The whack job at immediate left is a has-been TV star from the first all digital animation, 30 minute Saturday morning cartoon show.  'ReBoot' first aired in 1994 and she played the evil 'virus' named Hexidecimal.  I rescued her ass when the show folded and she's been living on my desk ever since.  Time to put her back to work.

I offered her the role of site mascot and she told me to go do something nasty.  I always figured playing the anti-Christ computer virus-villain was not much of a a stretch for the bitch.  Hmmm.  Maybe we'll have some fun.  Especially since I later caught her messin' with my Jameson.

Yo!  What's up?  Feelin' beat up?  Are ya down?  Well, here ya go, bunky!  The cure, the fix, the what you need - I offer this play list as the remedy.  But you gotta play it fuggin' loud - window shattering, break the neighbors chops loud - and all the world's weight on your feeble shoulders will just float away.

Of course, a few brewskis before hand ain't gonna do nothin' but help.  And don't be hasslin' me about how it kicks off goddammit, it works...

  Perfect Day by Hoku  Muddy Jesus by Ian Moore  No Not Again by the Tubes
  The Hell Song by Sum 41  Run to You by Brian Adams  Mr. Brightside by the Killers
  Notorious by Loverboy  Goodbye to You by Scandal  The Warrior by Scandal
  Adam's Song by blink-182  Something About You by Boston  Obsession by Animotion
  Panama by Van Halen  Potential Breakup Song by Aly and Aj
  Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance  Paper and Fire by John Mellencamp
  Somebody Told Me by the Killers  Out in the Cold by Tom Petty

So there ya go.  Don't say I never done nothin' for ya.  Rock on, mofo.  Rock on.

While it doesn't appear that a whole lot of changes were made, this update has been on my test box in one form or another for about six months.  Content is a bitch in more ways than one - the longer you put the update off, the more guilt drives you to up the percentage of content that has to be changed or replaced.

Did not yet add any galleries to either the photo or art sections, but totally replaced the IOTB library.  My intent is to stay on this, but all two of you have heard that before.

Hmmm.  So much to bitch, moan, and whine about, so little time.  The bought and paid for drivel from the big 24x7 "news" mongers has me so freakin' depressed.  With my contempt for government at every level at a new time high, and expectations for our future so low, where to start?  Let's keep it simple.

The "leaders" - and I use that term in jest - are self-serving, corrupt, arrogant sons of bitches.  I see all their efforts designed to keep themselves in power more than to do what needs to be done.  With their moral compass long gone, and their comfort in the sureness of their own superiority that deserves them to royalty status, they rule over the rest of us knowing we're incapable of rational thought, and need to be tended to and herded (fear being their driver of choice).

We, the unwashed, have some part in the brewing of this mess, which in my opinion has reached the point beyond repair.  In the "good years" previous, with two income homes and the disintegration of family life that it bred, our own moral compass was disturbed, a fact our culture reflects back to us non-stop via so called entertainment and a pathetic, broken news machine.  We stopped partipating in the democracy thereby letting the aristocracy's powerhold strengthen to its current all controlling state.

So my plan going forward is to forget the future, it's already written, and live for today.  Whatever is stockpiled away won't be worth squat when I'm standing in that weekly line for my bag of feed.  Screw the ant.  Long live the grasshopper.