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It’s late, so here’s a post.

Published on December 3, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

So this is unique. I downloaded a beta of a program called OmmWriter, and that’s what I’m using to compose this blog post. The idea appears to be that with this absorbing the screen, I can concentrate on writing to my heart’s content. Seems to be working. I’m writing, after all, aren’t I? The program takes up the whole screen with a serene snowy minimalist scene, and also advises I put on headphones to complete the experience. In my ears is a very ethereal tune, also quite minimalist. I could grow used to using this software for creative writing (certainly can’t use it for school – I need my resources in front of me!).

Moving on… I seem to say this with every post, but I should be writing more often. It’s a release, if nothing else. But with school and schoolwork and fraternal obligations, family obligations, girlfriend obligations… my own obligations take the backburner. So here I am. Over a month later than when I last wrote. A lot has happened since then, I assure you, dear reader. To wrap up my entry from last time, FYE did evntually call me, but their offerings were too little too late. I’ve since given up on them and botcotted the franchise.

Halloween was pretty grea. I want was Frank West, photographer from Dead Rising, complete with my Canon T1i. :3 Yep, I bought the thing, and consequently went so poor the only idea I had for a cheap Halloween involved making the camera part of the outfit. Came off rather well, though, and I got to play with my new toy all that night.

As a sidenote, maybe this program is -too- peaceful. I just conked out for about 30 minutes. @_@ Now my eyes are all out of focus and fuzzy. :S

I’ve been hard at work on project after project. Everything is finished now, and I have a few grades back too. Remember the Star Wars/Romeo+Juliet mashup I posted back then? 96%. I couldn’t be more proud. That class is going spectacularly. Tomorrow I share my final project in that class, which I will stick here, too:

Done in Second Life (blegh), we did an adaptation of a scene from Troilus and Cressida, a lesser-known Shakespeare play. Since Cressida is a bit of a whore, we decided to exaggerate her elements and adapt the pivotal scene to a club, with Cressida in a skimpy outfit, and Diomedes as a pimp. Completing the scene with some popular dance music and voiceovers, we had a blast, and the prof seems to like it. I’m hoping for another A – this class should be a shoe-in for an A. :)

Who saw UP? I bought the Blu-ray when it came out on November 10th, and after waiting a week (fraternity initation), I was finally able to watch it. Wouldn’t ya know, I cried. Dammit all to hell, Pixar has me. How can a single movie studio have EVERY. SINGLE. MOVIE. they make be so original and emotional? Fuck, I get teary-eyed at the short “Partly Cloudy” that came before UP (it’s just that perfect. I know exactly how that cloud felt…):

So after Thanksgiving, on November 4th, I was on the way to the fraternity for our Wednesday night meeting when my car was hit by a MARTA Moblility bus. x___x This was awful – held me up for the meeting, damaged my car a bit, and mostly pissed me off. I lost my temper, but mostly at the world than anyone in particular. Thankfully I didn’t scream at the MARTA driver, his supervisor who showed up, or the cop (who was very helpful). The car is still in perfect working condition, but now has a dent on the back left side where the bus merged without looking into me. Because they were at fault, MARTA had a 3rd party insurance claims adjuster come look at my car, and “assess” it. Days later, I recieved the assessment in the mail: $742.60. For a dent to be fixed, and the car to be painted. @.@ Fuck. It’s like the money fairy just came in a dive bombed my wallet! I still have no intention on getting the dent fixed right away – it’s not hurting me or anything, and getting the car repainted means I have to actually CARE about scratches and whatnot. AND remove my bumper stickers? No way. I’ll just keep the money. Wooooo! Plans are already underway for my newfound wealth… Big ones. But little things include The Beatles Rock Band (waaaaant), a new telephoto lens for my beautiful camera, and I might be getting a used DS Lite for Pokemon-ing. >.> And maybe, finally, that bass guitar. But big plans first.

Speaking of games, I’ve been playing more and more of them recently. An unexpected gem for me, personally, is how much fun I’ve been having with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I honestly didn’t expect to enjoy this title THIS much! A short single player campaign experience, but it’s brutal yet beautiful in how it’s presented. Imagine a game so compelling that it makes you actually consider the damage and violence you propogate. It’s how I felt, and how my stomach churned uncomfortably as I watched terrorists mow down civilians in an airport in MW2.

