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It was fun. And interesting; and intriguing of course. The show gave me lots to think about.

Good.

Personally, I’ve always liked Neil Patrick Harris. IMHO he is a charismatic and very talented performer, and more so even now than he was when I first became acquainted with him in Doogie Howser. Man, I loved that show. I identified with his character so much… in a TV landscape that at the time celebrated mediocrity, Howser really stood out. I watched the show religiously.

Howser was a kind of idealized prodigy, if I remember correctly. He was a prodigy with a superhuman maturity to match his superhuman intelligence, and he had the smarts without the obsessions (note that I’m recalling this from childhood memories, so this might not be 100% accurate). I was a child prodigy too of course, so I kind of wanted to be Howser back then. Since that show ended, I’ve always rooted for Harris to succeed, so it’s good to see him do so. He was pretty good at hosting these Oscars. The critics are being too harsh, I think.

It says something about his confidence and talent that I never suspected back then that Harris might be gay in real life. In fact, I’d always assumed the polar opposite. I’m recalling now one of my favorite moments from Howser- the one where Howser, the uptight prodigy, takes a chance, gets up on stage, and really speaks his mind honestly about things like growing older. Emboldened, he afterwards asks a girl he likes for a kiss, and the girl, enamored with his newfound confidence, gives him a big one. That was one of my “Eureka!” moments growing up.

This brings me to my next topic.

Throughout the Oscars, I kept thinking one thing, and that thing is: I really do need to watch more new-ish media. Honestly, this is getting ridiculous. Lately all I’ve been doing is plumbing the depths of 80’s and 90’s era underground anime. It’s good, some of it is great, but it’s getting quite repetitive, and the stuff I’m watching now is just so, so far outside the mainstream that it’s kind of messing with my expectations of what a film should be. I still have a handful of films and series I need to finish up- I still have yet to see Serial Experiments Lain, Witch Hunter Robin and Detonator Orgun, amongst several other key titles- but after that I’ll definitely need something else. Preferably something very different and I mean VERY different. Hopefully, I’ll find something to watch that isn’t overtly inspired by Satanism, for example.

Back to the Oscars… some random thoughts now, most of them good. I guess I had fun watching this year. First, Emily is fantastic. She was just so gracious, stately and kind throughout the whole show. She really impressed me. How cute is it that she brought her mom? And they were both gorgeous, too! Taylor had better thank her lucky stars that I have 10x the pictures of her than I do of Emily, because if the situation there was somehow reversed…

Lady Gaga hit a grand slam with her performance. As expected of her. She has always had a monster talent hidden underneath all those outfits. I saw her special with Tony Bennett and she rocked that performance, too, so her singing at the Academy Awards wasn’t a shock to me like it was to the kids on twitter. I got a few good laughs reading their surprised reactions to her.

Meryl Streep is a class act. She just rules all around. She has a kind of poise and mastery of her craft that I rarely if ever see in performers of the instagram generation. She knows how to command an audience and a stage.

Marion Cotillard was nominated again… and again I’m surprised at my icy and unwarranted indifference to this. I don’t understand my feelings towards her.

Marion was one of my idols in college. And unlike so many actresses that I’m fans of today, I’ve actually seen Marion’s movies. That is of course in addition to me having an encyclopedia of her pictures and video clips on my hard drive.

Marion was the top girl in the long list of French actresses that I was obsessed with back in the day. There was her, and then there was of course Julie Gayet, Sophie Marceau, Elodie Bouchez, Ludivine Sagnier, Virginie Ledoyen, Salome Stevenin, Roxane Mesquida, Lou Doillon, and… many, many others. So deep was my love for French cinema that I even became well acquainted with some of the independent film stars active in France from the 80’s to the early 2000’s.

This is really OT, but the French approach to filmmaking resonates with me more than the American one sometimes. Too many Americans, even film buffs, dismiss French cinema as “weird”. It isn’t weird at all. It’s just that French films tend to be a bit less commercial and more subliminal than American films, and they sometimes don’t have the firm dividing line between conscious and unconscious themes and images that American films have. This is a tough thing to explain, but it’s something like this: American films tend to be either hard fact or pure fiction; they are either 95% fantasy or 95% reality. Rarely if ever do you see a film that’s 85% real and 15% imagination made in the USA, but you do see this mixture often in French cinema. And it’s often the case that the fantasy elements in such films are used to bring out truths in the reality part that you couldn’t see otherwise. At least, that is what this amateur critic thinks.

Contrary to what most Americans believe, I’ve always thought that French films are quite grounded in the real world, and that their directors do tend to have a firm grasp of things. I would in fact say that they have a firmer grasp of the gritty nature of things than many American directors had back when I still watched blockbuster movies. It’s just that it tends to be of a different style than what we’re used to.

