimension to the sexual encounter.

And who doesn't want to have the encounter be as charged as possible? Who, damn it, who?

Keeping It Interesting...

50 year old Fuck Toy? I say YES
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As one gets older, one begins to think about the softness of a woman's pussy... and how to keep it the prized place to go and be

As a man you have to ask yourself, do you want your woman to stay in radically good shape throughout her 50s? So you can enjoy sex with her continually? The answers is hell fucking yes!

Doing yoga with your woman (or having her do it on her own) and working on those tantric breathing exercises, probably is the best way to keep her (and you) in the best possible physical shape and in her sexual prime for a lot longer than people realize.

The thing about men, women and sex is that finding ways to prevent it from getting stale is the key to not just making the relationship last, but to continually strengthening and enhancing it.

As humans we're going to be tempted by others outside of our main relationship... that's just going to be it. The way I see it exploring tantric sex, role-playing, some light S&M and If possible) threesomes will most likely add that extra dimension to a couple's sex life to keep it vibrant.

Threesomes perhaps pose the most alluring but potentially damaging sexual adventure -- for obvious reasons; if it's two girls and a guy, you have to make sure that the woman in the relationship has bisexual tendencies and make sure she is comfortable with the fact that another woman (probably of her choosing) will be interacting with her sexual partner. We all know how territorial women are when another woman comes into the mix, so treading lightly is an understatement. Although, to make a threesome most effective both partners in the couple need to have bisexual tendencies.

Why do I say this? Because to explore the sexual energy of a threesome, the couple needs to engage in the activity at least twice -- once with 2 girls and a guy, and the other 2 guys and a girl -- where all participants have bisexual tendencies. The desire, or should I say curiosity, to be with someone of your same sex needs to latent to enable a truly enjoyable and most memorable experience.

Now, if you're reading this and you're a guy, you're no doubt saying to yourself -- I don't want another man's dick around me or my woman. However, if you talk with people who have had homosexual flings, therefore consider themselves "straight" there tends to be a heightened level of intellect associated with the choice to explore that kind of energy exchange.

Here's the thing about sexual intercourse -- it's an energy exchange that leaves and indelible mark on who ever is on the receiving end of it... such that any man who knowingly and willingly accepts another man's cock (or maybe a woman wielding a strap-on) is looking to explore an abnormal sexual energy change. Even though I say abnormal, I say that with most non-judgmental tone -- in that the norm is cock into dick slot (i.e. pussy), so cock into ass (whether its a man's or woman's) is a little abnormal. Also, taking cock in the ass isn't as unpleasant an experience as everyone would claim it to be, otherwise women and gay men wouldn't do it. Nor would it be a staple of many S&M encounters (dominatrix pumping a strap-on into her male sub's willing ass). Sucking dick though... that's another matter.

The down-side to a 2 girls and a guy threesome, is that the man is going to give it hard to the woman outside of his relationship, and probably dick down that new woman in a way his current partner isn't getting the dick (or doesn't remember getting dicked down that way with that kind of intensity). It doesn't have to happen, but it could and if it does then there might very well be resent and budding animosity about enthusiasm to another woman -- when the threesome has broken up.

The extra titillating element of this combination is the girl-on-girl action -- watching a woman eat out another woman... besides being a male (and female) fantasy, the male could learn a thing or two about pleasing his woman from this encounter. The interloper woman will also show the man a good time in a way that the woman in the relationship could learn from.

The down-side to a 2 guys and girl threesome is that the man must see his woman get fucked by another man, sees his dick go in and out of her pussy, and watch her luscious lips devours another man's fuckstick. She might get pleasured in ways he might not know how to do for his woman -- and that can and will spell the anagram of the trouble mentioned above.

It the threesome goes down with energy and excitement and physical bliss, then all is good, and the core relationship is probably heightened and solidified even more than what was thought from the outset... however, this might only happen 33% of the time. It works as an adventuresome experiment if their isn't any staleness in the core relationship, and this jaunt is just that... if the relationship is rocky or isn't as stable as the couple believes, a threesome can expose the weaknesses and perhaps tear the relationship apart.

