Napalm sticks to kids.

geekgasm

2008-06-30T14:13:23Z

My new computer just arrived.

It's a Tablet PC.

The hope is that this helps me crank out comics faster.

I don't want to be at work! I want to go home and play with my new toy!

it's ben a long slog

2008-06-09T02:42:32Z

But at the end of the day tomorrow, the toughest challenge of my professional career will very likely come to a close, knock wood. This is why I haven't been very posty.

to aging.

2008-05-20T02:35:05Z

I suspect the people with whom I now live might have drinking problems. Roommate 1, who just turned 34 today and had previously been my bartender in college, had announced that it was his intention to spend his birthday drinking blender drinks in our driveway, beginning as soon as he awoke.

Roommate 2 thought this was a brilliant idea, and took the day off to join him.

The plan was slightly flawed, in that they had nothing to put in the blender other than beer. Blended beer is not so tasty, as it turns out. So they went to the store, bought rum, fruit, and more beer, and carried out the plan beginning at 11.

They just now went to sleep. Several people who came by were sucked into the drunk-hole, and had the good sense to leave hours ago.

By the time the two of them were out, they were barely speaking english, falling over themselves, and had generally had a wonderful time. There was beer-pong. There was Tron, on a big screen. There was wii-bowling. There was singing along, loudly and off-key, to both "Boy Named Sue" and "Fat-Bottomed Girls."

I on the other hand had to go to work today. No real options these days, work is insane for me. I came home to this, and try as I might, there was really no catching up.

Both of them have to work in the morning, and I don't envy them.

On the other hand: perhaps what they have is a drinking solution.

Wasn't late...

2008-04-20T09:39:02Z

Wow, been a long time since I did that last.

For Reference: The Playlist

2008-04-14T11:00:01Z

Cheesecake and Cocktail XIII, March 22 2008, Baltimore-ish, Maryland.
Thirteen years. Jesus.
One recurring theme here is cover songs, another is superheroes.

