Friday, August 26, 2005

Greetings! I just got back from the new house, and it was interesting. I was there for two nights, and the following happened:
First day: we had to bring Tomen, so that we could give him his antibiotics. He has to take amoxicillin to prevent infection from his last infection. Then Mom cooked a great meal, and we were just serving ourselves when Mark (my step dad to be) turned off the TV (Spike was watching The Silence of the Lambs). Spike was naturally upset, and said something to the effect of "hey, I was watching that!" Mark then exploded and was yelling about how Spike "isn't the boss". Needless to say, Spike didn't take that shit, considering he lets his own children watch TV and eat, and he's been treating us like guests as long as we've been with him, which has been at least a year and a half. All of this added up to Spike yelling a few things at Mark, the only one I can remember being "fuck you!" Mark then told him to get out of his house. We then got into a heated debate and were about to leave for quite a while, causing most of us to cry since we loved the girls (Mark's daughters) so much. After Mark and Mom talked a while, Mark had a talk with Spike, after which Spike said they had it pretty much figured out. We'll see about that.
Second day: we got stuff unpacked, and went on about five walks. some were to the park, and one was to a garage sale, where I got a leash for Luby, a candle with a moon thingy for Mom, and a Red Hot Chili Peppers cassette (What Hits!?) for me, which I would be listening to, were it not for the fact that our only working/powered cassette player we own was left at the new house. The rest of the walks were just exploring town. we found a hardware store that was kind of interesting, along with a neat office supply store with everything (even restroom signs), that we later realized was where my dad gets mechanical pencils. We also found two churches, however neither of them have those stupid sayings like "be a fisher of men" (which inspired my dad to do a drawing), and the one we were seeing them at was replaced by a boring signless church. Anyway, this new place has a much better church record than Brainerd, where every church is within a short walk of at least one other. One can only imagine what kinds of denominations that no one's ever heard of have churches there.
Third day: we left, though first I saw one of the dumbest sci-fi shows ever. It's called "Time Cop". Here's a rundown: two years from now (that's not a typo, it really does take place in 2007) time travel has been invented, and is done using wrist-thingies that look like they came out of a happy meal. Some criminals use it to commit crimes in the past. When they do, it's detected by this device in a police station (why none of these automatically destroy it is beyond me). The folks working at it are the modern series cliché: a male by-the-book boss, an organized, intelligent woman, who is the smartest, cleverest, overall best character, and a low average IQ guy who does everything but ultimately relies on the woman. He gets sent back in time and tries to apprehend the criminal, without any regard for damage to history (talking to people, shooting, etc.. Did I mention that they use ray guns that look like they came from a toy store? They also use the worst sci-fi concept ever:" you can't touch yourself, or you'll cease to exist, since the same matter can't occupy the same space at the same time". Whoever thought of this rule should be forced to rape himself from before he invented it, to prove himself wrong before it inflicts as much damage as it presently has. Here's that assumption debunked: That would apply on the atomic scale (or lower), making lining up yourself just right impossible, skin flakes are constantly being blown off of you, meaning some part of you touching your alter-ego is inevitable, you are not made up of the same matter your entire life, atoms of the same element are identical (so "the same matter" would be nothing special), and touching something does not make you coincide with it. Got it? now let's see the series finale and get some decent shows on the sci-fi channel.
Anyway, Spike also made an observation about commercials. Ever notice that condom commercials are only on a few channels and use ridiculous euphemisms, and commercials for tampons/vaginal itch cream/anything else that goes in a female crotch (aside from condoms) are on every channel that doesn't cater specifically to men (at least I don't think they're on those) and speak very frankly. I mean, I know these products are very important, and are used by every woman between puberty and menopause, but aren't condoms supposed to be important? I mean, they are supposed to protect us from diseases and pregnancy, or something like that. Shouldn't they be on every channel?
Another curiosity of mine was the problem of removing body parts. Vasectomies, appendectomies, (insert body part you can evidently live without here)ectomies. What happens with the blood vessels? I mean, blood is moved out of the heart by veins and brought back by arteries, and the surgery would take away some connections, wouldn't it? And then, wouldn't the blood just pound on the new dead end until it bled? Do doctors really rearrange the blood vessels to line up properly? That seems like it would take a long time to work out. Or do they just do that naturally? What about non-professional amputations? Wouldn't the burning prevent that from happening? It's not like the void would turn into a sinus. That would greatly compromise the integrity and efficiency of our cardiovascular system, and seems very unlikely.
If you didn't run away because of the polysyllabic words in the last paragraph, then here's another rant for you: people in America are such idiots. If you're reading this blog, you most likely already know this. But I must mention that the typical American could easily swallow Time Cop as reasonable, not to mention whatever the churches are telling them now. Plus there's the fact that some people actually believe that we're the only country with basic freedoms. In eighth grade geography we had a french foreign exchange student talk to the class. Someone actually asked her if she felt freer in America. What an idiot! She just told him that America isn't any freer than Europe and that it just pumps out a lot more propaganda. Damn I hate this country.
By the way, did you ever notice that Xanga's spell checker doesn't recognize swear words? Wonder if there's some rule against using them, or if the sight-makers just thought they wouldn't be used that much. Anyway, so long for now!