Archive for May, 2009

Making Decision, Decision Made, Prop 8 is left as voted for.

The California high court has decided, in 6-1 fashion, to uphold what the voters decided. Now I really don’t want to get in right or wrong with this little blurb, that is not the point. My point is simply this, the proposition was put to a vote, people voted, and it did not pass. So I don’t see how or why the need for any decision to be made by the high court. The whole point of our democracy system is that we all get our voice, we all get a chance to use it and the decision was the majority was not in favor of legalizing gay marriage at that time. Will the majority be in the future? Who knows. But right now, it’s not. So stop protesting and twittering and going on cnn and mtv and saying how shameful it is that prop 8 was voted no. If you wanted it to be a YES, then you should have campaigned like what has happened post election.

I mean at what point does the protesting stop? At the next election if a group of people do not like who was elected can we then protest and march and get media attention and ask the high court to overrule in favor of the non-winning candidate?

Try again another day, the people voted no, right or wrong, the people, the majority voted no.

Full Article about the prop 8 decision is here.

I’ll admit it, Kelly Clarkson’s music gets played in my car

So today I was scanning the airwaves seeing what radio station was playing the most worthy song to listen to. While being the winner of this competition is not much considering all stations play crap pretty much because that is what the labels want them to play and I could go on and on, but anyhue, lucky me today, it was hot, so  Ihad the A/C on, the windows up and I was free to turn up the Kelly Clarkson and not have to worry when I came to a red light.

Is it embarassing to admit Kelly Clarkson’s music is not half bad? No I don’t think it is, the songs that some people write for her are quite catchy, the songs she writes are not. I do not listen to those.

Just the ones we should all admit to listening to. I am taking the bold step here, who else shall join me and admit that Kelly Clarkson is your guilty pleasure?

Because I think if you look deep within yourself you will realize, and I quote, “My life would suck without you!” And you is Kelly Clarkson!

So don’t walk away!

Do you have Wolves on your shirt?

I remember this shirt, kids had these back in the glorious middle school days. Little did we know then what we know now. Little did we understand the coolness that we were wearing. I know that this shirt shot up the rankings on Amazon due to a humorous viral joke, but lets be honest with ourselves, this is a sweet shirt and you do feel a little more confident, manly and sexier while wearing something of this nature. Along with some classic oversized boots, ratty old jeans and possibly even a trucker hat. Now that is fashion.

Joke review boosts T-shirt sales

By Daniel Emery
Technology reporter, BBC News

Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt

A T-shirt has become one of the most popular items sold by online retailer Amazon in the past few weeks.

Sales of the kitsch Three Wolf Moon T-shirt shot up 2,300% after a spate of ironic reviews went viral.

The first review gave the shirt five stars, saying it “Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women” but “cannot see wolves with arms crossed”.

That prompted hundreds of others to post frivolous reviews, turning the page into an internet phenomenon.

“When I put this T-shirt on for the first time, my wife left me! Thank you, Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt,” wrote one wag, while another said that “the Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt gave me a +10 resistance to energy attacks, +8 Strength… and I have successfully solved 7 crimes in my city”.

Amazon’s senior manager of community content, Russell Dicker, said the T-shirt was currently the top selling item in their clothing store.

“The Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt recently moved up 2,300% in sales rank,” he said. “We are grateful that our reviewers are so passionate.”

Publicity shy

However, the firm which actually makes the T-shirt appeared less than pleased at some of the comments.

“The Mountain is a wholesale company and does not sell shirts on Amazon, so this viral assault went under our radar until the shirt made it into the top 10 in the Amazon apparel section,” they said in a posting on the Amazon site.

“We appreciate humour as much as the next company, but we don’t approve of some of the remarks.

“Not everyone can start out at the top and not everyone from our neck of the woods lives in a trailer or cruises Walmart to hook up.”

This is not the first time comedy reviews on Amazon have gone viral. In 2006, there were more than a thousand reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk.

They ranged from soap opera-style script – “That was when I knew. He was tired of this life with me, tired of bringing home the Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz” – to stating the obvious: “Has anyone else tried pouring this stuff over dry cereal? A-W-E-S-O-M-E!”