Take the way that French films show relationships. The French are famous for their sex scenes, yes, but they also are quite good at showing the other parts of interpersonal relationships. They have a way of making even the most mundane things about relationships seem interesting. IDK if I would have the relationship abilities that I have today without the French cinema. TBH, I don’t think I would.

I should write a separate blog post exploring my feelings for French film and it’s culture, I think, now that I’ve started writing about it. This topic is obviously too big for here.

So back to Tinseltown and Marion… why am I so actively indifferent to her now? It makes no sense. I wonder that every time I see her name mentioned in relation to something prestigious like the Oscars. IDK.

Maybe it’s because she’s now famous to everyone in the States. Back when she was my favorite, you could count on one hand the number of people here who could recite her filmography, and I was well aware of how cool that made me. But now that she’s big in the US, I’m almost spiteful. No, I am spiteful. Wow… am I really that small-minded?

Yup. Apparently. I have a tendency to be spiteful and cruel to people who I perceive have given me slights, even if they are unintentional. Somehow, Marion found herself on my shitlist of doom without really doing anything to upset me directly. That isn’t good. She didn’t do anything wrong and I should be happy for her success. I need to work on that.

Or… maybe not. I don’t know her. Why should I care, really?

I thought that Graham Moore was brave, speaking publically about his past in the way that he did. Hopefully, he helped someone that needed it. The same goes to Dana Perry. Good for them for bringing the topic of suicide to light. Hopefully, we can fix that little epidemic before it gets worse.

The Oscars are long. IMHO it’s necessary to have something to do while watching, especially if you’re going to take in the red carpet stuff. This year, I was watching the show in the basement, since the big screen was being used for something else. This turned out in my favor, as I got to experiment with some new exercises. I grabbed the lightest pair of dumbbells we owned- a pair of fives- and got to work experimenting on some possible new lifts while I watched. It helped to break up the monotony, which is absolutely essential. I spent 5 hours watching this year, so…

Speaking of time, one thing that annoyed me this year was the same thing that I think annoys everyone, every year, which is the fact that some winners early on get their speeches cut short. I understand the reason for this; it’s a slow 3 hour plus show, but I don’t like seeing it, especially in those instances where there are 4 or more people up on stage with something like a minute to split between them. With all the fumbling around, that works out to maybe twelve seconds a person. Not sure of what the solution to that problem could be, though, as I don’t want the show longer than it is. Maybe there isn’t one.

Or maybe they could do this: perhaps some categories could be folded into the technical Oscars, and the winners could be given greatly extended times for their speeches. Then maybe the technical Oscars could be posted online in full, permanently, on Oscar.com, so that anyone could see them at any time. Since they’re not broadcast on TV, why not do this? That would make the main show shorter and give the tech winners the time they deserve, I would think. The technical Oscars themselves might even develop a following this way! I’ll bet they would. People are curious about this hidden part of things. So why not?

Ok, now let’s talk about my one major criticism. My reader knows it’s coming, and what it is. It’s this: It. Just. Doesn’t. Work.

I’m referring to the Selma, black power, “We Shall Overcome” bits. They didn’t work. They were jarring as hell. Whatever the Academy was doing last night with this stuff it didn’t work in their favor.

It looked sad. Out of touch. Out of place. We have a black President, but one of the overriding themes of the night was how blacks have to “overcome racism” as if we are still in the fifties. Guys, don’t. DO. This.

Especially not now. People have already bent over backwards for over fifty years now to accommodate the “Civil Rights” movement under the assurance that this stuff would eventually go away. Now we have a black President, and it isn’t going away. It’s getting worse, more in your face, more aggressive and more intrusive and angry. STOP. For the love of God, just STOP.

At best, it makes you look like bullies. What all of this looks like, what it is, is the richest and most powerful people in the country lecturing the poorest and most isolated people (rural, “low class” whites) about how their past is evil and how they should be ashamed to defend their culture if not even their lives. This looks very, very bad. It looks sadistic.

Not to mention that it also looks sad. It is simply depressing to see it. Hollywood looks desperate when they do stuff like this; it looks like they can’t come up with a vision of the future, so they need to rehash their past successes, over and over and over again.

Yes, the Civil Rights movement was a success and Hollywood was an instrumental part of that success. But it’s time to move on from that stuff. This isn’t the sixties anymore and based on what I’ve seen of it, people in the real world today can’t relate to any of the themes in Selma at all. There are good reasons that Selma bombed so epically. THINK.