Disc 1
1	Body Snatcher	The Dynamites
2	Own Thing	The Dynamites
3	Money (That's What I Want)	Jr. Walker & The All Stars
4	Troubles	Adrian Belew
5	Your Little Hoodrat Friend	The Hold Steady
6	Build Me Up Buttercup	The Killer Barbies
7	Code Monkey	Jonathan Coulton
8	Awaiting Our Return	Percy Hill
9\	Ascension To Virginity	Dave Grusin
10	Hey Mr Bundle	Flevans
11	Family Rap (ft Chali 2na, Soup, Double K, Wolf, Munyungo Jackson)	Breakestra
12	Grand Prix	Giant Panda
13	corvair	Avi Bortnick
14	Movement	LCD Soundsystem
15	Desperate Guys	The Faint
16	The W.A.N.D.	The Flaming Lips
17	I Fought The Law	The Clash
18	Ya Ya Ya (Looking For My Baby)	Detroit Cobras
19	Fell In Love With A Boy	Joss Stone
20	Proud Mary	Ohio Players
21	Run Linda Run	Deep Throat: The Album
Disc 2
1	Everybody Ready	Action Figure Party
2	We've Got	Brand New Heavies
3	Radio Friendly	Abdominal
4	Sophisticated Honky	Orgone
5	Frankenstein	Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
6	Cut The Cake	Average White Band
7	Three More Days	Ray LaMontagne
8	I Got Loaded	Los Lobos
9	The Devil Never Sleeps	Iron & Wine
10	Sticks and Stones	moe.
11	Hot Sugar	The Mooney Suzuki
12	Viva Las Vegas (Cover Elvis)	The Analogs
13	Beer For Breakfast	The Replacements
14	This Year	The Mountain Goats
15	Evil	Interpol
16	Street Fighting Man	Lake Trout
17	Head Over Heels	Tears for Fears
18	Don Gon Do It	The Rapture
19	Time To Get Away	LCD Soundsystem
20	You Are The Space Invader (Optimo Espacio Remix)	Prinzhorn Dance School
Disc 3
1	Ramones / Spiderman	The Ramones
2	Kick Out The Jams	The Presidents Of The United States Of America
	For the Girl	The Fratellis
4	The Longest Time	Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
5	Red Morning Light	Kings Of Leon
6	99 and a Half	Detroit Cobras
7	Hot In Herre	Jenny Owen Youngs
8	Baby Got Back	Richard Cheese
9	Damn It Feel Good To Be A Gangster	Geto Boys
10	What You Need (ft Lyrics Born)	Galactic
11	What I Got	Michael Franti and Spearhead (ft Gift of Gab)
12	Whole Lotta Loving	Lenny Kravitz With Rebirth Brass Band
13	Work It Out (ft Dave Matthews Band)	Jurassic 5
14	We Can Work It Out	Stevie Wonder
15	Got to Get You into My Life	Beatles
16	Get Your Regal On	Blockhead
17	Come Closer	Beatles vs. Nine Inch Nails
18	Level	The Raconteurs
19	Traffic And Weather	Fountains Of Wayne
20	88 Lines About 44 Women	The Nails
21	March of the Swivelheads	The Beat
22	Golden Rough	The Bamboos
23	Johnny Just Drop	The Motet
Disc 4
1	Main Theme from Superman (edit)	John Williams
2	Superman Lover	Johnny "Guitar" Watson
3	Jan Jan	The New Mastersounds
4	Keep On Churnin'	Wynonie Harris
5	Salt Peanuts [Instrumental]	Royal Crown Revue
6	Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)	Tex Williams
7	Bananas & Blow (Live)	Ween
8	Rehab (Can't Help Myself)	Party Ben
9	Feelin' Alright	Lulu
10	Poison Pushy	Stanton Moore
11	Chicago Falcon	The Budos Band
12	Yell Fire!	Michael Franti and Spearhead
13	True Skool (ft Roots Manuva)	Coldcut
14	Side To Side (ft Lateef the T	Blackalicious
15	Karma Police	Easy Star All-Stars
16	Take Me Home, Country Roads	Toots & The Maytals
17	Dance Hall Days	Wang Chung
18	(Manifest)	The Weakerthans
19	Blue Jeans Pizza	moe.
20	Always Love	Nada Surf
21	Children of December	The Slip
22	Dance Music	The Mountain Goats
Disc 5
1	Two Perfectly Ordinary People	Adam West, Burt Ward, & Nelso
2	batman shortened	skavoovie & the epitones
3	Comfortably Numb	Scissor Sisters
4	Feel Good Inc.	Cookin' On 3 Burners
5	Left Coast Boogaloo	Greyboy Allstars
6	Legs	Darondo
7	The Bertha Butt Boogie	Jimmy Castor Bunch
8	Bob Your Head (Clean)	Ugly Duckling
9	Get In The Scene (ft Ohmega Watts)	The Bamboos
10	Little Walter Rides Again	Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
11	Snatching It Back	Clarence Carter
12	Sesame Street Theme	Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
13	I Got The Feeling	James Brown
14	Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing	Living Colour
15	Stand By Me	NOFX
16	The Get a Way	Pretty Girls Make Graves
17	Strapped For Cash	Fountains Of Wayne
18	A Friend Of Pat Robertson	Dada
19	see the world	Gomez
20	hard sun	eddie vedder
21	French Fries With Pepper	Morphine
22	Raise A Glass	moe.

I love you, Internets

2008-04-09T13:40:55Z

I saw on the news today that the NY Mets got rickrolled.

And a giant grin has been plastered on my face ever since.

It's a beautiful internet.

[Food Porn] The Meatening

2008-03-24T03:49:04Z

Dear god.

So..

Much...

Meat...

I cooked all the stuff behind the cut tonight, and ate a very, very large amount, and now I am going to go die. I told you I'd be a better documentarian...

Two strip steaks, one buffalo steak.

A whole mess o' pork loins, the center two of which were stuffed with kalamata olive tapenade.

And sesame-grilled asparagus.

NOM! NOM! NOM!

2008-03-23T16:35:27Z

Barbecue season 2008:

It's on, bitches.

Last night was a 4-lb boneless rib roast. Take a bulb of garlic, and 2 tbsp each of peppercorns and sea salt, throw 'em into a food processor and chop them all up fine until they almost make a paste. Lightly coat the roast with olive oil and then coat it with the garlic mixture. Then, of course, drape it with bacon -- because I've never met a recipe yet that wasn't improved by bacon.

