Father Knows Best?: English

  • Dad: I'm going to rewrite the English language.
  • Me: What?
  • Dad: Make it more user-friendly.
  • Me: oh god-
  • Dad: I'm taking it a few words at a time, and I'm going to appropriately re-emphasize certain syllables.
  • Me: Like what?
  • Dad: Well all of'em eventually. But I've started with an obvious one for us being from South Carolina. The lovely palmetto tree will now and forever appropriately be referred to as "puh-muh-to"
  • Me: No it won't-
  • Dad: And the flyer they give'em before Sunday School and at meetins in companies and such will now be a buhl-LIT-nin. Appropriately so.
  • Me: Well of course. Has to be appropriate. Give me another one. Let's hear some more.
  • Dad: ...that's about as far as I've got. I have to be stricken with the realization that words aren't said right by a lot of folks before I can fix it for'em.
  • Me: Why don't you get away from me.

Disclaimer: You may want to play the video without watching it if you don’t want to see Arkham City footage.

“Miracle Of Sound” is a featured video series on The Escapist (escapistmagazine.com) written and performed by Gavin Dunne, and the premise is simple: write songs about video games. This song is by far my favorite of the 28 entries he’s created.

What’s not to love about The Joker serenading Batman? It’s catchy, whimsical, and has a certain underlying insanity throughout the song.

Disturbing Gym Talk

  • So I was at the gym today and I overheard a short conversation that really bothered me. These two girls who looked like they were in high school (but they could've been a little older) were walking towards the locker room as I was getting some water. They walked past me and this is what I heard;
  • Girl 1: Oh my god I think I'm going to throw up!
  • Girl 2: At least you'll lose some weight, you bitch.
  • *high five*
  • High five. Seriously. This wasn't a distressed "oh my god I think I'm going to throw up!" She was excited about it. These two girls were legitimately thrilled that one of them was going to vomit to lose weight.
  • I mean, I know you always see ads about girls and their self-image issues, but I don't think I've ever been this close to it before. I had to sit down for a minute and fully process what I'd heard. These two athletic girls who could've probably run laps around everyone in the gym were still so unhappy with how they look that they are happy when they get to throw up because it means more weight loss.
  • I guess I just wasn't prepared to hear something like that.
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Normally I think it’s stupid when someone reblogs something and says, “this is so me” because it’s usually corny song lyrics or some emotional quote on a picture of a sunset. This is literally how my room operates.

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Normally I think it’s stupid when someone reblogs something and says, “this is so me” because it’s usually corny song lyrics or some emotional quote on a picture of a sunset. This is literally how my room operates.

Ambien Thoughts

I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately, so tonight I took an Ambien in hopes of being asleep before 6 am. I took it at 10:30 pm, It’s currently 11:28. Here we go.

There is nothing worse than the “I might not make it to the bathroom in time” feeling. Well, there is. Actually not making it to the bathroom in time is pretty bad. But as far as things that could’ve happened but were narrowly avoided, I gotta think it’s right up there with the negative pregnancy test.

No, the poop thing is worse. A kid could grow up to be famous and/or rich and make you a lot of money. Pooping on yourself is just pooping on yourself and that’s all it’ll ever be.

I want to see the first draft of a Family Guy script. There has to be a legitimate story in mind, and then they twist all the jokes and cutaways.

I want to go see The Muppets. Don’t have a joke or a story behind it. I just wanna see it.

I was standing up a few minutes ago, and then I was sitting in my chair ad don’t know how I got there.

11:45 now. Ideas are flooding my head but i know i’m not going to reemmber them. I don’t want to write tem here though. Gov’ment might shut me down.

I was playing Dc Universe Online a little bit ago and had to turn it off when I couldn’t keep my own balance while trying to fly around Gotham City.

Speaking of Gotham City, Batman and Superman are bitches. Batman just has a lot of money and Superman is supposedly perfect. I want heroes who’re flawed and are relatable, I’m not relatealento them. I can erlate to spiderman cause i’m a nerd who has truble talkin to girls. I can relate to Hulk cause oeple don’t like me when i’m mad. batman and Superman can go suck on railroad spikes.

