Halloween Two!!

Yep, tomorrow is October, and that means the Halloween horror review fest has rotated back around, and become an official Shmegalamonga tradition!

So, for today, as a lead in, let's have a recap of horror reviews I greedily jumped the gun on, to officially gather them up into this year's Halloween compilation.


Prometheus

Here.


Human Centipede 2, and More Brains!

Here.


The Millennium Trilogy

Here.

Not horror per se, but...I don't think Lisbeth would mind, do you?


Um...this batch of goodies.

Here.

It was quite a haul, and, it's easier to list the ones that didn't qualify as horror.
"The Man From Earth", and"Super".
And, I suppose "Hot Fuzz".,...even though it gets pretty grim in spots....
That's it.
The rest, Halloween gold.


God Bless America

Here.

Well, another one that's not horror per se.
"Black comedy", I guess it would be...but...aren't black comedies just the thing for Death Day?
And the dead leaves season in general?
I think so.
Screw it, "Hot Fuzz", goes back in!

That's the flat out post-holidays stuff, now, for stuff that kinda cheated it a little in the other holidays...


Dead Zone, Firestarter, Scanners, and Dreamscape.

 

Here.


Dead dude superheroes.

Here.


Paranormal Exterminator heroes.

Here.

Yep, went with Van Helsing.
Cuz, as I said then...

Gonna do a Halloween sequel next year, and that'll have a bigass chunk on Dracula.
Consider this the takeoff point.
Ooops, spoiler alert.

So...ya kinda know what tomorrow is gonna bring. ;)

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Happy 18th anniversary, Ed Wood!

My review here.

And, that's fortuitous, cuz, that leads us back full circle to....


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Happy 1st ThatGalaxyNextDoor Day!!

Yep, it's been a year.
Well, a year since "GalaxyNextDoor", re-spawned as THATGalaxyNext Door", but yeah.

Congrats on year one, Hyla.
Yours seems to have been more event packed than my year one was. :P

Anyway, his party for it is naturally better, so, hop on over...

Linky!!!

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Star Trek tech: Mindmelds are bullshit.

All right, for the uninitiated, let's look at what we're talking about.

In Star Trek, Spock (or, another Vulcan), touches a person's head, says "my mind...to your mind...my thoughts...to your thoughts...", and then, he's essentially hacked into your brain.

Well...maybe if he's got some kind of electronic implants, but..he does this with just his hands.

Okay, maybe Vulcans have a super-duper nervous system that was genetically enhanced in their ancient past, and forgotten about, and now they've ritualized this nervous hacking power.

Only there's a problem, on several occasions, the meld is established by touch, and then maintained without it.
A nervous system with wireless mode?
Bullshit.

Now, Seven Of Nine from Voyager has tech all through her, that I can let slide.
She can actually plug into things, and has a transmitter.
When you think about it, good-Borg are a modern upgrade of Vulcans.

Now, get this, in the Voyager episode "Unimatrix Zero", Seven is logged into Unimatrix Zero, a sort of secret underground VR for Borg drones, and Tuvok mindmelds in via her fleshy human forehead bits, and then also mindmelds Janeway in, and then, get this, Janeway's virtual self appears on the Borg Queen's viewscreen!

So...a mindmeld is a hack.

SO...they ought to be able to use Vulcan brains as wireless modems.

And if they could do that, then, why not clone Vulcan brain tissue, and have Vulcan flavored bio-neural gel-packs for the ship's computer?

Then, just imagine the shit you could do.

One of Spock's powers is going into a healing trance.
Well, imagine a person mindmelded to a whole bio-neural ship's computer, and pounding ship's power into a healing trance!
Everyone would instantly regenerate like Wolverine!

Ah, but get this, in the episode "Plato's stepchildren", a compound called Kironide bestows telekinesis.
So, imagine our Vulcan-gel-pak computer soaking in this stuff, and able to blast other ships with waves of kinesis.
Or, in combination with the healing trance, being able to self-repair the ship!
Eh? See?

It quickly becomes clear, that magic does indeed exist in Trek, and if they properly exploited it, Starfleet should be friggin' invincible.

But, that'd blow the lid off, and disintegrate the (already strained) scientific plausibility, and turn the show into Charmed (in space!).

It all went to hell, really, with 60's SF writers, particularly Roddenberry, thinking there might be something to ESP.
Well, we fucking know better now.
If Trek is gonna live another 40 years, we gotta get that stuff outta there.
Or, else retcon an explanation.

I've got it down to 2...

