The Awful Nude

And I’m not gonna delete the last blog post…..yeah, I’m gonna waste some space on the internet. If Glenn Beck is allowed (and even PAID! the humanity!) to do it, then so am I.

of the Publicize: Twitter system. Nothing more to see here, and this will likely be deleted after the test is done.

This is just a tribute.

Tenacious D references might have been played out a long time ago, but thanks to the videogame Brutal Legend, I’ve been listening to them a lot lately. And then last night, I dreamed I wrote this wicked, badass blog post that at least boosted me to internet fame, if not world fame, but I forgot what the post was about when I woke up.

I should be going home for two weeks of leave early next week. Movies will be seen, beers will be consumed, and karaoke will be rocked.

Also, I’m extremely late to the party on this, but I started listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin lately. This is the first time I’ve really dug into their music, beyond hearing the random song on the radio or whereever. While “Stairway to Heaven” and “Immigrant Song” are great, my favorite so far is “In My Time of Dying”. I still have the last three albums to get, though, and then a comprehensive listening, so we’ll see how it holds up overall.

Also, for all two of my friends that listen to country, George Strait’s newest album, Twang, is available for $5.00 on Amazon. More than worth it, at that price.

Recent events have been brought up to IG, kind of the military’s version of internal affairs, who pretty much said that they could do whatever they wanted as long as they have a memorandum for it.

So much for rights.

I know I was going to do something with this weird little blog while deployed, but I’ve been too lazy. Plus, until recently, getting on the internet has been a pain in the ass to begin with. But I digress.

So basically, the Army recalled me to go on a quiet little deployment where not much is going on. That part wouldn’t be so bad, except for the fact that I’m actually in Iraq AFTER I got out of the military.

But on top of that, there’s the leadership in A Co. 2/198, the National Guard unit that I got stuck with.

We’re treated like children, with higher ups using their rank as an excuse to walk all over us. A couple of soldiers have broken serious rules here. The military has a system of punishment in place to deal with that kind of thing, without involving soldiers who are doing the right thing. Instead, it’s been decided that since a very few have decided to have….let’s call it “contraband”….brought in for their use, we all need to get treated like criminals, with the people doing the punishing willing to also commit offenses in the process. In some cases, federal offenses.

Since most of the “contraband” usually gets here through the mail, the First Sergeant decided that no one could open any packages without him being there to watch. Already, this is a pretty big privacy violation, as there could be some rather personal pictures from significant others that obviously they wouldn’t want others to see. But if said First Sergeant isn’t around to inspect the package, the mail would be purposely withheld, which is where the federal offense comes into play.

In addition, we’ve recently had room inspections, which happens on occasion. But regulations state that soldiers have to be present for said inspections. Yet there are some who are at home on leave that are being inspected, with their personal belongings being tossed around like trash and left that way.

It’s still rather early in the deployment, so unless someone higher ranking steps in to stop these things from happening, I only expect things to continue and/or get worse. And then they wonder why so many people want to get out, besides the two wars going on to begin with.

Whether I like it or not. I have one year left on IRR, and I’m getting called back in. I’m not here to bitch about it or anything, this is just a way to get it down somewhere that I can just email a link to a bunch of people that might want to know.

On April 5th, I’m to report at Ft. Benning, GA for medical processing, and if they decide I’m good to go, retraining followed by being assigned to a unit. I have an idea of what unit, but that could change along the way. And then I’ll be gone for roughly a year, barring shortening or extending of a deployment. We’ll see.

Also, while I’m gone, this blog could turn into something more than the random (and rare) smattering of stupid that it has been so far. I have a couple ideas, but it’s a bit too early for that yet. I’ll keep any news about the whole thing posted as it happens.

Apparently Anna Paquin (pictured below) got nekkid tonight in the new HBO series, True Blood.

Even as a raging heterosexual male who loves the boobs, it’s still not worth watching this show just for the chance to see that happen. Besides, pictures should be up on the internet by tomorrow morning.