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I’ve played a lot of mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game) games. For those that don’t know what that is, it’s basically a big game world that people from all over the world play in. There are lots of different ones, and the one (which I’ve never played) that most people would probably recognize is World of Warcraft. Anyway, being a writer, I have this huge pet peeve with people who can’t seem to use the English language properly when they type in the in game chat. Here’s some examples of what I’m talking about.

ur = your or you’re
plz = please
lvl = level
prt = party
lfp = looking for party
omfg = oh my f**king god
stfu = shut the f**k up

Now, you’ll see text abbreviations like this used in cell phone text messages, in internet chats, e-mails and pretty much anywhere casual conversations are typed out. It’s really permeated the language, and it’s an extremely bad thing. First of all, it doesn’t reinforce the proper use of the language, but it also promotes laziness in communications. When I see people use abbreviations like this, I don’t go out of my way to help them at all. If they’re too lazy to speak (type) the words out properly, then I guess I’m too lazy to help them out in any way.

Something else that irritates me is when I see people write stuff who don’t know the difference between the word “then” and the word “than”. Where the hell were you in kindergarten when the rest of us were learning proper vocabulary? You must have been the ones sniffing the rubber cement or eating paste over in the corner.

Ok, last time for you people…

Example of THEN:

I am going to the bathroom and THEN I’m going to bitch some more about your improper use of the English language.

Example of THAN:

People who can use the language properly are smarter THAN the ones who can’t.

If you can’t tell the difference after those two examples, then you should just learn a different language, because English isn’t for you.

Anyway, that’s just something that eats at me when I see it. I don’t know why people have to be so lazy. How the hell hard is it to type a few extra characters and actually write out words like “please” or “people”?

Jeez people, come on. Using the language like that isn’t going to serve you well as you go through life. Put a little effort into using the language properly and people will respect both you and your intelligence a lot more.

My wife Sharon and I went to a hockey game last night.  It was the Idaho Steelheads against the Phoenix Roadrunners.  It was the third game in a three game series, and the Steelheads just walked on them 6-0.  There were three or four great fights too.  One of them had like 8 players involved.  When the smoke cleared there was equipment laying on the ice everywhere!  It was awesome!

Something I noticed while we were standing in the entrance area waiting to get in, and this is something I never really thought about, is that when you’re standing in a crowd of people and you’re scanning the crowd, the only people you focus on are the hot ones and the weirdos.  The people who just look like regular folks become just filler as you scan around, but the ones that you really wannna do, or the ones that amuse you in some way because they’re weird are the ones that will catch and hold your attention.  It’s just one of those things you don’t really think about, but once you realize it you’re like, “Oh…yeah.”

So we get in and we hadn’t had dinner, so we decided to get something.  We each got a hot dog and a drink.  The hot dogs were friggin’ regular ol’ plain hot dogs in a plain ol’ bun.  The drinks were like medium sized anywhere else.  Two crappy little hot dogs, two drinks – $14.00!   Never again.  From now on we eat before we go!   I mean christ, at least for that much, give people foot long hot dogs or something.  That was just ridiculous!

Still, we had an absolutely awesome time at the game.  There were beer soaked loudmouths here and there in the crowd, and I realized that while they are annoying, they’re also part of the entertainment and the experience of seeing a live sporting event.  If they were there shouting and being obnoxious, I think it would feel like something was missing.

Anyway, on to my other big news…

We’re going to see Def Leppard in April!!!  We got the expensive seats in front of the stage too!  We’re sitting like 9 rows from the front!  WOOHOO!!!   We’re so totally looking forward to that.  Styx and REO Speedwagon are opening for them, and honestly I have no desire to see either of those bands, but oh well.  At least I’ll get to hear MR. Roboto live.  That should be cool.   I’ve totally gotten into Def Leppard and so has Sharon.  They’re just a phenomenal band and we’re totally excited about getting to see them live.

That’s it for now.  I’ll post more when I have other news.

Ok, so we basically got a crappy crop of presidential candidates this time around.  Is this really the best we could come up with?

