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Demonbaby Is On Hiatus

2008-08-17T20:04:00.000-07:00

With all of the projects I have going on right now, poor Demonbaby has once again been neglected, and today I've decided to put the site on hiatus. Don't worry, it's not forever, but this place was in desperate need of a renovation, and in even more desperate need of new content, and I can't see myself having time for any of that in the near future. With that in mind, I figured I'd rather close

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Exploring The Creation Museum - America's New Mecca of Fanatical Ignorance

2008-06-06T04:54:00.000-07:00

[Currently Going To: Hell] If you ask the average Christian what The Bible means to them, you're likely to get a wide variety of answers, but in most cases it's probably a somewhat personal thing. They identify with the stories, they regard the teachings of Jesus as guidelines for their lives, they believe He's their salvation, et cetera et cetera. Most would probably tell you that The Bible

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I Suppose I Should Probably Endorse A Presidential Candidate

2008-02-05T11:19:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: The Duke Spirit - Neptune] You know our electoral process is some kind of fucked when most of the really interesting Presidential candidates have already dropped out or been swept under the rug before you even get a chance to vote. But that's a discussion for another day. Today is Super Tuesday, and although I'm probably preaching to the choir here, I feel it's worth

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Please Stop Making Fun Of Scientology. No, really.

2008-01-17T01:24:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: David Bowie - Low] "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States" - Article 6 of the United States Constitution I realize I'm way behind with the final installments of the Demonbaby Awards, but I had to break for a moment to get something off my chest. You see, there's a funny little video going

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The Demonbaby Video Game Awards for 2007!

2008-01-10T04:12:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping] Better late than never, the video game awards are now up, with accolades for some of my favorite gaming moments of 2007, but mostly for a lot of things I thought sucked balls. Even if you're not into video games, you'll probably find something to laugh at here.

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The Demonbaby Movie, TV, and DVD Awards for 2007

2008-01-07T06:40:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: Boy In Static - Violet] The Demonbaby Awards for Movies, TV, and DVD are now up, highlighting some of my genuine picks for things I thought were great in the past year, but mostly making fun of things I thought were terrible. As before, a more extensive list of picks can be found in the Demonbaby Store's 2007 Favorites section. In other news, the video game awards

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The First Annual Demonbaby Awards!

2008-01-04T03:23:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: Dirty On Purpose - Hallelujah Sirens] It's that time of year when every website on the planet feels compelled to tell you what they think are the best and worst of the past year. I've always found the word "best" to be just a tad arrogant for these types of things, especially when dealing with highly subjective art forms like music or film. So, the other day when I

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Happy Holidays!

2007-12-23T10:57:00.000-08:00

[Currently Watching: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation] It's time for the annual Christmas card. I'm currently enduring family in the bowels of white trash suburban sprawl, as I do every year. It's often painful, but at least it's familiar. I hope all of you are suffering similar fates. (click to enlarge) You can download this as a wallpaper here. I'll leave it up to some intrepid

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When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

2007-10-24T22:06:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: Music I Didn't Pay For] For quite a long time I've been intending to post some sort of commentary on the music industry - piracy, distribution, morality, those types of things. I've thought about it many times, but never gone through with it, because the issue is such a broad, messy one - such a difficult thing to address fairly and compactly. I knew it would result

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Weird Shit From Russia!

2007-08-11T04:00:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: Talking Heads - Remain in Light] By now it's no secret that I spend a lot of time traversing the globe. I've been to a lot of countries, and seen the type of cool shit you expect to see in foreign lands - old buildings, exotic food, etc. But since I'm always traveling on business, finding myself in major cities with little time to thoroughly explore, my favorite way

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Can We Please, As a Culture, Just Move On?

2007-06-27T20:55:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: The Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land] The title of this post is lifted from this XKCD strip - a commentary on the strange male preoccupation with penis size. I've never really understood it myself, but Idunno, maybe that's just because I have a huge cock. Anyway, today the concept of moving on as a culture applies to the media, and the focus of our national

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More Curiosities From Japan's Porno Shops

2007-06-11T01:56:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: UNKLE - War Stories] Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood is a sort of Mecca for consumerist nerds. Anyone obsessed, as I am, with toys and gadgets, electronics and video games, robots and action figures would be hard pressed to find a greater place to whittle away their life savings. Last month, I lost myself in Akihabara's endless neon labyrinth of awesomeness for many

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Japan Super Happy Fun Time First Part! Mega Fun Costume Party Explosion!!

