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P.E.T.A. (Poonanies earn top attention)

Published by Matt Gondek January 31st, 2008 in culture, Violence, advice, animals, food and nutrition. 6 Comments

I HATE PETA. I HATE THEM.

I ALWAYS HAVE. Ever since I was younger and playing shows with my old band, those D Bags would come to the shows and pass out those stupid fliers and stickers and stuff.

When I went to the Warped Tour, at least thirty of them would try to cry on my shoulder throughout the day when all I wanted was to listen to the Bouncing Souls.

So what got me so mad this time? Go to the MAIN page of their website… PETA.ORG. There you can watch a video called “State of the Union Undress”. It’s a four of five minute video where a girl talks about how bad it is to eat meat while she gets COMPLETELY NAKED. I’m not kidding. You see EVERYTHING. How many millions of kids are going to watch this just to see this girl naked… Meanwhile, she’s filling their heads with PETA propaganda. Worst, she undressed REAAALLY slow and their is no fast forward button, so of course you’re going to sit through the entire thing. I can’t believe a MAJOR organization is using nudity now to convey their message.

If you are going to go watch the video, I recomend turning the sound completely off. That way you can screw over PETA by getting the free nudity, but not paying the admission of their B.S.

While you’re watching this dumb girl stripping in silence, you can think about some of the reasons I HATE PETA.

PETA is against ANY AND ALL medicines that use animals. They want to get rid off all animal testing to make new medicines that will save human lives. However, their vice president takes insulin every day to live. A medicine tested on, and made from, ANIMALS.

During 9/11, Peta wanted to pull volunteers from searching for HUMANS that were trapped and dying in the buildings to go search for dogs and cats.

They fund terrorists. These terrorists BLOW UP and DESTROY buildings where people work.

PETA doesn’t believe that any animal EVER should die, however, they themselves KILL animals right inside their main offices. They have a giant freezer in the office to STORE THE ANIMALS THEY KILL.

The vans PETA drives around has tackle boxes inside full of injections they use to kill animals. PETA went to trail for using these tackle boxes, then dumping the bodies in dumpsters.

PETA doens’t think animals should be used to help humans in any way at all. Goodbye seeing eye dogs, bomb sniffing dogs, drug sniffing dogs….

These are just a handfull of FACTS about Peta. You can learn and see more about how much ass they suck at:

www.anti-peta.com/
www.petakillsanimals.com

A Real Education

Published by Jackie Vesci January 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 8 Comments

The more I read, the more challenging and controversial conversations I have, and the more I realize:

1) I don’t know anything.

2) Many systems and institutions exist to keep societies uneducated and afraid.

Why don’t we talk about war, religion, sex, politics, work conditions, corporations, race, hatred, discrimination, justice — Why don’t we read, challenge, question — as a society, in general? Why are we so afraid — of the unknown, new ideas, ideas that challenge our preconceived notions? Why do we follow religions and institutions that ask us not to question?

Why don’t we seek out a real education - one not preached or memorized through unchallenged “facts” and historic dates in a textbook, but one that expands our perception of the world - that demands we experience new ways of acting, thinking, and connecting with others? Why are we so afraid? We are all mortal and we are all equal. Nothing separates us besides fear. The next time you feel afraid, ask yourself why - then talk about it, no matter how difficult that might seem at the time.

Scurvy Survey Action

Published by Matt Gondek January 30th, 2008 in culture and china buffet. 14 Comments

“How about today you write a survey instead of a blog post?” They asked. “Sure thing” I said. Then, I began writing it. So anyways, leave a comment with your answers. It’ll be fun, I promise.

1. Are you a guy or girl?
2. How old are you?
3. Have you ever been in a fistfight?
4. Would you rather be viewed as successful, or attractive?
5. Would you lose an arm for ten million dollars?
6. Mac or PC?
7. What are your three favorite bands?
8. Do you enjoy your chinese food in a fine dining atmosphere, or in a traditional buffet setup?
9. Have you ever eaten a chicken’s foot?
10. Have you ever been fishing?
11. What do you do for a living?

12. What’s the last thing you put in your mouth?
13. Why are you not doing something more productive right now?

Pot calling the weed black

Published by Matt Gondek January 29th, 2008 in culture, lifestyle and Country. 4 Comments

Glaucoma and Cancer patients sure are lazy. Sure, they get all the medicinal marijuana they want, but now they don’t even have to drive around for a half hour in the bad part of town to get it. They can just use a vending machine.

2 vending machines that dispense medicininal marijuana opened in LA yesterday. Don’t think you can just walk up and get some though… The machines are in stand alone rooms and protected by security guards. To use one, you’ll need proof of your prescription, get fingerprinted, and have a pre-payed credit card thats loaded with your dosage. In the future, the machines also plan to sell Viagra, Vicodin, and Propecia.

