No, I haven't posted yet another idiotic piece over at Positive Liberty, but it only just this moment occurred to me that, as much fun as tooting my own cyber-horn post by post may be, grylliade doesn't have the otherwise almost ubiquitous blogroll.
Is this intentional, David. If not, do you have any strong feelings about it one way or the other? If not, what say you others? Should our [cough, cough] separate and various cyber-postings elsewhere be cataloged here, all the easier to remember from time to time to check up on one another's musings?
I don't mind one way or the other. It never occurred to me, not yet being a real blogger (I can't figure out what to write about, and my posts tend to be novel-sized). There's no blogroll module for Drupal, but it seems like doing a blogroll should be fairly easy, if there's a market for one. :-)
A parasite feeding on bacteria growing on fungus growing on cow excrement? The only way the parasitic chain could get any longer would be if the cow excrement worked for the government. - Smacky
Reading the comments on the H&R thread about waterboarding make me weep for our country. I mean it is one thing to invoke a "ticking time bomb" scenario* it is another to refer to it as a "humane" way to extract information.
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"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
Reading the comments on the H&R thread about waterboarding make me weep for our country. I mean it is one thing to invoke a "ticking time bomb" scenario* it is another to refer to it as a "humane" way to extract information.
I'm ashamed that my government would stoop so low. I guess I'm one of those bleeding heart liberals you hear about.
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I just can't even read the thread anymore. It pisses me off too much.
I mean crap, I was in the military not all that long ago and at the time this type of technique was referred to as a torture technique.
I could have sworn that I was even told that we charged Japanese troops with war crimes for doing it against our troops in WWII. I'll have to look into that though. I never did verify that personally and sergeants aren't always the most reliable sources of information.
I can't bring myself to vote for Obama but part of me wants him to win so at least various alleged conservatives will go back to distrusting the government instead of excusing everything they do.
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"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
I could have sworn that I was even told that we charged Japanese troops with war crimes for doing it against our troops in WWII. I'll have to look into that though.
I was pretty sure we executed some Japanese for doing that to our troops in WW2; haven't verified that, yet.
I'm now posting on the Labor Pains Blog as "Granite Staters for Employee Freedom," and whenever I put up a video intercept it'll be up there. Also, I have a youtube page at this address where I'm posting all our videos. I love bothering politicians!
EDIT: My proudest moment so far was when I realized that I got Jeanne Shaheen's 20-something daughter taken off of public events because of the reactions I got out of her.
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But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal, and animals never had a war... who's the real animal?
EDIT: My proudest moment so far was when I realized that I got Jeanne Shaheen's 20-something daughter taken off of public events because of the reactions I got out of her.
What does she look like? It's said that there's a fine line between fury and passion...
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This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
EDIT: I removed the embedded video to prevent the exploitation of my internet peoples by Jeanne Shaheen and her crew. I don't know if they're smart enough to figure out how to find where videos are linked to on youtube, but caution prevails.
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But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal, and animals never had a war... who's the real animal?
I'm also completely confused by the appearance of a new X-Files movie.
EDIT: And I don't know if you are aware of this but several groups have been trying to push the MPAA to assign an R rating to any film depicting any smoking at all. I wonder, honestly, how far they are off from success.
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"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
I'd agree with your Clone Wars review/preview, except that good Star Wars movies come when Lucas doesn't write, direct, or produce them (witness Empire Strikes Back), so this one has a chance at being good. Add in that it's not weighed down by Lucas trying to make everything fraught with portent, and it should be awesome light entertainment.
Mind you, I'm not ruling out the possibility that it will completely suck.
As I commented at your blog (slightly edited to fix an incidental error of mine, and to include the link):
I have only read about [50%] of this column so far, but I had to immediately break off and comment that, just for the mention of the movie Queer Duck and the link to its IMDB entry, it has already more than justified itself.
PS: Evidently this was also a series on (cable?) TV, apparently hilarious.
