So I was sitting around on the floor the other day, thumbing through my copy of the Legodeath fanzine, when it suddenly occurred to me that there was a sofa-shaped void in my life.

Consequently, my main mission over the past month - which no one gave me, but I nevertheless accepted, has been to find a couch on Craigslist. Not an easy task, ( Read more... )

Perhaps there's nothing more inspirational than banality.

I can't think of another way to explain the unmitigated surreal lunacy that Jim Davis and Garfield inspire. And I continue to be amazed by the undying spirit that drives people to make this strip funnier (or, at the very least, suck less).

Can a feces machine be art, someone once asked. And ( Read more... )

...and in other news, Monkee has a blog. The interweb was not ready for this level of blade. 

There's a scene in François Truffaut's Day For Night where the aging actress Severine (played wonderfully by Valentina Cortese) is driven to tears by her utter ineptness on the set. Much like Marilyn Monroe's famous 'where's the bourbon' moment in Some Like it Hot, Severene repeatedly flubs her lines. And what's more, she insists on marching ( Read more... )

How did I not know that Manowar had released a new slab of cheesy goodness album? I must be slipping in my old age.

Quit my job this morning said forever
I would hold my head up high
Cause I need metal in my life
Just like an eagle needs to fly

Now there's an away message if I ever saw one. But wait, it gets better.

So I walked outside into the ( Read more... )

From Ron Jarzombek's website:

Blotted Science, the instrumental extreme metal triumvirate featuring guitarist Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower, Spastic Ink, Marty Friedman), bassist Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal), and drummer Charlie Zeleny (Behold...The Arctopus, Jordan Rudess), have set a September 18 release date for their highly ( Read more... )

I'm now at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where I shall inhabit the Department of Computer Science for the foreseeable future.

I have also been computer-less for the past seven months or so - which explains but does not excuse the lack of blog activity; however, that has since been remedied (huzzah!).

Regular programming shall indeed ( Read more... )

Hullo.

I realise, in hindsight, that I really should have ended my last post with a cliffhanger. That hullo above would have been a lot more dramatic.

But shucks, folks - you know I'd never stoop to that level of gimmickry, don't you?

By the way, just so everyone's aware - next week, I'll be wearing a leather jacket, putting on some waterskis and ( Read more... )

A delightful mail we received on the ECE Department listserv this morning:

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:56:49 -0060 [Sunday November 12, 2006 10:56:49 PM MST]
From: Loyd Swartz
To: all-grads@ece.arizona.edu
Subject: [All-grads] Just above the buttocks.

Hi!

He started smoking when he was five.

I ( Read more... )

Think of a number between one and ten.

Seven?

Edit: Bah, forgot the link. Here you go.