Bladen Force

Update: I’ve uploaded the video to YouTube.

Update: CBS has pulled the interview from its streaming video service.

You know, I personally have to agree with the mother. I think that she was trying to teach a lesson to her sons that they should be more respectful of her and her wishes, and the government decided to get involved. It is the same kind of stuff you see in the rest of the liberal media today. Parents try to actually act out their parental responsibilities, and the government moves in and tells parents that they aren’t allowed to discipline, teach, or otherwise do anything with their children outside of shelter, clothing, and other basic care under penalty of having their children taken away from them. I truly believe that this is a case of liberalism at its finest: the boys were raised in public, government schooling, the government refused to help her and instead of sending the boys to seek psychological evaluation, they threw the mother in prison for trying to teach her sons some respect! I find this morally reprehensible to the utmost degree. My own mother has done a lot for me over the years, and I’m twenty years old now, going on twenty-one. I don’t have many more years left with either of my parents, so I try to cherish as many as I can get. These boys need to straighten up, grow up, and begin to understand that the world doesn’t revolve around them, and they certainly need to understand that their mother won’t be around forever to take care of them. You don’t really respect and cherish something until it’s gone, and by that time it’s too late.

As the dozens and dozens of Bladen Force fans have are no doubt aware, the website has been severely lacking in updates except for dead authors and cats. This is mostly due to the general malaise and apathy that I have been stricken with. Generally being depressed and filled with apathy isn’t very healthy, but I digress.

I’m not in a very healthy mental or physical state right now, and I’ve been having trouble bringing myself to the pencil and paper except for a few sketches and tidbits. Let’s hope that I can snap myself out of this rut I’m in.

R.I.P.

Milton

March 1998 - December 31, 2007

He was hit by a car this morning on the road on Hwy 39. No idea who or what hit him, but it wasn’t a nice picture to look at. I think I’m going to be haunted by that image for the rest of my life. I don’t think it’s completely sunk in yet, all I feel is bitter rage, sadness, and confusion.

I just felt like wishing everyone who reads Bladen Force (Not sure how many that actually is) a Merry Christmas and if they aren’t Christian, or just don’t celebrate it… Happy Holidays (Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, something else?). So… yeah…

Happy Chrismahanukwanzakuh to everyone!

GR

Play this while reading. It makes it that much sweeter.

ALOHA BABY!

I hath left the teens forever, and my status as an Old Man has now solidified into reality.

So, what wisdom do I have to impart after all my years on this earth?

Balls.

That is all.

P.S.: I REGRET…NOTHING (also: it’s pre-emptive caturday, bitches, post some cats)

However in my thread, and in my /b/ folder, he lives on!
DRILLING A HOLE TO PIERCE THE INTERNETS!

R.I.P.
Anonymous

October 1, 2003 - December 6, 2007

Well technically, I should say Kytri is a pioneer, since she’s the one that first keyed me in to Comicpress and Wordpress, but it turns out that Scott Kurtz has joined the Comicpress collective and is now serving the hive. In all seriousness, I’m really glad too, because the old layout was nice, but it had a really high latency between loading comics, whereas Comicpress is nigh-instantaneous. The whole site is a whole lot faster, which is the same thing I noticed when Bladen Force upgraded to WordPress. Welcome to the hive cluster, Kurtz.

No idea where that downtime came from. I’ll check to make sure nothing broke.

I’v been thinking about podcasting, and I’m starting to think that the Bladencast and BladenForce in general (the site content outside of the comics) could benefit from taking some cues from podcasters. I mean as it is were bassically just in “additional content” or, “hey we recorded some stuff” mode.

But we definetly try to, and have ambitious to, run Bladencast like a radio show. In that way it’s not a podcast as much as an as of yet to grow up and join the live interwebs internet radio show.

However I think that between our dazzling wits and all the podsafe music and such there is out there we could be throwing out awesome nonlive podcasts even as replacements for newsposts in some cases.

I also think that we do need to practice better radio format in the Bladencast even while were still stuck in the static realm. I interupt Jazon a lot, he announces the format as we try to structure things and when we go without format we end up talking about how we don’t have stuff to talk about it, which is kind of ridiculous because if you just sat us down normally we’d never run out of things to say.

The focus for Jazon has always been to get the better equipment so we could run BladenCast 1. with better quality 2. live and 3. taking callers and guests via the internet.

However I think that before that practicing our internet radio skills and loading up on some podsafe content would be useful. Hell, most internet radio shows are illegal as hell (see the wonderful Radio Kingdom-of-Loathing which is like pirate bay for the ears when it comes to music), so I think getting material for intros and themes wouldnt be out of the question.

And then beyond the Bladencast since we do the bladencast it also shouldnt be difficult for us to start putting up real podcasts, not internet radio shows, as well. Podisodes of rants that would otherwise be types out newsposts like this; updates; and other funny shit.

I listen to a LOT of podcasts, mostly short fiction, and I’m also an internet-radio addict. So I’m pretty attuned to the fact that theyre different things that are structured differently because of their different goals. I think that the pod-blogging casts and the newscasts of serial podcasts could teach us a lot in terms of a brief shot of recorded discussion, while we need to learn from the amateur but oh so skilled internet radio DJ’s some basic material that even the song-slingers learn, and that the internet talk show host should definetly learn.

Anyways, those are just my musings here Mt.Doom at ass-crack-of-dawn-in-the-morning.