Crisis

Giddy Up - Network Musical Ensemble

2012-11-16T05:54:00.000-08:00

Giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up

this little horsie traveled Yonkers
this little horsie Kissimmee
this little horsie Hollywood
and this little horsie Milwaukee
this little horsie traveled Hershey
this little horsie San Antón
this little horsie Monkey Island
this little horsie, rode home

giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up

this little horsie traveled Hong Kong
this little horsie Timbuktu
this little horsie Wagga Wagga
this little horsie Honolulu
this little horsie traveled Paris
this little horsie Montreal
this little horsie Buenos Aires
this little horsie saw it all

giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up

Yonkers, Kissimmee, Hollywood, Milwaukee
Hershey, San Antón, Monkey Island, rode home
Hong Kong, Timbuktu, Wagga Wagga, Honolulu
Paris, Montreal, Buenos Aires, saw it all

giddy up giddy up giddy up g-g-g-iddy upup giddy up upup u-u-u-up

this little horsie traveled Yonkers
this little horsie Kissimmee
this little horsie Hollywood
and this little horsie Milwaukee
this little horsie traveled Hershey
this little horsie San Antón
this little horsie Monkey Island
this little horsie, rode home

giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up

this little horsie traveled Hong Kong
this little horsie Timbuktu
this little horsie Wagga Wagga
this little horsie Honolulu
this little horsie traveled Paris
this little horsie Montreal
this little horsie Buenos Aires
this little horsie saw it all

giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up giddy up giddy up
giddy up giddy up giddy up up giddy up up, up up

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Giddy+Up/4grE6P/overview?src=5

Kitten fight!

2012-10-26T08:00:00.000-07:00

Action kittens

Kitty gangs!

2012-10-25T08:00:00.000-07:00

So many cats having dinner

Long haired tabby

2012-10-24T08:00:00.000-07:00

Dont you want to hug him

Kittens!

2012-10-23T08:00:00.000-07:00

Scruffy tabby cat

2012-10-22T08:00:00.000-07:00

From wikipedia: A tabby is any cat that has a distinctive coat that features stripes, dots, lines or swirling patterns, usually together with a mark resembling an "M" on its forehead. Tabbies are sometimes erroneously assumed to be a cat breed. In fact, the tabby pattern is found in many breeds of cat, as well as among the general mixed-breed population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby_cat

Cute baby Owl

2012-10-21T08:00:00.000-07:00

I think the title says it all.

Tabby kitten

2012-10-20T08:00:00.000-07:00

Cute grey tabby with a wicker basket.

Tired Chimpanzee

2012-10-19T08:00:00.000-07:00

Chimp kicking back and relaxing. Dont forget Chimpanzees are apes, not monkeys.

Cat and puppy embrace

2012-10-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

A cute kitty dealing with a troublesome puppy

Cute Halloween Kitten

2012-10-17T08:00:00.000-07:00

Have a cute kitty dressed up as witch for Halloween.

Funny Cougar wallpaper

2012-10-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

Click the mountain lion then right click and save as

Grey Tabby wallpaper

2012-10-15T04:24:00.000-07:00

Click the kitty then right click and save as for full size.

Derpy Update

2012-02-28T18:43:00.003-08:00

So instead of responding to us, Hasbro has sent a small message about Derpy, over to gawker. Yeah the gawker that loves to mock us. So right of the bat, thats what Hasbro thinks of you.

Regardless here what Hasbro spokeswoman Nicole Angello had to say:

"The 'My Little Pony Friendship is Magic' series has always been about acceptance and inclusion, and the series strives to convey that through the playful antics of a diverse cast of characters," and "Some viewers felt that aspects of the episode 'The Last Roundup' did not stay true to the core message of friendship which is the heart and soul of the series. Hasbro Studios decided to make slight audio alterations to this single episode."
(emphasis mine)

So there you go. You can stop trying to blame itunes. Hasbro was influenced by a subset of 'fans' and is not going to even brother to respond to the rest of us, apparently.

