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Rogue
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Posted on 06-27-09 11:03 AM, in Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P. Link
Originally posted by Elara
she's become an afterthought. She died of cancer... she made a documentary of her struggle! And what does she get? "Oh, she died the same day as M.J., oh poor M.J......"

Yesterday while hanging with Rey, he mentioned that this woman came into his store just shocked and appalled and walks up to him going, "Did you hear what I just read on my iPhone?"

And Rey went, "That Farrah Fawcett died?"

And the girl goes, "That was so this morning, sir!" And then proceeds to convey her sentiment for Jacko.

Rey works at an "upscale" women's clothing store that gets A LOT of snobby, prissy bitches. Not to say that this person was one, but he gets a lot of crap from rich and trendy chumps.

But yeah, completely agreed on Farrah not getting as much attention. I mean, she got a few mentions (and I'm sure there were media working on montages of her life for the evening news, but when M.J.-gate broke they probably abandoned them). When news broke, I had the CBS afternoon news on. Suddenly they had a field reporter in front of Michael's house, acting like paparazzi, and hounding whoever pulled into the driveway for an interview. I'm not even kidding when I say they spent 25 minutes on this guy shouting, "I'm from CBS 2 News! We're live RIGHT NOW!! Give us an interview!!!!" and they NEVER cut away to more news or anything. It was just dead air practically.

I'm guessing it's because Michael was constantly fresh on people's minds. People were always satirizing him, even these days (see: "Bag of Weed" song from recent Family Guy 420 episode) or bringing him up in the tabloids and so on and so forth, so the media figures a greater number might be interested hearing news about him as opposed to Farrah.

It's like if there were an earthquake on the other side of the world that killed 300,000 people and later that day Paris Hilton decided to shave her head, give up all of her worldly possessions, and become a Shaolin monk... what would more people be talking about? Not a great example, but if TMZ is any indication of what people want to hear, we're fucking doomed.
Rogue
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Posted on 06-29-09 04:16 AM, in Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P. Link
Lisa Marie's blog post about Michael

It's a shame the comments were inundated with a troll calling themselves "Michael PEdo."

Rogue
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Posted on 06-29-09 04:26 AM, in Billy Mays joins the list of deceased famous people Link
It was sort of weird. I went into my parents' room. My dad was watching TV and during a commercial break I mentioned Billy's death to him... and then a commercial for the Awesome Auger comes on.

Yeah, my dad was floored.
Rogue
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Posted on 06-30-09 02:15 AM, in Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P. Link
A few words regarding the media...

They cover what the general public wants to see. If there's a demand for celebrity gossip, they'll incorporate in any way they can into their shows, broadcasts, publications, etc.

The media mirrors what the public wants.

Now obviously Xeogaming folks tend to fall in the outliers of the public bell curve, and don't mimic the rest of the population, but if Joe the Plumber wants to see a week-long sob fest over a celebrity, that's what the media will cover. Why? Ratings, sales, etc.

The L.A. Times, which has been drowning lately with how little people read papers any more, is bragging about its record-breaking page views and paper sales due to Jackson's death.

Secondly, it's in VERY poor taste to libel and/or mock the dead. It's considered a media no-no all around to put someone down after they've cashed in their chips.

Look at Anna Nicole Smith. In life, EVERYONE was knocking her as a fat, no talent, gold-digging tramp. As soon as she dies, the world is in mourning for this Venus who'd had such a hard life filled with tragedy and so on and so forth. And this included stand-up comedians whom you'd normally see ridiculing a celebrity like her, Margaret Cho for example.

So all this hemming and hawing over why the media's doing what it's doing... it's the same thing every week. There's always going to be a media circus and all you can do is either change the channel or just stop talking about it. Like I said, the media takes its cues from the public's opinion.


Anyway, odd fact. I was two degrees of separation from Michael Jackson. His former tour doctor was my grandfather's before he died in the early '90s. Eventually Dr. Finkelstein became my parents' and my doctor for a time before we changed insurance.


Now with all that said... it's a damn shame that several people of note have been dying off lately. Life is precious, no matter how famous the person may have been.

It's rather unfortunate that people feel the need to go to the extremes of either 1) blowing it all out of proportion, 2) ignoring those who passed entirely without a kind word, or 3) being dicks about the whole situation in general.

