Experiments In Mediocrity
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Fear of Change Beta
2007-07-16 17:31:00
Look, an actual experiment! And it is very mediocre. I've taken to reading RSS feeds of things. For one thing, they can sit, and sit, and sit some more until I am in the perfect frame of mind to read the things I want to. For another thing, I used to break Firefox opening everything in tabs at one time. So I chose Newsgator a while back, and I've had no real complaints with it. I split things into folders, like the Rathergood.com stuff and Monkeys for Helping go in a folder I like to call "crazy," because that's what I favor most in this world, and then there are folders named "Blogs" and "News" and "Music" and so on and on until my little Internet world is more organized than the real one.Then Newsgator's gotta go and announce they're phasing out their "classic" reader in favor of some souped-up version that has little pop-up windows to let you know things are loading, so, you know, you won't forget. My initial thought on seeing the loading window was, "How long does it t ...
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Same As It Ever Was, Same As It Ever Was.
2007-07-12 15:58:00
Someone who hasn't been to New York a while might come back and think that not much has changed on some stations. 92.3 and 101.1 are two frequencies, which, as hard as I try, I cannot stay away from. I turned to them both in the wake of WLIR's sale to the ass-end of Long Island, and then, little by little, I lost both of these lifelines to the music I like to call MINE, ALL MINE.92.3, perhaps famously, used to be the station Howard Stern broadcast from. Then the dark times came, Janet Jackson got naked by the end of Justin Timberlake's song, and suddenly if was unfashionable to be shocking. Whatever, I have no idea, the only times I was ever awake during any radio morning show I was usually in for bad things, so I only knew the end of Stern as being the end of K-Rock. The music was being taken away in favor of something called Free-FM. Free as is you can say whatever you want as long as it doesn't involve anything that can make that lady in the old Polaner fruit spread commer ...
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Give Me A Pill That Makes Me Slur.
2007-07-11 18:07:00
I'm feeling very honest at the moment, and that never ends well for me, but that is the consequence of listening to the Bryan Ferry song from Legend too much. I get migraines, and part of the glory that is a migraine--for me--is that my jaw gets very stiff and it appears to people who don't know me very well--like for three decades--that I am having some sort of stroke or drug overdose. This always amuses me a few days later.One thing I found to be useful after a night of banging my head on the keyboard to get relief was an article that describes a device that goes between the front teeth and can reduce jaw stiffness or something, I don't remember what I read by now because the lightning, it is in my head.Seeing as I'm uninsured and unable to find a dentist willing to work at 2AM in exchange for say, a nice lemon pie and a few bootlegged B-movies, I looked at the one thing I knew would bring relief. My trusty little happy face pencil. Except instead of using it to stab myself t ...
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It's Too Darn Hot.
2007-07-10 16:32:00
Oh Cole Porter, you brilliant man.I've been putting a lot of my resources into writing non-blog things, and drawing my strip, and tragically what happens when the weather is this hot and all-encompassing, I tend to just draw pictures of myself saying, "Damn, it's hot."Also, in the hot weather my writing takes a turn for the worse. I'm sure it could be very good, if only I knew what it was I had written when I go back at read it. You see that typo back there? Yes. I have some sort of encryption built in, and whe nthe weather is hot, I turn into Ed Harris in The Abyss, after he'd gone down the great big hole. I'm not sure if I'd like aliens helping me out right now, as I would not be the one to persuade them to save humaity--that's humanity to the non-bleary--and I'd have a lot of explaining to do to my neighbors when the tidal wave took out their nice five-car garage. (Director's cut of The Abyss only.)Resigned to stay indoors if I want to live to see the end of season 3 ...
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Scads of Sevens Fill the Air.
2007-07-07 18:07:00
Here's an animation I made of one of my heroes, Count Von Helsing from She Beast on a swing.Tags: July 2007, 7-7-7, 07-07-07, movies ...
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I can't say I'm surprised by this at all.
2007-07-04 16:11:00
I saw a headline that said Concerns Over Chimp Attack on Movie Set and instantly knew it had to be Chim-Chim, up to his old crazy routine.Now, in a cartoon, it's okay to dress your youngest son and your illegitamate chimpanzee in the same clothes, lock them in a car trunk, and...you know....Wait, is that okay? I don't know, I don't think anything about Speed Racer was sensible, and that's why I love him. Changing animated hijinks into reality, though, that's tough, and unlike getting those cars and trucks to transform for that new Transformers movie, live chimps have a tendency to draw the line at red overalls.I hope the chimp playing Chim-Chim wasn't seriously messed up by some handlers in a back alley, but you know, I've had a puppy. I kinda understand both sides of this dilemma these days. "Aww, no baby, take the teeth out of my booby," only goes so far with anyone, let alone a chimpanzee, who was probably just adlibbing his part.Now, when that article says a young actor ...