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It would be Very Bad. So bad, that I suspect a coalition of Europeans and Asians would band together to bail us out if it looked like a serious possibility, because the alternative would be worse for them. The Euro is still a way off from becoming the de facto world currency, and it is perceived as too fragile.
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Oh ferchristsakes, the Economist did no such thing as predict America would default on its debts, it wrote merely that "Perhaps it is no surprise that traders in the credit-default swaps market have recently made bets on the unthinkable: that America may default on its debt."
Credit default swaps are a sophisticated (in the worst sense of that term) form of derivative which in this case is what a bookie would call laying off some bets. The U.S. isn't going to default on its securities, Freddie and Fannie may be lousy investments right now (as I know because I own a few shares of Fannie Mae) but their debt actually is collateralized -- there really are houses out there with real (albeit not forever increasing) market value -- and the article even (implicitly) acknowledged that as government sponsored enterprises the U.S. might not protect their equity stockholders but it sure as hell was going to protect their debt holders.
Long, long before the U.S. defaults on its debts (which, btw, are entirely different from the debts of those GSEs), thoreau will have hired Dave W as his principle lab assistant, Stevo will have lost at the internet, Jennifer will have changed her mind and it won't be Warren's fault any more. Get a grip, people.
Wow. For once I actually know one of the groups you are talking about. I feel so musically hip.
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"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
Hmm, the Orb. I remember just hating "Little Fluffy Clouds" as a kid when it came out. Hearing it again a couple of years back, I liked it much better.
She's very charismatic and very talented and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she wasn't busy learning English between her French films, if you know what I mean.
dead_elvis, I'd say you'll find that review around the same time that bear on a log reaches the end of the river.
I saw a good French filmmovie (Sorry! the pretension just comes naturally to me) this summer. Priceless starring Audrey Tatou.
I liked it so much I actually went and saw it again today. It's a pretty funny film, if you can get beyond the shameless gold-digging. You get to see a lot of side boob in this movie, and *spoiler alert* you even get to see a split second of frontal nudity. *end spoiler*
And if that weren't enough, the Frenchman who stars opposite Audrey Tatou is smokin' hot, too. It's a good excuse to get out of the sweltering heat and sit in an air-conditioned theater for a couple of hours.
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I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
Jennifer, the troll in your McCain thread is absolutely precious.
That guy "Tom?" Yeah, he had some long rambling discussion that went on over the course of several threads. Assuming he is what he says he is, he started out trying to hit on me, I think ... somewhere he mentioned that he's a local dude, who makes a lot of money, and would I like to go to dinner sometime, and isn't it a shame that I lost my job at the Advocate but he'd be willing to pay me big bucks to edit his book manuscript for him ... and he didn't switch into full-blown batshit mode until some thread where he said I was intolerant and refused to listen to conflicting opinions, and I responded with something like "If that were true, I would've deleted all your 'Hey baby I'm rich wanna go out sometime' comments."
Jennifer, the troll in your McCain thread is absolutely precious.
Dunno where the McCain thread in question is, but that goldengod asshole on the American Patriot thread is so incredibly, willfully obtuse I've started wondering if he's really Dan T.
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A parasite feeding on bacteria growing on fungus growing on cow excrement? The only way the parasitic chain could get any longer would be if the cow excrement worked for the government. - Smacky
Yes... but is he also the shadowy figure behind Dan T.? We may never know...
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A parasite feeding on bacteria growing on fungus growing on cow excrement? The only way the parasitic chain could get any longer would be if the cow excrement worked for the government. - Smacky
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
Agreed. I kept envisioning some guy using the sample toilets at Home Depot (the ones which, naturally, are unconnected to any actual sewer hookups), and being shocked to learn the toilet didn't magically whisk his wastes away to where he never need deal with them again.
Agreed. I kept envisioning some guy using the sample toilets at Home Depot (the ones which, naturally, are unconnected to any actual sewer hookups), and being shocked to learn the toilet didn't magically whisk his wastes away to where he never need deal with them again.
MUST. STOP. VISUALIZING.
*shudders*
EDIT: And thanks for the kind words.