Bringing S&M into the mix... (that's for the next post)

I'm Playing Hookie with the Negroes, Ma!

Bush with Clean Hands
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Well, well, well -- Dubya has just been outed in the WORST possible way. It seems that the transcript to his United Nations script was leaked to the media and there is phonetic spellings throughout the whole damn thing!!!

The kindergarten-esque spelling was mainly for countries and WORLD LEADERS, but still... it makes you think that Prescott's Grandson always needs... needs "assistance" when he gives speeches to the public.

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said it was "not unusual" to include phonetic spellings for various countries in the speech though when asked if the president had a hard time pronouncing some of those country names Perino declined comment saying, "I think that's an offensive question."

Uh, Dan, the fact that Dubya is our president is offensive to me, and more than half of the voting public, not to mention 90% of the rest of the globe!!!

How can you, Dan Perino, sleep at night, fuck your wife or play with you kids while you serve such a gianormous ass-wipe like Prescott's Grandson?

Four Months Later... NBC's HEROES

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So the biggest hit of last season returned to the Fall line up, and I was extremely disappointed.

As a serious comic geek there are things about the show that I absolutely love, but then again there are things about the show that I find insulting -- until I realize that 90% of the audience probably didn't read comics (seriously I mean), so they're amazed by the show. And most viewers who are under the age of 25, probably never read a comic.

The things about HEROES as a show is that it's interestingly apolitical, when it really could be -- look at Fox's "24" or HBO's "The Wire" -- shows that tap into the country's zeigeist and exploit one way or another.

In the days of yesteryear, when superheroes were first created they stood for some piece of the American Ideal, the American Dream.

However, in today's age where selfish motivations are the overriding impetus for damn near everything we do, I'm surprised that we don't see a HERO who is doing things for himself, who is essentially a villain because he uses his special gifts for personal gain instead of serving humanity -- and he's not swayed by the so-called voice of reason.

In the new season, we've been introduced to Maya, a Latin American refugee with special gifts, and we already know from the way her story is unfolding she's going to be ending up on the side of "good." This a little ho-hum to me, because she could be like like Hugo Chavez, and have a mindset of a revolutionary, who is looking to use her powers for reasons that don't jibe with the North American halcyon view of things.

That would be cool... will Tim Kring and his people go down that road? Odds are "nah", but we'll see... it would make the show that much more interesting.

Play Yourself Like the White Trash You Is

Cumdumpster B. Spears
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I never would have thought that one of our favorite cumdumpsters would embarrass herself any more than she has than what she did at the MTV VMA's -- a place where she was known to rule the masses, instead she showed her ass -- the pink of it!

The fact that Entertainment Weekly was shouting "The Horror, The Horror" in its best Marlon Brando voice circa Apocalypse Now!, just reinforces the fact that pop loves to rip the shit out of its icons more than it likes to the prop them and seemingly put them beyond reproach.

Truth be told the woman never had any talent anyway, a new fangled Milli Vanilli if you ask me -- just a marketed chick with high sexy appeal -- when squeezed through the manufactured beauty machine.

Is it sad?

It's sad that we care more about her than the credit crisis that will spell the death knell for hundreds of families.

On the Road To The UN

Iraqi fucking with their oil
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So President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is coming to the UN to spit vitriol and then he'll head uptown to Columbia University to continue his verbal tirade's only he'll have questioning students assault him with logic and moral understanding... something that he's not presented with in his native Persian empire.

Some people wonder if this man, this dictator, should even be allowed in the country... and maybe he shouldn't as it is US State Department's MO to deny Middle Eastern political player to come to the US in order to address the UN General Assembly.

Ahmadinejad isn't your typical head of state, he's a member of the "revolution" who rose up the ranks and eventually became master & commander. Outside of China's Gang of Five (or Four), I can't think of any leader who was part of the so-called "Revolution" and survived long enough to then become head of state -- I don't think Khruschev was part of Lenin's inner circle or part of the Stalin's gang -- and the idiots in the Khmer Rouge never succeeded Pol Pot because they country disintegrated when VietNam invaded.

