One Oh Unshow

The scrolling on Hundred was getting to be a bit much. I do have audio for release, including a bunch of Ambassador Travel Updates; I will share that audio with the world soon.

This one is silence. For all… you… sinners!!

1,467 thoughts on “One Oh Unshow

  1. I shall be quiet as a mouse, then.

    Nope, not gonna talk. You can’t make me!

    My lips are sealed, I tell you!

    Do your worst; I’ll never submit.

    Never…

    Never…

    gonna give you up!

  2. repost:

    Soundgarden’s ‘Superunknown’ turns 20. bleargh. They just released the 20th ann reissue deluxe set. I love this album but I dont think Ill pick the new fancy package up unless I can grab it used cheap. Too many albums turning 20!

  3. Speaking of Ambassador Travel Updates: I just sent Jack an email with the two updates I recorded “offline” (out of my cell-phone service area) on my recent vacation. 🙂

  4. For fans of music documentaries (or docs in general)I highly recommend “The Punk Singer”, the story of Kathleen Hanna. She was lead singer of Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, and Le Tigre (as well as being a cutting edge feminist) before she abruptly quit music altogether in 2005. Wonderful. And on Netflix instant!

  5. I was just told I’m listening to inappropriate work music:
    Light as the Breeze written by Leonard Cohen as performed by Billy Joel…. Okay, um, sure.

  6. Elder God or not, after too many seconds of that video, Lo Pan has earned himself a place on the “List of People I need to Slap in Ocotber” list.

    Make it stop!

  7. ZOMG, LOL. Van, you’ve given me days of fun.

    At which point you have to say: For f***’s sake, why, man? Gwyneth Paltrow no longer being in your life is like having a 14 inch long celery stick that’s been stuck up your arse for years surgically removed! You should be f***ing delirious! This album should be a series of f***ing honky-tonk piano-driven upbeat bangers with titles like ‘Wahoo!’ and ‘Thank F*** Almighty, Free At Last!’ and ‘I Don’t Have To Knit My Breakfast No More!’, all accompanied to the sound of six-shooters fired into the f***ing ceiling with both hands! All your f***ing friends hated her, were you not aware of that? But no, Chris is sad, so on we f***ing crawl through the cesspools of f***ing self-pity. “All I know is I love you/so much it hurts.” (yep, that stench coming from Stratford-Upon-Avon isn’t the drains, it’s f***ing Shakespeare shitting himself in his grave). I’d suggest you drown your f***ing sorrows, Chris, but it’d probably be best all round if you f***ing drowned yourself!

  8. “Notice-
    Our records indicate thats you are an unaffiliated elector. If you wish to vote in the June 24, 2014 Primary Election, you must affiliate with a political party that is participating in the election.

    -Jefferson County Elections Division”

    fuck you, I wont do what you tell me.

  9. Here’s what I learned today. Steve Jones of the Six Pistols fucked a lot of famous women. Among the notables admitted were Cameron Diaz, Joan Jett, Kelly LeBrock, and Nancy Spungen. The best part was he couldnt remember Kelly LeBrock’s name. Jesus.

  10. I’m getting spam emails from a company that sells diesel powered generators.

    I suppose it makes from Nigerian billionaires and Viagra ads.,

  11. I didn’t meet mom’s boy toy. My grandmother was so stressed fro the move my uncle, rightly, said no company. After all, she’s moving to BC to die, we’d rather it not happen before she got there.

  12. For some reason, I have this strange question bouncing around my head.

    In the 60’s cartoon one of the lyrics to the song is :
    In the chill of the night,
    At the scene of the crime,
    Like a streak of light,
    He arrives just in time!

    What the hell does that mean? How does a stream of light arrive just in time?

    Just wondering.

  13. One of the benefits of waiting to schedule travel until the new job started: travel discounts. Yay! There will be planning soon.

  14. Off to see Blood Red Shoes. Should be rocking “all these people are 15 years younger here” time!

    Least I can check another band off the list

  15. So I am only now hearing about this potentially EPIC Meteor Shower tomorrow night.
    Thing is, it could be epic fail or epic win. There seems to be no consensus.

  16. Who the hell thought it was a good idea for the band to start at 11 last night when I have to be to work at 7? Bitch and complain, I do!

  17. Your crap joke for the day:

    The boss was concerned that his employees were not giving him enough respect, so he tried and old fashioned method of persuasion: He brought in a sign that said “I’m the Boss” and taped it to his door. After lunch, he noticed someone had taped another note under his. “Your wife called. She wants her sign back!”

