1,431 thoughts on “Scroll Train

  1. Alas photography was banned.

    The exhibition was not very big, but some interesting stuff in there..and how cramped capsules the cosmonauts had to put up with.

  2. I’m really impressed with the new Symphony X album “Underworld”. I plan on writing an Amazon review when I get a chance, once I get out from under these work deadlines.

  3. CW: Danger Mouse 2015
    I just found out that they brought this show back. Seems to be done to about the same level as The Looney Tunes Show of 2011. Nothing will ever match the original, but they have managed to update into something modern (e.g., utilizing cell phones) while maintaining a similar feel to the type of comedy that the original shot for.

  4. You know you’re getting old when:

    I was on the phone. While talking, I was puttering around the house. Among the things I did was take my iPad and put it into the bedroom. I then went to look for my phone to bring it into the bedroom too. I looked in a couple of rooms before it hit me…

    I think it’s time to sit and read until the hockey game comes on

  5. Your crap joke for the day:

    At the touch of her lips, it grew long and swollen.

    I gasped as she squeezed and pulled expertly.

    It was the best ballon giraffe I’d ever seen.

  6. “Slowly Growing Deaf” is not just a Mr. Bungle song.

    Also – a hearty “fuck you” to my beloved Avs. Way to start the season in the worst way imaginable. As if they needed even LESS confidence than they had going into the season. A big hearty BOO!

  7. Who knew that Stephen Hawking guy was so smart?

    “If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.”

  8. Soooo all these fuckfaces posting on FB about how they are all going to boycott Campbell’s Soup do realize that FB is also anti-homophobia, right?

  9. Northern AZ and Southern TX Universities both in the same day.
    I don’t know whether it’s better to bring attention to it or stop awarding these shooters with attention

      • It doesnt matter, no, BUT I wouldnt classify it as a ‘school shooting’. It certainly doesn’t fit in the same vein as the others.

        I havent read about TX yet.

        • “This is the third shooting on the TSU campus in the past two months, and the second at this apartment complex”

          So no. I dont think I’d label this as a ‘school shooting’ either. Rather I’d lump it in with the everyday gun violence in every city problems in this country.

  10. Well I think I’m done messing around with PC innards. Tonight fitting of two new cards was rather laughable in it’s slowness and my creakiness and my need for a cushion for my knees.

    At least the bloody things work.

  11. Soulier, re: the trombone song:

    The trombone sounds odd and out-of-place with that electronic background, but I think this is a good thing. It’s attn-grabbing in a good way.

    Was it synth trombone or a real live horn player?

    I also found the abrupt ending a bit jarring.

      • Yeah I feel its really uneven at best. Kinda saddens me but there’s some good stuff still on there. Agree 100% in comparison to the last two. And those closing electomentals are just unnecessary and feels like album filler

  12. So any of you Vikings fans watched the new ‘The Last Kingdom’?

    Rutger Hauer being in it is usually a sign of shittyness these days.

  13. Watching the first two Last Man on Earth’s this season – I remember why I adore this show. And Van there’s no cringeworthy moments!

  14. Watched “Ghostbusters” last night for the first time in decades.
    Had forgotten how much fun that movie is. Just about everyone in that film turns in a performance that far exceeds what that type of movie requires.
    Some great lines as well –
    – “Back off man! I’m a Scientist.”
    – “Shhh Listen! Do you smell that?”
    – Sigorney, possessed “I want you inside me.”
    Bill “It seems a little crowded. I think there are two or three people in there already.”

  15. Essbee, there’s a new detective from the BBC called River that Stars the prof from the Thor films.

    It reminds me of a short lived Jeff Goldblum TV series called Raines but grittier.

  16. The neighborhood crackpot has put up a new message on his homemade yard billboard. For a long time it’s read “Obama is a Moslem.” Now it’s “Trump for President!!!!!!!!!

    • Let’s try Giamatti out with some dialogue. Picture him saying the following:

      “This was no boat accident.”

      Marsha Mason: “I thought you said you were decent.”
      Giamatti: “I am decent. I also happen to be naked.”

      “We’re actors. We’re the opposite of people.”

      “I am the most renowned killer of fish in the whole United States Army Air Force.”

      “You’re the most beautiful, exciting thing I’ve ever seen in my life and I don’t know anything about you.”

      Yup. I think Giamatti works.

  17. Crap joke for the day:

    I’ve invented a new sexual position. All you do is lie back to back with your partner, wait till they fall asleep and quietly masturbate.

    I’ll call it “marriage.”