I hate to spend so much time on this, but my opinion here must be heard. This stuff needs to end. I’m getting a nightmarish vision now of the 2035 Oscars being all about “Overcoming Racism”, just like every Oscars from now until then. Yeeeechhh! But, maybe that won’t matter. Is there anyone at all who will be watching the 2035 Oscars in that scenario? I won’t be, that’s for sure.

And one last thing: it’s clear that the Academy wasn’t presenting the material in Selma as a historical curiosity, like they do with, say, period pieces about the 1800’s. No, it’s clear that they wanted Selma to be all about the America of 2015. Square peg, meet round hole.

Oy.

Other things… I did like, very much, the graphics this year. The visual effects were very well done, I thought, especially during the in memoriam segment, which was touching and well presented. I liked it much better than I have in years past, when celebrities were allotted more screen time than non-famous people.

Even the stage itself I liked. At those times when it was filled with stars (the night kind) it looked almost like those old maps of the Zodiac. Very cool.

So all in all it was quite a show. Good stuff and interesting. Hopefully, the major problems I saw will be corrected in future years.

I’m sure they will be.

They’ve pretty much lost their minds, haven’t they?

I say that as an admirer of what liberalism used to be, so I say that with regret. But it is what it is.

So many things could have been done differently. Maybe it would have helped had they listened more and talked less. Maybe they’re too extroverted for their own good. But that’s neither here nor there at this point.

So it’s going to end in ignominy and humiliation for them. OK, fine, but do they have to go out this way? I mean, is it absolutely necessary that they go out ranting like lunatics? I dunno. Maybe that’s what they want.

The past three years has given the American public a show of liberals doing and saying the dumbest, most ridiculous and most suicidal things that can be said. It makes one wonder what, if anything, is running through their minds.

I think the problem here has as a root cause their inability to understand the big picture. Liberals are showing themselves to be small minded, arrogant, selfish, and ignorant (at least, the famous ones are).

Since Obama’s re-election, they’ve been broadcasting, loudly, their desire to destroy people who are on every real measure vastly more powerful than they are. And they just won’t shut up about it! It’s lunacy, but they just won’t stop.

So, we know what their plans are. What they’re going to try to do is this: 1) use immigration and the media to “water down” the white middle class, 2) then take it’s guns, 3) then, once 2050 rolls around and whites are 50% of the population, launch a surprise attack to eradicate their opposition totally and create a multiracial “utopia”.

I’m sorry, but what kind of stupidity is this? Surely they don’t think that this insanity is actually going to work, do they? They’re betting the house on a preposterous fantasy.

This stuff is weird and cultish. To start with, what in the world makes liberals so sure that in the year 2050 whites will be 50% of the population? Whenever demographics and politics are discussed, this figure or something like it will be presented as “inevitable”. I’m sorry, what? For what reason is this figure inevitable? History is strewn with predictions uttered by “experts” that were thought to be inevitable but turned out to be completely off the mark.

What if 2050 rolls around and whites are 65% of the population? What if they’re 80%? Between now and then, many quadrillions of things are going to happen, and few of them will be expected. What if it so happens that the US is 90% ultra conservative whites when that year rolls around? What will liberals do then?

This isn’t some idle thought. We’re talking two plus decades of history here. Everything can change in twenty, thirty years. I don’t get why people are simply taking this figure as “fact” as though it is somehow more than just a guess issued forth from people who want it to be so.

The more you think about it, the dumber this claim seems. Try asking an economist about what the big stocks will be in 2050, and he’ll laugh. Ask a computer scientist about the computers of 2050, and he’ll wonder what you’re smoking to even ask such a question. Then try asking a liberal about the politics of 2050, and he’ll give you statistics! Fucking STATISTICS! “Oh, whites will be this percent of society and they will vote this way, blacks will be this percent and they will be doing this, gays will have reached this level of acceptance, the political scene will look like this…” Excuse me, what?!?!? Weird. Cultish.

Ok, now let’s discuss another issue with the liberals’ plan. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that their idea of whites being 50% of the population in 2050 is somehow dead on. Let’s say that they then launch their surprise attack. See, that isn’t going to work either, because they’ve given their enemies advance warning 2 decades prior of their plans. See, a surprise attack doesn’t work if the other side knows you’re coming and has spent the last twenty years preparing.

This is why conservatives have been buying up all the guns and “prepping”. It’s because they’ve been hearing, ad nauseum, about how they are going to be attacked in the future by liberals and their supporters. So after an entire generation of getting ready, they will be more than able to fend off anything that could be headed their way. Of course.

So… that isn’t going to work, either. This “strategy” makes one question the mindset of the so-called “intelligencia”. Honestly. What the fuck?

