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Music lost to history: Alice Cooper: Roses on White Lace
Alice Cooper is basically what Marilyn Manson has become. He sang about really taboo subjects at a time
when taboo actually was taboo. This particular tune is one that I began listening to after being dumped by the girl that I was supposed to marry
back in the early nineties. It is actually one of three songs that play back to back on most albums. Those three songs are, if memory serves,
"chop, chop, chop", "Gail" and "Roses on White Lace". I never really appreciated the other two quite as much as this one, but then I have
never hacked anyone to death, so check back later... This song stands alone as being pretty cool just because it states the anger that I was having at the time (back in the '90s). At the same time, it illustrates that Marilyn Manson is following the course of another very successful rocker. While Cooper's songs were not earth-shaking, they were provocative. That single fact is what has led to Manson's success. I have never heard or read Marilyn Manson say that Alice Cooper was an actual influence on his music, but here is an example of it from twenty years ago. Is It Porn? The last entry, Was.com was not porn. Now for a tough one. Breast.com. What do you think, is it porn? No, it is not porn.
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My infrequent posting pattern continues, some may even say that it is becoming the norm. I dunno, I would like to think that there were pressing, real-life issues
that kept me from posting, but no, nothing like that at all. You see I got caught up in another one of those silly Club Pogo challenges. The challenges are little more
than a digital pissing contest, but I just can't stand the thought of failing at any challenge that I begin. The problem with that is that I often start challenges (in life as well as that game site) that involve games/things
that I am not very good at, or at least not familiar enough with to try.
This time, the game 'Dominoes' was the source of my problems over the last few days. It turns out that there is a use to them beyond just lining them up and
knocking them down. Which is good, I suppose, as I always wondered why they went to all the trouble of putting numbers on them if their only purpose was to be stood
on end and knocked over. Actually, I have played dominoes in the past, used to be passable at it, but the version that they offer on that website doesn't use the same
rules that I played by. In fact, a quick look at Dominoes.com shows that there are at least
68 different domino games. Of course I know how to play exactly one of them, which was very different than the online version that I was offered as a challenge.
If I were able to take the hours that I spent trying to win those 65 games and funnel them into a good cause, I likely would have gotten a lot more Diablo playing done.
I did win the 65 games in the challenge, albeit only an hour before the expiration of the challenge. Considering that they give you seven full days to do each challenge
I would say that I cut it pretty close.
• While perusing my site statistics today I noticed a couple of interesting search strings that resulted in hits. Those particular searches were
for 'free sixteen porn picture' and 'watch free little girl porn' (both without quotations, of course). I will readily admit that I changed the title of my page to say, "Still Porn Free", as a ruse to see if I could get a few hits just because
it had the words free and porn in it. I never had any idea that it would result in pedophiles clicking through to my page. Curiosity drove me to do a Yahoo search for those exact strings and I found the reason why.
When I ran a search for the first string (free sixteen porn picture), I was indeed near the top of the list. What is worse is that the quote about the first fifteen words of the header, then quote a little snippet from somewhere
on the page that contained one of the search terms. The actual part from my page that was quoted said, "I know that it really did sound fresh, but I was also about sixteen, and I didn't really know anything about anything ...". Now I was talking about
a writer at that point, yet I could see how that particular line could be taken out of context. So Mr. (or Ms.) pedophile was thinking that it was a child getting fresh with someone...I can accept that, a simple misunderstanding.
The second search string really has me baffled. I did searches on Yahoo and Google for 'watch free little girl porn', and my site does indeed come up. Unfortunately, for porn seekers, the 'watch' in question is a wristwatch. It is even stated in the little description of the site that Mr. (or Ms.) pedophile clicked through
to get to my page. What I wonder is, did they really think that 'Armitron' and 'Rolex' were code words for child porn? I don't know, I think that said person was just clicking through every link looking for a picture of a naked child, and man that is sick.
I have been trying to get my father's side of the family to let me put a directory, on this site, that has all of the photos and history we can find about our ancestors. I thought that it would be a great way to get names and photos out to try to find some other branches of the
family tree. One of my Aunts had misgivings about posting that on the internet, and I wondered why. Now I know. The last thing that you ever want to think about is the possibility that there is some sicko, somewhere, looking at an old, black and white photo of your mother bathing you in the
sink...And jerking off...That is just wrong.
• In sports news, what the hell is going on in baseball?
I grew up in Oregon, and as such we didn't have a local baseball team to root for. What we did have was a WGN station on our local cable service. I became a Cubs fan, since that was what we had. When I moved to Arizona, and shortly after the Diamondbacks became a franchise, I rooted for them as well. The Diamondbacks did win a world series in my lifetime, while I still somehow doubt
that the Cubs ever will. Last year it was a possibility that the Cubs and the Red Sox could have met in the World Series, but no one ever really thought that was going to happen since Boston has the curse of the Bambino and Chicago has the curse of the goat (sorry for the sparse info link there, gotta get back to the game).
Unless the Red Sox find a way to fuck up a seven run lead in the seventh inning, they will be the first baseball team to ever come back from being down 3-0 and win the series. Of course the Yankees and Redsox are only playing the ALCS and the winner must go on to play the winner of the NLCS series, but I would venture to say that whoever wins this game will win it all (which is not much of a venture statistically).
This all meshes nicely with my theory that the Cubs are going to be the first professional sports team to go exactly a century between championships. Look for them to be on the first platform in 2007, go Cubbies! This talk is a bit premature, as the game is still on. Probably in the seventh inning stretch judging by the sounds of it. Still, happy thoughts.
The problem with baseball, as everyone except pretty die-hard Yankee fans know, is that there is absolutely no equality in the game. Every other major sport puts limitations on how much you can spend to make the 'ultimate team'.
The Lakers (in the NBA) have done a great job of winning within those constraints, as did the previous San Francisco and Dallas dynasties (in the NFL) of years past. I don't follow hockey closely enough to make a reference there, but it seems that the teams are basically pretty evenly matched (within reason).
The Yankee's are able to buy every 'free-agent', every year, and give them more money than anyone else ever could. I do understand that the Yankees also make the most money, but come on. The Yankees will regularly have half of the top 10 highest players on their team, while the worst teams will have a couple of decent players, but no one that really stands out. It is not because the shitty teams don't want to win, not that they don't want to be
competitive, it is just that the Yankees have more money. Speaking of that, You have to have a bit of respect for Curt Schilling who chose to go to the Red Sox to try to dethrone the Yankees in the American League, after having beat the Yankees in the World Series with the Diamondbacks. That is a hatred/desire to dethrone a team that I have yet to see in any athlete.
Seriously, though, I am going to go watch the end of this game...I think we may be seeing history here...
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