Monday, May 16, 2005

Lelaina Pierce
Update! Update! Read all about! Poor excuse for satire up on some loser's page!
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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Kim Boggs
Update, come visit, comment, unless you are Sara, in which case I'll pelt you with papayas >:O

...maybe.
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Monday, May 9, 2005

Lydia Deets
New Shinmaru vs. The World! Read! Marvel! Have a stroke!
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Friday, May 6, 2005

Veronica Sawyer
I am easy to brainwash.
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Monday, May 2, 2005

Jesus, for the Son of God, you sure are a son of a-- WHOOOOAAAA!!!
More updating, bang, zoom, wham, hurrah!!!!!.
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Friday, April 29, 2005

LOLZ I UPDATE HAHAHA!1!1!!!
Go see!
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Thursday, April 28, 2005

The Shinmaru Zone
Fuck the rest, here's the best.

Enjoy, and offer your thoughts on the design! Just remember to comment on there, and not on here. Updates will be there from now on.

So long, myOtaku. We had some good times, buddy, especially the time we drunkenly sung "We'll Meet Again" when all of those nuclear weapons were exploding all around us.

...wait, that was in Dr. Strangelove!!
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Monday, April 25, 2005

A very merry unbirthday to you.
You know what's real nice? Taking a shower when you're really, really tired. Good lord am I ever refreshed.

First article can be read here.

Boston police officer treads thin blue line in hometown

There's a line to tread in Boston?

At first, James Meredith seemed just a concerned resident, standing at a school bus stop near his Norfolk home telling drivers to slow down. Soon, though, some residents say he began yelling at them, jumping out in front of their cars, and, at times, clocking their speed with a radar gun.

Uh, at least he's a dedicated officer. Just let him give his life to stop one speeding jackass.

His civic activism reached criminal proportions a few months ago, prosecutors say, when Meredith, a Boston police sergeant, broke off the passenger-side mirror of a sport utility vehicle as its driver tried to swerve around him. Now he's charged with wanton destruction of property, according to court records, and the Boston Police Department says it has launched an internal affairs investigation.

In his defense, he was probably just really, really drunk when he did this. Oh wait.

Meredith's activism has divided residents and officials in the quiet town of about 10,500 southwest of Boston. Some want him to stop policing when he gets home from work, while others hail him for helping keep the town safe.

I think that they were cheering him because he was going after Yankee fans.

''Something needs to get done," said Lynn Smith, a mother of two who lives across from Meredith on Boardman Street. ''I just feel that this road, over the last 10 years or so, has been getting more and more dangerous . . . The cars are flying down the road."

"How are they supposed to be able to keep on fly down the road when this nutjob keeps getting in the way?"

Meredith, 42, says the property-damage charge is false, trumped up by a Police Department that is tired of his and his wife Kelly's complaints. He says the SUV struck him while he was in a marked crosswalk.

"Of course, he was jaywalking, and yelling at people through a megaphone, but still."

''We're the victims here," he said.

"Seriously, I'm a victim, I got hit by a freaking car."

Norfolk Police Chief Charles H. Stone referred questions about the case to the Norfolk district attorney's office, which declined to comment because the case is pending.

OMG CONSPIRACY!!!!1!1!1

For their part, town officials say they are fed up with the Merediths, who since they moved to Norfolk in 2002 have had disputes not only with local drivers but with the town's animal control officer, town administrator, police department, and board of selectmen.

Oh, bitch, bitch, bitch. [/Grandpa Simpson]

Officials say Meredith has called nearly everyone in town government, including on nights and weekends, with rambling complaints. At one point, town leaders raised the speed limit on street signs near his house to stop Meredith's complaints. But the signs mysteriously disappeared, they said.

He's using them to beat down the cars as they drive by.

'He's been a real thorn in our side," said Jack McFeeley, who served as chairman of the board of selectmen for four of his nine years on the board until he resigned last month to pursue the town administrator job.

"How are we supposed to be an evil administration with guys like him around? Whoa, excuse me, it's time for my evil laughing exercise...mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Okay, you were saying?"

Meredith lives with his wife and three young children in a gray, two-story house on a tree-lined street about 150 yards from an elementary school. About 20 feet from the edge of his well-manicured lawn stands a traffic sign, warning drivers they are entering a school zone with a 20-miles-per-hour speed limit.

"So, remember to speed up so you can get through there faster!"

''Look how fast that guy's going," Meredith said in an interview at his home last week as an SUV zipped past.

"I'd kill for a car that fast. Hey, isn't that your car? Looks nice."

