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I was watching a video on CNN about a woman getting tasered, and before that was an ad about video games and drug addiction and shit. It showed a video game character in the TV getting arrested talking to the mom of some kid, and he said "ALL I DO IS SMOKE WEED AND CAUSE TROUBLE" and the mom said "And my son finds you cool?"

Yes, they had him on the ground and it was very unlikely that at that point further he was going to pose a threat to the police force. He told the cops that he would walk out if they got off him. I don't understand how he deserved it! Sure, he was being belligerent, but only so in asking questions in an inappropriate manner. He was resisting arrest because he thought it was totally unfounded. You and I would've done the same thing. Was he kicking and flailing so much so that four cops couldn't contain him? Hell no. Watch the video, that one black guy could've carried him out and did (halfway at least). They should've just removed him from the building and barred him from entering again. No one is justifing him grabbing the mic and everything, but I don't see how this makes him any more viable of a candidate for electrical shock. Even Kerry was saying that he was going to answer the question and that he thought it was too much for Meyers to get arrested. Furthermore, they charged Meyers with inciting a riot, when clearly the policemen are at fault for this. Would there've been a riot if they just escorted out of the building? Again, hell no. Like I said before, there's deserving something and having legal ramifications for your actions.

Halo 1 was an awesome multi-player experience, but it had the worst campaign mode of any game I've ever played. The plotline was cool, but everything else was ridiculous and labyrinthene.

Oh, don't forget Guitar Hero III (although that is in October.)

Yeah, because being a douche is good reason to arrest and taser someone. I'm glad that cops in the 21st century have to react like that, because their actions incited a riot, which I'm sure is much worse than one kid insinuating things at John Kerry. Didn't he even say that if the cops just got off him that he would walk out peacefully? Oh, well the cops couldn't take that seriously because he was going to go back and beat the shit out of all of them single handedly, bro. There's a difference between deserving something and having legal consequences for your actions. Furthermore, it's a little more than sickening how some people are saying that he somehow deserved the tasering because of his conduct. Go get tasered, and see how it feels and tell us if you'd recommend that as a justifiable punishment for not being a bro.

phil collins

I am getting an XBOX 360 and I am fucking super goddamned excited. I'm planning on buying Bioshock and Halo 3, and later guitar hero 3 (probably over the Wii version just because of the graphics.) What is a reasonable price to pay for a used 20GB system? New, they're like $250 now right? I said $200. Also, what's the webbernet set up for 360? Pay? Hmm?

I was listening to this thing on NPR from the foreign minister from Iraq, or some other high totem post in the Middle East. It was a year ago. Anyway, he made some very good points, but one stuck out more than all. Fuck. I really wish there was a transcript. It was a very eloquent speech and is something that every American should listen to, patriotic or not. "September 11th proved, for once, that America is irrevocably part of the real world."

Ice climbers are just poor characters. They're weak and usually the first characters to be knocked out, since, if Nana gets knocked out, then the other guy is powerless. I don't know who I'm rooting for at this point. Maybe Birdo would be a nice little Yoshi clone...

Your quaint british misspellings make your insults seem dry and unfunny.

My mom once brought an apple to a movie theatre. A fucking apple. The David Cross bit on cell phones is great, listen to it. I was watching a fucking shitty movie that I got dragged into somehow, I forgot the title, but it was this gay little sappy movie pulling out all the cliches, etc. I just ended up groaning really loudly and walked out. Spiderman 2 was a terrible movie.

Yes. Go to iLounge and search or browse for something like that. It's my one-stop-shop for all my iPod info needs. Srsly.

i suck

Know how I know you're gay?

Am I the only one who hates CoverFlow? It's fucking useless and requires so much unnecessary scrolling. Fuck it.

AndrewTS is cool

Angels destroy Baltimore, like 16-6. No surprise.

Pee-Bone

Aye, even though he's on my ignore list.

5 gnars

My acting teacher is actually the bad guy from Mortal Kombat

An album review I wrote for my school's newspaper for Paramore (Riot!): When I saw The Shins play at Pipeline this summer, the opening band was a local “metal” band called Satellite Grey. There was something like seven people in the band, the lead singer was a woman who dressed like a teenage valet driver, and the keyboard player looked like the rock equivalent of Kenny G, but those were all things that I could put up with. Then they started playing. All of the songs had something to do with heartbreak, and the bass player was too sweaty to actually lay down a good riff (he literally wore four sweatbands in an unironic manner). It was as if an ellipsis plagued the entire crowd. Satellite Grey sounds, unfortunately, not unlike Paramore at all. Riot! sounds like the unwanted child between Evanescence and Kelly Clarkson. The album stomps all over well-worn territory, and is just no fresh breath of air. The pedantic, bookish lyrics are mixed with mediocre guitar licks, and layed over faux-hardcore drum banging. I can go about 13 seconds into each song before frantically reaching for skip button. Riot! contains some of the worst lyrics ever pressed into a CD. “Woah… it was never my intention to brag / I’m sorry honey, but I passed up, now look this way! / Well I refuse, I refuse, I refuse!” These guys probably high five each other onstage at the Warped Tour. It’s not even worthy to tap your foot along to.

No No No

Lip piercings are disgusting.

I used to have a septum piercing, yes the bull one, but I got positive feedback from it. I'm going to get my nipples pierced too when I get my septum done again this weekend.