  18. You know, with as much as I’m not in to twitter, I find that I just can’t get excited enough to watch videos of “celebrities” ready people’s mean tweets about them.

  19. Ok, I was going over Cj’s hotel and I want to know why her rooms cost an average of $20 a night less than mine do? I may have to do some investigating tomorrow. It may mean cancelling my room and rebooking through a different way.

  20. Another music documentary highest recommendation: “A Band Called ‘Death'”. Not only the first black punk band, but they had the Ramones beat by 2 years. so punk, in fact, that they turned down record deal after record deal because they refused to change their name – hence the reason they went forgotten for 30 years.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2064713/

    On Netflix!

    • Halfway through the doc, “Hot Coffee”, on Netflix streaming. It’s a pretty fascinating look beyond the hype at the facts of the infamous McDonald’s coffee burn victim lawsuit – – and more importantly – – the tort reform in its wake that stripped away consumer protections.

      You know, just in case you needed to learn about yet another way that Karl Rove and Dubya made their careers and fortunes selling Americans’ rights out to corporate profit margins.

      Sounds uber-depressing, but it’s actually more eye-opening than outright gloomy.

  21. Mini dumbass memory:

    Buying a ticket to see Fading Gigolo at arty cinema.

    Pretty sure I asked for a ticket to see American Gigolo though.

    Doh!

    The guy at the counter didn’t blink and just give me the correct ticket…

    • Agree. I am one who does like shows that have this sort of strangeness in them … but only when they are show that have this sort of strangeness in them. When they suddenly add it 5 seasons into the show and just a few episodes from the end … it feels forced/out of place/contrived … something like that.

    • The pictures are great, but the author of the article is a bit misguided. They confuse professional photographers for “that person who always insists on taking pictures” with smart phones. They also seem to think that because they have never seen the pictures before, no one else has either.

  22. I’m not a great fan of memory sticks. The one I bought failed after a few uses.

    Now one I borrowed has failed tonight, I may be jinxed.

  23. Finally paying my debt for losing to the Ducks.

    Last night we simmered brats in my annaheim/big jim chile beer, then grilled them. Awesome!

  24. In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people… the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing…

  25. CP: Modified Combined Obstacle Overlay (MCOO) …Or… “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Turntables” – General Patton vs. X-Cutioners

  26. If I wrote a movie I’d put Ed in it as a tough and unpredictable but firm and rational ex-cia agent whose code name would be “Drake Deadlock” but whose real name would be Ed’s. Then I’d have him running around the world fighting other ex-cia agents gone rogue and 3rd world dictators and pharmaceutical C.E.O’s and stuff like that. No one would know who he was or where he came from, but whenever he’d kill a man he’d drop little hints like “Your credit card has been… de-Kleined”, or “The only certainties in life are death…and Texas”, or “Ed Rover Ed Rover send death right over…”. Yeah. Yeah that’d be swell.

  27. CR (reading just in case) Turn Around Bright Eyes by Rob Sheffield. Only 20 pages in, but recommend to music lovers. This one is better than his first: Love is a Mix Tape.

  28. I’m going to be in Montreal from this Friday to next Wednesday. Any deadpanites been there and have suggestions on places to visit, beers to try, etc? TEB, you’re only about 5,000 miles away. You should know it well.

    • TRA, I just read an article in Beer & Brewing about Vices and Versa – vicesetversa.com. The website seems to be in French, but looks like a place with an extensive beer list (32 on draft), good food, and live music.

      • I don’t even see a translation option for the Vices and Versa place. But it’s near a metro line and not too far from where I’m staying so I will most likely check it out. Thanks.

    • Montreal is a fun place, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time there, though not in over 10 years. I can’t give you any current info. Sorry.

      But this may help:
      – Rue (street) Sainte-Catherine is where most of the bars and fun evening stuff happens. If you head that way, you’ll always find something to do.

      – Old Town Montreal has a lot of cool historical buildings. It’s a fun place to wander around during the day. I don’t know about at night.

      – Mount Royal, the source of Montreal’s name, is a beautiful park and has a great view of the city. It should be a great place to hang out during the day.

      – Unibroue is a Quebec brewery located in Chambly, Que. It’s sort of a suburb of Montreal, and is on the other side of the river (south east) of Montreal.

      Be warned, all the signs are in French, though everyone speaks English.

      • Thanks for the Montreal info. I’m also looking into the Botanical Garden and the Olympic Park area. And a local friend recommended a good place to get poutine.

