Terran Franklin

You wanna know why this guy’s so popular?  (The bald guy who was the former marine, Chicago Cop, and Jerry Springer bouncer, not what I call his ‘Pet Moron of the Day.’)

It’s because of assholes like this guy:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584361,00.html

Wouldn’t you want to just smack someone who would light a puppy on fire in front of their kids?

If Wilcos wasn’t a Marine, he would.

But he wants to, oh, would he want to.

That’s what I thought about this report:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583948,00.html

Phoebe Prince is a recent victim of what’s known as Bullycide, where a young child has been pushed so far by bullies that they ended up killing themselves.  It’s one of the terms that should have been penned decades—or even centuries—prior since I believe these stories weren’t so rapidly reported yet; I think the (local to me) story of Megan Meyer finally brought the term to the forefront.  It is also driven worse with the internet and the post 9-11 environment where people have been in general a lot more jackassicial (is that a word, it should though) and we have the recent trend of cyberbullying, or Internet Harrassment, or outright trolling that is the proverbial plague that is killing the internet, or so the meme goes.

Most people would have just mourned the loss of this bright and pretty freshman who was driven too far and left it at that, and even have a web page made as a memorial for her friends to remember her by.

Unfortunately, they made that memorial on Facebook.  The page is friends-only.  And there’s a reason for that.

And the assholes literary came out of every nook and cranny giving her the An Hero treatment.  I don’t know if there were the same bitches who drove Phoebe to death and all, and I wished I knew what those deleted responses were so I can show what an asshole is, but I can be certain that there are some who would want to write Phoebe’s eulogy the same way they did Mitchel Henderson.  (Knowing what would happen to me here is a great suicide deterrant.)

If you have no words to say about how someone can jeer someone’s death, you’re not alone.  All I can say is that it’s the general sense of disconnectedness that we have today from the mid naughts on.  It started with the still-prevalent and chronic trend of Bush Derangement Syndrome and it trickled down to open hostility to your common man.  You occasionally see it in real life, but it’s more of less status quo in some parts of the internet.  And believe me, it can be downright nasty.  We’ve fell quite far from the time where people considered the people around them as a fellow human being; even if they didn’t look on with affection, they at least show a live and let live.  We don’t have that today, and it’s why some of us feel that we as a people, or at least this country, has backslidden considerably from our pinnacles in the mid to late 20th century.

It isn’t the kind of world our forefathers wanted to have for us, and like I said so often here, it’s not the kind of world I want to live in.

(which means, if you want to tell me to kill yourself, I have three words:  “You first, asshole.")

Here’s a fine example of why an important news reporter in Vinanos, an occasional narrator in Blood and Metal, is inspired by this guy:

It’s a pretty honest take on Ba Rock, which is pretty much on par with where I’m coming from.  I do tend to highlight the moments when the President does right, as I said before, because I believe that he’s doing what he thinks is the right thing even though he and I might stand on different ideologies.  And in some cases, he gets it.

That’s what he’s doing with Haiti.  While people say that what’s happening at that unfortunate island is a centuries-long karma debt being paid <cough>Robertson</cough> or an indirect attack from the US by some weapon thought up by too much sci fi and masturbation <hack>Chavez</hack> or even claim that we as a people caused this earthquake because we didn’t take the lead in some climate change treaty <wheeze>Glover</wheese>, President Obama merely kept things on a realistic level, he shoveled all that nose with the rest of the bullshit and focused on the poor people suffering there, and pretty much just asked people to give how they can.  That’s what we as a people, globally, should do.  The world’s shitty enough, people, please don’t add to it.

Meanwhile, I think that the recent surprise win of Scott Brown to Kennedy’s seat in the senate would be a Godsend to him.  (At least now we can finally retire Teddy’s liver.  I think it was still functioning and could possibly speak and stab people.)  I believe since November of 08 that he should work on bridging the gap between Republican and Democrats, Conservative and Liberal, Red and Blue.  Unfortunately up to now, he had a congress pretty much run by Reed and Pilosi, two radical Progressives.  These are where most of my negativity is aimed at, mainly because they had the desire, and was clearly seen with the ability, to really push some very bad laws down the people’s throats.  Especially laws as long as some telephone books and include shit that will remind some of that recent Glenn Beck documentary.  (Nobody will stand to having to go to some grand jury and have to justify their existence to a group of people who are listening to your perceived whining with one hand and jacking off with the other.  In fact, the person trying to defend his right to exist will actually hear the fapping.  I wish I was making this up, I’ve just described how Sarah Palin’s son would fare, or that kid who got voted out of sixth grade, or Chris-chan, or myself.  It wouldn’t hurt to think of that Niemöller poem in reverse; they might be coming for you sooner than you expected.)

