The Antisocial Socialist

This was originally posted to The Face but it amused me and FB sucks at archiving, so I thought I would collect it here for posterty.
( Backstory, if you need it )

What follows is my running commentary on the game.
( Spoiler: It gets weird. )

I will leave to the alert reader to determine which of the above statements are literal fact. The percentage is higher than you'd think.

I am generally against microblogging but here are some links for you.

apperception has been posting reviews of Supernatural episodes and I asked if he'd put them all in one place so I could link to them. So he made a Twitter. Note that I still have never seen a single episode of Supernatural.

I'm not sure if I've linked to them before, but the best Tumblrs are Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks and Fuck Your Noguchi Coffee Table for very different reasons. Nice Guys of OKCupid would have been the best Tumblr but it bahleeted.

I also really like this post about why Tumblr sucks. Tumblrites be warned: It has a lot of words in it.

I haven't mentioned how much I've enjoyed the ongoing, detailed coverage of the beer convoy. zingerella quite rightly proposed that it would make an excellent Leverage episode, but the drama seems to write itself without the need for screenwriters.



There are some things I really like about living in this country (Molson is not one of them; no one would dream of stealing the beer because it's disgusting) and one of them is that the saga of the beer convoy is reported with the same level of intensity as space shuttle launches. This is Serious Business, people. Another is that our other big story right now is Grand Theft Snowplow. It's been quite the winter for reinforcing hoser stereotypes.

HOOHAH

You know, I was having a productive night. I did all my Wobbly work for the evening and I was going to settle in, review Perdido Street Station, and maybe write a bit on my own novel, and then rohmie, bad influence that he is, linked me to this and insisted I read it. Because he is evil.

As my eyes skimmed over it initially, I noticed two things that the author, Chairman_December_19th_Society (a very Maoist sounding name if you ask me), seems to be unaware of:

1. Star Trek is socialist propaganda (except Enterprise, which shouldn't count as Star Trek anyway.)
2. Basic spelling and grammar.

Without further ado, I present one of the worst fanfics ever written, ( As we settle into the nighttime of despair, fret not, for the Sun will rise again!! )

I guess I should be grateful, given the type of fiction that conservatives tend to write, that at least this story didn't end with someone schtupping a box turtle.

That was awful. Have some robots.

Here's my idea for an action movie:

An action hero is chasing a villain down the street. He needs wheels, so he throws a cab driver out of his cab and goes tearing down the street in hot pursuit.

The rest of the movie is the cab driver running up against various cops and thugs as he tries to get his cab back—his only source of income to feed his five kids.

The Second Cup has these new lattes that are raspberry and dark chocolate and basically bourgeois, foamy, sugary goodness. They come with free magazines. If you're a girl, they give you Elle, if you're a boy, Canadian Home & Garden or some shit. I guess. I don't know any boys who would drink a raspberry and dark chocolate latte. Boys miss out on all kinds of great things. Anyway, I put the Elle in the loo along with the latest Vice and Industrial Worker. (My bathroom reading is eclectic. My real reading is eclectic, but more tasteful—at the moment, I'm reading Settlers by Sakai and Perdido Street Station by Miéville.)

So I ended up reading Elle for the first time ever. I occasionally read shitty fashion magazines at the dentist's but this is so much worse. It's particularly bad in contrast to Vice, which, for all its libertarian sexist and racist garbage in the past, cobbled together a really fantastic issue on "Girls" that made perfect bathroom reading.

( cut for a guided tour through a fashion magazine by someone who doesn't ever read fashion magazines )

The rest of the weekend was spent in meetings, watching La Chinoise (like Raspberry Reich but without the gay porn), and messing up my hair.

I can't find my "no pigdogs" graphic to accompany this post. :( :( :(

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EDIT: OMG!

Man, my life is really busy these days.



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