Ladies and gentlemen, heed my adivce! Take off your pants and slide on the ice!
By and large I would have to give the past nine days a negative Ebay rating of :F--------------------- "Would not revolve around the sun again". Then again thats the rating I would give to most weeks, so I guess its nothing special.
As I failed to do any mid-week updating, I have left out many a good tale that hath transpired before mine very own eyes.
I finished a book called Farnham's Freehold. After finishing it, I closed the book and wondered to myself what the fuck I just read. It promises to be a post-apocalyptic novel (and science fiction's MOST CONTROVERSAL BOOK EVER IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION CONTROVERSY). Essentially, the plot is this: a family (plus a family friend and servant) in the 50's are living in a time when nuclear war is just around the corner. About 25 pages into the book around the corner. Bombs go off, another chapter or two with the husband sleeping with someother woman while everyone wonders if they'll be cooked alive in the bomb shelter under the house. Things settle down, and they go outside. TO their suprise, everything outside is wonderful! Trees and grass, a running stream. The only thing missing is jagged crater glass and a rad count so high that you would vomit out your own mother's eyeballs just hearing it. They figure out that somehow they have been blown 2,000 some odd years into the future.
They then get to work setting up a suitable home. Here comes CONTROVERSY one. After getting everything set up, daughter tells dad that she is actually pregnant, having slept with some one at school before this whole "time travel nuclear bomb" fiasco surfaced. Dad is thrilled! New genetic material! Daughter says "Oh... who will I marry? Not my brother, not the black servant. How about you dad, its okay with me!"
Huh? Incest already?
Daughter is pregnant, and so is her friend. Daughter dies giving birth, mom gets pissed. A giant domino with black people inside flies down from the sky and takes them all away. After having their anuses thouroughly probed, they are forced to learn the "new" language and culture. They now learn that the black man has things on lock down. LOOK OUT WHITEY!! THE BLACK MAN CONTROLS THE FUTURE!!! CONTROVERSY two. Because all the white folk went and blew themselves away with nuclear weapons, all the other "darker skinned" races rose up and enslaved them all while turning the planet around. The white slaves are divided be sex (men are "studs" and women are "sluts"). CONTROVERSY three.
After spending weeks learning the culture, dad now translates books in english to the new language. Mom is "bed-warmer" for some black guy. Son is pissed about it, but gets lobotomized. Other woman has her kids. Black servant is now once again turning the tables on his white employers. Dad, being favored by his keeper, gets to leave his room. Finds out black people in the future are canibals. CONTROVERSY four. He and other woman eventually attempt an escape, but are caught and sent back to their own time anyway. Their own time being 2000 years, an odd number of months, and 15 minutes before the bombs are dropped. Other woman steals her car from her other self, and they both go off to live in a cave to help America rebuild. The end.
Mr. Heinlein is most definately telling us that white people are fucked when the black man takes over. Fuck, they'll even eat us! In this scenario, get sent back in time where the war happens differently so blacks don't take over. Does that count as a moral? Or perhaps Mr. Heinlein takes a special seat next to conservative gay furries somewhere in the heirarchy of "What the fuck are people thinking?"
"Son of a flamming fuck! You can't let them NAGGERS take over! They'll eat the white man up! ... Should daughters and fathers have sex? Its my god-given right, goddamnit!"
Was the author racist? I don't know. Did he fullfill his task of hitting all the important taboo subjects of a late mid-20th century America? Pretty much.
Speaking of odd racist comments, heres one from my own house. About 3 weekends ago I sat around with my brother, our friend Ryan, his girlfriend Jamie, and her friend whose name I can't remember. Talking about only the most vulgar things we've seen the past week, my brother starts in with some joke about blacks.
Jamie's friend cuts him off. "Don't you tell those jokes about black people around me! Don't say them!" Fine. Ryan comes back in from his car, sits down, and starts in on another story. A truck driver came into his place of work, and mentioned that he knew that the guy who drew the penis on the wall in the back of the store was Mexican because the penis looked "sharp". Hmmm... The next words out of this other girl's mouth are "Oh, I don't care if they tell jokes about Mexicans. Andre isn't Mexican."
Perhaps its just me and my opinion that no one person, regardless of race, creed, or religion is better than another, but what the fuck? Oh, so you're fucking a black guy, that means blacks are off limits. Mexicans? Fuck those wetbacks son! Maybe its just me, but we're all either god's special little children or none of us are.
Outside of people who get really hyped up on one subject to the point they can't talk about it without using explitives every chance they get, people who have a fetish with people of another color fascinate me. And by fascinate I mean "make me want to make fun of them every chance I get". Perhaps it all started after picking out the "maybe you should consider only having friends not of your own race" hints in some of Anna's Baha'i books back in the day. I'm all for anyone marrying, dating, or befriending whoever they like, but I think I start to wonder when someone tells you "Oh no, not them. You'll match."
