I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
And I work for this site.
And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).
Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.
If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.
(Banner Design Courtesy of Red Tigress - thanks Red!)
Now that we've got that out of the way . . . apparently I have a ten year high school reunion this weekend. It's funny to think, I didn't get involved with this site until just after I was already done high school (I think maybe 2nd or 3rd year uni' by that point). So this is about as young as you'll ever see me unless I find some random baby pictures or something.
That said . . . . . I still haven't done anything with my life.
Fuck.
Also, curious to see if anyone else in the above picture will see said picture posted here and lose her shit about it. Could be good for grins . . .
I haven't written anything bloggy in a while. Let's go with this one since I was thinking about it earlier today when I did a little food shopping after work. Picked up a couple cans of Chunky Soup (mother's rule: if it's under $2, buy it), a pa...
"Silver lining is that in the age of Facebook, Twitter, and cell phone cameras, we'll have a lot more identifying of the idiots running around being fucktards. That would make me happy." (Myself, one day ago.)
Well, that was fast and quick to go. Social media, you are awesome.
And these are just a couple of a LOT of blogs keeping tabs on pictures and videos of people (and their faces) being fucktards. Some are straight up being recognized by other bloggers/viewers, others are just being sent in to the VPD with the thousands of other photos and videos they've already compiled.
Apparently, one dummy who's more or less become the posterboy for "idiots getting caught on camera" is completely done. People recognized him, named him, referred his old high school . . . and according to that Facebook wall, he has since turned himself in. Probably about as smart of a move as such an idiot can make at this point.
And y'know, it's really to feel bad about some of these people getting screencapped and such. It's just . . . I'll just give an example that's pretty popular right now:
Keep 'em coming, dumbasses.
Also on the subject of silver linings is this poor bastard for whom I've no sympathies and at whom I shall now laugh gleefully:
Ahh . . . that's cathartic.
Vancouver, British Columbia: picking itself up, one douchebag at a time . . .
Watched the game from work for the most part. Stuck it out after my shift was over since I figured if I switched locations somewhere closer to the downtown core, I'd just miss the last period anyway.
Game ended, the hated Boston Bruins won. Shame. Fine. Sad, but I'll get on.
On the way home with a couple other people, the police brother texted me:
"You're not downtown are you? If you are, get out of there ASAP. It's turning bad here."
Sooo as more people than not expected, people tried to start shit up. A few car fires, broken store windows, attempts to loot . . . a parkade is on fire now . . . straight up assholery all around, likely from young people who more or less intended to start shit no matter which way the game went. Basically, assholes who saw an excuse to break shit, so they went out, covered their faces, and started breaking shit.
So the riot police are kicking ass. ERT is out in force (go get 'em!). Even mounted units are out, which is admittedly a little cool. Tear gas, folks being told to GTFO . . . sun's almost setting as I type this, and it's been about an hour and a half since the end of the game (though I heard one fire was already on before the game was over).
So yeah.
You wanna ask me how embarrassed I feel about my team losing game seven in a shutout? You really wanna know how sour I am about all that?
It doesn't even matter anymore. I more embarrassed that Vancouverites destroying their own city is what our reputation has to be now. I'm more embarrassed that even though we already had this reputation back after 1994, we still can't learn from that to try better. That is embarrassing.
Silver lining is that in the age of Facebook, Twitter, and cell phone cameras, we'll have a lot more identifying of the idiots running around being fucktards. That would make me happy.
Vancouver, British Columbia. Keepin' it classy.
Fuck. That is all.
EDIT:
Aaaaaaaand we have stabbings. And there are more fires indoors and out. And the officers are forming shield walls. And pretty much every major shop downtown is smashed and/or looted. And there are rumours that there is a fatality from someone pushed over a 3rd floor railing.
