TEB – The video – Quite popular with some of my men friends. Someone actually arranged the magnets on my front door (I have alphabet magnets there) so they were something like
JZ IN MY PANTS
As a matter of fact … I have found a photo of the incident:
The picture of the little girl gymnasts is so entirely inappropriate there are simply no words … Ugh.
Just then a small man burst through the front door of the bar. He paused a long moment, looking back out into the blinding sunshine, searching, then let the door fall closed. As he stepped up to the bar, Jack and Joe could see that he was panting and sweating profusely.
“She’s-” he paused, gasped, took a deep breath. “She’s coming! I need to hide it! Please!”
Jack looked to Joe, gave a little shrug. The small man placed a small black cube on the bar. “It needs to be hidden very well, or she will detect it.” Joe peered at the cube. “Hurry!” The man nearly shouted, in exasperation.
Joe shrugged back at Jack, then pulled out the stepladder. “I’ll put it on the top shelf. Hmm, it’s heavy!” Joe hefted the leaden box up and pushed it into the cache hole.
“It can’t be that simple!” the man panted, though he was regaining his breath by now.
“Trust me,” said Jack. “That spot has hidden more than you’d believe in the recent past.”
I think the amazon.com thing is curious, but am choosing to think the best (i.e., that it was a glitch). It’s been kind of a rough week to be gay, from my perspective, so I just couldn’t stand it if amazon.com was out to get me!
Oh – and – well… a new Love Long and Prosper was also released last night, as Ed has discovered.
Denise Crosby’s acting was pretty bad. I don’t personally have any Tasha hate – but since I am watching TNG through for the third time, I have to say that her lines (as well as many others’) simply were horrible. It’s not entirely her fault.
And good morning now to EssBee, ditto, TEB, Cynful, again to Van, NS, and of course, JB who made me laugh out loud first thing this morning with
‘Joe looked up, “What was that?†and then as an afterthought, “Nice legs.‒
It’s interesting because the focus has been on the LBT&G community but this effects even Health books and classic literature. One book mentioned in previous articles “Our Bodies, Ourselves” and authors Anais Nin, J.D. Salinger, Eugenides and Khalid Hossein.
And I do think this would get attention if it was the SF&F community because it is amazing how powerful those authors can be and the community that supports them….. look around at all these amazing people.
Okay…. endrant.
ditto, it was the Onion headline it the background that grabbed my eye more than the book itself 😉
cp: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “Do You Want to Touch Me”
The first cup of coffee is starting to take effect.
I’ve packed my darling hubby his lunch (though he’s still snoring away in bed *jealous*), fed my kids breakfast, taken my vitamins, and even indulged in a nice toasty Eggo waffle myself.
I’m toying with the idea of taking the kids on a little hike around The Riparian Preserve to see some birds this morning. http://www.riparianinstitute.org
Didn’t feel like talking about the amazon mess since it is well covered elsewhere.
Back to the TNG fun! 🙂
Or… I’ll just go grocery shopping because really, one cannot live on Red Vines, Robin’s Eggs, and coffee alone…
Will wait until I’m well into my 2nd cup of coffee before I decide today’s fate.
ditto, you wanna talk about Star Trek? Cuz if you do… I’m your girl! 😉
TEB: The AV Club is not a parody site, unlike The Onion. This book really exists.
Secret TNG conspiracy: Data had Tasha killed off to cover-up their indiscretion. 😉
CP: Black Cat — Ladytron
CP: Yesterday’s Rachel Maddow Show
The teabagging jokes still aren’t old.
ditto, I knew that. I actually saw the book in our local book store.
As for the TY discussion. I liked her better once she became a Romulan (spoiler alert?)
TEB: Silly me going assuming things again. 😉
And I agree, she was much better as a Romulan. And even when she reprised Tasha in the Enterprise C/D episode. I think by then the show had better direction and she decided to have fun with her new roles. I wish they did more episodes with her Romulan character.
DS9 was my fav of the new ST series though, especially when they moved away from the goody twoshoe image of Star Fleet.
For amusement: I used the “I’m feeling lucky” with the word “Mangan” and got: http://www.manganinc.com/
I preferred B5 to DS9. DS9 only got better towards the end, imo.
We must invade and conquer Manganland for the good of all Mangandom!
TO ARMS!!!!
I haven’t watched DS9 yet. I’m looking forward to it!
I’ve seen all of the Original Series once through, the first season of Voyager, and I’m on my third way through TNG. Just coming to the end of the 1st season there.
Oh, and I did watch all of Enterprise, which unlike most people, I really enjoyed.
Me too, ditto, me too!
Where’s the small arms locker?
These wet noodles won’t scare anyone!
Is a noodle from Canada a Kanudle?
Enterprise crew must get paid. There are some jobs on there I couldn’t see people wanting to do for free, even if it means travelling in space (red shirt?)
A deep rumble filtered into the room from the street outside, getting slowly louder. “She’s here!” The little man’s breathing quickly un-recovered, and he began looking frantically about the room.
Jack took the man firmly by the shoulder. “We can hide downstairs, you wouldn’t fit in the cache with your cube.” He looked to Joe. “We’ll be in the keg room, keeping cool.”
The rumble grew even louder as Jack and the man went downstairs, then cut off suddenly. Joe put on a bar apron, and began to polish the bar. Bright sunlight flooded in from outside, and he could at first only see her silhouette, tall and sleek. The door fell shut and her footsteps rang through the quiet bar. She was clad in motorcycle leathers, impossibly tight and leaving very little to Joe’s fevered imagination. She had a body by DC and a face by Marvel, thought Joe.
