2003-05-05 - 4:57 p.m.
To whom it may concern:
Sending me spam in an attempt to sell me antispam software makes Baby Jesus cry. Please stop.
(heart),
Mig
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You can tell the war in Iraq is almost over because Americans are going back to obsessing over stupid shit again. True, the whole Dixie Chicks controversy is at least indirectly war-related, but it involves celebrities and I can hear the anguished dying screams of another 10,000 of my brain cells every time I think about it, so I feel justified putting it in the "stupid shit" category.
I mean, really. Maybe I just don't get it because I'm a Yankee, but what is it about the Dixie Chicks thing that has no many folks' skidmarked official Dale Earnhardt memorial undershorts in a bunch, anyway? You'd think that Natalie Whatserface had gone to Baghdad personally and let herself be photographed in a Republican Guard tank with her knees draped over the shoulders of the Information Minister. Hey, Bubba--the war's over, and you won. You can put your dick away now.
Then, on one of the message boards I read, there's a mini-uproar going on over X2 (a good flick, by the way--better than the first one, and entertaining even for someone like me who had only a brief infatuation with the comic books). The board isn't comics-related, but a fair number of the posters are comics geeks, and so there's quite a bit of back-and-forthing between those who hated the whole Dark Phoenix saga and are appalled that it might turn up in the next film, and those who loved the foreshadowing and can't wait to see it on the big screen. Me, I'm like, what-ever--if this goes on much longer I may end up throwing in the "It's just a show, I should really just relax" meme I picked up from MST3K, just to see if it makes the whole board explode. Just a warning.
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On a historical note, X's More Fun in the New World was released 20 years ago this weekend. If you have a copy and haven't listened to it in a while, do--I prefer Los Angeles and Wild Gift for sentimental reasons but More Fun is a better record overall. And even today it kicks the ass of 80 percent of all the bubble-gum "punk" bands out there. Just one of the peanuts in Exene's crap has more attitude than all of the Blink-182 guys put together, and this record proves it.
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