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Hello to everyone coming here from the Neo-Geo forum! Tell Yuri-chan I said "Hi!". She's a special friend of mine...

posted by Steve Brandon @ 9:36 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

WILLIAM STRILER STRIER UPDATE

Oh, it's William Strier, not "Striler". Well, all the early news stories I saw had it spelled "Striler" with an L. That does explain why very little about "William Striler" has been written on actual news sites since Friday. I'll fix the errors.

Also, I wrote elsewhere today, "You can't hurt me! Not with my cheese helmet tree shield!"

posted by Steve Brandon @ 12:08 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

Well, my brother, Nick, took the kitten back with him to Toronto yesterday, and, apparently, she slept well through most of the night but, apparently, she started pouncing on his feet early in the morning so that he would get her her breakfast. It's a bit sad not having her around, but she has freedom to roam throughout Nick's apartment, which he says is about the size of our entire basement, unlike here, where she was confined to the downstairs bathroom (maybe 2.5 metres by 2.5 metres) so that our two big dogs wouldn't chomp her to bits. She'll be back at Christmas, when my sister, Alison, in Ottawa takes her.

It is nice having my own bathroom back without having to put the kitten in the carrier each time I need to use the shower or toilet, and I don't have to worry about stepping in the litter box anymore.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 10:46 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

WILLIAM STRIER UPDATE

Hmm... you'd think more blogs would be talking about this. The video was just *that* amusing. I can't think of any logical reason why my site should be the "I'm Feeling Lucky" site on Google for "William Striler" (n.b. it's spelled "Strier"). Hopefully one of the news sites or something will overtake me in the Google rankings over the next couple of days, because I have zero insight you can't get elsewhere on this case.

Well, if anyone representing William Strier is reading this, I suggest you don't do anything to piss him off. Because he has rather interesting ways of dealing with attourneys. No, wait, I mean, obviously, you know and I know that your client is completely innocent and the guy in the video is actually his exact double, Guy Incognito. ("Oh my God! That dog has a puffy tail! [he chases it, giggling] Here, Puff! Here, Puff!") Just, you know, if you have any "Defamation of Character" suits which you're eager to file, the Cyberista.com guy said worse things than I did. (I only commented directly on the video which has been shown everywhere.) Also, may I point out that I'm Canadian and haven't visited the United States in ten years?

Also, I haven't been able to confirm what I wrote last night about finding one article I found which claimed that the bullets were blanks. Certainly, I was watching Dateline NBC and Jerry Curry had a rather nasty looking scar on his right jaw... I don't know if a blank would do that, but I'm hardly a ballstics expert so that's just my total unexpert commentary.

Well, now that you're all here on my blog, might I interest you in a couple of sarcastic episode reviews of the new Japanese live-action Sailor Moon series? Here's a review of episode one, and here's a review of episode two. You might have to scroll down a little to see them... there seems to be some sort of glitch with my template, and I'm not "Mr. Knowing-how-to-fix-template-guy". I'll have a review of the third episode up later this week, I just haven't had a chance to watch it all of the way through.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 5:26 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

Okay, in regards to William Strier, I should point out that this British site claims the bullets were blanks, in which case, he was just trying to scare Jerry Curry, though blanks can still be deadly at point blank range, and, in any event, I would like to see this confirmed on other sites before I believe it.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 10:56 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

OH SHIT, MAN!

Well, it seems that, if you do a Google search for "William Striler" (n.b. the proper spelling is "Strier", the one and only suspect in the attempted murder of attourney Jerry Curry, you get my blog first, above all the news stories. As he is, at this moment, only a "suspect" and I don't want to get any summons to appear in Van Nuys court myself, I removed the paragraph about how I consider William Strier to be guilty based on my observation of the video shot by a Court TV cameraman, because, I don't know, it's theoretically possible that there was no shooting and random electromagnetic impulses caused the cameraman's camera to form an image wherein it appears that Strier is shooting Curry seven times at point blank range. Or maybe I am the only thing which truly exists and everything I perceive is an illusion created by my consciousness, in which case Strier wouldn't be guilty seeing as how he doesn't exist. Alls I'm sayings is that Ockham had a nice sharp razor, didn't he?

posted by Steve Brandon @ 10:07 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

"CUE THE KLAUS NOMI" UPDATE

Hmm... Reverend Fred Phelps organization God Hates Fags is at it again. Apparently, they protested outside Mepham High School in Bellmore, Pennsylvania, claiming that teaching tolerance (which isn't the same as acceptance, as Mr. Garrison pointed out on the best episode of South Park ever, "The Death Camp of Tolerance") of gays caused some students from Long Island to sodomize younger players with a broomstick, pine cones and golf balls as part of some hazing ritual.

Also, Phelps' monument commemorating the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard outside Laramie, Wyoming, which reads "MATTHEW SHEPARD, Entered Hell October 12, 1998, at Age 21, In defiance of God's solemn warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22.", was rejected by the city leaders of Casper, Wyoming, will be proposed to the Minidoka County Commissioners to be placed in the tiny town of Rupert, Idaho, where he thinks the monument will be free from vandalism.

Yes, Phelps' followers are troglodytes on par with the racist members of murderer Raymond Villeneuve's Mouvement de lib�ration nationale du Qu�bec, whom last week, defaced former (and future) Baie d'Urf� Town Hall (now borough office) with anti-English slogans like "Free Quebec", "One island, one French-speaking city" and "Go Home Canadians" and were caught with explosive devices, presumably gasoline-filled Sprite bottles which they can't light on fire properly. They claim they're about to start sending letter bombs, but I'm wondering how exactly they're going to manage to cram the gasoline-filled Sprite bottle into a number 10 envelope? Also, do these people know how to write? And look how weedy and inbred these guys appear to be. Where is Gabe Logan's anti-terrorist strike force from Syphon Filter: Omega Strain when you need them?

However, one suspicion I've always had about Phelps since I first saw him on Ricki Lake in the mid-90s is that he may actually be a stooge paid off by some extremist gay advocacy group in order to taint anyone that disagrees with any point of the hardline "queer" activists on anything for whatever reason, whether it be opposing gay marriage and gay adoption, holding the position that homosexuality is a treatable psychological condition and not genetic and immutable (incidentally, there are some radical gay groups that don't think it's genetic either), or even just opposed to teaching children that homosexual practices are equal to heterosexuality, as being like Phelps, since, by extension in the minds of some, any disagreement makes you a homophobe and Phelps is the embodiment of pure homophobia. (Not that I'm necessarily endorsing those positions myself, I'm just presenting them as positions reasonable people should be able to take and not be branded by the one-size-fits-all "homophobe" epithet. Incidentally, some hardline gay groups disagree with each other on some things, especially whether or not bisexuality exists or whether it's just a way to come partially out of the closet; I have no problem recognizing that some degree of bisexual feelings exist in me, yet I still prefer girls overall, so I know the "You're gay but you're in denial." position is a farce, and the feelings do vary since I used to be much more attracted to guys than I am now. But that's another story for another day.) I know that this can be classified as a "conspiracy theory" and I don't have a shread of proof, but Phelps seems to me to be just too much of a convenient, cartoonish homophobic villain straight out of some liberal comic book to be believable.

If not the extremist "queer" advocacy groups, then certainly the daytime talk show industry.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 9:35 AM 0 Comments Links to this post