Halloween Costumes

Halloween will soon be here. It's one of my favorite holidays. I enjoy the fantasy of it. I like seeing the costumes people wear. From time to time, I've dressed up for Halloween. I dressed up as King Diamond for a party some years back and last year I was the wrestler Mankind at Glenn's party. When I do dress up, I don't do cute. I can't stand cute costumes unless kids are wearing them. I'd rather wear something scary, cool or unusual. I also like costumes that hide who I am. Something with a really cool mask. Zentai make great Halloween costumes because they make you anonymous. Not all the zentai designs are to my liking though. Patterns that would make me look like an oversized puppy I won't wear. The same goes for zentai sporting animal ears and a tail. And the garment must cover my entire body. Once it's zipped up, there must be no openings. Granted this makes it harder to see and I'd have to unmask to eat anything, but I like being totally hidden. I ordered two more zentais recently. The order was placed mid October but it was delayed due to the Halloween rush. My original order was for a desert camouflage design for one and a cracked earth design for the other. Unfortunately, Zentai Box can no longer get the cracked earth design. I replaced it with a blue and white wavy striped pattern. It had a sort of cold themed supervillain vibe to it. Because of the problems I had with the metallic zentai I ordered a while back, they said they'd give me a discount. I asked them if they'd give me a free black metallic hood instead and they agreed. I also got another discount because the blue and white wavy striped zentai costs a little more than the cracked earth design. And the great thing is they suggested this design as a replacement. I can't wait for the order to arrive. It will be a great birthday present. Mike

Republicans on Rape: Updated

Some members of the Republican Party seem to have a real knack for putting their feet in their mouths when it comes to the subject of rape. Todd Akin's comment that women who are "legitimately raped" can somehow turn off their reproductive organs and not become pregnant not only reveals his disdain of women, it also reveals a profound lack of understanding of female anatomy and physiology. Does this fucking moronic jackass really believe the shit spewing out of his mouth? Then we have the comment made by Richard Mourdock that "even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen." So I'm to understand that if God really wants a woman to get pregnant, he might arrange for that to happen via rape. God so wants her to conceive and bear a child that he arranges for her to suffer the physical and psychological trauma of being raped. Am I to take it then that we shouldn't prosecute said rapist because he's doing the Lord's work? Did you suffer some sort of brain trauma as a child, Mr. Mourdock or are you as fucking stupid as the rest of your Republican brethren? In the Republican Party platform it states that they are against in vitro fertilization. So if a woman wants to have baby via this method, they won't let her do it. But if she gets pregnant as the result of being raped, she must carry her little gift from God to term. I find it difficult to believe that there are women that actually support the Republican Party but I guess some of them are that stupid. The Republicans' desire to have absolute control over females' reproductive choices borders on the pathologically misogynistic. Who gave these sick fucking jerk-offs the right to take away a woman's reproductive choices?

   I found a Daily Kos article that included a revised version of Republican Rape Advisory chart that was created by Connecticutie.

Hatred: Self or Otherwise

There are times when I wish the entire world would fuck itself in the ass sideways with a dead cat. I get tired of dealing with the moronic twits populating this insignificant little dirt ball and wish that I could cull them from the herd and kill them just because I want them dead. That's not too much to ask is it? I admit that it's a tad megalomaniacal to desire such a thing. So what? I'm not the only person to ever think such thoughts. Of course there are times when my hatred turns inward and I wonder why I bother continuing my worthless existence. I constantly feel like I don't belong anywhere which makes it damn difficult to try new things. I always feel like I'm being judged. I figure that rejection is inevitable so I don't waste the time. I can't get comfortable in most social situations. I used to be more optimistic about my future. I thought I was smart. I thought said intelligence would get me a good education and a decent job. I have a B.S. in chemistry. What do I have to show for it? Nothing. I work in a grocery store. I've wasted my potential. I've made too many stupid decisions in my life. The question before me now is can I salvage something decent from this or am I just engaging in an act of futility?

Manufactured Holidays

I hate manufactured holidays like Sweetest Day. The only reason it exists is to sell cards, candy and crap like that. Isn't Valentine's Day enough? And the burden for all this shit is on the guy, never the woman. Why does the guy constantly have to put up with this? If he really loves her, she knows it. All this commercial crap doesn't change that. Of course, all this is coming from a bitter, lonely cynic. Holidays like this remind me of the fact that I have no one in my life. My present situation makes the prospect of that changing unlikely. By the time I get my life straightened out, I'll be too old to even consider starting a relationship.

Intelligent Design Bullshit

In this past Sunday's Journal Times, there was an article about Republican congressman Rep. Paul Broun. In it, he called evolution, embryology and the Big Bang Theory "lies straight from the pit of hell". This man is a certifiable right wing religious zealot nut job. It's ignorant assholes like this that undermine legitimate science by continuously foisting off religious superstition as science to a largely gullible and ignorant public. Intelligent Design is a failed theory but because most people know little if anything about evolution, con artists and charlatans continue their "teach the controversy" bullshit. The reason these people do this is simple, money and power. Keep the public ignorant so they can be more easily controlled. Keep them believing that there's a great invisible being in the sky that constantly watches them to make sure they're not sinning. And, of paramount importance, get them to believe that they're this being's representatives on Earth and if you send them money they'll see to it that you get into Heaven. Intelligent Design needs to be thrown in the scrap heap with the rest of the failed theories. Its proponents need to be discredited and thrown out of the scientific community. This willful preying upon the ignorant by these fucking jackals must be brought to an end. Religious superstition has no place in science. 'Nuff said.