Nuts

mypyramid.gov

Published by KP January 28th, 2008 in food, diet, health and nutrition. 8 Comments

Curious about what you eat? Wanna know if you are eating the right things and meeting the nutritional recommendations? Trying to lose weight but feel like you dont understand food lingo? Well, I have a solution for you.

www.mypyramid.gov

This website is designed to give an advanced analysis of food intake and physical activity using the food pyramid. I use the “Assess your Food Intake” section where i enter in everything i eat for one day and it compares your food intake versus the recommended amounts. This can be used to track your eating habits and help you stay on a healthy, life-extending, disease-preventing, happy diet! ENJOY! e-mail me if you have ?’s

Nerd Grafitti

Published by Matt Gondek January 28th, 2008 in Art, culture, technology, vandalism and computers. 2 Comments

My white blood cells are getting their ass handed to them right now. I got a cold, which means if I get mugged or something in the next couple days, I’ll have no chance of fighting them off. It kind of sucks.

As a result of my cold, I laid in bed last night until three AM just tossing and turning, and thinking about random things. Two things were stuck in my mind. The first was how cool Rowdy Roddy Pipper is, and the second is this:

Computer Viruses are Nerd Grafitti.

Think about this. If you’re walking downtown and see someone’s named tagged on a wall, you’re going to think one of two things. Either you’ll view it as vandalism, and write it off an obscene, or, you’ll admire it as art and as a way for that artist to help spread his name throughout the city. It all depends on what kind of person you are.

I think the same can be said for computer viruses. For people like me, I’ll get a virus and curse up and down at how every time I click my start button my computer restarts. Others though that are into the hacking culture will admire that hacker’s handi-work, and their ability to create the code that infiltrated your system. Pure artwork.

I’m not saying I condone viruses. I’m on the side of the fence that hates them. Still, after thinking about it in this light, I suppose I can have some sort of admiration for the people who do it. Just a different kind of artist doing a different kind of artwork.

Make Money Online with :Working Hard”

Published by Matt Gondek January 25th, 2008 in Art, Gondek and Design. 0 Comments

Sorry, but no time to write something funny and angry today. I’ve spent the time updating my portfolio site!

Added some new paintings (which are also for sale on there), as well as some new freelance design work.

Stop on over and check it all out!
www.mattgondek.com

P.S. Maybe one of the OTHER three people who are supposed to post on this blog will pick up my slack today…
P.P.S. I doubt it

Artwork direction for the band “That Yellow Bastard”

AAAAARGGGH!!! WOW ALIENS !!

Published by Matt Gondek January 24th, 2008 in culture, Sight-seeing, Air and Space, Nasa and gossip. 4 Comments

Holy cow, do you see that!!?

This picture was taken by the Spirt Rover on MARS. Like the planet.

The photo was taken last November. Why am I just finding this out now!??

This isn’t a joke! There is a mega huge photo on NASA’s website!!

Circular Skating Fight Demons

Published by Matt Gondek January 23rd, 2008 in Pittsburgh, culture, Community and Advertising. 2 Comments

My pal Sean invited me to join him this weekend to go see a roller derby game. I’ve heard about Pittsburgh Roller Derby a few times in the past, but never actually knew anything about it, so I did some research.

Actually, my friend Amber sent me a link to their site.
http://www.steelcityderbydemons.com

The first thing I noticed when I went to the site was that it was all female skaters, which is kinda cool. They look really tough. Some of them look cute, but most likely would beat the tar out of me.

Turns out, Pittsburgh has 4 teams that play against eachother, as well as a traveling team which…. well.. travels.

The site has allot of info about this crazy ordeal, as well as a gallery of bruises and broken bones which is kind of gross. Tickets to the games are more than I expected. Not that $10 before, and $15 at the door is high, but I expected it to be less. I’ll keep you updated if I end up going to the game this weekend.

The Poor manners of Bishnu

Published by Matt Gondek January 22nd, 2008 in culture and Tourism. 0 Comments

Over the weekend KP and I were skipping merrily down a sidewalk which led us to our good friend Jim and Amber’s House for a night of merriment. However, during the travel, KP found a wallet on the ground. We picked it up and looked through it for a telephone number so we could return it to it’s rightful owner.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t one. I noticed he had a slew of credit cards in his wallet, so I figured I’d just make a quick call to one of them and get his phone number.

I pulled out a gold card and dialed the number on the back. I explained the situation to the man on the other side, but he didn’t understand what I was saying. After 10 minutes on the phone and his gold card being cancelled, he told me he couldn’t help me so I hung up.

Next, I tried his Target card. The EXACT same conversation happened. I was pretty mad.

Being it was Saturday night, and Monday was a holiday, I had to wait until Tuesday to call his bank. When I called, someone who spoke English answered, and within minutes, the problem was resolved. The guy came to my house that day and picked up his wallet.

My point is, all these companies are sending their customer service calls to other countries because it’s cheaper for them. However, they are offering NO service whatsoever. The man on the other side of the phone couldn’t understand what I was saying, and I couldn’t understand him. How is this helping ANYONE? It’s ridiculous.

In other news, Cloverfield was amazing.

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