New Music November

New Music November 

How about we take a couple of minutes to talk about new music?















There, now you've been hipsterized.

NorCal / SoCal Rivalry Explained

NorCal / SoCal Rivalry Explained

You may think that this whole So Cal/ Nor Cal rivalry is all about two baseball teams, but you'd be wrong. In fact, this feud goes deeper than that. Much deeper. It's like the Hatfields and the McCoys deep. And yet most people don't even know the roots to it.

Then again, most people these days don't know who the Hatfields and McCoys are. So welp!

In any case, the NorCal vs SoCal thing began back in the early 1900 with a little issue of water.

HETCH-HETCHY FIGHT DUE TO WATER TRUST; ' Tis That Inspires Moves Against San Francisco's Getting a Supply There, a Correspond- ent Says. VITAL TO THE CITY'S HEALTH Town Cannot Obtain an Adequate Supply from Any Other Source -- Little Injury to Scenery Involved.

You see, Northern California wanted to build a dam and canal to supply water for Yosemite National Park. The Bay Area and Central Valley and neither the corrupt Federal Government or the then sparse residents of central and Southern California wanted to help pay for it. So NorCal, mainly San Francisco, built and paid for it themselves. The damn itself was a beauty. Before the Panama Canal, it was considered one of the 7 modern wonders. After it was finished, the dust bowl bible-belt hillbilly scum began migrating to the Central Valley and Southern California and land owners down there began demanding for the lion's share of the water for free.

When NorCal refused, a corrupt Federal Government stepped in and ruled in favor of Central and Southern California. Still to this day, they get their water from Northern California for free.Let's call a spade a spade. As a member of the Southern California moocher society here, I welcome that free water. Without it the central part wouldn't produce as much produce that they do for the U.S, let alone the world. And without Southern California, I wouldn't be typing this

That was just the beginnings of the dislike and disgust between the Northern and Southern parts of this great state. It would later evolve into further political and sports rivalries. But every time one of us here in Central or Southern California takes a drink of water, just know that it's coming from San Francisco.

Which is why we use a brita filter. Fuck you NorCal kooties.


Though, the funniest thing about the NorCal/SoCal rivalry is that no one from the South has heard of it until someone from the North tells them about it. And even then, a typical Southern Californian still wouldn't give a shit.

So Did Unions Kill Hostess? No

So Did Unions Kill Hostess? No

Today the social media feeds have been coming full blast saying that Hostess has been killed off and Unions are to blame as to why you will no longer enjoy a yellow cake and cream dessert that has the half-life of many nuclear weapons. This is just some of the tweets and updates that I saw;

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Love unions! They make the work force stronger! Well except for the Hostess deal...cost americans 18,500 jobs...lost tax revenue and the companies that have offered up bids for the liquidation of the brands are mostly foreign. Hmmmmm

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I am not totally against unions but when they cause companies to close their doors because they think they don't have to make concessions is just greedy. The reason they could not come to an agreement was over wages. Hostess wanted the workers to take a 8% wage decrease the first year and then they would get a 3% increase the next year and then a 1% increase the year after so they were looking at a 4% decrease in total. I don't know what a Hostess baker made per hour but if it is like most union jobs it was a lot. Now because of the unions inability to come to a deal 18,000+ people are out of a job. Maybe it is better to take a small pay cut and keep your job? Just saying.

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Looks like the union won... Showed us how powerful they are.

Too bad the real losers are the employees and us that love Twinkies.

And thus, it is shown that the bakery item -- a universal pleasure -- is not immune to the corrosive effects of class struggle...

Look people, way to eat up the narrative that Unions some how killed Hostess. The company declared bankruptcy a while ago, and stated it would close 9 factories. Then the strike happened, and suddenly it's the fault of the unions that it's closing? What a fucking anti-union bullshit move to offer absurd cuts to force a strike so they could blame the union for killing their failed business.