And this is assuming that conservatives don’t simply start the war early, which they could easily do, and what I think will ultimately happen.

See, the other side doesn’t have to just sit down and wait for 2050 to roll around. If they wanted the war to start tomorrow, they could just start it then instead. It would be easy. One well placed bomb and we’re in business. I mean, if war is inevitable, why not?

I mean, why wouldn’t they?

This rather obvious fact makes the hostility and antagonism of the black community look hugely self defeating. I mean, what the fuck are they doing?!?! Don’t they see what will happen to them if conservative whites start to seriously consider them to be an enemy?

Talk to minorities about politics these days, and you will inevitably hear something along the lines of how they’re going to kick our (white, male, middle class, etc.) asses in thirty years, as if me hearing this on a constant basis won’t make me take steps in the interim to stop that from happening. It’s bizarre. They’re acting like they’ve completely lost their minds.

To illustrate, it’s the case that today that liberal spokespeople are being hounded and threatened online, and sometimes in public. I don’t think this is going away. After all, the liberal spokespeople that are being threatened are of course the same ones who have broadcast their long term intent to displace or kill conservatives in some long term “surprise attack”. So it’s in the best interest of their enemies that harassment continue and amplify. So why would they stop the antagonism? If war is inevitable, the sooner the better from their view, correct?

So that harassment isn’t going to end. I don’t care what Obama says or does. I don’t care what measures he passes or what he chooses to talk about. It will make no difference. The harassment will continue, on and on, until the point of war is reached. Of course it will.

People act in their own self interest. That is the Golden Rule of human nature. All of the overtures towards “tolerance” and “equality” mean nothing in the face of this iron law of humanity.

And war at any point in the next two decades at least means absolute victory for the conservatives. Make no mistake about this. They have all the guns. They are by far the largest ethnically unified demographic. They control 95% of the police departments. They control 95% of the farmland. They will win and win easily.

The changes of the past century will be overturned. It will happen as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.

In these closing days of liberalism, it helps to have a bit of perspective. That way, we can see and analyze what went wrong with liberals, and perhaps pave the way towards a better future.

Liberalism has failed principally because liberals forgot The Way Of Things. They forgot to adjust their expectations of what they want vis-à-vis the reality of peoples’ everyday lives. Liberals seem to have forgotten how real people think and act, and why they do what they do. Somehow, an understanding of the basics of human behavior and emotion seems to have escaped them. It’s a shame, and it discredits all of their claims of being “open-minded” and “intellectual”. After their fall from the throne, they will have no legitimacy that they could possibly use to crawl back into a position of respectability. They will lose everything, I think.

Is it really such a shame though? Maybe this fate is what they deserve. They have for too long acted too smugly and arrogantly. For too long they have shut out others from the narrative for frankly malicious reasons. Perhaps a total destruction of everything they believe in would be appropriate and fitting. We’ll see.

The failure of liberalism can be traced back to their inability to understand why people followed them in the first place. The liberals of generations past seemed to have an ability to lead that was unparalleled. This is why for so long the world was their playground. They had an intuitive understanding of how to harness peoples’ energies to the own ends, to the benefit of all.

Liberalism as we know it (I mean, the modern stuff, not classic liberalism) had its roots in women’s suffrage. They got women the vote. That was their first major achievement, and it was a memorable one.

Then after a few more decades they got integrated schooling, and then the Civil Rights Act, and that was that. They “won”. Even though they didn’t.

See, there was never really a competition. There was never really a fight, even though both “sides” pretended otherwise. It was always in mens’ best interest to let women vote, and it was in whites’ best interest to allow the Civil Rights Act to pass. Why? Money, of course!

See, a deal was struck with Americans, i.e. white men. The deal was thus: allow diversity, allow blacks into your schools and businesses, allow women to vote, and we’ll give you money! And not just a little money, we’ll give you lots, and everything else you want! You’ll get new cars every couple of years, enormous homes, NBA Championship games, annual vacations, retirement, countless movies glorifying your achievements, rock music, leaked nudes of starlets, gold coins, eBay, adjustable dumbbells, riding lawn mowers, and everything else you could dream of!

This deal was acceptable. It worked. Because of this even exchange, or really, an exchange that benefited white men, liberalism progressed through the system unopposed. There was no competition because everyone liked how things were going.

I get a kick out of the posts that young white nationalists sometimes leave on message boards and blogs and such. Some of them seem to think that white men have some kind of “pathological altruism” and that this magical affliction is why they don’t really fight liberals. Um, no. Open your eyes, people!

All of this talk of “equality” is just window dressing. People went along with it for the free stuff, not for any dumb, childish ideals. Liberals, at least at one time, knew this. But they’ve forgotten it.

