Why isn't 'Batgirl' a valid career choice?

Fans attending the Blink-182 tour dates with Panic! at the Disco as an opening act: consider yourselves warned.  The chance of killer riffs and awesome hair has just increased.

Because Ian Crawford, who earlier this year parted ways with The Cab, is replacing Ryan Ross as Panic!'s guitarist for those dates. Read more...

As I'm writing this, it's Wednesday.  Which means it's new comic book day.  And having just torn through the new issues of Wonder Woman and Detective Comics, it seems to be an ideal time to talk about some other new comics.

This past weekend at the San Diego Comic Con, Gerard Way, frontman of My Chemical Romance and author of the Eisner Award Winning series The Umbrella Academy, announced the details for another project he's working on for Dark Horse comics. Get stoked...

There's been some fear, some apprehension, some excitement and, believe it or not, some general "meh" regarding the recent news in regards to Panic! at the Disco.  Between the news of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker leaving to form their own group, a snippet of the song "Oh, Glory!" being posted to the web and the lyrics to the song "New Perspective" hitting the internet as well, fans might have been worried or excited about the sound we can expect from Panic's third album. Woooo hooooo...

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The time is finally upon us.  Cee-lo, Brendon Urie, Travis McCoy, Patrick Stump and more.  And really, there's nothing else I can say about this.  So watch:

Thoughts?  Feelings?  Reactions?  How is Travis McCoy so DAMNED FINE?

Hello there, gentle Buzznet readers.  As you may know, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince opens this week (at least, here in the US it does!).  And as you also know, HBP is where the fight against You-Know-Who is stepped up, with great casualities.  Page 606, you will not be forgotten.

ANYWAY, here's my point.  For the next week, let's imagine Buzznet has the power to fight He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.  And how do we do that?  Well, since we're pretty short on wands, brooms, charms and...um...magic...we're gonna have to do it the old fashioned way.  No, not fisticuffs: with the power The Dark Lord knows not!

Love.

So, Buzznet, I'm declaring Buzzlove week.  Where the emphasis is on the stuff on Buzznet you, well, love!  People, photos, videos, BANDS, blogs...let's take a week where we give our full attention to those we love.  And, at the same time, shun the stuff we hate.  Because hate feeds the power of the Death Eaters, right?  Hate leads to the Dark Side...wait, wait, wrong analogy, crap. 

Anyway, while you're praising what you love, IGNORE WHAT YOU HATE.  I know the temptation to snark is powerful, hell, considering who's writing this blog!  But the point is, if you see something that deals with something you hate, be it an issue, a person, an idea or even a BAND, don't click on it.  Don't comment on it.  Ignore it.  Go somewhere else and leave twice as many positive comments.  Picspam your friends.  Make new friends, join new groups!  But all in all: LOVE.  Because that ish is what can kill ANYTHING THAT THRIVES ON HATE to become more powerful.

And remember, Buzznet.  I love you.

(I'm hoping that even if you're not down with the Potter analogy, you'll join us in Buzzlove week.  It just seemed like a good time to do this, with the movie opening and all!)

Anyone who follows Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz on Twitter will have noticed that after his wife, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, hit 1 Million Followers, Pete started promising something special for his followers when he hit 1 million. Read more...

So, this year there's been a lot of controversy about certain acts on Warped Tour.  Certain acts who don't really seem to capture the "spirit" of Warped Tour (two of which have been caught lip synching on stage) have been an unfortunately amount of the focus leading up to the supposed "Punk Rock Summer Camp."

But after spending this past Wednesday at the tour's stop in Pittsburgh?  This is the year that punk has started to take their f*cking tour back.

My day began with Flogging Molly.  Well, actually it began with some delightful misadventures involving Pittsburgh road construction and needing to find a gas station.  So, more accurately, my Warped 2009 concert experience began with Flogging Molly.  Irish punk was alive and well and drinking Guinness for breakfast (no, seriously, that was what they announced when they hit the stage.  "Hello, Pittsburgh!  This...is BREAKFAST!") when the band hit the Main Stage.  And despite having an electric banjo, an electric fiddle, an accordion and an ELECTRIC MANDOLIN in their mix of instruments, they were still punk. 

Rule #1: Real punk is NOT about the instruments your band plays or whether they play instruments at all.

From there, I had to bolt to the Hurley Ernie Ball stage to catch Tat.

Oh, Tat.

Look, in case you haven't gotten this from me since I got a chance to sit down and interview the band last year?  Tat rocks.  Just...flat out rocks.  They had a smaller crowd at the beginning of their set, but as fans drifted in for the Attack!  Attack! set immediately following?  I heard a good number of them talking in amazement at how good Tat was and especially about how hardcore lead singer and guitarist Tatiana De Maria is.

