nascar's tribute to america with...vanessa williams!?

don't get me wrong: i love vanessa williams. i think she's amazingly beautiful and a very talented singer and actress.

in fact, now that i'm thinking about it, i think i'll go to amazon and see if her vh-1 christmas carol movie is on dvd, i really liked that.
but i digress...

however...during the daytona 500 today (the "super bowl" of nascar races, altho it's first instead of last, go figure), they did a "tribute to america" concert. A concert featuring clint black (without lisa hartman, so who really cares), brian wilson, five for fighting and --- vanessa williams (who sang "america" and "the star-spangled banner").

i'm just thinking: in this day and age, with the ultra-conservative theological-dictatorship that we're currently living under...how did vanessa williams, the only miss america to be de-crowned, get into a "tribute to america"?

just seems kinda odd...

guess they forgot to run that one pass the affermative family committees.

r-rated comics remix

or maybe nc-17. i dunno. guess it depends on your "moral standards." LOL!

anyway, it's kinda like a photomanip, except no photos were used. just a silver age comic book cover. it's kinda fun, if you're not too closed-minded about such things.

the evil of god's creation

who would've thought that god could create something that is so hideous, so terrible, that it could lead children down the path of ruin?

i am of course referring to the human body.

from reuters.com:

A vote on the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 was scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday, according to the House GOP's weekly "whip notice."

The House is expected to approve the legislation overwhelmingly, raising fines to $500,000 per incident from $32,500. The same legislation also increases the fines performers face for indecent broadcasts to $500,000 from $11,000, and removes the FCC rule that gives performers a warning after the first incident.

The legislation is on the fast track, having been approved by the House Commerce Committee on a 46-2 vote as lawmakers remain concerned about the rise of indecent speech on television and radio. Concern over broadcast content exploded after the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, during which Janet Jackson's breast was exposed during a number with singer Jason Timberlake.

i mean, for crying out loud, it was a breast!! it wasn't a lude sexual act! it was a part of the human body!! women use these things to feed their children! what's going to happen when these kids start going to gym class? "ahhhh!! that's the evil thing i'm not supposed to see!! i'm going to hell!!!"

the ultra-conservatives are getting so out of hand. it's getting kinda scary.

gmail invites, part 2

well...since no one is actually reading this i guess i'll just offer the invites to anyone who asks.
see that? you don't even have to do anything but ask and you can get a free 1gb email account with gmail.

be one of the first 25 or so to send me an email asking -- and it's yours!!

the only catch is you'll need a brain to figure out my email address, as i'm not going to just post it up here for the spambots to harvest. take out the "---"s and the spaces and figure out the rest:

--- won der dude 3001 --- a t --- g mai l --- dot --- com ---

don't forget your meds

bored now

wow. for some reason i thought doing a blog would be fun.
i guess after i started it i realized that my life is just so boring there's nothing to write about.
i guess i'll just have to start writing about whatever, even if it isn't interesting.
kinda like this.

:P

gmail invites

okay, unless gmail/google has had some sort of *boing-itty-boing* in their service, suddenly i've got a ton of gmail invites to give out. and since nobody is reading my blog yet, i decided to give them out here.

ha! i dare you to defy that logic. heh.

anyway, here's the deal. put a link to my blog either on your blog or your website, then send me an email with the url of the page with the link to me and i'll send you an invite to gmail!! is that easy or what?
i'll give at least the first 25 people who link me an invite -- after that we'll see how i'm feeling.
of course, this also depends on whether or not the invites i have are real or a mistake and i still have them later, but i guess we'll see...

you'll also need a brain to figure out my email address, as i'm not going to just post it up here for the spambots to harvest. take out the "---"s and the spaces and figure out the rest:

--- won der dude 3001 --- a t --- g mai l --- dot --- com ---

love ya all, mean it. :-D

you're only as young as you act

i know i said i hated web tests. but i found another cute one.
everyone always tells me i act like i'm 15, so they're stunned when they find out i'm actually old. LOL! but i found this test and decided to try it out and see if they were right:

i'm 39 years old, but i act like i'm...

20 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

What Age Do You Act?

now i can say: "i do not act like i'm 15!!" LOL!

just saw the catwoman movie

i didn't make it to the theater to see catwoman. not because i didn't want to, i just don't make it to the theater very often.
but i got the dvd for my birthday a couple weeks ago, and finally made the time to sit down and watch it.
i gotta say: it's not that bad. i mean, it's not that good, really, but it's nowhere near as bad as everyone made it out to be.
the story was alright. in fact the writing and acting were fine. my biggest complaint is probably with the directing. everytime something good was about to happen (like a fight scene), suddenly the cameras and the editing were moving so fast you couldn't see anything happening.
especially during the basketball scene, the dance club scene and the fight in the alley outside the club. i was like "hello, i'd like to know what's going on here!"
but otherwise, halle berry did a fine job. i liked the different levels to the character.
actually, my other complaint is the costume. it just made no sense. why? it didn't seem like there was any real reason for her to decide that particular outfit. i mean, i understand from a marketing point of view -- to appeal to the horny male masses -- but i wish there had been a story point to go with it.
all in all, i don't know if i'd sit down to watch it again more than once or twice: but i feel no urge to gouge my eyes out.

make the lying stop!!!

in his state of the union, george w bush said:

Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be re-defined by activist judges. For the good of families, children, and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage.

-- is he outlawing divorce...?

a few minutes later he said:

Because one of the deepest values of our country is compassion, we must never turn away from any citizen who feels isolated from the opportunities of America.

-- which completely contradicts the earlier statement (see above)...

and near the end he said:

We are all part of a great venture: To extend the promise of freedom in our country, to renew the values that sustain our liberty, and to spread the peace that freedom brings.

somehow...it just don't add up.
i'm curious how those three things can be in the same speech. different writers maybe?
i guess someone forgot to proof-read.
but what i'd really like to know is dubyuck's definition of the words "freedom" and "liberty". or at least his reasoning that reserves those terms solely for heterosexuals.

you can read the whole thing at c-span.

a drawing of firestorm

well, today was very uneventful. had the day off and all i did was laundry. ooh, fun.
so i decided to post up a picture i drew. i did it for an art contest at the geoffjohns.com forum, back in august '04, i think. anyway, here it is. click on it to see it bigger.
--[[ let me just say: i don't consider nor call myself an artist. i like to draw. i have fun doing it. but for some reason i just don't see myself as an actual artist. i don't know why. probably because i don't know anatomy or perspective...i just fake it. LOL! ]]--

this is the first complete picture that i'd drawn in years, probably about 7 or 8. and it's also the first pic i did entirely in the digital realm. i had the wacom tablet for 8 or 9 months before i actually sat down and really tried to use it.
anyway, it was just for fun...and i had fun doing it.
that's all i guess. hmmm....

i'm sick to my stomach now...

no, this isn't about how i'm feeling today.

i was working in the drive-thru this afternoon. one of the perks is being able to watch tv. unfortunately it's usually too busy from 1-3 to watch days of our lives and passions. and when it slows down by 4 there's nothing on worth watching.

anyway, the news at 6 had just started before i had a chance to turn it off. the top story was about a guy who was going to be tried for a felony -- to get back at his estranged wife, he killed her two-month old puppy. that's bad enough for me. but they told how he did it, it was just sick. i'm not going to write about it, i don't even want to think about it. i just can't imagine the kind of person who would attack a small defenseless animal for any reason anyway. it's unfathomable to me.

well, as much as i want to, i can't get it out of my head. i guess i'll go downstairs and watch days (which i tape everyday, because i can't miss it -- even though i hate it).