Then drag your grill out in the 3 new inches of snow (march 21st snow. errrrg.) and set it up for indirect grilling. Heat until the internal temperature reaches about 130 degrees. Remove from heat, wait 10 minutes, and slice thinly against the grain. I considered making a horseradish sauce but decided that the roast looked good enough on its own.

The first year was basics to ribs. Second year was ribs to brisket. Third year was brisket to game (and a goddamned leg of lamb!). Who knows what this year will hold? My neighbor, who is well-paid and thrilled about my barbecue habit, is threatening to bring home large hunks of unidentified meat, just to test my skills. Bring it the fuck on.

I neglected to take a photo of last night's feasting, but I'll try to be a better documentarian in the future.

I love where I work

2008-03-14T19:28:58Z

Because how many of you actually got to eat pie at 1:59 this afternoon?

All I gotta say to you wannabe, gonnabe, cocksuckin', pussy-eatin' prankstas

2008-03-06T14:38:28Z

Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.

On Beards

2008-03-03T15:10:25Z

"How long did it take you to grow that thing?"

I hear this about twice a week. It's a fairly bright red 8-inch-long goatee, it draws attention. Children have actually been struck dumb upon noticing it, others will say "wow, lookit" or just point and stare. It ensures that I'm remembered, which is both a blessing and a curse. Everyone remembers meeting the guy with the weird beard. The guy with the weird beard remembers meeting almost nobody.

Anyway, my stock answer, since I've been growing it since September 7th, 2001 (when I was laid off -- seemed like a good time to experiment with facial hair), is "about 6 years."

Recently, that was called into question. In 6 years, the beard really ought to be down to my waist, all things being equal. But, it splits, and requires maintenance to keep from looking too ratty. So I get it cut from time to time. It doesn't seem to want to grow much longer than that, and I'm, for the most part, fine with that, although if it got to be another 4 inches or so, braiding it wouldn't look quite so silly.

So my answer has to be, "I've been working on it for six years, but I cut it from time to time," to be honest with my random interrogator. This, however, is about 13 more words than I'd like to spend chatting with a stranger who's come up to me and asked me about my personal grooming habits and makes implications about the levels of testosterone in my veins. Perhaps my answer should just be a nonsequitur like, "satan satan satan!" Generally speaking, I'm a little more polite than that. It leads to fewer beatings. I'll figure something out, I'm sure.

However, I got a new one yesterday, via the myspace. "Are you amish?" this random person who was apparently in my "extended network" (meaning: the entire fucking planet) asked.

Yes. Yes I am. They're doing REMARKABLE things with the compressed-air version of the cathode-ray tube. I've got my brother Zebidiah writing letters by lantern-light and taking the buggy into town to deliver them to someone who posts them on the internet for me.

I feel dirty for doing this, but I also wanted to talk about razors. I'd been using the same Gilette Sensor razor since I started having to shave. I do shave everything except my chin, daily. It'd been getting kind of beat up, so while looking through the circular, I noticed that my grocer had the Gilette Fusion on sale: this is the razor that made the Onion come true. Additionally, when I got to the store, I noticed that the replacement heads for the 5 bladed (SIX if you count the "precision blade" on the back) one were cheaper than the ones for my old two-bladed sensor.

I bought it. They've spent quite literally billions of dollars on razor technology. I got the non-battery-powered version, because I still don't believe a razor needs a vibrator. Well -- at least, not a facial razor.

The fucking thing is amazing. It constantly stays in line with the contours of your face, that little bastard spot on my throat just below the base of my jaw is completely stubble free for the first time in years, and you barely even feel it.

I'd scoffed: billions of dollars for a fucking razor? They certainly spent way too much, but the money was not entirely wasted. They have come out with a quality product.

Fuck me running, I've become a shill.

Ought to have been a poll...

2008-02-22T17:18:10Z

But I'm not special enough to get to create one.

So I ask you all:

Please leave me your favorite cover song, and the artist who sings it, in the comments.

Thanks!

Oh HELL yes.

2008-02-22T15:12:33Z

I've just learned that a bar within reasonable stumbling distance of my house has my favorite beer on tap.

