I've admired gridlore's ability to mine his vast knowledge of heavy metal from ages gone by. If you look at his Heavy Metal Sunday tags you'll find all kinds of metal of historical and contemporary interest, from Britain to America to Germany to Spain.

I finally realized there's a small niche I can fill among my friends. Since usually when I get asked "Hey ( Read more... )

 Home after another great Jonathan Coulton concert. Paul and Storm opened for him, as usual, and a great time was had by all, including Adam Savage and presumably John Scalzi who were in attendance. Earlier in the day, I twittered at Jonathan that if he was still taking requests, I'd love to hear Famous Blue Raincoat. During the concert, he said he ( Read more... )

Ganked from gridlore

The top fifty SF books. Bold the ones you've read, strike the ones you hated, italicize the ones you couldn't get through. Asterisks for the ones you loved - more asterisks, more love. (addition from  ( Read more... )

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A friend sent me this link just in case you haven't gotten over Olympics fever yet.

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Enjoy!

Last Friday, brigideire, pixie0fd00m, and I met up at the San Mateo Fairground to see "Weird Al" Yankovic in concert. Had his Monterey show been cheaper, I might have seen him the next night as well. It was a good show, though the set list was abbreviated to fit into the two hour time slot mandated by (I assume) the Fair or the City.

I also ran into gridlore and kshandra, dawnd and akienm. the_ogre was ( Read more... )

Traffic was scary on the way down to Santa Cruz, but we got down there timely enough. Then came the "trying to find a parking lot while getting scooped onto one way streets" portion of the evening. Fortunately, brigideire's parking mojo kicked in and we got on street parking a block away from the Casino entrance and only had to put 30 minutes on the meter. ( Read more... )

From a conversation that pixie0fd00m and I were having ( Read more... )

I wonder if helped that brigideire took that medical terminology class...

Skin Disease or Dungeons and Dragons Character?

Score: 100% (16 out of 16)

Your LJ Slut Stats!
Out of your 53 friends, percentages you have:
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