... saints, I feel old.

Anyway... my boyfriend's uncle called us up in the middle of night to crack his own Jackson joke. I will not be conveying it here out of respect.
Rogue
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Posted on 06-30-09 02:42 AM, in North Korea planning to nuke the U.S. imperialists of Hawaii Link
All right, I don't know why this hasn't been brought to the Xeogaming discussion table yet, but for those who didn't hear, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il and his son who's pretty much sitting in for him have declared they will launch a nuke in the direction of Hawaii around the 4th of July.

The U.S. has elevated its defenses around there, but most don't think the nuke would even make it that far.

Your thoughts?
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Posted on 06-30-09 10:39 AM, in North Korea planning to nuke the U.S. imperialists of Hawaii Link
Originally posted by Cyro Xero
Now, since it's likely it won't make it that far, Japan or South Korea are probably more likely targets.

Indeed. He's calling the United States the aggressors and feels that if the U.N. is going to come in and tell him what he can and can't do with that nuclear flag he's been waving at the rest of the world, he's going to attack.

From some of the articles I've read he says he wants China to have a problem in its own backyard.

Odds are, if he can't make it or if the U.S. does blow those missiles away before they can reach the islands, he'll change up his target.

Hawaiians react.

That AP article used to be titled "North Korea threatens Obama birthplace with nukes," but I don't know why they changed it.

Anyway, it is true. Obama's a Hawaiian and I'm sure he'd be damned if he let an unhinged dictator (who's still recovering from last year's stroke) destroy his homeworld. Heh, maybe it'd make him even more like Superman?
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Posted on 06-30-09 12:54 PM, in Fuck you Link
I have a few very special fuck yous, but I'm waiting them out in hopes that the clouds'll part, the birds'll sing and we can all pretend it never happened once again.

But not to leave without some gratification of an announced fuck off to someone or something...

FUCK cold food. One thing that really sucks about eating healthier is the fact that one must often opt for cold dishes (salads, wraps, etc).

Really blows when you're someone who has subconsciously traced heated food with being an actual meal and therefore doesn't consider a huge salad with cold slices of grilled chicken filling enough.


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Posted on 06-30-09 04:04 PM, in Billy Mays joins the list of deceased famous people Link
Yeah Mary Lou Forbes went this past Saturday. She'd won a Pulitzer for covering the desegregation crisis during and after the Brown v. Board of Education case and was a mentor to Carl Bernstein.

Death comes to claim us all. Sucks.


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Posted on 07-05-09 02:18 PM, in North Korea planning to nuke the U.S. imperialists of Hawaii Link
So North Korea did fire several ballistic missiles in the direction of Hawaii that didn't make it anywhere, but they didn't shoot off their intercontinental one they've been working on.

Joe Biden said the White House is trying not to give Kim Jong Il the attention he's seeking.

Haha, our vice president called North Korea's leader an attention-whoring drama queen.


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Posted on 07-05-09 02:31 PM, in BlazBlue Link
They had this in the arcade at Anime Expo this year. Every time I had to work the room, you'd see a huge crowd around the BlazBlue machine.

It definitely looks great. The animation is so crisp and clean.

Yup, definitely some fan service in there. Maybe not at Mai level, but it caters to a few fetishes out there. Teehee.
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Posted on 07-05-09 02:42 PM, in Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P. Link
So the memorial service is being held at the Staples Center (in downtown Los Angeles) on Tuesday, and you could enter to win tickets to attend (as they were giving away 10,000 free tickets).

True to form, Westboro Baptist Church's "Love Crusaders" will be on hand to protest. "God Hates Fags" signs and all. I'm tempted to go down there just to finally see them in person. Heh, probably shouldn't since it's the last week of class.

Along with this news, several L.A. bloggers have been posting this video of Michael Moore taking on Fred Phelps (Westboro's leader) back when their "church" was only protesting the deaths of gay people and AIDS victims:




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Rogue
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Posted on 07-06-09 10:45 AM, in Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P. Link
As I said in those few words, it's not the media who are being "hypocrites" as you're calling them. That would be the public.

The media is mirroring what the public wants and in so doing is covering the public's thoughts and what it's partaking in in this situation.

I can tell you for a fact that the reporters and crew who have been sent out for this assignment are sick and tired of it too. I was at Staples Center this weekend. Many of them have been camping in their news vans for several days and I've heard them complaining to one another that they'll be happy when the attention this whole affair is getting dies off.

