This morning I was going through my usual ‘I don’t have to be anywhere till later’ routine of lounging around in my pjs and browsing the web – and by ‘the web’, I mean Facebook.
This morning something amazing happened and that amazing thing was that I found something online that both interests and amuses me – and it wasn’t Facebook - but I did find it THROUGH Facebook so my stereotype as a social networking addict still reins supreme.
http://www.hecklerspray.com
Hecklerspray is an online magazine that describes it work as a:
Unique, biting brand of satrical music, movie, TV, videogame and celebrity news, gossip and reviews”
and it actually is! Its funny, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes random and always highly opinionated. I don’t tend to read any celeb, film or general Hollywood gossip (sorry Perez Hilton but I just don’t care) and I rarely read other blogs because, in the same boat as celeb, If I don’t know you, I just don’t have the time to care – or because even if I do know you perhaps your subject matter isn’t in my range of interests, but today was a whole new kettle of fish…
I spent a good hour and a half reading about 15 articles about Justin Beiber (‘Ten reasons why we can look forward to Justin Beiber’s nervous breakdown’), Twilight (‘Emma Watson wants Robert Patterson to bogg off’), Zombies (‘Top 22 WTF zombie moments’), The Hills (Spencer apologises to Heidi for being an ‘epic douche’), and someone from Gossip Girl setting her dog’s balls on fire (after they had been removed from the dog), amongst others. In fact, I’ve found myself reading articles related to pretty much anything I’ve ever seen or heard of.
The best part about this web mag is that they make no apologies for what they write and that’s something I appreciate. The world is far too censored just in case you happen to offend someone and the media would have you believe that you can’t sneeze without offending someone these days.
I don’t believe people are that soft.
With the exception of religion and discrimination – THINGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY WRONG, do people really need to censor themselves just in case someone on the other side of the country reads it and says ‘Oi’. Comedians don’t – so why should writers?
That’s my piece.
Maybe I’m feeling a little inspired but I’m going to say something a little Hecklerspray esque now:
The last couple of weeks on the news there has been a running story about Terry Jones threateneing to burn copies of the Quran if they build a Mosque near where the Twin Towers were. There has been much coverage of this because of the backlash unfolding in the eastern world because of this dumb American preacher. I don’t know what happened there – I lost interest.
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HOWEVER…
I’d like to point out that if there were a Mosque near the Twin Towers back in the day, the whole plane incident probably wouldn’t have happened – because people don’t tend to cause a plane’s worth of damage to their religious buildings.
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I urge you to check out Hecklerspray, and if you don’t like it – tough!