1.) before the Vulcans nuked themselves back to the stone age, necessitating Surak's social revolution, their tech was a LOT higher, and they had reached the level of good-Borg, except, their implants were cloaked, and phased, and their cloaked-phased nanites pass along with their genes, and, even TNG-era tech can't detect them yet, and the nuclear war on Vulcan made everyone who knew about it die, and they got cultural amnesia about it.

2.) Matrix magic. They're physically plugged in in the real world, and can hack into other people's pods, and it manifests as "ESP", in the fake world.

All this would have to cover all the other touchless telepaths like Betazeds too....

They once attempted an explanation for ESP in Trek, I forget the episode, but...something along the lines of their brains can both imprint messages on, and receive messages from, the subatomic particles that buzz around, and pass through all of us all of the time.

Bullshit.
Quantum phenomena happen on a massively smaller scale than neuron firings, and can't effect jack-fucking-squat.
In terms of scale, it's like saying a laser pointer can push the moon.
That's some full blown Deepak Chopra shit.
And if you don't know Chopra is full of shit, as Lewis Black would say, I want you to wear tinfoil so I can see where you are.

Also, particles can't explain why telepaths have felt things across light year distances.
Unless they're picking up fucking tachyons too.
See how ridiculous it gets?

Nope, either telepathy has to be booted out, or, we just have to accept Trek is a woo laden show.

It inspired a lot of computer geeks, and gave us internet, and I-pads, but...we've pretty much hit the wall for it being the blueprint for our future, unless some clever writers can give it an overhaul.

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Happy 14th birthday, Google!

Thanks for the blog space!
No minor thing.
And a bunch of other stuff, without which, we'd all be screwed.


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Happy 26th anniversary, Castlevania!

And just in time for the buildup to Halloween! :)

Man, everything's turning 25-30...

Simon Belmont in "Heroes Of Vidya Games".

AVGN Castlevania reviews-
(Very in-depth, best review of these I've seen)

Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Part 4.


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Also, happy 25th anniversary, The Princess Bride!

The perfect movie.
Hollywood should have just closed after this, but...I guess they like money. *shrug*

My Princess Bride review/memory.

And then, this....

...where's Fred Savage???
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Happy Avengers and The Dark Knight Returns on DVD/Blu-ray day!

Yep, once this day gets some years on it, it's going into holidays. ;)

Avengers review.

Dark Knight Returns review (the book)

DKR movie review.


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The post-modern post-mortem

Well, the whole "atheism plus", deal is as good a gateway into this topic as anything else...

As you may know, what sickens me about "atheism plus", is it's biggest bullhorn bearers, are a bunch of witless dolts.
And, what makes them witless dolts, is they let "gender feminism", what I like to call radical feminsim, or rad-fem, infest and supplant their chunk of the larger atheist movement.
They're witless dolts for letting that happen, and they're witless dolts for believing in it.

So, now to really get into why I hate rad-fem.
First of all, they're not proper feminists, as far as I care.
Feminists actually care about equality, and, this should go without saying, care about women.

Rad-fem doesn't.
Dead stop.
They've got some other "higher", "greater good", loony agenda going on.

They see all men as potential rapists, so...that makes half of all humanity a mortal enemy, and if you're warring on half of humanity, no fucking way you give two shits about "equality".

And, any woman who disagrees is labeled a "gender traitor", so, they don't give a fuck about those women.
So, so much for the "great sisterhood".
So much for those warm kumbaya bongo-thumping fuzzies.

So, if all that's a fucking lie, what the fuck DO they believe in?
Nothing.
It's like that Hannibal Lecter line, "they're weak, and unruly, and believe in nothing".

And what tells me they believe in nothing, is they have no argument to present, and no evidence to back that argument if there ever was one.
They've been asked for both, time and time again, and it isn't on offer.
You just get emotion-driven personal attacks.
And smear jobs.
Never a case for what they believe in.
Don't wait for it, it isn't coming.
Oh, they parrot out their little list of who they say they're out to protect, and woman and gays are always on there.
But their actual behavior says otherwise.
Exact opposite, in fact.
They're liars.
Bald-faced, shameless, guiltless, fucking liars.

And here's another question you'll never get an answer to.
"Say, how many truly oppressed women have you saved today?".
That line'll shut 'em right up.
They got nothin'.
They won't go to the middle east, they won't go to a trailer park, they won't volunteer at a women's shelter,  they won't save anyone.
Don't hold your breath for that shit either.
Don't even wait for it.
They don't really give a fuck.
About women, about...people.