2007-06-07T17:20:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris] If you've been here a while, you're probably aware of my love affair with Japan - in particular my keen interest in its unnatural abundance of weird shit. I'm far from being one of those mouth-breathing gaijin boys who immerses himself in anime, jacks off to tentacle porn, and is known by a Japanese nickname on internet forums (

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The Reports Of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

2007-06-01T15:02:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: Blonde Redhead - 23] Contrary to what the lack of updates on this site might suggest, and what some commenters have begun to postulate, I am not, in fact, dead. I was in Europe for two months during the winter, and that almost killed me, and then I was in Australia for a while with giant deadly crocodiles who could have killed me, and I just got back from Japan where

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An Open Letter To The Person Who Vomited In My Sink On New Year's Eve

2007-01-02T20:11:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: The indescribably irritating sound of my idiot friends laughing obnoxiously loud at the television from downstairs] Dear Person Who Vomited In My Sink on New Year's Eve, On the eve of the new year, I invited you into my residence to partake in festivities relating to our passage into 2007. It is my sincerest hope that you enjoyed yourself and that I for my own part

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My Fourteen Year Old Self Was So Fucking Goth

2006-12-13T14:16:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: Home Video - No Certain Night or Morning] I've been a little busy lately, so the ol' blog hasn't been getting much love. It keeps asking me "Rob, maybe you could... write in me tonight?" and I say "Not tonight honey, I have a headache. It was a long day at work. Maybe tomorrow." Yes, I speak directly to my blog, and I call it "honey." Anyway, I'm still busy, but

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Don't Get Too Excited, Part Two: We're Still A Nation Of Bigots

2006-11-10T16:05:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted] (note: this is a continuation of yesterday's entry) As the world continues to celebrate this week's small but welcome return to common sense in American politics, and liberals everywhere are filled with hope for the future, let us not forget something very important: The American people haven't changed. Sure, a few more of us

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Don't Get Too Excited, Part One: We're Still Careening Head-First Towards The End Of Civilization As We Know It

2006-11-09T23:45:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: Mojave 3: Puzzles Like You] Right at this moment, liberals - and anyone with any degree of common sense - are feeling pretty damned good about the big political smack-down that just occurred in the States. We got a one, two, three punch: On tuesday Democrats won the majority in the House Of Representatives. Yesterday, in a stunning show of defeat (and a smart

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Demonbaby's Election-Day Hideous Patriotic T-Shirt Extravaganza!

2006-11-07T21:57:00.000-08:00

[Currently Listening To: The Clientele - Strange Geometry] Today is mid-term election day across the United States - a day where barely a quarter of all Americans exercise their most treasured right: Democracy. Well, sort of. Faulty voting machines, rampant propaganda, and rigged elections aside, the American freedom to choose our leaders at the very least sounds great on paper. Democracy

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Paradise Lost (OR: How My Hawaiian Vacation Ended In A Big Pile Of Shit)

2006-10-21T20:04:00.000-07:00

[Currently Regretting: Writing this entry] There is a universal sensation we've all experienced at some point in our lives - a unique blend of urgency, fear, and sometimes pain. We rarely talk about it, but it's happened to us all. It's an ill-acknowledged commonality amongst all of humanity. Christians, Jews, Muslims... It unites us, if perhaps only subconsciously. I'm talking, of course,

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Investigating Lunchables' Alarming New Desire To Mess With My Mouth

2006-09-20T14:23:00.000-07:00

[Currently Avoiding: Work] For my entire K-12 public school career, I was a brown-bagger. While other kids lined up in the school cafeteria for wondrous $1.25 meals of macaroni and cheese, chocolate milk, chicken nuggets, and other lukewarm fat-kid-food delicacies, I dined enviously on my boring home-prepared sack lunch formula: ham sandwich, apple, juice box, and small treat. My jealousy

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Things That Are Great This Week Part Two: Nintendo Wii

2006-09-19T13:39:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream] If you've been here more than a couple times, you've probably noticed that I am completely, crazily obsessed with Nintendo's upcoming game console, Wii (pronounced "we"). I love it. I haven't been this excited about a console launch since Nintendo 64. I get a tingly sensation in places my bathing suit covers just thinking about it.

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Things That Are Great This Week Part One: Idiocracy

2006-09-18T17:49:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: The Oohlas - Best Stop Pop] It's nice when your opinions are echoed by people you respect. Right after I'd written about the dumbing down of America, and how natural selection had failed us, I discovered that Mike "Office Space / Beavis & Butt-Head" Judge had made a movie about the very same subject. It's called Idiocracy, it's hilarious and clever, and if you've

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Adventure Notes: Aquatic Humiliation, Renaissance Faires, Tyra Banks, and Hip-Hop Looney Toons.

2006-09-14T11:37:00.000-07:00

[Currently Listening To: The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love] Beach culture is easily avoided when you grow up in the overcast gloom of Washington State. There we defined beaches as cold, gray, uninviting places where Laura Palmer's plastic-wrapped dead body washed up onto the rocky shore is far more appropriate iconography than a bikini-clad Pamela Anderson running slow-motion through

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Memories And Ruminations Of 9/11, And Why It Still Matters

2006-09-11T13:16:00.001-07:00

[Currently Listening To: Calla - Televise] I honestly hadn't given much thought to the anniversary of 9/11 - in a way, the whole thing has become soured to me, having been used so shamelessly as a political tool and a weapon of fear thousands upon thousands of times since it actually happened. Media tributes seem like desperate rating grabs (or even thinly-veiled political propaganda), and

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