I Can’t Impress Chicks With This

Posted on March 9th, 2010 in LOUD&lowbrow, News Stories by LOUD&lowbrow

A new video game “Power Gig” is coming out.  Basically guitar hero but with a real freaking guitar.  No more buttons.  You gotta strum strings.

How the hell am I going to impress chicks with that?  If I could play the guitar, I’d play it and get laid.  I wouldn’t play a plastic one with buttons on my XBox hoping her panties melt off.

So it is its own game and it’s compatible with Guitar Hero and Rock Band.  But yea, I can’t play the guitar.  This is just gonna ruin my flow.  Next year the only people playing the plastic button guitar will be elementary school kids.

Damn you technology!

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iPhone = Addiction

Posted on March 8th, 2010 in News Stories, TJSky by TJSky

People and their addiction to their iPhone.  Studies reveal that increasing numbers of people fall asleep with their iPhone, are more likely to forget their wallet than their iPhone, and would view it as a tragedy to lose it.  Many admit that their iPhone has been the gateway to their addiction to media now as news, gossip and video is at their fingertips 24/7.

Beyond just the creature comforts of OCD like application usage, the iPhone has been determined to be an extension of people.  Those addicted, or on the verge of addiction, see the iPhone as a part of them…a third hand if you will.  So much of their personal information is stored and personal interactions occur on the device, they just can’t be without.

This really isn’t a shocking study.  Many people are addicted to their cell phones of all types.  My step-daughter has a crappy pre-paid cell phone she’s addicted to because she is a texting fiend.  I’m the same way.  My phone is a Samsung Alias (yea, it’s old) and it’s nearly my lifeline to everything and everyone.  My social networks contacts me, work contacts, I have to get voice-mails, texts, I can check my Gmail….if my phone was html browsing capable, it would be that much worse.  Which happens to be a very large part of why I still roam the streets with a phone whose technology is about four years behind.

I actually designate one weekend a month to turning my cell phone off now.  This is the only way to really relax and spend quality time with my daughters.  Admittedly, the first couple hours of turning it off, I feel anxious. What if someone has to get a hold of me.  Then I remember my pager from over a decade ago.  And my lack of anything over two decades ago.  Somehow I managed to get by without being accessible anytime, night or day, while getting some booty or reading the newspaper on the john.  If I could do it then, I can go against the grain and do it now.

There is a freedom to not hearing your ringtone for two days.
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Magically Delicious My Ass

Posted on March 7th, 2010 in LOUD&lowbrow, Rants by LOUD&lowbrow

I was eating a bowl of Lucky Charms for breakfast today.  I haven’t had L.C. since I was a kid.  I remember I used to wish there’d be more marshmallows…that was the best part.

Somebody must’ve heard me back then because there’s a fuck-ton of marshmallows in Lucky Charms now.

It isn’t as tasty as I had expected.  Actually it’s pretty fucking gross.  My cereal was green when I was done.  Disgusting.

Then I realized they didn’t pull all those marshmallows in there because kids wanted to stop hunting for the yummies in their bowl.  Marshmallows are way cheaper than the actual cereal pieces.  Fucking economics.

At least a bunch of kids are probably happy as shit now though with their truck-load of marshmallows and green milk…yum.

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Darwin: 1800’s Controversy Still Going Strong

Posted on March 6th, 2010 in News Headlines, TJSky by TJSky

Every six months or so, there is another headline about Darwin’s theory of evolution and its place in schools. Over a century and a half later, Darwin’s crazy theory still draws controversy.

The most recent headline is how there’s a line of Christian home-school text books that are absent of Darwin. One mother used a regular science book and was horrified when her and her daughter reached the part about evolution. Further, the Big Bang?! Where is the 7 days God took to create the Earth?

Demographically speaking, this makes sense as a lot of home-schooling occurs in areas where Christianity is the only dish at the worship buffet.  Home-schooling parents want moral, religious and creationist views in their text books for their children.   If you’ve already made the choice to home-school your child, which I believe to be a HUGE developmental detriment, then go ahead and teach them what you want.  As a parent, it is your prerogative, however, it doesn’t give you the jurisdiction to remove my authority to allow my child to learn about scientific theories that contradict Genesis.

Although I send my daughter to public school, I still exercise my right to instill my values in her. I just haven’t written my councilman to change the school curriculum to suit my beliefs. Silly me, I actullay want my daughter to learn about many things, hear different points of view, then decide for herself.

