FROM THE UNIVERSE:OBAMA HAS A KUNG FU GRIP, MTV HAS AN IQ DIP?

Hey folks,

Another quick installment of ‘From the Universe’ to tide you over as I won’t likely be posting tomorrow.

This post is a personal favourite as I really got to talk about some current things (ie: Obama’s coming to power) and satirize the dull pop-orifice that is MTV. It’s a bit old and really, even now I’m more jaded on the politics of Obama… still, what I cover here I still want.

“I’ve been in chats with a lot of people, from Profs. to Students to… well, myself. All of these groups have folks which think this whole deal is a great idea, with even a new prospective venture of the folks who participate shaping up (no details here, come to the meeting).

Also, here’s something:

Gamu-Toys has produced a really cool Barak Obama Action Figure!

Posable, head-switchable and apparently, Force-usable, this Obama is ready to take on any foe!

Seriously though, where is my ‘Georgie Bush: Nuke the Whales’ playset or my ‘Clinton Connection’ video game?

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/01/23/barack-obama-action-figure-is-here-to-save-the-day/

Yeah, I use this article as it, hilariously, ignores the disclaimer from the originating website.

OBAMA DOES NOT ACTUALLY COME WITH THE WEAPONS, TOOLS.

Shows how much research people do now… eh? But then again, this IS MTV we’re talking about here. They don’t do much of anything.

Look at their line up: The Hills (or ‘Women without brains who are celebrates for no reason’), My Super Sweet Sixteen (or ‘How to prove Capitalism is inane’), The Real World (or ‘How to make humanity look worthy of alien-based genocide for soon-to-be twenty-two seasons’) and…

Well, the entire line up is like that. It’s disgusting to see terrible shows (not morally righteous terrible here, but just terrible as in: lame or chesse-ball).

I mean, wasn’t MTV… about MUSIC? Guess not. Not that, G4, Spike, Much or… well a bunch more are any better. Soon enough, we’ll have a Discovery Channel where Jay Ingram is replaced by a stripper and the entire cast of Mythbusters are kidnapped and emo-prep teen drama queens take their place (like Bodysnatchers, really).”

Update: We actually did get that Creative Writing Journal off the ground at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. The Inkpot was really a joy for me to start and see come to life. I can’t wait to get into the next edition in the Fall really as such a book of poetry and prose is– suprisingly? –is really important to me.

On the matter of MTV, their still dumb as bricks over there… So they have not recovered their musical heritage or, apparently, their brains.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Twilight+leads+Movie+Awards+nominations/1562259/story.html

Yeah, I really hate Twilight so this is only a half-fair interpetation, but to me this only proves how dull-witted MTV really is.

On another note, expect a post on Obama soon enough.

Have a good day all and…

Enjoy folks,
- Brad.

PS: Enjoy the short snack of a post this is. Next meal-sized post coming soon.