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If I don't, I'm overwhelmed by spam and have to approve every post manually. Think of it as a one-time CAPTCHA.
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This isn't my post, but it is quite possibly the most awesome thing ever posted on Urkobold (and when even the Evil Fiziks Type likes an Urkobold post that's saying something):
The post was funny enough but even more hysterical was senor loco solitario saying he was going to sue over it.
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"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
This isn't my post, but it is quite possibly the most awesome thing ever posted on Urkobold (and when even the Evil Fiziks Type likes an Urkobold post that's saying something):
Are there set list spoilers in your review, dhex? Just wondering 'cause I'm curious about the show but maybe I should read it after I see them this weekend.
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A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
UNDERPANTS HAWK
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I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
shit everyone is a lot more meanspirited there. what the living fuck? you get georgist rent boys (ha ha ha) and the usual variation on "if you don't enjoy paying taxes you like eating babies" on top of the democrat's "we're totally different and fuck you for pointing out the faults of our masters" routine.
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I point out something big missing from the only debate we'll have on foreign policy.
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I report on the speech Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project gave at the Liberty Forum. Among the highlights: IllegalAliens will outnumber CitizenVoters by 2025, and then get voting rights, and the country will devolve into s Soviet-style breakup. Also, print journalists are one of the worst threats to modern American liberty, “worse than a corrupt drug-dealing cop, worse than a bribe-taking politician, worse than a pedophile teacher.”
shit everyone is a lot more meanspirited there. what the living fuck? you get georgist rent boys (ha ha ha) and the usual variation on "if you don't enjoy paying taxes you like eating babies" on top of the democrat's "we're totally different and fuck you for pointing out the faults of our masters" routine.
Yeah, I don't get it. Jim doesn't consider himself as libertarian as he used to, but he's still fairly libertarian and he has a history of it, yet everybody there feels free to beat up on us over it. For the past 7 years they've failed to notice that (1) their very nice host is indeed one of the people they're beating up on and (2) he doesn't actually fit any of the stereotypes that they attribute to us.
Hell, nobody here would consider me a conservative or a doctrinaire libertarian, yet at UO they sometimes think I'm Glenn Reynolds. Either that or (horror of horrors) a Judas to the Blue Cause.
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I suspect that's the price you pay for having a large readership. Sadly but it would appear necessarily, the larger the readership, the more a site that isn't clearly identified ideologically will attract more and more binary thinkers who have only two mutually exclusive boxes to check. "What? You're not Blue? Then you must be Red!"
For the past 7 years they've failed to notice that (1) their very nice host is indeed one of the people they're beating up on and (2) he doesn't actually fit any of the stereotypes that they attribute to us.
maybe they're trying to build up some of that argumentative frisson they need to achieve rhetorical climax these days? also the elections are a month or so away and people are freaking the hell out.
end result = everyone's a dick.
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I've posted a few thoughts about George Carlin's career.
All the world loves a clown.
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I don't mind one way or the other. It never occurred to me, not yet being a real blogger (I can't figure out what to write about, and my posts tend to be novel-sized). There's no blogroll module for Drupal, but it seems like doing a blogroll should be fairly easy, if there's a market for one. :-)
David L. Watkins
TANSTAAFL
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hackerkey.com
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DEMAND KURVE!
MAKE BLOGROLL!
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Stop signs and speed limits? We don't need no stinkin' stop signs and speed limits!
All the world loves a clown.
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The last line made me laugh. :)
A parasite feeding on bacteria growing on fungus growing on cow excrement? The only way the parasitic chain could get any longer would be if the cow excrement worked for the government.
- Smacky
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Forget “Taxation Without Representation” — New D.C. License Plates to Read “Money, Guns & Lawyers”
All the world loves a clown.
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Constant Viewer takes in WALL-E and Wanted.
All the world loves a clown.
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Cops who point guns at you for your own good.
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I recommend reading Christopher Hitchens' first-hand report on waterboarding.
Which, by the way, is here.
All the world loves a clown.
