After selling over one million copies of his book, which has spent three years on the NY Times Bestseller list, and after becoming the first internet writer to receive a six-figure advance for his next book, “Assholes Finish First”, Tucker Max has made a movie that is loosely based on the wildly popular book of the same name.
Three minutes of pure hilarity. Check it out.
The buzz over the summer blockbuster “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” only grew Wednesday as some said two jive-talking Chevy characters were racial caricatures.
This is either a publicity stunt to get even more attention for this movie or the single worst case of playing the race card in the history of civilization.
You know, race is still a serious subject in this country. Even though society has made many strides toward equality, and it’s easier to talk about than it once was, there are still a lot of injustices that occur on a daily basis. Using it to promote a movie is probably one of the most despicable things I can think of.
But it would actually be worse if someone were actually offended by this and spoke out as a result.
If you’re into rants, you should check out this site. It’s called “AdScam/The Horror!”. It is published by a 60ish year old guy who goes off several times a day on various topics – centering around the world of advertising.
I like George’s site and I subscribed to his feed. After all, any guy his age whose favorite superlatives are “Fucktard” and “Douchenozzle” is cool in my book.
You guys that found me through the updates on Rantlister.com will especially like it.
Breaking News: Obama Kills a Fly
Yes, that is the actual headline I saw on the Yahoo! front page the other day.
I like the President, as most people seem to. I may not like everything he does, but from a personal standpoint, he seems like he’d be a pretty cool person to hang out with, or [...]
Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself? Apparently not.
Since my ticket to hell has long since been punched, I predictably laughed my ass off at this.
I will be the first to admit that I am into some pretty nerdy shit. I still like video games and I like to read about astronomy and the stars and the planets and supernovas and the like. So, I understand the thrill from new discoveries in different scientific fields.
But, there are some things that I just don’t get. The other day, I opened up Yahoo!’s home page and right there smacking me in the face was the grossly unfascinating tidbit of news that a new Mersenne Prime number had been discovered, the 47th one. This astronomically large number is some 12 million digits long. To put that in perspective, if you were to write the number out on paper, you would need 4300 pages to write it all out. That’s like four encyclopedia (remember those) volumes – all just to write out this single number.
One of my old writing techniques was to simply sit at a keyboard and type. I Just typed whatever came into my head for a set period of time. I called it a Brain Drain. This method was fantastic for curing writer’s block and is really helpful for coming up with stuff to write about. I usually didn’t save them, I just picked them clean until the good stuff was all used up. Anyhow, I found one that I did save from three and a half year years ago. It probably should be noted that I was not on drugs when I wrote this.
There are really only three rules:
1) You must not stop typing.
2) You must go until the end – I always did 30 minutes. You can go longer if needed.
3) No use of the backspace key, arrow keys or the mouse. The point is to spill your guts out raw. You can’t do that effectively if you’re worrying about spelling and grammar. You’re not writing with the intent of publishing.
I am only writing this for the attention.
You see, I’ve developed a little bit of an obsession with watching my Alexa rank grow on both of my sites. It’s cool to see genuine progress and to know that readership is growing – which is solely the result of creating good content. As of this writing, the Alexa rank for this site sits at 683,074 and number 88,000 in the United States, and TheSportsDick.com just cracked the top 1 million. Not that this in and of itself is overly impressive – it isn’t. But, it’s a lot better than the rank of 2.5 million I had just a couple of months ago. Plus, as bloggers go, it’s sort of how we keep score. So, in an effort to further boost my score and ego I’ve decided to try to piss off Sarah Palin.
Enough already.
First, I’d like to congratulate all of these writers who hide behind their blogs and their message boards who have nothing better to do than self-righteously point out the faults of the celebrities they’ve helped to build up. I applaud your shrewdness and your extensive observational skills that allow you to provide expert commentary and criticism on such important issues as Lindsay Lohan’s craziness, or Kelly Clarkson weight issues, or Paris Hilton doing everything that she does on a daily basis – ok maybe the last one is alright since we sort of need that. But other than covering the everyday moves of the soulless and talentless androids that inhabit Hollywood and reporting on them relentlessly, what is so alluring about the lives of people whose occupations makes them famous? Why is this even an industry?