  18. Morning Pan

    Today is voting day here in Canadaland. Finally, the campaigning will be over.

    (this may seem sarcastic since we only had three months of campaigning but it was the longest run Canada has ever had so it seemed like forever to us here in the GWN)

  19. “inside the chamber of cryo-genetical fire
    A magical wizard is doing a spell
    Powered by robots, a whole (???) coming to life”*

    *all sung in a strong Swedish accent. Did I mention that you should treat yourself to the Flash Gordon-y :metal: wonder of Gloryhammer?

    • I think it most likely that most fans will either love it or hate it. There will be little in between. There is no way to make something that all the fans will like and biggest trap that Abrams could fall into is trying to please everyone. My hopes are still reasonable. But, I think my best bet is to take Mark Hamil’s advice and just go into it expecting to see a good movie and enjoy myself rather than expect to relive what I had in 1977.

      • Excellent points.

        But this *is* a new Star Wars *movie*, so it’s impossible to completely disconnect it from that transcendental experience from our childhoods. Animated series and musical Xmas specials are one thing, but our expectations are naturally set too high for the major theatrical releases (My theory on why the decent-to-good prequel films are widely considered the worst films ever made).

        I’ll be happy if VII as good as that first JJ Trek movie.

    • Look at it this way. It could be worse. You could live in a Star Trek world where money doesn’t exist (on Earth anyway), but people still have to work, sometimes in jobs they don’t like. In other words, you could do a job you don’t like and get absolutely nothing in return.

      (seriously, *hugs*, ditto)

      • I never did see/hear that explained clearly. . . I once saw a scene where Picard lectured someone on how humans worked for the betterment of themselves and humanity – – but this was coming from the captain of a freaking starship. I always wondered if the plumbers would make the same speech.

  20. Morning Pan

    We have a new leader… or will in two weeks when he is sworn in. This leader is the son of a previous leader. I hope he learned something from the US when they had the same thing.

  21. Oooooh ‘From Bedroom to Billions’ is on UK Netflix.

    It’s a documentary about the UK part in computers and gaming.

    Even has an interview with the guy who wrote Manic Miner.

  22. So tonight I ponder the class system.

    If you all lived in the UK, and did similar jobs as you do now, most (if not all of you) would be classed as middle class.

    Me, I’m working class.

    Hmmmm.

  23. In case there are Audible subscribers here, the Joe Hill comic Locke & Key has been turned into an audio drama and is free. The acting gets a bit over the top but it’s pretty well done overall. Certainly worth every penny.

  24. Apparently Siri does something special when you wish her “Happy Back to the Future Day”!
    I don’t know what it is as I don’t have a Siri, but I’m sure some of you will enjoy

  25. Went for a walk. Also went to see if the keys work for the new mail boxes (like the letter told me to do). The mailboxes aren’t even installed yet. Apparently Canada Post is going to start delivering mail to these (nonexistent) boxes on Monday. Their contractor better get a move on.

    Not that I get much actual mail anyway. I think the only thing I got in the mail this week were the keys to the mailbox.

  26. Showerthought: In Back to the Future II, the scene were the older Marty gets fired via video chat, his boss said “Read my Fax!”. Interesting that the movie creators had the perception that video chat would be part of the future, but that people would still rely on faxes and not electronic communications for written correspondence….

  27. Your crap joke for the day:

    I bought a box of condoms today, and each one had a tiny musical instument attached… it was a rubber band.”

    • Bonus crap joke:

      “An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake…

      He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels.

      After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’

      The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.

      In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, ‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things:

      1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.

      2. The bouncer is a blonde girl with a ‘Billy-Club’.

      3. I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.

      4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.

      5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.

      ‘Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy … do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?’

      The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times”…

  28. I don’t understand people. There is this one bookstore who doesn’t pay their bills. In fact, our lawyer is currently in talks with them about their unpaid bills. Yet, the manager/owner of the store had the nerve to phone and ask why we were no longer accepting orders from them. :ermm:

  29. You know, nothing Confirms the world is fucked up like finding out black cats have high euthanasia rates in the USA because they don’t get adopted because they are considered bad luck.

    /sigh

  30. BTW – Finished reading the only book I’ve read in the last 2 years.
    It was “The Martian”.
    I enjoyed it. As my dad put it, “It was a page turner”.

    I feel like I don’t need to see the movie now.

  31. Hubby had a bit of an adventure

    The flight from Calgary to Abbotsford is a little over an hour. However, I guess the Abbotsford airport was fogged in so the plane had to divert to Vancouver. After a few hours in the Vancouver airport, they loaded everybody up in a bus to drive to Abbotsford.