And when Russia brought the war to Virginia suburbs and bombed Washington DC… this game is amazing. Not to mention the actual combat itself is spot on, and the multiplayer is so much fun. I want to have a LAN party with my Xbox 360 in Augusta as soon as I possibly can. Anyway, please, guys, watch this trailer if you’ve seen nothing else about this game:

Another fun game (this time, wholly expected as such) is Brutal Legend. This game is the epitome of METAL, and I loved the environment it set up. With the handpicked metal soundtrack, this game screamed epic, and it was. While I’m showing things off here, I have to link to a recent discovery I’ve had many a lulz at: KnowYourMemes.com. Take a gander at some of their informative material:

…Why not speak about me a bit more here? I don’t know what the purpose of this blog is, yet. Sadly, you think I would. I share some vague thoughts, some vague feelings, and youtubes of far too much stuff I find entertaining.

Something about me: I have found that, almost against my own will, I really enjoy Twitter. Why is completely beyond me. I wish my friends would use it, or if they have one, used it more often. It’s a short blurb into the insight of their mind that I wish I had, I guess. I try to contribute enough, but I suppose I could be doing better with it. I could say some things that are more insightful. I think I’ll try this.

Sometimes I don’t feel I’m creative enough on my own. I’d love to actually go somewhere when I have time, take pictures and video to my heart’s content, come back to my Mac and MAKE something with them. I think I’ll make this my goal for the month. I don’t know if I can accomplish it, but I’ll try nonetheless. Wish me luck.

I wish I had a more skilled hand at poetry.
I wish I had access to materials like a pottery wheel and clay. Lately I’ve wanted to try my hands at throwing clay again.
Maybe I just want to THROW the clay.
Maybe I’m beginning to ramble.
Maybe I need to ramble.

… Maybe I need to go to bed. :) More coming soon. Just… remind me.

… And if you read this, a comment would really make my day. <3

a friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better

Published on October 2, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

…Pay no mind to the title, simply a lyric from Placebo’s “Pure Morning” from their debut album “Without You I’m Nothing”. Picked it up last night from iTunes, and I’m enjoying it so far.

A number of times I load my blog and contemplate what to say. A number less I close it with far more work ahead of me. These past few weeks have been exactly that. What with Tricia moving in, fraternal obligations, but mostly class and project obligations… I’m been a busy fish. Working on a sonification project for Interactive Narrative/Fiction, our UI Design project, and just finished our Shakespeare Star Wars mashup, which I’d like to share here.

And opinions are more than welcome, either commented here or on the actual YouTube. :) I’m pleased with the outcome, especially Yoda’s bits and the Viceroy’s bits. :P

So I’m now sitting in UI Design and my weekend plans have been canceled. I’m okay with it – I understand why. I think I’ll end up sleeping when I get back to the apartment, but I’m unsure. I don’t know what else I can do – I’m actually more interested in doing nothing this weekend. :P

And suddenly it smells strongly of cut grass in here. Not the good kind of smell either, though I’ve never been a fan of the scent, but the sweaty gardener cut grass smell, and I’m getting a headache from this crap. I’ve actually been paying attention in this class now, but there’s only 10 minutes left. Maybe my next paragraph will be for the next class, but I feel like wrapping this up sooner than later.

I want, badly, some money. More and more often I find myself pining after something I can’t have, even though I would really like it. Even though I have the money for it, too, I can’t bring myself to buy it… like that Canon T1i. So… an alumnus emailed the fraternity with a job opening for a data entry specialist, and I emailed back my resume. 15 hours a week at $10 an hour? I hope they are okay with me. I’d love some spending money. I would buy that Canon T1i so fast. And… save for lenses. Like a Telephoto Zoom lense… or a tilt-shift lense. I had never seen or heard of tilt-shift before seeing this video last night. I am now fascinated with this, as this video is beautiful and perplexing at the same time.

This is Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Yes. The actual thing. The lense changes perspective so strongly you think you’re looking at a miniature model. I. Want. To. Do. This. x.x Also, the music is so soothing.

Not to mention a plethora of other little doodads I could use, like an external harddrive or a new router. I just ordered a new thumbdrive from Amazon that’s the same size and shape as a key, so it will fit with my keychain a lot easier. Y’know, stuff like that. >.>

Let’s see where things go, right?

aardvarks and apologies

Published on September 4, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Fish here, writing for the first time in forever ago. Reason being is that school has started, and I was a busy fellow running and coordinating Rush for my fraternity, beginning classes, juggling a budding social life, rising from the ashes of said social life’s death last spring when I left for the summer. I am pleased to be back in Atlanta, even if it means dealing with some of the difficulties (traffic, homeless, idiots, etc). It’s good to be back.