Backwards over-her-head guitar solo, motherfuckers.

Rule #2: REAL punk doesn't care if you're male, female, straight, gay, black, white, whatever, just so long as you can rock.

After Tat there was some wandering around with Miss Gwen Artax (who, by the way, wrote an epic blog about how not to be a total douchebag at a concert), during which we managed to catch a bit of Jeffree Star's set as we passed by the Smartpunk stage on our way to get lunch.  And you know what?  Take away his vocals and it's decent dance pop.  And maybe his vocals would be more tolerable if they weren't being performed by a racist, misogynist, do-anything-for-attention douchebag.

We also managed to catch a little bit of Big D and the Kids Table, who brought us both back to high school when it was okay to openly like ska.  Seriously, if you get a chance to listen to them at all?  Do so.  Even if it's just a few minutes before you bolt back to the Main Stage to see...I dunno...Anti-Flag?

Oh, Anti-Flag.

Look, these are local boys.  They come from Pittsburgh, and we love them for it because they have never and will never forget it.  And so they made fucking sure their hometown got one hell of a show.

The set was loaded with politically charged punk and repeated messages of rebellion against the institutions that send us off to die in wars we don't believe in, that give money to CEO's who have finally run out of their own workers to screw, that encourage us to hate each other for things like religion and sexual orientation and other lines that DON'T need to be drawn in order to distract us from the fact that our hate, our rage, our anger SHOULD be aimed at THEM.  They tell us which consenting adults can and can't marry.  They tell us who does and doesn't deserve healthcare or an education.  They tell us what we can and can't do with or put into our own bodies.  They are what needs to be brought down.

They also covered "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" by The Clash in double time.  But this leads us into...

Rule #3: Real punk makes you angry in a way that makes you want to do something to change what you're angry about.

We ended our day with Bad Religion.  And this is where I point out this year's mainstage line-up including:

• Flogging Molly
• Anti-Flag
• Bad Religion
• Less Than Jake
• NOFX

Well, now, that looks like a decent number of PUNK bands, doesn't it?  And at other stages you had acts like Tat, Big D and the Kids Table, The Maine, There for Tomorrow, VersaEmerge, Bayside and many, many more who have roots in punk, no matter which way they've chosen to go with it.  But they have STAYED TRUE to those punk rock music roots and continue to tour in shitty vans, play whatever venue will take them, struggle to get from city to city.  And, to agree with Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low, THAT is a dying art, my friends.  That is something we're not seeing as much anymore, we're not seeing bands who understand the struggle to make it, the "do anything for exposure" attitude which is a far cry from "do anything for attention."

And with that rant ended, somewhat?  Bad Religion.

If you want to know what punk is?  If you want to be reassured that punk is not dead, will not die easy and will go down fighting with a switchblade?  Go listen to Bad Religion while they're on tour.  I do not joke.  This was a band formed in 1980 that got more people moving and on their feet than just about any other band I saw that day.  Their crowd was a mix of old fans, young fans who have found them any number of ways and fans who were waiting impatiently for 3OH!3 who got caught up in a punk rock mix and, hopefully, walked away with a new appreciation for punk.

Rule #4: REAL PUNK ROCK WILL NEVER DIE, SO LONG AS SOMEONE IS SCREAMING FOR CHANGE.

And you know what?  We NEED punk rock these days.  Because, yeah, in the last election we voted in someone more likely to listen to our ideas and our needs and our wants than that last douchebag.  But we STILL have to scream for change.  Because now that change is possible, it's our duty to put it into motion and move it in a way that will mean when we grow up, my generation, the generation below me and the generation comprised of my friends' children, we will inherit what is left.  So why not start molding that future now?  Why not start using everything we have: punk rock, politics, blogs, art, soap boxes, Garageband, whatever, to scream loud and clear: WE REJECT YOUR WORLD ORDER AND WILL BEGIN BUILDING OUR OWN OUT OF RESPECT, PASSION AND SMASHED GUITARS.

Rock on, Buzznet.  Rock the actual fuck on.

Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George's life definitely didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.

There seems to be this idea that calling women who act in ways that demean themselves and other women "sluts" is somehow appropriate.

Girls, come on.  Calling another girl a "slut" a "whore" or any of those other nasty terms you can think of?  That's just as demeaning as the actions the girl is taking and the image she is portraying are in the first place.

Calling certain women in music (and I'm not naming names for a reason here, yo) "sluts" doesn't mean they'll stop making music.  It's not likely to make anyone else consider the ramnifications of their actions or their image.  It's definitely not going to make YOU look better by comparison.  All it's going to do is continue another BS stereotype about women: that we're all catty bitches who are constantly at each other's throats.  Even worse, if WE call each other that, don't you think that makes guys think it's okay to call us that?  Or even worse, treat us like that's what we are?  We have to demand respect because we deserve respect, but that also means you have to show some respect.