Then again, I'm surprised that making the exact same kind of shitty mini-cake but calling it different things lasted that long. You have;

Yellow cake version - Twinkie

 Brown cake version - YODEL



Brown-er cake version - Funny Bone



Fuckin' hell, that's marketing genius right there.

And yet we're blaming unions for a shitty business who produced shitty products suddenly going out of business? Wow, well, capital's newest strategy in the long and drawn out class warfare is to get the message across that "the greedy working class took away your twinkies!" This sadly isn't a joke or some onion article. This is something that just happened and everyone is cool with believing it.


  "Let them eat whatever the fuck this rubbery shit is"
-- Marie Antoinette

Let's just take a look at this little nugget about the real story behind all this UNIONS BAD FOR TAKING MY TWINKIE bullshit...

Over the past eight years since the first Hostess bankruptcy, the union members have watched as money from previous concessions that was suppose to go toward capital investment, product development, plant improvement and new equipment was squandered in executive bonuses, payouts to Wall Street investors and payments to high-priced attorneys and consultants.

The members are well aware that, as the company was preparing to file for bankruptcy earlier this year, the then CEO of Hostess was awarded a 300 percent raise. going from 750,000 to 2,550,000. And at least nine other top executives of the company received massive pay raises. One such executive received a pay increase from 500,000 to 900,000 and another went from $375,000 to $656,256.

All the while they have seen the company unilaterally end contractual obligated payments to their pension plan. Despite saving more than $160 million with this action, the company continues to fall deeper and deeper into debt. Debt and gross mismanagement by a string of failed CEOs with no true experience in the wholesale baking business have left this company unable to compete or survive.

 You see that? It's not the unions fault that the CEO's decided to, inspite of having major plans to prepare for bankruptcy, gave themselves raises and failed to have any sort of plan besides making the prettiest and comfortable parachute that they could use when they did decide that the end was indeed near.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay was quoted in a Nov. 13 KMOX-CBS St. Louis article stating, “I was told months ago they were planning on closing the site in St. Louis….And there was no indication at that time it had anything to do with the strike the workers were waging.”

In fact, here's a little more detail for you. While the Hostess company faced bankruptcy and forced to ask the union to take an 8% pay cut, the Board of Directors themselves managed to give themselves a slew of raises as mentioned in the quote above. But here's a far more in-depth look at their raises. 

Brian Driscoll, CEO (resigned), $750,000 to $2,550,000.
Gary Wandschneider, EVP, $500,000 to $900,000.
John Stewart, EVP, $400,000 to $700,000.
David Loeser, EVP, $375,000 to $656,256.
Kent Magill, EVP, $375,000 to $656,256.
Richard Seban, EVP, $375,000 to $656,256.
John Akeson, SVP, $300,000 to $480,000.
Steven Birgfeld, SVP, $240,000 to $360,000.
Martha Ross, SVP, $240,000 to $360,000.
Rob Kissick, SVP, $182,000 to $273,008.

If the revolution were to come because of twinkie shortages, those would be the first against the wall. 

As for all of you who are stock piling twinkies or just rushing out there to make sure you get one. Why? When was the last time you heard anyone honestly wanting to get a twinkie or even come close to eating one? I mean, let's be fucking serious here. They're pretty disgusting. Hell, the whole notion of it having a shelf life of a good 20 years and able to survive a nuclear bleak future was enough to make folks turn their heads and not want to get one.

So hey, if we're going to blame Unions for destroying a product because they wouldn't accept even more cuts to their pay while the CEO's got extreme bonuses in a failing company. How about we also put blame on ourselves for creating such a stigma to a product that no one in their right mind would want to touch a yellow cake filled with cream due to the amount of chemicals that kept it tasting fresh for decades to come? 



