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I’m up to my 100th post, and I wanted to make it something insightful, noble, uplifting, and memorable.

"Don't forget, it's a two-drink minimum, hot stuff!"

“Don’t forget, it’s a two-drink minimum in my pants, hot stuff!”

Hey, it’s 1 out of 4. I guess I could count it as 2 out of 4 since something is kinda being uplifted in that pic.

Okay, fine. Have something awesome.

Stephen Hawking’s video for The Big Bang Theory panel at Comic-Con 2013.

Thanks for hanging out at this train wreck of a site.

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.”

There’s No Reason For This Season

Allamagoosa decided I should watch After Last Season, stating that it’s like Nietzsche’s Abyss, if you gaze too long at it, it also gazes into you. Her brother calls it “the null hypothesis of a movie.” The plot summary at TV Tropes actually sounds like a good crime or mystery story with a smattering of science fiction, a vision which the director didn’t merely fail to realize, but realized in a negative antithesis fashion. Someone calling himself The Spoony One has overlaid a MST3K-style commentary over a copy of it, snarkily highlighting innumerable mistakes, confusions, and horrible editing decisions. Allie, being “obscenely fond” of the film fired up the flick, and after just shy of 11 minutes, I was forced to stop.

Was it too awful, too horrible, too brain-damaging? Bitchez, please. I pour movies like this on my breakfast cereal. The problem I had was that I want this movie in Walter White-level 99.1% pure form, not cut with diluting material. Some broken disaster of a person (I know who my readers are) find me a copy.

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

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.

…I Got Nothin’ To Add To This

Allamagoosa is a devoted listener of Radio Dead Air, specifically their show “What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?” and proving yet again that she’s the right girl for me. The most recent episode ended with a segment featuring one of the top 10 greatest headlines ever written –

Homeowner Clubs Burglar With Pottery, Holds Him At Elephantpoint After He Urinates In Basement, Leaves Beer In Washing Machine

Tell me you don’t want to read that.

What It Is

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It still doesn’t quite match up to the standard set by the 61-year old cross-dressing, meth-dealing priest who liked homosexual transvestite sex in the Rectory and used a sex store & head shop to launder the drug money, though. But then, what could?

What It Is

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.

Domo Arigato, Mr. Batou

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.

Pennys Diner

“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

Game Not Over

[Or: “The Extra-Collectible”]

A Canadian film studio has been given permission to excavate an Atari landfill in Alamogordo,* New Mexico, where horrible games went to die.

Of particular interest in the Atari landfill is an old E.T. video game. The game had been created after the 1982 Steven Spielberg movie, but the game was universally panned as being awful. Now, however, people are clamoring for copies of the game and the old Atari games have become quite the hit on eBay.

Fuel Industries wants to search the Alamogordo landfill to see how many of the old Atari games they can recover. They have been given six months to search the landfill, and many will be curious to see what they find. Word has it that in 1983 nine semi-trucks dumped various Atari toys in the landfill, including many copies of the coveted E.T. game.

Reportedly it wasn’t just “E.T.” (extra-terrible?) that was buried, but other games and entire systems as well. Seems like F.I. is looking to profit from the failures of others.

Rule for people and/or companies who develop craptacular products – don’t bury or destroy them. Shelve them in a warehouse and wait 10 to 30 years** while they amass a cult following, then sell them as “collectibles” for ridiculous prices on eBay.

* No, it’s not Allamagoosa’s hometown.

** Average length 15-20 years, until the kids mature into late-30-something adults and contract nostalgitis.

…But Romulan Ale Is Still Illegal

Star Trek wine is now available. No word on when Saurian brandy will be imported.

Les And More

[Or: “The Majesties Of Rock”]

I just found this…

“Got Her And A Swiss Army Knife For A Dollar At The Flea Market”

For all the married couple who are tired of answering the question “How did you two meet?”, Allamagoosa and I came up with some snappy answers. Try these on strangers or friends you want to lose.

“I found her in a box of Cracker Jacks.”

“He came included with the utilities.”

“I won a bet.”

“I lost a bet.”

“Mail order.”

“My neighbor sucks at poker.”

“I woke up one morning and he was on the couch eating Cheerios and watching TV.”

“She was selling cookies door to door.”

“Swap meet.”

“I found her in the produce section attempting to masquerade as a pineapple.”

“It’s a condition of my parole.”

“My brother needed more test subjects.”

“The art store was out of those little mannequins.”

“I bought him at a convention.”

“We met at the morgue.”

“Consolation prize on The Price Is Right.”

“One of my story characters came to life.”

“An A.I. on the internet matched us up.”

“They mistyped ‘bridle’ in the classified ad.”

“I bought a mystery box on eBay.”

“My self-cloning experiment went horribly awry.”

“I won at the festival’s ring toss.”

“The roofies still haven’t worn off.”

“I’ve got custody since I posted her bail.”

“She was stuck in a tree.”

“I’m a roboticist. How’s he look?”

“I’m gonna need someone to take the rap.”

“We didn’t.”