This is not to say there's something wrong with complaining about these women or the way they portray themselves and female sexuality (as if it's something that exists entirely for male pleasure and approval and cannot exist independently of male attention).  But it IS to say that flinging insults at them isn't going to help anything.  Calling someone a "slut" doesn't make you a font of feminism.  For real.

Just something for y'all to consider in your internet related adventures.  Now go forth and ROCK ON.

It's like you don't know if you're dreaming.

It's just so right

I don't know what it is

It just feels right.

Something not understood.

It just feels right.

Never walk away from a fight that's worth fighting

Never hesitate when you know you're gonna act

Never waste your words on a fool who won't listen

Never sell your soul cause you'll never buy it...back

Time has come and gone for words

A thousands threats i've heard before

But words are cheap, but lies are big to take

-EverandafteR, "No More Words"

THIS IS FOR MANY WOMEN AND MEN AND IS AN OPINION ABOUT PEOPLE IN SOCIETY. AND IF YOU FEEL YOU MAY ACTUALLY FIT THIS, THEN YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHY. IF YOU FEEL STRONGLY ENOUGH THAT THIS IS ALL FOR YOU, PLEASE DO SEEK SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP. ACTUALLY, YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO THAT ANYWAY. AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO EXAMINE YOUR OWN BEHAVIOR AND REALIZE THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO POST PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE RETORTS IN YOUR PERSONAL BLOG AND THEN CLAIM THEY'RE NOT ABOUT SOMEONE WHEN THEY'RE CLEARLY AIMED AT SOMEONE? THEY MIGHT DO THE SAME TO YOU, COMPLETE WITH PARODIES OF YOUR BLOGS WHICH YOU THEN DELETED BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO CHICKENSHIT TO STAND BY WHAT YOU'VE SAID. BUT SO TYPICAL.

TACOS RULE!!!!!!!

Guys, I'm sorry to have misled you.  I'm NOT a vampire.  I mean, I can see how you would have thought that because of all the times I've totally CLAIMED to be a vampire.  I mean, I don't remember doing so, but apparently I did?  Also, I took these pictures:

So, yeah. Sorry for being so misleading.  I didn't mean to make you think I was a vampire, since I'm ACTUALLY a 3,000 year old Mayan spirit reincarnated in the form of a chubby girl from Pittsburgh.  I've come to destroy your world, but not until I've had another slice of cheesecake.  But yeah, I don't suck energy out of you.  I just blow up the world in a few years.  Well, not really BLOW UP, I mean, I can't tell you EXACTLY how I'm gonna end the world, but trust me.  It's gonna be WILD!

In the meantime, Girl and Girl 2 have a new single up on our Myspace!

(TAG, YOU'RE IT!)

(I am not editing anything in this.  Damn wannabe anythings.  Delusional to the last that the world revolves around them and their non-grammatical selves.  Every time...everytime...I swear these people have issues.  This is not about one single person that loves to pretend everything must be about them.  Sorry, chica.  You'll have to get your drama fix somewhere else.  I'm sure you'll find it.)

THIS IS FOR MANY WOMEN AND MEN AND IS AN OPINION ABOUT PEOPLE IN SOCIETY.  AND IF YOU FEEL YOU MAY ACTUALLY FIT THIS, THEN YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHY.  IF YOU FEEL STRONGLY ENOUGH THAT THIS IS ALL FOR YOU, PLEASE DO SEEK SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP.  ACTUALLY, YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO THAT ANYWAY.  AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO EXAMINE YOUR OWN BEHAVIOR AND REALIZE THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO POST PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE RETORTS IN YOUR PERSONAL BLOG AND THEN CLAIM THEY'RE NOT ABOUT SOMEONE WHEN THEY'RE CLEARLY AIMED AT SOMEONE?  THEY MIGHT DO THE SAME TO YOU, COMPLETE WITH PARODIES OF YOUR EDITS WHICH YOU THEN DELETED BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO CHICKENSHIT TO STAND BY WHAT YOU'VE SAID.  BUT SO TYPICAL.

Hey, Buzznet!  So, you know how I'll sometimes talk about how I have a lot of problems?  Well, as it turns out, a licensed medical professional* has diagnosed my problems.

Apparently, I'm afraid of sex.

Of course.  It all seems so obvious now.  Why didn't I see it before?  I'm TOTALLY 100% AFRAID OF SEX.

And don't worry!  I made my doctor** show me their license!

*license not valid in any city, state, country or planet that exists in the real world

**LOL DOCTOR