These are soulless, bloodless, heartless, narcissistic, largely white, mostly American, upper-middle-class, sheltered, over-privileged, softened-up, guilty, jealous, pseudo-liberals, who want to feel important, and never will be, so they need to throw themselves around, and hurt people, to feel like they're actually doing something, to fill the emptiness inside.
And it's not going to work.
They'll do their damage, the world at large will be the same, and they'll still be miserable pieces of shit, but they'll refuse the blame, and pick more enemies.
Probably, the end game, will be that they'll all turn inward on themselves, and eat each other.
In fact, I consider it most likely.
Let's hope they hurry the fuck up on that one.
Yes, I really hope they do.
For the sake of everyone they plan to hurt, I really hope they implode in a big fucking hurry.

And all of that, I've just described, is just the fairly recent intersection of rad-fem, and the atheist movement.

This shit isn't new though.
Like I said back in June, rad-fem has been parasiting on, and destroying other movements before.
First and foremost, feminism itself.
And, where "atheism plus", is the intersection of activist atheism, and rad-fem, rad-fem itself is the intersection of regular feminism, and post-modernism.

And that's the real fucking enemy right there.

And what does post-modernism believe?
Nothing.
Oh, it spouts off various lines of bullshit, but they all conflict, and it's like trying to nail fucking Jell-o to the wall.
Really, it's dressed up nihilism.
It's anarchy in a tweed vest trying to be respectable.

Problem is, it should have never been shoveled as a positive belief system in the first place.
Like atheism itself, it's absence.

Post-modernism is what you use to break down other bullshit.
"Watchmen", is post-modern, "Hitchhiker's Guide", is post-modern, "Monty Python", is post-modern, hell, there's an argument to be made for calling "The Princess Bride", post-modern.
That's fine, I live for that shit, it's the air in my fucking lungs.

What you can't fucking use it for, is wrapping a political fucking movement around it, and smuggling it past as an academic movement.
That's disingenuous bullshit masking...well, plain blinkered ninny-hood.
And, I'm aghast and dismayed that it was ever sold to people.

But, it was.
Post-modernism sold as positive towards...what, I don't know, because it doesn't really believe in anything, infested the humanities departments of colleges across this country, and this is exactly when you start to see this "gender studies", version of militant feminism crop up, and then the Andrea Dworkin types shat out of the cracks.

And now, we're reaping the headaches in real life, of what used to merely be intellectual masturbation of tenured assholes.

The weakness of po-mo, as with the rad-fem it spawned,  is it has no stone cold logic to back its arguments up, it HAS no arguments, it openly and proudly eschews argument, eschews logic, indeed, it's anti-intellectual, and despises thought.
It's a "gut", philosophy as surely as Bushie conservatism.

It's "truthiness", with a hemp shirt and dreadlocks.
In fact, "truthiness", can be the only endgame for such a "philosophy".
Eschew reason, and you're fucking done.

My word for the whole sad, sorry lot, from now on, will be "post-modern drips".

You see 'em in entertainment too, post-modernism can aid in creativity, but when it breaks all the way down to nonsense that isn't even amusing anymore, it's just an expression of contempt, and that's "Tim & Eric Awesome Show", all over.
See my rant on that in the link.

It's not clever, it's a fun toy to play with when you're a teenager, but once you hit fucking 40, time to commit to a point of view (even if it's nihilism), or get out of my fucking face.

It's a mis-labeled pseudo-philosophy with absolutely no content whatever.

Eh, fuck it, the people at wine and cheese parties that throw Keirkegaard quotes around are post-modern drips too, as far as I care.
They may show pretense towards positively stated philosophies, but they're hollow, and empty too.

What do post-modern drips really believe in?
Themselves.
Which is fine, you should, but that seems to be all they believe in.
Fuck everyone else.
And, once you understand this, the whole "atheism plus", debacle falls into place, and can be understood no other rational way.
Egoism, pure and simple.
Sociopathy on the far ends of it.

Kinda like a Randroid, but without the free-market fundamentalism, actually.
At least Rand laid out her logic path, shoddy though it was.
I yearn, achingly, for a Randroidian logic train out of the post-modern drips.
Least that's something I can bite into.
The truthiness you get out of the A-plussers, is like paper pulp flavored oatmeal.
Bland, substance-less, and revolting, all at once.

...I wonder if it's planned that way..
...maybe it's really an evolved defense, like a skunk's spray, or a frog's pee...
..there's a thought.
More of a thought than A-plus ever frames its argument in, anyway.
No, even that gives it too much credit.

It's all just a post-modern drip.
From what bodily hole, I leave to your imagination.


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Happy Fall!!

Goodbye, and good riddance, summer.

Man, given all that went on, it's eerily prescient I opened that season with a cartoon of the sun crying....