But now that the Republicans now have a filibuster-able minority in the Senate (The Progressives will have to use some dangerous moves that will flat out guarantee their power, but also their demise if they use them.  That’s why they call it the “Nuclear Option”) and there’s a good chance that they’ll get a lot more seats in both houses during the mid-term, President Obama would have an environment that will actually be more productive for him.  For a long time, I’ve been saying that the radical left in congress that is dragging the President—and all of America with him—to places that most of America—and possibly Obama as well—do not want to go. All these Tea Parties we’ve seen this year did not occur in a vacuum, you know.  With a more balanced congress, Obama can now focus on working on Legislation that will be a vast improvement than the crap that we’ve been seeing this past year.

Health care does need some needful changes, no argument with me there; it can be a real flustercluck in some areas.  But it must be done right.  It would be better to do nothing than push through an encyclopedia long reform bill that nobody has a chance to read and contain so many regulations, pork, and dreck which is what Pilosi and Reed are doing, with an upturned nose to every non-progressive person in the whole country.  It was what Pilosi had explicitly done.  If starting over from scratch and have the folks at the other side of the aisle actually have their say and be listened to…and considered for once…just so that we can have some decent working—and readable—reform, and that we won’t have horror stories like what we’ve heard over the past summer—or just last Friday on Fox News—so be it.  I’d rather see it done right, than right now.

It took me a while for me to do it, but I managed to get enough story in the Second book of Blood and Metal to get it out of the first draft.  Finally.  Now I can move on to the second draft of the project, and I’ll start with the Scarlet PI Book 1 first, since that book’s been waiting longer in the queue.  With whatever time free from that and whatever artwork commissions you buy from me, let me know if you’re interested ( davidfoxfire@foxfirestudios.net ) I’ll be planning out a new project for Script Frenzy, the script version of NaNoWriMo.  Since this happens in April, I have some time to piddle about and plan.  I’ll tell you more about it as time goes on, but I’ll say now that it’s 1) a shorter project, only a one parter, and 2) it’s probably the last part of the projects I’ve taken from my Lost Decade, where I take a character that I’ve been working on for a long time—in fact, it’s one of my first characters I’ve made—and give him a story to call his home and then leave him or her at peace.  I might rework one more project (Piasa, of all places) but it’ll be as completely redone—if not more so—than what I did with BAM.

But that’s out in the future.  I need to read over the Scarlet PI book some and work on those revisions.

…about THIS;  http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/752779—avatar-gives-lucas-impetus-to-revamp-star-wars-for-3-d

Wait til after his dad goes “Trust your feelings, you know it to be true!”

That was my initial response to Lucas going over to his glory days to further fuck it up, don’t you.

Will somebody PLEASE Force Choke George Lucas!?

Pat Robertson is an Asshole!  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582988,00.html

Small wonder people cheered when Oral Roberts died.

Or anything that comes out of  Bathtub Boy, Keith Oberfuckerers, fluffer mouth.

ITEM:  Scarlet PI

The first draft of the Series book 1 is out of the first draft, and will be the first in the Second Draft queue right after BAM Book 02 when I finish with that.  Hopefully by the end of this month.

ITEM:  Art Commissions

I’ve finished all paid commissions—finally—after the holidays, so I’m free to do that if you want.  I have the pricings available at my Deviant Art page, and we can haggle if need be.

ITEM:  Script Frenzy.

Script Frenzy is the April Script version of National Novel Writing Month, and is available online at www.scriptfrenzy.org .  I’ll be making a long-desired run at a Script, and I’ll tell you more in the coming weeks.

ITEM:  You’ve Gotta See This

This is a clear sign that you might want to tone things down when you’re in a car.  These new one’s can’t handle the rock and roll like the older models can:

I would have posted this sooner, after some decent holidays, but there was an emergency:  A loved one of one of my out-of-state uncles died, and my mother had to go to Chicago for the week. And guess who had to be yanked out of bed too early in the morning to petsit for a week?

