Bloggaday 28 – The Dynamic Finish of the Shirt Saga

Bloggaday 28 The Dynamic Finish of the Shirt Saga

When I started the Piccaday 4 weeks ago, I wanted to stretch out my unique pictures. The pictures, however, are of my face and a tiny bit of the shirt I’m wearing. So, for two weeks, I dug deep into my closet and wore a new shirt everyday. As the two weeks came to a close, I realized I would not be able to keep the trend going, so I decided to repeat the trend by wearing the shirts again for the next to weeks. It all seems to be a distant nightmare now. Also, I wouldn’t read the last paragraph if you haven’t watch Cowboy Bebop and have an urge to do so.
But I would not allow for this storybook ending. Halezno. I am the author of my own fate, and I’m laying down devastating lines right now. At the end of week 2, I wore my Monopoly shirt that has the miser with empty pockets and ‘broke’ written under him. For those of you who cheated and checked the piccaday or went to the bottom of this post before reading it, then you know that I didn’t show my shirt in this picture.
Le gasp, what shirt am I wearing? Did spike die at the end of Bebop? What did the three lights mean at the end of No Country for Old Men? Was Stairway to Heaven written to be a groundbreaking social commentary?




See You Space Cowboy…

Bloggaday 27 – Ty Lee, Master of Pink Panther Style

Bloggaday 27 – Ty Lee, Master of Pink Panther Style

Still shaking it up here at Bloggaday. I haven’t drawn anything lately, well that was true before yesterday. My niece and nephew were drawing, so I decided to do some myself, terrible as it came out. That means though, I get to shamelessly plug my Deviantart and theOtaku accounts. The former being herar http://avi101.deviantart.com/gallery/, and the latter being therar http://www.theotaku.com/portfolio/avi101. As you can see, I enjoy myself some Avatar fanart. I’ve been in an Avatar kick for the last year or so. I’ll move on when I find something else I suppose.
So anyways, back to current days. I drew this yesterday. Reference picture herar http://www.cosplay.com/photo/2275813/. Now, had I just drawn it, I would have been happy with the piece, probably ecstatic since I can’t draw like that, but with a reference, meh, it should have been better. I’ll add some color to the next one I do.
The final piece is at the end, to see the couple of WIP pics I have, go herar (http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums/af128/daviddysart/Depictions/)

Stay tuned to a special twist ending tomorrow. After 4 week of build up, the shirt saga culminates in an explosive finale. You’ve got to be shirting me!




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Fire Flies by Owl City
Born on the Bayou by CCR
You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi

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Bloggaday 26 – Stimuli and Serenity

Bloggaday 26 – Stimuli and Serenity

Alright, to actually compile a cosplay cast of Avatar, whoops, The Last Airbender, I spent more than a considerable amount of time combing Cosplay.com. It was always very relaxing though. I do believe I figured out why.
I’m a very go-go-go kind of person. I don’t like doing nothing. I’m not usually the lay in bed just for the sake of doing nothing. I also tend to bombard myself with stimuli. I usually have the TV going or at the very least, some music. Again, I usually do something else while I watch TV or Music. It’s just playing in the background, even when I’m doing homework. There are only a couple of shows that I just sit and watch. Granted, I’m not terribly productive, but I usually do something.
Back to the matter at hand. I usually watched Dirty Jobs when I was going through Cosplay.com, and I would just zone out. That seemed to always be the case. I think it offered my noggin some downtime. So again, very relaxing.
I think this is also why I enjoy showers. I often get struck with brilliance or come up with groundbreaking literary ideas when I’m in there. Both situations force me to stop the stream of stimuli that I am compelled to propagate in my everyday life. Perhaps I should take up meditating and keep it up for more than two tries. Meh, theorizing. I’m off to my research group at Crafton.



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Long tail Sally, Maybelline, and Mystery Train by different folks

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For the Piccaday
http://s1000.photobucket.com/albums/af128/daviddysart/Piccaday/ Mass me by the month
http://thepiccaday.blogspot.com/ Me paced out by the day.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddysart/sets/72157623465996877/ Like witches at black masses

Bloggaday 25 – Shaun of the Sociological Perspective of Issues

Bloggaday 25 Shaun of the Sociological Perspective of Issues

As you may remember, I had to write a paper yesterday for a class yesterday. Hmm, that may not be the most memorable part of yesterday’s Bloggaday 24. Yay for BSing a paper. On a sidenote, today is going to be a d’oh (day of hell). Here is the paper

