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Well I really wanted to go to a haunted house tonight, but the only one we could find was run by a Southern Baptist church down here. We went anyway, fully knowing we were gonna get a ride into Jack Chickville…

We were informed before entering that there would be people available for counseling if we had any questions afterwards.

They started out by putting us in a room and directing us to watch a screen, where they played a video montage of the torture scenes from Passion of the Christ while blaring really loud obnoxious death metal. The montage was very poorly made, with bad text fading in and out giving the typical message that Jesus died . . . FOR YOU! A few people burst into weeping instantly. Then Satan came out and told us not to listen to those crazy church people, and to listen to him instead. Then we were ushered into the next room.

80% of the house was basically clowns running around with chainsaws and screaming, accompanied by people screaming, “WATCH OUT FOR THE CLOWNS! DON’T GO IN THERE!” I don’t know what clowns have to do with Satan… but oh well.

Then we went into a “rave.” A bunch of kids were playing dead on the ground next to empy bottles of Bud Light (the raver’s drink of choice). Satan was spinning, and a few devils were playing with glowsticks. I had no idea Hell was such a party…

Then we went into a white trash home. A car had crashed through the window and a mother lay dead on the couch while here daughter cried in the other room. The girls in the car also had the telltale Bud Light. This room kind of broke the mood cause the girls in the car were completely bored out of their minds and didn’t really keep character. They were definitely the people who were only involved to rack up some community service points. The dead mother had been watching a 3-D animatied cartoon. Poor soul… to think that’s the last thing she saw.

Then we went into the best room of the house. Two people watching The Ring. Seriously! Then we went down a hallway that looped another part of the movie, after which we turned to corner to be face to face with Sadako coming out of the well! W00t! That was awesome. Kudos to them for that.

Then we were ushered into a room where a rapper in black face was shouting “mofo” and busting caps in all directions, and a man clearly meant to be a Muslim was babbling and killing hostages. Ah, finally, the true face of Souther Baptism. Too bad there wasn’t also a woman with a job! Or a Kerry supporter! I guess that would’ve been to scary for some people.

It was a fun house, especially for the Sadako room. I was a little offended by the room with the Muslim and black man, and especially the beginning scene with Jesus and the bad type. But it’s a church so there has to be some of the latter (and it’s a bad church, so there has to be a bit of the former).

I also would like to mention a very nice prank which was pulled on me this morning. Someone came by in the night and taped up pictures of the characters in Ju-On to my windows. So the first person I saw in the morning was Kayako staring into my window at me. Very nice touch. It was broad daylight, so I wasn’t scared, but I do appreciate the effort and it was a clever prank. Nobody’s taken credit for it yet…

Another plea to Bush supporters (this one is meant to be an attack, so if you’re gonna get pissy, read the previous link first):

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17962

Please read that link. If you’re intelligent it will make you want to throw up with disgust. If you’re stupid, you probably already have decided not to read that link.

And if you have some spare time, browse www.workingforchange.com.

I know you probably won’t, because you’re happy being ignorant and blindly following Bush like a lemming… but if you have even one ounce of sanity left in that confused head of yours, then for the love of humanity, educate yourself.

Remember: A lot of Germans thought Hitler was a great guy, too.

Ok, this is not meant to be an attack so please read this post.

Why do you support Bush? Seriously. There must be someone out there who actually has a good reason.

I’ve been asking this question to a few of the known Bush supporters around me, and I’ve noticed one consistant thing: none of you have a good reason. The number one answer I get from all of you is something along the lines of, “Because Kerry is keeps changing his mind.” Today I even got a reply from one that said, “I fucking HATE John Kerry.”

People, what are you talking about?! Honestly, without resorting to insulting Kerry, can you really argue a good reason? I know there are people there who have reasons, because I can’t believe that 50% of the country is subject to such simple brainswashing, so please tell me your reasons.

