There are only a small handful of songs that upon hearing them for the first time, evoked a response in me of, “Damn, I wish I had written that song.”
This is one such song.
I’m not sure why the audio and video get out of sync in that version, but it’s not like you need to watch him play in order to listen to the music. This second version is a bit longer and takes a while to get into, but it’s well worth it.
I understand only 60% of precincts have reported, but even so, the results show that Mark Foley has 48% of the vote with 65,622. I have only one question.
What the hell is wrong with you people? How is it that the Democratic challenger is only leading by 2,000 votes over an opponent who resigned from Congress a month ago for sending messages to underage boys about masturbation and being horny? Sometimes I don’t understand the American public.
EDIT 1: With reporting up to 75% of precincts, Foley has gone from trailing by 2,000 votes to leading by 900 votes. Way to go, Florida!
EDIT 2: So I just found out that Foley’s name simply couldn’t be taken off the ballot and that if he wins, some other guy will take his place. I still think it’s retarded to have Foley’s name on the ballot and “vote” for him, even if it’s just for his name in general. I liked this post a lot better when I thought the citizens of Florida were the morons instead of now where I now I’m the idiot.
Trust me, I understand that Google Adsense sometimes has trouble matching up a relevant ad to certain pages, but this one takes the cake.
The hilarious ad in question was displayed on a page linking to a map of racist hate groups categorized by states. It’s one of those maps you’d expect to see used by a politician or somebody who wanted to push a specific agenda at the sake of accurate facts or valid arguements. I’ll be the first to admit that South Carolina has its share of problems, but if you go by this map, the only states containing more hate groups are Florida and California. And I for one find that hard to believe, even without touching the fact that far too many states are listed as having zero.
It’s these kinds of graphics that are used to sway or invoke some emotion in people without putting all the relevant facts on the table. What defines a hate group? How large does it have to be to be categorized? Do they have to be active? If so, what defines “active?” Even the basic facts of population aren’t factored into the map. For instance, a quick glance shows Georgia with 40 hate groups and Alabama with 21. Yet in 2000, Georgia had a population of 8,186,453 while Alabama only had 4,447,100. Now all of a sudden both states are looking to be on equal footing in terms of hate levels per citizen. Yet I assure you that any number of political candidates could have used this map to further their cause, regardless of its accuracy or reliability.
During the past 6 months, most of us here in America have been bombarded with negative ads through every media outlet and have been greeted with “facts” every time we turn around. Politicians have somehow mastered the art of telling a truthful lie and anybody who wants to know why the majority of people are turned off by or carry an apathetic attitude towards politics should start looking for answers there.
If you haven’t watched up to the Season 3, Episode 5 of LOST, then please don’t click the “read more of this entry” link below.
I rarely ever vouch for something I have little control over. I don’t like the thought of saying something is great only to turn around later and see it’s total crap. Movies and books are one thing, for if I watch or read one and love it enough to recommend it to people, it’s rarely going to change. No matter how many years later I suggest it, the movie isn’t going to have changed nor will the book have gone through another round of editing. But then you’ve got the oh-so-fickle world of television.
When I first watched LOST, I was excited. Just the general plot was something that I’d imagined about in my brain for years, something that I’d actually begun to write about and ponder turning it into a real story. And then before I knew it, ABC was actually coming out with a show just like the one in my head and I couldn’t wait! And to be fully honest, that first season was dynamite. It was exciting, explosive, mysterious, and fun. I told everybody I knew about it. I stayed up one night in my kitchen, blowing off hanging out at the bars with my friends, to tell my brother all about what he’d missed and why it was so great. I got my dad hooked, my other two siblings, my mom. Anybody who would listen to me, I went on and on about the show.
And now I wish I could go back, tell them that what I saw that first season wasn’t the final product and that if they were smart, they’d stay far, far away from this show.
For finally realizing that the best way to get high quality user created videos is to pay the creators! Although, I think the bigger implication here is that sometimes I actually do know what the hell I’m talking about.
In other news, I’d like to thank the Tigers for completely crapping out in the World Series and letting the obvious inferior team walk all over you. Way to keep up that AL winning tradition and showing the world just how pitiful the National League has been this year!…
And finally, thanks to anybody who is still here reading this site. I’d type more, but I’m busy editing a video that is due in just under 12 hours. A worthwhile post will be coming quite soon, however.
You have my word.
After watching the Phils fall short of the playoffs (I just wanted to cheer Moyer on in his quest to finally earn a ring), I wasn’t sure who to cheer for this October. I thought maybe the Twins, but Oakland was kind enough to squash that idea rather quickly.
And then I saw the way Detroit raced back onto the field to share their celebration with the fans after they beat New York and I instatly knew who I wanted to go all the way. Most teams jump around on the field for a minute, then run in the locker room and celebrate by themselves, leaving the fans cheering in the stands until they get tired and finally leave to go party at the bars. But Detroit got inside, looked at each other, and said to hell with this, let’s go celebrate with the fans. And before you knew it, 25 guys were racing around the stadium, high fiving every average joe they saw and pouring champagne over anybody who got close enough.