Another thing one may notice is that I’ve replaced the blog. I had to update my Wordpress installation, which borked itself and I had to restart from scratch. I’m surprised and amazed I remembered HOW to even do it. As a result, though, things may take a bit of tweaking for a few days, but I’m overall very pleased with the new Wordpress (I upgraded from 2.5.1 to the current 2.8.4, so there was a LOT of newness in here for me).

I’m currently sitting in my Shakespeare course watching Morpheus Laurence Fishburne play Othello on the DVD my professor is showing. These stories are always so tragic. =/ This is just one of several classes I’m rather enjoying this semester – I’m taking a course in Interactive Narrative and Fiction, another in Constructing the Moving Image, another in User Interface Design, and another in Ethics in Computing. Very good semester, and all things I’m interested in. :)

My apartment is quite nice and comfortable, but needs a bit more decoration and furniture. I guess that’s why Tricia’s moving in (TOMORROW!) to take care of that sort of thing for me. ;D She’ll enjoy it, and I’m looking so forward to finally having her here – words cannot do my feelings justice.

So I can’t remember if I actually wrote about my new Macbook Pro that I love so very very much. Everything about this magnificent machine is to my exact desires – a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GBs of DDR3 RAM, and a 320GB HDD for starters. I JUST purchased Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for only a mere $29 a week ago today, and I’ve seen some significant improvements in the realm of how this computer runs and handles itself. I’m quite pleased overall. I’m now waiting for two dates for Apple-related excitement: September 9th is Apple’s standard media event for the refresh of their iPod line (here is where they typically release a new version of iTunes, hoping for some sweet improvements… maybe 64-bit?), and September 25th, when AT&T finally stopstries to stop failing so fucking hard and grants iPhone owners the ability to MMS-text message pictures for those not in the know. I have some sweet programs for my Mac now too – Things for Mac (and subsequently, Things for iPhone) have made task management and keeping up with things so. much. easier. for me. I’m kinda in love with being able to take a quick glance and see everything that’s due of me. ^_^ I’ve also obtained Adobe’s CS4 Master Collection, which is fantastic for the programs and talents expected of me in my major here at Georgia Tech. Photoshop and Flash will more than likely prove to be far more useful than anything else I can possibly have. I’ve also installed Aperture 2 for my Mac, in preparation for the DSLR I plan to get – Aperture 2 is a photo management and RAW image handler developed and sold by Apple, and it should work wonderfully for my needs. :)

But yes! A DSLR – specifically, the Canon EOS 500D (otherwise known as the Digital Rebel T1i), a fantastic 15 megapixel DSLR camera that also does HD video and has Live View, two neat knick-knacks for a DSLR. Every review I’ve read says this camera is best in its price class and seems perfect for my desires and hobbies. I can’t wait to purchase this camera and develop my photography skills, but I want to sell my current camera before I run off and buy this thing… and I need to find a buyer. Anyone who is interested and reading this, hit me up, PLEASE. :P

I wanted to say more than simply facts or… almost sales-pitchy things in this post, but I suppose I have to get all that out of the way before I go on with other things. I guess those thoughts will come later today though – class is almost over and I should wrap this up. :P So, until later…!

Media Musings

Published on June 2, 2008 in Hobbies, Media and Rants. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

First up: it’s Sex AND the City? I swore it was Sex IN the City. News to me. @_@

I notice I rant a bit as you pointed out, Seph, but… sorry, here’s another. XD Sex In The City is… well, it’s one of those many, many TV shows in the media today that enrapture people for all the wrong reasons. What happened to the days of dignified acting, responsible and respectable actresses like Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, or Judy Garland who still managed to be outrageously attractive and not complete sarcastic sluts sorry, “four intelligent women in control of their own lives” – wherein “control” somehow means being ridden like a racehorse in the bedroom at every opportunity.

And yet Sex and the City stars are today’s Hepburn, idolized and inspiring all the wrong ideals. “It’s okay to be a high-priced whore with expensive shoes, wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other!” Shows like this (and “My Super Sweet 16 – don’t EVEN get me started) emphasize and underline a syndrome in today’s youth I like to call PPS – “Pampered Princess Syndrome” – an overwhelming sense of “can’t do wrong” inspired by feminism and shallow media like this.

Finally, Sarah Jessica Parker: you look like a horse. Stop it.

