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Random lnsanity / I'M BORED
« on: September 23, 2009, 08:23:35 pm »
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12) Spider-man Kills Mary Jane with his Radioactive Semen, Spider-man: Reign
Spider-man: Reign is a four-issue mini-series by writer/artist Kaare Andrews that is forthrightly an attempt to wedge Spider-man into the equivalent of a Dark Knight Returns dystopian story. How forthright? Why, there is a character named “Miller Jansen” featured in the book. It seems that at no point did anyone involved sit down and think about whether or not grim n’ gritty Spider-man was at all a good idea, or what the point of such an endeavor would be. Somebody at Marvel just wanted old, dark future Spidey.
Where DKR is a trailblazing classic, Reign is a derivative little ball of failure. The plot is at heart a generic “Spider-man’s villains team up to kill him” story drenched in ridiculously maudlin post-9/11 fear-mongering. Set 35 years in the future, Reign has a hilariously ancient J. Jonah Jameson push an over-sixty Peter Parker into becoming Spider-man again. It’s all part of a bizarre, nonsensical scheme to defeat a fascist government that’s taken over New York. Along the way there’s nonsense involving robot zombie Dr. Octopus, a laser killer death web projected around New York, and an impossibly stupid Dubya stand-in who works for Venom-as-Dick-Cheney.
What makes Reign memorably stupid instead of just forgettable is the truly, fantastically ridiculous backstory the whole thing hinges on. Throughout the book, our aging Peter Parker keeps having deranged visions of his long-dead wife Mary Jane. Later we find out that it’s not enough for him to be wracked by guilt because he was out fighting crime when she died of cancer; no, he also had to cause her cancer. Specifically, Spider-man gave Mary Jane cancer by tragically shooting her up repeatedly with his horrible radioactive Spider-Semen. His horrible radioactive Spider-Semen.
That’s not tragic. That shit is fucking hilarious. In fact, Reign could have worked really well as a Spider-man DKR parody, sort of in the Marvel Zombies vein. I mean, there’s a scene where Spider-man punches his way out of a coffin while singing the lyrics to his own '60s cartoon theme. A bit where J. Jonah Jameson is the pastor of a weird religion that believes in masks and bells. Peter even confesses his angst to Mary Jane’s corpse while a Doctor Octopus that consists of a rotting corpse attached to still-sentient robot arms looks on! That is totally the stuff of wicked black comedy. Unfortunately, Reign was content to be a shitty, dead-serious action showpiece with the concluding issues given over to stupid brawls, and the whole plot is resolved by Spider-man getting hold of a detonator that lets him blow up a building that is conveniently full of all the bad guys. This symbolizes, uh… freedom? Something? Fuck.
the penn & teller vids got a lot of profanity but thats to be expected. Besides that, very good information, that i feel needs to be distributed and then contemplated.
Penn & teller war on drugs 1-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okfCx5xAK2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128M6IK2O6M&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTYasroSE-U&feature=related
clergy speak out on war on drugs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJ-ccVrPkI&feature=related
quotes:
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
Ronald Reagan
U.S. President
"So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope."
"Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drugs will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime. We would thus strike a double blow: reduce crime activity directly, and at the same time increase the efficacy of law enforcement and crime prevention."
Milton Friedman
Nobel prize winner
"Tyranny of the Status Quo"
"Except for the harms associated with smoking, the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range of effects tolerated for other medications."
"There is no conclusive evidence that the drug effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent abuse of other illicit drugs."
Report of the Institute of Medicine
for the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
17 March 1999
Just as bootleggers were forced out of business in 1933 when Prohibition was repealed, making the sale of liquor legal (thus eliminating racketeering), the legalization of drugs would put drug dealers out of business. It would also guarantee government-approved quality, and the tax on drugs would provide an ongoing source of revenue for drug-education programs. An added plus: there would be far less crowding in our prisons due to drug-related crimes. It's something to consider.
-Abigail Van Buren
"Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong."
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
Spread the news. Contemplate the facts.
MAJOR EDIT: 5:18 eastern april 6th
Here are some other video's i found recently that are very interesting
History of marijuana part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGKeq2HrBxA&feature=related
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYlpj7_ZeI8&feature=related
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0-nMykuk2k&feature=related
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwGABx1AsIM&feature=related
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZIuBiQIoIo&feature=related
Part 6 (watch Nixon suck at bowling, then tell me about Obama)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0dPWtqcYvk&feature=related
Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIGXOp4kdw&feature=related
And finally, part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDV_FiyA9pE&feature=related