On a final note. For all of you people who were so adamant towards Californian's Proposition 37, just imagine how long of a laundry list your average hostess twinkies package would have to list the amount of trans fats, GMO corn and high fructose corn syrup that are in that god awful product. You're better off just eating directly from the garbage can as it would probably be cheaper than searching for the final boxes of Hostess anything on the shelf.

Political Ads Fucking Suck it

Political Ads Fucking Suck it

With the election now over, you probably just assumed that the political commentary would be over. Well, I just wanted to take a moment and reflect back on why the election season is truly a thing of the devil.







HA! "I'm Paul R. Nelson and my voice has a gravitas of a 14 year old counter-strike player"



It's really sad. First it was "Yes we can", then "Hope & Change", now it's all "Forward". At this rate, 2016 slogans are just going to be monovyllabic grunts, floating signifiers devoid of all meaning.

Clinton 2016 "Uh-huh, yep!" 

While I like the idea of going forward, but I also believe in taking America back, truly this is the MOST DECISIVE ELECTION EVER! More ads should be like this.. 

DC - Legacy Characters Are Our Love.... To Change Them

DC - Legacy Characters Are Our Love.... To Change Them

Here's the thing that has bugged me about DC Comics the last few years. They absolutely love their legacy characters. Iconic characters that have lasted for 50 to 60 years, hell. In some cases even longer. They love using them as the symbol of all things heroic... but then they like to take something that is already perfect and fuck it up.

Take for example last week when Scott Lobdell ruined DC Comics

n Superman issue 13, the Man of Steel's alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since the DC Comics superhero's earliest days in 1940.

However, his still-strong feelings for Lois, combined with Daily Planet editor in chief Perry White getting on his case for not enough scoops on the Superman beat and his boss' boss Morgan Edge also giving him a hard time, leads to a Jerry Maguire-type moment where he quits in front of the whole staff and rails on how journalism has given way to entertainment — in a not-so-mild-mannered fashion. (The Daily Planet has also been moving more toward the real world, too, with the newspaper becoming part of the multimedia corporation Galaxy Broadcasting.)

Entertainment reporter Cat Grant also quits the Planet with him, and Lobdell says she'll be bringing "a whole other set of skills" to their next venture. It probably won't be at another media outlet in Metropolis, though.

"I don't think he's going to be filling put an application anywhere," the writer says. "He is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw a paycheck from."

Clark's new employment status is part of Lobdell as well as DC wanting to explore Superman through a modern-day lens. The writer says Rocafort's vision of Clark and Superman is one where "both have a lot of gravity but are also very light and young and sexy." Plus, they talked about modern journalism jobs that may be more relevant than an old-school beat reporter for a newspaper.

"When we started discussions," Lobdell says, "they were like, 'Yep, let's see where this goes. Let's take the sacred super-cows and start looking at Superman with a new set of eyes.' "

 I know a couple of people who used to love to defend the bad choices DC seemed to be making all the time by retconning or needlessly changing things around - all for the sake of shaking things up for a couple of months and hoping that it increases sales in the change, as well as increases sales when they have to eventually change it back.

In this situation, the common detonator is Scott Lobdell. This seriously cannot be editorial pushing their changes through with Lobdell as their champion. He's clearly actively changing really stupid things and nothing anyone can tell me will change my mind on that.

Perhaps this story, given the success of shows like Newsroom, could be an interesting and relevant turn of events.... perhaps if written by someone far more talented than than Scott Lobdell. But all this is going to do is be a flashing ad on the nightly news to fill up space that SUPERMAN QUITS HIS JOB! Which rightly so is answered with a "who gives a fuck, he'll be back at the Daily Planet soon enough and shit will maintain the same status quo" 

It really makes you wonder what wont they do to make superman relevant again. They ended the marriage to Lois. They made him get together with Wonder Woman and now he's quitting the Daily Planet? Why the fuck do you even call him Superman any more? Just go ahead and flush it all down the shitter and start all over. 


Apparently the key to revitalizing Superman is obviously by not having him be Superman anymore. So let's just go the full tilt with it and make him someone new entirely.