Meredith has been lamenting speeding cars since shortly after he moved in. He and his wife regularly joined other residents on the side of the road warning drivers to slow down. Meredith said his wife bought a radar gun on the Internet, and they began clocking drivers' speeds, taking down license-plate numbers and reporting speeding drivers to police. Sometimes, residents reported to police, Meredith would jump in front of cars or leave nasty notes on car windshields. He denies doing that.

"That was my wife."

Lax speed-limit enforcement is just one of a litany of gripes the Merediths have had about Norfolk town government. In the past two years, they have complained about local election officials to the secretary of state, papered their neighborhood with fliers condemning the police chief for not promptly notifying residents of sex offenders living nearby, and objected when an animal control officer did not respond to their report of a possibly rabid skunk near their house.

That rabid skunk line makes me laugh.

After repeated complaints, the animal control officer showed up, though no skunk was found.

They did find a teed off badger, however.

Then, on Jan. 5, Meredith stepped out onto Boardman Street and when a vehicle passed him, its mirror broke on his hand. It's a matter of contention whether he hit the mirror or the mirror hit him.

We need Instant Replay on the streets.

The SUV's driver, Susan Hagerty, said she considers Meredith a danger to residents.

"One of us will get sued for running him over and killing him, someday."

''I'm hoping that at some point this man is reprimanded and asked to cease and desist from what he's doing," she said. ''I think he's a bully with a badge."

Get him some donuts and a cup of coffee.

Meredith's zest for enforcing the law has drawn criticism before. As a beat cop working in Jamaica Plain's Egleston Square five years ago, merchants complained about his prickly personality and strict code enforcement. They said Meredith repeatedly ticketed their customers and scared business away.

*imagines some Rastafarians chasing Meredith and snickers to himself*

Meredith said at the time that he was a conscientious beat officer doing a sometimes unpopular job.

And by sometimes, he means 'all of the time'.

In Norfolk, some residents say they believe Meredith has good intentions but may have gone about things the wrong way.

Translation: The fool is crazy.

'Personally, I probably think he went a little too far," said Kate Morog, who also lives on Boardman Street. ''It was the wrong execution of the right idea."

"I would have liked to see him berate children a bit more. Yeah."

Meredith said he is thinking he might have worn out his welcome in Norfolk.

I hope he said that with a straight face.

'We've got to move," he said, a note of foreboding in his voice. ''We can't stay in this town."

"And we might be coming to your town next!"

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Next article can be read here.

Teen suspected of arranging car theft

This could be any teenager in the world.

A 17-year-old Eastside youth was arrested this week on suspicion of arranging the theft of his $50,000 BMW so he could collect the insurance money to upgrade to a pricier Bentley, police said.

I hope that he referenced the episode of The Simpsons where Moe gets Homer to steal his car and wreck it, so that he can collect on the insurance.

The teen allegedly worked out a deal with accomplices to steal his white 2002 BMW M3 outside a building in the 10600 block of Northeast Fourth Street, said Bellevue police spokesman Michael Chiu. The teen planned to use the insurance payout to get a more expensive car, Chiu said.

...you just said that, except that you were more specific with the car name and setting.

The youth's accomplices took the car Monday night, and the car was reported stolen. Police in Snoqualmie on Tuesday caught four people stripping the car of its parts, Chiu said. An 18-year-old Renton man, an 18-year-old Kent man, a 17-year-old Kent youth and an unidentified fourth suspect were arrested on suspicion of theft.

In an ironic plot twist, the fourth suspect was the original boy, himself!!!!!

...okay, maybe not.

The men implicated the Eastside teen in the crime. He was arrested at his workplace Tuesday night, Chiu said.

Damn stoolies.

The youth was questioned by police and released to his family. He has not yet been charged with a crime. The Seattle Times generally does not name suspects until they are charged.

"But here's our number in case you want to know who he is..."

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Last article can be read here.

Armed Robbery of Local Salon Involves Dissatisfied Customer

It's not their fault that the haircut that the person wanted was ugly.

According to police, a “bad haircut” has landed a Richland woman in jail. Police say 48-year-old Julie Anderson is under arrest tonight for robbing her hair stylist at gunpoint then firing shots into the stylist’s car.

"I WANTED A PERM...BUT NOW I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE PERMANENTLY SIX FEET UNDER!"

"...that was so dumb."

Police say Anderson walked into the Stage 1 hair salon on Wellhouse Loop in Richland around 11 A.M Wednesday, demanding to speak to a stylist who had worked on her hair.

"I want to kill her!"

"She's not in!"

"Okay, I'll wait. *sits down, reads latest issue of People*"

When told the stylist wasn't in yet, police say Anderson waited for and confronted the hairdresser in the parking lot pulling out a gun and demanding 100 dollars.

