<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659503056360568808</id><updated>2024-09-12T05:06:10.639-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today&#39;s Blue Magic</title><subtitle type='html'>The caster&#39;s spin on the enemy&#39;s arsenal.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659503056360568808/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Bluest Mage</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12720112883313802508</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIL8DXVkYZIxDPYc7KuCzj1JmKiv7yskgXtQ9UuANKDkFHwLA81s3mlPIhF9UloFeyFz1lH5Hg6iUrkhPNpYg3_Q1y1nhh7Adq-e7rWX2XCNVOUIuy0igucE29xHppIw/s220/273172-final_fantasy_tactics_a2_hume_blue_mage_icon.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659503056360568808.post-8888021627207322467</id><published>2011-02-19T08:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-19T08:38:09.303-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Justin Bieber and the End of Sexual Identity</title><content type='html'>Good morning, fellow adventurers.&lt;br /&gt;
The following image is my mental representation of Justin Bieber.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Imagine this screeching &quot;Baby Baby Baby, Ooooh...&quot;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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If you must know, I Googled &quot;Useless Fruit&quot; and picked the first image on the queue. Thought my mental image has the berry a sick shade of cerulean, the candy red fits Bieber as well. Now, labeling him as &quot;a fruit&quot; isn&#39;t some backhanded statement against homosexuals. I have no beef (hur hur) with homosexuals. In fact, a Green Mage friend of mine is about propose to his personal trainer in the coming weeks, and I couldn&#39;t be happier for the two of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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Right. My only experiences with Justin Bieber come from the super bowl commercial with Ozzy Osbourne, that obnoxious song mentioned in the caption, and bearing witness to pre-teen women dissolving into puddles when he&#39;s mentioned. So, a commercial where he tries to stand tall next to a rock legend, an androgynous song spurting repetitive lyrics concerning a topic he has no experience with, and the super power to melt the mindless.&lt;br /&gt;
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He&#39;s a useless fruit. The banner waver of mediocrity, band wagoning, and limited power.&lt;br /&gt;
Bieber, you ride on the coat tails of a man who has taken enough chemicals to sate five 3rd-world countries. Bieber, you cannot write and your range is awful.&lt;br /&gt;
Bieber, you probably wake up in the middle of the night and high five your Night Rider poster for thinking you have some crazy Jedi power over a lot of sub-humans who&#39;d squeal if they found five bucks - let alone listen to your music.&lt;br /&gt;
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If three more Bieber-esque &quot;entertainers&quot; enter our pop-culture sphere then our entire race will transform into a mop-headed gaggle of rejects identified only by the music contained on their ipods. I suggest you class up your act a little. Might I suggest the following?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Tiny MS Paint sunglasses fix everything.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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That one is free of charge, Bieber. Become a Biebro, or a Biebopper, or something with a little more grip than girlish man child what can hold a note. Seriously. You are in some oddly gained place of power, and a pair of tiny sunglasses, a bullet wound, or perhaps a fashionable addiction to the KFC Double Down would help our culture in one way or another.&lt;br /&gt;
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Speaking of note...note to self: no blogging under the influence of Earl Gray tea. Hot.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;TOMORROW: &lt;/b&gt;MS Paint sunglasses and you - a winner&#39;s tale.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/feeds/8888021627207322467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/2011/02/justin-bieber-and-end-of-sexual.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659503056360568808/posts/default/8888021627207322467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659503056360568808/posts/default/8888021627207322467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/2011/02/justin-bieber-and-end-of-sexual.html' title='Justin Bieber and the End of Sexual Identity'/><author><name>The Bluest Mage</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12720112883313802508</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIL8DXVkYZIxDPYc7KuCzj1JmKiv7yskgXtQ9UuANKDkFHwLA81s3mlPIhF9UloFeyFz1lH5Hg6iUrkhPNpYg3_Q1y1nhh7Adq-e7rWX2XCNVOUIuy0igucE29xHppIw/s220/273172-final_fantasy_tactics_a2_hume_blue_mage_icon.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZW8biJ1oHyAcukHRk01NzWgZFyMCrup6SoNkLwA7Umz1RzcMrKJGUB0YP3y0K7JLcmFF1X9n_N4nZ6UTSqWINq8U3GtKc6OTNsZ0fILoEU4cQbTrOuCx6NxbhdiR0jd1u3y9pvtpvD0/s72-c/Useless-Fruit-426x640.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659503056360568808.post-1725608869881194714</id><published>2011-02-18T17:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-18T17:23:23.139-08:00</updated><title type='text'>An Introduction</title><content type='html'>You may call me The Blue Mage. Or Blue Magus. Or just about anything involving a spell shaper of borrowed talents. I&#39;ve spent my life stealing the ideas of others and bending them to my will. This was my militaristic duty up until a few months prior, and I cannot imagine dropping my talents in the face of retirement. So, here I&#39;ll sit, pillaging the populous for points to dissect.&lt;br /&gt;
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And dissect I shall. This new world scares me. I live in fear that the tides of this coming generation&#39;s whimsy will white wash all that is sacred. &lt;br /&gt;
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No, not all of my entries will be this wordy or heavy handed. I&#39;m just a man like most of the others on this spread of lies we call the internet. And, in my honesty, I&#39;m only standing on this momentary pedestal to spout a word or two about the enemies around me. Here...let me lay out for you what you should expect from this blog; in bolded and struck words, for taste&#39;s sake.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;What You Will Find&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pop-culture icons lampooned&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Musical trends mutilated&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fashion trends eviscerated&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Philosophy Thwarted&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Offense - vast, rampant offense&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;What Is Absent&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sense&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Boundary&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Quarter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Consideration&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Colloquialism beyond examples&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;Read and raise a toast towards education. You&#39;re free to access a world that is dwindling away through the Bluest Mage&#39;s eye. Lucky you. Lucky you.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;TOMORROW: &lt;/b&gt;Justin Bieber, and the End of Sexual Identity</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/feeds/1725608869881194714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/2011/02/introduction.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659503056360568808/posts/default/1725608869881194714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3659503056360568808/posts/default/1725608869881194714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://todaysbluemagic.blogspot.com/2011/02/introduction.html' title='An Introduction'/><author><name>The Bluest Mage</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12720112883313802508</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIL8DXVkYZIxDPYc7KuCzj1JmKiv7yskgXtQ9UuANKDkFHwLA81s3mlPIhF9UloFeyFz1lH5Hg6iUrkhPNpYg3_Q1y1nhh7Adq-e7rWX2XCNVOUIuy0igucE29xHppIw/s220/273172-final_fantasy_tactics_a2_hume_blue_mage_icon.png'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry></feed>