One student suspended for farting on a bus at one school and another EXPELLED for farting in class.
See the story here. I love that part of the URL is “odd stench suspension.
Category: News
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Things to do with your photos before you put them on Facebook
Hongkiat has done it again. I posted earlier about making cartoon characters from your picture based on their blog entry. Now they have posted a link to 25 Websites to have Fun with you Photos.
I decided to check out Photofunia. I nabbed the blog image of a couple of frequent commenters here to show you what it could do. All you need to do is choose one of your images and where it should go.
First is our friend Brit from Blunt Delivery. This photo proves there are weirdos on the net who will do anything when they find your picture online. Actually the photo from a blogger named Chris Pirillo was one of the options on the site.
Ram’s Food Here blog is a fictionalized humorous account of a convenience store owner. He has been coming up with Ram Branded products lately so I figure it is only time before he starts making his own money.
So many more to play with so check them out.
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Where are my Black (Super) Heroes and/or Villians?
It’s obvious that plumb movie roles esp in the superhero or supervillian genre typically go to white men. For whatever reason Hollywood is afraid to put an African American in the lead role. (with the exception of Spawn – but that movie was weeeeeiiird). And there seems to be a perception that if you make an African American actor the villian that it may be percieved as racist. Yet they miss the fact that avoiding using an African American actor for that reason is just as bad. Michael Clarke Duncan in Daredevil is the only villian I can remember.
I remember growing up having the Talking Adventure Team Commander doll (yes I am man enough to call it a doll…the word “action figure” hadn’t been discovered). So imagine my surprise when the cartoon came out and the commander was WHITE. WTF?
Then comes the first Batman movie. Who played Asst DA Harvey Dent in that movie? Anyone? Anyone? Billy Dee Williams. For those not following along Harvey Dent is the guy that turns into Two Face. So what happens. Batman 3 comes out and Billy Dee is dissed for Tommy Lee Jones. So he is good enough to sell Colt 45 but not play a villian.
Since the era of the blaxploitation movies, the only time there seems to be a black hero is when there is a African American producer or director (Robert Townsend (Meteor Man) or Kenan Ivory Wayans (I’m Gonna Get you Sucka)) But even those remain in the comedy genre. And please don’t pull out Shaq in Steel.
Samuel L. Jackson seems to be the only guy who can get continuous work in the realm of hero movies.
- Die Hard with a Vengeance
- Star Wars (even though it wasn’t anything close to a main character)
- Shaft
- Unbreakable (even though it was a crappy movie)
- SWAT
- Snakes on a Plane
- Iron Man 1 and 2
And on top of that he has signed to 9 films with Marvel to play Nick Fury in future films including upcoming Thor and Avenger Movies.
I love every SLJ movie (except Unbreakable), but can’t we find some great AA actors who haven’t already been a leading man to star in some hero movies? Tobey Maguire and Christian Bale were tolling around in art house films and who ever heard of Brandon Routh before Superman (then again who has heard of him since).
Am I missing anything?
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Sim Card
Help me with this. Why can’t they create a sim card that can store your numbers the same way they do on your phone? If you have multiple numbers for someone stored under their name, a sim card has to separate them into different entries.
So when you buy a new phone, you have to transfer them to the sim card which separates multiple numbers into different entries. Then you have to reenter your phone numbers to get them back to where you started with your old one. Ugh.
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Comics I don't Understand
Just came across the site Comics I don’t Understand. It features different cartoons that the blog author is having trouble catching what the point of the joke is. The most recent post includes the Dinette Set. Funny thing I hardly ever understand that cartoon, yet my dad always thought it was the funniest thing in the world. Am I not old enough yet to get it?
Thankfully the blog writers don’t look at editorial cartoons, or I might make their list one day.
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Watchmen Review
So I saw Watchmen last night and overall I enjoyed it but it left too many unanswered questions for me as a newbie. As I mentioned in my previous post and editorial cartoon, I never read the original comic so I came into it fresh.In no particular order here are my thoughts:
1. I was not as distracted by the blue junk as others seemed to make it out to be. But I guess there is one advantage to being made of so much atomic heat, he never does have to worry about shrinkage.