Talk to a liberal today, and you can see it in his eyes that he actually believes his own propaganda. He thinks that people are “against racism” rather than “pro-free stuff”. He has internalized the liberal selling points to the extent that he thinks they’re actually real and that people actually think like that.

It is not so, but he believes it.

He doesn’t realize that white men will act today in the same way that they always have since the beginnings of their race: they will act in their own best interest. You know, like every other group of people on Earth. The difference is that now, in 2015, things are different. Now their best interest lies in opposing liberalism, rather than strengthening it.

In the same way that I chuckle at young rightists whose dreams are filled with nonsense about “pathological altruism”, so too do I laugh at those on the left who seem to think that they’ve “won” something, as though there had actually been a competition. In particular, I laugh at those on the left who seem to think that they can just push around their new enemies, white men, at their leisure, in spite of there being no evidence at all that they can actually do this.

The Mr. Magoo of politics, Obama (of course), seems to be particularly afflicted with this. He just can’t see anything, even if it is right in front of him. He and his followers can’t see that nobody cares about “racism” and nobody ever has.

To explain: I don’t much like black people. I don’t and never have. It’s my personal preference. However I will pretend otherwise provided I get something in return, i.e., retirement, 401(k)s, job security, new cars, topless scenes of Emma Watson, etc. See, if you remove those incentives from the equation, what is the purpose of me continuing the pretense of actually liking blacks? If there is no reward for doing so, why should I act in a way that I don’t want to?

And this is how a good 90% of people in my demo, middle to working class white men, think. And now that liberals have broken their end of the bargain, now that the flow of really nice cheap stuff and retirement benefits has stopped, the mask will inevitably come off my demographic in the future. The near future, I suspect.

And when it comes off, the wrath will be ugly. The punishments meted out will be far reaching, farther even than the most angry of right wing people expect. Why? Because that’s what tends to happen.

Necessary movements tend to take on a life of their own. When they get going, they crash down barriers and topple everything, leaving nothing spared. Back in the twenties, when liberalism came into it’s own, not even the staunchest of liberals would have expected then that gay marriage was inevitable. Not even the most “liberal” back then would have thought that today’s immigration policies would have even been possible, or that we would have a mulatto President.

Likewise, even the most far of the right today doesn’t see white power politics ever becoming a major if not overwhelming political force. They are going to be surprised. It will happen. They also don’t see the liberal establishment personalities being attacked and destroyed for things said decades prior. But that, too, will happen, just as conservatives are attacked today for things they said back in the seventies.

So yeah, Obama is going to lose. I don’t care about whatever meager defenses he’s preparing against the inevitable. Because it stood in the way of history, because it refused to give room to other, necessary viewpoints, liberalism will be crushed and tossed into the dustbin of history.

They’re going to lose. Badly.

The big story today is Obama’s push against “extremism”, especially that coming from online sources. Ostensibly, the target here is ISIS, although we of course know that the real one is the American working class. The regime wants to keep it’s slaves quiet.

Whatever it is that Obama’s doing, it isn’t going to work. There’s no chance.

The most recent Gallup poll, taken around his declaration of war against ISIS, has Obama’s approval rating at a hideous 47%, which frankly shocks even me. At that rating, now, he is clearly doomed. At that rating, his party has no future. At that rating, his vision will not come to pass.

For Obama’s “vision” I’m referring to his recent conversation with Vox, in which he revealed that his overall goal is to ruin the white middle class entirely with things like immigration and social engineering.

That isn’t going to happen. Not at 47%, right here, in today’s world.

To explain my feelings, the price of gasoline just dropped by 50% where I live. It went down by $2.25 a gallon. And that did… nothing for Obama’s approval ratings. Nothing. He is doomed.

47%… by far the lowest ever for a President entering into a conflict against a frightening, hostile foreign power. Remember when Bush declared war on Al-Qaeda, and his approval rating was at 98%, and that rating stood out because it seemed too low? Remember when he 2 years later went after Hussein, and his approval was hovering around 75%? Remember when Bush the elder had his Iraq war, and his approval was at 90%? Remember when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and FDR became so popular he was impossible to criticize?

But now… Obama declares war on ISIS, a menacing bogeyman seemingly designed from the start to be everything that Americans love to hate… and all Obama can muster is a pitiful 47% approval rating. That’s not even half!

And if history is a good teacher, that 47% will be a high point. Approval ratings always dip significantly after initial hostilities when the reality of war sets in. So hello 30’s, if not 20’s! I’m seeing a vision here of Obama leaving office with all of his support coming from only 3 places: 1) Blacks and Mulattos, 2) Hollywierd, and 3) college students and teachers. Which would put his approval at a ghastly, and not impossible, 20%.

