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Someone tell me why the hell it is that every freakin’ schmoe that is lucky enough to see a bigfoot or a UFO or the god damned Loch Ness monster all have the crappiest cameras ever produced by man?

I mean seriously now, awesome digital cameras are cheap and easily available.  If you’re going anywhere that has even the slightest chance of running into stuff like this, at least make sure you take a nice camera with you.  I’m sick of seeing all these fuzzy ass shots of some hairy beast or an out of focus UFO.

Speaking of UFO’s, I really think disclosure is coming soon.  I’m seeing more and more news reports of UFO sightings and the Catholic church suddenly felt it necessary to make a statement saying it was ok if there were aliens.  Now why would they do that?  And why the sudden upswing in reports of UFO sightings?  I’m pretty sure it’s coming sooner rather than later.  I’d be really surprised if it didn’t happen by the end of the year or some time in the following year.  If I may say so too, it’s about damn time.

Let’s see, what else…

Oh, I’ve been weightlifting again, which is difficult at the moment because I hurt my left shoulder not too long ago and it’s not fully healed yet.  So it gets really sore when I do bench press and such.  I’ve really been hitting the sit ups hard.  Someday before I die I want a six-pack you can actually see.  I’ve always had just enough fat there to keep you from really seeing anything.  Well I’ve lost weight now and I can see it just a bit.  I have a bit more weight to lose, but I think if I keep eating a low calorie, low sugar, low carb diet like I have been and keep hitting the weights and doing the sit ups, in a month or so I should be looking pretty good.  I got some green tea pills coming too that should help boost my metabolism and get the extra pounds off even faster.  I can’t wait for them to get here so I can get started on that.

And…

Had a great time last night.  See, I posted an ad on Craig’s List to find Sharon a good friend.  Well, it didn’t take long, and now she found one who’s just a great person and super nice.  She’s got a really nice husband and some other friends that we’re also starting to get to know, and we all went out bowling last night and then to an overpriced, snooty, crappy pub downtown after where we had a great time talking and getting to know each other more.  It’s something we haven’t done in like…well, ever.  Not to that level anyway.  It was really nice and we all had a great time.

I got the next issue of Rogue Cinema coming up tomorrow that I have to work on.  It’s gonna be a short issue I think.  I really could use a few more good writers.  I just got a great new one, but the regular staff is overworked and could all use a bit of a break I think.  So if you or anyone you know would like to write for us, let me know.  Anyway, I still have one movie to watch.  I’ll either watch it in the morning or late tonight after Sharon goes to sleep.  I only had two screeners this month.  I have more coming, but they didn’t get here in time for the next issue, so they’ll be in the August issue.  It’s just a lot of work, and honestly I could use about 3 months off from the magazine.  No writing, and having someone else put it together for a few months.  I’m just so burned out right now.  I have been for a long time, as evidenced by how long it’s been since I’ve done a review for this site.  I really do want to review more for this site, but I always have things hanging over my head that keep my attentions elsewhere.

One of those things is music actually, which is one of a very few things I get to do for pleasure.  I’ve been working on getting better at fingering chords on guitar by playing along with the acoustic parts on some Def Leppard songs I really like.  So far I’ve been playing Two Steps Behind and Now, but I also play several of their songs on bass.  I’m about to learn the song Goodbye on bass actually either tonight or on Tuesday.  I need to work on getting better at drums too, but I really want to focus more on guitar right now.

Anyway, that’s it for this time, unless you want me to tell you all how bad I’ve been farting tonight.  Christ, I don’t know where it’s all coming from.

Ok here’s some more rants, just because I’m bored…

I just read a thing in US Weekly.  It was a short interview with Miley Cyrus saying she still regrets the Vanity Fair photos.  You know, I am SO god damned sick of hearing about those photos.  I saw them and they didn’t show anything more than she’d show in a bikini on the beach.  They actually showed less.  OMG we saw Miley’s bare back!!!  World coming to an end!!!  Call out the National Guard!!!

You know what?  Just stop being a bunch of puritan morons and get over it.  There wasn’t a thing wrong with those pics.  The only thing wrong with them is that some bible thumping morons freak out every time they see a little bit of skin.  Hell, why don’t you idiots all just go and throw on some burquas if you’re all so worried about showing some skin?  Idiots.