So is there anything left to do? You can still try their official contact forms:
http://hasbro.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/hasbro.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?
http://www.hasbro.com/customer-service/contacts/

However it seems pretty clear that they will not deal with us, or revert the changes. Another angle that many fans seem to have not considered is how tight the reigns will end up over at Studio B thanks to this fiasco, and what sorts of things that could have been in the cards for us, that we will never even know about, now.

In the end I guess this is a good lesson to all young bronies, dont be friends with anyone who may be disabled, and dont bother trying to fight the system.

Her name is Derpy Hooves.

EDIT
About the gawker rumor Nicole Agnello is a real person and does work for hasbro: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleagnello
Saying the article is fake is pretty much just grasping for straws and wishful thinking

About Derpy: Censorship and Appeasement

2012-02-25T23:27:00.002-08:00

Im sure anybody here knows what is happening with Derpy Hooves,but.a quick rundown wont hurt:

After The last roundup aired a group 'concerned' fans moved to get Hasbro to appologize about Derpys portrayal
The episode was pulled from the hub and itunes and welovefine started renaming the Derpy merchandise
#savederpy begain
welovefine renamed the merchandise back
This video appeared saying everything was fine and the petitions and #savederpy basically died, cut to:
Now the episode has reappeared on itunes, reanimated and revoiced with her name removed and her eyes (sort of) fixed. (voice comparison here)It is still not scheduled to reair on the hub, but the unrevised version is currently ondemand

Ive been considering the situation and trying to come up with anything I could do, other than just be angry about it. I feel like I need to get the hyperbole and bile out of my system before getting into things, so please do skip the next paragraph

The terrorists have won, again. They hate our freedom, so if you want to be safe, you, your parents, and your children, need to be scanned naked and fingered by thugs. Derpy is offensive, so the best way to deal with undesirables is to make them disappear, because we certainly can have differently abled ponies ruining the idealized paradise of ponyville.

Anyway now that I look terrible lets move on.

I have been seeing things like 'kids are starving in africa who cares about a cartoon'. Fair enough, if thats your opinion how much exactly do you give? By that measure what are you doing on the internet complaining about other people complaining? There is injustice and unimaginable suffering going on, and instead of doing anything, you are commenting on our comments.

I also see alot of people saying that its ok, because you can just watch the original on youtube. This is literally saying that changing history/throwing things down the memory hole is ok because all you have to do is 'be in the know' and break federal law. This is melodramatic, but it is like book burnings being ok, because you could find another copy, if you know where to look.

So can anything aside from whining on the internet be done? People crying got the episode removed, so logically if we are in fact the majority, and we care more about Derpy then they do, it makes sense that perhaps we can do something.

Some various ideas have been floated, but unfortunately most dont seem great:

Boycott of the show

I dont think any of us would really skip watching the show
Most of us dont watch through legitimate means anyway

Boycott the merchandise

The (almost certainly) unadulterated DVD will be released in 2 days. It doesnt make much sense to protest the change by not buying the unchanged episode.

Attack the people who seem to have started the mess

Im not going to name any of them, dont give them anymore attention, plz

So how about some maybe decent ideas?

Dont buy anymore episodes off of itunes.

Beyond that, if you bought this episode and are unhappy with it, request a refund: http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact.html?form=account&topic=Mac%20App%20Store%20Account%20and%20Billing

Petitions:

http://www.savederpy.com/

http://www.change.org/petitions/hasbro-studiosthe-hub-do-not-change-derpys-name#

It doesnt hurt to be able to say x-thousands of people want Derpy unchanged

Contact Hasbro. http://www.hasbro.com/customer-service/contacts/

They have people whos job it is, to take customer feedback, so let them know your opinion. They want your money, and believe it or not, they want us happy.
Dont complain to studio b, or random people at hasbro. They have that contact page for a reason.

If you have any ideas or thoughts please let me know, and spread the word on twitter via #savederpy

Meat in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?

2012-02-12T05:50:00.000-08:00

Ever since Pinkie Pie mentioned hot dog eating contests in Fall Weather Friends the debate over pony diet has raged(well maybe a year or so ago it did) . I thought I'd try to compile all of the evidence and arguments, for and against, the ponies being omnivorous and somewhat over think them.

