Shuffletrooper - Shibuya Stormtrooper: Shuffle Remix

A friend sent me the original Shibuya Stormtrooper video and I pretty much instantly arrived at this forgone conclusion. One of these days I'll actually learn enough Garageband/iMovie to make one of these in less than two hours. Thanks, Pete!

On Iconography

In a very round-about train of thought, I recalled that strict modern Islam has a tenant against depicting the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Having been at one point raised a semi-strict Jew with ludicrous regulations against eating delicious food and never letting various obscure items touch the floor, preventing a golden-calf-level faux pas of idolatry or detracting in any way from the glory of one's god seems more than reasonable.

Actually, it seems like this could have done a lot for the other faiths. I haven't heard much lately, but I'm aware that there is still quite a bit of debate over exactly how dark-skinned Jesus supposedly was. I'm not in the camp that he was black, but only because I'm not sure -1st century Israelites would have been very open to interracial marriage and the Ethiopian Jews were still isolated from the rest of their culture. I'd still believe he was a pretty swarthy guy, though. Jim Caviezel? Not really there yet. Maybe Jim Caviezel after a week in Boca. Certainly not the scrawny Aryan I see in a lot of stained glass.

And just forget Judaism straight away. If I had to guess at what Moses looked like I'd end up drawing you a picture of Charlton Heston.

Hell, "Buddha" is just a title for "enlightened one," of which Buddhism makes note of several. Siddhartha Guatama, the Guatama Buddha who kinda took the lead in the pantheon, that guy was a tall, skinny prince-turned-aesthetic. The fat little buddy on my desk is mot likely based off a Chinese monk who was fat and walked the East enlightening others.

As far as I can tell, the only faiths that seem to embrace highly detailed descriptions of their important figures are Hindu and Scientology.

All hail Tom Cruise.

Breaking News

March is Zombie Awareness Month!

So now that it's the first, we've officially entered "Zombie Awareness Month." It might also be Jewish History Month or something, but I stopped celebrating that with Sukot, so I don't really know anymore.

Anyway, I'm headed off to the Brooklyn Botanical for their annual Sakura (cherry blossom) festival. Yeah, there's more people, but I figure NYC has a better chance of being heavily armed and quickly evacuated, and what better place to be than surrounded by a bunch of modern-day, trained samurai with plenty of katana?

For the rest of you, you can brush up with my small treatise on zombies, or a classic write-up on last October's NY Comic Con presentation of The Walking Dead footage which turned out awesome.

Why You Only Go Bowling Every Few Months

Bowling Alley - n. A place where one can purchase a $6 grilled cheese sandwich and wash it down with a $7 beer while waiting between turns to do math. May also include a Time Crisis arcade game.

Fake bowling

Real bowling

May The Force Bark With You!

 

 

If we can dress out snub-nosed dogs like Ewoks, Darth Vader or Yoda, I want to know why I can't find a tiny Imperial navy uniform for a dog.

I would name him Admiral Shnozzle.

Days of the Week, As Explained by an Unemployed Writer

Monday - The day I can actually finish a New York Times crossword. Oh who am I kidding? The LA Times. Maybe. If I steal one.

Tuesday - Glee is on!

Wednesday - Spend money driving to Dad's house, but get free dinner. Draw.

Thursday - Day I used to get paid.

Friday - Friends might actually want to do something. God, I hope they don't want to go out somewhere that costs money.

Saturday - Day I actually manage to do a little work. Feel accomplished, but depressed I worked over "my weekend." End up avoiding work through Tuesday to compensate.

Sunday - WHY ARE ALL THE STORES CLOSED SO EA- Crap. Oh well, might as well go home and watch Firefly. I can be productive tomorrow….

Most abusive GIF I could find, and it'll probably still get me extra perv-views.