I could not find separate urls on Tumblr for my blogs, so I moved some of the posts to Google blogs, but on Google blogs I am getting no views. I mean like zero views on posts. Clearly no one can find my posts on the Google blog because the key word mean it does not come up in the search. I guess one has to pay for search visibility. The Google search for blogs does not even bring up blogs at all. I was looking for blogs on a book I was reading I could find no blogs, so I wrote blog. Then I found a blog, not using the blog search but searching on the main character’s name. Therefore blogs are really pointless if no one reads them. I might as well not even bother to post them. I think word press gets more hits on the searches, but the html there was so annoying. I had a word press blog for a while, but it had so many bugs, I deleted it. Apparently there are separate urls for this blog, but they don’t show up because the title of the blog should lead to a hyperlink, however, you can find the url of the individual post in the edit page underneath the custom post link. Google is slanted towards commercial websites so people’s opinion blogs are pushed down to like page one million so no one will ever find them. I should just quit blogging. When will I ever learn to stop wasting time like this?

I figured out what is wrong with this blog. Each post does not have a separate url. Maybe it was I selected a custom url? I don’t know what the problem is. No one can find any specific post here. If you use google search it only takes you to the home page. You have to click past all the blogs to find the one you want. I am deleting most of my posts now, therefore. I am moving important ones to the google blog. Now all of my blogs can fit on one page. If you find my blog, you won’t have to go far to find the post you are looking for.

Archie Comics used to be a fun read for kids growing up. Archie was a simply concept of small town American life that was designed to be funny. The characters did not all have to be role models. But, now they have decided to change and update them to the point where they do not even have a resemblance to the early comics. Kids have handheld devices and don’t need to buy comic books. They added so many new characters that it would make your head spin to keep track of them. In fact, you need an extensive glossary of characters to keep track of them. One is provided on the Archie Website.

What was wrong with Jughead not liking girls? This did not mean he was gay. But, they had to change that, and give Jughead girl friends. Big Ethel was funny because she did not know that she was unattractive, but now she has to be pretty. Moose can’t beat up other boys because now, you can’t have that in a comics. Moose is not dumb anymore, he is challenged. It was not fair for Archie to not pick either Betty or Veronica so he had to pick both of them. Even the earlier Cheryl Blossom character was a mistake. It was pointless to add another girl (this one with red head) who was also rich (like Veronica) and also liked Archie. There was no reason for Cheryl Blossom to like Archie or even be included in the comic.

They created Little Archie a comic in which they were children, but this comic was truly awful. I remember being very disturbed by a Little Archie Comic book as a child. I don’t remember which issue this was, but child Betty is depressed because she loved Archie and she says “Loving Archie is like beating your head against a brick wall, it feel so good when you stop but I can’t stop loving Archie.” She was only a child, so she could not really be in love with Archie. The entire premise was bogus, and the comic was not fun, but depressing.

Now they have “real life stories” that are soap operas. Why would anyone want to read this kind of thing?

Having gay characters does not matter to me, but it is not the sort of thing children want to read. Jughead did not hate girls, he was just not interested in them. What was wrong innocence? Why do comics have to teach all life’s lessons? If you want to argue that children want to know about gay characters they are probably too old to be reading comics for children and should move on to gay fan fiction. Now, they are having a gay marriage in Archie. I could not very well explain this to children without teaching them sex education. If they are old enough for sex education they are too old for comics books.

Each time they changed the formula, they got farther and farther away from Bob Montana’s original creation. Now, older Archie Comics are the sort of thing one reads for nostalgia. The Archie Concept is essentially dead and cannot be recreated. It would have been much better to retire Archie in 1983 at the end of the Bronze Age.

I looked at some of the old Bob Montana Comics and there a few things I wanted to note. Archie used to have a gap between his teeth. Archie used to slouch, he had bad posture. Jughead had even worse posture and even Reggie appears to be slouching in early comics. The teachers were all older and out of touch which provided opportunity for further comedy as the young teenagers match wits with the old fogies. Reggie and Archie beat each up, it was like slap stick.

Then things did change and not all change is bad. Maybe it was not so great to end the comic with someone being beaten up? I remember an Archie Stories from the 60’s in which some hippies want to beat up Archie and he runs away so instead they beat up Jughead. That was not really so funny considering hippies are non violent and maybe they should have used Hell’s Angels instead? But, if you have bikers in a comic, then it pretty much is like not for children. Dan DeCarlo’s bikini covers made girls feel like they should all look like pip up girls. But, still it was ok, I would still let kids read the 70’s comics.

