The Hook Brings You Back

 Carry On My Wayward Son

There'll Be Peace When You Are Done

Wow - Been a while. How's everyone out there in blogland? I'm seeing a dramatic drop in the amount of blogging going on in favor of what I'll call "Blogging-Lite". Facebook, Twitter and the like have streamlined our social accessibility as well as imposed 200-words-or-less editorial demands on our thoughts we share online. I have to admit, I've fallen a bit farther into Facebook than I meant to. MySpace wasn't as user-friendly (or as orderly), but still, I can't help but feel that I'm really just contributing to the great worldwide delusion that I have more friends than I actually do. On the other hand, I'm  not the most social of butterflies, so these social networking sites have very little to offer me.

My Life in Sperm Count

I just turned 42 - for a man who vividly remembers 22, I can't help but wonder; "Where did the time go?" Then I remember all the daily masturbation sessions I've had over the past 20 years and think, "Where did all the Kleenex go?"

My Life in Video

I'm quite sure that whoever posted my PRIVATE Kali-Pencak Silat DVD on a torrent site didn't mean for it to get such positive responses. Well, fuck you, and live in anguish. Not only have I found it on 20 torrent sites (including Demonoid) but apparently everyone loves it. I have been inundated with requests to make a series of some kind. I might do that - we'll see. I have to admit, it's rather gratifying to see dozens of positive reviews about something that I consider dumbed-down basics. I'm now putting it up on my (Fuck! Still down!) website for public FTP downloads. Enjoy more Bobbe without the headache of bit torrent!

Also: I'm putting up a Paypal donation button on this blog and my facebook page, for those who wish to contribute for the free DVD to the Fix Bobbes' Back Fund (or FBBF). I dunno, it might inspire me to upload more goodies.

Brave New World

I got a new Droid X last month, and it must be noted here that if there's one thing you can truthfully say about smartphones, they're anything but smart. Every time I plug it into my computer, it wants to automatically sync up with a website that demands more bandwidth than Netflix in Hi-Def, and for some reason insists on changing my ringtones every time it sees my music server. Also, it won't upgrade my scrabble game, and that's starting to piss me off. I had a record streak going here.

The screen is large enough to land a Harrier jump-jet on, and the hi-def camera and camcorder built in take reasonably good images and videos. There's pre-installed bluetooth, and the sound is quite clear. However, the Droid has lots of cool gadgets and games, 90% of which I am either completely bored with or have no use for at all. But the thing is, I also can't DELETE anything that comes as part of the "Droid Package" (Yeah, I know how it sounds, keep the smarmy comments to yourself, whaddaya say?).  Like the Kindle app, for instance. It's not really an app, it's a link that points you to a site for you to BUY the app. Same thing with Blockbuster video downloads (the absolute LAST video company I would ever use, if forced to use one at all) John Madden's football, and half a dozen other lovely bloatware programs.

I hate when a company does that, the first thing I star thinking of is what kind of retard APPROVED that shit? I paid out the yang for this phone, I don't want some bullshit apps that I can't erase. Damn, that's like buying an expensive car and having a dead hooker in the trunk that you can never get rid of. Even if it's a skinny Asian hooker that doesn't take up much room and never rots...You STILL KNOW she's back there. 

Does anyone even remember dial-up internet, or how clumsy Windows 98 was? Remember computer monitors that only had two colors; Orange and black? Has anyone noticed that we are no longer pushing technology along - it's yanking us behind it, faster than we can keep up?

Bad Boys...And Girls

Has anyone noticed the beating the Seattle Police Dept. has taken the past year? I wonder what's going on with those guys? I don't have a heavy-handed sermon about this, I honestly want to know what the freak-spank is happening down at headquarters? The guy who shot the wood carver, the cop who slugged a belligerent teenage girl (that was captured on video), the officer(s) who kicked a homeless guy that was not resisting on the sidewalk (and was ALSO videoed) as well as several other back-and-forth incidents this past year...I have to ask myself if greater Metropolitan Seattle hasn't just lost its' damn mind: Cops and Civilians alike. Hitting a cop? When does that get smart? That's a mandatory assault and battery charge, no questions asked. Coming towards a cop with a knife in your hand? Not the highest ranking act on the list of "Things That Will Guarantee a Long Life". Shooting Cops in a Starbucks? Why not simply jump into an active volcano, moron? You don't have to be a psychic to predict how THAT fucker would've ended up. Kicking a civilian who didn't raise a hand against you? What, you think wearing that badge gives you some sort of carte blanche?

I spent most of my childhood on the wrong side of the law, and as a homeowner and husband, I find it ironic how supportive I am of the police today.

But seriously, guys...Knock it the hell off.