So, that there is the view right outside my window.
Thank you, tricorder mark II.

This day also marks the first year anniversary of "I found Hyla, and he made a blog day".

Speaking of Hyla, he did a better rant on the seasons than I could ever touch, so, head over, and look at that. :)


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The Summer Of Hembock

So, for the three month anniversary of the first book, and coinciding with the release of the latest book, let's look back on this whole summer sized chunk of my life.

Well, overall, it's been a blast.
...the Hembook parts, anyway.

So, firstly, I've accomplished my long deferred teenhood dream.
All I wanted, or expected out of life then, was to get like, a minimum of one copy each of the Hembooks, put 'em on a comic shop shelf,  and have someone buy them, and love them.
I'd make pocket money, and that's it, I'd be done.
Wasn't too much to ask, I figured.

But, Kinkos-ing up those books, it turns out, is a bit pricey.
And, any time I was ever able to scrounge up the cash, I needed it for something else, usually computer repairs/upgrades/replacements.

Well, it took waiting for them to invent high speed internet, Amazon, e-paper, the Kindle, Amazon self publishing, Createspace, cheap photo quality scanners, etc, etc, etc, but my day finally came.

The teenhood dream is accomplished.
And, the teenhood dream was pretty much my childhood dream brought into tighter focus from a  general blur, of getting any comic out there, so, that's the childhood dream taken care of too.

The books are out there, and...my life goal is complete.

Those copies of the books are out there in the world now.
An asteroid could squash me right now, and this rotten stinko world can't take that from me.

That's it, that's all I wanted to do.

I'm finally who I want to be.

I took my shot, I've done what I was on this Earth for, so now...well...

So...I'm done, I can pretty much be phased out now.
Go ahead, and hit me, asteroid.
*Nothing*
Damn.

Well, guess I'd best keep going then.
I suppose I could retell the stories of how it all started, how each book got created, what led me up to self-publishing, etc, but...those are told fairly well in the introductions to the books themselves, and you can peek at those in the Amazon previews.

And, the finer details, and more recent tales, are told in the related posts, so...I'll just list those in proper order.

• Harry Hembook/Minisode crossover.
• Hembooks, a preview.
• Harry Hembock hair on....dudes??
• Harry Hembock Classics (The book!)
• My first satisfied customer!!
• A change a long time coming...
• My second customer!
• Another happy customer!
• Fiiiiinally! (My own copy)
• The Continued Adventures Of Harry Hembock (Book 2!)
• First happy customer for Book 2!
• Harry Hembock Classics (the Kindle book!)
• New Harry art from Paladin!
• Gots my copy of book 2!
• The Continued Adventures Of Harry Hembock (Kindle book 2!)
• My Amazon author page.
• Harry Hembock Regurgitations (Book 3!!)
• S'more little profile updates.
• First satisfied customer for Book 3!
• Harry's Finale (Book 4!!!)
• Another Harry book milestone!
• Meanwhile, in a Galaxy Next Door...
• Bookstore!
• Harry Hembock Regurgitations (Kindle book 3!!)
• First satisfied customer for book 4!
• 'Nother Harry art from Paladin!
• Second happy customer for books 2, 3, and 4!!
• Another change a long time coming...
• Hembook/minisodes- Linking the linking.
• Harry's Finale (Kindle book 4!!!)
• And finally, my own copies of books 3 and 4!!!
• Harry Hembock Classics (Omnibus Edition)

So, as for the books themselves, and the road ahead...
Well, to me, in the larger plan of things, they're like how Robert Crumb published all his old strips going all the way back to childhood.
These are the old archives, and then we progress forward.
What, you think that old art is as good as I ever got?
Sheesh, gimme a little credit.

This was also the trial run to work out all the little technical kinks for the next thing...

So, yeah, that's the Harry chunk of things...

Aaand, while all that went on, I lost my grandfather, and his funeral came the day after my birthday, so, kinda zombie-walked through that. :(
Miss you, old man. :(
I'd say more, but I don't wanna get bawling again.
Anyhoo, the week in between his death and funeral, went to see "The Dark Knight Rises".
(And of course, we had that whole lovely aurora shooting surrounding that...*eyeroll*)

Buried myself in "my work", to take my mind off things, which is why I didn't mention it 'til now.
Well, not here, anyway.

So....yeah, always gonna remember summer 2012, for better and for worse.

Came in with Avengers, Prometheus, and the 4th blog anniversary, and went out with...yeah.

Highs and lows for damned sure....
I try to focus on the Harry bits, and what it means for the future...
I'll get into that future at a later date.