Movie Content Analysis
In 2004, Shaun of the Dead, a zombie spoof movie came out staring Simon Peg as Shaun and Nick Frost as Ed. Despite the humorous nature of the movie, it still encompasses several social issues. We can see it dealing with alcohol use, family dynamics, unemployment, work, and aging.
The earliest and one of the most prominent issues in the film is alcohol. The very beginning of the movie is set in the Winchester bar. The movie takes this setting and introduces the characters. Shaun, the lead; Liz, the girlfriend; Ed, the best friend; and Dianne and David as the girlfriend’s friends. The film shows how prominent alcohol is in the lead character’s life as he and the Liz fight about how much time they spend in the Winchester among other problems in their relationship. After he fails to get seats at a restaurant for their three-year anniversary, Ed suggests to him, who then suggests to her that they should go to the Winchester for their anneversary. When Liz breaks up with Shaun, she tells him that “If I don't do something, I'm going to end up going into that pub every night for the rest of my life like the rest of those sad old fuckers, drinking myself to death and wondering what the hell happened.” Interestingly, during the course of the movie, Shaun and Ed go to the Winchester every day. After Shaun and Liz had broken up, he and Ed go immediately to the bar and drink. Ed even goes so far as to advise Shaun to take the next day and do nothing but drink. Once the outbreak finally affects the two main character’s lives, they decide to rescue Shaun’s mom and girlfriend and hide out at the Winchester, which offers a venue for Ed to smoke (an activity already demonized earlier in the movie). Even when the main character tries to use alcohol in a beneficial manner, using it to start a fire and create a barrier between them and the zombies, it literally backfires on them. The last of their bullets were on the bar where Shaun started the fire and begin firing.
Along with alcohol, issues with the character’s getting older and being stuck in a regressed state are strewn throughout the film. When Shaun and Ed are together, the two regress into immature guys. Shaun’s roommate even says that they are not in college any more, and that he needs to get his life together. The contrast between the two and Shaun’s roommate is best shown after Shaun and Liz break up. After getting drunk, Shaun and Ed go home and play their records at 4 in the morning. The roommate comes in and explains to them that it’s Sunday, not Saturday, and that work is in four hours. All of this comes as the main character is 29, a far cry from college days. This point is shown in the middle of the movie. After they rescued Shaun’s mom and girlfriend, his father-in-law turns into a zombie in the backseat with Shaun. When he tries to escape, he’s locked in because of the child locks. Despite Ed being out of the car, he froze and couldn’t open the door. Only when Shaun’s girlfriend gets out, does she open the door. As Shaun overcomes obstacles in the movie, he seems to win this battle of regression.
This battle of age continues and presents itself with the jobs, or lack thereof, of the main characters. Ed is unemployed except for selling the occasion bit of pot (something Shaun’s roommate did in college). Liz is head of English at a school. Shaun is working at an electronics store, the oldest employee there among teenagers. This point is reinforced when he meets an old friend who just bought a house, and when she asked him what he did now, she mentioned the last time she saw him, he was working at some electronic store.
Along with the age aspect of the movie, it also deals with family relationships throughout the movie. The most prominent and evolutionary relationship in the movie is between Shaun and Liz. Shaun starts the film very codependent on Ed, but as Shaun evolves through the movie, this relationship switches to him and Liz. The turning point in these relationships was when Liz opens the child lock door on the car. Increasingly, Ed plays less and less of a role in future zombie attacks, allowing Liz to take the role. Towards the beginning of the movie, Shaun also has a very loose relationship with his mother. His father-in-law tries to motivate him into being a better son. Until his father-in-law dies, Shaun remains very resentful of him. Just before he passes, Shaun has a revelation though and changes his mind. He also moves closer and closer to an unconditional love of his mother as the movie plays out.
We can see that the maker of the movie sees these afflictions and incapacities of dealing with life affecting everyone in life. The zombie plague itself is this in society. Towards the beginning of the movie, when these problems are affecting him the most, Shaun is seen repeatedly shambling and moaning. At the end of the movie, he is seen shambling again, but it is coupled with moderation. His girlfriend even suggests going to the Winchester, but the bar and alcohol is simply a part of the day, not the entire day or end of the day. He even plays videogames with a zombified Ed in the shed. He is successful in taking aspects of his life and compartmentalizes them. Ed as a zombie acts as one of these compartments. Other aspects of his life are adult in nature.
Many comedy movies, especially ones that are spoofs of other movies tend to be rather shallow. Shaun of the Dead does not fit this mold. Using humor, the movie deals with several issues facing society today. Among other things, it deals with alcohol use, aging, unemployment, work, and family dynamics. It deals with these problems very fluently and intellectually.
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Can You Feel My Finger – Two and a Half Men

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Bloggaday 24 Home Remedies for Gerontological Issues

Bloggaday 24 Home Remedies for Gerontological Issues


The Shwailing Lizard marched through gravel that would have begun cooking the scampering feet of animals from any of the other nations. The Heat Bowl though, had a way of toughening animals… and people beyond the usual Fire Nation resilience.


I interrupt this regularly scheduled PWND edition of Bloggaday to bring you a video-accompanied special news bulletin.


