More fun with Matt Sanchez.
January 21, 2008
April 23, 2007
Guns kill 81 people every day
Before you let idiots like Matt Sanchez or Newt Gingrich go off on a tangent about how liberalism is responsible for the Virginia Tech incident put things in context. About 81 people died every day due to guns in 2004 (the last year figures were available.) The New York Times sums up who is getting killed in these incidents in a diagram.
April 21, 2007
Jack Chick Unmasked
Blogger Jimmy Akin has apparently found a picture of the legendary Christian comic book publisher, Jack Chick. He was photographed with Pastor Bob Nogalski, whose life story closely parallels the story of “Bad Bob.” “Bad Bob” follows the story of a colicky baby who grows up to be a badass who repents. Thank goodness for happy endings.
April 18, 2007
Cho Seung-Hui, Playwright
A classmate of Cho Seung-Hui has posted two the killer’s plays, “Mr. Brownstone” and “Richard McBeef.” They’re awful, awful, awful plays. Nevertheless, the content is a violent and profane, but isn’t nearly as profane or violent as I expected. The only thing really insane about these is that he handed them in for a class.
April 17, 2007
Oragami, Sam Sloan Style
Every once in a while, I like to check out the web site of my #1 favorite crackpot/mad genius Sam Sloan. Sam’s personality comes through quite strongly in everything he does and he passionate about things like books, chess, Asian women, lawsuits, and sex. Sloan is also a bona fide historic figure, as he is the last individual to argue a case pro se in the Supreme Court of the United States. And forget that old adage, about “having a fool for a client” because Sloan actually won the case.
This doesn’t make his other behavior any less bizarre or erratic. Hot damn, if the guy isn’t making DVDs lately and you know that’s got to be tasty. So I did a little reasearch:
“Oragami for Children” sounds so atrocious that I must buy a copy immediately. It’s been reviewed on Amazon, presumably by somebody who knew what he was getting into:
The Documentary has 4 characters. The teacher, the friend, the “perverted wizard” and the Origami monster. (The monster was a 3 yr old girl, who behaved well for a three year old. It’s just that she was far too young for this DVD. The reason I call her “Origami monster” will be evident soon and is purely for dramatic effect)
The DVD starts with the teacher Kayo, teaching how to make a crane, while the 3 year old Origami monster keeps disturbing her. Her greatest joy is to try to unfold, destroy and open/rip any Origami model she can lay her hands on. The teacher is completely out of control and even answers the cell phone in the middle of teaching, completely on camera. Not to mention, speaking in Japanese during the teaching and phone call. Her friend, Mayumi, visits her and demonstrates how to make a not so basic Sonobe type module and eventually makes the 12 piece pointed ball star. What beginners DVD begins with cranes and Sonobe modulars modules?? To add insult to injury, the “perverted wizard,” Sam makes a brief appearance where he sits next to friend and kisses her and is all very touchy and obvious in his affection for his teacher wife’s friend. We all had flashes of some reality TV while watching this.
Part two of the DVD is a more formal teaching of origami. I use the word teaching quiet liberally in this review. The formal teaching is also short lived as after teaching 4 models ; crane, waterbomb, purse and pigeon, the three year old monster resurrects and starts her demolition.
To top it all, the teacher even does some cloth/scarf folding and actually makes a bra.
This DVD can be summed up in the teachers own words (pronounced with her accent), “This is origami ‘sheet'”.
Sloan also reviews his own “Contemporary Dance Festival Performance October 8, 2005,” which starts with the headline “Finally out, after litigation.” There’s very little in Sloan’s life that doesn’t involve some form of litigation; note the numerous legal documents posted on his site.
April 8, 2007
Dec II
The incredibly name Xenius Jones is also tuned into the UTTER TRUTH OF THE WORLDWIDE MAD DEADLY GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD. Like me, Jones was involved in the tape trading circles of the late 80’s early 90’s where bizarre bits of audio were shared by a tenuous web of pre-internet hipster geeks. This was our first exposure to the insanity/genius of Francis E. Dec, Esquire.
April 7, 2007
GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD WORLD-WIDE SECRET CONTAINMENT POLICY!!
WFMU informs us that Francis E. Dec, Esquire of 29 Maple Ave, Hempstead, New York has an active fan club even in death. Dec was create some legendary, completely insane rants that he sent out to seemingly randomly selected individuals.Dec’s rants were something special, awe-inspiring in their urgency, vulgarity, and madness. The site owner of the fan club felt it necessary to warn the unititated :
His rants, while hilarious, include frequent references to anti-Semitism, misogyny, anti-Americanism, anal sex, analingus, almost complete misanthropy and blatant racism – and that’s just naming a few things!
Many of the rants concern Dec’s being disbarred after having been convicted of forgery. Being deprived of his livelihood made Dec a very better man.
Later, the rants the fell into the hands of Boyd “Doc” Britton, a radio DJ, who performed dramatic readings of them. The renderings are so well-acted that I thought for many years they were the work of Dec himself. The rants, in text recorded form are lovingly preserved at the Francis E. Dec Fan Club. I wholeheartedly endorse their advice to listen to the recordings while reading the rants for an enhanced insanity experience.
For a light taste of Dec’s ravings, check out the Dectionary, where you can learn the meaning of some favorite Dec tropes, like GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD WORLDWIDE SECRET CONTAINMENT POLICY and the “MASTER-RACE†FRANKENSTEIN RADIO CONTROLS. For God’s sake, it’s YOUR ONLY HOPE FOR A FUTURE!