Apr 30, 2006

yea, you should take it too! (Sofie's rainy day rant)

Okay, you know I am not one for feminism, because I hate women just as much as I hate men. But I've been hatin' on men more recently due to a pussy-ass douche being.... well.... a pussy-ass douche to me, so I will say, "It's about fucking time that those assholes do some fucking work."

The article says it a little more eloquently than I do.

Warning: tangent eminent.

I've been tracking and discussing this medical advancement for some time with my students. Unfortunately, they ain't hearin' it because there is a race going for the boys to get as many girls pregnant as they can before graduation. I think the race is unfair, because many are on the 6-year plan, or may never graduate at all, and therefore can be in the running for decades!

Right now I have 4 pregnant girls, all 16 and under. I had to counsel one recently because she said she wouldn't breastfeed because "it's gross." I replied with, "I bet you let the boy that got you pregnant suck on 'em." Was that inappropriate? Whatever, I'm blunt; that's why I'm on the Bluntest. I went on to explain the benefits of breastfeeding versus the detriments of formula-feeding. I think I managed to change her mind in the end, which is what's important.

This leads me to tell you about the growth rate chart, and how doctors finally just now are realizing that they need to revamp it because it's primarily based on formula-fed children, who are inherently bigger and fatter than breastfed children. So for the last couple decades, breastfeeders have been told that their children are too small and need to be fed more. What a tangled web of deceit we weave........

BTW: Teflon is being sued by 15 states, claiming that the company covered up the harmful effects of perfluorooctanoic acid, which is released when you heat a pan to about the temperature needed to fry and egg. Again, something I've known about for years because it's been documented in killing pet birds.

Oh, and my last post was the 666th for the Bluntest. heehee.

Apr 29, 2006

takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'

Top on my list of rockers that should have died years ago.....

.....but didn't because he still caters to the child within. He's still cool.

Apr 28, 2006

I love it when science explains me

I knew it all along.

So I am doing some cool and explosive chemistry experiments outside my school today. If your around, come on by. We're in the courtyard. If I'm not there, wait, I'll be down soon. I'll be out there until 2pm or so. You can also call me on my cell.

This caught my attention because it has "Bulgaria" in the title, but then as I read on I was impressed with the method in which the attempted murder occurred. Instead of just telling you what happened, I will give you a link to read on....

I am moving this weekend. Feel free to volunteer your services if you are available Sunday afternoon or evening. Once I'm in, I could also use some hands in moving furniture about the place during the rest of the week. I have the arm muscles of a chicken and a bum knee, so any help is much appreciated.

Have a good weekend folks!

New News News

Not important news. But it just shows that the battle for the remote reaches the highest levels of politics. Literally.

Apr 26, 2006

people

sorry fo not postin ... been busy and not in front of computers for the past few days ... which has been delicious ......

anyway, heres some chicago stuff, cause thats what im feelin ....

a collection of underground comic artists ... i like (chicagoan) jeffrey browns stuff alot ... i first heard of him through (surprise) this american life ... go to "sunday services" for a bunch of stuff to look at

huge collection of old school chicago photos courtesty of the historical society ... the photo viewer application is equally impressive ...

jus picked up a collection of his works ... probably why im on this tip

ok, goin back outside cause its nice ...

konichiwa bitches

Apr 23, 2006

big pimpin'

So I wanna be a pimp. I figure since I have the summer free, pick up some hoes and some extra endz.

ye olde pimp institute
, with Icebreaker G, the Flaming Red Pirate

Bogardus- Here's some video of my favorite muppet, Pepe the King Prawn, in his audition for Long John Silver's.

and sticking with the pirate theme, here are some pirate riddles.

leaving the pirate theme, Cambodian Zombies!!!!!
.... more to come.

What the Fuck is Gonzo?

Do you have a question about the Muppets that keeps you awake at night?

Rest easy.

Muppet Wiki

Apr 21, 2006

Teh Bluntest suxor!!11!

ZOMG!!! U guys r so ghey!

OWNED!

that new job smell

hey everyone, i got a new job

working for these people

booya ...

also this

Apr 19, 2006

murder of jazz

former producer of this american life (who ive referenced more then once on this blog) and current chicago public radio president tory malatia recently announced this

fuck you tory

dumbass name anyway

(thats mean, i know, but whatta weak move)

and

this from the lovely surjeet

Apr 18, 2006

420

posting for der pimp

rest easy citizen ... feds have ninja problem under control ... story originally from website requiring login ... rehosted on thedrastics.com for your viewing pleasure ....

photo of the event

all content copyright 2006 the scarlet pimpernel

why would you do that ?

like we need more proof that he is some kind of psychotic alien ...

something for everyone part deux

hopefully this trailer will please you all.....