Obama has brought doom to his constituents, and to his movement as a whole. As America’s first “black” President, he has simply confirmed the worst stereotypes about his race and nothing else. When he isn’t acting like some lunatic 3rd world dictator, he is the biggest, most bumbling idiot you’ve ever seen. He simply cannot inspire respect. He can’t seem to get it in any situation, no matter the circumstances. Can anyone imagine FDR going to war to war against the Axis powers with a 47% approval rating at the start of the conflict?

Obama is by far the most unpopular President in American history. He has singlehandedly ruined his party, the politics of liberalism and perhaps multiracialism as a whole. He is doomed- utterly, thoroughly and completely.

It is over.

After him, the revolution.

is by far the greatest woman on Earth.

She is the pinnacle of everything a hot chick should be.

This morning was epic. It was incredible. Here’s what happened: First, I woke up a year older. Today’s my birthday! Epic! And when I woke up, I got a hunch that I *might* want to google Taylor Swift. Maybe her video leaked early! But I didn’t. Something told me it would work out better if I didn’t.

See, the video *DID* leak early. And it’s just awesome that it did!!!! See, maybe this video is a birthday present, and Tay wanted me to see it early! But I’m glad I didn’t see it before work, though. I saw it AT work, with the sound off, as soon as I got in.

It’s INCREDIBLE. WOW WOW WOW WOW Taylor is hot. Hottest girl in the WORLD by far. I mean, there is no competition in her class!! None at all!!! She’s perfect. That’s all there is to it.

So now because I didn’t fuck her this morning, I’m going to be thinking about Tay alllll day long at work, which is going to be awesome. I can’t WAIT to see her video with the sound on tonight. It’s going to be the greatest birthday present I’ve ever received. I just can’t WAIT for it. Tay is perfect. So perfect! It’s like she planned all of this out for me!

And then- an omen. An OMEN. I swear to God! Immediately after I saw the video, I went downstairs into the cafeteria to get some breakfast and I saw a Valentine’s Day cookie. A cookie that looked like TAYLOR!!!!

I’m not even kidding. It had a blushing girl’s face on it, with bright red lipstick in a heart shape, big expressive eyes, and it even looks like she’s wearing lots of makeup. I couldn’t believe it! The cookie is an omen. A sign. I bought the cookie as soon as I saw it.

All day today, I’m going to be munching on this wonderfully tasty cookie and dreaming of Taylor. It’s going to be the greatest birthday ever. My favorite birthday. See, it’s Friday the 13th- like any witch, I’ve always liked Friday the 13th, and it’s the 13th of the month. That’s important because Taylor and I both have a lucky number in 13. It’s just one of the magical things we share.

This is going to be awesome. I’m technically “middle aged” now. If this is what it’s like to be “middle aged” then thank God I’m old! This is amazing!

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I wrote this blog post today at 10:00 a.m.

needs to stop being so annoying and tyrannical.

I know what I just said about bringing in more of the light, but I read something today that offended me greatly, and this is after a string of related incidents. Something needs to change here, and it needs to change fast.

It seems that Taylor is issuing legal threats against her old guitar teacher. Not good, Tay. Not good for any reason. I’m not a professional musician myself, but not even I can see myself threatening my old guitar teacher with lawsuits, not even if he wanted to tell a story or two about me. Taylor, you owe this guy. Instead of publicly threatening him, how about you cut him a check for some meaningless amount- say $25,000- with the stipulation that he quietly shut down his site? That would have avoided the negative publicity, yes?

Taylor, if you’re reading this, you know what Swifties are like. (Lord knows I do). We are an obsessive, scary bunch of people. Why would you create a situation where they would go after somebody who was instrumental in your success? Especially when you know that that person doesn’t have the resources to defend himself? And who is next? Are you going to send them after me now for some reason? Taylor, don’t do this. People will hesitate to help you if this becomes a trend.

Bluntly, I don’t like some of the actions Taylor’s taken lately. Why is her legal team sending frightening cease and desist letters to Etsy sellers? Why is she attacking everyone else’s videos on YouTube? Why is she pulling her music from streaming services? She’s being rude, annoying, and scary. I hope that she’s not showing her true colors with these actions.

Every good fan- positive action she’s taken lately, like sending out a care package, has been balanced out by a negative one, like banning her fans from YouTube because they might post lyric videos to her songs.

I don’t like that.

And beyond YouTube, I don’t much like how her highness is attacking others’ artistic efforts on Etsy and eBay, either. It’s irritating, it’s wrong, and it’s pissing off her most loyal fans. This whole “Etsy” thing is making me recall a negative moment that I had with her legal team a couple of years ago.