That beer is Magic Hat. I've had several of their products before, but the most widely distributed product is #9.

Tonight, on my way home from work, I will stop at the bookshop on the corner, buy a novel, then go to the bar. If you're interested, the bar is Morgan's on Halsted. I'll be the guy with the long red beard reading a book and drinking a pint with a smile on my face.

[Survivor]Hey, neat!

2008-02-15T02:27:26Z

"Excuse me. I'm about to utter one of the nerdiest sentences I've uttered in a very long time."

"What is it?"

"I just watched a really good episode of Survivor and now I've got to go blog about it."

"I believe you are correct, sir."

SO! Fans? People who do the math? Rock. You've got Mikey B, who does the risk-management that the game is all about. You've got Joel, who knows a guy who's thinking out loud about risk-management is probably dangerous, and that couples should always be broken. And you've got... everyone else. I've really excited to see how this works on their side. They've studied, and the favorites have just played.

"If a man hasna studied, he is a gleepa[??]. Which I have."

All the same, two things stuck out at me.

One: In the early game you vote out weak players regardless of who's being all smart so you don't go to tribal more often than you have to. Prepare for the numbers game from the moment you set foot on the island, you must have more players at the merge so you can Pagong the hell out of the other tribe when the time comes. Mary? Not so weak. Who was weak? Chet. He can barely swim. He did the fucking backstroke back to the beach, which is the slowest stroke you can use. On a game on an island, you'll be swimming a lot.

Two: Joel, who had the plan to vote out Mary and blindside Mikey B, actually cast his vote for Tracey?!?!? WTF, over? Joel is also a repugnant dickhead personally, as far as I can tell, but he seems to be playing a smart game so far. He will lose the social game.

If I had to make a prediction, I would say none of the following will make the win, and it is unlikely that they'll make it to the merge: Joel, Mikey B, Kathy, Chet, and Tracey. Without Mary, that leaves them at Alexis, Eric, Jason, and Natalie. Which among them is smart enough to recognize smart playing, pick it up, and be fucking subtle about it?

As for the favorites, they're being idiots. Which would you rather have, sex, or a million dollars? At least four of the favorites are making the wrong choice. Sigh. They will eat well, and they may do well at challenges on the strength of Ozzy and Yau-Man. But dear lord, do I want to see Parvati go. Sexist alert: if she wouldn't speak, it would be a lot better. Watching her and hearing her sleaze up to James is like nails on a chalkboard.

napalmmk9 @ 2008-02-14T08:34:00

2008-02-14T14:36:46Z

Dear World:

Kindly allow me to ignore today's significance in the realm of holidays. Let me get through it like any other Thursday with no reminders of anything pink, or heart-shaped. It'd be a great kindness.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, world.

Hopefully,

-Me

[Politics]The PaulBomb

2008-02-13T12:48:28Z

thanks entirely to roadriverrail.

Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband NATO, end birthright citizenship, deny federal funding to any organisation which "which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggest that it can be an acceptable life style" along with destroying public education and social security,, and abolish the Federal Reserve in order to put America back on the gold standard. He was also the sole vote against divesting US federal government investments in corporations doing business with the genocidal government of the Sudan. Oh, and he believes that the Left is waging a war on religion and Christmas, he's against gay marriage, is against the popular vote, opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, wants the estate tax repealed, is STILL making racist remarks, believes that the Panama Canal should be the property of the United States, and believes in New World Order conspiracy theories, not to mention his belief that the International Baccalaureate program is UN mind control..

As for me, I am pleased to see that Obama swept the primaries yesterday.

Nearly Forgot: politics mark 2

2008-02-06T16:15:21Z

While I was voting yesterday I caught a glance at the republican ballot. I had to laugh: Alan Keyes is running for President.

If you're not aware, he's a complete fundie nutjob, and also one of the laughingstocks of Illinois politics, after the worst finish for any candidate for the U.S. Senate election in Illinois in history, getting only 27% of the vote, and losing to Barack Obama's 70% win.

Again: I had to laugh.

[Politics]Super Tuesday has me frightened.

