Blood and Shaving Cream is my tumblr, but it’s also the virtual sketchbook and online supplement to the site you are on presently. Readers were and are spending more time perusing my tumbler and twitter (i’m bit torqued about twitter at the moment, and don’t twitter much these days, story for another time). Sure we’re all doing the work of 4 people now at work and time is certainly at a premium, and Tumblr IS easier and quicker, if not a bit ugly at times; save the Is Google Making Us Stupid rant for another time.

Oh it certainly isn’t rocket science, not that I’m stressing all itchy balls, but it’s all looking like one gigantic fucking REBLOG these days (Reblog: a feature built into Tumblr), but looks a bit dubious if you’re “curating” the news written by others, scribbling out two lines of commentary and selling adverts on your site. Then again I think “curating” certainly has it’s place so that’s not so much a criticism as an observation.

I’m not even going to touch the news that in the U.S., the FTC will require that writers on the Web clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products (read more via the NYTimes), this bit of news seems to suggest that the videogame and music blogosphere will be hit hard, so I’m presently shrugging my shoulders, and unsure how they are going to regulate social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, and why?

Obviously you can tell from my sporadic posts that I’m not making shit from this, never have, it’s all been one 9 year string of ego stroking information and entertainment (at times). That said, I enjoy comments (will probably dismantle then on here though) and can even be surprised every now and then by reader’s reactions, as was the case the other day when I posted the cover of DC National Comic “Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane”. The text reads;

“The Ugly Superman; “Great Scott! Lois Has Fallen For a Plug Ugly Wrestler Who Is A Comic Imitation of Me!”

Bear Mythology Comments:

“I am always fascinated to see how the mass media manipulates us in to thinking who or what is attractive. Obviously the above cover illustrates Lois Lane as a “hot chick” whom our superhero is head over heels for. And by having Superman refer to the husky Superman-clone wrestler as ‘plug-ugly,’ it already implies that the clone is basically unattractive. It’s interesting how the clone-wrestler’s opponent lands ‘humorously’ on his derriere which seems to hint at some ‘homosexual act.’ Looking at the spectators’ faces, you see them as either laughing our being furious; and if the kid reading this is already primed for homophobia, this image will even reinforce it: ugly people are gay and will make fun of other people’s asses. If not homophobia, it’s teaching kids to hate a certain look: in this case, Lois, Clark, and the rest of the audience are “beautiful” while the two wrestlers are ugly. It’s interesting that the clone’s facial look is like a thicker version of the ‘geek-like’ Jimmy Olsen. In a way, the image it’s trying to convey is one of a ‘retarded musclehead.’ Lol, not sure why I’m freaking ranting about an old kid’s comic book. I just wanted to reblog this because the retarded and possibly gay wrestler musclebrute is definitely hot; but the bald musclebear wrestler landing on his ass is even hotter. The math equations also made the whole image deliciously sexy…”

Which was great, and very funny, yet thought provoking seeing as he pointed out a few things that I didn’t see, although the ‘derriere landing’ hinting at a ‘homosexual act’ left me scratching my head some, but o.k. I can stretch and pull that one apart. Yet, it was the following from the beartastic freedumbring tumblr that made me spit my coffee out all over my desk;

Lois = Chaser. And redheads are MF hawt.

Genius.