The Wrath of CON

I think that comic con pretty much represented all that is terrible and beutiful about "my people". That being us geeks. The raw adulation about that all that is creative a whole convention with millions of dollars pumping through the vains of that city for the simple act of praise twords creativity. Obviously there is an industry around it and obviously it is a very lucrative one, But what convention panders to the weird little dreams of people more than comic con? There is also a dark underbelly to this mecca of nerd. It is the fanatic, horny, dirty, and sad group of my people. These people who invest there whole life into this way of life. The people who still live with mom at 40. The nerds who refused to grow up so instead of being the geeks, they have become the dorks.
Also there is a weird fascination with cross-dressing. There is definetly some gender confusion at Comic-Con. I saw "larry croft" an old guy dressed as Laura Croft. I saw many dudes in huge princess peach dresses. And of course the ambient amount of anime strangeness. Also those Naruto Head bands needs to stop I swear to god I thought I was in the "ninja village" at comic con.
The lameness exists and the one way to summerize it is the stench. The stench of that place was one of the most god awful things I have experienced. It was like being in the armpit of the blob. A vision of the past came to me of being back in my old comic shop and having those vampire the masquerade kids come in. And instead of just browsing they start arguing about different vampire types. Than all of the sudden they descide to have a nerd "sparring" useing those japanese training swords. The sweat, noise, and raw nerdness gets to a point were I subsequently descide I must be elswere especially when members of the opposite sex might walk by.
Needless to say it is a very specific image that comes into my head. But this is magnified and so large that even caring if the opposite sex observes is mute and I am not in highschool anymore I could care less. But that unease I feel when around religous zealots, sports fanatics, and comic nerds is universal. I have a natural mis-trust of fanatisism because it causes people to place something else above other people even themselves. So all in all Con was a reminder of what I truly love and truly hate about the dorky side of things.



and Link's souless eyes look like they feed on the souls of the nerds. I think I took this picture right as he killed a piece of me.

Capture at Con

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Boba Fett the greatest bounty hunter in the known galaxy captured me at comic con. What you didn't see is them putting a canvas bag on my head and dragging me off to the penal colony Guantanamo Mesa on Tatooine.

Thursday Night

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So we just got back from going out to some club. It was fun times. You should have seen fab though that guy was rocking out. To bad no photographic evidence was at hand. This is the only picture were I don't look like just some teeth and eyes.

The Age of Me

Well I have had a few interesting thoughts tonight I thought what the hell let's share what kind of blogger would I be if I didn't.

Well to give this little post some context lets do some good ol research.

e·mo·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-mshn)
n.

1. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.

re·spon·si·bil·i·ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-spns-bl-t)
n. pl. re·spon·si·bil·i·ties

1. The state, quality, or fact of being responsible.
2. Something for which one is responsible; a duty, obligation, or burden.

Ok so I bet you can guess what I am going to talk about. Emotional Responsibility. Which would infer being Responsible for your emotions. Pretty straight forward.

I mean look at our lives we are told that we are so important that our emotions are so necessary to put out there. Guess what it isn't true nobody needs to know what your feeling it isn't important your emotional problems aren't the biggest things happening today.

I had a strange thought. You know how essentially we seem to view most of the ills of the world of rising from the lack of emotions. Decisions are made of logic cutting the feeling out of a situation not taking into account people's feelings. Thus hurting them. Sounds pretty sound to me. But here comes the token blanket statement, and please bear with me this is going to get a little abstract and esoteric.

I think that's bullshit. It's too much emotion this age is so whiney I mean look at my posts over the past few months for christ's sake I wrote a god damn poem about human sacrifice. It's to much we aren't responsible as a society for our emotions. What the hell happened to being in control of your emotions. What happened to being responsible. These horrible things that are happening the world around us the violence the death etc... Why? Lack of emotion? No too much, too much fear, too much hatred, to much of it all. We have become slaves to our baser emotions. We want to feel something.

Men aren't men anymore. Look at us. Look at what the media tells us an attractive man is. A small almost scruffy weifish man who looks slightly womanish and is "tortured" and whines a lot. Or a huge hairless well manicured gorilla who can't count to ten. So when woman complain about media telling them how to look guess what it isn't just you sister. We are all made to feel bad so we can buy more shit to make us feel good. Pretty simple. Look at clothing is it just me or are sizes getting smaller what the hell. I know for a damn fact I wore an xl. Now you got to a store XL is to small shirts I wore a year or so ago that are xl still fit but new shirts I have to buy are xxl. What's up with that? I guess obviously my clothes could all have grown along with me, But I do not think so.

We are told to be giant man babies or these huge dull muscle factories. The attractive qualities of a man are not honor, class, and honesty. The proto man now is Orlando Bloom. But it was John Wayne. I mean that guy wasn't an attractive dude. But he had balls he didn't complain and he was a man of his word (as we are led to believe by the TV).






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But Legolas was cool.

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more self indulgence... Honestly folks.... But comeon I am bored do try to understand.