VOTE FOR BATMAN: HE’S PROBABLY NOT EVIL

As most of you are no doubt aware, there’s a presidential election going on, in which America has two choices: vote Republican or vote Democrat.

And if you go by my Facebook newsfeed, the arguments for either side can be summed up thusly:

The Republican POV:

“THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS EVIL! EVIL, I TELL YOU! NOT JUST WRONG, BUT DELIBERATELY, INTENTIONALLY EVIL! THEY WANT TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY WITH THEIR EVIL, EVIL PLANS! WE MUST VOTE REPUBLICAN TO STOP THE EVIL DEMOCRATS BEFORE THEY DROWN US IN EVIL! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

The Democratic POV:

“THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS EVIL! EVIL, I TELL YOU! NOT JUST WRONG, BUT DELIBERATELY, INTENTIONALLY EVIL! THEY WANT TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY WITH THEIR EVIL, EVIL PLANS! WE MUST VOTE REPUBLICAN TO STOP THE EVIL REPUBLICANS BEFORE THEY DROWN US IN EVIL! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

And that’s why I’m voting for the Goddamn Batman Party in 2012.




[Pic via Here Kitty. Words via dEFROG.]

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WHAT – ME WORRY?

Speaking of independent write-in candidates:

When all else fails, there’s always the MAD® option.



[Via Crypt Of Wrestling]

Well, when the most honest assessment of both mainstream party candidates comes down to deciding which one is likely to do the least damage, why not?

MAD® about you,

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NOT THE INTERNET, BUT AN INCREDIBLE SIMULATION

FUN FACT: In 1983, the future of communications looked like this.

It’s funny to watch with hindsight, in the sense that videotext never took off as a service (except in France, where Minitel was so popular that it took them until this past June to turn it off, and it still had over 600,000 subscribers at the time).

But really, most of the services AT&T pitches here have actually become reality almost 30 years later. So in that sense AT&T was arguably ahead of its time.

All it really got wrong – like most monopoly telephone companies in the world at the time – was the idea that customers would see value in a closed system where even the terminals were made and sold by the same company that sold you the service. Because that’s how it was done back then.

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dEFROG ON 45 #41: THE GIRL FROM SSQ

Most people might write off Stacy Q as a one-hit wonder – presuming they even remember her.

I remember her well, primarily because when she made her major label debut, I already knew who she was – namely, the singer in SSQ, a synth-pop band I knew mainly via the Return Of The Living Dead soundtrack and a couple of Enigma Records comps.

Needless to say, her bid for the pop mainstream didn’t really pay off, for whatever reason. My own theory is that Stacy didn’t have that larger-than-life personality it takes to be really successful in pop music, and Atlantic’s marketing team probably didn’t know what to do with her.

Anyway, I have the 45, and I like it. It’s a catchy tune. Not sure about the sampled vocals, mind.

I-I-I-I-I need you,

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