Elevating the stature of every club he joins.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
bogus!
according to DT's link Ivan's blog, habitat of whale boners, Hindi music videos, goatse and sundry other horrors rates thusly:
Henceforth I will be imposing a 10 word limit on my posts, with the bulk to be made up of Youtube links and pictures of hedgehogs suckling newborn kittens.
Henceforth I will be imposing a 10 word limit on my posts, with the bulk to be made up of Youtube links and pictures of hedgehogs suckling newborn kittens.
Monday, November 26, 2007
dubious
DT sends along this link for rating your blog's level of edumacation:
BS!
I used 'existential ennui' AND 'archetypal psychology' this week, plus I have a deranged snow monster in my banner!
WTF do they want from me?!
BS!
I used 'existential ennui' AND 'archetypal psychology' this week, plus I have a deranged snow monster in my banner!
WTF do they want from me?!
best thing ever
the Mighty Boosh.
can't get it here (yet), but our friend Hussein has the hook-up.
Anyone out there with a region free player, the first two seasons are out in PAL format.
can't get it here (yet), but our friend Hussein has the hook-up.
Anyone out there with a region free player, the first two seasons are out in PAL format.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
requests
series of odd queries from a woman so grotesquely fat she was spilling over the sides of her mobility scooter like a melting ice cream cone:
"Do you have any books on those things they used to do at the fair, those silhouettes, they would cut them out of black paper?"
"Nope, sorry."
"Well, how about anything on cake decorating?"
"Right over here, in the cooking section."
"How about Candymaking? Do you have anything on candymaking?"
"That would be with the decorating books."
"Do you remember when shops used to sell flavored popcorn? Do you have any books on making flavored popcorn?"
"Uh.....no."
"Do you have any books on those things they used to do at the fair, those silhouettes, they would cut them out of black paper?"
"Nope, sorry."
"Well, how about anything on cake decorating?"
"Right over here, in the cooking section."
"How about Candymaking? Do you have anything on candymaking?"
"That would be with the decorating books."
"Do you remember when shops used to sell flavored popcorn? Do you have any books on making flavored popcorn?"
"Uh.....no."
turkey postmortem
Dinner was fantastic.
The crescent rolls it took three days to make turned out good, although there's room for improvement. I might do another batch for xmas.
The gravy was spectacular, thanks mostly to the brother in law's 13 pound bird.
He mixed up a crazy middle eastern spice mix and BBQ'ed it with a pan to catch the drippings. My sole regret is not doubling the recipe, as the gravy boat went down like the Titanic.
The green bean casserole was also tasty, but not without some 'first time through the recipe troubles. It's another one I want to try again.
And the bar was lovely....it's amazing how much better drinks taste when you're mixing them in a convivial environment with a surgical array of specialist tools at your disposal. The vintage wood-grain ice bucket I picked up at a thrift store 10 years ago finally lived up to its full potential.
The winner of the evening was a Cosmopolitan made with pomegranate juice & citron vodka. Festive as all get out, and delicious in spite of being 9/10ths alcohol.
I got a couple of pix, I'll throw them up on flickr tonight.
The crescent rolls it took three days to make turned out good, although there's room for improvement. I might do another batch for xmas.
The gravy was spectacular, thanks mostly to the brother in law's 13 pound bird.
He mixed up a crazy middle eastern spice mix and BBQ'ed it with a pan to catch the drippings. My sole regret is not doubling the recipe, as the gravy boat went down like the Titanic.
The green bean casserole was also tasty, but not without some 'first time through the recipe troubles. It's another one I want to try again.
And the bar was lovely....it's amazing how much better drinks taste when you're mixing them in a convivial environment with a surgical array of specialist tools at your disposal. The vintage wood-grain ice bucket I picked up at a thrift store 10 years ago finally lived up to its full potential.
The winner of the evening was a Cosmopolitan made with pomegranate juice & citron vodka. Festive as all get out, and delicious in spite of being 9/10ths alcohol.
I got a couple of pix, I'll throw them up on flickr tonight.
Friday, November 23, 2007
yiddish
The wife's habit when suffering from a certain tone of existential ennui is to watch The Apartment as many times as necessary to placate its worst excesses.
A recent late night viewing generated this list of Yiddish words used in the screenplay:
Apropos of nothing really- choose your own ending for this post.
A recent late night viewing generated this list of Yiddish words used in the screenplay:
schnook
mushigas
nebbish
schmeer
mensch
Apropos of nothing really- choose your own ending for this post.
the pessimists view of Black Friday
warning: PDF link.
Still worth taking a look at.
clicky
Also, given its manifold preexisting meanings the corporate hive-mind adopting Black Friday as the slogan for this annual orgy of consumption is an interesting quirk of archetypal psychology.
