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11.8
[Or: “None Shall Pass”]
Trying harrrrrrrdddddd nooooooowwwwwwwww……..
It’s so harrrrrdddddd noooowwwwwwwwwwwwww………
Immovable Object sloshes roofies into Irresistible Force’s drink.
As commenter Flicker0546 sagely noted, “At least they get to ride back in a convertible.”
Finding My Religion
And lo, when the Millers struck the Time, the prophets Coors, P’abs’t, and Bud the Wiser were greeted at the Rock of Rolling
Obvious video was obvious, so you get this.
Trippin’ Cross Country
So I moved and am pirating Allamagoosa’s bandwidth until I get a connection. I’m getting slowly settled into my new place, it’s pretty nice.
Her designs may be fabulous, but her cat’s still a snob
She showed me the movie Kiki’s Delivery Service, an animated Japanese film with Phil Hartman doing one of the voices. mostly ad libbing. So yeah, I had to check it out. Very cute, but not smarmy. It’s a perfect kid’s movie – if you’ve got little ones, they would probably love it. Or as Allie says, the best part is that your kids will love it and you won’t hate it, especially if they want to watch it over and over. The flight animations and scenes are particularly well executed.
Allie informs me that in the version currently available, most of Hartman’s ad libs had been sliced out. Still worth watching though. She also has a book about the art, which should surprise no one.
I’ve been wanting to watch Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex for quite a while now. Guess who has the entire series? I’m liking it. The Tachikomas are disturbingly appealing.
The real caped crusader calls his crime-fighting cohorts when he‘s running late
I’ve been returning the favor (if you can call it that) by showing her Big Bang Theory episodes. Sometimes she laughs so hard I think she’s going to run out of oxygen.
Last night, I showed her the first episode of Breaking Bad. She doesn’t know yet if she liked it or not.
Pointless
* “Why do people always want to talk to me when I have something stuffed in my mouth?” – Allamagoosa, eating a cookie.
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* Penny’s Diner in Rawlins Wyoming is awesome. If you ever pass by that way, stop in and be sure to get the chocolate and peanut butter milkshake.
“Make the caption funny” he said – Allamagoosa, who took the picture
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* “I don’t even know what to think of it.” – Allamagoosa
Degeneration X
What’s the message I’m conveyin’?
Can you tell me what I’m sayin’?
So have you got some idea?
Didn’t think so, well, I’ll see ya!
Vox Day posts Khyron’s Generation X Aptitude Test –
1. Do you want to change the world?
A. Yes, and I’m proud to say we did it, man. We changed the world. Just look around you!
B. Yes, absolutely, and I promise I will get back to doing that just as soon as interest rates return to where they’re supposed to be.
C. Omigod, omigod, changing the world and helping people is, like, totally important to me! I worked in a soup kitchen once and it was so sad but the poor people there had so much dignity!
D. That question is so stupid and absurd that there is obviously no reason to continue this pointless exercise.
If you answered D, you are Generation X. Thus endeth the GXAT.
Following this, a rather, uh, spirited discussion broke out over what should be GenX’s anthem. For most people, it will be Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” although one commenter did aptly suggest “Rape Me.”
Not everyone was 20-something long-haired disaffected white kid with divorced parents and a stack of Melvins and REM records, though. Generation X was probably the most fragmented generation up til that point, requiring multiple anthems.
A significant number of Xers came of age in the late 80s and early 90s – the last real GenXer year in music was ’94 or ’95 – so this focuses primarily on that age bracket. The following is a list of which band is most suited to you based solely on ridiculously arbitrary stereotypes with no guarantee of actual accuracy.
If you…
Were a confused kid starting to figure things out but couldn’t quite hack it and blew your brains out* – Nirvana
…and I swear that I don’t have a gun…
Could rock out at first until becoming boring PC, follow-the-script left-wingers – Pearl Jam
After Pearl Jam boycotted Ticketmaster, fans had to deal with the unintended consequence of out-of-town scalpers
Same as above, but even whinier and without the politics so much – Smashing Pumpkins.