.....and this one will make you giggle like a little japanese school girl, like I did.

Apr 17, 2006

Apr 15, 2006

Apr 14, 2006

just me myself and I

I'm all alone here on the bluntest today. I shall reign blunt supreme! (mmm. a blunt supreme. would that be like, with sour cream and guacamole?) Okay, I'll stop. Here's what I've got:

The dullest blog in the world

The ghettoest essay in the world

Your daily dose of Ninja

aaaaaaaaaaaaah!

They're 'watching' us......

Apr 13, 2006

no posts

sorry gang ... been busy helpin to train some fools on how to use a web content managment system ... yeah, its as fun as it sounds ... but its been the last 2 afternoos ... im actually sittin in one right now staring blankly at computer screens and wondering why i even have to sit here in the first place as i do minimal assistance and just a whole lot of spacing out .... good times ... goin to a second interview for a job i really want after this ... we shall see .......

DRASTICS AT THE REVERSIBLE EYE TONITE!
8:30pm ... 1103 n california ... booooya ... art gallerys get dubbed

I learned it from watching Mario!

New study finds that if you play video games, you might like marijuana

a pic from my classroom window.



this is what I look at on a school morning. Isn't it luuuvely?

Disney, Nazis, and Venereal Disease

I had forgotten about these... might be old to you too. Either way, my students have to see these.

Disney makes VD seem so cuddly


fruity cartoon nazis

Apr 12, 2006

How much.....

... is inside? This site is way too rad.

Sound Wave

My favorite Transformer breaks it down

yeah ....

from the same people you got yer image from bogardus

Not so cute

Still Legos, but kind of awful

I love legos

How cute!

hey! yer the one that said ...

youd have more free time at work since we are now both brothers in web wankery ...



so, because i do feel a little bad, i generated an apology note for you bogardus ...

From:driznastic
To:bogardus
Subject:"I truly apologize..."

Dear, My Vegaterrorist Significant Other,

I feel horrible for neglecting to be sensitive to your mood. I was really out there
and thought I could cheer you up by being funny.

So I'm on the phone with Suicide Hotline, hoping you don't make me wear The Outfit. Please, let's withhold judgment.
My grandma can accept me, why can't you?

Love,
Mr. Lucky

make yer own here

I'm busy, dammit!

I just started a new job. Get off my back, Driz.

I want to outpost driznastic

Patriotic posters

Another quicktime video. I don't know what it is, buts it's damn cool.

launch attack

this is made out of eggs ... EGGS ! (no word if they were hard boiled first)

passover fun!

trailer for bjorks new flick ... drawing restraint 9 ... sculptures of vaseline on japanese cargo ships ... bjork, i love you ...

sofie posted some big ass bunnies the other day, so heres some big ass rat

engrish.com shirt

spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaceCAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!

why sex ed is necessary

my circadian rhythm is all out of wack

Spring break rules....I was mistaken about what day of the week it is.

Check out this quicktime video of a nutrigrain commercial. totally absurd.

Some strange products from Japan.

I took some drugs last night and now I'm all groggy and neanderthalish. It lead me to a little Ali G.

Ah, here comes the sun. Won't you stay a while?

News from the North

Now what are they to do when the sun doesn't come out for all those months?

This one is for Driznastic

Apr 11, 2006

I love Dictionaries

So I was having fun with merriam-webster.com and how it has an audible function to hear how a word is pronounced. I was looking up dirty words. After following some links I came to here. Check out two things: a) the etymology (the last part in particular) b)the ads by google at the bottom.

bogardus is officialy TEH suck

i didnt read the whole thing, but i think it says something like "fark is teh suck, and losers that spend all their time there instead of posting to unique blogs with their friends that they started are even more teh suck and like to eat kittens" ... i think .... could have misread part of it ...

Emory Bogardus and The Bogardus Social Distance Scale

Emory Bogardus (1882-1973) was one of many prolific American sociologists of the first half of the 20th century. Known best for his development of the concept of "social distance," Bogardus founded and was Chair of the University of Southern California (USC) Sociology Department for thirty-one years (1915-1946). He also founded and was the first Dean of the USC School of Social Work. He trained more than one hundred PhD and MA students and conducted or directed a remarkable output of research into ethnic communities in Los Angeles from 1911 through the 1960s. He was also the founder and editor of Sociology and Social Research, a journal featuring the work of nearly all the leading American sociologists of the twentieth century. [5] The author of Sociology (sixth edition 1937); Fundamentals of Social Psychology (4th edition 1950); History of Social Thought (fourth edition 1960); Contemporary Sociology (1931); Leaders and Leadership (1934); Essentials of Americanization (third edition 1923); Immigration and Race Attitudes (1928); The Mexican in the United States (1934); Introduction to Social Research (1936), Social Distance (1959), and literally hundreds of articles, Bogardus was a prolific but not a deep thinker. A 1937 celebration in his honor brought messages of respect from around the world, but these were decidedly reserved. Burgess praised him primarily for editing Sociology and Social Research; E.A. Ross said that Bogardus’s work "is never ‘fuzzy’ or ‘fogged’"; and Florian Znaniecki, writing from the University of Poznan, Poland, pledged that despite the "physical distance" which kept him from attending the dinner in Los Angeles, he felt no "social distance" from Dr. Bogardus. None of these authors suggested that Bogardus had contributed anything to sociology except the social distance scale.