Ahmadinejad is a recalcitrant one, though, as he demands Persian nuclear weapons to go along with their obscene and trenchant brand of Shi'ism. Even new French Prez Sarkozy wants sanctions slapped across the mouth of this fool. And when a Frenchie is talking tough -- especially about an Iranian -- then you know the man and his followers/sycophants are really bad for the planet.

Still, I'd be curious to be in the Columbia University lecture hall to hear the man rip the United States and the West in general a new asshole -- the type of dick-slapping of the current regime that would NEVER be allowed in his country, under any circumstances. Because once he's done, he's going to have to answer some questions from the student body and others in the audience... and they're going to break his jaw and shit down his throat... but it a nice way, a way that'll make Ahmadinejad look like an idiot.

Modern Day Citizen Kane

Modern Day Citizen Kane
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You know I had been avidly following the story behind Rupert Murdoch's battle to acquire Dow Jones, and it's flagship publication The Wall Street Journal, and it just smacked of something out that Orson Welles classic piece of cinema.

it doesn't bode well for the "fairness" of the business press when a far-reaching business owns one of the top international media outlets for so-called "hard news" with a business slant to it.

Will we really see the change in the way news -- particularly news that could adversely affect any of Murdoch's other business ventures -- be covered differently? No, the change in editorially will be glacial and then maybe in 5 or 6 years from now the new face of the Journal will only be apparent those who style mavens who exude a talent for pattern recognition.

Retreat!?!? From what Objective...

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Today I was listening to some Veterans of Foreign Wars speak about the much-ballyhooed Pull-Out of American Forces from that nasty quagmire formerly known as Iraq.

What people keep saying is that we can't leave until we've finished our mission, finished our objective... my question is, what the fuck exactly is our mission?

The fact that it can't be pitched Hollywood style in less than three sentences is the reason why it's a cluster fuck in the Middle East and Iraq specifically -- people are dying, money is being wasted, and animosity is being generated, because there really isn't any concrete plans, benchmarks and goal breakthrus for the military, the government or the U.S. citizens to monitor the successes and failures of Dubya's War...

A pull-out just needs to happen, because we can't keep soldiers there for years at a clip... at least rotate people from places like Europe and South Korea to the region, to give those poor souls who are getting heat stroke on the regular a break and a chance to see their families.

It's hard to tell what success in the country would constitute, and since that's not an ideal state to be in, it's best to figure that out so we can then turn tail and run AND STILL save face.

Obviously preventing the ripping apart of the country is the only major goal/mission -- but that's not something the US or anything cabal of countries could prevent from happening IF the Iraqis wanted to happen.

Pull out as soon as possible, eat the shit the Dubya has been concocting in a pot and waiting to serve since instigating the invasion, and see who America withstands feces-breath for years (if not decades) to come... 'cause the Brits are already on their way out, and we'll be the last man standing, holding the lion by the tail as the whirlwind comes a-reaping...

Wage Slaves - Man, I Wish!!!!

The Race Card
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You know the one thing that is hard as fuck for niggas to do? And is something that white people just don't get it? Getting a job.

If you're non-black and you're reading this, stop and think about the job that you have... how many black people are in your workplace? And don't count the chump-change jobs like the delivery guy or the security guy or the janitor.

Probably not a lot, huh? Probably one or two people on your whole floor and maybe someone working as the receptionist.

Now think about the places you go, like retail establishments and restaurants and movie theaters and gas stations or 7-Eleven clerks (no niggas there!!!).

I'm gonna say that your mail deliver person (USPS or FedEx or UPS) to your house could be a nigga, and there's probably a few cops, not to mention most of the people at the DMV or any mind-numbing government job.

Niggas are typically assed out when it comes to better paying jobs - now I'm not even talking about high paying jobs, I'm talking about jobs that pay over $25K a year BEFORE TAXES!

There was a book about the culture of fear that was discussed in that Michael Moore movie Bowling For Columbine, where the author (a USC sociology professor) stated that the average black man with a college degree and some post-graduate work under his belt with work experience is making the same or less than the average white man who only has a high school diploma!!! A high school diploma, what the fuck is that?