2. The first group, the Minutemen were all ex cops. The second group, who knows where they came from with few exceptions. My question is that Dr Manhatten is the only one with true super hero powers. So how does Roscharch jump 10 feet effortlessly and how do the others kick butt so well. Sure you can say Batman didn’t have superpowers either and he could kick butt, but a little backstory would help.
3. Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach was great. Then he removed his mask to reveal himself as Walter Kovacs.
Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs – Rorschach unmasked (image from dvd-forum.at) I obviously wasn’t the only one to think the part could have easily have been played by Danny Bonaduce. (in looks and personality) Come on, this could have been Danny’s big comeback.
- Danny Bonaduce (Image from TVguide.com)
4. The movie went to great efforts to show the origins of Dr. Manhatten but left me wondering about the others. How/Why? Sure you can say the first X-men movie only gave a background on Magneto but there was an overriding element that they all were misfits who had different powers. I couldn’t feel for the characters as much in Watchmen. Because there was no backstory on how Comedian came the be the asshole he was, it was hard to feel anything when he broke down in tears or even a feel good that he died.
So those are my two cents. Anyone with the answers, I would be happy to hear them.
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Is someone trying to tell me to exercise and quit eating junk food?
I admit, I am a lazy person. Sure I hold down a job and do cartooning on the side. But overall I am lazy. I workout only about once a week (sometimes more) and have to really focus to make better food choices.
Lately it seems that the world is against me (or at least trying to push me in the direction of making better life choices).
First it was Olympia. They used to sell this great Caller ID Globe at Brookstone. I can sit on my couch and see who is calling from across the room and decide whether that person was worth getting off my ass for.
Image from www.brookstone.comWell it has come time to replace my 5 year old one because the display has gone bad. Much to my surprise Brookstone no longer carries it and they said the manufacturer has stopped making it. Ebay still has a few for over $70. Can’t someone else work this technology?
In my quest to eat better (notice I said better not great) I started eating Doritos Light a few years ago.
Image from www.Olestra.comAlso known in some circles as Poopie Chips b/c they are made with Olestra, I never had intestinal problems eating them. Honestly I think that whole myth was started because some guy with diarrhea anyway ended up in the test group. Besides I was hoping for them to have an adverse affect on me figuring I could end up losing a few pounds. Anyway, I noticed about a year ago that Kroger stopped carrying them. Typical for Kroger to stop carrying a product I use forcing me to go elsewhere, I went directly to Frito-Lay’s website to find out who carries them. NO ONE. They discontinued them and when I spoke to a representative they said that they still had Baked Doritos…uhhh YUCK. Tastes like cheese flavored cardboard.
So recently Tostitos Gold has been on the shopping list. Forget the calorie jump, they taste good. Now it looks like Frito Lay has done it to me again. Launched with much fanfare six years ago, they are no longer on the shelf. A quick review of the Frito-Lay website, doesn’t include them in the list anymore.
Am I the only one with a kiss of death on products? Anything you loved that is no longer available? Maybe I should farm myself out to companies to start using their competitors products. I could be like the “Cooler” for the retail industry.
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My teachers were wrong to punish me.
I was one of those kids that constantly doodled all around my notebook in class when I was listening to the teacher’s daily boring lesson. They would always get on me because they thought it was disrespectful as if I wasn’t listening. They couldn’t understand that it actually helped me retain the information more.
Well now researchers in the UK have proven me right.
To all those who taught me in the past, an apology is due as once again I have proven you wrong.
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Liz Lomax creates cool Caricature Sculptures
While perusing www.drawn.ca, I came across an entry about Liz Lomax. Rather than the tradition pen and paper caricature, Liz uses clay figures placed against backgrounds that she adjusts in photoshop for the finished product. Pretty amazing stuff. Couldn’t get the video to embed her but you can see a video of her creating Oasis singer Noel Gallagher at:
The Making of Noel Gallagher from Liz Lomax on Vimeo. orhttp://drawn.ca/2009/02/17/watch-liz-lomax-sculpt/
and you can check out her website with more samples of her work.
**** UPDATE *****
Didn’t realize Liz had a blog as well so here it is.