Robot Chicken nailed this:

ANYWAY. I should be sleeping soon. I need to go make my lunch for the morning, though, and retrieve my work pants from the dryer downstairs first. But… I had to rant a bit. XD My camera battery died today. :( It was the free disposable that came with it – I’d say it lasted rather long. Good run – I hope the camera continues some good battery functionality like this. Speaking of cameras, my brother and I had a good time in Wal*Mart today going and getting a camera SD card for him along with a USB memory stick – each at 1GB. Our plan had been to get him a nice LCD HDTV at around 19″, but the only good one we liked was sold out… so we abandoned that, put down the nice $44 upconverting (!!) DVD player we found, set aside the HDMI cable for it, and gathered the other goodies. I like electronics shopping. XD And I’m liking how often I can hang out with Cody lately – I guess we’ve bother matured past the “we hate each other” stages of our lives. :) Funny, eh? We’ve been playing GTA 4 almost every night, laughing and having fun. ^^

I also got a nice pair of cheap sunglasses (cue ZZ Top). I look so cool. :D I’ve always liked the cheapos – who can afford or actively require the hundred dollar sunglasses (unless they’re prescription)? And I don’t feel nearly as bad as those spendy people would when I’ll inevitably break mine. XD

18 days and 16 hours til Tricia arrives. :3 It’s getting so close! I washed the car today and everything (trust me, it needed it). I’m so anxious to see her and drive to DisneyWorld. I feel like a kid again. XD

OH! So Andrew graduated, and we attended that ceremony as well. Very different from my brother’s. I liked the speeches given, particularly the one from the Salutatorian, who was both entertaining AND intelligent (as well as humble). The Valedictorian was a bit preachy, but damn… he was offered full-ride scholarships to Harvard, Princeton, AND Yale. @_@ Anyway, Saturday was spent in the morning at TKD for the testing, where I got to have some fun, but my brother and Andrew put on a demo that, while very cool, resulting in my brother breaking some minor bones in his foot. =/ So he’s been limping around. Hope he feels better soon…

I should wrap this up – gotta sleep. @_@

LEAVE ME COMMENTS. @_@

Camera! Pictures! And (Maybe) NO MORE HILLARY.

Published on May 7, 2008 in Hobbies and Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

First things first: I had a good day today. Didn’t get much sleep, but I did wake up, have a nice chat with Mom, and ended up mowing the lawn. We went out to Kohl’s and I finally picked up some new shorts (from Urban Pipeline, the same company that made my favorite pair of pants – and the shorts were on sale for like $15 a pop!). Then we got lunch at Panera Bread, and went to Home Depot, then Michael’s Crafts (where I picked up a discounted picture frame to frame my Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity certificate), and finally to Best Buy where I got my Kodak Z1012 IS digital camera, a rechargeable battery (who the hell packs a disposable battery with a $300 camera?) and a carrying case. Then to Kroger and home. :P

So, I took some pictures, and had quite a ball doing so. First, a few of my car:

I would have uploaded the crisp, wonderful 10 megapixel images, but they’re too big for Wordpress, and if the site gets a lot of hits (RIGHT), I’d suck up Khuffie’s bandwidth. But the bumper stickers are nice – a few Firefly ones (Fruity Oaty Bars, You Can’t Stop The Signal, My Other Car Is A Firefly), the ORYGUN one, “Visualize ‘Whirled’ Peas”, there’s an FSM decal, an Apple logo, Jake the Alligator Man, and I plan to get more.

I found my camera also has a nifty panorama function, where I take three shots and it stitches them together seamlessly (even accounting for lighting differences) for a panoramic shot. I took one of my room (beware messyness… after all, half the room is storage):

It’s a thumbnail, so click and enjoy a scaled down version (again, original is too big!).

Hillary.

Might finally be a thing of the past. I can only hope, what with her stubborn attitude and all holding her back, that this might be what the press is making it out to be – a conceding from the nominations.

So, she needed to win the landslide Indiana to keep going, right? (Just like all the other “landslides” she “had” to win). Thing is, she won Indiana by a HAIR margin – <2%. BUT, she lost North Carolina to Obama at something like >14%. So, he ultimately gathered more delegates than her… so she cancels all talk show and public appearances for tomorrow (now today). Furthermore, here’s the video from the screenshot of that link:

“We now know who the Democratic nominee will be”. I like that. Perhaps, at tonight’s DC fundraiser, she’ll have prepared a conceding speech?

I hope.