Whether you are for evolution or against, does it really matter if there is a chapter in your child’s science class about it? I learned all kinds of bullshit in school that is still in the books today:

  • The American Civil War was about slavery, when it was really a war over territory, power and economy.
  • The Happy Thanksgiving feast leaves out the rape of Indian women, and slaughter of their children and men by the Pilgrims to take land.
  • The Boston Tea Party wasn’t simply about “taxation without representation”.  They were protesting the the huge business tax cut given to the British East India Company to import tea so cheaply that local merchants had to close shop.  (Sound familiar?)

Bottom line:  Religion isn’t based on fact, it is mythology. Mythology is no more proven than a theory about man’s evolution. If you cannot accept a theory about creation, how can you expect someone else to accept a myth about creation?

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Screw A Car, I Got Me A Go-Cart

Posted on March 4th, 2010 in News Stories, TJSky by TJSky
In Union, South Carolina, police had a report of a stolen go-cart.  They spotted it at an intersection.  The police stop the go-cart and arrest the “driver”.  You may expect this to be a child or a teenager, but no, it’s a 29 year old man, Edward Matthew Sweezy.
He was picked up less than a half mile from his house.  Guess you can’t go too far too fast in one of those.  Perhaps next time he should steal an actual car.  Just a thought.

Sweezy was arrested for resisting arrest, possession of crack and the paraphernalia that goes with it, and public drunkenness.    How do you brag to your boys about hitting rock while cruising in your stolen go-cart?  Really, is it that cool when you are almost 30?

Here’s the even stranger part:  the go-cart was turned over to Sweezy’s wife.  So he stole the wife’s go-cart?  Or maybe his own child’s go-cart?  Damn, that’s low.

I can’t say it any better than Ms. Whitney Houston:  Crack is Whack.

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Caskets & Chili

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 in News Stories, TJSky by TJSky

The Devanny-Condron Funeral Home in Massachusetts is trying to remind people that the funeral home is a center for community life.  How does one do this?  By having a chili cook-off of course!

Not only that, they are having Easter Bunny visits, murder-mystery shows, and limo rides for couples on their 50th wedding anniversary. The last thing I want to do on my 50th wedding anniversary is be in a funeral home limousine.  My family will be in that bitch following my hearse soon enough.

Oh, I forget, they are even sending monthly birthday cakes to a local senior center.  It just sounds like guerrilla marketing to me; everyone loves free sweets.

Maybe I’m being too harsh.  Perhaps the funeral home’s mission is truly to keep the community upbeat so when unfortunate events happen, and they spend $10,000 at Devanny-Condron, they will feel a greater sense of comfort.   As they mourn their loved one, they can also reminisce about the best chilli they ever had back in the 2010 cook-off.  Comfort like that is priceless.
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He should probably be grateful

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 in Funny Pictures, LOUD&lowbrow by LOUD&lowbrow

He’s lucky ANYONE gives him head.

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I’m Blackman…

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 in Funny Pictures, LOUD&lowbrow by LOUD&lowbrow

This is suppose to be erotic??? 

You know his face is busted that’s why he’s a superhero with a mask.  

But, hey, he’s got steroids & a cape…what more could a woman want?

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Stay Fat, Save Your Life?

Posted on February 28th, 2010 in News Stories, TJSky by TJSky

A Florida woman says she was saved by the extra jiggles around her mid-section.  Samantha Lynn Frazier was shot entering Herman’s Place, a bar in Atlantic City, NJ.  She was just an innocent bystander who found herself clutched over with pain and blood all over her left side where the bullet entered.

The suspect has not been apprehended.  Apparently, he was aiming for a man who was exiting the bar; he did manage to pop a hole in the guy’s down jacket. You know he’s crying over his jacket; he probably had to saved up a lot of Burger King paychecks to buy that at the mall.

Samantha once was pressed about losing weight, but now claims loud and proud: “I want to be as big as I can if it’s going to stop a bullet.”

Yes, that makes perfect sense.  I want to be as unhealthy as possible to avoid dying in the random chance a stray bullet heads my way. One could argue that, if she wasn’t so fat, the bullet would have missed her completely because her love-handles would have not been in the line of fire.

Maybe she should lose weight and just start wearing a down jacket…it worked well for the gunman’s intended target.
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I dunno about Hook on Fonik, but…

Posted on February 28th, 2010 in LOUD&lowbrow, Videos by LOUD&lowbrow

…I am all about buying the expansion!

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