March 6th, 2006
Groonkly Bit
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
— Thomas Mann
— Thomas Mann
February 27th, 2006
Groonkly Bit
Concerning censorship, how does America compare to the UK?
America compares fairly well. You guys have the First Amendment. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. In England, which is where I come from, you don’t.
We have the Official Secrets Act. The Obscene Publications Act and we have a bunch of customs laws on what can be imported into the country, which was actually framed in the 1880s to cover the importation of dangerous and noxious weeds plants and vegetables. and were rephrased…they added the phrase “or literature”.
Which means that customs can not only seize a noxious book. They can seize all the innocent books in that shipment because they were contaminated by the bad book.
You guys have the First Amendment, which is brilliant! You don’t seem entirely comfortable with it. You’re not quite sure how you got it or what to do with it. But now you got it… it is something very precious and very cool and is something to be fought for.
–Neil Gaiman “Live at the Aladdin: An Evening with Neil Gaiman”
February 19th, 2006
Groonkly Bit
You can’t deal with my infinite nature can you?
Dawn Campbell “I
Huckabees”
Dawn Campbell “I
Huckabees”
Or better yet:
How am I not myself?
Brad Stand “I
Huckabees”
Brad Stand “I
Huckabees”
February 14th, 2006
Groonkly Bit
Prostitutes are useless. They fake their orgasms.
Alfred Kinsey – “Kinsey” speaks on why whores won’t work for his sex study.
Alfred Kinsey – “Kinsey” speaks on why whores won’t work for his sex study.
Happy Valentines Day, bitches!
January 22nd, 2006
Groonkly Bit
“When a man becomes middle-aged, he becomes a pig”
–Hayao Miyazaki(Porco Rosso press release: “…he was disillusioned with humanity, and cursed himself to be a pig.It seems that Porco is carrying a lot of baggage, and that has something to do with him quitting being a human.”
–Hayao Miyazaki(Porco Rosso press release: “…he was disillusioned with humanity, and cursed himself to be a pig.It seems that Porco is carrying a lot of baggage, and that has something to do with him quitting being a human.”
January 16th, 2006
Groonkly Bit
In the end, I think bukakke is a little like war. Bukakkes are all about dodging flying shots, avoiding close encounters, and stealing glimpses of other people.
—Susannah Breslin “My, My American Bukakke”
—Susannah Breslin “My, My American Bukakke”
I know what you kids are thinking.
“Hey… Groonk… what the fuck, man?”
That’s what’s running though your minds, it is.
Well. This week came round and I had jack for quotes. I couldn’t find any that friends have sent me. All the others I searched for bored me to tears. My personal database of quotes prepared for such dry spells was wiped out last summer.
I found myself reading Ms Breslin‘s comic about bukkake and there it was.
When all else fails, throw in a sex quote.
Or maybe you just didn’t care at all.
Apathetic bastards.
January 8th, 2006
Groonkly Bit: Moblog the planet
(At a gig a couple of years ago, a girl no more than 17 asked me why I was taking a picture and why I couldn’t just stand and enjoy the gig. The answer is simple. I can’t remember half the gigs I saw at 17.)
I don’t live on the grid, and I don’t live off it. I live with it. It’s an integrated part of my daily life, wherever I am. Moblogging tools should reflect that, right? And I’m hardly alone in this. So when did we all give up on the idea of the live mobile diary (particularly the idea that I could do it with two clicks on the phone without having to understand an online manual or wiki that appears to be written in Klingon)?
—Warren Ellis
That bastard Ellis needs to stop saying things that I agree with. Namely the bits about taking futurephone pics of daily happenings and definitely the bit about living with the grid.
That’s a balancing statement that readily agrees with me. It doesn’t freak me out like those people who can’t do two seconds without internetivity. It doesn’t distance me like those who run to the left and scream at me about killing fluffy souls for my base digestion habits. It sees technology as it should be seen. Technology is a tool plain and simple.
I leave the ideas of world devouring and cyberpunk souls to extremists. You know who you are.
January 4th, 2006
Groonkly Bit
Centauri: Alex! Alex! You’re walking away from history! History, Alex! Did Chris Columbus stay home? Nooooo. What if the Wright Brothers thought that only birds should fly? And did Galoka think that the Ulus were too ugly to save?
Alex Rogan: Who’s Galoka?
Centauri: Never mind.
Alex Rogan: Listen, Centauri. I’m not any of those guys, I’m a kid from a trailer park.
Centauri: If that’s what you think, then that’s all you’ll ever be!
–“The Last Starfighter“
Had to change out this week’s GB. I replaced it with a quote from one of my favorite movies from the 80s. Hell, I still like that flick now.
I love Robert Preston’s(Centauri) delivery of the last line.
January 4th, 2006
Groonkly Bit
December 23rd, 2005
Groonkly Bit: What is wrong?
Apparently it is Wrong, when finding carol singers at your door, to yell “Hail Satan! See you in Disneyland!”
and slam it on them. But I don’t want to be Right.
—Warren Ellis
and slam it on them. But I don’t want to be Right.
—Warren Ellis
It was too filled with humbuggery not to remember.
