The turkey is cooked and the mashed potatoes are almost done. The green bean casserole is hot and ready to go, and the key lime pie, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie are chillin' in the fridge.
And I am ready for a tidal wave of tryptophan and a beer. I'd like to first start off by saying thanks to God for providing this food for us to eat. I pray that He provides food of this kind for those who don't. I am very thankful for my wife. And my wonderful son. And for my friends who have never forsaken me. You are on my A-list. My family are also high on the list of things I am thankful for. Everyone else can get out of my face. I am not thankful for you. Go die. The thanksgiving meal is about to start, so IF I don't pop afterwards, I'll see you later
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The typical depiction of the so-called holiday season involves Satan... uhh, I mean Santa delivering presents to all the "good children" followed by adults and children alike smiling and being happy while slamming back shots of Jack Daniels Egg Nog.
But what about moving during the "holidays"? This puts a brand new approach to the season. Traffic becomes a SAW trap while you hurry to get everything packed. I feel like I just got released from a Russian gulag. My mind has been through an emotional nuclear trainwreck over the last few days, and I am ready to just quit. It's official: I am the real-life Grinch. For the last couple of days, Mikey has been having a few worrying symptoms. Symptoms including a sore ear, a croup-ish cough, lack of coordination, lack of appetite, increased urination, and of course, difficulty getting to and staying sleep.
Let me tell you, I can't stand to see my little boy get sick. It gives me a chill when he's not feeling his best. As I said before, one of his symptoms is trouble falling asleep. Getting him to sleep when he's on his A-game is hard enough as it is, but when he's ill, it's near impossible. Normally, his night-time routine is as follows: 1. Lay Mikey down in his toddler bed. 2. Put military-grade ear muffs over your ears. 3. Get on phone and go to either YouTube or Pandora. 4. Start up a playlist of Smooth Jazz (this actually works!) 5. Brace for impact as Mikey ascends onto the bed you're laying on. 6. Regret the fact that you forget to wear your flak jacket. 7. Cover your head and neck as Mikey transforms into a miniature Chuck Norris and beats your *** accordingly. 8. Pray for mercy. Mikey is your god now. 9. Mikey is now asleep. 10. Take a deep breath and peel yourself off the bed. (Optional) As you can imagine, getting him to sleep when he's already not feeling well means you might not walk away from it alive. Humans have been the most intelligent, adaptive, and successful organism on the planet. Our civilizations have been highly reliant on communication, adaptation, commerce, and social peace. In other words, strong intellect.
Notice that the first paragraph was in past tense. Whether you like it or not, humans as a whole, especially in America, are going through a rapid reverse evolution. As a member of a dying breed of intelligent minds, I am not ashamed to say it. Men and women, black and white, gay and straight, minors and adults. We are all being dumbed down. Whether or not you believe biological evolution is true, there is an undeniable DE-evolution occurring all around the globe. You can find it everywhere. Whenever I get on YouTube, the first thing I do before watching a video is read the comments. And let me tell you, the spelling and grammar that most YouTube members use makes me twitch. Well, more than usual. Look at modern media. Music, literature, television, and movies are reflecting this downward spiral. Let's start with music. The most popular music in the U.S. is currently rap/hip-hop. This is followed by pop and then by country/western. Excluding country, when was the last time you heard a song from one of these genres that involved something that wasn't sexual, materialist, sexist, racist, faithist, or otherwise plain stupid? Now, that's not to say that ALL songs from these genes are devoid of meaning. I know for a fact that there are some good songs to these genres. But they are few and far between. These genres, as well as many others, as a whole promote materialism and self-pay. Not bettering yourself or the person next to you. Literature isn't quite so cut-and-dried. There are too many books in the world to count, fiction and nonfiction. But let's look at modern reads. How about Twilight? Making vampires a subject that prepubescent girls can now "sink their teeth into." In the decades and centuries prior, vampirism was seen as a plague and something to be treated with extreme caution. While superstitious, these people of olden times still used an intellectual and scientific approach to this matter. I have also noticed that older and more classical books are much harder to grasp. And it's not just because the dialect was different. Even quasi-modern books like the Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Of Mice and Men are more and more misunderstood. Today, you almost have to write like Dr. Seuss in order for readers to understand what you are writing. Television is almost completely responsible for the decline of human intelligence. Especially children's shows. Pick any cartoon that is current. In fact, pick any modern fictitious television show. You'll see at least one of the following: high reliance on technology, innuendo, violence, a lack of wittiness, materialism, simple dialogue, misuse of slang. There is a popular saying, "Cartoons aren't what they used to be." And don't get me started on "reality" TV! As if what Snooki ate for breakfast is going to somehow enlighten you. The teachings of the bearded creeps from Duck Dynasty aren't going to help you in life. Watching June abuse Honey Boo-boo isn't going to get you jack. Movies are also being dumbed down. I can't count all the movies that defamed old works of art through so-called "remakes" by removing the beauty and injecting violence, coarse language, gore, and sex. I don't know whether this epidemic of stupidity is caused by the higher-ups in an attempt to put the people down, or by people's blatant apathy. Either way, we NEED to wake up. We NEED to focus on making people smart, not pretty. Intelligent, not popular. Wise, not rich. We, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, need a paradigm shift. We need to usher in an era where intelligence is praised and cherished. The words "nerd", "geek", and "dweeb" need to be our battle cry, not insults! Today is Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary, and let me tell you, I AM NOT HAPPY. The show became the little kid who threw a massive tantrum at his birthday party because not enough people were there.
