A Lesson From a Cartoon

Cartoons can be considered mindless entertainment but quite often you will find yourself actually learning something from a cartoon. The timeliest example for me is a certain episode of Futurama. In this episode (which is actually one of my favorites) Bender is drifting through space and ends up becoming a host to a miniature civilization that grows from a meteor that hit him. At the end of the episode he ends up meeting this celestial body that we presume is God since it knows all and all that jazz. Anyway, this “thing” (for lack of a better word) gives Bender a good bit of advice: “When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.” I find this concept to be pretty accurate. This concept kind of coincides with the idea that you’re supposed to do good things just to do good things and not for recognition or for something in return. This, if you really think about it, sucks a big load of pustule dick. I get the idea of it and I understand that doing good is suppose to be personally rewarding or whatever bullshit you want to feed yourself but at the end of the day it doesn’t count for a lick of shit. I guess if you believe in heaven, and not even necessarily a God of some sort, then maybe this idea of being good holds some value to you because it’ll get you VIP access in heaven—kind of like how hot slutty girls dress hot and slutty to avoid lines and cover charges at night clubs. Let us take this concept and apply with no religious or spiritual rewards or consequences—so we’ll pretend, for a moment, that there is no God. Without the notion of heaven or karma or anything of that sort, this concept becomes incredibly depressing. If you do things right and your nice and all that good benevolent junk then no one will be sure you did anything at all, but if you’re mean and an asshole you’ll get what you want and people will take notice to you. I mean you wonder why people in this world are such ungrateful assholes and it boils down to our most simplest of nature. If you have a dog or a small child that constantly wines or begs for food, or what have you, and you say no constantly but eventually you give up and just give it what it wants to shut it up then it wins. Not only does it win but you’re teaching this dog or child a terrible but apparently valuable lesson about life: assholes run shit. There are tons of examples of this in everyday life, just think about it. Nine times out of ten your boss of bosses at work is probably an asshole or a bitch and how do you think they got that gig? You think they got it from being nice? Perhaps they were “nice” to the right people (i.e. kissed the right asses) but ultimately they’re assholes and they got the job from being an asshole. When you call any company for technically assistance of some kind, like calling AT&T for problems with your bill, sure you can be nice and things will probably get fixed back to how they used to be but where’s the incentive? If you make the same call but you’re an asshole and you complain a lot and cause all these problems just to get your way, you will get your way and in fact, you’ll probably be rewarded. I have a friend who used to call a certain company on a regular basis and pretend to be mad about some issue and he would just complain to them and almost every time they would end up giving him either a gift card or credit onto his account. I think that pretty much sums up the asinine construct of our society. Where’s the incentive to be good or nice when being a jerk gets you places? Being an asshole even gets you laughs since being a jerk can be hilarious (to everyone you’re not being a jerk to) and it even gets you women! Girls love assholes (people not anuses) it’s almost a proven fact. Nice people are boring and assholes are fun.

I don’t know, I suppose I’m just bitter because I’m actually a nice and pretty good person and it often goes over looked. People take advantage of kindness and it’s hard to keep being nice when it commands no results but maybe a pat on the back. I still prefer to be nice over being a jerk but sometimes I teeter on that idea and maybe one day, from too much of this, I’ll end up giving up and becoming an asshole.

Anyway I need to stop writing about this because it makes me sound like a depressed whiny bitch and that’s not who I am. Life is good.

Dear Girls of the World

If you want to start being treated as equals stop acting like morons. I'm sorry, I truly am, but I can only feel sorry for you at this point because most of you make no sincere effort to be taken seriously. There are a few out there that break the mold but the average girl suffers from diarrhea of the mouth. When the way you speak sounds about as grammatically incorrect as your incoherent overly-abbreviated text messages. Like OMG your sech a betch 4life, loves ya, your hilar. Dumb people that are lucky enough to be born rich are not good role models or people to admire. They say dress like you want to be treated and that's probably why you get treated like a whore. If you don't want people to think your an idoit, then stop talking like one.

ps: This isn't about anyone in particular, just girls in general.


