Obama Roasts McCain!

This little gem was tucked away in some comments on Crooks and Liars. It was from earlier this evening at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a stop for most presidential candidates. Quote of the night:

"I have never, not once, put lipstick on a pig, or a pitbull, or myself.
Rudy Giuliani, that's one for you. Who would have thought a cross dressing mayor from New York City would have a tough time running the republican nomination? It's shocking. That was a tough primary you had their John."

It's funny because it's true... and so sad...

Since you think the cup is dead: Death in L.A.

I wrote this poem tonight as an exercise for my English 208 class. We were given the poem in its entirety minus all the nouns and verbs, we had to fill in the blanks. The class seemed impressed with mine, one girl said it was excellent, I must admit I had to hold back a tear as I read it aloud, even if it was just an exercise for some, for me this is my life. If its slightly incoherent, you know why, I had very little creative freedom with the structure, I could only put in the the nouns, and verbs (in one case we were allowed to use an adverb, hence the kill myself gradually line). Ill include parenthesis for the text that is truly mine. And by the way, the cup aint dead until I die, and even than, nothing ever dies, just transforms into something else.

(Death) in (Los Angeles)

(Apathy) (climbing) into you
from (Skid Row), or (Santa Monica),
or (CSUN)

It (appeals) to you, asking
for (money), (alcohol), (beauty),
(double barrel shotgun made of cotton candy)
your (hand), a (whore)
or a (saint), (innocent and devout), (blind and bound)
the (prisoner) you know.

That is, (death) knows you.
It always asks, (are you happy)?
(are you empty)? (are you ready)?

So I (see) through (Hell)
I (kill myself gradually like HIV inside of a fresh host)
(Flies) all around me
I live with (spiders)

Cyrusse is alive! Or at least undead.

See? Undead. Har har.

Well, since I couldn't even find a post made by me, I figure it's been a while. In my absence I've been learning that being the unofficial TA for a class is not all cookies and rainbows and ponies (it totally should be!) and attempting to deal with grad school admission stuff. I've discovered that trying to write essays about myself makes me go a little braindead. And Berkeley is rude and they want a statement of purpose and a "personal history statement," and I'm still not exactly sure what needs to go in which. If anyone can think of any convincing reasons that the public policy department should accept me or ways to express my general coolness, please let me know. It's a pain in the ass... Maybe I'll post my essays when they take on some sort of cohesive form.

Oh, and I've been making wingalings for my Halloween costume. Don't ask me what the rest of it is. Something with bat/dragon wingalings, that's all I know.

Horror Dump!

It's october! Guess that means it's time for all things creepy, horrific, and "dark" to come to the consciousness of everyone in the world. So I've decided to bring the cup community a little something to get the ball rolling.

First, for all you RE fans, here are some VERY cool trailers for RE5. I never did play through 4, but I know everyone else here has either directly or vicariously. I put myself in the later category.

Anyways, here's an official RE 5 trailer:


Here's an unnofcial trailer which shows a some gameplay...looks hectic to say the least.


I personally think it looks like they're taking the formula created for RE4 and pushing it forward. I mean, with all the added military stuff and crazy mob fights, looks intense. But I must say, what's up with Wesker turning into Neo? Meh, guess he's been going that way for sometime.

The following trailer is for a game called "Dead Space," which released yesterday. Pretty much, it looks like someone decided it would be a good idea to make a game out of Event Horizon. It does look rather freaky.

Dead Space 'Launch' trailer

So there you go, zombies in space and in Haiti. I guess the zombie craze is just getting started.

Mercury Retrograde mention on CNBC

Hmmm, this is interesting. What does it mean when a major news media outlet makes a mention to Mercury Retrograde? It is kind of cool (and comfroting) to know that there are people in the market sector who are aware of this stuff. I hadn't even thought about it, but yeah, the timing of all these financial woes does correlate with Mercury Retrograde. Beyond that, it makes me wonder how the bailouts being decided right now will affect the future...

Hit the link for the vid, the mention comes fairly early and the last half is just financial stuff:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=875316256