    The drive from the Vancouver airport to Abbotsford should have been about an hour and a half. Part way through, the bus had to pull over for some minor repairs.

    When all was said and done, hubby’s hour long trip ended up being close to six hours.

  32. Jared “I am a sick fuck” Fogle was ordered to pay his 14 victims One Million dollars in restitution. Now, that’s NOT a million each – that’s a million split between the 14. Is it just me or does that just not seem like enough? after all, this is America where real punishment lays not in the prison system for the wealthy but in their bank accounts.

    • What number is enough for pain and suffering? No I don’t think it’s enough, but I don’t think there is a magic number. I don’t know his net worth though. His potential to earn future income has seriously diminished though.

      • Not what I’m saying. No there is no magic number for them but there is for HIM when it comes to punishment and making sure he never lives well again. There’s no magic number for his jail time for his victims either.

        He made about 2 million a year the past 10 years or so, I believe.

      • No idea what he makes, but I’d assume that’s the equivalent of a $1000 for a normal person.

        I never looked into the salacious details, but if there are young victims of his depravity, then why isn’t he being locked away from society forever?

  33. That ‘Locke and Key’ audio drama must be haunted, since I started to listen I’ce had random stop/starts and skips to later chapters.

    • They stayed pretty close to the comic itself. The only changes I could hear were ones that would be needed to address the fact that you can’t see what’s going on like you can in a comic book. Minor wording changes really. I think the actors hammed it up a bit too much, and I’m not sure how well the story could be followed by someone who didn’t read the comic fist. For free, it was pretty well done.

        • Do you like all your audio books abridged, or just the ones based on comics? I think the real issue is that you think the comic was too long and rambly. I don’t say this entirely tongue in cheek. Comics are meant to be drawn out for many issues. Could be that only abridged audio versions of comics can stand up to that medium.

  34. Just loaded up 6 black bags full of leaves and the tree is not even close to done. This might be the last year I do this myself . . . oy.

  35. I do reserve the right to hate ‘The Man in the High Castle’ if there is ever any indication of replicants, I’m giving them a pass on the origami.

    Cough

  36. Ok so Harrison Ford is 73 and Carrie Fisher is 59… that means Han was 38 and Leia was 24 in Empire when they kissied and fell in love.

    Oh Han you smooth operator…

  37. The woman who plays Betsy Ross in Sleepy Hollow may be the worst actor Ive seen on tv in a long time.

    That being said, Van how are you finding Season 3 now that the show is basically monster of the week fare?

  38. Crap joke for a lazy Sunday:

    Three strings walk into a bar and sit down at a table. The first string walks up to the bartender and says, “Bartender, three beers please.” The bartender looks at the string and says, “I’m sorry, but we don’t serve strings here.” Disappointed, the string walks back to his buddies and explains. The second string says “No problem, I’ll go get our beers.” The second string walks up to the bartender, “Bartender, three beers please.” The bartender says, “Listen man, I told your buddy that we don’t serve strings here.” Empty handed, the second string walks back to his buddies.The third string says, “No problem. Tie me in a knot at one end and fray my ends at the other.” He struts up to the bartender, “Bartender, three beers please.” The bartender proceeds to get him the beer when he suspiciously turns to look at the string and says, “Excuse me, but are you a string?” The string replies, “I’m a frayed knot!”

  39. So ‘Hand of God’, I enjoyed it, so nice acting from Ron Pearlman and that rentabadguy actor who was in the Terminator to series.

  40. Just came back from shopping. Despite my not wanting to, i got some Halloween candy. I picked up a box of 100 for the half dozen kids (if we’re lucky) we will have.

    Why hubby doesn’t just admit he wants the candy for himself instead of making me go through this charade is beyond me. :blink:

  41. I have finished my Halloween, ambience audio mix.
    It’s a 20 minute loop of “forrest presence” with slightly unsettling music mixed over top.
    This year I’ve added a track from the “Portal” sound track and “Once upon a dream” from the movie Malificent. That track is surprisingly unsettling when broadcast throughout the woods in front of my house.

    I should post this somewhere in case anyone else wants some halloween background audio that is not the regular campy sound fx.