The most significant of Bogardus’ research was that on race relations, proceeding from his role as the regional director of the Pacific Coast Race Relations Survey, directed by Robert Park in the early 1920s. As we have seen, Park clearly suggested the idea of actually measuring social distance to Bogardus, a debt which Bogardus was always careful to acknowledge (Bogardus 1959, 1967). Bogardus devised a set of seven questions intended to "reduce rationalizing...as much as possible" (1959: 30). The Bogardus Social Distance Scale in its original and 1933 revision are displayed in Table 1.

Bogardus 1925

"Would willingly admit members of each race..."
Bogardus 1933-66
1 To close kinship by marriage Would marry
2 To my club as personal chumsWould have as regular friends
3 To my street as neighborsWould work beside in an office
4 To employment in my occupation in my countryWould have several families in my neighborhood
5 To citizenship in my country Would have merely as speaking acquaintances
6 As visitors only in my countryWould have live outside my neighborhood
7 Would exclude from my country Would have live outside my country


The survey itself is elegantly simple. Each of the "distance" variables is arrayed as column headings, while ethnic group names are arrayed as row headings. The respondent was instructed to check "as many of the seven columns in each case [ethnic group] as your feelings dictate." In other words, a respondent might indicate she would have a member of a given group as neighbors and work with them in her office, and speak to them, but would not marry into that group, nor have a close friends, nor, on the other end, would she limit them only to "visitors" to her nation, nor debar them from her nation. On the other hand, it seems obvious that if a respondent would marry into a group, she would also have them as close friends, next door neighbors, etc.

In all of its versions, the scale is scored so that the responses for each ethnic/racial group are averaged across all respondents, which yields a "Racial Distance Quotient" (RDQ), with a minimum of 1.00 and maximum of 7.00. The purpose of the 1933 modification was to bring the scale more into line with the science of sociometry that had developed by that time (Campbell 1952).

Bogardus first used the scale in 1926 on 1,725 respondents who were primarily Euro-American students in 24 colleges and universities. Bogardus followed this original study with three more, similarly administered, surveys, in 1946, 1956, and 1966. Several serious methodological problems with Bogardus’s application of his own scale make it difficult to evaluate the results. The questionnaire itself is shown in Illustration 1, and the overall score results of the 1926-1966 studies are shown in Illustration 2.

In any case, however, this is not the place to review the concrete results of Bogardus’s empirical research. Rather, what interests us is the tracking of Simmel’s dual sense of "social distance." To keep an eye on that, I want to turn rapidly to the most ironic aspect of the Bogardus Scale: its suppression of geometric distance in the very face of geometric social facts.

Weirdness on AIM

So I'm sitting in class and I get an IM from someone I don't know. I do know a Tammy, so I respond, but after that it gets weirder and weirder:

Richey91904 (1:36:13 PM): i'm tammy,hi
Richey91904 (1:36:24 PM): how r u
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:36:38 PM): sadf
Richey91904 (1:36:47 PM): what
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:36:54 PM): do I know you?
Richey91904 (1:37:04 PM): no
Richey91904 (1:37:11 PM): sorry
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:37:15 PM): no, that's ok
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:37:20 PM): how did you get my screenname?
Richey91904 (1:37:36 PM): under pregnant *
Richey91904 (1:38:03 PM): how far along r u
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:38:21 PM): I'm sorry, I'm not pregnant
Richey91904 (1:38:32 PM): oh, sorry
Richey91904 (1:38:40 PM): well, i am
Richey91904 (1:38:57 PM): r u m/f?
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:40:00 PM): m
Richey91904 (1:40:15 PM): r u married
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:40:32 PM): nope
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:40:35 PM): you?
Richey91904 (1:40:41 PM): no
Richey91904 (1:40:53 PM): i am 8 months
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:41:06 PM): well congratulations, do you no if it's a boy or a girl yet?
Richey91904 (1:41:14 PM): no
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:41:26 PM): you must be pretty excited
Richey91904 (1:42:00 PM): i am, and trying to find another preg woman
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:42:19 PM): I've had several friends who've had babies in the past year
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:42:27 PM): it's a very exciting time
Richey91904 (1:42:38 PM): were they bi
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:43:45 PM): no
Richey91904 (1:43:53 PM): i am
Richey91904 (1:44:20 PM): looking for woman whos lactating
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:44:36 PM): why is that?
Richey91904 (1:44:56 PM): i wud luv to taste
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:45:47 PM): okey doke
Richey91904 (1:46:02 PM): is that gross
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:46:25 PM): don't know, never tried it
Richey91904 (1:46:58 PM): wud u wanna taste me
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1:47:32 PM): nah, I'm pretty good with my skim that I'm used to

