The thing about gymnasts is that usually they look more like steroid abusing midgets than they do actual human girls, not to mention the fact that they’re like 16 or whatever (or in the case of China, 13). You would think that chics who can do the splits and do a standing front flip would at least be kind of hot, but for the most part the only dudes jocking Olympic gymnasts are internet pedos. However, last night I was watching the individual womens gymnastics competition (yeah, I know) and the American broad who ended up taking home the gold medal, Nastia Luikin, was actually not a bobcut troll like the majority of competitors, but was actually almost physically attractive, aside from the terrible style that seems obligatory for world class gymnasts, not to mention 18. I figured it would be worth lurking moar, and lo and behold, like most other actual people, Nastia Luikin has herself a myspace page, with pics of her IRL. What’s up now? Advanced lurkers probably already figured out that that’s just a jocker myspace, and that her own myspace is here. If you’re a 20-year old emo-bro in Plano, TX and you’re not hitting the add button right now you’re blowing it bro!

Personally I could give a shit about the 3G part of the new iPhone (they probably won’t even have that shit up here in Bumblefuck,CA), I’m just feeling the $199 price tag, and feeling getting rid of my clunky ass 10-pound Audiovox Pocket PC and getting into the Mac world of phones, since I run a Mac at home and a Mac at work. Not really feeling having to switch from Verizon, who have been badass for the last 10 years to AT&T but whatever, they’re all the same shit anyway.

In b4 PC IS BETTER

You liek moar fun internetz time activities? Shoop this bird. LOOK I’LL GO FIRST

I was lurking at Hawthorne Heights Myspace page today and I noticed that the big promo pic at the top was shot right here in good ol’ Chico, in Upper Bidwell Park, known around here as simply Upper Park. It seems like the last year or so Upper Park has been in more many emo band pics as Paul Frank. First there’s the cover of the new Saves The Day record, Under The Boards, which makes sense since STD frontman Chris Conley has been known to lurk around these parts:

Then there’s also the video for Number One Gun’s “Wake Me Up,” which makes a lot of sense, since Number One Gun aka Jeff Schneeweis live right here in Chico. In fact, if you look hard enough at that Hawthorne pic you can see a couple pieces of that door that Jeff smashes at around the 3:12 mark in the video, still kicking it on the hillside thar. Wake Me Up, moar liek PICK IT UP AMIRITE?? KEEP BIDWELL PARK BEYOUTEEFUL!!!1

UPDATE: It turns out that the backdrop in the above Hawthorne pic is actually the cover art for their new CD, Fragile Futures.

During a recent campaign speech in Florida, John McCain warned the crowd “I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars.” How’s that for optimism? According to political pundit and former Republican Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, a vote for McCain is basically a vote for war with Iran.

“You get John McCain in the White House, and I do believe we will be at war with Iran. There’s no doubt John McCain is going to be a war president. … His whole career is wrapped up in the military, national security. He’s in Putin’s face, he’s threatening the Iranians, we’re going to be in Iraq a hundred years.”

Buchanan’s not exaggerating about Iraq either. John McCain actually said he’s fine with that too:

He later clarifyied that troops could be there ‘thousand years’ or ‘a million years,’ for all he cares. Talk about legacy.

To make matter worse, John McCain is a certified Myspace STEALER:

John McCain’s people commandeered my world-renowned MySpace design template and did a few things wrong:

They did not credit me for the template, even though the template explicitly requested credit.

They used my own unmodified imagery, specifically for the “Contacting John McCain” table.

As if #2 wasn’t bad enough, the McCain crew is actually pulling their image directly from my server on each page load. So every time someone visits the McCain MySpace page, my bandwidth is being used to deliver part of the page! Bad McCain!

Luckily this led directly to lulz:

The McCain campaign of course immediately swung into action, dispatching their obviously crack squad of 1337 Myspace page cr34t0r5 to solve the problem. Or not.

So anyways, if you want a president who loves war, thinks the internet is a series of tubes, and looks like the emperor from Star Wars, VOTE MCCAIN ‘08!!111