The Hobbit is racist!

Well Peter Jackson must be anyway. And I'm probly going to come off as a racist by the time I'm done with this. A British actress of Pakistani descent was turned down for a role as a Hobbit based on her skin colour.

She tells the Waikato Times, "It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin. The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned. I would love to be an extra. But it just seemed like a shame because obviously hobbits are not brown or black or any other colour. 

Apparently, there are no brown-skinned Hobbits. I never read about any in the books. I never saw anything but short, pale Hobbits in the previous Lord of the Rings movies and in the old animated Hobbit movie. It would make sense for the sake of storyline continuity that they only have pale skinned Hobbits. Isn't that how they are described in the books? I don't think this constitutes racism, though I guess they could have had a make-up artist paint her white. Doubt that would have been acceptable.

Humphreys has now created a campaign group on Facebook.com titled "Hire Hobbits of all colours! Say no to Hobbit racism!"

I haven't found it yet, if anyone does, please drop me a link.

I'm finding this to be ridiculous. Seriously, I've never seen nor read about a Hobbit that was anything other than short and white. While we are playing the race card here, why don't cast Shaquille O'Neal and Yao Ming as Hobbits as well? And, in the name of equality, have Gandalf played by a fat black woman. I got it! Tyler Perry's Madea as Gandalf! That's got some serious comedy potential and will keep blacks, fat people and transvestites from complaining. Also, they need to add some flamboyantly gay Asian Hobbits. And some Hispanic Hobbits, bot gay and straight, maybe a drag queen or two. I mean who cares if J.R.R. Tolkein's work get's totally butchered, we need diversity!

In fact, some movies should be remade to include more racial and cultural diversity. For instance, Roots should be redone with Caucasian, Hispanic and Asian slaves. Pocahontas should have more people of colour because Native Americans clearly were not one colour. Same goes for 300, the Spartans couldn't have been all white. Let's just throw continuity and keeping to the story out the window in the name of diversity. Come on people, it's 2010!

Stuff, other stuff, some stuff on the side, stuff in a to go box

So what the fuck is going on with me lately?

Turns out I do have Halloween off. I thought I wouldn't be able to take it off after hearing about a software upgrade at my work. The upgrade is planned for 1/11/2011, not 11/1/2010 as the person informing me of it said. They must either be dyslexic or think they are British. But what ever the case, I still have Halloween off. This makes me happy. No clue about where to go, what to do, what to wear. I am open to suggestions. I want to keep my contact with total fucking douchebags to a minimum, that's about my only requirement.

Managed to really piss off someone that's been a friend since high school. Surprisingly enough, I actually do have a friend that is very religious. She gets offended when I make remarks about Jesus. I may have to start putting disclaimers on my Facebook status updates. Kinda like Tim Minchin does with at least one of his songs.

Picked up Fallout New Vegas for the Xbox. Fun game. I won't spoil it for you, but if you liked Fallout 3, you will like this one. Don't think of it as Fallout 4, it's more like a really big expansion for Fallout 3. So big it had to be it's own game and take place on the other side of the country.

I need to stop spending money on small stuff and save it up for something big, like a new laptop. There's things I want to do that require a computer. The "Perseph-a-thon" was a bust. Nothing came in to my tip jar and I think I made a dollar on my google ads. Guess I'll just have to make money the old-fashioned way and suck cock on the corner. Or something.

My name is Pastor Adam Briggs of Damascus Road Bible Fellowship, today is October the 23rd 2010, we're here in Indianapolis, it's Friday night and don't tell my wife or the people at my church that I fantasize about sucking Persephone's cock.

Wait what? That's just creepy. I still need to make a post about that asshole. If you go to either of his blogs and spread hate, make sure you tell him I sent you.

Almost as creepy as the picture I just saw of a nude, tribal looking woman breastfeeding a monkey. Seriously google, I was looking for monkeys, not weird porn. Why do google searches always turn up weird porn images? It's fine when I'm looking for that sort of thing, but at the moment I'm not.

You are going to do a google image search for "monkey" now, aren't you? Comment if you did, you fucking perv. Truthfully the girl was kinda hot save for her sagging boobs and the fact that she was breastfeeding a monkey.

Ok now that you are done wanking, what else have I got? Oh yeah! Angelspit has a new remix CD out and a new vid. Check them out, they fucking rock!

Also, Check out the krankhaus channel on youtube. It's Angelspit's official channel and there are cool vids on it. Zoog recently posted some recent interviews.

I'm still pissed with PSTA, my recent communications with them tell me that they do not want to take any responsibility for their lousy service. They said they would investigate, but I think they are full of shit.

What's with the monkeys? What? You got a problem with monkeys?

The internet is pissing me off, rant #1 - Facebook and other social networking

Aside from getting sick of invites from the stupid apps (really, I don't want to grow virtual vegetables on a virtual farm), there's a few things about Facebook that have really been pissing me off lately.

For starters, why is it that the twitter/facebook app does not always work? Sometimes it gives me an error telling me they haven't got all the kinks out. WTF??? It was just working? Why is it not now?

I'm getting a lot of people I don't know wanting to be my friend. I was kindly messaging them asking who they are and why are they adding me, but I've gone on to just ignoring them. I'm sick of it. Most are using the Friend Finder app. Look folks, if I don't know you personally and you haven't the sense or decency to introduce yourself to me first, I don't want to be your friend. Especially if you are just adding people just to have more people in your list. That's just pointless and a waste of mine and your time. If you are validating your existence by the number of people in your friends list, please fucking kill yourself, now. Nobody cares about the number of people you have in your list that don't know you from Adam (who the fuck is Adam anyway?). Cut it out. Grow the fuck up.

People that I have never met before that just up and contact me with messages like "Hey Cutie!" really piss me off. Usually this is someone from the middle east. WTF? I wonder how much attention they actually pay to what little they can see of my facebook profile. Yes, I know, I look pretty cute in my picture. But the name "Charles" should clue you in on something. And really that's about all they can see. Which is pretty funny actually. I mean I'm picturing these guys back home talking to their friends. "Hey I just hit up this girl on facebook." What's her name?" "Charles." I think you get the point. Seriously though, it's not cool to contact people on the other side of the planet at random with messages like "hey cutie." Besides, I'm in a relationship and quite happy about it. Is there an option to make that public so Muhammad and Abdul can leave me alone? With names like that and living in the middle east, they probly shouldn't be flirting with a tranny.

Suggestions! I fucking hate this feature. Seriously. I don't care who my friends are friends with. Or what they are a fan of. Or what group they just joined. Or that they don't have enough pictures. Or that I haven't written on their wall lately. Go fuck yourself. How people waste their time is their business, not mine.

The fucking notifications box! Ever have like a lot of notifications and when you click on the little box in the corner the list goes off your screen and you can't get to the top? WTF??? And stop it with the notifications for shit I don't use!