Still worth taking a look at.
clicky
Also, given its manifold preexisting meanings the corporate hive-mind adopting Black Friday as the slogan for this annual orgy of consumption is an interesting quirk of archetypal psychology.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Awseomest Facebook Photo, round One
Place your vote in the comments.
Winners will eventually face off in a battle royale (with cheese).
Your host:
Devritsko:
Ivanus:
Winners will eventually face off in a battle royale (with cheese).
Your host:
Devritsko:
Ivanus:
T DAY MINUS ONE
Have a happy one everybody!
We're going low key here- an intimate feast with the bro n' sis in law and our niece.
She was very excited about helping mama decorate the house.
"We will have lots of fall leaves......and I will dress as a squirrel!"
Can't wait to see it.
I'm on the hook for green bean casserole (via Cook's Illustrated, not the back of a soup can), crescent rolls & gravy. The wife is baking a pumpkin pie and an apple-cranberry number. And of course I'm bringing gin, and Citron vodka by request- the Burl has some zany holiday style drink she wants to make.
A full report will follow- until then, nobody rupture anything!
We're going low key here- an intimate feast with the bro n' sis in law and our niece.
She was very excited about helping mama decorate the house.
"We will have lots of fall leaves......and I will dress as a squirrel!"
Can't wait to see it.
I'm on the hook for green bean casserole (via Cook's Illustrated, not the back of a soup can), crescent rolls & gravy. The wife is baking a pumpkin pie and an apple-cranberry number. And of course I'm bringing gin, and Citron vodka by request- the Burl has some zany holiday style drink she wants to make.
A full report will follow- until then, nobody rupture anything!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
responsible opposing viewpoint
in order to balance out the unchained masculinity of the last post, here are laptops as imagined by 8 year olds.
Name: Mandy
Age: 8
How often do you use a computer? Five times a week.
What do you like to do when you’re using a computer? Play games and write stories and poems.
What will computers look like in the future? Well you see, if we had whole days to work on it, and bigger paper, I think we could make it way more detailed.
Who is better at using a computer, you or your parents? Games + me = good. Parents + trying = bad. I am better at using games and if you guys try them, you get crushed.
[ After being told this interview would be published on the internet ] “I’m going to be popular! I should make a blog button, right now.”
title of the week
Sexual Techniques During Prescribed Continence
From the introduction:
Gripping stuff!
From the introduction:
To the Physician, Psychiatrist and Family Counselor
There is a great need for instruction in marriage when, for various physical reasons, it becomes necessary for the doctor to advise his patent to abstain from sexual intercourse in the usual manner- vulvovaginal.
Gripping stuff!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
the facebook
Anner peer pressured me into joining.
It's like Myspace, only not programmed by demented gnomes on a meth bender.
If you're on the facebook, drop me an invite.
It's like Myspace, only not programmed by demented gnomes on a meth bender.
If you're on the facebook, drop me an invite.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
best reaction evar
Customers will often gape, wheeze or otherwise affect astonishment when faced with the financial toll of their literary gleanings in the cold light of check out.
Today, one transcended the genre and reached for the stars.
me, after totaling up big stack of fiction:
That'll be $29.63
tiny blond sorority gal, proffering credit card:
JESUS CHRIST!
Today, one transcended the genre and reached for the stars.
me, after totaling up big stack of fiction:
That'll be $29.63
tiny blond sorority gal, proffering credit card:
JESUS CHRIST!
Sunday, November 11, 2007
judging movies by their cover
Am I the only one who thinks the trailer for Beowulf looks like an ad for a video game?
An old video game?
The cut scenes from HL2 look better than that crap.
An old video game?
The cut scenes from HL2 look better than that crap.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
obituary
Norman Mailer RIP.
I didn't like most of his stuff, but he was an interesting cat and an iconoclast in the old style.
I'm biased, but his best book was The Fight, his insider's coverage of the Rumble in the Jungle between Ali and Foreman. In Ali he met a self confidence and an ego as great as his own, which prevented him from overwhelming the story. I remember the Executioner's Song as being good, but I read it 20 years ago.
I should check out his first novel, too. I hear good things.
Has anyone seen any of his flicks?
Oh, and then there was that little faux pas with murderer Jack Henry Abbot.
Great book, but c'mon.
Note to future generations- the artist is not the art.
I didn't like most of his stuff, but he was an interesting cat and an iconoclast in the old style.
I'm biased, but his best book was The Fight, his insider's coverage of the Rumble in the Jungle between Ali and Foreman. In Ali he met a self confidence and an ego as great as his own, which prevented him from overwhelming the story. I remember the Executioner's Song as being good, but I read it 20 years ago.
I should check out his first novel, too. I hear good things.
Has anyone seen any of his flicks?
Oh, and then there was that little faux pas with murderer Jack Henry Abbot.
Great book, but c'mon.