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Reading the comments on the H&R thread about waterboarding make me weep for our country. I mean it is one thing to invoke a "ticking time bomb" scenario* it is another to refer to it as a "humane" way to extract information.
"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
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I'm ashamed that my government would stoop so low. I guess I'm one of those bleeding heart liberals you hear about.
♫And the man at the back
said everyone attack
and it turned into a ballroom blitz♫
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I just can't even read the thread anymore. It pisses me off too much.
I mean crap, I was in the military not all that long ago and at the time this type of technique was referred to as a torture technique.
I could have sworn that I was even told that we charged Japanese troops with war crimes for doing it against our troops in WWII. I'll have to look into that though. I never did verify that personally and sergeants aren't always the most reliable sources of information.
I can't bring myself to vote for Obama but part of me wants him to win so at least various alleged conservatives will go back to distrusting the government instead of excusing everything they do.
"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
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I was pretty sure we executed some Japanese for doing that to our troops in WW2; haven't verified that, yet.
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I'm now posting on the Labor Pains Blog as "Granite Staters for Employee Freedom," and whenever I put up a video intercept it'll be up there. Also, I have a youtube page at this address where I'm posting all our videos. I love bothering politicians!
EDIT: My proudest moment so far was when I realized that I got Jeanne Shaheen's 20-something daughter taken off of public events because of the reactions I got out of her.
But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal, and animals never had a war... who's the real animal?
=Professor Farnsworth
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What does she look like? It's said that there's a fine line between fury and passion...
"the only thing worse than a freeper is a blue state freeper that doesn't realize they're a freeper." -dhex
hoisted by their own waterboard!
-dhex
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Payday lending's critics use similar math to the lenders they criticize.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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And then I recover an old recording and spiff it up all digital like.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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A phony pirate's piercing prose.
All the world loves a clown.
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I wax wroth over bio-fuel mandates leading to higher world food prices.
All the world loves a clown.
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Woman kicked out of McCain rally for holding a poster reading "McCain = Bush."
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Constant Viewer takes a look at the lighter side of Genghis Khan.
All the world loves a clown.
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Yay, 2 more posts and 2 more videos of Jeanne Shaheen being a world class bitch.
Here are the links:
http://server1.laborpains.org/?p=905
http://server1.laborpains.org/?p=904
EDIT: I removed the embedded video to prevent the exploitation of my internet peoples by Jeanne Shaheen and her crew. I don't know if they're smart enough to figure out how to find where videos are linked to on youtube, but caution prevails.
But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal, and animals never had a war... who's the real animal?
=Professor Farnsworth
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Constant Viewer ponders the question "Why so serious?"
All the world loves a clown.
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Constant Viewer surveys the remainder of the summer movie schedule and finds much to dislike without even bothering to see it!
All the world loves a clown.
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I'm also completely confused by the appearance of a new X-Files movie.
EDIT: And I don't know if you are aware of this but several groups have been trying to push the MPAA to assign an R rating to any film depicting any smoking at all. I wonder, honestly, how far they are off from success.
"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
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I'd agree with your Clone Wars review/preview, except that good Star Wars movies come when Lucas doesn't write, direct, or produce them (witness Empire Strikes Back), so this one has a chance at being good. Add in that it's not weighed down by Lucas trying to make everything fraught with portent, and it should be awesome light entertainment.
Mind you, I'm not ruling out the possibility that it will completely suck.
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TANSTAAFL
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hackerkey.com
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As I commented at your blog (slightly edited to fix an incidental error of mine, and to include the link):
I have only read about [50%] of this column so far, but I had to immediately break off and comment that, just for the mention of the movie Queer Duck and the link to its IMDB entry, it has already more than justified itself.
PS: Evidently this was also a series on (cable?) TV, apparently hilarious.
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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The Economist predicts America will default on its national debt. What does this actually mean for Americans?