  29. This one’s for JJ:

    CP: “We’ll Paint This Town”-Throat and Phonograph Fire Support Coordination Measures (TPFSCM) – General Patton vs X-Ecutioners

  30. Two of the three requirements needed for boo’s house purchase are complete. She’s become a bundle of nerves. We are all on standby waiting for the meltdown.

    I’ll be so happy when this is over and they are moved in.

  31. Chocolate dipped cookie dough on a stick

    Not sure how they keep it on the stick but then *shrug*. I’m don’t care enough to want to go to the stampede grounds to find out

  32. Awesome Ass Memories…

    *Fishbone’s ‘Skank ‘N Go Nutz’ is playing in background*

    Son – ” Stinkin’ doughnuts?”
    Me – “No, its Skank and Go Nuts”
    Son – “Nope”

    • Your crap joke for the day:

      During a dinner party, the hosts’ two little children entered the dinning room totally nude and walked slowly around the table. The parents were so embarrassed that they pretended nothing was happening and kept he conversation going. The guests cooperated and also continued as if nothing extraordinary was happening.After going all the way around the room, the children left, and there was a moment of silence at the table, during which one child was heard to say, “You see, it is vanishing cream!”

  33. This fucking 2010 silver vw Beetle packed with assholes and biatches just blew threw a 4 way stop and had the audacity to honk at me for nearly getting pegged by them. Seriously, had I not had my daughter in the car I may have done something just as stupid back to them… learn to drive, fuckers.

  34. So after 2 days in Montreal I have some observations.

    They really like hot dogs here. Even the Chinese Buffet place in the middle of China-town has hot dogs.
    Bikes everywhere.
    I saw swings for adults on one street. Pretty cool.
    Very hippy-like atmosphere. One park I walked through had a naked kid running around.
    At night, the downtown area is phenomenal. Animated light shows on buildings all over the place.

  35. Your crap joke for the day:

    These two guys walk into a bar, and they’ve each got a black eye… The bartender asks the first guy. “What happened to you?”The first guy responds “I had a slight mishap of words with my wife.. You see, we were getting plane tickets, and the lady behind the terminal was REALLY big breasted and I accidentally said `Two pickets to titsburg please!’ and I MEANT to say ‘Two tickets to Pittsburgh!’ and she hit me..”The bartender looks at the second guy and asks. “And you?”The second guy responds “I had a slight mishap of words also.. This morning, while I was eating breakfast, I meant to say ‘Please pass the margarine’ but instead, I accidentally said `You stupid bitch, you ruined my life’…”

  36. T Cat distilled the essence of Deadpan: it’s a place where where share weird stuff we find on the Internet, talk about movies and music, and share crappy jokes. 😉

    • I didn’t know him, haven’t read his stuff, but I’m aware of his reputation, as an author and a classy guy in the community. He was pretty much universally liked and respected. Kudos to him for all he accomplished, before cancer took over. R.I.P.

  37. We had new neighbours move in next door. Yesterday afternoon this kid of around 7 or 8 comes ringing our doorbell and asks if we had any kids he could play with. I actually feel sorry for this kid as our neighbourhood is filled with people much like us. They had kids once but now they are all grown and moved out. Our new neighbour is going to have a hard time finding kids his own age.

    • That’s a foot tread squarely in progressive rock territory. As a song I quite like it, but I like challenging songs from Opeth and relative to their past work, it is somewhat simple. I won’t criticize them for following a new musical path, I always appreciate artist expanding their sound. I may even purchase this album, it just won’t be on my “music to run by” playlist.

  38. You know what, I kind of liked this movie. They never actually showed any violence happening. There was a lot of allusion to bad things happening but you never actually saw it. Sometimes, allowing the viewer to use their own imagination works better than actually showing what’s happening

  39. 1 day left in Montreal. Anything I should bring back with me apart from beer? I can’t find Romulan ale anywhere. Wasn’t there some sort of sci-fi related coin or bill that was talked about here before?

  40. Holy jeebus I actually saw Cap America. I know not everyone here has so without going into detail… did everyone catch what was written on the gravestone at the end of the film? Genius.

  41. CP: Jumpers — Sleater-Kinney (from the L-Word soundtrack)

    was that really on that show? I guess I need to rewatch it. Poor me.

    • So did we. I didn’t get any hail at my place, but some parts of town did. It was a “glued to the TV watching nonstop local weather coverage and waiting for weather alerts” kind of night. I was ready to go hide out in the laundry room on the bottom floor of my building if I had to, but, thankfully, I didn’t have to.

