Watching the movie Winter's Bone, one scene strikes an appropriate note: yeah, a tweaker would keep a ferret for a pet.

Browsing the grocer today and picked up a bottle of the Ace Joker cider, which is pretty good. Very dry as ciders go, but still pleasantly apple-ey, no unpleasant aftertaste or anything. 6.9% alcohol, too, so a bit more of a whack than most hard ciders these days.

Found this big whack of the old Judge Dredd Megazine to read and have been reading it. Interesting stuff ( Read more... )

Having noticed the other day that they're making another Judge Dredd movie, it occurred to me that I'd never seen the first one, from back in 1995. It's legendarily awful, they say, but I figured I would check it out anyhow, for curiosity's sake ( Read more... )

Some new Ripley pictures for those who may be interested, including his encounter with the Roomba. Don't have the wherewithal to videotape him, unfortunately, but imagine the big guy running around on top of the furniture, constantly staring at the thing in his ready-to-pounce pose, and furiously making his funny tongue-chewing noise.

Phil and I just received a Roomba vacuum robot as a gift. Ripley is losing his shit. This is going to be quite the spectator sport for a while.

It's funny, the variety of nonsense you can aim in your direction by way of Twitter. After futzing around with it the last couple weeks, I currently receive updates from...lessee...six personal friends, five hip-hop artists, four political writers and blogs, one porn actress, one dealer in sex toys, Sinn Fein, the Ulster Gaelic Athletic ( Read more... )

KS: from what I've heard the moe trend is passing
KS: and now they're getting into victorian and vampire stuff again
DktrSmith: I wonder if all the moe freaks have given up the bullshit about only preferring "2D" and finally graduated to real child porn.

I guess one of the drawbacks of buying shit on the internets a lot is that inevitably, at some point, somebody is gonna swipe your credit card number. The other day I noticed an odd new charge of $2.40 to ClickandBuy (some kind of British Paypal-alike), which led me to look a little closer at my account and see that someone had bought a couple of ( Read more... )

The other day I put up a bunch of old vacation photos on Picasa, Google's sorta Flickr-alike deal they have up now, and was amused to see an interesting side effect of how it works ( Read more... )