So the term wage slave most likely refers to white peope who WISH they had more high-paying, more flexible jobs.

Controlling What Survives In The Market

The Enemy's HQ
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I was listenin to the Wall Street Journal Report the other day and something very interesting was discussed -- the success of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray DVD, and the WSJ predicted that HD-DVD would be come the standard because WalMart -- in its quest to supply the US consumer with the cheapest possible prices, that is hammering manufacturers to provide cheaper and cheaper wholesale prices -- will be stocking its shelves with HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray; simply because the manufacturing costs and therefore the profit margin for the retails in lower on Blu-Ray than on HD-DVD. T

hus WalMart won't be stocking Blu-Ray, and because of WalMart's market share, buying power and hypnosis of consumers, Sony and its colleagues are going to be assed out.

Now we'll have to see what actually happens, but it's a sure bet by next year this time we'll know about the fate of Blu-Ray.

The problem Sony has is that they bet the farm on the Blu-Ray technology by installing it in its Playstation 3 (the main reason by the platform is so expense and isn't performing that well). So if Blu-Ray crashes, because WalMart won't stock it will Sony have to design a Playstation 3 with HD-DVD? In order to make the platform relevant?

Sony fired the father of the Playstation recently, so no doubt the Playstation 4 (when it comes out a year before the Mayan Calender ends) will use whatever is the agreed upon DVD format of the time or won't even require a removable media option, because all games will be downloaded over the internet (which would lead to unlimited pirating).

However the more indisious thing about this story is WalMart -- the whims of that oppressive retailer will be dictating the success of new products? That's an extremely scary notion. WalMart is known for playing hardball with manufacturers to get prices as low as possible -- many a company will tell you that in order to meet the WalMart price requirements outsourcing and using sweat-shop child labor has become part of the business practice.

In our quest to keep buying whatever the fuck we can think of, we're in effect stiffling innovation and fueling child labor (read slavery) in various parts of the 3rd World. And WalMart is the Pied Piper of Hamlen leading us all to the brink of destruction -- happily!!!

Take It With A Broom Stick?

is that a dick across the table? It's mine, mine, mine!
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So the head of the Hollywood Skank Mafia has been ordered to serve 45 Days in the Los Angeles County Jail! And apparently the judge said there wasn't going to be any "in lieu of" type of sentencing, that our favorite cum dumpster would have to serve the full 45 days.

From the various news reports about what happened, the Airhead heiress was driving WHILE drunk with a suspended license from another DUI that she was dick-slapped with only a few months prior.

Truth be told I wanna see the bitch get a beat-down in the slam. 'Cause ya know she gonna try hard as hell not to serve no time. I bet the funny sight is gonna be seeing this broad when she gets out 'cause she aint' gonna have her blonde hair dye or any of the much-need beauty products that she hasta use on daily basis just to look like she's a sexy vixen. If you ever get to see this broad up-close-n-personal, you'll see that she needs those beauty product endorsement gigs -- 'cause she's hit!

What would make this story a lot funnier would be to have O.J. Simpson speak out either for or against Paris's stint in LA County. Not to mention his media presence alone would indicate that money doesn't always get you out of every jam -- particularly when you engender such animosity as Paris has with all the dick-smacking that she does to people throughout society.

LA County -- even the female section -- is by no means an easy ride. Unfornately, I don't know if this is going to be a "Magnificent Ambersons" style of cumupence for the Airhear Heiress, because tough-girl Michelle Rodriguez was given a similar sentence for a DUI and only spent around 5 hours in LA County, before the Corrections Officials decided to release Rodriguez. COs have to deal with those over-crowding issues and they're not about to deal with the celebrity circus if they don't need to.

However, I wouldn't put it pass the sentencing judget to instruct the Prison Officials to put up with any and all boolshit that Paris brings to the table in hopes of skipping out on her sentencing. You have to admit that the criminal justice system needs to show that it's not subject to overt or covert bribery and to have a scandal-hound yuothful heir do time (much like Martha Stewart) would be just what the country needs. And unlike Martha who spent time in club fed, Paris will be in the gen pop of LA County where the broom-stick wielding cholas run things in ways that Paris probably never even contemplates.

