Charlie Chaplin is a pretty cool guy. 11:49 AM

I was listening to the Menzingers and in the opening of one of their songs they have this monologue about soldiers and stuff. I looked it up and apparently it's from a 1940's movie The Great Dictator writen, directed by, and starring (Sir) Charles Chaplin. The monologue comes from Chaplin's character a jewish barber and it's pretty rad.

I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men---machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.

Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

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Gamer girls and internet memes. 2:31 PM

Before I write my intended post, I was just stumbling and I cam across this "Teen Werewolf Gangs Running Wild At Texas High School". I didn't watch the video, but they sound like a bunch of furries to me...

Anyways, back to my original post. Gamer girls are not cool. So sure there's the occasional hot gamer girl or sexy role player (?) and no, girls who play wii do not count. I'm talking about the mythical, movie portrayed, hot gamer girl who is crazy sexy but games HARD. So yeah, basically a girl version of me. I guess it also applies to guys, I mean computer games in general aren't cool, they're freaking fun for the most part and its not like I'm against them, but in general they're pretty uncool. For guys it's not really so bad, but for girls it's so freaking prominent. Like there are a couple girls I have on facebook who talk about games and shit like WoW and DotA and, firstly, these girls weren't cool or hot to begin with and they're still not, and secondly, when they use freaking internet memes it makes me want to disown the internet. Sexist? Maybe. It could be the fact that I don't actually like these girls that it annoys me even more when they use "Cool story, bro" or some other meme, like them liking the same thing as me makes me similar to them in some retarded way. It's like when someone you don't like has the same music tastes as you, and i've figured it's not because you don't want to share the band, it's because you don't want to have something in common with that person. So yeah, girls shouldn't play CoD or other "serious" games, I don't mind if they play WoW or other retarded shit.

On a similar note, I hate it when internet memes make there way into everyday conversation via any way other than the internet. Like when you use a whole lot of memes and the people you hang out with start using them even though they don't know the original meme or had to go look it up afterwards.

This whole post is retard and irrational and I'm totally an angry dick or as one gamer girl called me a "pretentious dick", and I totally think i'm awesome and better than everyone else, I have only one thing to say to that in the wise words of Deez Nuts: I DON'T GIVE A MOTHERFUCK!

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I wanted to do this... 10:40 AM

I thought about doing an illustration like this about traffic circles but never did. This applies to so many situations, especially since lately there has been a lot of roadwork on my daily route, and the lanes have to merge, so most people merge early to assists traffic flow, but there's always a couple cunts who race down the side and push in front.