I don’t know the exact point in which it went all downhill. Maybe it was the new cartoony look of Dan Parent or the “realistic looking” comics that look nothing like Archie at all? Somewhere along the line Archie lost it and will never get it back now.

If you want to write to me and tell me the issues of these comics I will site them here. Thank you for your time.

Wellness dog food almost killed my dog. The food was canned duck and potato. The ingredients are Duck, Duck Broth, Turkey, Chicken Liver, Sweet Potatoes, Ground Barley, Carrots, Carrageenan, Ground Flaxseed, Potassium Chloride, Whitefish, Guar Gum, Salt, Canola Oil, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Choline Chloride, Vitamins E Supplement, Manganese Proteinate, Riboflavin Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Biotin, Vitamin D-3 Supplement. It does not look so bad on the surfuce, but there has to be something in there that they are lying about. It could be soy.Wellness is a evil corporation. I contact them, they sent me a coupon for more of their poisonous dog food. I had a 5,000 dolla vet bill to save Trooper’s life. The vet who was supposed to write me a prescription for the food Tropper needed refused to write the prescription. I thought it would be just the same to buy Wellness Food. If Wellness has a issue with me, I invite them to take it up with me. I just want to warn people not to feed this toxic food to their pets. You can buy Royal Canin which is actually a good food for the same price as Wellness. Pet Food Express was responsible for selling me this food and then not doing anything to contact Wellness. They lied. I hope Pet Food Express goes out of business. The food they sell is so massively over priced compared to Petsmart. The Vet was Colma Animal Hosptial.

Frank Oz used to play Miss Piggy, but he is not in the new Muppet movie. I read on the imdb that he is unhappy with the characterization and declined. The new actor sounds just like Miss Piggy, I could not tell the differences, unless I really try to notice if Miss Piggy is different. I would like Frank Oz if I could have him instead of the new guy. That is just a sentimental reason. Frank Oz is still alive, I don’t understand why he have to have a new person. Kermit the Frog’s (Jim Hensen) voice is not still alive. I don’t like things to change. I would like to know what is wrong with this Movie before I go see it. It’s great for kids who don’t have any attachment to the original Muppets. But, it will be Kermit and Miss Piggy as portrayed by other actors. I can tell new Kermit’s voice is wrong, but it is not horribly wrong the way the new Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck were wrong after Mel Blank died. If I go see it, I will post some kind of review. It would be nice to go see in IMAX. I don’t know if Dinsey can make a go of it, or will they disneyfy it. I really do want to give it the benefit of the doubt.

I got the movie on Netflixs, and I did not like it at all. The Muppets with Jim Hensen just don’t work for me.

I listened to the Boomtown rats as a teenage way too much, due to the problem of not having enough fund to buy many records. I got the records at local used recorded stores. I listened to the albums: A Tonic for the Troops and Mondo Bongo first and then later I must of had V Deep, but I don’t remember it. I remember the songs House on Fire, Never in a million years, and Up all night. I may of had some kind greatest hits record at some point. I used to think of V Deep, as deep 6, or to die or something like that, since it was a roman numeral. But, it is really deep 5. Deep six is way the Boomtown Rats makes you feel with songs like Banana Republic. This is great music for teenage angst, but the teenagers have moved on to other bands. You hardly ever hear the Boomtown Rats on the radio anymore. expect for I don’t like Mondays and I never liked that song.

The song I listened to most was Like Clockwork. This song about the feeling of running out of time. Life is finite. The lyrics are written to make you feel edgy and agitated. The sarcastic refrain of the song is “hey what’s the matter? we got time lots of time”. The energizing beat adds to the overall mood of panic. The song ask you to do something with your life, but doesn’t not suggest what that should be. I think we should look to Bob Geldof, and another song by the Boomtown Rats. “I can’t stop now”. Like Clockwork is more of an existential feeling of despair over the passing of time, certainly of death, and the feeling one should accomplish more faster in case time were to run out. “I Can’t Stop Now” is about a speed freak who can’t stop doing speed to the point of collapse.

House on Fire may be the only song that is not depressing, but even House on Fire has some negative lyrics. House on Fire is a sort of Reggaeton song with a danceable beat.
Maybe it is best to throw all of our Boomtown Rats records into the pile of history? I don’t want to listen to them again.