Mario Teaches About Relationships

So I thought that this was the only one and that it was hilarious. Little did I know that there was a whole series of them each building up to the next to give further knowledge. The rest of the are over at Kotaku. You won't regret checking them out. If you don't laugh at at least one I would say that you are legally dead.

And everything in between

He is
The street and the sky
And everything in between.
Everything was foreseen by that

Little boy sitting in front of a wooden television,
In the early morning sunlight,
Watching X-men in Batman p.j’s. while eating
Captain crunch out of a plastic neon blue bowl,
Thinking to himself,
“Im pretty sure I used to be able to fly like that”.


He became
The young man entering the fairgrounds of an electric freak show
With the moon’s reflection casting off his black wings he would eagerly
Fly towards the stage with child like nimbleness.
Not ever taking for granted how sacredly divine the wicked night can be,
He was
Honored to be among those who lived for the NOW.
Dancing away his pain as if remembering a past life
When he led the ceremony of a Cherokee funeral procession.
Moving, swaying, laughing, gasping
Until all that exists is bass throbbing through his skin and sweat,
His heart in perfect unison with forty thousand other selves;
Beat junkies
United under the banner of techno industrialization.
They grew up playing in parks were concrete
Daisies rose up from steel grass.
These were His people.

Later
On his knees in front of a sacred alter,
Deep within the mountains of David,
Under the protective eye of the sun,
He prayed for forgiveness and righteousness.
Was retribution possible for such a wretch?
His life not his but His to do as He wills.
Ready to die for his sins and
Ready to live for his people.


Before than though
He had forgotten the feeling of sunlight as it touches the skin
That sensual relief that the light could offer,
Like being touched by a true lover,
Had been completely erased from his memory banks
So that the pain of realizing the lacking
Was never possible.
Sitting underneath the free way over pass, he day dreamed again of being a crow
As he listened to the sounds of the cars as they whirred by like shooting stars
On their way to a new life. Without light
He used a needle
To tattoo his sins across his body.
He refused to forget.

Now
He must wear baggy clothes so no one can see his pain
But when he raises his hand in class a small piece of
The black art becomes visible and
For an instant his vulnerability turns him into
A small green glass shard from a broken bottle of Mickey’s.
The left over remains of a good time that turned into
Empty promises and a rotten fucking hang over.
Completely see through until he lowers his hand
And the shirt sleeve covers the stain.

Than he is just quiet, innocent, Steven.
The street and the sky
And everything in between.

Multi-Post Thursday

This pic is way better than his official presidential portrait I put up on the last news post. Well today he signed his first bill into a law. From the Washington Post:

The bill is a response to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said a person must file a claim of discrimination within 180 days of a company's initial decision to pay a worker less than it pays another worker doing the same job. Under the bill, every new discriminatory paycheck would extend the statute of limitations for another 180 days.

So far so good. In other news the House passed the economic stimulus package 244-188 with absolutely no republicans supporting it and 11 democrats voting against it. You'd think that maybe they might see which way the wind is blowing from the last couple elections and maybe be a little more open to supporting healthcare and education, things they currently want removed from the package. Obama has invited key members of the House and Senate from both sides of the aisle over for drinks to try persuade them to support the package.

If anyone is concerned that their ISP might be throttling their bandwidth, check out this post on lifehacker to run tests to find out.

Blackelk has still not returned to the land of the living and if he's still not back by tomorrow Blizzard should be contacted and harrased. In his absence I've become addicted to Warhammer Online and playing it far too much every day. It doesn't have the polish of WoW, but it does have a shitload of things that I think WoW would be wise to abscond with. As the list could end up a post all its own, I won't get into it all at the moment, but I will say that unless something else spectacular comes along in the meantime, when I'm done with WoW I'm switching to WAR.

There's a free beta out right now on Steam for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer which seems to be their version of Starcraft. I've only briefly played it once and got whomped on, but in honor of Sean Marney whose fighting bandwidth caps abroad, anyone who can get it should so we can try it out together. Hope all is well and I should be talking with most of you later today!