Barack Obama: Looks like a cross between a young Bill Cosby and a young Louis Farrakhan.  Any day now I expect to see him sucking down Jello Pudding Pops while he bitches about how the Jews control the world.  Likes to talk about how we need change, yet the changes he’s proposing will break us.  The government already takes too much of our money.  If he’s elected, they’ll take a lot more to pay for all the crap he wants to implement.

Hillary Clinton: The woman who can shrivel a nutsack at thirty yards.  Now think about this.  Have you EVER heard a single word out of this woman’s mouth that didn’t sound like it was pre-written, memorized, rehearsed and recited?  Seriously, listen to her talk.  She’s also been seen crying a few times recently.  Do we really want a president who can’t control their emotions?  We all know how emotional and bitchy women can get.  That’s the last kind of crap we need in a leader.  Getting into all the corruption and criminal activities her and her husband have been in would just be redundant since everyone’s known about that stuff for ages.

John McCain: How the hell does this guy have a hot wife?  He’s got enough skin on his neck for about ten heads.  I keep expecting to see him blow it up like a bullfrog just to intimidate people.  Again, someone who can’t control their emotions.  The whole war hero thing is a bunch of crap too.  I keep hearing about how people who were in that prison with him said he cooperated with them to make things easier on himself.  Irregardless, I wouldn’t vote for him just because he’s a schmuck who doesn’t really care about our national security since he obviously doesn’t care how many immigrants flood our country.

Mike Huckabee: Used to be a baptist minister and once cooked a squirrel in a popcorn popper.  ‘Nuff said.

Seriously, all these people suck.  The best thing we could all do is to vote for an independent candidate or better yet, write me in as a write in candidate.  If I were president, I’d restore freedom and put up a huge roadblock for that wasteful congress who keeps taking our money and spending it on crap just to buy votes.

Anyway, I just saw a picture of Obama and McCain on the Fox News page, so I thought I’d bitch some.

The Cute:

I found this cute story about an Irish Setter that had a record breaking litter of 16 puppies. If you can look at the photos without saying, “Awwwwwww!” then there’s something wrong with you.

The Strange:

I found this story about Amy Winehouse on the same site. Seriously, is she like a transsexual or what? I’ve seen some really hot transsexual chicks where you’d never know unless they told you, and I’ve also seen some REALLY mannish looking ones, and she’s like, seriously mannish looking. I’ve seen her perform too and I don’t see what the hell the big deal about her is. There are multitudes of people out there that are far more talented than she is. I think the only reason she gets as much notoriety as she does is because people find her interesting…in a train wreck sort of a way. She went into rehab recently and came out clean…I guess. Can’t really tell with her.

The Sexy:

I think Courtney Love had notoriety for much the same reason, but she is pretty talented. I do have to hand it to Courtney though, she looks like she’s really cleaned herself up. I saw her on the Graham Norton show a couple weeks ago and not only did she seem perfectly straight and normal, but she was looking uber hot! I mean…seriously, seriously hot! I’m really happy to see that she’s straightened her life out and gotten back on track. Hopefully she’ll come out with something really good to boost her music career and get her back in the spotlight for the right reasons this time. I’ve always had a thing for Courtney Love. There is just something so incredibly sexy about her.

The Creepy:

I found this story too. It’s about Michael Jackson’s ex that he had kids with. Ick!

Anyway, that’s enough for now. My allergies are really acting up. Wish I had some Sudafed or something. I’ll have to have Sharon pick something up for me on the way home tomorrow.

By the way, if anyone out there is WAY rich and feels like giving us a million dollars just because they wanna do something nice for someone, I promise I won’t tell anyone. It’ll just be between you and us.

I’ve just been reading some stuff on scientology.  Actually, what got me looking at it is the fact that I read a thing saying that Kirstie Alley gave them five million dollars for something or other.  Other celebs have been brainwashed by the scientology cult as well and have given them countless millions of dollars.  My question is…why?  What in the hell would possess any rational person to fall into a cult full of BS like that and allow themselves to be brainwashed into thinking their bodies are infested with dead aliens?  I mean come on!  The FBI and law enforcement organizations all over the world need to step in and bust up this cult once and for all.  They’re no different than any other cult that brainwashes their members…except for one thing.  It’s members are rich as hell and giving the cult countless millions, allowing it to grow bigger and grow in power.  It needs to be stopped.  I just hope law enforcement steps in and does something, or if there are no applicable laws, they need to come up with some…fast.  I mean christ, I’m a Satanist, and anyone who knows anything about LaVey Satanism knows that it’s not the evil, horrible thing the Christians have made it out to be.  Scientology…now that’s the religion people need to be scared of.  It’s becoming everything the christians always claimed Satanism was.