  42. Besides the above, so far, I have on my PVR:
    The Amazing Adventures of the Living corpse
    Before I go to Sleep
    Horns
    The Lazarus Effect

    With several set up but yet to be recorded.
    It’s one of these four you will be subjected to this afternoon

  43. Inspired by Saturday’s concert, what songs would you put in a mix that say “Halloween” to you?

    The band played clips from Zombie, Creep, Living Dead Girl, Frankenstein, Highway to Hell, Timewarp…. Okay that’s what I can remember right now.

    • I currently have 39 songs on my Halloween playlist…
      Some highlights:
      Black No. 1 – Type O Negative
      Red Right Hand – Nick Cave
      Paint It Black – Rolling Stones
      Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
      RE: Your Brains – Jonathan Coulton
      Theme from The Day the Earth Stood Still

      Plus Monster Mash and the other usual Halloween tunes.

      NOT on the playlist and never will be? That “Uma Thurman” song.

      • I’ve got 129 in my list.

        Lately though I have been listening to a Pandora station named “This is Halloween Radio”.
        It is predominately soundtrack music and lots of it from musicals.

  44. So due to publisher fuckwittery the book I wanted to listen on Audible was not available. So I choose Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear.

    Set in a brothel in a stream punk Wild West, 5 chapters in and I’m enjoying the plot.

  45. Ok Deadpan. It’s that time again.

    Today’s movie is Horns
    The PVR writeup: blamed for the murder of his girlfriend, a man awakes one morning to find he has grown a pair of horns. Armed, now, with supernatural powers, he sets out to find the killer

    • It was something that was told to me when my Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimers and it really started to kick in.

      I thought it was bollox then and still do.

      Shit happens, and I just don’t accept that it’s a character building exercise by some entity.

    • Yeah, I heard about this. It’s on hold because the new, incoming government is against them. The thing is, I completely understand why Canada Post has switched to boxes. I also think, considering the expense already laid out in making and placing the boxes, it would probably be a bad idea to stop.

  46. My Windows 10 upgrade was probably the easiest Microsoft upgrade I’ve ever had. Of course, I waited a couple of month to let them work out the worst of the bugs.

    Still, this is going to take some getting used to.

    • Why do they change shit up with every release?

      “Oh, you need to change some simple setting? Yeah, we’ve arbitrarily changed its location. Good luck clicking around for 20 extra minutes trying to find it.”

      • My dad recently bought a new car and watching him nearly lose his mind trying to find some standard “car controls”, I realized that we are headed this same direction with that technology as well.
        With so much being controlled by a touch screen, you now have to search for the radio controls, heater/ac/vent controls/ lights/ seat adjustments.
        For the last 20 years you could have climbed in about any car and put your hand on these controls in about 20 seconds. Now you have to search through menus. Menus that very pretty widely from care to car.

        Welcome to the future.

    • I had some wonky-ness after my laptop upgrade. A little digging and I found an extra keyboard device driver was installed. Removing it fixed a lot of my headaches. Installing and running CCleaner fixed my remaining issues.

    • I’ve performed 3 Win 10 upgrades on 3 of my machines. 1 tablet, 1 desktop, 1 laptop. I immediately restored back to Win 7 on desktop and laptop, because things I use on a regular basis are no longer available in Win 10 (specifically Windows Media Center, and yes, I have reasons to continue using it.) The tablet was a Win 8 device and I had purchased it with the specific reason of upgrading it to Win 10 for learning purposes. Happy to see the back of Win 8 even if only for the 3 weeks that I had it.

      My assessment: Win 10 is clean, operates smoothly. If it weren’t for all the privacy invasion software fundamentally built into its core, I would have figured out how to make all my machines run on it. That said, I’m going to stick with Win 7 until they end-of-life it, then likely switch to Linux.

    • Actually Lejon, I did see that. I grabbed it on Amazon then. Not sure when I’ll get to it. As everybody here knows, I’m not much of a reader 😉

  47. Soooo…
    The new Peanuts movie .
    I am torn. On the one hand it is “Peanuts” MOVIE!
    On the other hand … 3D. They are in 3D?
    That’s not how I remember them. Will my childhood memories be rent asunder?

  48. JF – Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear

    Really enjoyed this book,not a great fan of steampunk but this was good fun with it’s wild west setting.

  49. So got a phone call from a friend today. What was thought to cataracts has been found out to be a tumour pressing on his optic nerve.

    He’s getting tested this week to see if it’s malignant.

    Sigh.