  42. In the world of gadgetry in Cynful-ville: I have traded in (figuratively) my flip phone for a Galaxy S 5. And in other gadgetry news they still won’t tell me what’s wrong with my Ipod touch. Win-lose?

  43. Your crap joke for the day:

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  44. I just sent another piece of audio content in to :jack: . At some point in the near(ish) future, in addition to a new series of Airport Updates, you’ll also get to hear a new discussion of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Repo Man,” recorded live at my friend’s apartment. :happy:

  45. Damn I do love Samurai Jack!!!!

    Scissorsmith: At the fork in the road, follow the rocky path. It will take you to the dragon’s lair.

    Samurai Jack: Where will the other one take me?

    Scissorsmith: Space Ace!

  46. Considering getting an SSD for my desktop PC, Windows 8 is not too bad but the slow HD makes it rather painfully slow at times.

  47. Well back home after seeing Maleficent at the flicks. It was at the arty cinema so very few children.

    Not the train wreck I was expecting, jolie was great, some twee bits, but enjoyable nough.

  48. No completely solid plan yet, but next weekend I will be in Denver a short while. The kids will need some acclimating as they are staying three weeks there, but there may be some evening time for a beer or morning time for a greasy spoon meetup…

    I figure I’ll crosspost to FB too…

  49. I have a question. First the preamble:

    We have a program/website called This is That which would be like the CDN version of The Onion. The other day I shared an article on Facebook by them, about Kinder Surprises being smuggled into the US. While I know the story is fake, it did lead to the following question:

    Do you have Kinder Surprises and their nummy Kinder Bueno bars in the US? If not, should I bring a few in October? The Surprises are rather meh in my opinion but I loves the Buenos.

  50. Since many of the Panites going to Colorado were not in AZ when I brought the CDN snack food I thought I’d bring a bunch more in October. Some of them others have tried but, if I have my list straight I should bring:

    Coffee Crisps
    Smarties
    Kinder Surprises
    Kinder Buenos
    Hawkins Cheesies

    Does that sound right? I think my suitcase will have more junk food in it than actual clothes and stuff.

  51. The smallest accomplishments can be huge when you just don’t know anything about a subject. I am due for my new tattoo tomorrow and I’ve been wanting to get a tattoo of a qr code that links to a web page where I can change the image, gif, movie, whatever at my whim. The big thing holding me up has only been that I don’t know ANYTHING about creating web pages. Attempts to use wordpress, joomla, etc. have been frustrating as hell because they want my pages to have their themes. Nothing had the simple page with media that I wanted. A friend at work helped me create what I needed today. Welcome to my future tattoo:

    http://www.usedhair.net/qrtattoo

    • That’s a great idea for a tattoo. Although, I’d be just as impressed if you had that .gif animated on your skin.

      Do you need one of us to fly in and hold your hand at the tattooist’s?

      • This will be my 22nd tattoo. A bit past the hand holding stage at this point. But, you can fly out and watch if you want.

  52. re: candy. YES.

    re: tattoos. I had a related experience today. I have a new doctor and had my lady appointment today. She was FASCINATED with my tattoos. “And this one? What is that?” I appreciate the attention?

  53. Say, does anyone know when Orange is the New Black comes out?

    /snark because I have a glut of announcements about this everywhere I look

  54. I don’t think I’ve said so on here, but I’m flying to Phoenix tonight and get to have a quick visit with Jack tomorrow! Looks like it’ll be a balmy 109-110 all weekend!

  55. Enough of this silliness. Time to change into something better than jeans and a t-shirt. Must gussy-up for tonight’s awards ceremony

  56. So tonight’s plan to upgrade the HDD of my PS3 failed as three of the screws on the caddy refused to budge.

    Sigh

    I may have to get a friend to nuke the screws with a drill.

    • I am so very behind. ditto, haven’t tried the chicken yet, but it’s on my list. I’m buying a new grill this weekend – may try it there!

      Sleepy . . .

  57. Here we are, sitting in the lobby of a hotel. The website said the event started at six. We get here and are told it starts at 6:30. *sigh*

  58. Your crap joke for the day:

    Two piggies walk into a bar, get drunk and ask, “Where’s the bathroom?” The bartender points to the door and they rush in.Two more piggies walk into a bar. They soon get drunk and they ask, “Where’s the bathroom?” The bartender points to the door and they rush in.One piggy walks into a bar. He gets drunk out of his mind and then heads for the exit. “Hey, buddy! Do you want know where the bathroom is?” asks the bartender.”No thanks,” the piggy slurs, “I always go WEEWEEWEE all the way home!”