I said this earlier, i want a power ring like green lantern. I don’t want tp be in a terrible novie though.

THat’s not a reflection of Ryan Renolds though.

Yeah it is.

I hate when i’m wathcing tv and they do the theater 101 both hands extended waist high and drops down to their legs move. They shoudl know better and so should you.

Why does Loris have NOTHING going on? I wanna start a business, no market. I wanna do music, nobody around to do it with and no where to play. Want to do some theater work. Ha. Loris has nothing going for it but racism and jesus.

Whatever happened to Michael Richards after he called a bunch of guys in that clubs “niggrs”? (i’m one of the c0ool white people, it’s ok)

I started watching an animated superhero movei about 5 am last night and stopped only because i saw two continuitty issues in the first 10 minutes. ]]

Thst brtisih guys host on X Factor has got to be around 8 feet tall. he towers over everyone

Missing The Point: Almost 2 million people

Why? Isn’t the point of following someone on Twitter to read their tweets? I just don’t understand why you would follow someone who doesn’t tweet. I have personal friends who I stopped following because they never post anything. 

I guess this just goes to show how famous Beyonce’s name is.

Missing The Point: Almost 2 million people

Why? Isn’t the point of following someone on Twitter to read their tweets? I just don’t understand why you would follow someone who doesn’t tweet. I have personal friends who I stopped following because they never post anything.

I guess this just goes to show how famous Beyonce’s name is.

Father Knows Best?: Ironman 3

  • Mom, Dad and I were sitting in the living room watching the Clemson and Carolina football games when Dad started on this.
  • Dad: I've thought about being in the movie stars.
  • Mom: "In" the movie stars?
  • Dad: Yeah.
  • Mom: ....makes no sense.
  • Me: Well you could just go to Wilmington (NC). They're filming parts of Ironman 3 there.
  • Dad: I can be Ironman?!
  • Mom: You're not an actor.
  • Dad: I just ain't been discovered yet.
  • Me: I'm pretty sure Ironman has already been cast.
  • Dad: They'll throw rocks at that other guy once they see me.

Missing The Point: Drake

The 2010-2011 Miami Heat shouldn’t even be in this conversation. Yes, conceptually they’re very similar to a lot of the teams in the discussion but the main difference is those other teams have won championships. The Heat weren’t even the best team this year. Who cares if they “play above the rim”? THEY LOST. Who cares if Larry Bird “couldn’t reach the rim”? HE WON.

Drake’s entire argument becomes null when they show Mark Cuban sitting there shaking his head WITH THE LARRY O’BRIEN TROPHY.


Btw. The best team ever is totally the 96 Bulls.

Father Knows Best?: Hulk

  • While watching The Big Bang Theory tonight, Sheldon was wearing Hulk hands while talking to a girl in his apartment.
  • Sheldon: Well it's getting late. It's time for bed. GOOD NIGHT PUNY HUMAN.
  • Dad: I don't get it. What's he's supposed to be?
  • Me: He's The Hulk. See, he's got those Hulk hands on.
  • Dad: Hulk don't talk.
  • Me: ...yeah he does. It's broken english but he talks.
  • Dad: I never heard him say anything.
  • Me: You don't remember "HULK SMASH!"? He says it right before, you know, he smashes things. Do you even know who Hulk is?
  • Dad: Yeah, that rassler-
  • Me: Not Hulk Hogan
  • Dad: Brotherrrrr
  • It's really good to be doing Father Knows Best? posts again.

Finally, a song that speaks to me.

It’s been one of those days already

I just don’t have it together today.