As I failed to do any mid-week updating, I have left out many a good tale that hath transpired before mine very own eyes.
I finished a book called Farnham's Freehold. After finishing it, I closed the book and wondered to myself what the fuck I just read. It promises to be a post-apocalyptic novel (and science fiction's MOST CONTROVERSAL BOOK EVER IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION CONTROVERSY). Essentially, the plot is this: a family (plus a family friend and servant) in the 50's are living in a time when nuclear war is just around the corner. About 25 pages into the book around the corner. Bombs go off, another chapter or two with the husband sleeping with someother woman while everyone wonders if they'll be cooked alive in the bomb shelter under the house. Things settle down, and they go outside. TO their suprise, everything outside is wonderful! Trees and grass, a running stream. The only thing missing is jagged crater glass and a rad count so high that you would vomit out your own mother's eyeballs just hearing it. They figure out that somehow they have been blown 2,000 some odd years into the future.
They then get to work setting up a suitable home. Here comes CONTROVERSY one. After getting everything set up, daughter tells dad that she is actually pregnant, having slept with some one at school before this whole "time travel nuclear bomb" fiasco surfaced. Dad is thrilled! New genetic material! Daughter says "Oh... who will I marry? Not my brother, not the black servant. How about you dad, its okay with me!"
Huh? Incest already?
Daughter is pregnant, and so is her friend. Daughter dies giving birth, mom gets pissed. A giant domino with black people inside flies down from the sky and takes them all away. After having their anuses thouroughly probed, they are forced to learn the "new" language and culture. They now learn that the black man has things on lock down. LOOK OUT WHITEY!! THE BLACK MAN CONTROLS THE FUTURE!!! CONTROVERSY two. Because all the white folk went and blew themselves away with nuclear weapons, all the other "darker skinned" races rose up and enslaved them all while turning the planet around. The white slaves are divided be sex (men are "studs" and women are "sluts"). CONTROVERSY three.
After spending weeks learning the culture, dad now translates books in english to the new language. Mom is "bed-warmer" for some black guy. Son is pissed about it, but gets lobotomized. Other woman has her kids. Black servant is now once again turning the tables on his white employers. Dad, being favored by his keeper, gets to leave his room. Finds out black people in the future are canibals. CONTROVERSY four. He and other woman eventually attempt an escape, but are caught and sent back to their own time anyway. Their own time being 2000 years, an odd number of months, and 15 minutes before the bombs are dropped. Other woman steals her car from her other self, and they both go off to live in a cave to help America rebuild. The end.
Mr. Heinlein is most definately telling us that white people are fucked when the black man takes over. Fuck, they'll even eat us! In this scenario, get sent back in time where the war happens differently so blacks don't take over. Does that count as a moral? Or perhaps Mr. Heinlein takes a special seat next to conservative gay furries somewhere in the heirarchy of "What the fuck are people thinking?"
"Son of a flamming fuck! You can't let them NAGGERS take over! They'll eat the white man up! ... Should daughters and fathers have sex? Its my god-given right, goddamnit!"
Was the author racist? I don't know. Did he fullfill his task of hitting all the important taboo subjects of a late mid-20th century America? Pretty much.
Speaking of odd racist comments, heres one from my own house. About 3 weekends ago I sat around with my brother, our friend Ryan, his girlfriend Jamie, and her friend whose name I can't remember. Talking about only the most vulgar things we've seen the past week, my brother starts in with some joke about blacks.
Jamie's friend cuts him off. "Don't you tell those jokes about black people around me! Don't say them!" Fine. Ryan comes back in from his car, sits down, and starts in on another story. A truck driver came into his place of work, and mentioned that he knew that the guy who drew the penis on the wall in the back of the store was Mexican because the penis looked "sharp". Hmmm... The next words out of this other girl's mouth are "Oh, I don't care if they tell jokes about Mexicans. Andre isn't Mexican."
Perhaps its just me and my opinion that no one person, regardless of race, creed, or religion is better than another, but what the fuck? Oh, so you're fucking a black guy, that means blacks are off limits. Mexicans? Fuck those wetbacks son! Maybe its just me, but we're all either god's special little children or none of us are.
Outside of people who get really hyped up on one subject to the point they can't talk about it without using explitives every chance they get, people who have a fetish with people of another color fascinate me. And by fascinate I mean "make me want to make fun of them every chance I get". Perhaps it all started after picking out the "maybe you should consider only having friends not of your own race" hints in some of Anna's Baha'i books back in the day. I'm all for anyone marrying, dating, or befriending whoever they like, but I think I start to wonder when someone tells you "Oh no, not them. You'll match."