Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar is the best video game ever.
And it's the perfect length for my attention span.

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I saw this on the back of a pickup truck as we pulled into the parking lot, and I couldn't help following to take a picture... once the driver was out of sight.

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I'm glad that somebody out there whose job is to design crummy toys to be mass-produced in China and sold at the biggest of big box stores has a sense of humor.

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I made some peanut brittle with the Good Eats recipe this evening, and I declare that recipe to be full-scale awesome.
Peanut brittle + cayenne pepper = world domination.

Our smallest apple tree was chewed down completely a couple of nights ago. As soon as I can, I need to get out and wrap some hardware cloth around all five four fruit trees on the property.
The second-smallest apple tree has already been nibbled a bit. I hope my castorific friend lets it live until the weekend. I really like that tree.

I loves me some Trail of Cthulhu. I ran a one-shot for Halloween that I think was pretty successful. I'm thinkin' of writing up the scenario for some form of publication, I liked it so much. But that's not what this post is about.
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A troubling bit of video was in rotation at CNN and CNNHN last weekend, John McCain and a supporter named Gayle Quinnell at a rally. The exchange goes like this:Quinnell: I can't trust Obama. I- I have heard about him and he's not, he's not, he's a, um.... He's an Arab. He is not....
McCain: No, no. No, ma'am. No, ma'am.
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I really dig the Mountain Goats' album Heretic Pride. You should check it out.
Yes, you.
They have a song about Lovecraft. Or sort of about feeling like Lovecraft. When he lived in Brooklyn. It's called "Lovecraft in Brooklyn." It's a good name. And a good song. You can't go wrong with lyrics like:Woke up afraid of my own shadow
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