And if your reason is, like I recieved today, that you think Kerry is wishy-washy, that Kerry doesn’t have morals, that Kerry doesn’t have a plan… please go do a little bit of research. Visit http://factcheck.org, a nonpartisan site that will tell you the truth (good and bad) about both Bush and Kerry so you can decide for yourself why you support whom. I hate to be the one to point this out to you, but if you gave any of those 3 reasons as to why you support Bush, you’ve been brainwashed. You simply don’t realize it. Those are the exact words that have come out of Bush’s mouth for the past month more than once a day every single day. He sounds like a broken record, constantly attacking Kerry on issues that are actually just half-truths at best, outright lies at worst.

Did any of that make you angry? If it did, then you probably really have been brainwashed, because nothing I said there should have angered anyone. I won’t turn this into a rant, because I really am not trying to bash anyone right now.

Please go read http://factcheck.org.

I’m gonna leave comments open on this for a while, so you can post the reasons that I asked for if you like. But please… http://factcheck.org

My most recent project for Advanced Computer Illustration was to do a postcard for Ringling’s coming admissions poster. The theme was “What Do You See?” How lame is that? The only solutions I could come up with were extremely satirical and smart-ass (you know that’s my sense of humor), and were not appropriate for an admissions poster. Finally, my friends convinced me to just go with one of the ideas anyway, regardless of whom I would offend and how appropriate it would be for a poster. So I decided to illustrate what I see at Ringling: my classmates. I made “The Bible Banging Bigot” first, since that’s primarily what I see here at Ringling. I seriously think the Bible Belt is buckled right here at this school. Since I didn’t want to offend only the right-winged nutcases, I decided to make fun of my own breed as well, the gamers. And to complete the showcase, I threw in an AnimeGrrl, since there are so many of them here and they really really piss me off.

I wanted the text to be more vitriolic, but I didn’t finish until 5:30 AM the day they were due, so the text is a bit lacking (not to mention writing in Times New Roman doesn’t have the same effect as handwriting it, which I wanted to do). I may eventually do more of these and if I do, I’ll fix these guys up to be more sarcastic and look better. But in the meantime, enjoy:

And not for the reasons you may think… well, I do think it is a very dumb game. I don’t see how a game which takes no skill at all other than bluffing could become so popular so quickly… anyway that’s not my point.

I hate Texas Hold ‘Em because I just got, in under 1 hour, over 400 comment spams about fucking Texas Hold ‘Em. They just kept coming and I couldn’t delete them fast enough. I only know just finish closing comments on *all* of my previous posts, and I will likely not open comments at all anymore, except for maybe a short period of time after making a new post.

God damn all of you morons who play online Texas Hold ‘Em. And who buy Viagra and Cialis online. And natural breast enhancement pills. All of you can go to hell. It’s your fault we have so much spam.

I can’t really take credit for this news blurb, so I’m going to link you to Slashdot, where you can find links to the torrent files to download so you can watch this show.

If you’re sick of politics, you should see this video. It will make you so happy.

Hmmm… well OK, that’s probably not true. There’ll be more I’m sure. But this one is of a different nature.

After being consistently unimpressed with the Democratic Party’s lack of backbone and quickness to cave in to conservative demands for the sake of popularity, I discovered the Libertarian Party. Until now I’d been torn whether or not I should vote for Kerry in order to keep Bush from getting into office or voting my heart, which doesn’t echo the ideals of the Democratic Party. To me, that party is nothing more than a slightly less conservative Republican Party. And they both pander to the same special interests.

I’m not going to write a long rant plugging another party. If you are interested in politics at all, or plan on voting in the next election (which I hope you do), then may I suggest taking a look at the following websites: http://www.lp.org, http://www.gp.org. Feel free not to change your political views or your vote, but please just take a look at these very interesting and refreshingly different parties that are rapidly growing in popularity and drawing votes equally from both Republicans and Democrafts. (In fact, there are a lot of high-up Republican senators who have said they plan on voting for Badnarik instead of Bush this year.)

Just FYI, there are 38 people running for president this year! Do your duty as an American to learn what each of them stands for. Don’t limit yourself to the two big parties. I’m still researching other parties, but I can tell you this: I will vote for the one I truly believe in.