Bush? In MY Newport? _{(And Other Political Ramblings)}

Incidently we’re under a severe thunderstorm watch today. So George W. Bush, otherwise known as Dubya, Bushy, Douchebag and according to Pope John Paul II: the Antichrist… has slimed his way into my State (ain’t American freedom great? Look what I can say!) Funnily enough, it’s the first time he’s ever been here. He’s never even campaigned here.

But, he’s right to be wary of the deranged little people known as Rhode Islanders, as we wrote the book on American rebellion; we were founded as a refuge from Puritan Massachusetts, more or less, by a man who was going to be deported for being a rabble-rouser (who incidently I’m a direct descendant of), and it became the home to everyone who got kicked out of the other 12 colonies. We were the first with a concept like Seperation of Church and State, before the Constitution was ever penned. In fact we were the last to ratify the Constitution (we had high standards), until we were threatened with being treated as a foreign nation. We were the first to declare independance from England and showed how much we didn’t like them in the Gapsee Affair by attacking and burning a British ship just off our shores thus igniting the very first spark of the American Revolution (and this was a year before the Boston Tea Party, screw that pussy crap! Massachusetts wishes they were as cool as us.) We also celebrate this incident every year with a parade and festival that ends in a wooden float of the ship being sent out to sea on fire in a celebatory reenactment. We also harbored pirates and treated them like heros and legitimate businessmen. Did I mention we were often called "Rogue’s Island" in those days?

It’s something in our blood or in the water, whatever it is Rhode Island has mantained this attitude of fierce independance and rebellion. A kooky little place I’m proud to have been born in and call home.

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Comics!

Two new comics for your viewing pleasure! Both are loosely related to my rant about Creationism and feature characters from my own religion/angel-themed comic that I’m developing and do lots of silly asides about in the meantime. Huzzah!

Video Game Addiction?

A Mysterious Midget brought this to my attention. So some bitch from Texas thinks video games should be considered a serious addiction just because of her own failure as a parent. Now this is really unfair: they’re only talking about online games here but are trying to apply it to all video games. I’ll admit: some people can get very addicted to online games (personally, I find them boring). But is it the nature of the game that does it? Perhaps, but unlikely. Is it the game producer’s fault? Hell no. If someone has locked themselves in a room to delve into a fantasy land that screams that there is a much more serious underlying problem. Ever think that maybe these people are just, I dunno, depressed?

But of course no one takes personal responsibility anymore. We’re apparently just easily manipulated by outside sources, so much so that the slightest influence of one of these devious forms of entertainment can control us completely. It can’t possibly be that you’re a weak-minded idiot or that you’re a bad mother.

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How Beautiful is Rhode Island?

Today mom wanted to go out and take photos, and I decided to tag along. She got to use the big fancy camera and I only had the little Nikon Coolpix, but it gets the job done. So we went down to Galilee… yes there’s a place here called Galilee, it’s right across from Jerusalem. I’m not making this up! Anyway, we went to Galilee to sit down by the rocks and watch the boats, we also walked around by the docks and looked at the various fishing vessels. Ah I always love the smell of fish, and lobster and bait, and of course the salt water. Rhode Island’s really a beautiful place, and today I’ve uploaded a small slice of it. I might upload more photos from today, as well as some other photos I’ve had laying around, in the next couple of days.

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Anime Fanservice

Warning! Some oversensitive readers may find this post naughty.

Since you geeks repsond more to ANIME TALK than POLITICS here’s another anime rant. Sorta. Oh fanservice, where would anime be without it? Well, it’d probably be alot better actually. What is fanservice you ask? You know: a flash of white panties, girls tripping and landing on boys (sometimes other girls) in provocative positions, maybe a boob or two, and fanboys eat this up despite the fact there’s a whole industry of hardcore anime tentacle porn out there they could be fapping to.

And where basement dwelling otaku with shelves full of x-rated statuettes may like fanservice, I for one have trouble taking any show with an abundance of it very seriously (unless it’s an outrageously silly and genuinely funny comedy, then I let it slide. I still love you Maho Tsukai Tai and Project A-ko!) Like most people, for example, I was told for years that Neon Genesis Evangelion was TEH BEST ANIME EVARZ. I had seen the first two episodes years before and it bored me to death, but when it finally aired on Adult Swim I decided to finally watch it all. For an anime that was supposed to be top-quality, philosophical, religiously controversial, a paradigm of creative and symbolically deep anime… it sure had alot of stupid, mindless fanservice. The second I saw a scene in which a 14 year old girl’s skirt is blown unnaturally up above her navel so that she flashes a group of teenaged boys I had a feeling I wasn’t going to like this anime (the first 14 or 15 episodes were all goofy as fuck too. Jesus! .. okay Eva is a rant for another day.) It even PROMISED FANSERVICE in each preview for the next episode! I’ll venture to guess the 14 year old girls in skin-tight bodysuits is the only thing that’s kept that series popular for 11 years.

So by now you might be wondering: what on Earth has gotten Sai on this rant? Well read on (unless you don’t want your parents to see you looking at pantyshot pics.)

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