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What is my problem

I got through life not knowing what I want ever. It's constantly a mystery to me on what tomorrow will bring and if I'll like it or not. One day I wake up and I love one thing and then the next I hate it. I think one of the biggest things in my life is the lack of consistency, it plagues me. I wish I could just love something and that be it and never have to wonder again cause this shit is getting old. Seriously women are crazy, I mean so are men but women just operate on different frequencies. I think the minute I find a girl (woman) that has a sense of humor and isn't a crazy bag of craziness then I'll get down on one knee and marry her. Seriously I would say "what wrong with me?" if I didn't already know, too bad I can't do much about it...and I feel bad for people who have to suffer for that. It isn't easy and if I knew the future it would be...but I don't. Maybe I think too much, or not enough...oh well.

Opposites Attract

I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on that. Sure opposites do attract but it tends to be mostly magnetically than anything else. For me, however, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like someone that is the opposite of me, unless your talking gender. Yes I want to date a girl and not a dude and yes I don't want a girl with a penis but I feel that's as far as my for argument goes. Don't get me wrong I can still be attracted to someone who is the opposite of me but at the end of the day I want to be with a girl that's pretty similar to me. I need a girl with a silly sense of humor, I need a girl who's attentive, and I need a girl that can maybe share my love for video games and nerdy things...to an extent of course (I'm not THAT picky). I'm not going to go fall in love with some hot girl who hates technology and doesn't know Africa is a country, that's just not my taste. They say don't judge a book by it's cover but I'm not gonna buy a book if the cover depicted some scene of bestiality, but a book with a color cover and an interesting title might make me want to read it. If we weren't meant to judge books by their covers (I mean that both literally and figuratively) then books wouldn't' have covers. I'm not saying I'm shallow, even though everyone is in their own way, I'm just looking for a girl with a little beauty because lets face it I have to be attracted to the person physically and have to want to see their drooling squinty smelly breath face in the morning. It's a shame though that the older I get the more personality matters because their are a lot of beautiful girls out there that ruin it by opening their mouth and spouting some asinine verbal abortion about the Hills or Twilight. I find myself cringing sometimes when I get a peak at some people's personality, and I don't mean that in a cocky way like I'm this handsome awesome person with a fantastic personality, it's just that some people don't take the time to improve themselves. If only beauty were something to be earned then maybe the beautiful would appreciate it instead of abusing it or using it as a fall back as their meal ticket. When I watch TV late at night I used to get excited about seeing those Girls Gone Wild commercials and now I just feel sad and ashamed which are two weird feelings to go through while having an erection. Being in one of those DVDs is almost like a free pass for a guy to treat you like shit because he knows you don't have enough self decency to treat yourself with respect so why should he? They say dress how you want to be treated, well...you dress like a whore so I guess you'll be treated as such. I suppose when you look sexy as hell life doesn't really call for you to have a personality, I mean as long as your fine only being seen for face value. One day when my generation is well into adult hood things in the romantic department will probably start looking up for me since most women...I'm sorry, girls haven't quite matured yet but to be honest most of them wont' be worth it anyway. I feel bad for women who want to be taken seriously and not be treated as objects when other members of their gender are flashing their boobs for money and offering their bodies for rap videos and pornos and ad's and countless other mediums. Man this post sounds angry, I swear it's not. Smiles all day.

-Chris

New Web Site

I feel like every blog post has to start out with me either apologizing or stating how much I don't write on here. That being said I'm thinking about starting a new website, nothing huge or anything, but I want it to be pretty legit I suppose. By society standards I'm what you would call a "gamer". I read up about video games and the industry, I play a decent amount of games (when time permits), I like to write, I'm minoring in Journalism, and I'm damn good at games--so naturally I'm going to start a webstie about baking. Yes the site will feature all my world famous recipes including my award winning Peanut Butter Carmel Swirl Cheese Cake Bites and Pecan Cranberry Muffins. Ok I'm not, I'm starting a website about video games where I'll write about video games and do reviews of the games I'm playing/played. I'm not sure of the legal issues that might come up since I'm not offical or anything but I'll probably be fine. I'm gonna offer my own review system where I'll rate the game based on if the game is worth buying renting or trashing and I'll also try to give different perspectives of the game for different gamer types...I'll elaborate. If your into first person shooters I'll tell you to go buy Left 4 Dead if you know what's good for you, but if your a girl gamer I'll probably let you now that it might not be a game your into--even though girls should play it. Rating and reviewing it that way will give you a good idea on how YOU might like the game and how I liked the game because most reviewers review for reviewers or for devlopers or for a too broad or too specific group of gamers. The only down side is I have no idea what to call it so I'll have to come up with something and, as always, help is encouraged and much apprecaited. Double-Jump.com is the only thing I could think of so either let me know what you think of that name or help me come up with a better one because that's the hardest part for me sometimes.