Just beat it… just beat it…

Published on May 5, 2008 in Hobbies, Media and Survey. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

On the radio this afternoon as I drove to the movie theater to see Iron Man, a song came on the radio… “Beat It”. It wasn’t MJ though! It was Fallout Boy. What the hell. @_@

Anyway. Leprechauns apparently exist, and climb up trees in southern Alabama. It’s an OLD clip, but I rediscovered it last night and hell… it never gets old. To those of you who remember this, cherish it, and to those of you who’ve never seen it, enjoy it:

Gotta love that amateur sketch. Enjoy the rap song someone made out of this piece.

I’ve been researching cameras again, and I think I’ve made the decision that I don’t need the humongous Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT anymore. It’s too big and too expensive, doesn’t do videos and uses only the viewfinder to take pictures… So I’ve looked into Kodak, and I think I’m going to go with the Kodak Z1012 IS.

It’s just as good, really. 2 more megapixels (for a 10.1MP count), lighter/smaller, and does HD video recordings (nifty!). If I order it soon from the Kodak website, I get a 2GB SD card free (another plus is that Kodak cameras use SD, which I already have; Canon cameras use Compact Flash, and I would have had to buy a different card) and free shipping. And no interchangeable lenses means I won’t be tempted in the future. XD

I feel really bad about Nancy, Eowyn, and Brandon getting mugged the other day. I wish I could help somehow, but I don’t know how, or if I even can… I just want to say I love you guys. <3

And more survey:

SLEEP
(110) What’s the average amount of sleep a night you get?: Lately, enough (at least 8 hrs). At school, totally not enough (less than 5 hrs).
(111) Do you sleep on your tummy, side, back, …or...etc?: Always fall asleep on my back.
(112) Do you sleep sprawled out, straight out, or curled up?: Pretty much straight out.
(113) Do you drool?: >.> I have on occasion, but only if end up face down some how, which is rare.
(114) Do you snore?: Not that I’m aware of. I doubt it.
(115) Do you talk in you sleep?: Nope.
(116) Types of nightmares that actually have an effect on you when you wake?: Ones very similar to reality, or touch close to home. Once in a blue moon do they occur though.
(117) Type of dreams do you prefer best?: Crazy, sci-fi dreams. :D
(118) Latest dream theme: Random. Totally random.

FRIENDS
(119) List your closest friends: Ooooh no I don’t. If I do this, I’m bound to miss someone and offend them.
(120) Which ones would you sacrifice yourself for?: My closest ones. HA RECURSION.
(121) Who do you believe to be the strongest mentally? (can choose yourself): Jessica is smart. @_@
(122) Who do you believe to be the strongest physically? (can choose yourself): Nancy has tolerated a hell of a lot more than I think I can.
(123) Which one is the sweetest? (can choose yourself): Tricia. <3
(124) Which one is the most sarcastic? (ca- aww heck, you all get the drift -.-): Jessica by far.
(125) Which one whines the most?: I'm a whiner. XD
(126) Which one is the most playful?: Eowyn is pretty playful. :P
(127) Which one is the most serious?: Hm. Richard, methinks.
(128) Which one is most understanding?: Tricia gets me most (bias, I know).
(129) Which one is the most stressed?: Eowyn gets a lot of shit she doesn't need.
(130) Which one is least likely to survive out in the wild?: Get back to me on that. >.>
(131) Which one to do want to change, even if it’s a minor change? (nyeh, can’t choose yourself): Tricia’s location. :P
(132) Last person to have a phone conversation with?: Tricia, but before that Stan.
(133) Last person to have an instant message conversation with?: Dally!
(134) Last person to send/receive an e-mail to/from you?: …Tricia?
(135) Last person you touched/had physical contact with?: Seph, methinks.
(136) Most liked by your parents?: Tricia.
(137) Most likely to be sent to jail?: STAN.
(138) Most likely to die first?: No clue, really.
(139) Most likely to die last?: Not me. I dunno though.
(140) Most likely to lose their virginity first?: …Isn’t this a little invalid now? This was made ages ago…
(141) Most likely to just run and tackle a black bear?: @_@ Uh…
(142) Most likely to somehow drift/break/etc. from your friendship?: I hope none. I really can’t say I think anyone can escape me. Muahaha.
(143) Most likely to scream and run from a vampire?: None. XD

Tony Hawks and Art

Published on April 21, 2008 in Hobbies, Media and Rants. 8 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