It would sure humble her in the right way.

So only time will tell...

Getting Ass-Fucked

Road Warriors
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One of the myriad of problems of living in Los Angeles is the near-complete dependence on a car. We all know about Southern California being the car economy, perhaps the most dynamic auto market on the planet -- for a variety of reasons that I'm not going to get into here.

What I'm going to get into here is what happens when one's precious auto, goes on the fritz and needs service/repairs. Your options are to go to the dealer, over-pay and perhaps get quality service... although most likely you'll get C- work on your car. Your second option is to find a reliable mechanic... which in a city of getting over on muthafuckas and dicking people out of their hard-earned cash is a difficult proposition to successfully navigate.

I was a little tired of going to the VW dealer, 'cause I noticed that they wouldn't tell me things that were wrong with the car, i.e. an alignment issue. So I had sought out a reliable and respectable mechanic... a few actually, but none really made a strong impression on me except this one Filipino guy out in Reseda and this Armenian who runs a place called Eurowurx in Burbank.

The worst though came last January, when I felt the car needed a little more than a service... perhaps a tune-up, because the engine was strenuous while idling. I was living deep on the westside of the fucking San Fernando Valley and couldn't get to a good mechanic, nor did I know one (as Eurowurx has moved, or so I thought). So went online to www.cartalk.com ('cause I listen to that NPR radio show from time to time on Sunday mornings when I'm too thrashed to get out of bed) and checked out their "Mechanic Recommendation" boards. I came across a shop called Stuart's German Auto Specialist, which was based in Burbank -- near the Disney studios where I was working at that time.

I go in with an appointment to see ths dude named Stuart Schreiber the owner/sole mechanic... explain to him what I want -- oil change, look at the brakes and see if a tune-up is necessary because of the hard idle. Stuart agrees, and then proceeds to TAKE FOUR DAYS to do this so-called minor service. It's costing me daily rental car fees, and I could only guess what the bill was going to be for his labor.

When I finally do get the car, I'm tempted to stop order the check 'cause Stuart Schreiber cost me so much extra cash. Here's were it turns to shit and I bend over and spread my ass cheeks. I pick up the car on a Saturday morning and drive around all weekend. culminating with a smoking hot date with the girl I was just beginning to date... we come back from a party on Sunday night, and due to other stupid ass circumstances, we can't go up into her place to have sex or go to mine ('cause the owner of the house I was staying at had these two ass-bag bulldogs who weren't really housetrained).

Me and my girl are making out in the car in front her apartment, with the engine idling, and we notice steam coming up from the engine. I look at the engine temp guage and it's deep in the red zone! I shut the car off and let it cool down for about 45 minutes, as we continue to do everything but fuck in the front seat of my car.

When it's about 5am, my girl goes inside and I have to drive back from Hollywood to Woodland muthafucking Hills -- the car is overheating the whole time, and I'm stopping to fill the coolant resevoir up with first coolant and then water every three highway exits.

The next day I call Stuart tell him my troubles and he says he'll do any repairs free of charge, if the problem was something he caused or overlooked. I tell him what about the tow!!?! It's going to cost me about $70 to get the car towed to his garage -- even with AAA!!! He agrees to pay for that, too, if it's his fault.

Baghdad Wall

Watts Riot - Get back in your house, Nigger!
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Why did this stupid idea remind me of Berlin in 1952? Or Israel's occupied territories last summer?! Or the Rio Grande border anytime recently?

For some reason people honestly believe that putting up a wall between two opposing factions is actually going to work.

The one thing that this Division Wall in Baghdad proved is that the U.S. Military is the most devisive force there is in Iraq -- Sunni and Shia, factions that have been slitting each others throats for the better part of the War in Iraq, abandoned their mutual hatred for a common external hatred -- that of the US Armed Forces in Iraq.

