On occasion I get bored and go through the “Memphis” blogrolls on a variety of local sites like thememphisblog, theogeo, scribblescrawl, etc.
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?
Posted by Sig on 01.15.2010 at 9:07 am// Tagged: Internet, Memphis, rant //
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Yeah, I know I’m late, but check out the Team Coco Stickers at House of Grafix.
I’m not going to go into a long rambling diatribe at this point, as nothing is really certain, and I’m late to the party, so nothing I can say at this point will be very original, but needless to say, Leno is a dick, NBC is run by morons, and Coco is the man. Here’s some links for those who have no idea what I’m talking about:
http://wesupportconan.com/
http://teamcoco.blogspot.com/
http://teamconan.com/
http://imwithcoco.com
Posted by Sig on 01.15.2010 at 6:21 am// Tagged: Entertainment //
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I posted a quick blurb about this place a month or so ago, but I ordered again tonight and felt I should do a more in depth review.
I gotta say, this is easily the best pizza in Memphis. Tonight I ordered a Supreme and got it delivered. Supreme consists of pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, peppers, black olives, and sausage. A large came to $19.xx delivered.
The first thing that struck me was how fast delivery was, under 30 minutes from placing the order to it arriving. I dunno if that’s typical, but I certainly can’t complain.
I got the pie and grabbed a slice. It’s immediately obvious that all of the toppings are fresh and hand cut. No uniform size onions out of a giant vat, you can tell they chop their veggies fresh. The crust is also obviously not frozen. As a whole, you get the impression of freshness in pretty much every bite.
Here’s a slice of my supreme.
Spectacular. One of the few places in town that gets the mushrooms right. They’re delicious and juicy without being slimy. If you’re hungry for pizza, you really can’t go wrong here.
Posted by Sig on 01.08.2010 at 10:27 pm// Tagged: Food, Memphis //
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Back from Chicago, but their weather seems to have followed me, so I’ve more or less just been sitting at home hiding from the cold.
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.
Posted by Sig on 01.08.2010 at 6:27 am// Tagged: Internet, Memphis, menus //
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with TheoGeo, so I likely won’t be posting. Expect lots of pics when I get back though. In the meantime, I did an editorial on Google’s new phone over at my other site, check it out here.
Posted by Sig on 12.30.2009 at 6:28 am// Tagged: Uncategorized //
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Nothing Memphis Related to write about, as I haven’t gone out in a few days since it’s been the holiday season and lots of stuff has been closed. I did get off my ass and do a new How-To for my other site, this one on installing Windows 7 from a Thumb Drive, particularly useful for people with netbooks, which generally lack an optical drive.
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.
Posted by Sig on 12.28.2009 at 8:46 am// Tagged: EeePC, Internet, Technology //
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Everyone’s doing the family/holiday thing, including me, so there’s not a whole lot to post about. Kooky Canuck is doing $2 32oz bud lights all day tomorrow, Wednesday 12/23, if you’re in the mood for cheap beer.
Posted by Sig on 12.22.2009 at 3:26 am// Tagged: Beer, Entertainment, Memphis //
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Seeing how a mental health patient shot his doctor with a “25mm handgun”
(Photo from wikipedia)
Looks a little large for a handgun, being as it’s bigger than a hand.
Story here.
Protip: .25 != 25mm
Posted by Sig on 12.16.2009 at 11:10 pm// Tagged: Memphis //
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You may remember my previous post about this genius, apparently this time he’s accused of raping a 17 year old girl. I’ll edit with a link when the local news gets the story up on their site.
Posted by Sig on 12.11.2009 at 11:13 pm// Tagged: Ghettorati, Memphis //
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Amazon has A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Send your mailing address to me, and I’ll send you a copy.
Posted by Sig on 12.11.2009 at 9:53 am// Tagged: Memphis //
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