Written by Rook Tuesday, 20 July 2010 12:00
A TUESDAY BLOG? WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?
Well, basically because I'm still getting into the SWANG OF THANG with work, and I need to spend more time working on building up more articles so I can generate more ad revenue, you guys are going to have to deal with an erratic schedule. So if you don't follow me on twitter or facebook, now might be the time to jump on it.
That being said, lets take a brief moment to discuss what is wrong with the world today. Yes kids, that's right. I'm doing a ranting entry.
Now, I'm a day or two late to the party, I know. But maybe some of you haven't heard of Jessi Slaughter.
Who is this young lady, you may ask? Well, there's a large and well written Encyclopedia Dramatica article on Jessi Slaughter. And a news article 60,000,000 news articles about her story. And Gawker even wrote an article called How the Internet Beat Up an Eleven Year Old Girl.
But if you just want to hear it here:
Jessi Slaughter is like a lot of eleven year olds today. Far too big for her britches. She's got a horrible foul mouth, and fancies herself something of a great video blogger. She ran her mouth on Tumblr a lot. Oh, and she posted a picture of her in her panties holding her naked breasts in her hands in a parody of censorship.
And the hive-mind of Tumblr didn't respond well. And became her "haters."
So she made this video.
Take a moment to watch that.
Yes, she actually says she will "pop a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushie." Yes, she tells people to "Get AIDS and die, suck a dick and die."
Bits of her Tumblr (unfortunately wiped at midnight from Google Cache, it was hilariously bad, though) include phrases like "I party till I pass out and fuck till I bleed."
Did I mention she's eleven? (The rest of her story as well as the video of her infamous "breakdown" are behind the cut)
Written by Rook Friday, 16 July 2010 10:19
Ahhh Friday. Yes, I am fully aware I missed Wednesday. However, this week was steeped in chaos, to be perfectly honest. Sanct had spent twelve days in Texas and finally returned home on Tuesday. I received job training on Sunday, which meant that work was really piled on and I wanted to beat all my deadlines early, so this included writing a very large amount of articles in a very small amount of time, checking other peoples articles, and practically shitting my pants at how productive I was being under a deadline like that. And then of course the BFFL (best friend for life) had three days off from work, so I spent several hours a day with her because she lives about 80 miles away from me, and while we do see each other at least once a month, it's still not nearly often enough.
So I apologize for the blog taking a bit of a backseat these days. But lets face it. A Fork in the Socket makes me about uhhhh 20 dollars a year. Bright Hub makes me 20 dollars in two hours, maybe less. I wish I could say that it shouldn't boil down to "WELP MONEY KIDS!!!" but really right now?
WELP. MONEY, KIDS!!
BESIDES You also got a 2200+ word blog on Monday, and that basically blew my creative load for a while.
Written by Rook Monday, 12 July 2010 00:00
Ahhh, the Monday blog. The start of a new week blog! The blog that was written on Friday night, by the way, and for all intentions purposes, I will probably be saying "tonight" instead of "Friday night." Just don't get confused.
Also this blog ended up being over 2000 words, so the topics are labeled. Feel free to CTRL+F to whatever section you would like if you don't want to read 2000 words.
GIVEAWAY.
WEATHER.
SILLYBANDZ.
FLIPFLAP.
FOOD.
BOOZE.
GIVEAWAY.
Friend over at Marissa's Bunny is hosting another great Giveaway! This time you can win Toy Soldiers by Signal Studios. If you win, you'll win the code for the game and the DLC, so you need to check this blog to see how you can enter!
WEATHER.
So it rained today. A lot. About 20 minutes after I had posted the /actual/ Friday blog, it ended up being super rainy. which is good. We needed it. It rained from 12:00pm-1:00pm, took a bit of a hiatus so I cold take my dogs out, and then started back up from 3:30pm-7:00pm. It dropped the temperature quite a bit, and finally the shoebox is LIVABLE AGAIN! God it is a good day when you can sit in your apartment and not sweat your balls (or not balls) off.
It's about 8:50pm on Friday here as I type this. The rain has given up for now, but rest assured: We're supposed to get hammered overnight. Joy upon joys!
This blog is actually going to be used to spotlight a few different things this time around. A few things I'd picked up on my own, as well as a few things that I had received from a close friend and kickass web master.
SILLYBANDZ.
Lois, my Uncle Dan's girlfriend (and my very close friend, I might add), had shown me SillyBandz whenever they had came up last time. Basically, they're a little silicon rubber sort of dealy that you wear around your wrist. When you wear them, they mostly just look like those little rubber bracelets that were popular in the 80s, and then a few years back. You know, the ones that everyone got mad about because they made kids have sexual intercourse or other sexual acts according to the color of the band. I'm sorry, but if you're fifteen and sixteen years old, you're basically looking for an excuse to have sex, and I highly doubt that any sixteen year old girl who let a pawing sixteen year old boy into her panties REALLY only did it because of some dumb bracelet game. Fact: Stop being a shitty parent and blaming it on stupid trends.
Where was I? Oh. Right. Sillybandz.
They look kinda like those thin rubber ring bracelets, except instead of being straight, they're squiggly and weird. I originally just though they were...well...squiggly. And weird. However, when Lois took hers off to show me it (and asked why I hadn't blogged about them yet, I may add) it sprung into the shape of a guy riding a bull or a horse or something. They're very basic silhouette shapes, but still pretty cool in general. Here's what mine look like on-wrist:
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About Rook
My name is Rook, and I'm the sole writer for A Fork in the Socket (aFitS) - my personal blog. I'm a pretend writer, I'm a full-fledged twitter addict, and above all I'm a die-hard geek. You can find out more about me right here.