      • That deserves a crap joke:

        Man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.
        “Not a chance,” says the husband, “it is 3:00 in the morning!”
        He slams the door and returns to bed.
        “Who was that?” asked his wife..
        “Just some drunk guy asking for a push,” he answers.
        “Did you help him?” she asks.
        “No, I did not, it’s 3 am in the morning and it’s bloomin’ well pouring with rain out there!”
        “Well, you have a short memory,” says his wife. “Can’t you remember about three months ago when we broke down, and those two guys helped us? I think you should help him, and you should be ashamed of yourself! God loves drunk people too you know.”
        The man does as he is told, gets dressed, and goes out into the pounding rain.
        He calls out into the dark, “Hello, are you still there?”
        “Yes,” comes back the answer.
        “Do you still need a push?” calls out the husband.
        “Yes, please!” comes the reply from the dark.
        “Where are you?” asks the husband.
        “Over here on the swing,” replied the drunk..

  50. I’d been meaning to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell for years, and I’ve finally gotten around to it. Digging it. Anyone else enjoyed it without spoilers?

    I was actually not inspired by the BBC show, but now I’m curious to watch. Anyone else seen it?

    I’m a slow reader and I won’t have quality reading time until the 2030s, so don’t be surprised if I’m still plowing through this book at Thanksgiving.

  51. In other news, Sly B and I are tying the knot tomorrow. No ceremony – just a paper signing by our minister (aka Sly B’s brother) and a late lunch with my folks and MIIL.

    Thanks Cynful for nudging me to share here.

  52. Got a phone call from friend with brain tumour.

    Turns out it’s benign, but causing a buildup of fluid that putting pressure on his optic nerve.

    Going to try draining the fluid and he had 60-70% chance of getting his eyesight back to normal.

  53. So had a play with the new Apple TV at the local Apple Store.

    I was tempted, but resisted as really want see how it developes.

    Still it was fun introducing some Apple staff to Geometry Wars 3…

  54. So, I have an unhappy announcement.

    Gandalf is not doing well… He’s not eating much and he’s unsteady on his feet. He’s been to the vet a bunch of times this year. . . but I worry that there’s not much we can do for him. We’ll probably need to make a decision soon.

  55. Here’s a silly piece of trivia. When I was very young, I cut off my left ring finger in a lawn mower accident. It was sewn back on but never has bent properly. A few years ago, hubby hurt his finger and has never bent properly since. It was his left ring finger.

    While it is a strange thing to have in common, it’s just another thing hubby and I share :kissing:

  56. Our adventures in mousedom

    So the critter in my dryer was a mouse. Pest control never showed up. Once I was ready to deal with the mouse myself (time wise. I don’t have a problem with mice), it got out of the dryer and was running around the house.
    By this time, hubby was home so we chased the mouse and managed to lock it in the washroom. We also stuffed a towel under the door to make sure it didn’t escape. Then it was off to HOme Depot to get some traps. Did you know there is a sad lack of humane traps? I managed to find some but it was not easy.

    Once home, we loaded two of the traps with peanut butter and carefully put them in the washroom, using a towel to block the door so the cute little critter could not escape.

    A couple of hours we went to check on the traps. Not only was there no mouse in them, it did manage to escape from the washroom as it was no longer there. We’re not sure how it escapes as, the way our washroom is, the wall is tiled six inches up from the floor with no holes or other ways. It wasn’t hiding in the garbage can either, we checked.

    Not sure where he went but we now have traps set up in the basement and on our main floor.

  57. Stupid mouse made me do a bunch of extra work. Because it was in the dryer, I…

    swept up behind the dryer and threw the whole works (broom and all) in the garbage. I then ran the vacuum in the hose as well as the in the back of the dryer where it connects to the hose. That went into the garbage (the vacuum mess, not the vacuum itself) and I threw the whole kit-‘n-kaboodle out to the garbage outside. The dryer is currently running an “antibacterial” cycle (it’s highest setting) to, hopefully, heat clean the whole thing.

    Maybe tomorrow I can actually use it to dry clothes. :ermm:

  58. Pet peeve: Server asked a co-worker “How much change would you like back?” instead of just bringing back all the change and letting them choose the tip after.

  59. So a confluence of circumstances led to a fairly comical situation this morning. This year Teresa bought a bunch of Halloween decorations, including a life size witch that cackles and makes noise with movement. After Halloween, instead of storing her I put her in the backyard as a makeshift scarecrow. We recently had our back lawn seeded with winter grass and the local doves have been chowing the seed down. The witch has been working remarkably well, no doves dare land in our yard. Although last night we had a storm and we were awakened in the middle of the night to cries of “Here! Come get some candy!” The wind had blown her over and she wouldn’t shut up. I had to put clothes on and find the witch’s off switch in the rain at 4:00AM.