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It would be Very Bad. So bad, that I suspect a coalition of Europeans and Asians would band together to bail us out if it looked like a serious possibility, because the alternative would be worse for them. The Euro is still a way off from becoming the de facto world currency, and it is perceived as too fragile.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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Oh ferchristsakes, the Economist did no such thing as predict America would default on its debts, it wrote merely that "Perhaps it is no surprise that traders in the credit-default swaps market have recently made bets on the unthinkable: that America may default on its debt."
Credit default swaps are a sophisticated (in the worst sense of that term) form of derivative which in this case is what a bookie would call laying off some bets. The U.S. isn't going to default on its securities, Freddie and Fannie may be lousy investments right now (as I know because I own a few shares of Fannie Mae) but their debt actually is collateralized -- there really are houses out there with real (albeit not forever increasing) market value -- and the article even (implicitly) acknowledged that as government sponsored enterprises the U.S. might not protect their equity stockholders but it sure as hell was going to protect their debt holders.
Long, long before the U.S. defaults on its debts (which, btw, are entirely different from the debts of those GSEs), thoreau will have hired Dave W as his principle lab assistant, Stevo will have lost at the internet, Jennifer will have changed her mind and it won't be Warren's fault any more. Get a grip, people.
All the world loves a clown.
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the new orb is way poppy, a bit overly stoned as usual, but it also gives me a chance to rip on british rappers and nerdcore.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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Wow. For once I actually know one of the groups you are talking about. I feel so musically hip.
"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
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Hmm, the Orb. I remember just hating "Little Fluffy Clouds" as a kid when it came out. Hearing it again a couple of years back, I liked it much better.
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As the Joker might have said about opposition to amateur locksmiths, "Why so picky!"
All the world loves a clown.
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Yet another "drug war cops with military-style tactics terrorize a bunch of innocent people" story.
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with the orb, it's all about live 93, which is just plain amazing.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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Abysmally clueless people.
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L'Observateur de film Constant regarde un film français.
All the world loves a clown.
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I saw a good French
filmmovie (Sorry! the pretension just comes naturally to me) this summer. Priceless starring Audrey Tatou.A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
UNDERPANTS HAWK
DOES NOT DESIRE YOUR TOUCH
I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
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Hey DAR, I'm looking for your review of Mamma Mia and strangely coming up empty.
"They civilize left, They civilize right
Till nothing is left, Till nothing is right"
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She's very charismatic and very talented and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she wasn't busy learning English between her French films, if you know what I mean.
dead_elvis, I'd say you'll find that review around the same time that bear on a log reaches the end of the river.
All the world loves a clown.
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Constant Viewer rides The Mummy: Curse of the Dragon Emperor, probably the last big movie roller coaster ride of this summer.
All the world loves a clown.
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I liked it so much I actually went and saw it again today. It's a pretty funny film, if you can get beyond the shameless gold-digging. You get to see a lot of side boob in this movie, and *spoiler alert* you even get to see a split second of frontal nudity. *end spoiler*
And if that weren't enough, the Frenchman who stars opposite Audrey Tatou is smokin' hot, too. It's a good excuse to get out of the sweltering heat and sit in an air-conditioned theater for a couple of hours.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
UNDERPANTS HAWK
DOES NOT DESIRE YOUR TOUCH
I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
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This one's for Ali: How To Be A Patriotic American.
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I ramble at length about drugs and patent law.
All the world loves a clown.
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Jennifer, the troll in your McCain thread is absolutely precious.
I CAUTION YOU / IN DEFEATING ORCS WE MAY FIND THE ONLY VILLAIN LEFT TO FACE IS OUR OWN PREJUDICE--qwantz.com
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That guy "Tom?" Yeah, he had some long rambling discussion that went on over the course of several threads. Assuming he is what he says he is, he started out trying to hit on me, I think ... somewhere he mentioned that he's a local dude, who makes a lot of money, and would I like to go to dinner sometime, and isn't it a shame that I lost my job at the Advocate but he'd be willing to pay me big bucks to edit his book manuscript for him ... and he didn't switch into full-blown batshit mode until some thread where he said I was intolerant and refused to listen to conflicting opinions, and I responded with something like "If that were true, I would've deleted all your 'Hey baby I'm rich wanna go out sometime' comments."