Porking Good Time

Porking Good Time

Welp, this is a no context post, but what I lack in context I make up in deliciousness. Enjoy this while I take a day off from writing



A-maze-in!

Big Brother Will Soon Be Watching....

Big Brother Will Soon Be Watching....

Just in case you were wondering about the future of police and robotics combining, just remember that big brother is always watching...

Toronto Star posted

Unmanned aerial drones have proved valuable in Afghanistan for Canadian and American military forces on the hunt for Taliban bases and weapons caches.

Florida criminals, take note: You’re next on the list.

The Miami-Dade police department is now planning to use one of the airborne devices to track suspects and provide police with images of hostage situations before going in.

Dubbed a Micro Air Vehicle, or MAV, the radio-controlled drone — vaguely resembling an overturned garbage pail — is equipped with a camera system. It flies with the aid of small fans.

“It will be used in situations where our special response team has been called out and a perimeter has been set up, and will be operated by someone with a pilot’s licence,” Detective Aida Fina-Milian told the Star Thursday.

She said the force used a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to purchase the MAV, which has been in testing for the past several weeks. Its use on city streets has not yet been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, a process that could take six months.

The MAV, which can fly as high as 3,200 metres, has the ability to hover over a scene or move quickly to a location, much like a helicopter.

It also has forward- and backward-facing cameras, and can be deployed in as little as five minutes. It is manufactured by Honeywell Aerospace.

While the MAV will no doubt aid police in tense situations, not everyone is pleased with the purchase.

The Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is raising concerns that the camera attached to the MAV could be used to invade people’s privacy.

“What happens when they fly over backyards and they see something without a warrant that they want?” said the Union’s executive director, Howard Simon, in an interview with Miami’s local CBS affiliate.

Police, however, say such concerns are unwarranted.

“We’re not going to fly it all around town,” said Det. Javier Baez told the Star. “It’s not like big brother is going to be watching for you.”

Fucking Florida... I mean, I prefer a headcrab to learning more about future America. Cause really, this is just another way of police having to avoid going into the ghetto. They already got police towers with cameras peppered all over the place and low flying helicopters are always around in East L.A. I generally never see a cop car unless it's speeding through as quickly as possible.



But I have only one piece of advice - if any one of you readers in Florida doesn't shoot these things down, I don't know what to say other than I'm completely disappointed in you people. Though you can attempt to take them down with a crowbar if you're feeling Gordon Freeman like.

It would be highly ironic if you could confuse them with a bright enough camera flash. That would be one expensive clay pigeon, is what I'm saying. There's like a 3:1 gun to person ratio in Florida, so somebody is bound to shoot one of them down. Just look at these hummingbirds.



They pretty much equal American military robots crossing the line from merely frightening into surrealist nightmares.

The Department of Defense and a shitload of law enforcement agencies here, which always love new toys, have been trying to get authorization from the FAA to use them for a while now.

Seriously, folks. I can't wait to hear how you all shot one of these down. It'll be like apocalypse now. "Hey Roach!" Then again, I can't wait until the first person goes to prison for 25 years for destroying one of these, which will be the first and last time any resistance to them is heard of.



We'll eventually classify police robots as officers like we do our dogs and horses. Resisting surveillance will become a crime in itself for hampering our brave men in blue. This message was brought to you by the Combine overwatch.

There's a local "towne centre" that is basically a big ass shopping center with overpriced mediocre shit, designer clothing and some overpriced apartments that everyone calls "Oh, it's so European, I can walk and shop!" has some mobile "security towers" in the parking lots.

It's a gigantic tinted scissors lift so a rent-a-cop can sit on his ass and look and make sure nobody is walking while black in a white parking lot, literally. That or it's empty, as nobody can see if a cop is really in one.



Over all, I'm just wondering how many Cubans who risked their lives to escape Castro's dictatorial surveillance state this will catch.