First a very brief mention of things brought up by people arguing for the idea that the little ponies eat meat

The aforementioned hotdog eating contests(ketchup on the dogs makes them nice and slippery although Pinkie prefers mustard)
Pigs being raised at Sweet Apple Acres as seen in during The Show Stoppers
This sandwich seen in A Bird in the Hoof
Alot of the foods that have appeared in the show are traditionally made with lard from other animal parts

And some of the big points brought up for vegetarian ponies

During Over a Barrel Pinkie Pie's You Gotta Share song, specifically says the Ponies are vegetarians
Real ponies dont eat meat
The entire idea of butcher my little ponies is messed up and completely out of character

Lets explore all of these ideas.

The first thing that stands out, to me, is that Pinkie Pie seems to contradict herself. This seems to be entirely within her character. On one hoof she says they eat hot dogs and on the other that they dont eat meat. This brings up the fact that we have no idea what the hotdogs are made of. Not to mention that we have no idea if 'hotdogs' are even the same thing to the ponies that they are to us. So does that mean that there is no contradiction and we've already managed to wrap things up? Not quite. Just because we dont know what they are made of dosent mean its not meat. Pinkie claims during her song that the ponies diet is 'completely vegetarian' during various other songs she also claims:

That Zecora 'is an evil enchantress who does evil dances, and if you look deep in her eyes she'll put you trances' and that she will 'gobble you up in a big tasty stew'

How about the pigs being raised on Sweet Apple Acres? Seems like good hot dog material and a source of lard. Here is what Lauren Faust said, when asked about the pigs on her Deviant art account:

Solved? Hardly. Even if that was the intention, rather then pigs just being there for a gag, it still isnt canon until it happens in the show. Faust has also had plenty of other ideas about the show be shot down. She didnt want trains, she wanted Celestia to be a queen, she didnt want Alicorns outside of Celestia and Luna. The response also avoids the meat question, nowhere does it say they couldnt be used for truffle and lard. Of course the converse is true absence of evidence isnt evidence of absence.

Next.

The sandwich. Again, it may look like meat, but could have been made of anything

Next.

Real ponies dont eat meat? False. A quick youtube search brings us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnWULM4jpKI skip to the 3 mark. Not only will (some) real equines eat meat when they can get ahold of it, this argument wouldnt have held water anyway, because the ponies on the show, do a hell of alot of things that real ones cant/wont do. This is actually fairly damming for the vegetarian side, because it is the first argument that isnt speculative. Except, for the fact that real world ponies and our little ponies are pretty f'ing different.

Moving on

In the show we see lots of fried foods, baked good, marshmallows, and gelatin. In our human world gelatin is made from animal skin and bones, marshmallows too(not all). Fried food and baked good usually call for lard. This however doesnt mean the ponies do it the same way. Complete speculation.

Next

The idea of ponies being unable to do something as ghastly as slaughtering animals.

If Fluttershy, of all the ponies, is capable of doing that, to happy smiling, waving fish, then I believe that their are ponies willing to work as butchers. This was harder for me swallow earlier in the series, but over time we have seen a very wide variety of pony attitudes and ethics.
Although, maybe those fish died naturally.

Lets go try to bring this home.

At this point the only real facts we have are that Real ponies are willing to eat meat and that Fluttershy will give fish to ferrets. This doesnt prove anything so now we must move farther into the land of speculation

What the food being made of soy? Generically this argument is pretty strong, for all we know the ponies could have magic hot dog tress. However, it brings up 2 criticisms,

We never see anything like this in the show. No soy fields no magic chefs. While on the opposite hand, we do see a fair amount of livestock animals. Although I do prefer explaining things via means that we have seen in the show this is still just 'maybe this and maybe that', nothing solid. However:
If we are talking about veggie dogs you must ask yourself the following: "Why would the ponies want fake meat products?"