I had forgotten about this. That I’m remembering it now isn’t good. At the height of the Red Tour Taylor mania, I bought a very cool, custom made guitar pick case on eBay to house my Taylor Swift guitar pick collection. It was awesome- it was a shiny stainless steel box with a beautiful, laser engraved image of Swifty on the top. It was a work of art; it was absolutely unique and would have been perfect.

I bought the case at work, and since I didn’t have my PayPal login info there, I couldn’t pay for it immediately after buying it. I had to finish the workday and go home first. So after I got home I was surprised to find that the order had been cancelled because someone- I’m assuming Taylor’s legal team- attacked the seller. They had somehow got wind that he was selling unauthorized Swift merchandise, even after the item had been sold! So no cool box for me. Someone powerful came down hard on the seller for the box, for some dumb reason.

In the end, I did eventually get the box, but I had to circumvent eBay’s rules to get it. It was a chore and completely unnecessary, and two dedicated Swifties were intimidated for good reason at all.

I had totally forgotten about that incident until now.

Hrrummph. Watch it, Taylor. I’m a fan, but don’t forget your place.

And another thing- I, personally, don’t want to see Taylor collaborating with the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West and Beyonce. I’m referring here to her rumored desire to make a song with Kanye and have lunch with Jay-Z for some business deal or some other such thing.

Tay, you are underestimating the amount of ill feelings that exist towards people like Kanye and Jay-Z. Underestimating them greatly, I suspect. Neither Jay-Z nor Kanye are good people. Neither is Beyonce. I want nothing to do with any of them. They are poison, they are friends of Obama, and they will be punished with him in the revolution. Don’t get close to them, dear. Stay away- you have enough money already!

You may joke about this being me just being paranoid, but that’s fine, so long as you listen. You are too sheltered to hear the things that I do when I leave the house. If you were to hear what I hear regularly, you wouldn’t be doing this.

Besides their complicity in aiding Obama’s sadistic raping of the American economy, you must understand that people like Jay-Z and Kanye West are threatening the physical safety of your fanbase. They are the curators of the “angry black man” culture that is destroying the fabric of their own race, and causing innumerable and increasing incidents of black on white violence across the nation. Someday, perhaps sooner than you think, retribution will be leveled upon them for ruining the country. It is coming and IMHO the lid may get blown off the pot soon, as in this year. And when it does blow, I don’t know what will happen, except to say that it will be stunning. You are going to be shocked- I mean absolutely shocked- at the kind of anger that will be pointed at Kanye and Jay-Z and those like them.

Regardless of politics, your fanbase is not going to be happy with any song that you make with Kanye West, regardless of how good it is. This song will be IMHO a big mistake from a popularity viewpoint, which should be obvious from the YouTube comments to anything that features Kanye or Kim Kardashian these days.

After the Super Bowl, I had a good laugh reading the fast disappearing comments to the Kim Kardashian commercial on YouTube. Check out the video; the URL is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTwzsV3I3OQ. See, the vast majority of people who saw the commercial despised it, mostly because everyone hates Kim. I mean, just look at the like/dislike ratio! I spent a good 15 minutes that night laughing at the hilarious comments people were leaving about Kim there. It was awesome, but I had to catch them quick, because the channel seemed to have hired dedicated personnel to delete the really funny ones before too many people could read them. It was hysterical to watch. I think they got them all in the end, because all I can see are positive comments there now, despite the grotesque like/dislike ratio.

See Tay, if you’re reading this, you DON’T want to be seen as Kim’s peer! Stay away! Your country fanbase, which you are on thin ice with right now, will leave you entirely if that happens!

Remember that video Kanye did? With the horses?

*Shudder*

Look Tay, you were doing great- better than everyone else- at the moment when you released 1989. That being the case, don’t change things. There’s no need to fix what wasn’t broken.

Yes, I do know that Taylor has more money than anyone, but… I don’t know. Things are going to change and change soon. You can feel it in the air. The old ways are dying. Something new and very, very different is being born.

My hope is that Taylor will be a part of the new era. Well, that’s kind of what I was hoping… along with many others. It would suck if her career would amount in the end to be only be evidence that all of this putrid nonsense would need to be tossed overboard.

Which might be what is needed. Taylor has proven herself to be a pillar of the system that is soon going to have to be destroyed.

Taylor Swift, the last of the old era. Not the start of a new one.

*Sigh*… Oh well.

I should have watched them.

I’m spending too much time in darkness, thinking critical thoughts of others and myself. It’s necessary, but… enough!