  59. Morning Pan

    The awards banquet was fun last night. I’m sure, the fact that one of our books won in in the spec fic category helped. Of the two of our books that were nominated I’m extra happy that One’s Aspect one. It is the book I had direct involvement in and even has my name in the copyright page. Woo hoo!

  60. Another good day at the Con. Teresa and Cali talked with Nathon Fillion, I met and talked with Holly Conrad from the Heroes of Cosplay show.

  61. First try at the qr code is not going well. The tattoo artist was too focused on the straightness of the lines and added more ink each time he wanted to make it straighter. So the lines are too fat. I’m not too upset yet because there is the possibility that the lines will thin out a little as it heals. From there I will have to go back once it can be worked on again and try to get it fixed. I’m not going to give up on it. I will make this thing work.

  62. Currently watching “Something Weird” 1967. I really need to do a better job of writing down why I put some of these movies on my cue. I have no idea why I wanted to watch it.

  63. Checking in from a busy summer on the road. Well, the road just got me to and from.

    Competed in my first “Street Vault” last Saturday. I sucked. Actually, pumped up by adrenaline, I found I had more speed and strength then I could handle. 🙁 Oh the humanity.

    Went to the beach. Made some art. Read a book – Life as we knew it.” (mini review – the book is unnecessarily sloppy with it’s science, but a fun quick read.)

    Sad about Rik Mayall. He made me laugh.

    I don’t know if I love or hate this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WBqHdI5Bdw
    In any case it is very elaborate.

    Now back to laundry.

    • I’ve only read Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land from Heinlein, but I did always find it interesting that these two books with vastly different worldviews were from the same author.

  64. So I went for blood tests this morning, even though I got there early 9 grey ninjas were still infront of me in the queue.

      • Hear Hear!

        Or as I have heard it put before … if you’re rebroadcast the noise your just strengthening their clutter.

        BTW – I guy I went to Jr High School with was on one of those planes. I can only imagine how his parents must feel every time someone reposts one of these “planes weren’t involved” things.

  65. Just had lunch at Twin Peaks with my co-workers. I literally did not know where to look. And that was just because of the tv screens

  66. New Belgium is a much better brewery when it collaborates. CD: Hop Kitchen #6 – New Belgium and O’Dell Brewery FOCO Collabo. yum.

  67. You know that scene in Return of the Jedi, where Darth is dying in Luke’s arms?

    His heavy, squeaky-sounding breathing sounds just like all of the pneumonia patients on my unit. . .

  68. Oooh lookie! Thank you for all the birthday wishes!

    Also, I saw Bunny’s post about my hotel. I think I got the discount because I did the booking through the Choice Hotels site… I’m not sure and wish I’d been more able to send you all the info when I did it, but I haven’t checked in. #fail

    Rhett, I didn’t know you were at Con! You should have pinged me! Hope you had a blast! I texted :Jack: but he disregarded Ralph’s and my texts and never responded. So there. 😉

  69. TV today.

    first episode of a new series called ‘Murder in the First’, thought the first episode was meh! – unlikeable characters and the ‘bad guy’ was just dumb.

    Latest Fargo…bloody brilliant.

  70. On a less frustrating front, I bought something off eBay for the first time. It was a HDD caddy for the model of PS3 I own…yAh!

  71. I had a lunch with some old college friends today and got caught up. While we were talking I found out that I had taken classes with the drummer of “Gravity Kills” and his future wife. How did I not know that? LOL

  72. Oh yeah, I still have one more hockey debt to pay. Since Montreal lost to New York, somebody needs to choose a movie for me to do a pbp on.

    actually, maybe give me a couple of choices since I’m never sure what NetFlix will have here in Canada.

  73. Thank you,Lord, for blessing me with this Avery Twenty One Anniversary Edition Imperial India Style Brown Ale.

    Ralph may never leave the state… 😉

    • Thus far. The one thing I do hate about today’s indie comics is how short they are. But hey, I’ll take any length of book in which Jack Burton actually has to go to a Chinese Hell

  74. ..and your crap joke that only me and Lo may get:

    Someone mentioned that Rik Mayall had died, so I decided to check for myself.
    I spent an hour Googling “Young Ones” and “Bottom”, and have been asked to attend my local police station for questioning….

  75. ..and your bonus crap joke:

    After her conviction of murder in the second degree, the District Attorney, during her sentencing hearing said, “Mrs. Grey – after you put the arsenic in the stew and served it to your husband, didn’t you feel even a little remorse for what you were doing?” “I did,” she said calmly. “And when was that?” quipped the D.A. “When he asked for seconds!” she replied.