That is almost a slam dunk. If you say they eat soy hotdogs and Applejack's sandwich is tofu then the ponies must like the taste of meat, if they are trying to emulate it. If the ponies like the taste meat, and they are willing to see other animals as a food source (as seen above), then they must certainly be omnivorous.

But wait!
Even if that is true, then even as there are human vegetarians, there would certainly be pony vegetarians. AND perhaps the ponies do like the taste but have some other reason to not eat meat. While a real horse may eat meat if a human offers it, it certainly isnt good for them. AND this whole argument line is based on tofu/soy which is never seen in the show, its just a head cannon vegetarian possibility.

So who knows?
In the end there is no real evidence to solve this. Based on the Fluttershy using fish as meat and lard/gelatin I do lean towards FiM ponies being omnivorous, but I am pretty certain that nothing that definitively proves it, will ever appear in the show. It is also only based on real life, human cooking methods, which have no real barring on the show, and a single screen shot of Fluttershy feeding some animals.

I tried to consider this from every angle, but I also meant to write this out months ago, back during the hiatus between seasons, so there is a good chance that I have forgotten or completely missed some things. If you have an argument or point of logic to interject, or just regular comments or concerns please let me know, Thanks.
Also sorry about the rambling incoherent nature of this, and the horrible grammar(and typos and misspellings, etc). Its somewhat stream of consciousness with little proofreading/editing

Sorry everybody Im retiring from blogging

2010-10-19T06:39:00.000-07:00

So back when I first started doing this, my big ideal was that I would be able to do all the manual work while at my real job. Unfortunately, this is not at all possible. So with a heavy heart I am hanging up my keyboard. I feel like I owe you for all your support so atleast for the rest of week I will be trying to do what I can to pay it forward, and if my work situation changes and I return I'll let you all know.

A nice hole in the floor from the roof all the way to the basement

I didnt get a good shot but in the duplex building next door on one half the whole place was collapsing into the basement

Thanks for everything guys.

Continuing Onwards

2010-10-18T06:16:00.000-07:00

I decided to start my adventure in the basement :)

However I was too retarded to use my flash at first so I have several pictures like the next 2.

Pretty big difference with the flash, huh

Due to its location this place went through a big flood about a decade ago thus every surface is covered in a layer of crud. I dont know for sure, but I imagine thats when these buildings were abandoned. As for everybody's feedback keep it coming and I'll start answering questions as I go.

Sorry about no post yesterday

2010-10-17T03:35:00.000-07:00

I wonder how many posts I can stretch these places across

My first "urban" exploring adventure

2010-10-15T05:55:00.000-07:00

I was going to post some pictures from a different place and was searching for them on my HD when I came across these. Please ignore the time stamp on the photos. The date is wrong and I didnt even realize the camera was stamping the pictures. Also sorry about the quality I didnt have a digital camera at the time and was using my Aunt's.

I posed the above picture for a nice going away shot

Blogger is pissing me way the fuck off trying to get these pictures formatted and in order so fuck it Im done time to publish

Freaky Badgers

2010-10-14T05:38:00.000-07:00

In Leicester, England in a Graveyard dating back to the 1100's badgers have been digging up human remains.

A child found one leg bone and since then 2 more have been discovered. Due to the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 local residents are powerless to stop the creatures. Under the law it is also illegal to distrub a badgers sett(den), so they cant even properly rebury the remains. Reverend Simon Shouler From the article:
We cannot go near the sett, and English Nature will not grant us a license to relocate them so there is nothing we can do other than to let them remain in the churchyard, digging up the remains of people who have been buried for several hundred years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8059257/Badgers-dig-up-human-bones-in-graveyard.html
The article is pretty interesting you should check it out

The Holder of Death

2010-10-13T06:31:00.000-07:00

In a particular city, in certain country, you may find a special gym. When you reach the front desk, ask to visit someone known as "The Holder of Death". The worker's face will turn white as if he just saw a ghost. He will then guide you to a wooden door and leave you afterward. You will have to knock thrice.

If you hear a young man saying "No, thank you." Then run. Run and leave the city and the country as fast as you can. Perhaps after visiting another Holder you may try again. However, should you hear an old man saying "Come.", you may enter and will find yourself in a forest.

