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plenty of excuses, which are just that, excuses. why I haven’t posted, why I’m not creating, why I’m not doing anything that isn’t just enough to get through the day to day that has become my life. A visit with family over the holidays resulted in a trip to my uncle’s office. He has a bobble-head of Michael Vick and a bobble-head of a rottweiler, laughing about it my uncle said, “Yeah, I know lots of people who aren’t living up to potential.” I know this wasn’t directed at me- but I couldn’t help applying it to myself- I’m not living up to potential. What am I doing? In this life or otherwise. Jesus- I’m 31 years old and though I talk a good game, that’s all it is- Talk and Game. I sit in admiration of others and say, “I wish…” or, “I could…” but it never really goes any farther. I want to do, but I always get sidetracked. I start, but don’t finish. I lose interest. The things I want to do turn out to be a lot of work, and I already do enough of that and get increasingly farther behind in spite of my best efforts. I rush in and fear to tread, all at the same time. What have I accomplished? Nothing. My family and friends believe in me and support me, but I never seem to do anything. I’m just fed up and and depressed and more than a little apathetic. I feel like like some bastardized conglomeration of Charlie Brown and James Taggart. Paralyzed by own anxiety and self-loathing and too lazy to do anything about either.
things went ok- I am alive and well, and in way too much pain- GOOO HYDROCODONE!!!!
What is Zuda Comics? Well, according to this, ZudaComics is a site for heretofore unrecognized comics-creating talents to submit their original content in the hopes of gaining an exclusive contract from DC Comics, and for DC to gain new creative properties to market, license, and sell. The question for me is: With the advent of Web-Comics- why does any creator worthy of winning an exclusive contract with DC Comics, need Zuda Comics or its parent, DC Comics, for anyways?
Why doesn’t…awww-skip it!
“In America there’s someone willing to pretend to be offended by everything and so we annoy people and that’s part of the appeal,” he said. “It’s to entertain people and also to annoy a certain segment of the audience as well.”
Simpsons and Futurama Creator and longtime Comics Artist Matt Groening to British audiences following preview of upcoming Simpsons’ Feature Film.
Amerika- The United States of the Offended!
Aside from being the worst phrase ever turned- this is how analysts describe exactly which news outlets get the most attention and for what reason….
read all about it, here!
Retainer for Lawyer=$50,000
Legal Fees=$172,000
Fines=$1500
Electronic Monitoring Anklet=$7248
Picture of crying, spoiled “celebutante(?)” as she’s hauled back to jail=Priceless!!!
A google search for the “World’s Ugliest Frog” got me something quite unexpected- the above image of Sam, a pedigreed Chinese Crested Hairless and 3 time winner of the “World’s Ugliest Dog” Contest. Two words keep coming to mind…. “JOIN US!”
Don’t let the title fool you, the man pictured at left is not crazy, far from it, and I have no problem with the people of Appalachia (eh-puh-latch-uh). I grew up in Western North Carolina, you see, and it was not uncommon to see people like him on a daily basis. His name, by the way, is Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton. He is one of the last of a dying breed. He is/was allegedly a moonshiner. That is, one who distills corn whisky for distribution and consumption. He is also one of the foremost experts on the art of distilling corn whisky, aka. white lightning (watt lattnin’). I’ve sampled the wares purportedly produced by him and I will say it is some of the finest (fahnust) liquor (likker) I’ve ever tasted. Not that there’s much taste to it, but in terms of alcohol is some of the smoothest. This is the stuff to make you twenty-foot-tall and bullet-proof, if that be your inclination.
For a man engaging in atavistic pursuits in the 21st century, he is surprisingly savvy at self-marketing himself. From books, to movies, and even Wikipedia- who he is and what he does is far from a secret.
I can’t say I’ve ever been drawn to the allure (can it even be typified as allure?) of the “Cash Money” aesthetic. Personally, there’s nothing about some tough looking mug displaying his/her wealth (or casting the illusion of) in ostentatious amounts for an album cover that makes me curious as to what sort of music is on the album. I don’t know who buys into that sort of imagery, but I imagine that they would probably be open to buying Tony Robbins tapes, too. This image was forwarded to me this morning with the following note:
You have:
1. bling,
2. bling on bears,
3. bears smoking blunts,
4. bears in smoking jackets,
5. a tray of salmon, strawberries, grapes, and nuts,
6. Cristal,
7. Bears drinking from huge goblets,
8. head back, eyes almost closed, imposing stare,
9. the name “Big Bear” painted in honey, and
10. all of this takes place in a cave.I dare you to put any Cash Money artist to this task.
So, I did some research, seems this particular image was generated in the Nineteen-Hundred and Nineties- all the way back to the archaic times of Cypress Hill and the Ghetto Boyz-The album that this art was created for was published for distribution in 1998! Here I was scared that this was contemporary album art, fffwwwwooooo! Small wonder we don’t find ourselves inundated with Big Bear merchandise today, huh? He was obviously a true playah. Maybe this is a case of Album Art Killed the Hip-Hop Star? Who knows? Even by 90’s standards this is lame, it’s “cute” and it goes without saying that “cute” goes with Hip-Hop like….Bears and Cristal!! Bears in smoking jackets? How in THE hell did this schmuk manage to keep a straight face during the shoot? Or was he supremely pissed off, like “I’m so gonna fire my manager for this, what stupid jackass thought this’d be cool?” The kicker is the album came with an “Explicit Lyrics” warning. Ha Ha, Ho Ho, it is to laugh! “Big Bear gonna getchu! Raaar! I’m tough all up in my cave with my grizzly boyz and our silk jackets, Raaar!” And the title, “Doin Thangs”? How about, after ten years, “Doin No-thangs!”?
Here’s Five Titles that could’ve been better and I’m not even trying:
1.”Smartah than tha average Bear!”
2.”In da Cave!”
3.”Fuzzy Wuzzy!”
4.”Hey, BooBoo!”
5.”Back from the Woods!”
I have got myself laughing so hard about this right now, that I can’t hardly breathe, I gotta give this up for now. Comments are welcome. Can you think of a better title for this album?