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Well, you know..."Manos."
2007-07-01 15:49:00
I recently got it into my head to go off in search of the inspiration for my favorite screensaver, Torgo saves the screen (PC version Mac version). I knew it was some movie featured on MST3K, but considering I was a deprived of whatever station MST3K was on, I never saw the fateful episode that featured Manos: The Hands of Fate.I decided that like Rocky Horror, the trailer for The Phanton Menace, and Greek mythology, I was going to experience this thing alone in my room and set off to find the movie. Luckily, everyone else is exactly like me and I had a crappy copy with Spanish subtitles downloaded within an hour.I will most likely eventually buy this movie. I think...I think I fell in love with Torgo all over again. After 14 years of him saving my screen, there he was, in full color, twitching and debating whether or not the master would approve of a child and a poodle. I was sad to learn that John Reynolds died not long after making the movie, because I would have watched him in ...
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Today, I am a man.
2007-06-23 04:56:00
By Hobbit standards, anyway.I really hope Gandalf stays the hell home. I'm too old for his weeded-up antics and those fireworks are about as enjoyable as a hemorrhoid in the eye.Tags: June 2007, confessions ...
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Bad Haiku for a Summer's Day
2007-06-21 16:44:00
The ice cream truck jinglesWith the severe thunderstorm minglesI'm dry and lactose intolerant.Happy Solstice, people.Tags: June 2007, summer, ice cream truck, humor, weather ...
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Cat Protests Gardening, Film at 6!
2007-06-10 17:03:00
I like to put a silly video here every week, and I thought this would be ready for last week, but I found out that it's much easier to show off other people's videos. Other people's videos may even be way funnier, but this...this one's of my little furry children.There are many things I can brag about from this video, and my giant Smurf booty is not one those things. It's all about the furry children, this. Look how well they all get along now, how adorable my Fluffy One is fighting off my attempts to prune anything, how cool The Slinky One is around The Puppy, and how The Puppy walks on all her legs and doesn't kill us anymore.Tags: June 2007, cats, dogs, family, video ...
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The Mach 5 is out there...somewhere.
2007-06-08 16:55:00
The official website is up for Speed Racer, the movie. OMGFANGIRLSQUEETIEMOKTHXBYE! All I will say is Inspector Detector and Shaft are in it. Holy wow.There was a news conference about Speed Racer, and in it, I saw a tiny little blurry John Goodman looking very much like Pops Racer, a little guy named Paulie Litt next to him that may very well pull off being Spritle, and then...the car. The main actors are interviewed too. Man, this movie has a chance to not suck.Oh yeah, and I had to look up who Matthew Fox is. Go ahead and laugh, I don't care. I just hope he's a good Racer X.Tags: June 2007, movies, Speed Racer ...
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How rotting my brain kept it from going soft.
2007-06-04 15:58:00
When I was a kid, I could have two conversations while playing the higher levels of the Activision game Frostbite, which if you're not familiar with it is sort of about building an igloo by jumping from ice block to ice block while you're set upon by a crazed bear, rabid crabs, flocks of evil birds and for all eternity. Sometimes, it gets dark.I could deal with a lot more things back then, back when I used to get the magic fish (a...fish...that wasn't particularly magical, but showed up after the score went past 100,000) every single night of my young life.Have I hit a cure for whatever it is I have? I don't know. I could just hook up the Atari and test this theory, but I found a neat little game called Gamma Bros. which is hosted by Weebl & Bob, and I'll be conducting some serious experiments until my hand cramps up again. Tags: June 2007, video games, Gamma Bros., confessions ...
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Even better than the real thing.
2007-05-26 16:07:00
I know, I know, you're all probably off celebrating memorials with flaming grills, but me, I'm hiding indoors, where it's cool.And what do I think is cool? People making fun of other people and making something even better out of just...weirdness. This week, you need to travel for the funny, but it's so worth it. It'll be like travelling for the holiday without the traffic congestion!Julie Klausner & Jackie Clarke (genius ladies I'm obsessed with) made Welcome To Our House, an homage of sorts to Brenda Dickson's lifestyle video, "Welcome To My Home." The original video is on the same page, and you really need to see both to fully grasp just what fashion means.If you haven't yet seen the recent addition to Weebl's Stuff called Thrust Squad, you need to. It's silly. It also makes my desk chair very happy that all I do to it is just sort of sit on it. Someday I'll whip out the webcam and show you what I got. But until then, just...enjoy.Tags: May 2007, video, humor ...
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