No doubt the so-called SURGE, has proved to be a futiles as any other effort to qwell the chaos in an arab country (now that could be anywhere)... now why is that?

Toyota bitch-slaps GM!

You knew it was gonna happen this year, I knew it was gonna happen this, and not that it happened what do we think about it?

Toyota surpassed GM in sales for the first time in the first quarter of 2007. Toyota’s ascendancy, which many in the auto game had predicted for some time, is another milestone in America’s long decline from unchallenged industrial preeminence. A decline that actually spells, "fuck you, gringo."

G.M. swept past Ford in 1931 in the enormous American car market and in worldwide sales, and barely looked back for seven decades. But a combination of inattention to quality -- the biggest issue with American cars... that and SHITTY-ASS design, strained labor relations, adverse regulatory decisions and a slowness to recognize the potential for small cars eroded G.M.’s seemingly insurmountable lead starting in the mid-1960s.

Emerging from the ashes of Japan’s World War II defeat, thanks in part to American assistance during the Korean War, Toyota established itself through the 1970s and 1980s as the industry’s standard for quality and reliability. It has since built a reputation for technological leadership as well, most notably with the Prius and other hybrid cars. Funny thing is Japanese automakers use techniques developed by dismissed US auto industry players.

Well, I can see Detroit becoming the next Mad Mad wasteland over the next five years and the main industry of that rusting metropolis continues to fail its populace.

Once again the "hip kids" laid the ground work for a youth rampage/massacre... Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the previous ostricized individuals who decided to become Duke Nuk'em, don militia fatigues and take up arms against their aggressors -- they've been surpassed on the trip down the insane lane by VT Shooter Cho.

Cho gets props for using technology to distribute his mayhem manifesto (bigups to QuickTime... as this will surely be the tip of the iceberg for QT rants), because otherwise we wouldn't have actually heard his words or seen his pained face... the FBI would have censored it, or the news media outlets would have only given us the snipets they FELT we should have access to. As I watched clips of Cho's outbursts/rants, it occurred to me... it wasn't a question of what made him snap that fateful Monday -- because obviously he snapped days, if not weeks or months prior -- but how did he keep it together for as long as he did, and why did he choose that Monday to unload his 9mms?

You might be asking why I said the "hip kids" laid the ground work for Cho's impersonatin of Frank Castle aka THE PUNISHER, because it was stated in a background story about Cho that when he moved to the US from South Korea when he was 9, because of his limited mastery of English he became the whipping boy, target of pranks by those kids who think they're too cool for school. Every culture has that same issue with the way young kids interact with "the other" (which is perceived and relative designation) -- some would say it's just part of growing up. However, in a base culture like that of America's where being considered "cool" or part of the "in-crowd" is more important than anything else IN AN ACADEMIC SETTING. The seeds for non-normal social adult life are planted in junior high and high school. If you think back to elementary school, pretty much everybody was on equal ground in terms of the social strucutre... although changes once kids become 10, 11 and 12...

Honestly, I'm surprised that there's not more of these style rampage killings on college campuses and at high schools. Since the repellant rise of Paris Hilton and these new Mean Girl/skank mafia types (Brittany, Lindsay, et al.) over the past three to five years, the pressure to get with a girl to get pussy it EVERYTHING. These days girls are liable to suck a mean dick (see my post on Lipsticking back in Dec. 06) as easily as they would give a peck on the cheek say circa 1999. If you happen to be one of those guys who doesn't falls into the category where your dick can be used in a lipsticking contest or actually get to fuck, then you're going to be mad. Also, if the "in-crowd" does it's best to single you... they become Ego Assassins -- you're going to sink and sink and sink... and ultimately you might rise out of it when you go off to college -- where self-reinvention is staple of the institution -- but the damage has been, and most people don't fully recover... they just fall in to one of those categories that we can all label when it comes to who's who and who's what upon college graduation.

Cho gets no props for what he did, but the pundits and psychologists have an opportunity to indicit the youth culture and sadly they won't. The culture that breads serial killers, now also has the dubious distinction of breading youth rampage killers... that's no accident.