"This is not a drill.  This is the Apocalypse."

-Dogma

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The other day, I read a blog post from a friend of mine about villains and how they don't seem to be really evil anymore.  To an extent, I agree with him, but I honestly don't know if it is necassary.  To try and figure out what I like in a villain I decided to examine three of my favorites (ended up being four) to try and figure it out.  I wasn't too successful because I had a hard time defining exactly what about each villain I liked.  more...

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I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yesterday afternoon.  And I was going to write a post last night, but got sidetracked when I got involved with a conversation over IM with a friend who had also read the series.  During that he mentioned that he didn't like the epilogue.  I agreed with him, but there was one thing I did like about the epilogue. 

(Spoilers follow)

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Some people are dumb.  I always knew it, but recent events have reaffirmed it.  It is amazing the number of times you'll see a statement with no actual basis in anything even remotely resembling fact.  A recent and frighteningly common example has been, in Yahoo sports, they mention the various trade rumors concerning Teixeira.  In the comments section, I have seen several people mention that the various teams mentioned shouldn't make the trade because Teixeira is injury prone!  This is a player who, until his injury this year, played in more than 500 consecutive games!  How in the hell does the 27 games he missed this year outweigh the 500 games he played in previously?  What kind of disjointed view of reality does one have to have in order for that to make sense?

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Something I realized was that during the time I've had this, I have not made one, single post about anime.  The reason is pretty simple, I haven't seen a new (to me) anime in some time.  So I decided to post my basic tastes by ranking the anime I've seen.  Now, this is a measure of how much I enjoyed the anime, not necessarily how good it was.  Working from memory...

I'll add movies at some point.  I'm sure there are series that I am missing, they'll be added as I think of it.

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I'm not a big fan of baseball though fairly often I watch the Rangers after the NBA season is over and before the NFL season begins to avoid an all out sports drought.  So, as a Rangers fan who is pleased by the team's win today, I offer this post... more...

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Keep in mind that all of these rankings are a single fan's take on players based a lot on what I've seen and some on what others are saying.  If anyone ever reads them, I'm sure they'll disagree on quite a bit...heck I'm not happy with some of it myself...I keep thinking, 'Man, I have that guy ranked really high,' and 'I'd put this guy up here, but these guys have been doing it for years.'  In most cases veterans win out.  There are a few cases where I feel strongly enough about a young player that I put him over some established players.

Here we go, much anticipated (or not...as the case may be) offensive player rankings.

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I like football and I haven't posted in awhile so here we go:  My first annual (wait that doesn't make sense it's the first...it can't be annual)NFL Player Rankings...starting with defense.

I'll get to offensive players at some point...

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Despite all of my rampant pessimism there is a point where I seem to be unfailingly optimistic.  I seem to believe that at some point I'll put it together and actually finish some of the ideas for novels I have floating around in my head.  I'm still young (22), and the thought seems to be that I will settle down on one thing rather than buzzing between ideas too rapidly to committ them fully to paper (or computer files as the case may be).  The furthest I've gotten to actually finishing a novel is a mere 60 pages (or so...I think it is 63 pages) worth of writing (I've got the plan for the rest of the novel and the sequel floating in my head and a very rough outline for everything on paper).  I just seem to be unable to actually finish everything.  I know I'm only a fifth of the way done with novel, and there are the many repeated drafts to get it to something readable (I'll admit I'm not a great writer...I have a lot of ideas, but the actual execution is not wonderful).  Eventually, hopefully, I can get the thing actually published. 

But my most recent idea will never get even that far.

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Damn you reality!  Let us try this again...stupid accidently hitting the wrong buttom and losing my post...

Take three...

I have been watching far too much Invader Zim recently.  I got the Complete Invasion at Best Buy last week and since then I have watched the entire series and all of the episodes that have commentary again with the commentary.  It was a great show.

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I have to say, I have no idea what I'm going to do with this.  I mean, really, I have no life, and I am not clever.  But it was free, so...whatever.  Besides, I don't expect anyone but me to see this...ever.  Because, and lets be honest, I'm a very boring person, and if anyone comes here, they will be bored out of their freakin' minds.

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