They were pulling up Wednesday, most of them arriving and staying there from Thursday on. A lot of them were international and didn't have a local studio to return to and have been there for almost a week because their job is making them. And they've got to be there 'til at least tomorrow when the memorial service is.

It's the heads of stations, newspapers, blogs, and so on who are demanding this coverage because the public wants it. And yes, those people are often money driven. Most of the kudos in the press is scooping other media outlets and beating them to the punch with a news story no one else has yet.

So agreed on the money thing. Not so much on the hypocrisy thing.
Rogue
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Posted on 07-06-09 11:29 PM, in Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P. Link
So in checking Google Trends, this is how much the terms Michael Jackson, North Korea, and Farrah Fawcett have come up in searches:


Michael Jackson is represented by the red. North Korea by the blue. And Farrah Fawcett by the orange.

In comparing Michael to the phrase "Kim Jong Il," North Korea's leader didn't even register on the chart.

North Korea's been claiming they're about to declare nuclear war against the United States and M.J.'s death has struck people as a larger concern.

And oddly enough the United States comes up EIGHTH on the list of countries running Google searches for Michael, behind Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, the U.K., Peru, Colombia, and Brazil.
Rogue
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Posted on 07-06-09 11:51 PM, in "Sex with Ducks" Link
I honestly don't know if homosexuality is a genetic thing or not. I mean, is it in your genes to not like certain foods? Certain colors? Certain sexual positions?

I really don't think being gay is a choice. If you don't like girls and you happen to love men, sure you can choose whether or not to "come out," but you can't control those feelings.

And homosexuality doesn't just occur in humans.

The moral overall is to simply be who you are on the inside. There have been too many suicides from people "in the closet" who just didn't know how to act on the feelings they had.
Rogue
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Posted on 07-07-09 11:45 AM, in Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P. Link
In putting North Korea on a chart by itself, it comes up like this:


It's just that SO MANY people have Google'd for news and information about Michael Jackson that in comparison it looks almost like no one's paying attention.

In regards to the threats from the country in question: well, the guy does have intercontinental missile technology and is using it to make some. While it does seem silly that he would threaten the U.S. of all countries (especially when there's a rather large pond between the two nations), it's kind of surprising that such a threat didn't get as much attention from the public.

While talking to a few friends this weekend who were hoping they'd score tickets to Jackson's memorial today, I asked if they heard if North Korea shot off any missiles toward Hawaii. They had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.

Anyway, this has been going around:


So Farah Fawcett was laid to rest a week ago. Someone put together this memorial video for her:


R.I.P. the two of you.
Rogue
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Posted on 07-07-09 08:03 PM, in Analog signals turning off this Friday night Link
Still not getting Fox or channel 13. Never realized how much I have the TV on those channels when there's nothing else on... or even just on Sundays.

I'm pleased that the PBS has like 12 channels now, though.
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Posted on 07-08-09 05:05 PM, in Xeogaming Office - 2017 Year of the Ancient Forbidden Fruit! Link
Why is 6 afraid of 7?

Because of today.
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Posted on 07-10-09 12:45 PM, in North Korea planning to nuke the U.S. imperialists of Hawaii Link
It's almost like the ending to Watchmen... unite everyone against something else.

We're "pressing restart" on our relationship with Russia, China's buying our debt, and neither of them are too happy about this flaming bag of shit on their front porch.
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Posted on 07-11-09 11:53 AM, in Is there anything new coming out worth caring about? Link
Seriously.

With Watchmen, Star Trek, Terminator, and Wolverine on their way to video and DVD, is there anything anyone else was waiting for with bated breath?

EDIT: Adding Transformers 2 (which has already been out), and perhaps G.I. Joe (Aug. 7) to the list.

I know there are several projects I'm interested in that probably won't have their movies out for a year or more (Iron Man 2, etc), but I was referring to this summer. Did all the big ones already pass?


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Posted on 07-11-09 12:22 PM, in Green Lantern has been cast Link
And the part of Hal Jordan shall be played by...



So one of the 'two guys' of "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place" (not to mention Van Wilder, etc) is making the jump from Marvel to DC.

And yet, he's still playing Deadpool in his own movie. Heh.
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