2008-02-06T15:47:40Z

I'm not entirely certain I respect McCain anymore, as much as I want to. I respect his experience, certainly. But the following has me nowhere near as pro-McCain as I used to be:

His cheerleading visit to Baghdad to show how "safe" it was there, wearing a bulletproof vest and surrounded by almost 100 off-camera American troops.
His reversal of his 2003 position (anti-deficit!) against Bushs' tax cuts in 2006 -- and again, in February, voting to continue Bush's dividend and capital gains tax cuts.
His cozying up to (the now late-) Jerry Falwell in March after declaring him an "agent of intolerance" in 2000.
His changing position on abortion -- initially he was opposed to it except in cases of rape, incest, and where it endangered the life of the mother, then he said if he'd been governor of South Dakota, he would have signed its draconian abortion ban which lacked those exceptions.

Don't get me wrong, I do agree with him on a number of issues, but I think this idea of McCain's integrity is overblown.

I don't think that the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill -- an idea way past due, because I really don't think the first amendment means that the rich ought to speak with a louder voice than the poor -- represents hypocrisy in the face of the Keating Five scandal as some have suggested, I think he was put in an uncomfortable situation and wasn't prepared for the fallout from the contributors to his campaign at the time. I think his turnaround from there was genuine: he recognized the problem, having been a victim to it himself, and has since taken steps to correct it.

I just read this, by McCain (from his 2005 Book): "Darwin helped explain nature’s laws. He did not speculate, in his published theories at least, on the origin of life. He did not exclude God, for Whom the immensity of time is but a moment, from our presence. The only undeniable challenge the theory of evolution poses to Christian beliefs is its obvious contradiction of the idea that God created the world as it is in less than a week. But our faith is certainly not so weak that it can be shaken to learn that a biblical metaphor is not literal history. Nature doesn’t threaten our faith. On the contrary, when we contemplate its beauty and mysteries we cannot quiet in our heart an insistent impulse of belief that for all its variations and inevitable change, before its creation, in a time before time, God let it be so, and, thus, its many splendors and purposes abide in His purpose."

Yeah, he's a christian, yeah, he believes in evolution, and yeah, he's got a fucking rational reconciliation of the two, (or at least as rational as you can get, to my way of thinking.)

All in all? Way better than Huckabee. The south, after yesterday, sickens the hell out of me. Carlin said it well when he said, "there's way too much religion floating around down there to be consistent with good mental health." Huckabee is patently unamerican in the truest sense of that word. We were founded as a secular government.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

"It's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."

And as for Obama: he's got a lot of people I know fired up. I, for one, hope that's a sign of him being Kennedy-esque rather than McGovern-esque.

There's more coming. If you want to not hear politics from me, let me know. If enough people do it, I'll filter it.

Jesus.

2008-01-20T18:54:07Z

"The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.
"Blame love."

-Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs.

Politics

2008-01-06T15:00:58Z

I'd previously written off Huckabee entirely, on the simple issue that if you don't believe in evolution, you're a ignorant throwback to the monkey trial years, and your opinions ought to be simply dismissed.

However, given his showing in Iowa, I thought maybe he's worth another look. And I'm looking right at something called FairTax. No space. Capital-eff-ay-eye-arr-capital-tee-ay-ecks.

Is it just me, or does anyone else immediately distrust words like this? It seems like stupid, blatant, first-year marketing bullshit. FuckYou.

Turns out: yes! What a horrible fucking idea! Replace all income and payroll taxes with a sales tax on everything we buy, goods, services, what have you, of between 20-40%(FairTax says 23%, but it also says that a 23% tax raises a price from $100 to $130)?

Yes, it's a regressive tax (who's paying more in taxes as a percentage of their income: the rich, or the poor?). But FairTax addresses that. They'll say, ooops, the poor people got overtaxed. Here's a check for what people at the poverty line are paying in taxes. Every month.

Which is patently ridiculous. Beyond the amount of beauracracy that would be involved in this, it simply shifts the burden straight onto the backs of the middle class. Again -- if the poor are paying almost nothing in this tax, who pays the most tax as a percentage of their income?

Beyond that: corporations would be free from paying taxes. The idea being that they'd pass those savings on to the consumer in the form of lower prices. Which probably wouldn't be 20-40% less...

