Well, well, well....come back for more have we? How pleasant. Please join me as I jump into yet another steamy debate about something I have had too much time to think about. Get your eyes ready.
Twitter is one of the most popular social devices to attack our media since the all too amazing Myspace first plagued our computer screens. However, Myspace was actually something that was worth our time in the beginning. Facebook has now taken over as the leading social networking site, and Twitter is the "cool" think to use nowadays. My one and only thing I hate about Twitter is this: it's the biggest waste of time that has ever been invented. It's all the fun of a Facebook status bar without anything else to accommodate it. The original intention of the website was to keep your friends updated on what you're doing every so often, but now it's been used for anything from awkward media blasts to stupid self promotion by divas in music and sports. This "website" is quite possibly the most pointless piece of trash that exists on the Internet, and I have yet to see the allure of it.
I have actually been tempted to create a Twitter account myself so I can post one message and one message only, then abandon my pitiful little account to starve in the cruel, cold street that is the Internet. The message would be something like this: "I am currently sleeping. If I don't tweet within 8 hours, I'm dead from my rare disease I didn't tell anyone about. Thank you." I would then proceed to have absolutely no contact with anyone for a few days, thus leading people to believe I am dead, which would undoubtedly cause much pandemonium and chaos all throughout the one square mile of land that actually knows who I am. However, having told you this, my plan is now ruined.
Some evil mastermind, aren't I?
Back to the point I suppose. Twitter is another example of how stupid humanity is becoming. If we believe that this thing is an "entertaining" media outlet, then what hope is there? I already lost most of my hope when the Croc shoe line hit it big, or when the Snuggie was the hottest buy for the winter season. Are we seriously that gullible? How can such terrible ideas thrive in our already depleted market and Internet social network?
So let me close with this: help me. Help me regain some of my sanity and do not follow the millions of fake people who bombard the Internet everyday with their tweets about their life and how "cool" what they are doing is. Instead read this and follow someone who isn't cool and who is at least true to himself and who he is. Yes, I may not be as entertaining as some crazy celebrity, but that just means I'm not another cog in the stupid social machine that is controlling most of our teens nowadays.
Until next time, this has been another ranting session brought to you by an insane writer who is using the media against itself to promote actual social activity.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
A Brief Post....Might As Well.
So anyway....I got time, so I might as well write something.
Reading.....ah, the wonder of it. This amazing art of discovery and creativity has been all but lost on the youth nowadays. I should know, considering I'm still in the terrible, rundown, algae covered high school that I must attend for another year and a half. I have even witnessed a good three fourths of a classroom groan when assigned to read The War of the Worlds because it was a "chapter book." That statement lead me to believe that these high school students have lived about 14 years of their lives only reading books with pretty little pictures in it and that have about three sentences on a page. I am not trying to brag at all, but I am an AP student and make excellent grades. This honestly offended me. I could not believe many things I heard in that class. As much as I dearly enjoyed it and truly respected the teacher, I cannot believe I didn't rip my ears off my head after some of the things I heard in that class. It's a good think I document these things....but that's a story for a different time.
So my point in this shorter raving session is this: READ. Please. Our future depends on it. Half our politicians already appear to posses the intelligence of a raccoon. Surely we can strive for better. Please read. I don't want to sound like one of the awkward public television commercials, but it is the honest truth. Reading will make you smarter and hopefully help with improving your creativity. This is a good thing. Don't panic if the words seem to hard to understand either. There is a thing called a dictionary too. If you have to, there is even dictionary.com. Please help me not go completely insane and read a book.
This message has been brought to you by a concerned citizen who just happens to have too much time on his hands. Thank you for reading....if you care at all.
Reading.....ah, the wonder of it. This amazing art of discovery and creativity has been all but lost on the youth nowadays. I should know, considering I'm still in the terrible, rundown, algae covered high school that I must attend for another year and a half. I have even witnessed a good three fourths of a classroom groan when assigned to read The War of the Worlds because it was a "chapter book." That statement lead me to believe that these high school students have lived about 14 years of their lives only reading books with pretty little pictures in it and that have about three sentences on a page. I am not trying to brag at all, but I am an AP student and make excellent grades. This honestly offended me. I could not believe many things I heard in that class. As much as I dearly enjoyed it and truly respected the teacher, I cannot believe I didn't rip my ears off my head after some of the things I heard in that class. It's a good think I document these things....but that's a story for a different time.
So my point in this shorter raving session is this: READ. Please. Our future depends on it. Half our politicians already appear to posses the intelligence of a raccoon. Surely we can strive for better. Please read. I don't want to sound like one of the awkward public television commercials, but it is the honest truth. Reading will make you smarter and hopefully help with improving your creativity. This is a good thing. Don't panic if the words seem to hard to understand either. There is a thing called a dictionary too. If you have to, there is even dictionary.com. Please help me not go completely insane and read a book.
