Ramblings of a Desiccated Mind

... this is important.

The fate of the delicate dolphin is attributed to the destruction of their habitat, illegal fishing and collisions with ships. Regarded in China as the "goddess of the Yangtze", the 20 million year old river dolphin was one of the world's oldest species. The Baiji is the first large mammal brought to extinction as a result of human destruction to their natural habitat and ressources.

Really?

This communicates quite a few things and says, "Gee, it's high time to get out of this country."

I don't even know if TENACIOUS D: THE PICK OF DESTINY is still playing, but if you didn't go to see it, you not only let me down, you let down The D, and you've made Satan very, very angry.

The movie is fucking hysterical (a million times funnier than CLERKS 2, which amounted to not-funny-at-all but for Jay and Silent Bob), and if you disagree then you have never experienced Explosivo ... and I pity you.

I'll say this about the D film, though: the first ten minutes look like TOMMY, and the rest pans out as pretty standard "comedy film" formatting. The movie would have been a hundred times stronger if they'd kept up that kinetic energy of the intro scene, but as it stands it's worth it just for the Sasquatch sequence, which had me crying and a made little pee dribble out.

And I don't even generally laugh at potty humor, even though The D film starts and ends on a fuckin' fart joke.

So when it comes to video, don't rent it, buy it -- and if you can still catch it in the theater, go do so.

Stand up for The D.

... and I'm so glad that this genocidal, Liberal, open-mouthed bastard that I am can bring his own bad news to the table this holiday season. It's not cancer, AIDS, or a murder in the family, but "the big house" that was looking at my manuscript has decided to pass, which is a shame because even I can say it would have stood out a bit from the few titles of theirs that I have read. Still, there was this:

Carnivore has quite a bit to recommend it, though. I'm sure that another house, with more openings in their schedule, will be eager to accept the submission, if they haven't already. I wish you the best of luck with your writing and thank you again for thinking of [publisher omitted], and for your patience.

Patience I got. In spades. I'm a writer. That's the name of the game. Patience. What I haven't fucking got is time, nigger.

You know what, though? Sure wish I'd known that I could have been submitting this elsewheres in the meantime. My own damn fault for not inquiring if it would be all right to send to other houses, but publishers are prickly when it comes to stuff like that and, IMHO, it's rude on the part of the writer. If it's cool with the house then coolio, but ... well, whatever. I don't want to get off on a rant. Not that you can't count the number of houses that deal with "extreme horror" on one hand, and these guys are pretty much the only main stream house.

My next submission to them I will have to remember to invoke Satan, use the word "excrement" near the phrase "engorged erection" a few times, and weigh the whole thing down with adverbs.

That's unfair, I'm not angry at anyone, I'm upset in general.

End of the day, this doesn't mean anything ... except for the part where I needed this. Yes, needed, not wanted. I am really tired of eating crow speckled with shit. I don't believe I deserve to be published, there is no feeling like I've been slighted. The feeling is more perverse, more dire ... it's the sound of a ticking clock in a black and white movie. We've heard it around here before.

And I'm tired.

I'm always so damn tired.

He did sign it himself, though, so that's nice.

Of course, had they taken me on they'd have had to bump another writer, and the negative Karma on that would have been huge because it would have been, no doubt, someone I know, 'cause that's how I roll. You walk with me, you end up in the wake of chaos and despair I leave behind. Oops, feeling sorry for myself there.

Don't worry about it.

I'm fine.

It doesn't matter.

I don't need a fucking pep talk, I need to get back to work.

This should be illegal.

Petulant, defiant bastard.

Daylight Savings Time Extended

So, not only is George W. Bush presiding over a lame-duck Congress, but ... he's a Time Lord!

I don't know how I feel about this. The measure was introduced to save energy, and there's a thing of which I'm horrible-guilty -- I use a lot of juice. Meh, guess it's not that big a deal one way or another. Thought it was interesting, I may be wrong.

The Right think I want to suck Usama's cock and spit the result in America's eye.

Seriously, fuck you guys.

I keep trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, and you keep hitting me with your hateful, self-loathing rhetoric.

Look at this:

Chalk up a major victory for al-Qaeda, and the rest of the fanatical terrorists who have declared a holy war on America. They counted on the resolve of our nation to weaken as the war in Iraq dragged on. Democrats have wrested control of Congress, and this must make al-Qaeda very happy, for it was under the watch of a Democratic administration that allowed the pilots who comandeered those jets on 9/11 to live and train in this country.

America has just voted ourselves a pay cut, as the Dems love tax hikes. We have voted to increase the threat to our national security, as the Dems also love to cut defense spending. The list goes on and on, not to mention the erosion of what little morality is left in this country.

If we cut and run from Iraq, that country will become a haven for terrorists and will make Iran more of a problem than it already is. Despite a good economy, low unemployment and a more secure America, people voted against Republicans because they have lost the will to stand up and fight as we did just after 9/11.

This the terrorists counted on and knew would happen, we are our own worst enemy.

John Howard, Shrewsbury

How about this, John ... America voted against corruption, against the obfuscatiuon of government, against pedophila, and against neverending war.

Fuck you and your Flat-Earth bullshit.

Just go to Raw Story and look at the headlines.

This, my friends, is what Democracy looks like.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-investigations10nov10,0,1887142.story?page=2&coll=la-home-headlines