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Harry Hembock Classics (Omnibus Edition)

No thumb twiddling, and lip biting this time, now after 3 months it's old hat. ;)

So, this one may or may not turn out to be superfluous, but, it represents something I have to compulsively remedy.

This compiles book 1, and book 2 together, because they were always intended to be a straight trilogy of tomes.

So, here's that...

Order here.

So, as you may notice, this marks the 3 month anniversary of book 1. :)
Full circle.

Now, as to why this omnibus seemed necessary...

Wheell...as described in the release of Kindle book 4, and the retro-introduction to book 1, Amazon has file space limits for Kindle books, so I prepared a sextology of split-up volumes just in case.

Then, when I totally thought I was dealing with a sextology, and that the Createspace editions would be a compliment to them, a side thing, for much later, my mind was fixated on that, and, thinking the Kindle uploading thing would be sorted out, and fixed at any minute, I put out the split-up version of part one of volume 1 as book 1, and that pretty much committed me to putting out book 2 that way, but, when I realized Createspace had no such file limits on uploads, I totally wanted to keep (what was now) book 3, and 4 in their intended forms.

But, I always also wanted to do this collection to fix it.
Got it?
Hope so.

So, here's what you'll get...

• Book 1
• Book 2
• 3 bucks and 30 cents off buying them separately. :)

So, if you held off, here's the one to get. ;)

And no, there's no Kindle version of this coming, like with book 4, the filesize won't make it, so the split versions (1,2) are the Kindle versions already.

So...we're done. :)

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And finally, my own copies of books 3 and 4!!!

YAYYY!!!
Ahhh, journey complete!
Well...almost...

Anyhoo...

On the shelf....

...book three...

...book four...

....quadrilogy splayed...

...and tiled.

So, from my brain, to my pen tip, to my scanner, to Createspace, to my doorstep, and onto my bookshelf.
And, across 23 going on 24 years.

Long strange trip indeed.

And these babies come just in time for tomorrow's thingy....

Oh, and for convenience, here's me getting the rest...

Book1.
Book 2.

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Photons be free!

Added "Re-sequenced Photons (The Collection)", to "some times of my life...".

Under its alternate title "Internet/Shmegalamonga 8- Total Refit!", though.


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Re-sequenced Photons (The Collection)

Or, Internet/Shmegalamonga 8- Total Refit!

Ahh, there, refit done!

This list...is pretty much now a map/skeleton of the old blog.
From here on out, like refit Enterprise, it's reborn.
Now, we move forward into year 5 and beyond with the new Shmegalamonga!

• Part 1 (Jokes, Doc)
• Part 2 (Audio)
• Part 3 (Slogan series)
• Part 4 (Inner-space)
• Part 5 (Self-esteem)
• Part 6 (Dicky-pedia)
• Part 7 (Religion)
• Part 8 (Politics)
• Part 9 (Science)
• Part 10 (Critical thinking)
• Part 11 (Positive)
• Part 12 (Yearbook)
• Part 13 (Snark)
• Part 14 (Minisodes)
• Part 15 (Podsville)
• Part 16 (Feesh)
• Part 17 (Misc)
• Part 18 (Milestones)
• Part 19 (Ramblings, Rants, Cultural criticism)
• Part 20 (Refit recap)

Also, there were these other bits of tinkering...

• Profile description change.
• More profile description change.
• Profile pic change.
• Bookstore page added to page list.

And the page list was created during....

The last refit.

Now, at last, this thing looks like a sharpened/focused version of my original fuzzy vision.
Helluva fight to get here. :P

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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 20)

Refit complete!!!

I was right, it was indeed a laborious chore.
Took a little over a month chipping away in bursts.

So, here's the completed visual timeline of progress.

When I started...

Midway through, with Jokes, Doc, Audio, Slogan series, and Innerspace trimmed off...

...and now, completed.

HUZZAH!!!!!!!

Damn, sorry 'bout that whole ordeal, folks, but it needed doing, and the posts needed preserving in their old categories for easy access.

Now, it's done.
And now you see why I put it off so long.

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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 19)

Ugh, what the hell, let's just kill it off, and do...

...a triple bill of...

Ramblings.

...and...

Rants.

...and...

Cultural criticism.

I figure, they all overlap one way or another, so, if I kill all the same labels at the same time, it'll go quicker.

...even though there's over 300 of the bastards...

So, like with "Misc", I'll lump these all into "World-events", "Pop-culture", and "Society".

Stay tuned....

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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 18)

A super-quickie.

Milestones.

I'm keeping this one, but just went through, and tacked on "world-events", and "pop-culture", as needed.



