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1) Sarah Palin talks to "Sarkozy". For those of you not in the know, that's the French President. Except it's not -- it's two guys from a Canadian radio show who get Palin to embarrass herself by gushing with fangirl-like enthusiasm over Sarkozy, probably in hopes of getting an endorsement or some overseas support. She hangs up when she realizes she's been tricked, unsurprisingly, but what worries me is that she didn't even realize the voice was wrong! I can recognize his voice and I'm definitely not in the running for Vice President of a major country.
2) Check Your Bias Here. A test from Harvard that identifies if you have an hidden bias where white/black people are concerned and the two American Presidential candidates. My results were a slight automatic preference for Black people over White people and a strong automatic preference for Barack Obama over John McCain.
Amusing, considering that I was taking this test thinking, "Yeah... Black versus White again. No South Asians involved." And slightly pouty over that. The black preference surprises me a lot more than Obama, since that one's obvious. Maybe it's because I live in Austria and I've yet to deal with racism from black people but have had plenty of it from Austrians, argh.
3) There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama! It's a song. Be warned, it's catchy. I still have it stuck in my head, days later!
4) I've gotten hooked on YGO: 5D's despite having refused to watch YGO GX. I blame the motorbikes. Ever since I heard that there are duels which take place while people are on MOTORBIKES, I've been itching to watch this series. And yes, this isn't a link, but there's more detail on my latest shameful fandom addiction under the cut.
When the producers made the show, I was definitely not the target audience they were aiming at (22 female living in Europe) but let's face it, I'm hooked. Why?
1) It's a children's card game being played ON MOTORBIKES.
2) You can't summon certain cards unless your bike is going above a certain speed.
3) Class warfare, with Domino being split into Neo Domino City (rich) and Satellite (poor).
4) Rich antagonist who calls himself the King but is being blackmailed about his origins from Satellite by the Big Bad in NDC.
5) Protagonist who believes that every card is important. Especially poignant because Satellite workers do nothing but recycle trash, thus him having that viewpoint since he built himself a bike out of said trash.
6) The five main chars have tats on them that signal they're able to summon the guardian dragon god of a Pre-Incan civilization.
7) The tats represent different parts of the dragon god. (Mind OUT of the gutter!)
8) The protag and antago spend the first three episodes looking up at the moon and thinking about each other and how the moon was exactly like that on the night they separated. And they're rivals.
As the above list might've clued you in, YGO 5D's is pretty much crack. I imagine that the conversation must've gone like this in the producer's studio:
And lo, Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's was born.
2) Check Your Bias Here. A test from Harvard that identifies if you have an hidden bias where white/black people are concerned and the two American Presidential candidates. My results were a slight automatic preference for Black people over White people and a strong automatic preference for Barack Obama over John McCain.
Amusing, considering that I was taking this test thinking, "Yeah... Black versus White again. No South Asians involved." And slightly pouty over that. The black preference surprises me a lot more than Obama, since that one's obvious. Maybe it's because I live in Austria and I've yet to deal with racism from black people but have had plenty of it from Austrians, argh.
3) There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama! It's a song. Be warned, it's catchy. I still have it stuck in my head, days later!
4) I've gotten hooked on YGO: 5D's despite having refused to watch YGO GX. I blame the motorbikes. Ever since I heard that there are duels which take place while people are on MOTORBIKES, I've been itching to watch this series. And yes, this isn't a link, but there's more detail on my latest shameful fandom addiction under the cut.
When the producers made the show, I was definitely not the target audience they were aiming at (22 female living in Europe) but let's face it, I'm hooked. Why?
1) It's a children's card game being played ON MOTORBIKES.
2) You can't summon certain cards unless your bike is going above a certain speed.
3) Class warfare, with Domino being split into Neo Domino City (rich) and Satellite (poor).
4) Rich antagonist who calls himself the King but is being blackmailed about his origins from Satellite by the Big Bad in NDC.
5) Protagonist who believes that every card is important. Especially poignant because Satellite workers do nothing but recycle trash, thus him having that viewpoint since he built himself a bike out of said trash.
6) The five main chars have tats on them that signal they're able to summon the guardian dragon god of a Pre-Incan civilization.
7) The tats represent different parts of the dragon god. (Mind OUT of the gutter!)
8) The protag and antago spend the first three episodes looking up at the moon and thinking about each other and how the moon was exactly like that on the night they separated. And they're rivals.
As the above list might've clued you in, YGO 5D's is pretty much crack. I imagine that the conversation must've gone like this in the producer's studio:
"What do kids like about Yu-Gi-Oh? The card games! Yes, we'll have card games. But to make it different, we'll have them play card games on MOTORBIKES. Because kids like motorbikes! And they like dragons, so we'll give them dragon part tattoos and dragon signature cards!"
"...Sir, what about a plot?"
"Hm? Oh. Oh! Plot. We did Egypt already. And Atlantis. Let us now MAKE UP a civilization that predates the Incas and had a guardian DRAGON god! Yes! And the tattoos can summon the god! Who will save mankind from the bad guy!"
"Another ancient evil?"
"No, a bureaucrat. Much worse."
"..."
"AND WE WILL CALL IT YU-GI-OH 5D's to represent the 5 dragon tattooed people! One of whom should act and dress like Seto Kaiba's reincarnation as the most popular character from the original series!"
"Yes, sir."
"But we'll make him blond."
"Yes, sir."
"TO THE DESIGN TEAM, MINIONS!"
"*sigh* Yes, sir."
And lo, Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's was born.
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Does that make sense? Think HSM and maybe that's the same. Tisdale is the sorta evil person, and she's really white. You know? Am I making any sense? xD
I think it's more of the many cities up north. It's just harder and more stressful to live up there (to me, at least, I'm converted to Southern ways), so the tension and economic gaps are louder. In cities in the south there are more race problems simply because it's a city.
But, as there are so many black people in the south, you sort of can't live your whole life without knowing people. Where my relatives live up north, it's really hard to find black people. Not that I try to hunt them down, but still. In some suburbs all you can find are white people. Of course, my relatives (father side) are mostly in much higher economic classes and naturally sort of scared of all the classes below them. They were raised in a predominately white community, also. At times, they can be incredibly racist. It's why I try not to use Spanish around my father's family, since they have this mindset that I'm betraying the whole damn country or something.
But then, I do not live in the "Deep South" really, so there could be major problems there. I live in The South, but it's not Georgia or Alabama or anything. Louisiana is something different. The history isn't the same. It's more like the Midwest falling into the Delta region. Kinda trapped between Texas and "The Deep South". The further north in Louisiana, the more like Arkanas and Northeast Texas. It's just a totally different South by then.
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OMG, YOU ARE JOKING. TELL ME YOU ARE JOKING. XDXDXDDDDD That is so awesome I almost cannot comphrehend it. Duelling the police as you make a break for it. That is insanity and that is balls simultaneously. Whoever dreamed that up, thank you so much. xDxDDDDDD