      • Oh good grief!

        A) The author of this article is grasping to generate controversy because it’s a great movie and she is trying to ride it’s coat-tails for “clicks”. Did you know that most of these authors get paid by the article visit? I talked with a former newspaper reporter whose paper had been bought by a media company and is now mainly on-line. He that told me his salary had been cut and (like a waiter who is supposed to make up for sub-minimum wage with tips) he was supposed to make the difference with click-through traffic. This financially forced him to write more articles on American Idle and “Honey BooBoo” and less articles on anything of substance.

        B) The author admits in her article that she took a 5 YEAR OLD to see this movie! Given the amount of violence in this PG rated film, that she should chose to take a 5 year old and think nothing of it … THAT is something society needs to talk about.

  76. So at the flicks, armed with a can of Dr Pepper, waiting for ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’.

    Not expecting much.

    • Ok dont click this… the website is awful. WTF puts black font on a black background??? Anyway here’s the synopsis-

      DC COMICS FANS!! A list of possible upcoming films from the latest rumors:
      -Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (May 2016)
      -Shazam (July 2016)
      -The Sandman (Christmas 2016)
      -Justice League (May 2017)
      -Wonder Woman (July 2017)
      -a Flash and Green Lantern team-up (Christmas 2017)
      -Man of Steel 2 (May 2018)
      -Suicide Squad and Metal Men films are also on the table

      • First thought: I assume we’ll be in full-on superhero fatigue by then.

        Second thought: Christmas 2016 for Sandman?

        Third thought: I seriously hope they’re not going to subject us to Sandman among the Justice League heroes and villains.

        Fourth: Will there also be a Super-Friends movie?

        Fifth: I wonder if anyone put any snacks in the break room today. . .

        • See thats what Im thinking. We’ll also be in full Star Wars mode by then too. Also, wondering if the general public will see the JLA film as an Avengers rip off… DC really dropped the ball here.

          I think I saw some ho-hos earlier

    • I don’t think I’ve ever seen a capo on a bass before, plus, is that a higher tuning than typical? In any case, it sounds very lush. I’m glad that DickButtsAnonymous submitted this link for our listening pleasure.

  77. Your crap joke for a lazy Sunday:

    While having their evening dinner together, a little girl looked up at her father and asked, “Daddy, you’re the boss in our family, right?” The father was very pleased to hear it and confidently replied, “Yes my little princess.” The girl then continued, “That’s because mommy put you in charge, right?”

  78. Our guest room has become more of an extra storage room than anything else. I think I’m going to take today to completely clean it out. While we aren’t actually expecting any guests at the moment, why wait and then be rushed.

    First, must fill my phone with podcasts to listen to while cleaning.

  79. Well, I’ve cleaned the guest room as much as I can without hubby. I don’t want to throw a bunch of stuff out then have him come back and say he wanted to keep them.

    I did, finally, decide to recycle my old textbooks that I seemed to have kept for 20 years. I want to do the same with hubby’s but, as I said above, won’t do it without asking him. I think we have the “it’s a book, of course you keep it” syndrome. Which is why we still have these.

    • “finally, decide to recycle my old textbooks that I seemed to have kept for 20 years.”
      I have video editing and compositing software that would fit that description.
      I just hate to ditch it because it still works (if I owned a PC) and I know how amazingly capable it is, 20 years old or not!
      I always thought I’d find some young, up-and-comer, who had big dreams and no money that I would give it to.
      #need2purge

  80. Tattoo update. One of the people I work with has developed an augmented reality app that can use the tattoo as a recognition image. I need to find some cool 3D models of arms and he needs to make the app work in the iTunes store. Once we both get our shit together, I can use the app to scan my arm and it will show a regular scene from the phone’s camera with my arm replaced by, oh let’s say Spider Man’s arm, and when I tap a button on the phone, my augmented reality arm will shoot a web or ignite a light saber, or what have you. Given some time, this will be awesome.

      • Thanks. But it wasn’t my idea. The augmented reality guy thought of it. I’m just along for the ride. On a random but awesome side, I stumbled into participating in a Cards Against Humanity tournament that turned out to be organized and participated in mostly by faculty at Full Sail University. They all seem to focus on computer modeling. I now have 2 contacts that can make 3D models of arms for me. Some weeks I just luck out beyond belief. Then again, I didn’t even make it to the finals of the tournament.