So much for all those leftovers I had, right?

<shrug>  Oh well.  But at least the response wasn’t like this shit:

Rush Limbaugh is in hospital for chest pains.  Left Bloggers have a collective fap.

God as my witness, I fucking wish I was kidding about the masturbation.  When I heard that Ted Kennedy had finally passed away, outside of the obvious, “Well, we don’t have to preserve the body, do we?” crack, I pretty much left him alone.  (I’d probably do the same with Oral Roberts.  “Well, looks like God finally called his ass home.  Let’s move on.”  Compare that to the wingnuts who would line up to Rush’s grave to piss on it, and then go to Michael Jackson’s grave and offer offerings hoping he could acquire sainthood. (And weren’t they considering him little more than a wacko pedo, oh, I don’t know, just about This Time Last Fucking Year?)

I keep finding myself turning to Cracked for my editorial references.  I’d like to drag some people’s noses doggie style to this article, where David Wong written these bits of sage wisdom that I, or Eric Krockett for that matter, would live by:

“Celebrating the death of somebody you disagreed with pretty much makes you a dick….Falwell had a family. Friends. He was a human being. You cheer over his corpse and you’re just acting like a pecker.”  (And I should add, regardless of whatever he lives or dies by this, Rush Lmbaugh.)

Or for that matter, Sean Hannity, or Glenn Beck, or even—start bewailing me now—Chris-fucking in front of the webcam-Chan.

Honestly, when I reported that my mother had breast cancer, my first thought wasn’t about my mother, but of someone putting it on the Chans and rail at me over it saying that I fucking gave her that cancer by all the stuff I posted online.  (Think it wouldn’t happen, in a way?  I just described Tony Snow.)  I did not put that above some people.  Fortunately for me, I had a more supporting response.  At least directly.

…<sigh>  And people wondering why I’m re-writing Blood and Metal as a transplanting America to another country?  America is a bud from a rosebush that might be dead by 2020, or even 2012 for that matter.

In comparison, the Orc Land storyline from Domminic Deegan is coming to a close.  And while some people decry and debase just about every strip that Mookie makes—or for that matter, every panel or even brush stroke—he does have a point to make at the end of the story.  Here is Luna, a human cursed since birth by an Orc to have orc teeth for all of her life, and was pretty much dragged through hell since birth before she met Dom, and trust me on this, she had self-esteem issues something fierce.  But she has somehow overcome all that and began the steps to restore the Orc’s homeland in spite of the orc—shown in the strip above—who cursed her.  In the next strip, this chief begged her forgiveness, and if it were any other Callanian, he would have—and from some opinion should have—been executed on the spot.

But that is not the Orc’s way, or even Mookie’s, as he’ll state in his blog:  (Scroll down for the words.)

If I wanted to be truly realistic about the orc clans coming together under the rain I could spend another year telling that story alone. If orcs were more like humans they would debate about how the miracle truly came to pass, which of their belief systems was the “true” one that brought it about, the implications of another race interfering in a time of great religious significance and countless other things that you’d find in the news.

But no. In my ideal world, when people are presented with a miracle of great benevolence they find it in their hearts to put their differences aside and rejoice as one, truly remembering that we are all in this together and that compassion should not be delegated or debated, but simply shared… where even an old man scarred by racism and hatred can find the will to love and forgive again.

It breaks my heart that I will likely never see this sort of thing in the real world, so I put my ideals, however foolish and naive some may claim them to be, in my world.

There are times I wish humans were more like my orcs.

No shit, Mookie.  Because in our world we have shit like this, taken from YuYu Hakusho #1, scanned from US Shonen Jump 1-1.  (Used as a reference.  Viz even thinks of infringement, I’m going to their office for a little Mind Crushing…with a hammer.)

If you ever made an eulogy as heartless as this (typical) High School Principal, do the world a favor and kill yourself.  If you are a High School Principle and have said that, do it on school grounds.  Both arms.  The long way.  At least do that right.

Let it not be you who eulogized anybody in this manner, or in a manner of a Moonbat bloggie.  Nobody deserves to be fapped over while they’re dying.  Not even Rush Limbaugh.