How Disney Managed to offend me by depicting someone like me on stage – badly
This last week, I’ve been on vacation. We were on the newest ship in the Disney cruise line, the Fantasy. I’m not going to go into too much detail about the ship aside from noting that it is a beautiful ship filled to overflowing with Mickey Mouse. I mean, if Mickey Mouse was a unit of measurement, the ship would bury the needle. At one point, I was convinced that the propellers were designed to kick up a wake that would look like Mickey Mouse. Read More…
I’ve got some more new stuff online somewhere else!
New content by/with me over at www.vilificationtennis.com!
I have a new Movie Dick article about Battleship.
Also, there’s a new Vilification Tennis Podcast up! It has Molly Glover and Jade Cook and Salsa Sterling and me. It also has Matt Allex and Nick Glover, even though they were supposed to keep their mouths shut. We also debuted our new feature: Molly Hopes you get Dick Cancer with fabulous bumpers by The Dregs.
Shit that Pissed me Off this Week – 5/18
I’m on vacation this week and next week so the column is shorter than usual. That, I imagine, is probably a good thing.
Most Psychotic Anti-Gay Person Ever
This lady’s crazy rant has been circulating the internet quite a lot in the last week.
This doesn’t piss me off. It makes me laugh but if I’m being honest with myself, it also makes me sad. This woman isn’t just anti-gay, she is completely around the bend crazy. She needs some sort of medication in the worst way. Just listen to the crazy shit she is saying. Normal people don’t talk like this. When you can make Michele Bachmann look sane, you have a very serious problem.
Update: Yep – she’s mentally ill. Her family says she is on medication (up the dosage) and that makes the attention on her all the more sad. The whole thing points up the kind of hatred that is focused on gay people. She’s mentally ill and you can’t control that but would her vitriol be focused on gays if there weren’t so many sane people doing it already.
Walt Disney World on a Dollar
My family and I are currently on vacation at Walt Disney World. We are Disney Vacation Club members and that means we come here with some frequency. I’m not going to pretend I don’t love Walt Disney World. I adore the place.
This year, we are trying to be pretty frugal. My wife had a bad fall during the one ice storm we had this winter (if I believed in bad luck – I would believe she had the worst ever) and is not working so we need to conserve funds. We brought our own food for breakfasts, we are on a strict “no souvenir” diet, etc.
Who wants to go to a Vilification Prom?
For those interested in more detail on upcoming shows, I’m showing off more art and talking a little bit about the May Vilification Tennis show – Vilification Tennis PROM NIGHT!
First, here is the poster by John Newstrom, combining elements from the horror flick Prom Night with a clown nose. Because clowns are funny. And scary. There’s also booze.
If you didn’t notice what he did with the pupils, take another look.
The Stadium Debate – Not theirs, mine
In what puts me at odds with a lot of my friends, I can’t be completely annoyed by the fact the state finally approved a new stadium for the Vikings. I’m annoyed, mind you, just not completely annoyed. As with most issues like this, I live in the grey area between “fuck yeah!” and “what the fuck?”
Shit that Pissed me Off This Week – 5/11
The Heartland Institute Goes for Broke on a New Series of Billboards
The Heartland Institute is a Climate Change Denial think tank and they just put up a series of billboards to support their point of view. Let’s see if you can tell why the campaign pisses me off:
OMG!!! He’s crazy! I don’t want to be crazy too!!!
They also have billboards planned featuring Charles Manson and Osama Bin Laden.
You know, because only crazy people believe that Climate Change is real and caused by human behavior. It is a spurious and insulting argument that has nothing to do with facts or science.
You think 97% of the world’s climate scientists are wrong? Prove it!!! Don’t waste time saying that they must be wrong because some crackpot out there believes them. It’s like saying that I shouldn’t be against the death penalty because most prisoners on death row are also against the death penalty.
Update: after extensive public outcry, they have decided to take down the billboards. They haven’t apologized for them, of course, but they took ’em down…
You can’t get enough of The Shat!
This morning, I have the completed show image for “The Complete Works of William Shatner (abridged)!” This one features Windy Bowlsby as Kirk, Duck Washington as TJ Hooker and Tim Uren as the Priceline Negotiator!
I think that the rainbow effect gives it sort of a psychedelic “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” feel – which is appropriate for Shatner. Also it looks a little bit like an unseen alien force speaking to them from above.
Podcast Logo
OK, I’m not complaining about gay marriage amendments today. Instead, I’m showing off the great new logo we have for the Vilification Tennis podcast by Manna Simula. Enjoy!
Dear North Carolina Voters
Dear Voters of North Carolina:
You blew it.
We all knew you would. Every state that has tried to constitutionalize discrimination against homosexuals has pulled it off. If California couldn’t defeat Prop 8, what hope did you have?
Now let me be clear, I’m not talking to the people who went to the polls and voted against Amendment One. I’m talking to the 61% of the public that voted to ban not only gay marriage but civil unions and domestic partnerships. You, specifically, blew it. Every one of you.
Grail Diary 