Resident Evil Movies

It really grinds my gears when Hollywood ruins a good franchise. What grinds them even more is when brain-dead (zombie?) fans like the movie even though it completely raped the original concept. This is precisely what happened with resident evil. I agree with the critic, Erin Meister:

Watching this stuff unfold onscreen is like sitting by while someone plays your video games without you.

I would just add that watching someone else play resident evil is still entertaining and suspenseful. The Resident Evil movies are abominations.

Bill O' Reilly

Travis has already posted on Bill, but I just have to reaffirm (as a conservative myself) that Bill O' Reilly is a bigger pinhead than anyone who he has ever insulted on his show. Last night he was a complete jerk to a man of much higher intellect and much nobler values.

Men Who Don't Wear Shirts

Men who don't wear shirts really grind my gears. Who do they think they are? What's so special about them that enables them to walk into places of business and flaunt their hairy (or effeminate) chests around to the public? It's very conceited for them to think that everyone should be okay with their pathetic display of manliness, or in some cases girliness. For example, today a guy came into my place of business shirtless, covered in tattoos and with his chest hair shaved into a diamond shape. This guy probably had the audacity to believe that his rebellion against conformity, in the form of innumerable tattoos, is somehow a substitute for the civility of covering one's shame with a shirt. Such conceited notions grind my gears.

People With Tongue Piercings

You know what grinds my gears? People who have tongue piercings.

I was just watching a game show hosted by Drew Carey called The Power of 10. The female participant was brunette, probably attractive by our shallow culture's standards, and yes, her tongue was pierced. Every time she had to open her mouth to speak, she did it in a most deformed way. This would always flash her tongue ring into the camera. I'm not sure if she did this because she wanted the world to see her emblem of slavery to society or if the piercing made it awkward for her to talk, forcing her to speak that way. I believe the reason is the former. Either way, it really irritated me.

When the girl wasn't speaking, the camera, fixed on her face, showed her anxiety as she was waiting to hear whether she was right or wrong. She showed her anxiety by licking her lips. But this was no normal lip licking, she stuck her entire tongue out of her mouth to lick them. I've seen people do this when they are nervous, but hers was not normal. The first inch or more of her tongue was past her lips and the contact wasn't made until about the second inch (If you have seen the Focus on Beauty II skit on the Best of Chris Farley SNL DVD, think of the way that Christina Applegate does it). This was certainly not a natural gesture and its whole purpose was to flash her immature piercing to the nation.

So here's to that girl on The Power of 10. America is so proud of you for your tongue piercing. Even though you made yourself look like an idiot to show us, we congratulate you!