Monthly Archives: July 2004

Disney: Am I Full of Shit or Not

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Disney refused to release Michael Moore’s newest movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, claiming it was too mean and gritty for their image.
Today, Hyperion Publishing, which is, you know, a subsidiary of Disney, paid $300,000 for the rights to a book from a Senate intern who was briefly famous a month or so back for publicizing her anal-sex-for-money adventures with some big name politicians.
Disney: Hypocritical or Just plain crap. You decide!
(When do you think was the last time any of my journal entries made it past a single bad-language web filter?)

Please keep in mind that this post is more than 6 years old. Who the hell knows what I was thinking back then?! Damn kids... get off my lawn!

Definition: Boondocks

1 Reply | Posted by Patrick Calder on in reference

Boondocks – n.
Slang term to define a rural area.
Derived from the Tagalog word bundok, meaning mountain.
Became part of American vocabulary during the Philippine-American War. Mountainous terrain offered refuge and strategic advantages to Filipinos fighting for their country’s independence, and patrolling the boondocks became a common task for the U.S. military as it sought to eliminate resistance to U.S. rule. The boondocks were a contested terrain. They were bases of resistance. In American usage the word means hinterland, back country, or a remote and underdeveloped area.

Please keep in mind that this post is more than 6 years old. Who the hell knows what I was thinking back then?! Damn kids... get off my lawn!

Kern, Damnit, Kern!

Leave a comment | Posted by Patrick Calder on in design


There’s design ignorance and then there’s outright contempt for design. Someone in the juror’s office no doubt felt that it would be improper to go so far as even make their badges legible, ’cause it would appear as they were concerned with something other than justice. Cause frankly, this top part of the badge is the least screwed-up portion of the Jury Summons in DC.
I’m seriously considering redoing the Jury Summons in my own time, just to see what I can do.

Please keep in mind that this post is more than 6 years old. Who the hell knows what I was thinking back then?! Damn kids... get off my lawn!