Tonight

De Schmog was great...
the bass and drums were loud,
mari pool sounded awesome...
they were funky, and funny,
and fun...

"better luck
better luck next time
john hinckley..."

just maybe...

it is not about atheism, or reptilians...
maybe it is about the monks.

everything is sound...

this about sums it up...

Icke on Wogan

Just finished watching "David Icke - Was He Right?" and had to track this one down...
Wogan tries to get him to the reptiles knowing he won't give him any time to really explain,
just enough to sound ridiculous...
which puts his apology at the beginning in a different light...

where's my rocket car? predictions 2007

via the LATIMES:

"Pop Atheism" might include popular atheist TV and movie characters, professional athletes, political figures, etc. Look for the first billion-dollar IPO for the Web service that gets atheists together for "rituals," dating and political and business networking.


talk about wishful thinking...
Do Penn & Teller count as popular tv characters?

anyway, that bit was from the editor of edge.org
which I am browsing right now...
great atheist resource!

ah hah!

here's to being manipulated by the media machine:

Hello world! Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere!

I am so excited to have my very own page, even if the circumstances are a bit troubling. As you know, Veronica and I have started these blogs because we’re fighting a MAKEOVER planned for us by the Archie Comics Corporate Office. We don’t really know HOW we’re going to fight this change, all I DO KNOW is that we’ll need your help! We’ll keep you posted as we get a bit more organized…

I know just what you mean...

Via Howling Curmudgeons:

In the old Dungeons and Dragons someone once wrote an aritcle about paladins. In it the article contemplated various situations in which a paladin would be forced to kill innocents or the like in a game scenario and ended up saying that a good dungeon master would avoid putting the paladins into such situations to begin with.

Saying that Sue Dibny's getting raped was a bad idea seems to be a criticism on that level. The wife of a leaguer getting raped is simply a situation which should never come up, and since the writers get to make this stuff up, they control whether it does, so they should have known it wasn't a good idea regardless of the skill with which it could be handled and never addressed the scenario in the first place. I can get behind that idea, though it seems to implicate a set of assumptions I would worry about artically. After all, there is a good reason not to publish a comic book wherein a baby is put in a microwave, Kyle Baker as writer or not.

RIP - James Brown

via BoingBoing:

The Godfather of Soul died today. He was 73.

Merry Christmas from The Flash!

Merry Christmas from Emo Boy!

writing

from Jane Espenson:


Tightening lines like that is especially important for comedy, where timing is an integral part of the whole point of the exercise. As a spec writer, you don't have the -- advantage? distraction? -- of a whole room full of people chiming in on the best way to tighten a line, so you have to do it on your own. It's worth making a whole separate pass through your script, just looking for words to cut.


Yes yes yes.

I am horribly about rewriting,
but I do go back through and make
small word changes,
and cut any line,
any word, that I can...
I can not emphasize how important that is...
I've seen shows that
just cutting 40-60 words
outta their script would
make them fly.
FLY!
but those extra words are
just hanging there,
mucking up the rhythm
not adding to the meaning
not bringing the magic
nothing
just extra words.

every word costs ya somethin'
so every word better do somethin'

Merry Christmas from The Defenestration Unit!

Kid Ornery presents...

Crazy Sounds from Houston, Tx.

Hark the Herald Angels Scream!




Enjoy! -- Kid Ornery

Sagan blog-a-thon

Sagan blog-a-thon :

from www.veryimportantpotheads.com -

In the essay, Sagan said marijuana inspired some of his intellectual work. "I can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian distribution curves,'' wrote the former Cornell University professor. Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, music and sex.

I just don't get it...

This is just so wrong.

contract

from here:

A Group Contract can address issues such as who owns the group name (and whether and in what capacity a leaving member can use the group name), who owns what property (including not only sound equipment but intangible property such as recording agreements and intellectual property such as the songs and the recordings created by the group), and how profits and losses are divided. Since it almost goes without saying that members of a band inevitably leave and groups inevitably disband, it is important to structure an interband agreement in the early stages of a career. It will function like a prenuptial agreement when matters start to disintegrate and make the break-up process less painful.

I knew there was a reason he was one of my favorites,,,

via bookslut:

We also get Raymond Chandler's philosophy on drinking to excess--"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle"--and his gimlet recipe. "A real Gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow."

this weekend

go see hidetown

go see sadomasochistic xmas

go see linus

that is all...

off to the candy store...

At long last... Sweatbox!!!

Kid Ornery presents...

Crazy Sounds from Houston, Tx.

The Defenestration Unit - The Sweatbox Sessions - Ornery Master




Enjoy! -- Kid Ornery


This is the only studio album ever recorded by any version of TDU.
It was recorded at Sweatbox under the guidance of Mr. Tim Kerr
and futzed around with by Kid Ornery.

allende

you can't turn left
in general pinochet's cadillac...

and now, neither can he...