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Welcome Back!

Daniel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:34:52 +0000

I have decided to start posting again. Perhaps the demdanjaboiz blog needs a little redesign too. Give me a couple days and we’ll see what’s up. To Busy, but too much to talk about.. Here we go.

Here’s the Pic of the Day!

I'm sure it hurt.

“I wish rednecks were only stupid for comedic purposes”

Bryan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:49:53 +0000

- Steven M.

The Magician’s Nephiew Review

freshnickofbelair — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:58:59 +0000

I finished the first Narnia book, The Magician’s Nephew, and wow I am disappointed. The movies are bad ass but that is because they are visually and the Christian undertone isn’t too much shoved down your throat. But in the Magician’s Nephew, C. S. Lewis straight up steals stories from the Bible to create this boring, confusing, and impossible story. As much as Genesis doesn’t make sense in the real world, it just as much doesn’t in this story. Was it needed to tell me how Narnia was created?? Because it totally killed it for me. And then he goes ahead and steals a scene from the Adam and Eve story with the apple which I don’t understand. Why create an apple no one can eat?? Why tempt people to do bad things and then when they do you shun them? That’s fucked up.

So anyways I’m gonna rate this book:

Creativity: 1/5
Story: 2/5
Shortness: 4/5

All in all, don’t read this book unless you want to read the whole series just to say you did because this sure as hell isn’t a good book and I’m assuming the rest won’t be either. I’ll rate the next one once I’m done with it.

Cholla Residents Rejoice!

Bryan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:13:36 +0000

Have you ever noticed that your air conditioning ceases to work at night? Well our semi-joking observational theory has been confirmed. ASU in the ultimate thrifty jew move (note the lowercase use. not to be confused with the wonderfully cultured people who live in Manhattan.) has decided to turn off our air conditioning at night – get this – to save money. Bravo Crow and “Crow-nies.” Business students take notice. You can learn from the best. You could also cite this as an example of what not to do if you don’t want to be a complete douche bag. Good night.

See our previous letter to President Crow.

A Bite With The Gang: Taco Del Mar Review

Bryan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:59:29 +0000

How can I summarize this establishment? Horrendous service with lackluster food. I mean this is the antithesis of Cheba Hut. When Nick and I first walked in we met the staff; a desolate couple sitting at a table eating. After they casually stood up and walked around the counter without so much as a hello we ended up standing in line at the register for at least 15 minutes as the computer refused to work. Oh and when we presented our ASU discount card it was rejected. The food was OK, not bad but certainly no Filabertos or Valle Luna. And for the price…common.

The bottom line – You can pass on this one. There’s plenty of great Mexican restaurants in AZ, don’t settle for this tome of mediocrity.

Food: 6.5/10

Service: 2/10

Total: 4.25/10

Stay Tuned.

Bryan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:48:26 +0000

We have a special treat for y’all. All I can say is Daniel is making his major motion picture debut. Word on the street is Big-D is growing a killer mustache in preparation for his role. The project is in early production stages and the original soundtrack is coming along nicely.

Whoop there it is

Bryan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:42:22 +0000

“The past 30 years has seen an extraordinary increase in consumer demand for safe, effective and cost-effective natural healthcare. Naturopathic medicine has emerged as the health care profession best suited to meet this demand. Although it almost disappeared in the mid-twentieth century because of the popularity of drugs and surgery, naturopathic medicine now offers safe, effective natural therapies as a vital part of the health care systems of North America the twenty-first century.”

That’s from the America Association of Naturopathic Physicians website (http://www.naturopathic.org) . Sounds great doesn’t it? Well it would be if it weren’t a crock of shit. Now I know what you’re saying. ’Hey, Bryan, these ancient remedies have been around since antiquity and have been “proven” to be effective.’ Well my answer to that is that the length of time something is in practice has no bearing on it’s effectiveness. In other words, just because people claim it’s true doesn’t make it so when lacking sufficient any scientific evidence, especially when juxtaposed with contradicting evidence.

To get a feel for what homeopathy is – it is generally the philosophy that the more diluted a drug or substance is, the more powerful it becomes. Don’t ask me why this counter-intuitive thought is so prevalent in the 21st century but it is. By homeopathic logic, substances in potent doses cause side-effects just as bad as the disease they’re treating (Interesting, so when a patient takes penicillin to treat an infection, in some kind of backwards way that defies all medical knowledge, the anti-biotic causes the bacterial infection to become worse?)

Also get this – the dilutions are often so large that there is no practical chance of a single molecule of an active ingredient existing in the mixture. Mixtures of 1 part active ingredient per 1,000,000,000,000 parts of water are not uncommon. Rather than try to defend this untenable position that the substance is still there they claim that the vital energy is transfered and that’s all that matters. An interesting study published in a peer review scientific journal investigated the effectiveness of a homeopathic treatment using the ingredient Arnica montana against a placebo. Ultimately they determined:

“The claim that homeopathic arnica is efficaciousbeyond a placebo effect is not supported by rigorous clinicaltrials.”