It took all of 30 seconds for the entire nation to go from “Who are these guys?” to “Man, I wish I was a Tigers fan.”
Go Tigers!!!
When I become President, one of my first acts in office will be the order to use deadly, even nuclear, force against this mother of all bastards. El Nino can run and hide every few years, but it sure as hell can’t escape the wrath of Goob.
I think of stories and ideas for Shyzer posts all the time. Most of the time their lost due to forgetfulness or realization that they’re stupid, but every now and then my brain will grasp them just long enough for me to get to a computer and type them down in the Word document I have titled “Shyzer Posts QUESTION MARK.” It’d look much nicer if I could have an actual “?” in the file name, but for reasons unbeknownst to me, Bill Gates in all his wisdom and glory decided somewhere along the line that us simpletons didn’t deserve to use a question mark in our file names. But golly jeepers, he gave us solitaire and minesweeper!
This document I speak of contains 13,794 words and is over 20 pages long with only a few blank lines separating each new topic. Some are only short fragments that I don’t even understand anymore. Other times there are paragraphs or two where I started to write a post and then abruptly stop for one reason or another only to pick it back up at a later date. And finally, sometimes things get a little lost in the shuffle and are rendered obsolete after a few weeks due to their time sensitive nature
This is such a post, which was written sometime in early July:
Dear local and national news networks,
Stop giving us hourly updates on Barbaro. What with WWIII starting in Middle East’s Paris, Type O Dong missiles flying all over the world, and the Mariners still employing one of the worst managers in baseball, I don’t have time to listen about how doctors now feel that Barbaro’s state of mind is solid. It’s a horse. You have no idea what his state of mind is. For all you know, he could simply be sitting there thinking “Brrrrrrrrrr, I’m a horse who likes oats and apples!” It’s wonderful that somebody has the compassion and funds to pay for all these expensive medical costs to keep a horse alive, but that doesn’t mean you have to give us the horse’s condition on CNN, ESPN, and even my damn local news simply because an hour just passed and he didn’t die. So the next time I hear a story about this freaking horse, he better have either A) died B) won a race or C) found a cure to cancer.
Thank you for your time,
Goob
I just typed the start of a sentence that read, “It’s amazing how quickly the furor over the new Facebook features died…,” but then I stopped and thought for a second. No, no it isn’t. As I wrote on Facebook Talk, today’s college aged group seems to be by far the most fickle when it comes to spending time on something worthwhile. I doubted the buzz over the new features would be longlasting, but I had I hoped that it would possible transform to some other medium for change or last a bit longer than it did. But no, people just bailed on the “movement” once the new features were not even deleted, but just curtailed. No worries, I’m still gonna keep the new site and run with it for a while. I still think it has potential, if nothing more than for the domain once I get a few daily readers and a decent PR. Actually, beyond the domain name, I’m happy about something else – I’ve found a default WordPress theme that I both love AND is coded properly. I’ve been struggling to find some decent themes lately and that one is certainly a keeper – one that I might even want to take and use on a different site as well.
In other Goob news, I have an open letter to send out:
Dear Mom & Dad. If you could go back in time, buy this house, and then raise me in that, I’d be thrilled.
Much love,
Your Favorite Son
Seriously, imagine all the freaking fun you could have with a house like that, especially as a kid! When I was younger, my godparents lived in a large house in Chicago that was both huge and ancient. It had hidden doors galore and some of the earliest memories I have were running around looking for new rooms and passageways. There’s nothing like discovering something new in the walls or corners of a room you’ve been in a million times.
And finally, I’d like to request a favor of Mother Nature. Knock this “getting dark earlier” shit off. I’ve put up with it for 22 years and I’m putting my foot down this time around. I let you have your little natural disasters, killer snakes and sting rays, and even that fraking El Nino every now and then. All I ask in return is that you let the sun stay out until at least 8:00 at night or so. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Well, since there’s so much talk and uproar about the new Facebook changes (see post below), I went out and created Facebook Talk in a matter of hours. I’m skilled like that. I kind of envision it as a site where people can not only get together to talk about the changes on Facebook, but anything else related to it. Privacy concerns, hacks, funny groups, whatever.
I’m also proud to announce the Grand Opening of the Learn To Cheat, the latest website to join the Shyzer Network. Well, I actually wrote that sentence about a week ago before I created Facebook Talk, so I guess Learn To Cheat now gets the honor of being the “website with the shortest lived latest addition to the Shyzer Network stamp.” LTC was something I threw together a while back and then never really worked on. But with the school year being young and fresh, I thought it’d be cool to get it up and running. It basically has ways to cheat in school, as well as a new segment about what NOT to do while cheating. (I hope that have that part up by this weekend). Some people have asked how I sleep at night knowing that I’m teaching kids to cheat in school and I respond that I hope teachers are reading this site as well. In fact, I tell fellow teachers about it every time I substitute and on teaching message boards. That way, it can go both ways. Sure, somebody may cheat using the knowledge I put on there, but then again, the teacher might have read the site too and can be on the lookout for methods they previously didn’t know existed.
The fun thing is that these both should hopefully be the first of a few websites launched in the near future. Add to that some of my travel plans and new life changes and this fall should certainly be an exciting time.