Major backpedaling ensued.
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Dunno where the McCain thread in question is, but that goldengod asshole on the American Patriot thread is so incredibly, willfully obtuse I've started wondering if he's really Dan T.
A parasite feeding on bacteria growing on fungus growing on cow excrement? The only way the parasitic chain could get any longer would be if the cow excrement worked for the government.
- Smacky
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No, Jake, GG is actually a real-live friend of Jeff's.
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Yes... but is he also the shadowy figure behind Dan T.? We may never know...
A parasite feeding on bacteria growing on fungus growing on cow excrement? The only way the parasitic chain could get any longer would be if the cow excrement worked for the government.
- Smacky
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I blog about Sandy's experience in a Sex-Crazed Horror!.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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Apparently, I'm all about picking fights and rash career moves this evening.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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That's a great analysis and take- down, I think.
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Agreed. I kept envisioning some guy using the sample toilets at Home Depot (the ones which, naturally, are unconnected to any actual sewer hookups), and being shocked to learn the toilet didn't magically whisk his wastes away to where he never need deal with them again.
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MUST. STOP. VISUALIZING.
*shudders*
EDIT: And thanks for the kind words.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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I'd comment on your actual BLOG if it didn't require registration.
I'm looking at more than Sandy when I say this, too. Ahem.
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If I don't, I'm overwhelmed by spam and have to approve every post manually. Think of it as a one-time CAPTCHA.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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i write a few more things about choice bits from the orb.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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Wrong thread...
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I disagree with Steve Chapman.
All the world loves a clown.
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I try to read the tea leaves in Obama's pick of Joe Biden. (N.B. -- the site is semi-broken and, among other things, the comments section appears not to be working at the moment.)
All the world loves a clown.
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Is libertarianism selfish?
All the world loves a clown.
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I bloviate about sports, drugs and language.
And in a bonus explosion of Saturday morning logorrhea, I defend the notion of voting for McCain as a vote for government gridlock.
All the world loves a clown.
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Useful advice for lonely men in search of a girlfriend.
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I share a few lines of dialog from my new, wacky indie screenplay, Juneau!
All the world loves a clown.
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LOLZ, DAR.
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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record shopping is always better when drunk.
a cautionary tale.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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Finally, it's a horse race, and with only two months of 'nagging' left!
All the world loves a clown.
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Predictions for the 2012 election.
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Over at The Art of the Possible, I discuss the extensive criminal histories shared by Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and me.
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Anarchy, State and Ignorance.
All the world loves a clown.
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I put up a series of blog posts on the electoral college, including:
1) General thoughts, responses to common arguments
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2008/09/08/8656
2) Practical difficulties with direct popular vote
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2008/09/09/8665
3) A history of popular vote/electoral vote splits
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2008/09/10/8667
4) What if states divided their electoral votes rather than going with winner-take-all?
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2008/09/10/8669
"the only thing worse than a freeper is a blue state freeper that doesn't realize they're a freeper." -dhex
hoisted by their own waterboard!
-dhex
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In hopes of ending my current jobless state via self-promotion, I explain my qualifications to lead various government agencies.
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Drug/political crimes at the Art of the Possible.
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Excuse me, Rep. Paul, but what was that about federal aid following Katrina again?
All the world loves a clown.
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fuck buttons and mogwai, last night, terminal five, scotland:
http://dhex.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/mogwai-fuck-buttons-terminal-5/
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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This isn't my post, but it is quite possibly the most awesome thing ever posted on Urkobold (and when even the Evil Fiziks Type likes an Urkobold post that's saying something):
http://urkobold.blogspot.com/2008/09/tha-adventures-of-lonewacko.html
"the only thing worse than a freeper is a blue state freeper that doesn't realize they're a freeper." -dhex
hoisted by their own waterboard!
-dhex
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The post was funny enough but even more hysterical was senor loco solitario saying he was going to sue over it.
"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
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Truly an awesome post.