"This is SuperCuts, we don't have $100!"

Police say she was given an undisclosed amount of money and then opened fire in the parking lot before she left firing two shots into the back window of the stylist’s car.

"There, now your car looks stupid and unstylish! Hahahahaha!"

Anderson was later arrested at the Uptown Shopping Center, as she walked out of "The Talk of the Town” hair salon. Police say she was there getting another haircut.

"Cut it right, or I'll kill you, too!"

"The specific details of someone dissatisfied with the level of service, coming back, and actually taking it out on a service providers vehicle…that's extremely unusual, yes," said Captain Mike Cobb of the Richland Police Department.

"But not unheard of, as I've often fantasized about doing the same thing, myself."

Police say Anderson will be charged with 1st degree robbery and 2nd degree malicious mischief. She will be arraigned in court on Thursday morning.

2nd degree malicious mischief?? That's such a great charge.
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Sunday, April 24, 2005

Lester Oakes, Construction Worker
I was watching the All That 10th Anniversary Special on Nickelodeon just now (first time I've watched Nickelodeon in a long while), and it was great and disappointing at the same time. I probably shouldn't have expected all of my favorite characters to make an appearance, but oh well. Personally, I don't like recent seasons of All That, because it's cookie-cutter kid's comedy rubbish now. And, of course, the 10th Anniversary Special had plenty of plugs for the new All That. Watch me jump around with happiness and glee!! Bah.

However, it was at least a nice reminder of just how awesome All That used to be. I was sort of afraid that I'd hate the show and that it would fall victim to the nostalgia bug, but the old characters still make me laugh. Kenan and Kel dominated the show, as I expected, since they were the breakout stars of the show. Just about all of their major characters made an appearance in the show, whether in new sketches, or in the montage that was shown to highlight some of Ken and Kel's other characters.

There were two characters who I was especially hoping would appear, Detective Dan and Stuart. Much to my delight, Detective Dan made an appearance, complete with his signature music~! And he also jumped through a window, which is great. Physical comedy = funny. Josh Server isn't looking especially amazing these days, but it was great to see him back in the old detective garb. He didn't appear for very long, unfortunately, but who cares? He's funny.

There was no Stuart, though :( Oh well. I don't know what the prevailing opinion on the Stuart character was, but I always thought that he was really funny. He was a pretty dark character, too, now that I think of it. Stuart would always disguise himself as some sort of worker (like a teacher or a post office clerk), and it would be obvious that he didn't work there because he dealt with people in very bizarre, ineffective ways, such as sending a person's cat to a foreign country through the mail system. I don't think I could describe it well enough, though, you just had to see it...he was a real psychotic lol.

At the end of the sketches, when it was revealed that he had been faking things the whole time, Stuart would go on a rant about how if he were a real post office clerk (or whatever he was disguised as), he'd be 'the greatest post office clerk...ever". And either before or after that, the person whose clothes that Stuart stole would always come hopping out of someplace tied up and without their clothing, except for maybe a tank top and boxers. Stuart was such a weird character, and he probably shouldn't have been funny more than a few times, but damned if I didn't love the guy. Like Detective Dan, Stuart was a character who was also well versed in physical comedy.

Overall, I liked the show just fine. There were enough memories to get me nostalgic about All That, but there was enough nonsense to hamper my enjoyment a bit. Not just the stuff from the new cast members, but also the musical guests, which I've honestly never been too fond of on All That. They'll probably never pick anyone that I enjoy, though, so oh well lol.

Again displaying how awesome Wikipedia is, my sister and I just decided to mess around and click different links to see what articles we could connect to each other. We spent a couple of hours just reading articles and jumping from one thing to the next. The things you can connect on Wikipedia are so weird lol. Here's the whole list of stuff we connected:

