Monthly Archives: October 2009

John Mayer: I’m going to forcefully sodomize your editor.

This is both heartbreakingly brilliant and pathetic all at the same time.

Q: These are questions my editor wanted me to ask. I’m trying to build my journalistic career here.

A: You’re not building a journalistic career. You’re making yourself look like a moron and you’re not a moron. Who’s your editor?

Look, I have no idea who Christianna Ablahad is, nor do I really care. And I don’t care who her editor is either. That sad, if you are stupid enough to ask these loaded, inane questions to anyone, much less a musician who is only wanting to talk about his music, then you deserve all the abuse you get. If anything, this twit got off light.

As for John Mayer, I suddenly want to go to a bar with this guy and watch him get us both in a fight with some cute girl’s boyfriend that he is sure to piss off.

Amazing Photorealistic Star Wars Art – Christian Waggoner

The best part of these images are in the reflections. The full StarWars.com interview is here.

“I love reflections. I mean, if you crop one of my paintings, it can be abstract, it can be surreal, it’s a play of light, a play of values, how things get distorted. You can just play around with so much. I’m now trying to take the art to see more hidden things in the reflections that people will catch.”

– Chris Waggoner

Why Fox News Is Un-American | Newsweek Newsweek Voices – Jacob Weisberg | Newsweek.com

A proper critique of the treasonous travesty that is FAUXNews.

Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for “evidence” that, when presented, is brushed off and ignored….

Rather than in any way maturing, Fox has in recent months become more boisterous and demagogic. Fox sponsored as much as it covered the anti-Obama “tea parties” this summer. Its “fact checking” about the president’s health-care proposal is provided by Karl Rove. And weepy Glenn Beck has begun to exhibit a Strangelovean concern about government invading our bloodstream by vaccinating people for swine flu. With this misinformation campaign, Fox stands to become the first network to actively try to kill its viewers.

To followup, a slideshow of 10 of the worst FAUXNews lies.

Also, this:

StarWars.com | Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion

I’ve been having a lot of fun skimming through the new Star Wars: The Essential Atlas. The link here takes you to some background info, author chats, and an online planetary directory that will be updated as new systems and such get written/created.

As a fan, it’s been more than a little discouraging to pour through dozens of fan-made maps, hoping for a system that works. A guy named Cartographer had taken the maps created for the New Jedi Order and had spent a lot of work organizing those into something usable. Up until this book’s release, the best current map was a mash-up of Cartographer’s and Modi’s map, found here.