And another productive day in the books.

[silveradept]

Made money today. Need to find alternate sources of funding soon, though. Also read some manga today. Yotsubato looks like it's going to be madcap. More of Chrono Crusade read as well. Tomorrow, perhaps, I see a movie. Maybe after that, I'll see another, since the previews for Batman Begins actually make it look like a movie worth seeing (Unlike War of the Worlds - sorry, I read the book. Characterizations are already way off). This depends on what funds I garner and/or spend for the next week or two.

I did draw today, but none of the stuff that I drew will be making it to the site - it's all copy-drawing and done just as an experiment. I seem to be having trouble capturing facial expressions right sometimes. Although I was rather impressed that I didn't bite things hardcore when trying to sketch out a relatively complicated scene in about ten minutes. There were screwups, mostly in arms and hands (claws, really), but considering how I was on time, it turned out okay.

Digital photography is wonderful technology. It's getting to the point where film developers are refusing to develop pictures because they fear they might be copyrighted by people other than the person who's asking for processing.

And I fear that saying this will plant me firmly in the crosshairs of most conservatives from here on out (after all, "liberal" is a tag that haunts you forever), but... Bill O'Reily is a whiner. His ten-year-old mindset when it comes to politics made it very difficult, but very amusing, to watch him make a tirade out of very little, indeed. I watched about thirty seconds of his show as I was waiting for another to come back, and they were discussing the Texas "sexy cheerleaders" law, and he badgered until he got his way, all while trying to disguise it as "being fair". This must be why I don't watch Faux News. Actually, I don't watch a lot of news anymore. If it's important, it'll get to me. Somehow.

But there, I've admitted it. As much as I've tried hard to be neutral, I guess I have to admit it - I'm a liberal because I think Bill O'Reily, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney are chowderheads and infant-brains. Perhaps in a few years, when I'm older, they'll let me back in to being a centrist, but for now, I'm out in left field - may as well enjoy it. See you all tomorrow from the Left. I assume that my copy of the Homosexual Agenda (and any others that I've been subscribed to) will be in my mailbox tomorrow.

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

The problem wiht trying to be centered is that the guys on the right are so far right that even just being a little on the right makes you like your far to the left. We need some truly insane lefties to get attention just to remind people where the center is

[silveradept]

I know - we've been needing the European Left to come over here and slap some sense into ours and show that what being a member of the Left really is like, so that they can either decide to start behaving like it or rename themselves.

On the subject of Bush and being liberal...

[hauntermooneyes.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's very hard not to admit that they are chowderheads and infant-brains, ne? Because they are. ^-^

I don't know how left I am, but I can tell you this much: I think Bush and his Minions (Cheney and O'Reily, respectively) are idiots. Their brains, IMO, are one-celled and reserved primarily for bodily functions. I very much support same-sex marriage (partly because I AM homosexual, partly because preventing anyone from marrying someone they love is cruel. Marriage is one of the best ways that you can show you lvoe someone--it's stating that you want to spend the rest of your life with that person. 'Till death do we part,' after all). I think that this mundane war we have was--and still is--a bad idea. We have not helped Iraq very much. We have brought devastation to a country that was already ruled by a dictator. Why, I ask you, did we go and blow up a place we're trying to 'save?'

I don't, however, really have that much of a view on a lot of the other controversies. For instance, abortion. It is the woman's choice to abort her child, and while I doubt I would support that choice if someone told me they were going to do it, I would not hold it against said woman--nor would I degrade her for it.

Either way--welcome to Liberality. XD

Re: On the subject of Bush and being liberal...

[silveradept]

Somewhere buried in my journal are my thoughts about the institution of marriage, the wars on Iraq, the matter of reproductive choice and all that. If you look at it, I'm probably in agreement with most true Lefties. So I suppose I've always been a closet Liberal, trying hard to appear like a moderate just so that I don't get howling masses at my door.

Re: On the subject of Bush and being liberal...

[hauntermooneyes.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the howling masses will be there any moment now.

One moment, I have to go beat mine back with a large, spiky staff...

Re: On the subject of Bush and being liberal...

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

The problem is, you are moderate. You're not claiming that the state must be dismanteled and distributed to the people.(not loudly anyway) You're not screeching that there should be NO intellectual rights or that logging is destroying the world or anything.

That's what I mean, the looney's are so far right that someone who is maybe just a little left of center looks to be in Lefty lala land.

Re: On the subject of Bush and being liberal...

[silveradept]

True. Of course, there is something to be said about not really wasting one's breath. I might be farther Left than the moderate position... if I thought that there would be an audience receptive to those kinds of ideas. That climate does not exist and is actively being shot at.

