Every Day I Write The Book

A while back I was invited by Diogenese to participate in the "Why I Blog" project over at QuasiFictional. There are a lot of great responses over there and I was flattered to be asked why I pollute the cybersphere with my rambles. Head on over and take a look and if you want to participate click here.

Few Rambles here for you I collected over the course of my weekend. First off...Attention Johnny Depp Lovers. Rumor patrol has it that he is the first choice to play.....Michael Hutchence in a bio pic. Talk about wet dream material. Depp playing Hutch. It would be interesting. There is a likeness there. Short of Bono circa 87ish, I can't think of anyone else who really looks or has the Hutch vibe.

In other Music as a movie news, I am frickin champing at the bit for Control the bio pic of Ian Curtis lead singer of Joy Division. Anton Corbijn directed it. You all probably would know him best for his lifetime of U2 pictures including the iconic Joshua Tree shots. Anton knew Ian and actually photographed Joy Division. In addition the members of New Order, Ian's wife AND mistress have all participated and gave a thumb up. So distribute it in the USA already! Damn!

Finally on a serious note, I am sure most of you have heard of the Georgia "sex abuse" case regarding Teen Genarlow Wilson who was sent to jail for consensual oral sex with a 15 year old while he was 17. Which is fucking retarded. Mind you, Georgia has some seriously fucked up blue laws most of which yours truly has broken. But if anyone out thinks 15-17 year olds are not fucking they need to pull their heads out of the sand and take a deep breath. The court in their wisdom have overturned the sentence, but the Georgia Attorney General appears to have both a hard on for this poor kid AND his head up his ass and is appealing the courts decision. Please join me in signing Color Of Change's petition demanding that AG Thurbert Baker drop his appeal.

You Should Have Seen The Ratings That Day

Another school shooting. The worst gun massacre on record period, let alone a school one. And coming days before the anniversary of Columbine. What is there to say anymore? Is there any dialogue we, as a nation, can have that will actually mean anything at this point? Or are we too far gone?

I, personally, support the right to own a gun. I don't support the right to own assault weapons that are best left in the hands of SWAT teams. The problem is, in many of these cases the guns used are plain old hand guns. A 9 mm and a 22 in todays attack according to the authorities. Not what you would call Soldier of Fortune models. And for all we know, the gunman had them in his possession legally. And frankly all of these gun control chestnuts deflect from one salient fact. The buck stops with the perpetrator. Ultimately they are responsible. Not the gun or the hollow points, the video games or Marilyn Manson, the Prozac or the parents. The shooters are responsible. Seems to me that all the finger pointing and blame shifting underscores a very big problem in our society. Lack of personal accountability.

Is it me, or is it getting a bit depressing being a member of the human race? There are times when I think God, Allah, Yahweh, et all are not doing us any favors by not bring down the wrath in the form of biblical population wipe outs. Cause man, as a species, we seem to be becoming collectively stupider and less willingly to take responsibility for our lives with each passing decade.

Maybe Darwin was wrong afterall...