Let me first say, though, that it WAS well done. It had me on the edge of my seat. But... First of all, due to the actions in the episode, the planet Gallifrey is back in business. Oh yes, I LOVED that part! Except one thing... Because John Hurt (the before-the-Doctor-was-the-Doctor-Doctor) did NOT decide to blow up Gallifrey at the end of the episode, He regenerated into Peter Capaldi instead of William Hartnell... WHAT! THE! [Censored by the BBC Network for the children :)] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Before you go assuming I'm overreacting, let this sink in: NONE of the Doctors we grew up with and loved, exist anymore. They were rendered irrelevant. Peter Capaldi is now in the place of the true first Doctor. There was a scene towards the end where Matt Smith and David Tennant discussing entering the TARDIS to take a one-way trip to their graves. Oh you're angry now, aren't ya? As Billy Mays always said, "BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!" At the very end, they state that Gallifrey is now lost, not gone, and that he is going to find it. So the Doctor's mission is to find lost Gallifrey. NOT to defend humans. This is a HUGE paradigm shift. BBC, you have slapped us in the face! And we STILL don't know his name! This describes my life right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eal4fep7pK4 Just a few hours ago, my wife and I went to the Campbell 16 Theater to see Catching Fire.
While it was overall better than The Hunger Games, there were a few points I'd like to make about it. In the Hunger Games, the countdown right before the Games started was epic. It seriously sounded like Jigsaw was voicing it. In Catching fire, the countdown sounded like an apathetic preteen who didn't care at all about the Games. Gale wasn't very well developed as a character. In fact if you delete Gale from the movie, it'd almost go on like he never was a part of the story. Very few, if any, plot holes would emerge from Gale's mysterious disappearance. I can't say that it was a perfect movie, but it was still very excellent. I have been playing Skyrim for quite some time, and you know what? I'm going to make my own mod.
For those of you who play Skyrim or similar games, you know very well that there is an option to read books. Sometimes these books grant bonuses, etc. My plan? Simple. To copy the ENTIRE Holy Bible into Skyrim! I may need to divide it into multiple sections in order to make it fit. I'll start with the NIV, and then move on to the KJV. I'll include a small background story as to how the Bible arrived in Tamriel, as well. I am excited to get started. Prayers will be said, research will be done, Carpal Tunnel will be acquired, and coffee will be abused! Let's get to work. I just saw a picture on Facebook that really cut me to the bone... On the top of the pic, it depicted a young, scrawny, most likely impoverished, Palestinian boy screaming. You could see genuine pain in his eyes. The caption said that he came home from school to discover that his family's home had been decimated by the war. Underneath it, it depicted a fat, most likely American, boy screaming with the same disturbing pain written on his face. The caption said that his mother confiscated his copy of Grand Theft Auto V...
It highly disturbs me to see this kind of self-entitlement in first-world people. The people who will curse and holler about their greasy hamburger not being cooked right. America, what are you doing? We are the most privileged country on the planet, and we still tantrum for more. More. MORE. When will it be enough? When will you open your eyes, and see past your own nose? When will you open your ears, and hear the hurting of the world around you? Or will you awaken, at all? I know, I'm not one to talk because of my past. I was the same way in my childhood. I'm still digging my way out of this pit called Consumerism. This insatiable hunger for more. I'm killing this ravenous beast right NOW. It's that time of the week for DO WANT. Today, I am showcasing a flashlight. Not just any flashlight, however. THIS flashlight is licensed by Mojang as an official Minecraft Torch!
It's simple (almost TOO simple), yet beautiful. Perfect for those times you accidentally dig too far down and need a light. According to ThinkGeek, it can mount on walls. Not sure how it would do that, but hey. It's featured on ThinkGeek for $24.99. It seems like every other day something gets lost. I'm not sure how, but things just disappear from their original spot. For example, my iPod is somewhere in this house, but there is not a single iPod to be found in the house. I've checked everywhere, even the trash cans and the (close to) impossible places.
Same deal with the set of remote controls. I'm stuck on Tru TV watching Duck Dynasty with migraine-inducing volume. This makes it twice as hard to alter the TV. With one remote, I can control the TV set, an thus lower the volume to a more acceptable level. With the other remote, I can control the satellite and banish those bearded stooges out from my sacred living room. Alas, both remotes are missing! But let's look a the positive... It's not ALL bad! I have discovered a way to hook my laptop to the TV via the HDMI cable, thus putting Skyrim on the silver screen! Well, the bronze screen at least. Even so, the crusade to find my lost relics is on! |