Hmm, today I have a paper due, a paper I have yet to do. It’ll be easy though. All I have to do is watch a movie that has to do with a social problem and write a paper about it. My sociology teacher seems to be a fan of gerontology, so I might just do something on that. Something like Wildhogs.
Sigh, getting old is depressing. It’s just that much harder getting in and out of seats. Gettin’ movin’. You now, these few months round after 21 is pretty hard. That is a good point though. I guess there is one thing about getting old I won’t have to worry about. That there is the aid of Viagra. I’ve got my miracle cure typing this up at this very moment. No, not some cute girl. Good ol’ righty. In fact, I think I’ll turn some Barry White on the iTunes Genius playlist, lay it on a bed of the softest imported silks, and make sweet sweet lovin’ to it.
Sigh… again. That joke worked MUCH better in video format here – (http://www.youtube.com/user/DavidDysart?feature=mhw4), the first of what I can only imagine will be the very rare youtube accompaniment of the Bloggaday.
The bit of humor actually spawned from the new Two and a Half Men episode. Part 1 – Chelsea’s Dad asking his gay lover if he need any Viagra. The lover returned with, you are my Viagra. Couple that with the brilliance of Chuck Lorrie’s Vanity Cards, which I get nominated to read, and this is what you get. That particular Vanity Card was a “You know you’re getting old when…” card (fitting well with this Bloggaday’s gerontology’s theme). The line that set me off was, you get winded when you masturbate. That there got me going and the first thing that came to mind, which I of course spurted out while looking at my hand, “Baby, you are my Viagra.”


Listening to
Brendan Dosier on the Phil Hendrie Show. He’s a gay man and a gay journalist

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Bloggaday 23 Gorgeous origins

Bloggaday 23 Gorgeous origins

Let’s start with the line I came up with
I always said it would take an act of God and Congress to use the actual word ‘gorgeous’ to describe a woman. Well, the act of Congress was the 1st amendment. The act of God was you.

As for the word itself, I’ve never been a user, a gorgeous junkie. It was just never really a word in my vocabulary.
One day though, I was going through pictures of Avatar: The Last Airbender cosplay to jerry rig a fan cast of the movie for a post on the Bloggaday. I’m not sure when I’ll get this up, but it’ll be one of these days. Granted, my cast will be much older, such as the subject of this post is like 24 or something. The future post will be more focused on the feel of the characters though rather than age.
I won’t post the picture that got me started on the use of the word gorgeous, but I’ll point it out when I make the mock cast.
Edit: Added two pictures of the "gorgeous" girl.

Listening to
The Beaches of Cheyenne by Garth Brookes
Flirtin’ with Disaster by ???

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Alright, edited out my Piccaday picture for the pictures of the "gorgeous" girl
Here's a link to her cosplay website. She has a couple of Katara albums. I think she also has a Deviantart page, but hell if I can remember.
http://www.cosplay.com/costumes/m5244/

Bloggaday 22 – Democracy, a Fickle Bitc

Bloggaday 22 – Democracy, a Fickle Bitc

I am currently enrolled in Crafton Hill’s English 127 class where we put The Sand Canyon Review together. Herar ->
This last Thursday, our class gathered in a circle and sang Kumbaya. Well, that’s a lie. What we actually did was pick a cover for this year’s magazine. Now, I imagine I can’t go into any details about what pictures were being considered, so I will keep the four pieces anonymous, naming them p1, p2, p3, and p4. I’ll link to them when the magazine is released.
The Art Group (the team that handles all of the art submissions. Among the others, Short Story Group, Poetry Group, Layout Group, and my very own PR group) selected three pictures for the potential cover. The leader of the group, offered a very coherent statement for these three, for both aesthetic and marketing reasons. Personally I agreed with him.
I’ll give my teacher credit. Apparently last year, he had to do a lot of stuff, but this year we have a lot more students, so he’s trying to be hands-off. And for that, he left the room for the vote.
The first picture was ruled out as it was too similar to year one’s cover (I felt p2 was too similar to year 2). We held a quick vote where 4 or so people voted for p2, and almost everyone else voted for p3. We didn’t get a count for p3, so we held it again. Again, p3 won.
The head of poetry wanted to add p4 to the vote. So we tallied up votes for p2, p3, and p4. P4 only got 2 or 3 votes, p2 got a couple, but p3 won yet again. Head of poetry really didn’t like p3, so AFTER the vote, she decided to change her vote.
Guess what, we took p4 out of it and we voted on p2 and p3 alone again. Want to take a guess what happened? No, actually p3 won yet again by 1 vote. Looked like p3 was going to win 7 to 6. But oh no! Head of short story has to vote for some reason. It’s not that he wanted to, he actually wanted noooo part of it, but he was eventually broken, and he said to give it to the picture without 7.
That folks, made it a tie. One of the members of the art group was gone, but it sounded like she would have voted for p3. The head of art couldn’t hold her proxy though. Now, this has taken a while, so the teacher came back. Teacher teacher, it’s a tie, you have to decide which to use. Where’s that facepalm emoticon? Now you’re on the money as to which he chose… P2.
And that’s how I’m going to end this. I ended up staying for the aftermath of this and was a good 20 minutes late for my next class.

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Women scream at Robert Pattinson on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

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