Note to future generations- the artist is not the art.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
HOSED on PIE
I get home last night, nostrils wide for the delicious aroma & homey warmth of apple pie, and am instead greeted by a frigid, baking-free house and two nearly passed out gals in the living room meditating on the wisdom of Alex Trebek.
"We're too tired to bake!" they lament.
"We're HUNGRY!" they complain.
So.
Instead of wallowing in delicious apple pie on a frigid fall evening, I end up making dinner for a pair of laggardly game show addicts.
Hrrrumph!
"We're too tired to bake!" they lament.
"We're HUNGRY!" they complain.
So.
Instead of wallowing in delicious apple pie on a frigid fall evening, I end up making dinner for a pair of laggardly game show addicts.
Hrrrumph!
genre
blaxsploitation.
Oddly thin on the movies themselves, but the coverage of soundtracks is deep and wide.
Oddly thin on the movies themselves, but the coverage of soundtracks is deep and wide.
Monday, November 5, 2007
filmic reminders
No Country for Old Men draws nigh.
Also, I found this cool site with reviews of HK cinema past and present.
They're finally releasing a Twin Peaks box set that includes the pilot.
And yet another version of Bladerunner.
I'll get it for a couple of reasons, none related to the promise of a super duper final ultra killer extreme directors cut.
One, the print used for the original release and the Director's Cut sucked ass. For this movie digital remastering is a big selling point. I'd be happy if they just cleaned up the existing Director's Cut, but that's not in the cards.
Two, the extras on the multi-disc Alien release were stellar and I'm expecting something similar.
I'm mostly against people rejiggering movies that are already set in the public consciousness, but the tone of this one was so badly mangled by the studio-enforced voice over & stock footage happy ending they tacked on I gave it a break. I doubt I'll take quite so well to whatever further alterations Ridley makes with this iteration...but c'mon man, digital remastering!
Also, I found this cool site with reviews of HK cinema past and present.
They're finally releasing a Twin Peaks box set that includes the pilot.
And yet another version of Bladerunner.
I'll get it for a couple of reasons, none related to the promise of a super duper final ultra killer extreme directors cut.
One, the print used for the original release and the Director's Cut sucked ass. For this movie digital remastering is a big selling point. I'd be happy if they just cleaned up the existing Director's Cut, but that's not in the cards.
Two, the extras on the multi-disc Alien release were stellar and I'm expecting something similar.
I'm mostly against people rejiggering movies that are already set in the public consciousness, but the tone of this one was so badly mangled by the studio-enforced voice over & stock footage happy ending they tacked on I gave it a break. I doubt I'll take quite so well to whatever further alterations Ridley makes with this iteration...but c'mon man, digital remastering!
2nite
Devra is coming over to bake an apple pie with the wife.
The smell of delicious baked treats should draw me out of my bone-littered cave on the internet.
Hopefully someone brings vanilla ice cream....
The smell of delicious baked treats should draw me out of my bone-littered cave on the internet.
Hopefully someone brings vanilla ice cream....
inscriptions
on the ffep of a copy of New Elementary Latin by Ullman and Henry, in neat block print:
In Case Of Fire
Throw This In
Friday, November 2, 2007
EMERGENCY ANNER UPDATE
my connection has been down the past few days, on top of a fallow Halloween week, and Anner made her displeasure known.
So, emergency update before bed! And before my connection takes a dump again!
news from the Pelf:
This is especially amazing because we saw Re-Animator on the big screen (back when there was still such a thing as a B Movie, and you could still see them in theaters), and he got hassled and carded by the ticket gal which made us miss half the credits and sent his blood pressure through the roof.
It was hard for me to blame her, though.
We did after all spend that entire summer getting him into the drive in for the 12 and under price.
I don't doubt the simmering rage engendered by this and similar incidents (the Denny's waitress who brought him the child's menu, etc etc) fueled his journey to a place where you get cell phone calls from youthful idols who want to hear about your zombie romantic comedy script.
So, emergency update before bed! And before my connection takes a dump again!
news from the Pelf:
Dudes, I'm driving on the 210 -- my cell rings -- IT'S STUART GORDON
-- the he-man legend who directed RE-ANIMATOR. I called him to pitch
my zombie opus JOE ZOMBIE a few weeks back and had forgot all about it
-- he was asking me to tell him about it -- I was off guard and
didn't do the best job, but he still said to send it his way and
someday he may read it...not a quote, but the gist of things.
This is especially amazing because we saw Re-Animator on the big screen (back when there was still such a thing as a B Movie, and you could still see them in theaters), and he got hassled and carded by the ticket gal which made us miss half the credits and sent his blood pressure through the roof.
It was hard for me to blame her, though.
We did after all spend that entire summer getting him into the drive in for the 12 and under price.
I don't doubt the simmering rage engendered by this and similar incidents (the Denny's waitress who brought him the child's menu, etc etc) fueled his journey to a place where you get cell phone calls from youthful idols who want to hear about your zombie romantic comedy script.
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