Risky Bidness
So I don’t know if y’all have seen the depths of insanity to which Tom Cruise has been driven by the neo-Gnostic Cult O’ Hubbard, but Gawker has a long video of 1/2 of Tomkat blathering on about just what…
Category Observations
The Feminization Of America[n Authors]
I opened my email this morning and came across a Barnes & Noble [note: their name sounds infinitely better when pronounced with a thick Boston brogue. -ed.] email flier advertising the latest Stephen King novel. The flier featured the following…
I Was Saying “Boo, Urns!”
I don’t know if you were paying attention to technology news today, but Apple held a little keynote address at their yearly Macworld Expo at which Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air, a pretty freakin’ cool piece of ultra-lightweight mobile…
I’m Unsure As To The Cultural Significance Of Any Of This (Or: Obama Is A Cylon)
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers. Please note that we’re proudly running WordPress, despite Prof. Reynolds’ unkind words about it. *grin* (Surviving the Instalanche thanks entirely to Donncha’s excellent WP Super Cache plugin) Aron and I have long noted that Battlestar Galactica‘s…
IMH(M)O: In My Humble (Musical) Opinion
Three Christmas songs whose entire physical record, including master recordings, lyric sheets, cover versions, hard drives containing MP3 versions, etc. should be placed inside a Titan IV and fired into the Sun to prevent them from ever being played again:…
There’s Just No Accounting For Crazy. Or Masochistic. Or Masochistic-Crazy.
As I wended my way home last night, I was listening to this “week’s” FLOSS Weekly and just about had to pull my car to the side of the road, due to my sheer astonishment. Leo and Randal had a…
An Incomplete List At Best
Wizard Entertainment has a list of the “ultimate fictional weapons”, including Glamdring (Lord of the Rings), Mjolnir (Thor’s hammer), railguns (The Eraser) and He-Man’s Power Sword, among others. Stunningly missing, however, is Neal Stephenson’s Reason. I hope Wizard are ashamed…
There Is No Justice Left In This World
…For Peasant Pig and the Terrible Dragon, with Lowly Worm as the Jolly Jester, one of my all-time favorite children’s books, is out of print and unless you’re looking to pay at least double on fleaBay, you’re simply not going…
The Art Of Wor[k]: Like Sun Tzu For The Cubicle Dweller (First In A Series)
1. Only fools visit the vending machines on the day of customer meetings. The wise man waits for his quarry to appear in the kitchenette, slightly stale.
5 Things That Should Never Be Prefixed By “Discount” Nor Suffixed By “Sale”
Meat Doctor Banking Pets Funeral services With apologies to Merlin Mann…