  60. My hubby is being mean. He felt bad for the little mouse, worried that it would freeze or get eaten or something. Now he wants to adopt another cat. This makes me sad because I really, really, REALLY want to get a new cat but all our reasons for waiting are still valid. 🙁

        • Yeah, we do want to do some travelling. Although, the argument is, we could get a younger cat (6 or 7) and it wouldn’t need as much care as Reeny did in her last few years. We could either kennel it for two weeks a year or have my Boo come in every day to give it loves and food.
          I couldn’t use the “any cat we get would likely kill any mice that comes in the house,” argument because Reeny, our neurotic sweetie, was afraid of mice so that wasn’t an issue.

          And then, there’s also the argument, the SPCA is overflowing with cats right now so they have cut the adoption fee to half for November. Who can resist one of these? goo.gl/NqAb2c

          Hubby also has next week off so it would have time to get use to the both of us.

          Damn it, I think we’re getting a cat.

  61. I have decided that having to remove the Jack-o-lantern from my porch by making several trips with a shovel and then utilizing a high pressure water hose … is not enjoyable.

  62. So woke up at 6am, didn’t need to be up till 7am, so went back sleep and had a weird dream about being offered to participate in a foursome.

    The other guy was Dean Cain from his Superman days, so that was never going to happen….

  63. At the spca eaiting to finalize our paperwork. Apparently the cat we choose was here for a while. It said in her file she has a nervous bladder so would often be overlooked because of that. She is also 8 years old and a black cat with very green eyes which also didn’t help. But, she is soooooo sweet. Very much a loving cat. As we don’t have kids or other pets at home, we figured the nervous bladder thing will be less of an issue. The spca thought so too.

    Will post pics to Facebook once we get her home

    • First of all: “Coon Rapids” Minnesota.

      Second of all: did you see the woman who did it? COMPLETE stereotype of racist white trash.

      Third of all: Applebees.

      Add all those up and you have the epitome of what sensible Americans are striving against. Ugh.

      Oh and I realize my use of “white trash” is now insensitive, but in this case fuck that.

  64. My spam subject lines are messing with my mind.

    First I get one from Staples saying “Big Chair Event Starts Now!”. The spam subject line immediately below it is, “3 Bangbuddies is waiting for you”.

    How did Staples know I’d need a big chair to party with my bang buddies?

  65. So if you haven’t heard, Trump is calling for a boycott over this silly Starbucks thing. Even though I don’t like the coffee, I’m really thinking of reconsidering.

    • I only skimmed, but my god, that would be glorious….

      Does he name his players for Crow and Tom Servo? I assume we wouldn’t get Bill Corbett or Kevin Murphy, since they’re RiffTraxing.

      • Hmmm…

        “Mystery Science Theater has already refreshed itself once with a completely new cast, so I think it deserves to do that again,” Hodgson says. “The original cast is going to be invited back to write, produce, and do cameos as their mad science characters, and then there’s a new cast with new talent.”

  66. So I guess because no one is monitoring the hockey message board..

    Are we not allowed to trade? I’ve tried it and gotten errors.

    Also Im not familiar with “cant cut” players. Is this normal?

    • Answers coming tomorrow. I’d suggested no trades, since we have 2 players in the same household – – it’s possible the commish set it up that way.

      We’ve been baffled by that “can’t cut” thing. I’m stuck with Phil “Dud” Kessel because of it.

      • The trade thing shouldnt have mattered since I think all trades have to be oked by the rest of the group… but no worries. Just for future reference.

        Ill trade you Malkin for Kessel….

  67. We are covered in fake blood from seeing Evil Dead the Musical tonight (3rd row, Splatter Zone – – thank you, Desert Pixie!!).

    Definitely a fun time, with plenty of nods to ED2 and AoD, as well as Rocky Horror. If you go, try to upgrade to the Splatter Zone. It’s worth it.

  68. In reviewing a contract, it’s important for the landlord to put in the following restrictions (from actual document at work):
    Site may not be used or operated, in whole or in part, for any of the following
    A) A “Head shop” or other business devoted to the sale of articles or merchandise normally associated with marijuana or controlled drugs or substances
    B) a gun shop, shooting gallery or firearms range
    C) a so-called massage parlor or business that permits the viewing of so called adult or pornographic materials
    D) use involving sale or distribution of flammable liquids, gases or other Hazardous materials
    E) off track betting parlor or arcade
    F) a liquor store
    G) A burlesque or strip club
    H) any illegal activity

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