- I overslept by about an hour
- I slammed my big toe in my bathroom doorway (thought about cutting my whole foot off)
- My shower was ice cold because in a moment of brilliance I turned the water onto its coldest setting instead of a warmer one
- I tripped coming down the stairs to my office (almost died)
- I was sitting in my office and had an eyelash dangle in front of my eyeball. I thought it was a spider and almost broke my glasses trying to get it off of me
- I can’t log into my campus email account (which I probably should’ve noticed before the month+ that I’ve been living on campus)


All of this happened between 8:15 and 9:25 this morning. I have 2 more meetings, class, and another meeting later tonight left to go to today.

If you’re not already

You should be following me and my brother on Twitter. We’ve live-tweeting the VMAs and it’s gettin good.

Me: http://twitter.com/#!/BigBombTheory

Justin: http://twitter.com/#!/jus10j

Check us out.

You know what has a surprising amount of blood in it?

An ear.

I was shaving my head this morning and I was in a little bit of a hurry. I made an errant swipe with my razor and caught the top of my ear. This was about 25 minutes ago and it hasn’t stopped bleeding yet. It doesn’t hurt and I wouldn’t have noticed it if it hadn’t started dripping onto my shower floor, but still, how much blood can an ear have in it?

I may die.

I just thought about my story if I can’t get this to stop and I have to leave anyway: I’m gonna tell people I was bitten by a very small vampire. Not those lame Twilight vampires, but more like a True Blood badass vampire. Those are much cooler.

Missing The Point: Absolutely nobody


Whoever came up with this ad campaign for Shark Week deserves a raise. Seriously.

Summer Vacation?

I always thought that the summer was supposed to be a time to relax. It was always the 3 months of the year where I had very few obligations, I could recharge my batteries, and give my mind a break. This summer has been far from it. This is the first summer I’ve taken any kind of classes, and I’ve been doing a lot of academic research. My brain is tired. My body is tired.

And now that we’re 1/3 of the way through July, I had the thought, “Oh, surely things must be slowing down now. My internship’s almost over after all.” No. How wrong I was.

Here’s a look at what my upcoming schedule includes:

July 11th: Presentations in my internship starting at 8:30 in the morning. Prep time starts at 7:30. My normal workday in this office doesn’t start until 10.
July 12: Internship class journal is due with the focus on reviewing the materials I’ve read this summer related to my position. This totals 5 books, and about 200 online academic journals and resources.
July 13th: My last “scheduled” day of my internship. I say “scheduled” because while I have 3 more events I have to attend, this will be the day that puts me over my 100 hour requirement for class credit.
July 14: Leave for PIttsburgh
July 15: Audition for American Idol (I’m starting to get really nervous by the way)
July 18: Major internship presentation
July 19: Last day of my internship class
July 20: Another major internship presentation
July 20: Move into my new apartment
July 21: Presentation for a research paper I haven’t written yet in one of my classes
July 22: Final presentation in my internship
July 25: Training for my RC job starts. This includes training sessions to be held every weekday until students move in almost a month later.

Basic Schedule for August and Beyond:
1. I’m a TA (teaching assistant) for a class on Monday nights.
2. I have a class with a professor I don’t care for on Tuesday nights
3. I have a class which requires a lot of personal reflection, analysis of my own life, and confronting what has made me who I am on Wednesday nights (basically this class is going to mentally drain me, but I’m looking forward to it)
4. My RC responsibilities will keep me extremely busy as I hear judicial cases, supervise a staff of RA’s, and oversee my own hall of freshmen male students (not looking forward to that)
5. I’m still looking for an internship for this semester, and if I can find one that’ll be another obligation and another class (there’s a class that accompanies every internship) that I’ll have to register for.
6. If I can make a decision as to how I want to go about getting a new car, I may be making car payments during this semester too. But that may be more of a Christmas time thing.

The list for July looks a little less hectic because on July 7th I presented a major project that I’d been working on for a couple of weeks. I was really glad to see that presentation behind me. I was stressing about that one.

The August schedule doesn’t have specific dates because everything listed is a perpetual obligation throughout the semester.

So yeah, grad school is starting to look more like grad school now. My first semester was a bit easier because I was still getting into the swing of how things were going to work, but now I’m on full-speed.

PREDICTION: I will be completely burnt out by Halloween.