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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 17)

I really want to get these done, so, let's do another.

Misc.

It's been handy to have this to chuck things into, but, it's more than a bit lazy.
And, totally undefined when you're looking for stuff.

So, starting with this one, I'm going to cut it up into three new categories.

World-events.

Pop-culture.

Society.

I'll come back, and turn those into links once the dismantling/conversion is complete....

Edit- Done!

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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 16)

Ugh, back to this salt mine....

Feesh

Die, Feesh, die!

All right, so, like I said last time, about Podsville, I dunno what I was going for, an angrier cuss-ier Cracked, or what, but, I got burnt out on the full-blown depressive negativity, and tried to shift it over to fun stuff, and...I gotta just do that, and not have it under a pretentious banner of some kind, and be done forever with these stupid label-eating chapter thingies.

...well, if nothing else, I got the definition of Shmegalamonga out of it, anyway...I got something positive out of all these, even the clunkers....

So...even though it's a virtual cloning of last time....

• All the positive Podsvilles up to the Shrieks/Feesh split.
• Again, all the rest are gathered up in this one.
• For some reason, I labeled all the reviews up to Christmas as Feesh.
• And then, I kissed Yearbook goodbye.
• And then, I tore down Yearbook.

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Happy 16th anniversary, George Carlin: Back In Town!

Review, from here.


George Carlin: Back In Town

And here's where my fucking mind exploded.
Turns out, in terms of mind-expansion, "Private Parts", was just that farty little test firework, "Back In Town", was the Disney World full on fireworks extravagana.
Every line is gold, it's his masterpiece.
Now, Carlin himself thought the preceeding one, "Jammin' In New York", was his masterpiece, and it is fuckin' great, but...this one was so much better IMO.

Anyway, I didn't have HBO, but I did have an old 80's cable box with a tuning wheel that played out slack forever, and I could almost get the static out of Cinemax (hence the ability to watch boobie movies) and I could get the sound on HBO.
And for Carlin, the sound is mostly all you need.
So, yeah, going from his sitcom, to this, blew my friggin' mind.
And this is just when he totally turned into the edgy Carlin, so I caught it right on the wave.
Been a huge fan ever since.
Hooked instantly.
I owned the VHS tape of this as soon as possible.
And when it became possible, I caught up on his material from "Jammin..", and "Doin it again", via the internet.
Now, I have all his stuff on DVD.
Man, I wish he'd gotten to do another 14 concerts.
I had that gloomy alone feeling again when he died.
Well, at least there was still "Last Words", to be published, and that gave me good closure.

Well, here's a clip...

State prison farms.

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Harry's Finale (Kindle book 4!!!)

And finally, here's the Kindle of book 4!

So, like I said last time, this one comes on the month anniversary of Kindle book 2, and the 3 month anniversary of my first attempt to upload Kindle book 1.

This one hit the filespace barrier, so, I split it into two books, which, luckily, I had prepared ahead of time for just such a contingency.

I worried this would happen to Kindle book 3, but it just squeaked by...

So, here's those.

Order- Harry's Finale.
Order- Behold, a pale Harry Hembock. 

Badoosh!

So, once again, echoing the print edition, here's what you get....

• Same sick, weird, twisted episodes as the print edition.
• Same raunch.
• Same laughs.
• Same chaos.
• Same madness.
• Three books worth of material...split two ways. :P
• Value!!! Added up, they're still half-off of the print version.
• Same issues and quickies.
• Same vicarious revenge on my teachers.
• Same bonus materials, which include...
• Same full color cover gallery. Only on color devices, natch.
• Same tech blueprints.
• Same map of characters.
• Same dental poster that started it off.
• Same original Harry stories (Described here).
• Same....EVERYTHING!

And, thus ends the Kindle series!

Enjoy, folks! :)
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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 15)

Okey dokey, another big one to chunk away at...

Podsville

You're fucking going down, Podsville, you're going down!
You're goin' day-own!

I...don't hate this one's guts as much as "innerspace", but...it's close...it's close..

I....dunno what I was even trying to accomplish with this...be an angrier swear-ier Cracked?
I...I dunno....

Whatever...I'm gonna race right through these, I got 'em compiled other places, that'll speed it up some....

• All the angry Podsvilles up until the Shrieks/Feesh split.
• All the positive Podsvilles up until the Shrieks/Feesh split.
• Y'know what? The rest are all gathered up in this one.
• And then I kissed Yearbook goodbye.
• And then, I tore down Yearbook.

And, good riddance to all of that.

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Hembooks/minisodes- Linking the linking.

Linked the Hembooks/minisode crossover to the last entry in "History of the Harryverse (Part 1)".