This is absurd, and kind of evil. Watch Huckabee. Silly name, evil plot.

Cliche.

2008-01-04T19:22:36Z

Jesus, this is difficult.

I made a new year's resolution. Probably the most common new year's resolution, and just as probably, the most frequently broken new year's resolution.

I am quitting smoking.

Meaning, literally -- I'm in the process of it right now. Yesterday, I had 4 cigarettes, the day before I had five, and the day before that, probably 6-7. I'd been cutting back since last Saturday, although I kind of let myself go on Monday (hey, it was New Year's Eve.) This is after being a pack-a-day smoker for the past 14 years.

I'm already doing better at this quitting thing than I ever have before. I have not had a cigarette all day. This time of day is when I've caved the last two days, and I'm not doing it today. My method is pure willpower, like my folks did. No patch, no gum, no pill -- although if I fail at this (defined as going back up to like half a pack/day or more within the next two weeks), I'll be calling my Doctor to see what can be done.

It is all I can fucking think about, when the craving hits -- which is coming about twice an hour, if not more. My body is screaming at me for nicotine and I'm not letting it have any. I'm a rotten bastard that way. In retaliation, it is sending signals to my brain to tell me, "just one won't hurt... I bet X has a cigarette they could bum you... Why don't you pick up a pack on the way home, imagine how good it would feel to kick back on the couch and inhale reeeal slow" -- ah fuck, I gotta stop that.

But I have been spending $1,000-$2,000 annually on cigarettes since I was 17, and that has to stop. Additionally, they've now banned smoking in all the bars, so if I want to go out for a drink and not have to go out in the cold, I gotta stop for that reason, too. Beyond that, I want to see this city's plan to use the ridiculous level of tax revenue they get from cigarettes -- we pay the most in the nation, and it's a hideously regressive tax that kills the poor and is negligible to the rich -- go up in, heh, smoke. If we all quit they're fucked.

I don't give two shits about the health issue. Honestly I'm not all that afraid to die. I've got an appointment to keep in the afterlife, if there is one, and I'm already what, 12 years late?

One thing I'm doing -- besides twitching and chewing on things -- is looking at a picture of the Ultimate Collectors Edition Lego Millennium Falcon I mentioned a few posts back. In just two months of not smoking, I could easily afford it with all the money I'd be saving.

But holy shit, it's tough.

Nerd Alert Redux

2007-12-31T08:28:13Z

It was a good day: this morning I learned there was new Dr. Tran, then my wife came over and I cooked up a traditional family christmas dinner, with prime rib, yorkshire pudding (it's so much easier to make in muffin tins!), mashed potatoes, and apple pie with home-whipped cream, my wife and I had a wonderful time together, and then, just now, after she left and the roommates got home, I wii-bowled a perfect game.

I believe my reaction to that was something to the effect of "fuck yeah! holy shit motherfucker!" except much more loudly. My throat hurts a little.

For those of you with a wii and who are interested, I'd started this mii up three days ago and was somewhere around 1050 points. A perfect game netted me an additional 164. Seems to me it ought to just say, well, fuck, you bowled a perfect game, we'll give you 500 points and buy you a beer.

They've done it

2007-12-30T15:59:48Z

They made more Dr. Tran. "Toy Cack" is quite good, but for pure surreal beauty, I would recommend "Quiet Log Time."

I am wholly delighted by this development.

Nerd Alert

2007-12-28T04:39:03Z

My christmas sucked goat anuses. Apparently, somehow, the infant savior mistook a caprid sphincter for the nipple of the virgin Mary, but what must have come out was almost certainly not milk.

On the plus side, I just wii-bowled a 279. When you get 8 strikes in a row, it says, "8 in a row." When you get a 9-1 spare in the ninth, though, nothing special.

My roommates were so good about it too. They both studiously avoided saying, "holy shit, you're about to roll a perfect --" until after I'd fucked up in the 9th frame.

My Mii there is now a bit over 1,500 points, and it is time for that one to be retired, until someone else in the house beats that score. Then we will see.

Jealous.

2007-12-19T20:55:55Z

Those lucky bastards at Gizmodo got an Ultimate Collector's Edition Millennium Falcon.

Check it out all this week.

SO MUCH WANT.