  81. My rice cooker just died. What’s that about. It was a small one, the perfect size for two people. The store I bought it at, Zellers, no longer exists. Since they were bought out by Target, I’m hoping they have the same small rice cooker to replace this one.

    … I also have to make sure I have no meals this week that I would want rice with since I won’t get a chance to look for one until the weekend.

    • I have a “faulty” rice cooker that someone gave to me and I will never get rid of it. Instead of making perfect rice, it gets too hot on the bottom and makes a layer of crispy browned rice. delicious. Hope it never dies (or decides to make a layer of crisply black-burnt rice).

  82. Amy, are you still in NE? Please report in that you’re safe. One acquaintance effected by the tornados and just hoping all is well with you

  83. Today I get to see if I can salvage an audio reading. Our narrator for this particular book did not record away from her computer so I have lots of background fan noise. Also, did not watch for popping P’s so I have to go in and remove bunches of pops. Since the main character is referred to as “skipper”, this may take awhile.

  84. Your crap joke for the day:

    A man went into a dentist and said “how much will it cost to have teeth taken out” “$90” said the dentist “that’s ridiculous” said the man.” I could lose the anesthetic and it would cost $60″ “that’s still to expensive,” said the man “if I don’t use any anesthesia I could knock the price down to $20″. Still to much” said the man.” Well one of my students can do it for $10″ said the dentist “perfect” said the man “book my wife for next Monday”.

  85. I’ve been working through Gai-Jin, James Clavell’s last book before he died. Anyone else read it? It’s a thousand-pager, so at my reading rate, I’ll be done sometime in the early 2020s.

    The Meiji Restoration stuff is definitely interesting, but wow, was Clavell a dirty old man.

  86. This Pixie just got amazing career path-changing news this afternoon!

    I got accepted into OR Nurse Academy and will become a CVOR Nurse, bitches!!!!!

    (Cardiovascular/thoracic OR RN)

    Woop woot!

  87. Morning Pan

    While I’m happy and think this is a good thing, I’m very surprised it was Alberta leading the way. Alberta is a very redneck province. When gay marriage was passed, Alberta was the only province to threaten to take the Government of Canada to court over it. (they didn’t but it’s the thought that counts)

    http://www.queerty.com/12-year-old-transgender-boy-granted-historic-new-birth-certificate-20140617?utm_source=bb82&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=birthcertificate

  88. The newest edition (to my knowledge) to the next generation of Deadpan has arrived. My son had a daughter last night at 9:02pm. Accalia Lauren. 7lb, 19 ¼ inches. According to the Romans, Accalia was the human foster mother of Romulus and Remus. According to Urban Dictionary: with a name like this someone would have to be cool, amazing, punctual, and confident and the coolest person you will ever meet in your life. she enjoys long walks on the beach, making soup , and videos of her dancing to glamorous. whenever people see her they drop on the ground and chant “accalia is cool, accalia is mighty, i wish i can be as cool as accalia but i know that i cant because she is so awesome.”
    kenzi- “woah your almost as cool as accalia , but thats impossible.. “

  89. Anybody here been catching the new “The Wil Wheaton Project”?

    We’ve seen the two most recent episodes and find it quite humorous. I’m sure I’m probably not supposed to let my son watch it, but he’s old enough to find the crude humor hysterical.

    • The kids love Tabletop, but we’ve found it necessary to pre-screen the eps for age appropriateness. He’s not exactly Richard Pryor, but – – we’re just uptight fuddyduds.

      • Saw one episode.
        Enjoyed but I thought the language … well, it struck me as a little forced.
        Almost like he was throwing in a few curse words to make sure everyone knew he was all grow’d up now.
        I think he would be just as funny with out the roughness and would expand his geeky goodness to THE NEXT GENERATION. (see what I did there?)

  90. Hi Guys! Just a quickie from me – life is so crazy. I’m taking care of my mom while my dad is in the hospital recovering from knee replacement surgery.

  91. Ummm can somebody post something on them meetup email hread? Want to clarify a few things and I’ve deleted it by mistake.

    • Watched on mute. I know lots of folks who attend that Con, but the only person I recognized is Sarah Hunter, who’s done some acting for Tee and Pip’s Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences videos.

      Professor Elemental is fantastic. I’ll have to rewatch when I can with sound.

  92. … and another thing –
    It suddenly came to me what the look and “feel” of Maleficent was reminding me of … “Legend”!

    Just replace Tom Cruise AND Tim Curry with Angelina Jolie and there you have it.

  93. So if Costa Rica and Italy draw tomorrow there will be 90% less patriotic bullshit over here…fingers crossed and all that.