And then there’s the Verne Troyer sex tape.  Now personally, as a guy, I understand he has needs and desires like everyone else.  Still, I didn’t really need to see him sticking his tongue out to put it in a girl’s mouth.  Especially while I was having dinner.  Someone asked him about it the other day and he didn’t seem too bothered by it, but now all of a sudden that everyone’s saying how creepy it was, he’s decided he’s going to try to score some green out of it by suing TMZ.  Um, I wish I was a celeb so I could make a sex tape and then have it conveniently leaked to a show like TMZ so I could sue them too.  Doesn’t that all sound a bit suspicious?  Suspicious, but still creepy. *shudder*

Then we have Barack Obama.  Ready for my opinion on Barack Obama?  Wait for it….wait for it….

He’s a douche bag.

Why is he a douche bag?  Because he’s a whiny bitch who can’t stand the slightest bit of criticism.  When he is criticized he accuses whoever did it of being racist or lowering the tone of the campaign or whatever else he can come up with the circumvent the always correct critisisms about his lack of experience, lack of knowledge of how the real world works, lack of understanding of how the high gas prices are destroying our economy, his flip flopping on issues, his belonging to anti-American, hate filled churches and even on his idiot wife who was so ashamed of her country, but is suddenly proud of it because that just sounds better for some reason when her idiot husband is trying to get elected.  Oh, but we’re not ever supposed to say anything bad about him because he’s black.  Well, half black anyway.  Oh, and let’s not forget the uproar over the Obama sock monkey.  I personally thought that was hilarious, but you idiots have no sense of humor.  I mean, I saw the thing and it looked just like him.  Big ears and everything.

Anyway, you know what Obama?  Screw you.  Maybe you forgot where the hell it is you live, but you live in a country where we have freedom of speech.  If I want to call you a douche bag because you’re an idiot or a crappy politician or just flat out friggin’ dangerous for our national security, then god damn it that’s what I’m gonna do.  I don’t give a jack whether your black, white or friggin’ Barney the Dinosaur purple.  You’re still a jerk, patently unqualified to be president and someone who’s such an out of touch elitist that you’re going to screw everyone in this country with even higher gas prices and higher taxes.  Maybe all you people out there who’ve drunk the Obama Kool Aid should take a long hard look at what this idiot really stands for and wants to do to this country instead of just supporting him because of his skin color or just the fact that he’s not a Republican.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think the Republicans are a bunch of gutless douche bags too who feel the need to inject their religion into everything, thereby restricting or eliminating freedoms just because they think everyone should follow their religious morals, but Obama is just flat out friggin’ dangerous.  I absolutely can’t stand John McCain, but I’d sure like to see him win just because Susan Sarandon said she’ll leave the country if he does.  I bet she doesn’t though.  That Alec Baldwin idiot said he’d leave the country too if Bush won, but sadly, the moron is still here.  I doubt she’d have any more follow through with her threat than he did.

I just wish there was a viable third party candidate running that believed in the constitution, limited power of government and individual freedoms.  I’d vote for them in a heartbeat.  I’m going to have to take some Pepto Bismol just to stomach having to vote for McCain.

Oh well, I was bored and thought I’d pop in and bitch about some stuff.  I’m sure I’ll have more to bitch about later.  You know what the best thing about bitching is?  It not only makes you feel good, but hopefully, it’ll also make some people think, or give everyone a laugh, or get them talking about important issues…like Verne Troyer’s creepy tongue.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  I’m gonna go be bored doing something else for a while.

I know I’ve made a lot of heavy posts lately, so here’s a doofy joke I found to lighten things up. I thought it was funny anyway…

A 6-year-old and a 4-year-old are upstairs in their bedroom. “You know what?” says the 6-year-old. “I think it’s about time we start cussing.” The 4-year-old nods his head in approval. The 6-year-old continues. “When we go downstairs for breakfast I’m going to say hell and you say ass.”

“I don’t know,” he blubbers, “But you can bet your ass it won’t be Cheerios!”

Ok, this is going to be a two part post, because there’s two things I’m going to talk about. First, I just had a visit from a very nice lady from the humane society. Apparently one of our jerk off neighbors complained about excessive barking from our dogs. While she was here, she heard nothing. I explained to her that the reason Missy’s been barking is because there’s a neighbor who house sits a dog once in a while and she sees that dog through the fence and barks. I also told her I’d do my best to stop it from happening. She was very nice, and when I asked her who complained, she couldn’t tell me. She told me I could call the humane society and ask and they could look it up, which I did.

So I call and talk to another nice lady there and she looks it up. They didn’t leave a name or any contact info. She marked it as no more warnings to us after I explained to her what was going on, and said if those people want to complain again they’re going to have to come forward and identify themselves.

