April 2005

Hopeless Bleak Despair -- Posted by BalconyDive on Thursday, April 28 2005

Stupid things I did last night: One (1): Take eight or nineish sleeping pills Two (2): Mix them with four or fiveish pain killers Three (3): Chase that with one or twoish musle relaxants. Now, I know it's no big suprise that taking all them pills is a bad thing to anyone with active braingels, but mine tend to pack up and head home around 10pm, which explains why I can still watch the same episodes of Family Guy for the 40th time and still laugh at the horrid Simpsons Ripoff with foul language. It however does not exlpain why Futurama still gets the same reaction, that's because Futurama is really fucking funny. Welshie! Timeless! Right, where was I? Uh, drugs. Drugs are bad. The improv cocktail, though it did get me a solid 7 hours of sleep, had had quite a lasting effect. I spent the entirety of Wednesday dizzy like I just got off a really really fast Merry Go Round. It's one thing to get up too fast and fall over, it's quite another to have to lean against a wall to make it to the living room. If I'm going to be in that state I may as well have had the fun of pounding some Jager minutes before. What's worst is it won't go away like I keep expecting it to. I skipped 'class' and couldn't watch either The Shield or Mythbusters, couldn't finish the WQ! Wiki entry, and watching what turned out to be a damn fine Raw took me some 4 hours because I kept almost passing out. Tonight, four sleeping pills, two painkillers. Now go look at the Pestilence Cam.

-- Posted by OtterVomit on Wednesday, April 27 2005

Blogging. I swore I would never do it. While in the past I was able to convince myself that someone, somewhere might be interested in what I thought about some particular subjects, I never convinced myself that anyone would give a damn about what went on in my life. And what's more, I'm too private of a man for such a forum. I detest sharing my life. I find it offensive, redundant, a vulgar intrusion. Especially at this point in my life, where everything is wrong. And yet I've let Balcony --who is the only other person I know who's life might even be as boring as mine--I've let him convince me to turn this hunk of storage into a blog. And really, that's fine. All this space has been doing for past year or so has been hosting images for other sites or message board signatures. Might as well put something here, I suppose. Don't expect me to post up DVD reviews or neat stories about trips to concerts though. The truth is I don't give a damn about DVD's, and since Shatner's live performances are very scarce I don't really go to any concerts. Not a single one since the Toledo Gathering as a matter of fact (2001?). And goddamn, that event was a fucking nightmare. Fucking degenerate young people make my damn skin crawl so badly, I cannot enjoy most social gatherings anymore. I am simply driven insanely jealous of youth's ability to enjoy life, while resenting the complete lack of intellect at the same time. I highly suspect the two traits are linked. Balcony get me the goddamned java comments thingamajig and I'll put it up.

Rags to rags. -- Posted by BalconyDive on Tuesday, April 26 2005

Happy Eels day everybody. I sure hope you're on your way to purchasing "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations", otherwise I can't be your friend anymore. So, I'm still trying to find my sealegs on this whole blogging thing. The complete lack of interesting things that happen to me in my wholey boring life just don't make for fun reading. I'm also trying to find a javabased comments section for OV to impliment. I know such a thing exists, it's just a matter of finding one that will work. He has to do it because I'm fairly useless at doing things...ya know...right. Plus it makes him feel useful. Now, what have I been up to as of recent? Well, the short answer is...playing with the dogs. I do believe I spend most of my time for the last few months either playing with or yelling at my dogs. You shall hear a lot about my dogs in the future, they're pretty nifty, I like them a lot. I was able to trick 'the others' into naming one of them after a hockey goalie, the other one is named for horrible disease. That about sums up my sense of humor right there. Not only does his name mean disease, but when shortened it means annoying creature. It does not get cooler than that. Yesterday was his birthday, he got a massive rawhide bone which he will not let out of his site. The other massivley productive undertakings? Making an Amazon Wish List, since my birthday is in a month. It was made specifically for family, but hey, you can feel free to buy me toys too! Yeah, still trying to get them sea legs.

I, Fanboy -- Posted by BalconyDive on Sunday, April 24 2005

I think I've spent too much time on this already. Especially considering all I've done is steal from the original official history page. I probably should have asked permission first...

Live on the internets! -- Posted by BalconyDive on Saturday, April 23 2005

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, we be back. Instead of a blank page of nothingness Otter & I have decided to go straight up blog style. So hit the bookmark button and come back often and read the rantings and ravings of two complete losers!

-- Posted by OtterVomit on Wednesday, April 20 2005

HAPPY 66th BIRTHDAY TO GEORGE "SULU" TAKEI Takei was born in Los Angeles but at 4 years of age, along with all Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII, his family was interned in an "assembly center." When the war ended the family returned to Los Angeles. In a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone, Takei played a young man hired as a handyman by a bigoted WWII veteran (Neville Brand). The episode drew so many complaints from Japanese-American organizations that it was never rerun, and wasn't released in the show's perpetual syndication. It is now available on DVD releases of the series. Takei was not involved in the first pilot for Star Trek, but in the second pilot he was cast as Hikaru Sulu, the ship's mathematician. When the series was picked up, his character was rewritten as the ship's helmsman. Twenty-five years later, in the sixth Star Trek movie, Sulu was promoted to captain of the Enterprise's sister ship, the USS Excelsior. Sulu was the first Asian character on an American television series who wasn't written and portrayed in "ah-so" stereotypes. "In the '60s we were in a war in Vietnam. On the six o'clock news you saw people who look like me wearing black pajamas, characterized as the enemy and people that we had to shoot. Except when Star Trek came on, you saw another Asian face and he was one of the good guys, one of us. So I think Sulu played a very important role in balancing the perception of Asians by the North American public." When the ship's five-year mission was ended after only three years, Takei (unlike most of his series castmates) remained relatively busy in non-Trek roles. He returned to TV often, guesting on 1970s shows like The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Hawaii Five-O, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Chico and the Man. Through the '80s, '90s, and '00s, he has appeared on everything from Trapper John MD and Diagnosis Murder to Scrubs and Brotherly Love (where he played a Star Trek fanatic who'd had his face surgically reconstructed to resemble himself). Takei has also appeared on the soap operas General Hospital and The Young & the Restless, and done voice work for Johnny Quest, Disney's Mulan, The Simpsons (where he has voiced several different characters), and, of course, the Star Trek cartoon series. In 1972, Takei was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and in 1973 he ran for the City Council in Los Angeles, and lost by just 1,647 votes. He served ten years on the Southern California Rapid Transit District as it was planning and building L.A.'s rail system. He has always been and remains politically active, especially in civil rights matters. "You never get over being detained in a internment camp. It stays with you for life. ... I can relate to how Arab-Americans must feel." Takei runs a chatty website, where he talks at length about politics and such personal topics as the death of his mother. In his autobiography, To the Stars, he wrote movingly of his family's internment, and covered all facets of his life except, curiously, romance. Takei has never married, never speaks or writes about dating, and has never been "romantically linked" to anyone. For years, there were whispers that Takei had not gotten along with Star Trek God William Shatner. Takei put those rumors to rest when he explained, "I've said a lot of bad things about Bill Shatner. I've called him arrogant, conceited, a horse's ass. But the truth of the matter is -- he's an arrogant, conceited, horse's ass! Sorry, Bill."

-- Posted by OtterVomit on Friday, April 1 2005

NO BULLSHIT APRIL FOOLS DAY SHIT ON THIS SITE. FUCK YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR STUPID ASS JOKES. LEAVE COMEDY TO PEOPLE THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, GOOD AT IT.