As I am writing this, I am on the sidewalk with my back on Partridge Hall, live blogging this stupid bomb threat and living off of my cell phone for updates from my paper staff.
I know the police have to take these threats seriously, but this is just dumb. It’s either someone trying to get attention, or someone trying to get out of a final or a meeting. These things just inconvenience us all and waste the time and wear on the patience of law enforcement staff. They don’t want to play hall monitor to you and you don’t want to deal with it either.
Who ever is putting in these bogus threats I really hope you get caught and punished to the fullest extent. This is ridiculous.
It seems I can’t go on digg these days without seeing 50 stories about Clinton VS Obama and how mainstream media is messing up the debates. But really, the media isn’t the problem in this election. Your votes will be tampered with, and here’s how.
This video is a bit on the long side but it brings the point across. This may just be one model of an e-vote machine, but they are pretty much all flawed, and election officials refuse to address it. Hmmm I wonder why?
I’ve always said that security and convenience work on a spectrum, where they are the extremes. You can’t have one without forfeiting the other. And for something serious like, oh I dunno, The election for the “leader of the free world”, we should probably choose security, not convenience.
Dear asshole in my peripheral vision,
Turn off your damn bluetooth headset. The blinking light is more annoying than if you were actually talking on it.
Dear bitch to my right,
Stop predicting plot twists and than bragging to your friends that you “told them so”. They can figure out the movie on their own.
Dear casual martial arts fan behind me.
Everyone knows about Drunken Master style. You aren’t anything special
Sincerly,
Matthew McCullough
Casual and Humble Movie Goer
As many of you already know, I am a big fan of Tokusatsu. Which for most people, can best be explained as “The Power Rangers” and related shows, in their original Japanese forms. From Wikipedia:
The term “tokusatsu” is a contraction of the Japanese phrase “tokushu satsuei” (特殊撮影,“tokushu satsuei”?), meaning “special photography”. In production, the special effects director is given the title of “tokushu gijutsu” (特殊技術,“tokushu gijutsu”?), Japanese for “special techniques” or “tokusatsu kantoku” (特撮監督,“tokusatsu kantoku”?), which is Japanese for “special effects director”, the title usually used by English language productions.
Tokusatsu is one of the most popular forms of Japanese entertainment, but most tokusatsu movies and television programs are not widely known outside Asia. In recent years, however, tokusatsu has begun to develop a small but loyal and growing fanbase outside of Japan
My fasination started of course when I was in like kindergarten, when my favorite shows were Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Big Bad Beetle Brogs, etc. These shows are classic, and I don’t care how old you are, You can still go back and watch your favorite shows from when you were a kid. But it wasn’t until recently that I discovered, in the true magnificence of the internet, that these shows had been imported VIA fansubs.
I had watched fansubed anime before (Ragnarok the Animation), but the thought had never crossed my mind that people were fansubbing live action shows, let alone the originals of my favorite kids shows! I always knew that Power Rangers was adapted from a Japanese TV show, because every time they morphed, the footage suddenly got darker, the fighting suddenly got much more intricate, and the character stances suddenly changed. But watching the original footage, with the original characters and story lines, it was like my favorite TV show had been redone and taken to the next level.
Super Sentai still reaches out to the same audience in Japan that Power Rangers tries to reach here. The main difference I suppose, is that they aren’t taking an original show and trying to re-work it for an American audience. It’s the original work (always better) for a Japanese audience. Which think is better, because here all parents do is submit complaints to the FCC that their kid’s shows are too violent / homosexual. Really Power Rangers these days might as well be Barney the Dinosaur fighting off the boogey man with huge explosions