Look up to the sky, if it is day, follow the sun. If it is night, follow the moon. Follow them, and do not leave the path you have taken, no matter what kinds of beauty or horror you might see. Should you ever leave the path; your soul will be tormented for an eternity after the body has died a horrible death. You will, after some time, notice that you are walking towards a mansion. Ignore it; keep walking, for it is an illusion made to confuse you.

Finally, you will reach a small wooden hut. As you open the door immediately turn around and enter the hut walking backwards, for no mortal could survive the sheer horror experienced by gazing upon the man who now is behind you. Ask him a question. "What will end them?" He will begin to talk with a voice that is gentle and kind as well as brutal and deadly. Listen carefully to what he says, as you might soon be the only one knowing their destiny. As soon as the man finishes his small tale, he will ask you to turn around, as he wants to give you a gift.

Do not do this. Instead, walk backwards until you reach something hard, a desk. Close your eyes and partially turn your body so you can reach out to the man and take the gift. When it touches your hand, close it and walk back to the door you came from. As you open it, say the words "We will meet another day" and walk out. You will be back in the gym.

Now, open your hand and look at the gift. The bone-finger is object 12 of 538.

Field of human bones

2010-10-12T06:16:00.000-07:00

Something different today a news report out of Bisbee, Arizona. A couple visiting this cemetery found pits full of human remains. Turns out the cemetery owner has been dumping remains for years. They came from a medical research company and apparently no laws have been violated.
http://www.kgun9.com/global/story.asp?s=13288973

Quick note

2010-10-11T09:25:00.000-07:00

If I havent been leaving you any feedback drop me a comment here. I feel like I might be missing a couple of peoples blogs, and want to make sure that Im not.

The Holder of Ambition

2010-10-11T07:21:00.000-07:00

In a particular city, in a certain country, you may find this mall. When you reach the security desk, ask to visit a man called himself the "Holder of Ambition." The sound that escapes the mouth of the worker will be so slight, and betray so little reaction, that you may not be sure there was any reaction at all. They will lead you toward a stair that only travels upward, and is lit by many windows.

At the top of these stairs, the worker will leave you to travel the hallway alone, and the calm of the window-lit hallway will seem eerie and unsettling. Should you see a shadow travel along the wall, do not follow it, for it is the one thing that will lead you where you do not wish to go, to a place that you can't hope to return from, to a place of your own silent fears and failures. No matter what form it takes, how it teases and taunts your dreams with the greatest of your desires and hopes, do not even let your eyes tempt you to where it leaves. If you make it to the end of the hallway without losing sight of your goal, you will see an open doorway with no locks, no bolts, and no restraints, waiting for you with a soft light.

If you choose not to enter it, only walk directly back the way you came without attempting to peek around or into other doors, or you will meet the shadow and what it hides. Should you enter the doorway, you will find a room lit by windows that cover the entire lengths of every wall, too high to reach and shining with a light that seems far less natural than the sun and moon. In the center of the room will be a tall, healthy-looking man, standing naked and looking out into the light. His body is covered in uncountable tattoos and scars, where none of his skin is recognizable as it once was other than his face. Should you look where he looks, you will see nothing, and learn nothing. He will react to no act or words other than to the question, "What joins them together?"

The man will turn to look you in the eyes. Do not meet his gaze, or you will lose yourself in his soulless eyes for eternity, if you are not prepared. If you can meet his gaze without the slightest doubt of your intentions, he will begin to speak in a low tone, speaking almost as if his entire story is comical or means nothing at all, but you must not miss a word, for taking this knowledge partially could cause failure in the worst way possible. When he finishes speaking, he will reach for his chest and remove the remaining sutures from one of his more noticeable scars and begin to bleed profusely. While he slowly bleeds to death, he will reach out to you with his bloody sutures. His last words may be heard through his own gurgling blood, "... Choosing to seek, leads to an inevitable fate."

This group of sutures is object 10 of 538. How you use them depends on what you hear.