One more reason why “geek culture” can fukk the hell off.

Geek culture. You hear these words, read them, see them, all over the place. And then the biggest sting comes. They try to tell you that “geek culture” and autistic culture are the same thing. No. Just. No. Rather than go on about what the word “geek” actually means (if you have not ever bitten the head off a live chicken in front of an audience, please stop telling people you are one, because you are not), I want to talk about something a little more aggravating.

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Days Of Future Past

They say that the two most powerful words in advertising are “new” and “free”. Well, thanks largely to my habit of collecting rewards points and buying all of my tickets to films, I was able to redeem the offer of a free ticket last Thursday. Which made X-Men: Days Of Future Past the obvious choice to see.

Rather than give a detailed review, I am going to reflect on my reactions to the content.

Goodbye, mister iPhone

Two days ago whilst waiting to see the new X-Men film, I did something I had been considering for a long time. I took the option of prematurely ending the contract that kept me using an iPhone and started a new contract based on a new ‘phone.

(One reason) Why conservatives should be segregated from the rest of us.

It seems like an ideal dream. People defined as liberal for one reason or another having their own world to live on, and conservatives theirs. Before we continue, however, I must point out that I am going to make no pretense of aiming for that crock of shit people call objectivity. Instead, I am going to talk about why I believe that, if left on a world with equal resources, conservatives would be begging to come to the liberal one within a few generations.

An open response to John Elder Robison

Very recently, concerns have been raised about John Elder Robison endorsing or supporting Autism Speaks For Normie Assholes on the sly. That is, his whole “I quit” declaration was basically smoke and mirrors. Robison has issued a statement that I will quote after the “jump” because it bears meaning in this case.

Rethinking 13.

Last year, Black Sabbath did something that numerous people around the world, myself included, had been breathlessly hoping they would do since 1997 or 1998. That is, they released a whole album consisting of new compositions.

The Valve Bar, Sydney, May 16 2014

Frozen Planet 1969 / Horsehunter / Vile Ways / Yanomamo

One of the numerous quirks of my neurology is that I do not find it easy to go to places that are unfamiliar to me. Although I love Sydney as a place to live and travel, places like the Valve Bar in George Street in Sydney are slightly problematic when I have never been to them before.