-Chris

ps: http://www.hillcrestcartoon.com

Dream Books

I was once told by someone that if you write down your dream as soon as you wake up you'll have a better chance at remembering them, and soon you'll be able to control what happens in your dreams. For a while I was all about this concept because sometimes my dreams have a tendency of getting the best of me and show me my level of weakness. Now, however, I'm almost completely against the idea because those moments of weakness are good indications of my humanity and they help keep me grounded when I seem to carelessly float away. Plus I find it better to let my mind do what it wants because I, nor anyone else, can probably do otherwise. My mind doesn't work like most others (and why should it?) but just to give you an example, or insight, of how it operate it sometimes: I don't know what I want (sometimes) till I have it. Big Secret: I smoke marijuana, when I smoke I'll sometimes get hungry (duh) and then me and whoever I'm with will go somewhere to get food, most likely Wawa. Now me, being the person I am, I have no idea what I want to get--I have a general Idea like that I want something chocolately then something salty and to finish it off with something wet but other than that I'm mostly lost. So being particular and meticulous about some things I start browsing and of course I end up taking forever because I spend most of my time looking at something then imaging how it taste (usually pretty accurately because I've eaten it before) and then trying to figure out if that's why my body wants to eat. I feel like that carries over into many many many other aspects of my life. The question is though, is this a good way to live and I argue that yes yes it is. It might not be the best way for YOU to live but lets get this straight--your not me. I find that I operate good this way because my brain is pretty random and somewhat all over the place so I rely on feeling and emotion with a heavy dose of logic to get stuff done. It takes me forever to think of a topic for a paper because I want to write about something I enjoy or can write a lot about and I take forever to pick what I want to eat because I want to make sure what I get satisfies me. So of course this concept has to carry over into other parts of my life, and I think rightfully so because I need things in my life that satisfy me so that my happiness is rarely on the line. I wish I had more about this to write but I think I exhausted this subject right now, so I'm going to go occupy myself with something else.

_Chris

Mojo baby, yeah!

There's something, I feel, some people just possess and some don't that I really can't name. Call it mojo, grace, equilibrium, whatever you want. It's the little spark in some people that just gives them a special almost indescribable sense of self that just allows to carry themselves with grace and confidence that transcends itself into every part of their life. It's almost like an ability where some can have more of it than you and you can sometimes even have a fraction of what you could potentially have. It's not even like it makes you who you are though, it more or less just allows you to be who and what you are. This is a bad example but it's what makes Allen Iverson good at basketball or Steven Spielberg good at directing, it's just that special sauce--if you will (I mean that as a McDonalds reference so get you mind out of the gutter). Right now, to me, it's such a vague illusive concept that I can barely translate it on paper (aka this blog) so you can even understand what I think I'm talking about. I don't even know the point of this to be honest but I felt like typing about it, kind of like the random conversation I started today about the way people hug you tells you a little about them. How some people can hug you a little cold and some people just give you great hugs like they hug you with their whole body it seems. By the way, I warned you I was weird so don't act like this isn't normal for me. Anyway Mortal Kombat is on T.V. and I'm in the mood for a little nostalgic mid nineties action flick, based on a hit video game of the same name, goodness.

Laters


PS: They should invent a way for pudding to be healthy for you and then get that shit out everywhere; stores, restaurants, random places that sell food...everywhere. Come to think of it they might as well do it with fudge too, I mean kill two birds ya know.