Here’s a link to the article published in Surgery by E Ernst, MD, PhD. and M.H. Pittler, MD.http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/133/11/1187?ck=nck

Snowboots: A brief history in fashion and society

Bryan — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:55:39 +0000

There once was a time when specific footwear served a very specific purpose. Even as little as a few years back I lived in such a world where I thought snowboots existed only in realms deemed applicable to such conditions that would necessitate a thick fur boot, ostensibly places like Alaska, or Antarctica, you know, those artic temperate zones. Unfortunately, in my naivety, I learned that humanity doesn’t harbor the pragmatism I once thought it did.

The Origins:

I decided to dig back and find where the novel idea of a snow boot originated. I immediately found that the Inuits, in their ingenuety and craft, designed a caribu skin boot for hunting in the snow. The warm, thick fur, provided ample protection from the harsh elements. They called them Kamiks. Genius! Given the time period of the nomadic people, we can estimate that Kamiks could date back as far as 1000 years – possibly further. But that’s not what we’re interested in.

Modern Culture:

Like all things, it isn’t long before the Paris Hiltons, the Marlin Brandos and the Lisa Lopes get their hands on long-standing traditions that represent a culture of the past and utterly besmirch them. The Fashionistas in Hollywood swiftly and deftly carried out an atrocity on par with The Reign Of Terror when they unleashed the fashionable snow boot to hordes of young women ready to tarnish the dignity of the Inuits and the Yupiks with smiles on their faces.

The Legacy:

It probably began with movie stars, but now you can’t walk down the street in August without seeing 5,10, maybe even 100 pairs of snowboots on woman aged 13-58.

Look at this photo I found of Shelley Duvall sporting a modern form of the Snow boot in the 1980 Stanley Kubrick movie The Shining. But I’m sure it reaches back farther than this. That is why I am calling on you, nation, to send me your sightings of snowboots in pop-culture pre 1980′s. We’re going to get to the bottom of this and see who is truly responsible for this ghastly and reprehensible act.

A Dream of Bel-Air

freshnickofbelair — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:59:48 +0000

In light of last night’s dream filled slumber, I felt a new segment to this site was needed. We all have dreams every night, whether we remember them or not. And some of us writers here on DemDanjaBoiz have some pretty nifty ones. So I thought I would start this new segment with my most memorable dream of last night.Whether it was on the internet, tv or just taking place in my head, I somehow stumbled upon the original pilot intro to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air television show. But through watching this, I realized just how different the show was intended to be. I must assume everyone has seen the actual Fresh Prince intro, and maybe you are even like myself or Bryan and know every word of it (including the deleted verses). But knowing the current intro won’t help you know the original. Oh how different it was. Instead of having it rapped by the Fresh Prince himself, it was sung by Carlton. That’s right, folks…Carlton. I don’t remember much about his rendition but I assume it was hilarious and he probably did his infamous Carlton dance. The other shocking aspect of this intro was that the cousin that stays with the Banks family, Will, was not played by Will Smith. It was instead played by some no-name actor. The final shock came at the end when it turned out the show wasn’t even originally called the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. After the pilot’s creation, though, the producers of the show decided to get Will Smith to play the cousin, make him the central character, name the show after his hip-hop persona, and ask him to create the theme song. If this drastict change by the producers didn’t take place, how different would our world be? Would Will Smith be currently staring in the smash hit I Am Legend? The world may never know. So let us marvel in amazement as we watch the actual extended intro video to the show that I have posted below and be hopeful that you may one day, too, be enlightened as I have in seeing the “original”.

An Atheist’s Nightmare

freshnickofbelair — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:07:07 +0000

Thursday, I found myself coming home late at night with quite the hungry tummy. I had been gone all day doing what I do and the sweet taste of spaghetti and meatballs lingered in my head. I looked at the clock; it read about 2 a.m. I thought to myself about how I could get myself some spaghetti. I knew Fazoli’s was closed as well as Olive Garden (but eating Olive Garden alone is just sad). I then wondered if my pantry contained any Spaghetti O’s. Though this is a poor subsitute, my options were slim. I got up from my computer chair and journeyed to the kitchen. Instead of going straight for the pantry, something told me I should check the refrigerator. I opened my fridge and what do I see? What amazing dish greets my looking balls? None other than a bowl of spaghetti. But not only just a bowl of spaghetti…but a bowl of spaghetti AND meatballs. What is the coincidence that the food I had been craving just happened to be the meal that my mom prepared that night. Also, what is the coincidence that there were leftovers? My answer, nonbelievers, is this: there is no coincidence. If you want something bad enough just pray and maybe you, too, will get your very own bowl of spaghetti with some added meatballs.