Who was that Masked Man(iac)?
All I ask is a good horse and a fair day.
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http://dhex.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/my-bloody-valentine-live-roseland-september-22nd-2008/
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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hey thoreau, is joe from lowell joe from h+r or a different joe? he seems different, like more aggressive like he's been drinking bad scotch.
still a complete cunt though. NUH UH ITS DIFFERENT JOIN A TEAM OR DIE
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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Are there set list spoilers in your review, dhex? Just wondering 'cause I'm curious about the show but maybe I should read it after I see them this weekend.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
UNDERPANTS HAWK
DOES NOT DESIRE YOUR TOUCH
I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
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no.
i mean they play what you think they'll play.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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joe from Lowell is the H&R joe that we all love.
"the only thing worse than a freeper is a blue state freeper that doesn't realize they're a freeper." -dhex
hoisted by their own waterboard!
-dhex
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really? he's a lot more meanspirited at highclearing.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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shit everyone is a lot more meanspirited there. what the living fuck? you get georgist rent boys (ha ha ha) and the usual variation on "if you don't enjoy paying taxes you like eating babies" on top of the democrat's "we're totally different and fuck you for pointing out the faults of our masters" routine.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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not me but a friend:
http://soundsfamiliar.blogspot.com/2008/09/incentives-rationality-and.html
voting and the usual stuff. thoreau might find some stuff of interest.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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Blogging from the Liberty Forum: some little-known facts about the Kelo v. New London case, plus how I turned down a chance to be the LP's sacrificial lamb in the next election.
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I point out something big missing from the only debate we'll have on foreign policy.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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I report on the speech Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project gave at the Liberty Forum. Among the highlights: IllegalAliens will outnumber CitizenVoters by 2025, and then get voting rights, and the country will devolve into s Soviet-style breakup. Also, print journalists are one of the worst threats to modern American liberty, “worse than a corrupt drug-dealing cop, worse than a bribe-taking politician, worse than a pedophile teacher.”
He did make an exception in my case.
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Yeah, I don't get it. Jim doesn't consider himself as libertarian as he used to, but he's still fairly libertarian and he has a history of it, yet everybody there feels free to beat up on us over it. For the past 7 years they've failed to notice that (1) their very nice host is indeed one of the people they're beating up on and (2) he doesn't actually fit any of the stereotypes that they attribute to us.
Hell, nobody here would consider me a conservative or a doctrinaire libertarian, yet at UO they sometimes think I'm Glenn Reynolds. Either that or (horror of horrors) a Judas to the Blue Cause.
"the only thing worse than a freeper is a blue state freeper that doesn't realize they're a freeper." -dhex
hoisted by their own waterboard!
-dhex
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I suspect that's the price you pay for having a large readership. Sadly but it would appear necessarily, the larger the readership, the more a site that isn't clearly identified ideologically will attract more and more binary thinkers who have only two mutually exclusive boxes to check. "What? You're not Blue? Then you must be Red!"
All the world loves a clown.
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maybe they're trying to build up some of that argumentative frisson they need to achieve rhetorical climax these days? also the elections are a month or so away and people are freaking the hell out.
end result = everyone's a dick.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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http://dhex.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/mogwai-the-hawk-is-howling/
i like it, even if no one else does.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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http://dhex.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/autechre-and-the-myth-of-difficult-music/
i started this three months ago. i probably reads like that, too.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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I'm shocked, shocked that a Nebraska court dismissed a lawsuit against God!
All the world loves a clown.
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I plug musician Todd Snider while simultaneously panning his latest CD. Go figure.
All the world loves a clown.
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Japanese Tentacle Porn Actresses: Why I Envy Them
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Oh, there's an election soon? Who's running?
All the world loves a clown.
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I seem to have touched a nerve in a piece on Race, Religion and Proposition 8.
All the world loves a clown.
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Update on Japanese tentacle porn and my other career pursuits, plus the red-hot steamy romance novel with which I hope to become rich and famous.
EDIT: Fixed link which was shot ALL to hell and back.