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Chris Noble


Last Updated: 11/20/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Divorced
Age: 38
Sign: Cancer

City: Cedar Rapids
State: Iowa
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/4/2006

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 
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Currently listening:
Broken Social Scene
By Broken Social Scene
Release date: 2005-10-04
4:03 AM 
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 
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Runyon First and Last
By Damon Runyan
8:50 PM 
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Friday, January 16, 2009 
Darth Vader has a Twitter page.  The funniest line?

Just saw the new VT-16. The guys were right, it's quite a thing to see. 8:05 PM Dec 27th, 2008 from twitterrific

If you think that's funny, too?  Welcome to my little geeky corner of hell.
Currently reading:
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By Harlan Ellison
2:31 AM 
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 
http://www.realtouch.com/

Have we become so pathetic, are we so doomed, that we can't even bother to masturbate any more?  I mean... I needed something to do that for me? 
And do those belts freak anyone else out?
Currently listening:
Do You Like Rock Music?
By British Sea Power
Release date: 2008-02-12
3:05 AM 
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 
Internet contractions will now only be followed by profanity.  For example:

IMHO, you are a fucktard.
Or:
IIRC, you can only orgasm if your grandmother urinates on your face.
Alternately:
AFAIK, you have never stopped forcing small woodland creatures up your ass.
Although I still have a soft spot for posting the following comment on some random profile:
You are a pedophile!

...this is only funny to me, isn't it?


Currently reading:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
By John Le Carre
6:18 AM 
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 
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I haven't seen "The Spirit".  The "word", for whatever it's worth, is that it's pretty damn bad.  The trailers looked awful, I know that.  But, after reading the mass fanboy gloating on the internets, I really want to go see it.  Just as a "fuck you" to the vast, ugly mass of geeks that makes up the most vocal comic book/Star Wars/Star Trek/Whatever fan- the "They raped my childhood!" crowd.
Frank Miller directed "The Spirit".  Frank Miller's work hasn't been... well, it hasn't been very good lately, to be honest.  Oh, it still looks pretty goddamn good.  Look at that poster- I have to tell you, that's cool.
But his writing has kind of gone down hill, or it's seemed to, at least.  I don't think this is because of his new-found slightly more rightwing politics, or that he has his head up his ass, or that he's a big star, so he doesn't have to try- all fanboy reasons I've been reading lately.  I think he's trying something different, and it's just not working.  Yet.
But for Christ sake, look at what good shit the guy has done:

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I mean, come on.  I didn't like "300" much, but just look at that fucking thing up there.  Can you do that?  Anybody you know capable of that?  How about 98% of anyone drawing comics? 
With his recent work, I think he's trying to bring back a pulp sensibility to comics... and I mean pulp.  I don't mean Hammet or Chandler, I mean the real sleazy stuff that used to sell under the counter.  I think he's going for that vibe.  I don't think it's successfull, but that doesn't mean it won't be.  Besides, even if his current work, to use the modern critical vocabulary, sucks, and will always suck, ye unto eternity... fuck, man, look at the shit he's done.  They still print those books, you know.  You can still buy them. 
What prompts this is some of the infuriating snark I've been reading about Miller.  These guys, they love that Miller's movie is failing.  These same ass hats are predicting the doom of the "Watchmen" movie... which might stink, who fuckin' knows?  But the phrase I read that just bores right under my skin was "It's tracking horribly." 
"It's tracking horribly"?  Ooo... look at the star Variety reporter!  You're a real fuckin' insider, sparky.  I'd look the phrase up, but I have a feeling it has to do with polling, and marketing, and test screening, and nothing to do with the god damned movie, so, you know, fuck it.
We hate success.  We despise it when others are better at something than us, and they get paid well for it.  We just can't stand it when someone who is measurably better than most of us works hard and gets recognition and rewards for their work.  We get jealous, and we wait for them to fall. 
So, y'know, Frank Miller should immediately fall on his katanna for a bad movie.  'Cause he deserves it. 



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Thursday, December 25, 2008 


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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 
If you've been sending me messages on My Space, I haven't received them.  I see that I have new messages, and then I click, and then those messages are gone, and jeezus christmas, don't these fucking people know I can't afford to not get these messages, and I'm desperate, and everybody fucking hates me anyway, nobody ever sends ME messages, oh NO, NOBODY HAS TIME FOR CHRIS FUCKING NOBLE ANYGODDAMNMORE, AND THEN MYSPACE GOES AND DELETES TWO CHRISTING MESSAGES, SO IT COULDA BEEN ANYBODY, IT COULDA BEEN ABOUT MONEY, OR SEX OR SOMETHING, AND NOW I'LL NEVER FUCKING KNOW.

Of course, if you haven't sent a message, then never mind.  EVEN THOUGH THAT FUCKING FIGURES.

Currently reading:
Fifty-to-One (Hard Case Crime)
By Charles Ardai
6:54 AM 
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 



Currently reading:
Knights Templar: The Essential History
By Stephen Howarth
5:27 AM 
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Monday, December 08, 2008 
So, wait.  Let me get this straight.
The strength of the economy hinges on people spending more money than they have, on things they don't need.  Now that everybody is as broke as I have been for the past fifteen years, and they're spending what they have on things that make sense, the economy is crashing.  So the only thing that kept us from eating our own children raw was that most people were stupid.
I'm... I'm not getting it, am I?
Currently watching:
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Widescreen)
Release date: 2008-11-11
4:10 AM 
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