One week until I’m through with exams and I check out of my dorm to head home for the summer. I’m looking forward to starting my job and not doing anything otherwise (aside from TKD, I need to lose weight o.x). And it gets me money! Wooo money! With it I’m gonna get my gorgeous camera, Disneyworld Park tickets (with Park-Hopper passes… I have hotels lined up, just no tickets), and maybe I can fix the stereo in my car so Tricia and I will have something to listen to for the trip to Orlando and back. It’s looking to be a blast – she and I have been planning this forever. I can’t wait. :3

So! Tony Hawks. He’s not a professional skateboarder, but a British author. What a surprise, eh? As such, he gets a LOT of mistake mail from skateboarding fans. His fantastic replies are certainly worth a read – I laughed outloud quite a bit. :P

How long did it take to land the 900?

mr.me
——-
Mr. You
Ages. Air traffic control made me circle Heathrow for forty minutes.

TH

Or:

hey tony!

I like tony hawks underground.I skate myself and i must say i cannot ollie.How is it done?Cheers for reading.
Samuel
——
Samuel,
I like the way you finish your mail. ‘Cheers for Reading’. At last someone else who appreciates this much maligned town. Reading is a wonderful place with an excellent one way system, efficient libraries, and a number of fine grass verges. On top of that, it is well-served by the M4 motorway, so it has easy access to places which are much, much nicer.

Goodbye

TH

Another:

Tony what was your first ever trick you did and what was your favourite trick you ever did?

Liam
——
Liam,
I’ve stopped turning tricks since they cleaned things up around Kings Cross.

You probably wouldn’t want to know what the trick was.

TH

Ah, British wit. It’s funny as hell. :P Give the site a read, you won’t regret it.

Now… something a bit more serious. Art. Art, it appears, is serious business. I noticed a number of my friends joining a Facebook group – “Prevent the “Artistic” Death of an Innocent Animal-SIGN THE PETITION!” (hope that hyperlink works). Apparently some Latin American artist Guillermo Vargas Habacuc picked up a stray dog off the street and tied it in a corner of an art museum exhibit without feeding it. It’s contested if the dog died or not – some reports say he let it die in the museum, others say he fed it before and after the exhibit and released it later to the streets… Yet I noticed all these Facebook comments on the photos, and I realized most of these people are absolutely retarded.

Michael Weileder of NSULA made a fantastic comment on the nature of the 500+ comments:

Top five most popular things to do on this wall:

5: Assert the absolute lack of morals of those who do not agree with your point of view!

4: Use profanity and overt vulgarity (and even extreme violent language), so everyone knows that YOU MEAN BUSINESS!

3: Assure the world that you, having attained the illustrious title of art major, can DEFINITIVELY state the exhibit is not art! Make sure to put “art” in quotations!

2: Belittle Shiggmasta’s [editor's note: Shiggmasta made arguments in favor of the art] intelligence, cleverly using his name against him in your intellectual debate!

And with an overwhelming lead…

1: Suggest that the artist himself be tied to a wall in place of the dog! Because it’s the same thing! Really!

…Which pretty much sums up everything in a few sentences. Really, though – regardless of whether it is or isn’t art it DID make a point. It made the point against standing and staring at animal neglect and strays dying before your very eyes. It made the point that even when you put the animal in the public eye, still no one takes care of the damn thing. No one fed it, no one let it go. Instead, they argue if it’s art.

Good. Fucking. Job.

“Why didn’t he just take a picture?” It wouldn’t have made the same point – it wouldn’t have elicited the same response. If you’re so enraged, if this group changed you, go out and adopt a pet instead of purebreeding them. Go out and spay or neuter your pet. Instead, you children are thinking you’re making a statement by joining a group and doing nothing else, aside from clicking on your newsfeed to see pictures of John getting drunk, or Becky hooking up with Charles. Instead, you children are opting “an eye for an eye”, which as Gandhi put it, “makes the whole world blind”. It’s you violent sick fucks who are destroying this world, those of you who think it’s okay to kill because someone did something you don’t like. Get off your ass, log off Facebook, and DO SOMETHING GOOD for once. Instead, you’re sitting safely in your middle-class suburban home, parading your half-naked Facebook profile pictures, rattling your jewelry and wishing for death upon others, when you could be changing the world.

I agree that an animal shouldn’t have to die to prove a simple point. I don’t disagree with joining a group to show your opinions. I do disagree with not doing all that you can. I beg of you, if you joined this group and you’re my friend, do something more than simply joining the group. As for the rest of these maligned violent children, I can only pray they come to their senses soon.

I think I had more to say, but if I did I can’t remember it.

If there’s more to say, leave a comment. :)