Now, here’s why I’m pissed. If you have a problem with a neighbor like this, you don’t file a god damn complaint, you come and knock on the door and politely try to discuss the problem with them and work out a solution. That’s the nice thing to do. Filing an anonymous complaint and hiding behind a phone call because you don’t have the balls to actually talk to your neighbor is just cowardly. I really want toi know who the hell it was that complained, just for my own curiosity. We’re going to start locking Missy in the garage at night just to make sure she’s not barking while we’re asleep or something, but our dogs are generally quiet and there really isn’t any excessive barking problem at all. It’s just someone who decided to be an ass an complain that has the problem. So a big middle finger to them. Next time have the freakin’ balls to come talk to me about it. Jerks!

Anyway, on to the next thing…

I’m sick of idiotic religious people bitching about everything they don’t approve of. This gay marriage thing in California is a prime example. Another example are those idiot muslim cab drivers who won’t take fares with alcohol or dogs. All these idiots seem to think that just because they or their religion doesn’t approve of something, that suddenly everyone else in the entire world has to conform to their beliefs. When someone does give them the smackdown over acting all jerky, they start whining about religious freedom and how they’re being persecuted and blah blah blah…

You know what? I don’t give two squirts of crap about your religions or your beliefs. You live in a free society here in America, and because of that you can believe in whatever fairy tales you want. HOWEVER, you absolutely do not have the right to impose your beliefs on anyone else. If you don’t like something, keep it to yourself and realize that we all live here together and we all have our own beliefs about life and how to live it. No one’s forcing you idiots to turn gay and get married, nor does gay people getting married affect you in any way other than annoying you, which I’m personally happy to see anyway. Muslims think everyone has to fall in lock step with all their bullshit too, but that’s not the case. They chose to live in a free society and to follow that moronic religion. If a free society isn’t compatible with your religion, then leave and go live in some crap hole with the rest of the people who think like you.

I’m just sick to death of everyone trying to impose their beliefs on everyone else. People are individuals. All the religious nuts like to say that god gave us free will. Ok, the gays are exercising their free will to get married to the person they love, just like everyone else in the world does. How exactly is that a bad thing? Oh, because some two thousand year old books written by people who would have thought a cigarette lighter was some miraculous thing say it is. Right…

There’s always been this absolute denial by religious people that gays are simply born that way as well. Sure some choose to be gay or bisexual, but the large majority of gay people are simply born that way. Asking them to turn straight would be like asking you to turn gay. You all get married and such, so why shouldn’t they? Aren’t they just as deserving of happiness as anyone else? Who the hell are you people to dictate to them whether they should be able to marry the person they love or not?

The simple fact is, when they made marriage a legal thing instead of a strictly religious one, you people lost all right to complain. If it was simply a religious issue you could deny it to anyone you want, but gays are entitled to equal treatment under the law as guaranteed by our constitution. They pay their taxes and follow the rules just like everyone else, and should be treated just like anyone else. I actually heard one of the protesters yelling out to the gay people getting married that god hates them. Wow, I thought your god loved all his children. Now you say he hates them? Why? He made them. Are you saying your perfect god created these gay people and screwed it up so now he hates them? What the hell is wrong with you people? Do you not see the fallacy of your own beliefs? Religious people have and always will be the ultimate hypocrites. What they really should say is, “Love thy neighbor, unless they’re gay, or don’t believe like you, or do anything at all that you don’t approve of. Then it’s ok to hate them, and just so you don’t have to take credit for being the jerk you are, you can blame it all on god’s will and skip along on your merry way to make the next person you don’t approve of miserable.”

Then you hear religious people say, “Well the majority of Americans don’t want gays to be able to marry.” Ok, following that logic, what about if the majority of Americans were in favor of slavery? Would we all have slaves now? How about if the majority of Americans decided we had had enough of Mexico invading our country and decided to commit genocide on the Mexicans? Is that ok too just because the majority approves of it? How does a majority of anyone being in favor of anything suddenly make it the right thing to do? The answer is, it doesn’t. All it does is make you people look like a bunch of mindless sheep who, based on nothing other than a desire to impose their beliefs on others, want to keep rights away from people who have every bit as much a right to them as you do.

It’s not like christians have treated marriage all that well either you know. Look at the divorce rate and all the spousal abuse and infidelity and everything else. Do you really think gays would treat marriage any worse than you people? They’d probably treat it better because they’d appreciate it more after how long it’s been withheld from them. Plus, for the most part, they’re not going to be breeding and bringing more stupid people into the world.