And that's where I left it. Hopefully the guy behind me wasn't reading over my shoulder.

* As an added note of background, I used to have under "Interests" for my AIM profile "Pregnant Women's Water Sports"

Too many scandals

I stay on top of the news, probably better than 90% of the people in America, but I never heard of this one. I just can't keep track of them all.

Sofie

Die Sofie ist nicht so gut!

Shake your little Sofie on the catwalk

Sofie and Macauly Culkin

Sofie Ninja

Welcome to the Goddamn blog

a continuation of looking....

this is pretty neat.

and this is for driznastic's roomate.

excitement for your looking balls

so its tuesday, it beautiful out ... who wants to think !? not me ! so heres some crap to stare at for a while ... brain powering down in ... 3 ... 2 ...... 1 ........

start yer day off right

suprisingly high budget and well done video for such a crack song ... funny though (video)

the stuff of nightmares

noselatio (somewhat nsfw)

ancient russian hunting technique ... to get the jump on yer prey ...

so FUCKING EMO!!!!!!

fat guy on a little bike .... fat guyy on a little bike ....

Giving us teachers a bad name

I give him points for style, but damn.

Apr 10, 2006

Makin' Whoopee

I can't believe I missed this

Secret Lovers is the best . . . Not safe for work if your boss is a homosexual hobbit.
All about my vag.

hard chickens

nah sure why but i really thought this was funny ...

Baaaaaa

Look in the background. I almost missed it.

So I just started a new temp job, Monday afternoons and Friday mornings. This means I'll be able to post on the blog a little more frequently without trying to figure out what the hell is the matter with my school's internet connection. I also don't think anybody really cares what I do here. I don't know if anybody knows I am here. I might go home early today.

rise and shine

Have you read your Bible comic today?

Apr 8, 2006

So did I specify that the Miracle Spring Water is an infomercial on tv? Yes. I know. I KNOW. Me too.

I couldn't get to sleep, and I was hungry, so I decided to see what the internet could offer. I found this.

Oh, and I'm going to try to give you as much as you can possibly swallow on ninjas, pirates, and, yes, you guessed it, zombies. Or in this case, a combination of two or more.

Apr 7, 2006

Comin' at ya

Sup biznatches and hizzoes ..... get ready to get schooled Sofiestyle. I'm you're source for all things brilliant. I will divulge the secrets of the universe to you..... if you are ready to receive my seed of infinite knowledge. Let's kick it off with a little o' this:

Miracle Spring Water! (has really annoying sound)

I saw this in the wee hours of the morning recently. The testimonials are..... delightful.

new blunters .... ?

well, i dont even know how many people actually check on this blog, but according to the counter at the bottom, its somethin like 7000 a day, so i know thats not accurate ...

anyway, like in every good cartoon show, we are adding another character to liven up things around here, and help us get into more hijinks and hilarity ... we are also now finally in compliance with the "americans with blogs/equal gender rights" act of 1974

she also have a heavy metal box ....

and as with all previous blunters, if she fails the "test of seven fates" the remaining blunters will feast on her heart, as to assume her power ...

so be funny dammit

ugly ass fish

frog fish ... these things run on the ground instead of swimming

bogardus had to go to the free clinic once for these ... the regular shampoo just doesnt kill em ...

i dont even know whats happening here ... but dont forget, its still related to us ...

sorry but that just made me laugh ...

like organs growing in ze open sea

Apr 6, 2006

holy hell

i was gonna make some comment like "so thats where bogardus has been for the past 9 months" but this is just too crazy

this is what it is

non creepy stuff ...

hell of alot of old school movie posters (mostly cult and b types)

he wont be makin that face in 15 years (nsfw)

tigers and pigs, living together ... mass hysteria !

more old school

i know im pretty much the only one posting anymore (which is unfortunate), and ive been bogged down with freelance work ... got a couple things in the ol design pot right now ... been spendin alot of time workin on a website for my own promotional needs (finally) ... dont want to give away the site yet as its far from done, but thats where i am ... ya know ... if ya need me ...