Ehh...kinda knew that bit of elbow room I left myself would come in handy later....

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Hembooks, a preview.

Can't believe I didn't throw this together.
Guess I was working too hard getting the books uploaded, and out there!

So, here's a preview for ya.
Stuff you will find in the Hembooks...

Breeding baboons, and Krazyfool....

Iggy, and Billy...

Stan...

All of this...

All of these!

...and a shitload more! :D

Also, the Amazon pages for the print editions of book 1, and book 2...

...and all of the Kindle editions, have "look inside", mode.

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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 14)

All righty, here's today's...

...easy one to post, hard one to dismantle.

Minisodes

Got 'em all collected in issues, and they're easier to navigate there, so, don't need this tag to slowly individually slog through 'em all anymore.

So...post-wise, that's done.


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Another change a long time coming...

So, when my anonymity was out of the bag, and I put out a book, I upgraded my profile accordingly.

Well, Book 4 contains a pic of my real mug, cuz that's what real authors cave in, and do.
(Saved it for book 4, so it would be a buildup, like the ending of Metroid)

And, having sold a couple now (here, and here) that secret is out of the bag.

So, to complete the transformation, I have just switched this...

...to this.

Yep, that's my ugly mug.

Go ahead, and sneer, that's what nature gave me, in fact, I wear this face as a symbol of defiance of your evil beauty standards, society!
I defy you! I DEFY youu!! Ahahahha!!!
Free! I'm freeee!!!

Anyway, going to add this to my Amazon page too....


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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 13)

And, the other quickie one for today...

Snark

There, already collected these in "life is just awful", so snag that, and...

The Snark Collection

• Snarky thought of the day.
• Picking apart the "patriot", puddery
• Praising a good thing Reagan did, then urinating on Italy's dictator
• Fuck you, Greenspan.
• HCR meltdown. Your tears are delicious
• Psst, hey, Chinese... Tienanmen Square!!
• Snarky political comment of the day (celebrity edition!)
• Priorities, people!
• What culture war?
• Urkel watches strippers, or something.
• Snarky literary criticism of the day (toilet paper)
• The Legion Of Sociopaths
• What Pisses Me Off About Liberals
• Sayonara, Ronald!
• Same book, different covers
• Lumineers!!
• More of the same book
• Top Gun
• I know you are, but what am I?
• REALLY?!?!
• Price club bulk sized toilet paper.
• "Climategate" (still no apology)
• Human Centipede! (Okay, this turned out to be good, actually)
• Two Great anti-drug ads from the past (Hanna Barbara, and Pee-Wee)
• Dead at 21 (Worst...superhero...ever)
• Who the man? YOU the man! (fuuuck yooouu)
• Another ad from the awful 00's
• Happy 100th, Ronnie!
• Bona!!
• Ben Stein: A Horrid Little Man Part II (Part I Here)
• The Right And Left Debate In This Country (Assrape!!)

...bam!

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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 12)

Okay, 2 for today again, and these'll be quick...

Yearbook

There, these are all compiled in "En-Mike-lopedia", and the stragglers after 00's are compiled in the recaps of 2011, so....I'll just snag that list....

Krazy For Decades

• I love the 70's.
• I love the 70's (part 2)
• I really friggin' love the 80's.
• I really friggin' love the 80's (part 2)
• I really friggin' love the 80's (part 3)
• I H8 the 90's.
• I H8 the 90's (part 2)
• I H8 the 90's (part 3)
• I "meh", the 00's.
• I "meh", the 00's (part 2)
• I'm Okay With The 10's So Far...
• Yearbook: 2011, A Look Back
• Yeah, that's enough of Yearbook.

Bam, done, easy.

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Also, happy 21st anniversary, Freddy's Dead!

Yay! A Freddy! *Day is perked up immediately*

Review is here, but, I sorta lazily linked it, so here it actually is....


Freddy's Dead

Yeah, this wasn't really goodbye.
What a great party though.
Fun little film.
Robert Englund was clearly having a blast.
And, it was a good apology for 5, which kind of fell on its face.
Well, I already ranted about my love for this series in the 80's ones.
So, ditto all of that.
And yeah, this one was a bit cartoony, especially compared to the first couple, and how scary they were, but....eh, Freddy couldn't scare us anymore, we'd grown up with the franchise, it was time to just go out with a bang.
I didn't mind this one being a bit silly.
Although, it did have its dark moments.
I went through a film snob phase of looking down on this one for a couple years, but I got over it.
5 is the only one that really lets me down anymore.


Also, here's the Iggy Pop song.