The Great Gatsby, Prohibition, Al Capone, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, 2004, House of Commons, House of Lords, Edward II, Cornwall, Plymouth, Napoleon Bonparte, Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Battle of Waterloo, Duke of Wellington, Lord Liverpool, Master of the Mint, Henry Labouchere, Melbourne, Queen Victoria, Kensington Palace, Earl of Nottingham, Earl of Winchilsea, Cricket, Commonwealth, World War II, Pearl Harbor, Japan, Manga, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gainax, Otaku, Video games, Super Mario Bros., Brooklyn, New York, Netherlands, Dutch, Vowel, Vocal cords, Bernoulli's principle, Bubbles, Antibubble, Phenomenon, Optical phenomenon, Rainbow, Moonbow, Moon, Cynthia, Seven Wonders of the World, Stonehenge, Woodhenge, Beaker, Beer, Egypt, Giza Pyramid, Las Vegas, Nevada, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bugs Bunny, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Hippie, Bohemian, Drugs, Insomnia, Sedative, Mandrake, Witchcraft, The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling, Jacques Cousteau, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa, AIDS, Black Death, Alchemy, Philosopher's stone, Holy Grail, Jesus Christ, Resurrection, Moses, Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri, Oxford, 1920s, Charles Lindbergh, Agatha Christie, Emile Zola, Carbon monoxide, 19th Century, Little Ice Age, sunspots, Galileo Galilei, Europa, Titan, Hydrogen cyanide, Volatility, Random walk, Science fiction, Star Trek, 1960s, The Beatles, Revolver, "Yellow Submarine", "Eleanor Rigby", "Penny Lane", "Magical Mystery Tour", Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, John Williams, Star Wars, Yoda, Darth Vader, James Earl Jones, The Lion King, William Shakespeare, Epitaph, Mel Blanc, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, Tiny Toon Adventures, Back to the Future, Doc Brown, Christopher Lloyd, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Donald Duck, Goofy, Charles Dodgson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There, Jabberwocky, The Hunting of the Snark, Snark, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Yossarian, 1961, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Embalmed, Arsenic, Murder, Schizophrenia, T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Macavity: The Mystery Cat, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Broadway, Tony Awards, 1947, Casablanca, 1943, The Pentagon, Cold War, Berlin Wall, No Man's Land, Trench warfare, Julius Caesar, Pirate, Spanish dollar (pieces of eight), Parrot, Macaw, Woodpecker, Woody Woodpecker, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Rin Tin Tin, Robert Blake (actor), Southern California, Los Angeles County, La Puente, California, City of Industry, California, 2000, Leap year, Easter, Easter Bunny, Neopagan, Internet, Blogs, Cyborg Log, Wiki, Bots - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario World II: Yoshi's Island, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Lumines, 2005, Saddam Hussein

...yeah, that's a lot of stuff. All of our hard work does prove one thing, though: If F. Scott Fitzgerald were alive today, he would be in league with Saddam Hussein.

And before people ask, no, we did not read every single word of every single article we went through. That would have taken way, way too long to do. We mostly just read what interested us, and skipped over everything else. For example, we didn't waste our time reading through everything on the Master of the Mint article page, because that wasn't very interesting.

But, yeah, it does make you think, and not just about how little a life my sister and I have. Though that is what most of the thought that comes out of this involves, I think. Also, it makes you think about how the hell random walking connects with science fiction, and how we got from Rin Tin Tin to Robert Blake. I don't really know how half of this stuff came up, myself.

Other than this, there's nothing going on over here. I must create my own excitement. As you can see, I'm not good at it.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Annie Hall
I'm feeling a bit better at the moment. You know these horrible moods, they just come and go as they please. Oh well, nothing to do except to wait it out, as usual. Something will come up that will make me go "Hurrah I feel happy yayayayay1!11!11!" or something akin to that. And if nothing like that comes along, well, you'll have a billion more depressing entries to look forward to! Score!

Actually, you probably won't, as I don't care for writing depressing stuff about myself. Reading it and people's responses would just make me feel more depressed lol.

After not listening to them for a while, I've been heavy into Pixies lately. They're such a great, fun band. Pixies appeal to the part of me that really loves strange, bizarre stuff, which is probably why I like 95% of the things I like. I've never been one to be amazingly into lyrics, but I make it a point to really relish the lyrics in Pixies songs. Black Francis and Kim Deal might be my favorite lyricists ever. The best part is that they're not this fake "Look at me, I'm weird and I crave attention!!", they're a more 'genuine' sort of weird, if that makes any sense at all.

Plus, whenever I think of Pixies, I think of something Tony said about them a while back...that they can make the unrockable, rockable. That describes Pixies pretty damn well, I'd say. I mean, you could look at the lyrics for something like "Something Against You" and wonder "The hell is this crap? There's no way that anybody could make this good." And then they go out and do it. Seriously, it's amazing lol. I don't think I've ever loved so many songs about incest and UFOs in my life.

I think that's part of their charm. Pixies take subjects that nobody would bother writing about, and they make kickass songs. If that's not reason to love them, I don't know what is. Another reason to love them is for "Into The White", which I have been addicted to listening to lately. I think that it will be stuck in my head forever.

Wikipedia might be the most addicting website ever, at least for me. Lately I've just been spending a lot of time on there reading about random stuff that might interest me. The best part is starting with one article, and branching out from there by following the links inserted in that article. Learning is fun, people.

I'm tired right now, therefore I cut this post short before it becomes more incoherent than my usual posts. Long days, pleasant nights, use protection, etc.
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