Were in college getting good grades or just sorta hanging out – Toad The Wet Sprocket
A hardcore leftist idiot who really could rock out – Rage Against The Machine
A black-wearing clubgoer – Depeche Mode
A bitch – L7
A lesbian with a pickup truck – k.d. Lang
A deluded suburban white kid – Vanilla Ice
Style like a chemical spill, indeed
Passed out under the dance cage with naked girs next to you at a club at 3 AM – Lords Of Acid
An educated white kid posuer trying to look nihilistic who later got pissed off for real – Nine Inch Nails
A scrawny four-eyed nerd who managed to avoid beatdowns by being funny – “Weird Al” Yankovic
A gangsta – NWA
The original cop-killin’ gangsta – Ice-T
A rapper with a positive attitude and a thing for horseshoes – Arrested Development
Thought you were cool like that – Digable Planets
A nympho – Liz Phair
But not at the same time
Disliked all the other slackers in school – Harry Connick Jr.
Centered virtually your entire life around drugs and despair – Alice In Chains
What’s my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
The Devil’s spawn – Michael Bolton
What, you expected something happy in a post about Xer music?
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*Or were so messed up you married a woman who arranged for your death and made it look like a suicide. Opinions are divided on that one, but either way it’s a bad day.
Repeatedly Offending
Totally swiping from The Adaptive Curmudgeon again with this morally questionable but catchy libertarian tune. Hey, it’s not illegal.
Taking A Shat
Apparently The Adaptive Curmudgeon hates everyone with such a passion he would drop a raccoon turd on your dinner plate if he could, but since he doesn’t have a couple billion of the masked critters to aim and squeeze at Dollar Menu entrees, he posted this instead –
It was moderately amusing for me (for me, for meee), but then I find things like Late Night Mistakes and Batman vs. Donkey Kong to be High Art, so I don’t think I qualify as an arbiter of crimes against culture. In fact, I’m quite likely a repeat offender.
Which is a good enough segue as any to drop these classy bits from LNM…
Dude, smile! You’re harshing the mellow at this party
…and a thousand hentai jokes were launched
“Drink up, mates!” indeed
Blue Gives Way To Black
Just for the hell of it, a drawing of Kimbra –
Cheer up, you’r not drawn that bad (but your hat could be drawn better)
This is the preliminary sketch – maybe I should stick to pencil.
Blue singer
100 Encores
Blogger makes 100 posts, blames me
Now that I’ve shamelessly appropriated undue credit…
What Do You Do For An Encore? has reached 100 posts. Pretty quickly, too. His focus is primarily on music, ranging from funk to progressive to jazz to J-Pop and a couple things I don’t know what they are. I’ve discovered some great stuff there, such as Kimiko Kasai covering Herbie Hancock’s Butterfly (I had never heard either one, as far as I recall), the utter surreality of Caroline Charonplop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and something called alley shrines. And sometimes he just goes nuts. I suspect heavy drinking is involved, but he says no.
Go check it out and get some learnin’ about all kinds of music and maybe a little about Japanese culture, too.
Dream Into Action
The four stages of technological progress –
Phase 1 – Origination and dissemination of idea, often through Science Fiction
Lila, The Build-A-Friend from OMAC
Phase 2 – Ideas hrönired into reality engineered by Science!
Phase 3 – Refinement, mass production and Integration into lifestyle [Hat tip to Wdydfae]
Phase 4 – Ordinary everyday horseshit drama
And you thought “Friends” was bad with mere humans
All 4 stages neatly summed up
Do not ride the hoverboard. BE the hoverboard!
Bonus round for anyone who caught the title reference
The Apocalypse of Exuberant Hairstylings was narrowly avoided when the 1980s, in a surprise move, ended.
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