  94. Im sure everyone has head by now that Amazon has released Prime Music for its Prime Members…

    Update: I have added the following album to my digital playlist:

    Fade To Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metalicca

  95. Have I mentioned I’m excited to be going to Eddie Izzard’s performance tonight? I don’t know why I’m this excited. Lol

  96. Now we make cookie sized balls … *taps foot, *while waiting for J0e’s comment 😉 *… And put them on a cookie sheet.

  97. There, now the cookie sheets with cookie dough have been put in the oven. In about fifteen minutes we’ll have warm chocolatey cookies

  98. Your crap joke for the day:

    A guy was walking along the street when he saw a crowd of people running towards him. He stopped one of the runners and asked: “What’s happening?” The runner replied breathlessly: “A lion has escaped from the zoo.” “Oh my, which way is it heading?” “Well you don’t think we are chasing it, do you?”

  99. I watched World War Z this morning. I found it to be intense, the entire movie; as evident by my sore knuckles in both hamds

  100. Me and the Brew Buddy just bottled our second batch of Uber Heffeweisen. This batch had a diced lemon added with 10 min left in the boil. This has produced a delightfully citrus note to a delightfully tasty brew1

  101. Going to bed early tonight.
    Gotta get up at 4:30am to drive to a Track Meet.
    I’m competing again.
    Apparently I think I can revive my Olympic career (that I never had).

    • This was interesting. I chew gum a lot. Mostly because the medication I’m on drys me out so chewing gum help with saliva production… and doesn’t make me need to use the washroom a bazillion times like constantly sipping a liquid would.

  102. Your crap World Cup related joke for the day:

    Me & my missus favourite sexual position is called the ”England football team” ! . . . Neither of us know what we’re doing or why we’re there, there’s no passion, no
    communication & we never make it past the 1st stage. There’s horrible dribbling & never a clean sheet. Its over far too quickly & when it does end I know it’ll be at least
    another four fuckin years before it happens again!

  103. Hubby has all the windows open and a fan on. While it’s not cold, it’s not really that warm here. In fact, the furnace has come on. I told him he should either close the windows or shut of the furnace. I think I lost that bit of hinting as all the windows are still open and I’m now wearing a sweater. *sigh*

    • Yes, I’ve resisted as well. Though, it helps that I never really played much of what I bought last year. Tried a couple of them, but really couldn’t get into them.

      I see Skyrim is currently $5 for the base game and $13.50 for the complete edition. Definitely good deals if someone hasn’t gotten them yet.

  104. Watching Battle for Terra. I’m about half an hour in and I’m not impressed. Heavy handed preaching and cliches from every direction.

  105. Speaking of John Carpenter! The local Cult Classics group did a theater screening of The Thing tonight, which was really fun to rewatch. Ten thousand points to Desert Pixie for staying up late with me.

    • It was fun! I’d never seen The Thing. I mean, I’ve seen *the thing* and it’s wayyyyy better looking than The Thing.

      10,000000000 points to Jack Mangan for being totally rad.

      +100 points to Kurt Russell’s hair circa 1982

      • Is The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes the greatest Kurt Russell film?

        As Van pointed out elsewhere, the original is a pretty good b/w movie too. I haven’t seen the recent one.

  106. Crap joke for a lazy Sunday:

    Three men wanted to cross a river. They had no idea how to cross it, so one man knelt down on his knees and prayed “Lord give me the power and strength the cross the river.” suddenly the man became very strong and swam across the river. The next man thought: if it worked for him, it’ll work for me. So he knelt down and prayed “Lord give the skills and the strength to cross the river.” the man built a canoe and rowed himself across the river. The last man thought: if it worked for both of them, I know it’ll work for me. So he also knelt down and prayed “Lord give me the wisdom and knowledge to cross the river.” He turned into a woman and walked across the bridge.

  107. Just watched Phase 7. Nifty little Argentine outbreak thriller. Course it could have sucked and Id still have liked it for no other reason that the lead character wore a S.O.D shirt

  108. Re watching Ladyhawke. Still a great movie. However, the soundtrack doesn’t seem to match up well with the action.

  109. If you can ONLY by tickets to something, on-line … can that extra $5 they tack on still technically be considered a “convenance charge” or is it just that the tickets are really $5 more than advertised?

  110. CP: Primus – Frizzle Fry

    So I called the 90’s to see if we could get this caliber of music somehow in this day and age. They promptly told me to ‘eat their shorts.’

    fuckin 90’s

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