Anyway, the other thing I wanted to talk about was the whole “going green” thing.  I’m just gonna say it…  This whole “going green” thing really pisses me off.  It’s completely disingenuous, and has basically reached a point where it’s like, if you’re not green, people throw bad looks and disapproval at you.  Politicians are “going green” because it’s the in thing to do and will make them look better to their constituents…not because they really believe in it.  Companies are doing the same thing.  The disingenuousness of it is what really pisses me off.  I mean, if you’re going to conserve and what not, do it because you want to and you believe in it.  Not because it’s the latest in thing that everyone feels like they have to do because everyone else is saying they should.  Life is about reasons and motivations.  When you let other people’s influences lead you into behavior that you wouldn’t normally do, then you’re letting others control you.  Live your life being honest with yourself and living according to your own beliefs and codes, and you’ll be a whole lot happier.

As for all you sheep out there, you can keep on following each other all you want.  I’ll be standing off to the side living my own life free of your influences and doing things because I want to do them and because I think it’s the right thing, and not because you said I should.

I’m sorry if this stuff seems a little incoherent today.  I got allergies and I’m not feeling too with it at the moment.

I’ll post some more stuff later on if I can find something funny to post.

Well folks, it’s that time again. The new issue of Rogue Cinema is up and running.

This month we got lots of great stuff including:

Interviews:
An Interview with Gerald Nott, John Reynolds and Clint Glenn – By Nic Brown
An Interview with Heather Amos – By Nic Brown
An Interview with Kirsten Babich – By Nic Brown
An Interview with Matt Hundley – By Brian Morton
An Interview with Paul Rinehard and Darby Kern – By Nic Brown

Articles:
Cinema, Art, Commerce and Entertainment – By Josh Samford
Movie Mashups 16: Bitter Flesh + New Blood
Why I Love Independent Film, and You Should Too! – By Brian Morton

Film Reviews:
100 Tears (2007) – By Nic Brown
30 Years of Fun (1963) – By James L. Neibaur
Bad Boy Bubby (1993) – By Jason Patfield
Cloverfield (2008) – By Brian Morton
Cracker Crazy (2007) – By Josh Samford
Crawlspace (1972) – By Duane L. Martin
Die and Let Live (2007) – By Duane L. Martin
Happily Ever After (2007) – By Duane L. Martin
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) – By Nic Brown
It Came From Uranus! (2007) – By Duane L. Martin
Murders in the Zoo (1933) – By Charles Rector
Piranha (1978) – By Nic Brown
Postal (2007) – By Nic Brown
Silent Voyeur (2004) – By Josh Samford
Street Trash (1987) – By Jason Patfield
The Devil’s Daughter (1973) – By Duane L. Martin
The Ninja Always Rings Once (2007) – By Duane L. Martin
The Stink of Flesh (2005) – By Jason Patfield
Trash Flicks for a Media Blitz (2007) – By Josh Samford
Welcome to Dreadville (2007) – By Duane L. Martin

Book Review:
Dying To Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood & Hong Kong – By James L. Neibaur

Television Review:
Dexter (2007) – By Brian Morton

February 2008 Sleepover Girl:
Heather Lei Guzzetta

This issue also includes a new item on the cover. A genre related comic from James A. Roberson called The Roberson Review. There’ll be a different comic on each month’s cover. Thanks to James for being a part of Rogue Cinema!

I also want to welcome Jason Patfield, who’ll be providing film reviews and other material for Rogue Cinema. He’s a film maker in his own right and a really cool guy, so it’ll be great to get his perspective on different movies. Welcome Jason!

I hope you all enjoy the new issue!

Rogue Cinema – http://www.roguecinema.com