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Happy 27th anniversary, Super Mario Bros!

Damn...27....I'm tellin' ya...

Mario (and Luigi) in "Heroes Of Vidya Games".


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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 11)

All right, here's the other one for tonight.....


Positive.

Well, it's like I said in the captions in "innerspace", I was trying to write my way out of depression.

That, and to silence critics who said everything I write is negative, and "hate filled".
Fuck writing for critics, they're shit.
They'll die forgotten.
They say the Wright Brothers/Edison/Columbus were laughed at, but does anyone remember WHO laughed at them?
No? All right then.

So, here's this stuff.
The stuff that doesn't give me nightmares.
(Previously compiled in "life is just lovely")

• Unwrapped with Marc Summers (and other industrial/nostalgia type shows)
• Good books, toys, my favorite places.
• Thinkgeek, Dealextreme, Shmegalamonga, my readers.
• Freddy movies.
• The good animated satire shows.
• The good channels.
• People that I'm glad exist.
• The second tier of good channels.
• Um...I guess that I'm not in a society of rape-cannibals..yet.
• That I'm not any of these people...
• The beauty of the universe.
• Geek culture, it's just better.
• Dingoo, and that there's geeks on Youtube that loved all the shit I do.
• Lindor truffles!!!
• These two goofballs.
• After some hemming and hawing, Romero's Dead cycle.
• World War Z, upcoming (then) Marvel flicks, people helping in Haiti.
• That there's enough sanity in society to loathe reality TV, and...my "utility belt".
• Conan's classy goodbye speech leaving NBC.
• Looking back...
• The couple of hours when I thought Richard Dawkins was going to try to lock up Joey Ratz
• Nobody Loves Harry Hembock!
• Fucks angst. Eh, an addendum to 22, really.
• The good stuff in Krazy For Decades.
• Song of the week! (A.K.A. SOWTHIFL)
• Fish From The Quantum Sea!!
• En-Mike-lopedia!
• More stuff to look forward to.

Although, trying messily to write about shit I actually like did sort of evolve toward En-Mike-lopedia.

So...I got that out of it, anyway.
Thanks, critics, for bringing out the best in me!
Even if by accident, and knowing that if you had your way, I'd probably die in a sewer.
Other than that...thanks.
Heh, heh.

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Second happy customer for books 2, 3, and 4!!

And it's Lanzman again!!

Holy crap, look at that haul!

That could be you, keeds!
(Hint, hint ;) )


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Re-sequenced Photons (Part 10)

I'll try to knock out 2 today...

Critical thinking.

The companion to science, and some more good resources, but...eh, it's lain fallow, I'm preserving it here, doesn't need to be eating up a label.

A lot of these are repeats, but what the hell....

• Here be dragons.
• A quickie rant on theology.
• The talk I wish someone had given me as a kid. (Eh, just a rant)
• Meditations on a dead squirrel. (Eh, more a biography thing)
• Why the whole "Hell", idea perturbs me. 
• At what price, comfort? *
• My favorite Bible passages.
• Okay, Mike, so it's all bullshit.
• Another great video. (Open-mindedness)
• Demon Haunted World.
• The religious argument. 
• Dicky-pedia: The Rant.
• 'Nother good video. (a TED talk)
• Yet another good video. (baloney detection kit)
• One of my fave videos... (the scientific method made easy)
• More from Mark Twain.
• Why We Believe In Gods.
• Money As Debt. **
• Reading/Viewing list.
• Climate change minus the bullshit.
• Spiritual values.
• 'Nother climate change video.
• And a 'nother climate change video.
• Yet another climate change video.
• Potholer keeps making 'em...
• And here's yet another from Potholer.
• Good video on the anti-science lobby.
• Here's one on alternative energy.
• Star Trek tech: Quantum Resolution is bullshit.
• Anyhoo, back to the war on bullshit.
• Now for another thing that doesn't suck.
• 'Nother good FGR episode.
• This is good. (A thing on David Hume)
• Liked this one too. (another TED talk)
• The Geography Of Nowhere.
• This. *** 

Asterisks...

*Okay, I tried to be gentle there, but fuck "comfort", as an argument altogether.
Would you accept some Wall Street apologist saying that the robber-baron crooks who crashed the economy draw solace and comfort from their money, and it's mean of you to want to rip their comfort away?
No, fuck off with that.

And, while I'm on the track of kicking down emotion-based arguments, I gotta go add an asterisk to something that bugged me in part 7.

** Shit, the rant is there, but the videos have been killed.
Gonna have to fix that...

*** Arghh! Fucking PZ Myers again! I go out on this one?!?!

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