You wanna know why I don’t like the by-now-famous vampire series that kinds picked up the Harry Potter crowd.  Not only does it involve the heavy over marketing and hyper commercialization that Harry Potter is cursed with, well, I’ll just let the book writing God, Stephen King, sum it up for you.

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good." – Reference:  Exclusive: Stephen King on J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes life just ain’t fair.  People would say that I make a very imaginative story, and the teabaggers just go gaga over Blood and Metal, but I hear more people referring to Troll Sites than people who want to buy them.  And some half-witted hack who just spits out 200 pages of vampire sex—and people say that I’m a freak—and becomes an international sensation?  Just because of a bunch of rabid squealing elitist school girls prefer dreaming about vampires that glitter—Glitter!—Did Dracula glitter?!  Would Dracula rather greet the sunrise with open arms than be caught with a bit of glitter on him?  I can just hear him now:  “Take me, Sun!  Take me!”—who’d look at everyone else as the great fucking unwashed.

Some of them probably photoshop dicks on Stephen King’s face.

Important Note beforehand:  I made a comment to a previous post: http://www.foxfirestudios.net/BloodAndMetal/wordpress/2009/10/31/net-assholes-and-the-nuclear-option/ which describes Mookie’s whole attitude about web comic forums and the constant constant constant negativity that can drag people down.  I now go to the task at hand.

As some of you are aware of, Microsoft Office 2010 is in Beta now, and you can download it for free.  I’ve already sung it’s praises as a decent office suite for the first half of my novel writing.  I like the Word Counter and how it puts comments on the side for future reference.  It does it’s job really well up to the point where I need to tinker in the code like a hardened text editor writer of HTML.  But that’s when I start looking into formatting it into a book file.  MS Word’s pretty decent for the first draft and such.

Well, there’s a little addition that some of you may be interested in.  Remember Microsoft Works, the kid brother of MS Office.  Well, they’re discontinuing that with 2010 and replacing it with a lower-powered version of Office 2010 which has most of the more used features—including that word counter

Enter Office 2010 Starter

I grant you, it’s crippled, and it’s ad-supported, and it installs over the web and has a crazy Virtualization Handler that can screw up some things.  And for some reason it doesn’t play well with Office Beta when it comes to File Associations.  But if you can deal with that, you can use it for free.  In fact, it’s going to be released for free.  You can pay for an upgrade for the full version later.  Or that’s what Microsoft claims.

Granted some people would just stick with Open Office and leave it at that.  And after XBox Live did a blanket ban of a million users you’re convinced that Microsoft don’t actually want people to play with their chronically crashing consoles.  I’m more of a Playstation guy anyway.  But for some reason only MS Word will do.  Having a limited version of Word for free on your computer—at times it even comes preinstalled in your next Windows 7 machine—would be enough for you to scratch a little itch.

I only wished they released this about a month ago, though, for WriMos to use en masse.  There’s your beta testers for ya.

(It’s still no WordPerfect though. But there’s yet to be a perfect word processor out there still.)

…much like getting punished for a good deed.

There’s a reason why I re-worded Glenn Beck’s 9-12 principles.  Especially Principle #5.  I turned “You do the crime you do the time” to “Whatever you do for good or ill should be returned to you in kind,” because of shit like this:  http://www.foxnewsradio.com/2009/11/16/the-only-good-hoe/#axzz0X91jsjIz

A Boy Scout wanted to clear a walkway so he can get his Eagle Badge, and he getting his college funds sued by a Douchebag Union.

This is why most kids don’t bother leaving their basements.  (And it certainly kept me from several career choices or even driving a car.)

Would this union be happy if this kid’s sole accomplishment in life is to be able to launch a nuke in Modern Warfare 2?  In a more sane world, that union would want to woo this kid into their fold; he’s a fucking Eagle Scout for Christ’s sake!  If there’s anyone who’ll be able to succeed in life it should be this kid.  And is the Unions telling this kid that all that time and energy is only going to put him into the poor house to the tune of the rank and file’s jerking off and cries of “Stop being Butthurt, Retard?!”

If this the kind of America you want to live in.  I surly don’t.

You haven’t made it until someone spoofs you.  Believe me, I know what’s it like, Glenn.

And in BAM 02, Eric Krockett—Yes, I had to put in the last name—uses not one Chalk Board, but TWO!

Eric K:  And in between I tea bag Priness Sarah while she’s wearing a French Maid outfit and drop kick Michael Moore to Alpha Centari!

No you didn’t, you big liar…And don’t even think of pulling on that arm bar you just sinked on me, I use ten fingers when I type.

Eric C: . . . I like this guy.

Reference:  http://www.jaynaylor.com/originallife/

You know, Thomas, that is why I’m a Power Metal listener.

Meanwhile, I’m pretty much in deep with the NaNoWriMo book, that’s why I didn’t comment much on what was going on this month.  But I’ll do my best to keep everyone up to date on Scarlet’s original Adventures.

I just heard Bloomburg’s acceptance speech as Mayor of New York City, and he said something that is incredibly stupid:

“After 9-11, when they said that it would take decades for New York to recover from the attacks at he World Trade Center, you proved them wrong.”

(Please let me know if that line needs editing)

That was 2001

That was 2002

That was 2004

That was 2007

And this is 2009.

Recovered from the attacks, Michael Bloomburg?  Recovered you say, you dumb retard?!

BULL.  FUCKING.  SHIT!

Your grandfathers built the Empire State Building, the tallest building of that time, in little over a year.  Eighteen Months!  1 Month under.  5 Million USD left over.  And you tell me that you can’t build the Freedom Towers by 2010?!

Fuck you, Bloomburg, Fuck you in the ass!

And the Mets suck the Yankee’s goonches!