The floodgates have opened. The other shoe has dropped. The kid gloves have come off. Work has heated up to a boiling frenzy. There is work to be done.
The calm before the storm is over, and now the storm, it is a'ragin'. I have 5 projects that have all decided to raise their respective ugly heads, and only 3 ugly heads to throw at the 5 projects. Chaos is reigning. Damn you chaos! Damn you to Hell!
Anyway... I am not much of an activist. I don't march, go to demonstrations, or any of that other crap, but I protest things that I think are wrong in more quite subtle ways. I try to point out in a healthy manner when someone is being inadvertently something-ist. For example... the word "gypped" is a racial slur against the Roma or Gypsies. When people use that word, I mention that it is a racial slur. Some people take that message in, some people say that it is such a small population that it doesn't matter or that the word has been used that way for sooooo long it has lost its meaning, etc... Anyway... that is how I try to affect social change.
Well, I am going to actively protest something by imposing my own boycott. I will be boycotting The Revenge of the Sith during its opening weekend because Lucas made a mockery of the Star Wars franchise with Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace. Lucas does not get any of my money to bolster his opening weekend box-office gross profit. I will wait until next week to see the movie. That'll show him. There will be a few less dollars in his room full of money at Skywalker Ranch that he rolls around naked in.
So to Mr. Lucas I say, I will only be watching this last movie, so I can get closure on this space opera. And when the DVD comes out, I will only buy it because I need to complete the set. So put that in your flannel shirt pocket and wear it, you bearded bastard!
The calm before the storm is over, and now the storm, it is a'ragin'. I have 5 projects that have all decided to raise their respective ugly heads, and only 3 ugly heads to throw at the 5 projects. Chaos is reigning. Damn you chaos! Damn you to Hell!
Anyway... I am not much of an activist. I don't march, go to demonstrations, or any of that other crap, but I protest things that I think are wrong in more quite subtle ways. I try to point out in a healthy manner when someone is being inadvertently something-ist. For example... the word "gypped" is a racial slur against the Roma or Gypsies. When people use that word, I mention that it is a racial slur. Some people take that message in, some people say that it is such a small population that it doesn't matter or that the word has been used that way for sooooo long it has lost its meaning, etc... Anyway... that is how I try to affect social change.
Well, I am going to actively protest something by imposing my own boycott. I will be boycotting The Revenge of the Sith during its opening weekend because Lucas made a mockery of the Star Wars franchise with Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace. Lucas does not get any of my money to bolster his opening weekend box-office gross profit. I will wait until next week to see the movie. That'll show him. There will be a few less dollars in his room full of money at Skywalker Ranch that he rolls around naked in.
So to Mr. Lucas I say, I will only be watching this last movie, so I can get closure on this space opera. And when the DVD comes out, I will only buy it because I need to complete the set. So put that in your flannel shirt pocket and wear it, you bearded bastard!