The function I serve is an important one. I am the Dark Lord of the entertainment industry. In addition to my place of training, toughening up, and guiding (if not actually parenting!) young celebrities, I do that ugliest and most important of all tasks- that of delivering honest, unflinching criticism to those who need it but never hear it.

That’s a tough thing to do, so I make sure to be thorough and confident when I do it. It’s important that I do this, it’s very important that I do this… but… next year, I’m going to watch the Grammys. Too much criticism of others is counterproductive.

And besides, I started this project to have fun- to bring some much needed levity into my life. The stereotypical story path of a necromancer or a vampire is a dreary one indeed. I’m thinking now of Sauron living in the midst of a sea of bumbling orcs in Mordor, Lord Voldemort obsessing over dark magic and immortality to the point where he loses his humanity, and Bram Stroker’s Dracula, which showed vampirism as a curse, not a cool blessing. To spend an eternity in some lonely crumbling castle, with your only company being that of whatever girls you’ve kidnapped to feed upon… yechhh.

That stuff isn’t real, of course, and the life of a cubicle-occupying software developer who lives with his parents is a looooong way from anything I just described, but wow, would anything even close to those fantasies suck in real life. Wow.

So, enough with the darkness.

I must remember that. I must make fun a priority. This means more dancing and more skits with my girlfriends. I’ll make them funny and lighthearted. Hopefully, that’s what I need.

Besides, when I finally do get with Swifty, I’ll need to make sure that I haven’t burned all my bridges beforehand.

Well, I didn’t see them, thank goodness. What a waste of time that would have been.

After reading a few online articles about last night’s ceremony, I think it safe to say that there was nothing in last night’s award show that I could have possibly been interested in.

Is this what it’s like to get older, or it just the usual theme of there being nobody up on stage that I can really relate to?

It’s likely both, I guess. I am getting older, so of course I wouldn’t relate to a youth-oriented show as much as a younger person, but wow, would it kill them to throw me some table scraps in these broadcasts? The recaps of this year’s Grammys make it seem like a night of boring, soulless regime propaganda.

The highlights seemed to be the victories of Sam Smith, an English singer who as of last week I’ve never heard of outside of gossip blogs and the occasional tweet. I heard half of one of his songs a few days ago out of curiosity, but that was all I could bear. He isn’t my taste. Beyonce was featured prominently in the entertainment news today, because she’s always featured prominently in the entertainment news. Nobody knows why. AC/DC, an aging, toothless rock band, was permitted to perform, but only early on; that way their presence would be forgotten in time for lectures about how “black lives matter”, i.e., about how white men are evil because they try to arrest violent black criminals. Taylor was there in a pretty blue dress. Paramore won best Rock Song for one of their pop songs. Kanye apparently screamed something incomprehensible at Beck. Obama, the most incompetent and unpopular President in our country’s history, gave a speech that was no doubt received with rapturous applause by the audience. Katy Perry performed with A Message.

Oy. I want this era to end. It’s becoming so, so tiresome. I mean… Beck was there, in the headlines? Winning Grammys? BECK? I remember the last time I watched the Grammys, hoping to see Beck. It was 1995, and Beck’s “Loser” was on the radio, and I was excited because I got to stay up late on Sunday because I was watching the Grammys FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.

That was twenty years ago! Did anyone even know that Beck had an album out this year? I mean besides the people in the auditorium yesterday?

Things aren’t changing enough in Hollywood.

Pop stars today just don’t leave. They never, ever do. The system doesn’t cycle through them in the way that it used to, which is really the big problem in everything, everywhere in the US these days. It used to be that people would gracefully bow out of the spotlight once their time was up and they ceased to be relevant. The US was made great with this, the reliance on “Out with the old, in with the new”. The constant political, economic, and cultural changes in the US made it flexible and adaptable.

Not, today, though! Those with power refuse to share it. Those with money don’t do anything but hoard it. So nothing ever changes.

That being the case, why should I watch the Grammys? Next year I’ll get to see the exact same program! Only then, it will be a gay black American winning record of the year, instead of a gay Englishman. Wow, what a shocker! That will mean EVERYTHINGS DIFFERENT NOW!!!!!1

I saw that this year’s Grammys took a massive hit in the ratings compared to other recent years. It’s easy to see why. At least, it is for those outside of the auditorium yesterday.

So last night I did my laundry. It was a night well spent.

This is just an unnecessary little update for something that didn’t mean anything.

So yesterday, I cracked the password for the rar and opened it, which of course contained a bunch of fakes. So I was totally right about everything. I always knew that it was just that. I never really thought that there was anything worth getting in there.

Just wanted to clear the situation up so there were no misconceptions.

You know, instead of getting down and out about the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats of the world, what I think I’ll do is… wait… how does that go again?