This message has been brought to you by a concerned citizen who just happens to have too much time on his hands. Thank you for reading....if you care at all.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
And....the real terror starts!
SO.....shall I begin? Why yes, yes I shall. Too bad if you didn't want me too.....since when did I care?
Well, this is my first time blogging. I have finally succumbed to the whole media obsession with blogging and decided to get my own. I actually decided to get one after reading my creative inspiration Jhonen Vasquez' blog. I never thought that I would get one.....until reading his masterpiece of dark awkwardness that completely opened my mind to the possibility of having a blog.
Well, I will eventually get to more deep discussions later on about deeper subjects like school lunch, cartoons, the end of the English language ever being spoken correctly again, and the eventual downfall of society as we know it. However, I will spend this time discussing a certain sports issue today. This issue pertains to the NFL and the NFL's perfect golden boy Tom Brady.
Today, Tom Brady won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award. Do you know why he won it? No, neither do I honestly. Yeah, he was injured for pretty much the entire 2008 season, and his stats this year are really quite good. 4398 yards, 28 TD's and only 13 INT's are respectable, but I mean who didn't expect this kind of season from him? He only won this award because he is 1.) A member of the New England Patriots and 2.) Tom Brady. Please don't sit there and tell me that the football world isn't biased towards its elite, especially Tommy boy. The Golden Boy has had way too many scandals in his life, but apparently nobody cares because he's just the best darn football player we've ever seen. Whatever.
You know who should have won this award? Cedric Benson. I mean the man only had a little over 1300 yards rushing combined for the 2007-2008 season for about 3.5 yards per rush and only 6 TDs combined those seasons. This year he had 1251 yards and 6 TDs with the Bengals in only 13 games. Are you kidding? This has to be a no contest. Tom Brady owns the record for most TDs thrown in a single season with 50. You can't tell me that he wasn't expected to have another great season. Benson was all but cast aside at the beginning of this season. Nobody expected him to have such a great season, and I doubt even he had these expectations going into the year.
This is just another example of how we raise people up and praise them when others are so much more deserving. It's insulting to me. The voters of this award failed in their duty to elect the most deserving recipient of the award. I congratulate them on complete failure. Good job men. You really did us all proud in electing Tom Terrific to yet another award.
Well, that wraps up this episode. I just needed to rant on this for a bit. Sorry that this wasn't the beginning I anticipated, or you for that matter (whoever reads this abomination anyway). Thank you for mulling through my ranting.
Well, this is my first time blogging. I have finally succumbed to the whole media obsession with blogging and decided to get my own. I actually decided to get one after reading my creative inspiration Jhonen Vasquez' blog. I never thought that I would get one.....until reading his masterpiece of dark awkwardness that completely opened my mind to the possibility of having a blog.
Well, I will eventually get to more deep discussions later on about deeper subjects like school lunch, cartoons, the end of the English language ever being spoken correctly again, and the eventual downfall of society as we know it. However, I will spend this time discussing a certain sports issue today. This issue pertains to the NFL and the NFL's perfect golden boy Tom Brady.
Today, Tom Brady won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award. Do you know why he won it? No, neither do I honestly. Yeah, he was injured for pretty much the entire 2008 season, and his stats this year are really quite good. 4398 yards, 28 TD's and only 13 INT's are respectable, but I mean who didn't expect this kind of season from him? He only won this award because he is 1.) A member of the New England Patriots and 2.) Tom Brady. Please don't sit there and tell me that the football world isn't biased towards its elite, especially Tommy boy. The Golden Boy has had way too many scandals in his life, but apparently nobody cares because he's just the best darn football player we've ever seen. Whatever.
You know who should have won this award? Cedric Benson. I mean the man only had a little over 1300 yards rushing combined for the 2007-2008 season for about 3.5 yards per rush and only 6 TDs combined those seasons. This year he had 1251 yards and 6 TDs with the Bengals in only 13 games. Are you kidding? This has to be a no contest. Tom Brady owns the record for most TDs thrown in a single season with 50. You can't tell me that he wasn't expected to have another great season. Benson was all but cast aside at the beginning of this season. Nobody expected him to have such a great season, and I doubt even he had these expectations going into the year.
This is just another example of how we raise people up and praise them when others are so much more deserving. It's insulting to me. The voters of this award failed in their duty to elect the most deserving recipient of the award. I congratulate them on complete failure. Good job men. You really did us all proud in electing Tom Terrific to yet another award.
Well, that wraps up this episode. I just needed to rant on this for a bit. Sorry that this wasn't the beginning I anticipated, or you for that matter (whoever reads this abomination anyway). Thank you for mulling through my ranting.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thus, it starts!
I shall begin my blogging by saying......I will procrastinate and blog some other time. Yes.....I procrastinate a lot....spare me the torture of your complaints because of it. I'll get to this thing eventually....I promise.
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