*shakes head in disgust at the Conservatives

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

I was conservative once, then moderate. At this point in time, even moderate is being pulled at by the conservatives to the point of making them psudo-rights. I've gotten very sick and tired of this bullshit and agree with all of you at the above points. Another showing is what was shown on the latest Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart about the Schiavo case.

They did the autopsy on Terrie, found out that yes the husband was right and she WAS in a vegetative state with no possibility of recuperation to any semblance of normality. He then showed Sen. Bill Frist, the Right's unofficial doctor speak on the Floor of the Senate about how after watching an hour of footage from the family of Terrie he agreed that she wasn't vegetative. After the reveal from the autopsy, he was interviewed and he basically said that he never called her vegetative!

I think we can all agree that the Bush Admin are living in their own little world secluded from the rest of us and considering anything else done out in the real world as unimportant short of bolstering their fucked up view.

I'm a liberal and damn proud of it at this point. I admit that I did a disservice to my country by voting for his ass in 2000 and tried to rectify it by voting for Kerry in 2004 but I still have this stench on me of "Why the Hell did I vote for his ass in 2000?"

Re: *shakes head in disgust at the Conservatives

[silveradept]

No, no, the Bush Administration even admits to living in their own reality. They then turn around and inflict that reality on us, and get annoyed when they find out that we're not sharing the same filters they are.

I read about the "she's not vegetative / No, I didn't say that!" bit. The Ministry of Truth approves.

As for voting, well, isn't it "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me?"

Side Thought - Your Drawring Skillz

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

If you need some more help in drawrings - go here for some ideas:

http://forums.kyhm.com/viewtopic.php?t=7775

Re: Side Thought - Your Drawring Skillz

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

I would join that forum to tell these people about WetCanvas, but I don't think I will bother.

It is the best artist's community/teaching forum/repository of pictures that you can actually draw/paint from. Definitely the answer they're looking for.

[tinchen.livejournal.com]

I'd really liked to hear the original play of War of the worlds that was aired on the radio and caused so much panik.
So far I only read the first episode of Chrno Crusade but it was great fun!

Where exactly are you sketches located?

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

I can provide you with a copy of the show.

[tinchen.livejournal.com]

You sound like a dealer. A literature dealer, handing me my fix...

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Ah my little pop-culutre junkie, always needing another hit.

You understand of course that the Radio Show has some significant differences from the actual story right? The storuy takes place in 1890's England while the Radio program takes place in 1930's New York. There are other differences as well.

[tinchen.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if the 1930s version of WOTW is pop-culture *g*
However since you already gave my Prattchett stuff and all that.

I'm really addicted I fear.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm certian it is. It might be historical pop, but it's pop culture alright. What I should be more concerned about really is that I'm rapidly turning into a distribution center for audio books and radio shows.

[silveradept]

Now we're straying into Farenheit 451. Another book that I haven't read and should.

[silveradept]

Well, that shows how good I've been at hiding them. The URL's been in a few of the last posts, but here it is again.

http://www.geocities.com/volinar/drawings/index.html

[neoboy3000.livejournal.com]

i have my doubts about the WotW movie, particularly if it will retain the original ending or not (al knows what it is ^_^). but as a fun, summer blockbuster movie, it looks decent. if i have some extra cash (which loks unlikely, since other things take priority) perhaps i'll go.

as to the liberal thing, yeah, i'm on that page, too. but i hate political labels, so i call it "those guys are douche-bags" (meaning the prez and his crew), and i believe in what i belive in, which is being as damn decent a human being as i can (which apparently is called 'left' or 'liberal' ^_^). anyway, i just dont like politics to begin with...what ever happened to getting along? labeling everybody, calling names and the like...it just drives me nuts sometimes...but, be proud of who you are. *nods* yeah, that's all i can really say, because who's opinion of yourself counts more, yours or the media's? *bows* thank you. *walks off stage*

[silveradept]

The original ending might be intact, but I suspect they're going to play it up as "heroice persons fighting Martians get lucky" rather than "panicked s**tless people get their asses saved". There's room for interpretation, but this looks like butchery.

Oh, don't get me wrong - I forge my own political path. It's just, normally, I can stay label-less because I'll at least listen to a chowederhead before discarding him. This is the first time in a while where I'm just dismissing someone out-of-hand. A lot of people have got to that point for me, now. And so I think I get the label because now I'm saying that some people aren't really worth listening to, rather than some ideas aren't really worth listening to. So depending on which people I exclude, I earn my label.