Anyway, that’s my rant for today. I wasn’t going to rant about anything, but this stuff just irritated the hell out of me, so I figured I would.

For a really long time now something’s been missing in my life. Like a hole that’s never been filled. I’ve felt it for years, but only recently, it’s made me feel more and more empty, and unfortunately, it’s a hole that’s unlikely to ever be filled. I won’t get into what it is, but in discussing it with my wife Sharon, I came to a better understanding of a couple of holes she has in her life as well. She has some holes that have a better chance than mine of being filled eventually, but they’re things that I have a much deeper understanding of now since we talked, and she has a much deeper understanding of mine as well, which brought us even closer, if that was possible.

We all have holes in our lives I think. Some emptiness that we long to have filled with the things we need to make us complete. Sometimes the holes are just a product of our life experiences, sometimes they’re created. One big hole in our lives was created for us when our dog Cyndri, who was literally our child, died last year. That’s a hole we can never fill, because only having her back could fill it. Sure we can always get a new puppy, but every dog we love and then lose to death creates a new hole.

Sometimes it’s family members dying that leaves holes in our lives. My parents, and Sharon’s are still around, but someday they won’t be, and their loss will create new holes in our lives, just as losing our beloved pets does. Holes that can’t be filled, but only thinly covered over from time to time with the great memories we have of those who are no longer with us.

My personal hole in my life that leaves me feeling unfulfilled is a result of my past life experiences, and a desire to make up for those experiences, and also for the ones I never had but wanted so desperately. My wife’s holes revolve around experiences she herself has desperately wanted, but never had, and an inability to have something in her life that she desperately needs to feel complete. I know it’s cryptic, but I don’t really want to go into all the details.

My point is, we all have these holes in our lives. The only way to ever feel truly good about our short existence on this planet, is to do our best to fill those holes that leave us feeling unfulfilled. Some we can fill, while others will never be filled. All we can do is to try our best and give it a shot, regardless of the outcome. Dying with regrets and a feeling of having had an incomplete life is not a way any of us want to go out I think, and I guess my point is, if we don’t at least try, then what’s the point in living? At least we’d have tried and failed, and that’s far better than accepting the emptiness and living your life knowing that you never really tried to fulfill your dreams.

I know this may not make a lot of sense, but as I get older, I think about these things a lot more. Facing one’s own mortality isn’t a pretty thing, but it is a reflective one. Sometimes you just have to take a long hard look at yourself and understand the roadblocks between you and what would make you the happiest, and then work to remove those roadblocks as best as you can. Dreams can’t all come true, but without trying to make them come true, all they’ll ever be is dreams. Ever try to fill a hole with a dream? It doesn’t get very full.

Anyway, now that I’m done confusing you all, I’ll shuffle off and try to think of something more interesting or amusing to write about in my next post.

I haven’t posted anything in a while. That’s largely due to dealing with my father’s medical problems and some other things that have been going on in my life that have had my attention elsewhere. There’s been lots of stuff in politics I could have ripped on, as well as social stuff, goofy stories and other such nonsense, but I’m going to limit this post to a couple of personal things.

First, thank you to everyone who’s sent their best wishes for my father. He’s home and doing better every day, but when he was in the hospital, his eye got re-infected, with a different infection than it had before. They think this time it’s MRSA, which is that drug resistant staph infection. So he’s on frequent dosages of some heavy antibiotic eye drops to try to knock it out. What irritates me is that they knew when he was in the hospital that it was getting reinfected but they didn’t do anything about it because it was a cardiology unit and they didn’t have a doctor there that could treat it.

Now right now you’re probably all thinking the same thing I was. “IT’S A FRIGGIN’ HOSPITAL FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!!! YOU CAN’T BRING OVER A DOCTOR FROM ANOTHER SECTION TO LOOK AT THIS AND TREAT IT??? WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE???”

Basically what happened is the equivalent of saying, “Oh we don’t deal with that, it’s not our problem.”

My father got great care in that hospital, but now he’s dealing with even more crap because they didn’t treat that early on when they knew he was getting re-infected. I’m just so pissed off about that I can’t even tell you. Aside from that though, he was well taken care of and I can’t fault the hospital staff specifically, although I can fault the doctors for not doing anything about it and the hospital administration for not having procedures in place to actually take care of people’s needs.

