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Is it really that important to always know what’s “trending?”

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Since I’m such a man of the times, I’m currently on book five of Game of Thrones: Song of Ice and Fire.  Unlike a lot of epic literary series, I’ve actually enjoyed GoT in written form a great deal, and I look forward to completing book five, and subsequently be like all other GoT novella fans, and (im)patiently await the sixth.

On that note, it goes without saying that I am very much behind in the television series, as it moves at light speed on screen in comparison to the pace of the novels.  I’ve just finished watching the second season of the show, and upon hearing news not too far ago about how things in season five of the television series will spoil plot points for what lies ahead in the not-yet-released book six, I can say that I will probably not watch any of season five, if I can help it.

Yes, I am one of those snobs, who always plays the game of comparisons between book and screen.  This should not be one iota of surprise to anyone.

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The world is an obviously vapid place

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At times, I clearly live under a rock.  And/or, I don’t watch enough daytime television or something.  But recently, I began hearing about the phrase “dad bod,” and suddenly I can’t stop hearing about dad bods.

Long story short is that I think it’s stupid, I hope it goes away quickly, and that it absolutely affirms society’s vapid obsession with the physical.  It’s a clear double-standard, because it basically says that it’s okay for men to be fat lazy fucks, but women are pressured to become as hot as they can if they want any chance of success in the world.

Frankly, I could blather on for 500 words or more on the topic, but Jon Stewart and Kristen Schaal hit the nail on the head pretty succinctly on their own, and I see no need for it.

My bottom line is that I may be closer to a dad bod than not, but if it were up to me, I’d be closer to getting away from a dad bod than letting go of all restraint and dedication to physical fitness and ending up with one, just to be a flavor of the month.  This shit is frankly kind of insulting to men, and I can’t say I’d have any respect for others who voluntarily try to feed the machine and take part in this bullshit trend.

That’s racissssst

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Hard hitting journalism all across the interwebs today.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asks: Is “thug” a racial slur?

According to Mirriam-Webster:

a violent criminal

So the answer is no.  Stop and period.  Stop being so racist AJC, and trying to inject the race card into a deck of UNO cards.  It’s just not going to work, no matter how much rhetoric you spout.

In Milliken, Colorado, a Hispanic restaurant has decided that they will acknowledge June 11th as “White Appreciation Day.”  All, and only white customers, will enjoy a discount on their orders.

“We have a whole month for Black History Month,” Antillon said. “We have a whole month for Hispanic Heritage Month, so we thought the least we could do was offer one day to appreciate white Americans.”

So there’s basically black awareness, Hispanic awareness, and now white awareness.  Where the fuck is Asian awareness?  According to Wikipedia, that’s supposed to be May, but the United States sure as shit doesn’t put any effort in tryna make this knowledge remotely public.

I’m pretty sure I can’t march into any businesses and inquire about Asian Heritage Month discounts, and actually expect to get any.  Unless it’s like at a weeaboo place or something, but still.

Whatever.  Errybody be racist.

Happy Asian Heritage Month, motherfuckers

I love it when people not from Atlanta try to write about Atlanta

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Impetus: Movoto.com lists the ten most affordable “Atlanta” suburbs, “just outside of” Atlanta city limits.  Uses absolutely nothing but area population and median cost of living as criteria for list.

For the record, the author of this particular post resides in San Francisco, California.  I would bet money that the author of this has never been to Atlanta, save for the high likelihood of having had a layover at Hartsfield Airport.

The following is the list of affordable suburbs, allegedly just outside of Atlanta:

  1. Morrow
  2. Locust Grove
  3. Conley
  4. Barnesville
  5. Centerville (tie)
  6. Irondale (tie)
  7. Forest Park
  8. Thomaston
  9. Redan
  10. Panthersville

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I have never wanted to Clothesline From Hell someone so badly in my life

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Long story short: racial activists barge into busy brunch establishments on a Sunday morning to flash mob protest over the shooting of a black man by local police.

I’ll be honest, this wouldn’t have gotten under my skin if one of the places that were hit up wasn’t a place that I’d recently discovered for myself, enjoyed immensely, and would gladly go back in the future for weekend breakfast.

But it’s shit like this that absolutely baffles me, and wonders if the people who do this kind of protesting are even aware of the people that they’re protesting for?  Are they even aware of the hypocrisy they’re also perpetuating concurrently?

Case in point, this group that protested at all these restaurants this past weekend, they’re protesting over the fact that a black man was shot and killed just days earlier.  Basically declaring the incident as solely an act based on skin color, and that naturally, “black lives matter.”

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Is there no concern for dying Geth??

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Well, that didn’t take long: Starbucks decides to stop writing “Race to Geth ER” on cups, in light of monumental criticism towards a cavalier attitude and alleged attempt to profit behind the guise of racism awareness.

The best part is that Starbucks claims that the decision to having their baristas stopping writing Race to Geth ER on cups when it did was all part of some elaborate plan.  Right.  And the hundreds and thousands of snarky sarcastic tweets and posts on social media had nothing to do with it.

Either way, such is the nature of modern society: company launches initiative with good intentions, is immediately met with skepticism, resulting in all the people who feel the compulsion to exercise their voice on the global spam platform AKA Twitter to slander instead of support said good intentions, thousands of sheep join the global smear platform, and then company is subsequently forced to scrap initiative and go back to the drawing board.

However, racism is a pretty daunting subject to go after, even if it’s spearheaded by a company as powerful and global as Starbucks.  Maybe they should’ve set their sights on something slightly less challenging, like perhaps, raising awareness of the importance of flushing the toilet.  From a comfort as well as a sanitary standpoint, I think more people need to be made aware that there are far too many people out there that are neglecting to flush the toilet.

#flushtogether #starbucks

Blogging will never die, as long as I can help it

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Impetus: A well-known blogger decides to call it quits, Mashable deems such an appropriate occasion to write a requiem for the practice of blogging as a whole.

Much like billions of people don’t know who I am, or have ever visited my URL, I have no idea who Andrew Sullivan is, nor can I say that I’ve ever read the Daily Dish.  However, I do know that in spite of putting up quite a good fight for roughly about as long as I’ve been writing stuff and posting it to the internet under my own one-man operation, Andrew Sullivan is, like millions of would-be bloggers in front of him, another quitter.

Chalk the Daily Dish up as another blog that will have the plug pulled from it, to sit dormant and collect dust until the registration on the domain is eventually forgotten, un-renewed, and transforms into a link re-direct site by an entity with the wherewithal to try and capitalize on the negligent mistake URL search.

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