In short, it would give the government the ability to take offline any site they feel might be guilty of hosting copyrighted material. It could effectively spell the end of any site with user driven content. Check the wikipedia page for more in depth information.

I urge you to contact your legislators and let them know in no uncertain terms that support of SOPA will be political suicide.

I’m about to redo the look of this site as well as add some features when I get a chance, until then, add me on google plus.

I started poking around and noticed that absolutely no one has donated to Downtown Elementary. Their page can be found here.

I say we change that. I ordered the book on amazon, so they’re getting my $15 from that,  and I decided to get the ball rolling now by throwing in another $25 of my own.

As much as I bitch about stupid people, the least I can do is contribute to the cause of making future generations a little less stupid. I implore you to do the same, if only to keep me from climbing a tall building with a powerful rifle.

http://www.mainstreetj.com/

Not bad for a camera phone, eh?

Sooner or later I find myself on Steve’s Nude Memphis Blog. I read over it, generally feel a little dumber for my trouble, and move on, but hey, there’s nothing wrong with someone having a differing opinion.

In the course of my random ventures there, however, I’ve noticed an overarching theme. Every single post, as far as I can tell, is about domestic violence, rape, or how woman are persecuting men. At first I wrote it off as venting. I mean, who hasn’t been through a bad breakup and felt a little hostile toward the fairer sex for a bit? I figured it was the male equivalent of “OMGz I am SOOO done with men forever!”.

But it never stops.

Ever.

I was reminded of this recently when my dad was talking about reading random Memphis Blogs, and after mentioning some blogs he enjoyed, said “There’s also a lot of nutjobs, like that nude guy. What’s wrong with THAT guy?”.

I can’t really blame him for coming to that conclusion. Let’s go with the latest post. Who the fuck is in a bar with three female friends and decides it’s a good time to talk about rape statistics? Then there’s defending Roman Polanksi’s rape of a 13 year old as people getting mad about a guy “Fucking a chick who’s too hot for him”. Or the fixation on emasculation seen here. And here. And here.  Or we can look at the fact that he makes a point to highlight any story involving women kicking men in the dick. Like this. And this. And this. And…well, you get the idea, it’s pretty fucking creepy.

I think you get the (insanely repetitive, disturbing) point by now, but no one seems to have ever mentioned it. I’m a heterosexual, twentysomething male, and I just don’t feel this oppression by females. I don’t feel that women are out to get me. While there are certainly differences in the sexes, I don’t feel this animosity he seems to. Am I missing something? Is that blog a parody blog that I’m too dense to have picked up on? Do most men feel this way? Are my father and I in some minority of men that seem to think his perspective is fucking nuts? Am I being trolled?

I was reading the most recent issue of Downtowner and saw an ad for Second Street Shoppers that included a website. Pretty basic, but at least they have hours of operation up and a handful of pictures. I used to go there and attempt to buy them out of Newcastle pretty often when I lived closer. I haven’t been by there in a while since I moved a bit further away, but I’m sure I’ll be back by when the weather warms up. Very nice guys and they carry most of the basics. Their food is pretty damn good too. It’s secondstreetshoppers.com.

Here’s the article: http://sigsays.com/how-to/install-windows-7-from-a-usb-thumbdrive-perfect-for-eeepcs/

I plan on going out a little this week, I should have some stuff to report.

Also, The Travel Channel ran the episode of Man Vs. Food from Memphis. It featured the Sasquatch Burger from Bigfoot Lodge, now Kooky Canuck. They also hit Rendezvous and Gus’ Fried Chicken. Pretty good episode. I was poking around on the man vs. food page on the travel channel’s site, and found an interview with the host, Adam Richman. This part caught my attention:

Most difficult?

Everything else. Nah, I mean they’re all tough to some degree. Some because I had a full day of shooting and eating the day prior, others because of what the challenge entails. The Juan in a Million Challenge in Austin and the Sasquatch Burger in Memphis were pretty gnarly, though.

Pretty cool that the Kookamunga ranks among his most difficult challenges. Here’s the full interview.