Now, moving on…

I’ve been fasting. In my quest for anything interesting in my life, I decided to see how long I could go without eating. It started out as kind of a goof, but has become normal for me in the last week. The first few days I lived on iced coffee and caffeine pills. I got the sugars I needed to keep going from the milk in the iced coffee, and the caffeine helped keep the hunger away and boosted my energy and metabolism. I’m also taking a multi vitamin to help compensate so I don’t get deficient in anything.

So, here’s how it’s gone so far…

I managed to make it through three full days without food, and living on iced coffee. By the end of the third day I could feel myself not being as mentally focused as I’d like, so I ate a chicken breast and a salad with tomato and cucumber and got a good night’s sleep. I felt back to normal after that, though I think it was the sleep that did it more than the food.

Then I fasted for two days and ate a salad with tomato, cucumber and chicken breast, using homemade hummus for dressing. It was excellent, low calorie and high in protein and fiber. That was last night.

Yesterday I switched off the iced coffee completely and now I’m drinking V8 spicy and 100% fruit juices with no sugar added. The grape juice gave me the farts, but other than that everything’s been going great. I’ve decided to only eat a dinner similar to the others I’ve had every 2nd day. The rest of the time in between will be juice fasting.

So how am I handling it?

Honestly, after a couple of days, food becomes optional more than a necessity. You lose most of the mental cravings and the physical cravings subside almost entirely. When I do start feeling a bit hungry, which isn’t very often, I drink a glass of juice and it makes the feeling go away.

And how’s it going?

Well, I weighed myself on the morning of the 6th day and I had already lost 14 pounds and I’ve gone down two pants sizes. I’ve set a goal weight for myself, and when I reach it I’ll see if I need to keep going or not. Whenever I’m finally satisfied, I’m going to switch over to eating dinners only, and try to stick to low calorie stuff, although once in a while I gots to have my steaks, pizza and other stuff. I don’t want to deny myself completely. I think when I get down to my goal weight, I’m going to get a few pounds below that and then go scarf down a Flying Pie pizza with extra cheese and extra pepperoni to celebrate. That should knock me back up to my goal weight and I can work on maintaining from there.

I also wanted to mention that I feel like I have more energy and I just feel all around physically better. I’m pretty cleaned out, so when I do eat it processes relatively quickly and comes out the next day. Not having the burden of packing the extra pounds has not only been good for me physically, but mentally as well. I feel better about myself now. My whole life I’ve struggled with weight and gone up and down a lot of times. I’m tall so I carry it well, but density plus a lot of muscle mass from my years of weightlifting has always had me heavier than other people.

Anyway, I’ve had other annoying personal stuff going on, but I’m going to go out now with Sharon and see if we can find something fun to do. Holy crap life is boring, but at least I feel better now that I’ve lost some weight, so I’ll be enjoying it more.

I might post about some of the other stuff later. Oh, by the way, before I go. Sharon and I have been bowling again lately. We each bowled three games the first time we went and I came close, but I didn’t even break 100. Last time we went, I had my normal warm up game where I didn’t do very good, but then the second game I bowled a 133 and on the third game I bowled a 150!!! We have a lot of fun doing it and I think we’ll be doing it more often now.

Anyway, that’s it. Until next time, try not to be too bored with life. Being bored sucks.

I’ll be making one big blog post in the next day or two about the stuff that’s been going on with me and why I’ve been so quiet lately. Until then, here’s the announcement for the new issue of Rogue Cinema.

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Hey folks,

After a couple day delay for personal reasons of which many of you are aware, the June issue of Rogue Cinema is up and running. This is our fourth anniversary issue as well. Where does the time go huh? Anyway, here’s what we have for you this month.

Interviews:

The cast of Head Case
Marion Kerr
Paul Kratka
Eric Stanze
Kelli Maroney

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:

Shannon McDonough nails down the classic pin-up style as our June Sleepover Girl.

Articles:

Josh Samford talks about some really bizarre movies in his latest piece, Cinema of the Absurd.

Danny Runion blending up more movie goodness in the movie blender.

Movie Reviews:

Blitzkreig: Escape from Stallag 69
Craig
Dagon
Ezra Crane
Grizzly Park
Head Case
It’s My Party, I’ll Die If I Want To
Mr. Video
Re-Animator
Rock the Paint
Severance
Sister Mary Martha’s Martyrology: Episode 1
Something in the Way
The Cottage
The New Position
The Road
Vegasland (Brian’s Review)
Vegasland (Nic’s Review)
Waiting for Dawn
Wild Zero
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre

Book Reviews:

Ghost
The Hollywood Historical Film

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com) and check out all the goodness in this month’s issue.

Hope you all enjoy it!