She looked down at him with an expression that somehow mixed condescendence and amusement, with just a drop of pity. “I am the Ambassador.” She sniffed deeply. “Where is the box?”
I liked Enterprise, CJ. However I admit I liked the last season best. That seems to be when they decided to let go and have fun.
“And even when she reprised Tasha in the Enterprise C/D episode.”
When did they do a crossdressing episode?
You don’t remember Data in a dress, do you JB? 😉
Jack shivered a bit and folded his arms, looking across at the sweating, nearly-hyperventilating man. “Okay, let’s get some answers. Who are you, who is she, what is the box and why are you here?”
The man swallowed hard, and attempted to bring his breathing back under control. “I’m Dr. John Boze,” he said in a small voice. “She calls herself ‘The Ambassador.’ The box is my experiment, and I’m desperately trying to hide it from her, but she keeps tracking me down.”
That list bit made me laugh JB. Hide the box. 😉
I’m starting to feel like something crawled into my lungs and died. Not pleasant, especially since I have to travel tomorrow.
Huzzah! Deadpan Lives!
Overall, I think Star Trek, on television anyway, peaked during the late seasons of DS9. Voyager had it’s moments, but could never really escape the whole “Gilligan’s Island in Space” concept.
Enterprise stumbled to early. My wife watched all of it and I came back during the fourth season. I really would have liked to have seen in continue as they were coming along well by then. But, I think the verdict had already been given.
Malcolm was too much of a whiner for me to really like him. But I admit I wouldn’t kick either Connor Traneer or Scott Bacula our of my bed 😉
My husband has a T’Pol Christmas tree ornament 🙂
The woman bent down, looking directly into Joe’s eyes. Her eyes are brilliant green, thought Joe, then…
“I am the Ambassador, but you may call me Amelia.”
Joe’s mind buzzed. “Amelia?”
“And soon you will call me ‘Mistress!'”
Joe blinked and the fuzziness faded away. “Uh, I think you may have me confused with my friend C.A.”
“What? This is not possible. I smell the box. It is here, but it is everywhere, and you should be enthralled by me!”
*giggling uncontrollably* C.A. LOL tee hee
TEB – True.. Scott Bakula=YUMMY and I didn’t think much of Malcolm Reed until I was at the Star Trek con in 2007 and Dominic Keating walked right past me and stopped to offer me a big smile – I was just staring and he blushed and smiled more… I immediately fell in love.. In real life, he’s just delicious!
He was also a vampire in an episode of Buffy. I remember we were rewatching it once and my husband and I saw him and both piped up “Hey, that’s Malcolm!”
“I’d been increasingly fearful of what my measurements have been telling me about reality.”
“Reality?”
“It isn’t. I can say that firmly at this point.”
“Isn’t?”
“Right. We are living in an unreal universe. All around us is fiction.”
“Are you really a doctor?”
“No, the title just gets me laid.”
“Oh, thought so.”
“Yes, I’m really a doctor, and yes, this reality is not.”
“So what is the box?”
“Once my suspicions were 99 percent confirmed, I developed it to prove the last one percent. It works by concentrating the fictional vorticies in a localized spatiotemporal region.”
“‘vorticies in a localized…’ Is this all true?”
“Sort of. If you’d been paying attention just now you’d see that truth is fiction.”
“My head is starting to hurt.”
“That’ll happen.”
..and before Buffy and Enterprise, he was in a comedy show called Desmonds:
“What is this place?” the tall woman was becoming demanding, whipping her head back indignantly, which caused her blonde tresses to arc backward, yet land in perfect array.
“This is the Deadpan. Jack Mangan’s Deadpan.”
“I will return, Jack Mangan. And I will have that box!” She turned and strode to the door. Joe watched her go. Really, couldn’t help himself, as this view was just as intriguing as when she entered.
CP: Katherine, Kiss Me – Franz Ferdinand
CP: Molly’s Chamber – Kings of Leon.
Well, I need to buy a new pair of work-out runners. Maybe I’ll have lunch at the mall at the same time.
Later, Pan!
CP: Turning Japanese – The Vapors
Yeah I know but it’s one of my fav songs.
CP: Big Yellow Taxi – Amy Grant
CP: Cecilia – Simon and Garfunkel
“Well, the box is perfectly safe. The top shelf of this bar has it’s own pocket universe, as far as we can tell. Joe put it in there.” The small man grew pale and still. “What? It’s perfectly safe, I assure you…”
“He couldn’t have!”
“Well, sure it seems that way, given my understanding up till now of reality, but after what you just told me…”
“No! I mean he couldn’t have, based on my calculations, inserted the box into a subset spatiotemporal reality construct.”
“Uh, well, I can’t say it that multisyllabically, but, yeah. He did.”
CP: Aganju: – Bebel Gilberto
CP: Something the Boy Said – Sting
CP: American Dream — Lucinda Williams
Last time I saw you, you had dirt under your nails
Your eyes were glassy and you looked so pale
You said my life has become a livin’ hell
Ain’t got enough money to pay my bills
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Got a friend with a needle stuck in his arm
He got hooked on heroin in Vietnam
It used to help kill the pain some of the time
Now I can’t sleep at all since I got back home
I worked in the strip mines off and on
Now I can’t seem to get rid of this cough
Ain’t been many jobs these last few months
And the last one I had I got laid off
I ain’t got no hot water and they shut off the heat
Can you loan me some money for something to eat
Been out here on this corner for about a week
Tryin hard to stand on my own two feet
They want to try and tell me where I can live
They kicked me off my land and told me they’d give me
A nice little tract house with running water
But how am I gonna explain that to my Navajo mother
My American dream almost came true
But the things they promised me never came through
I believe in the American dream
But things are never quite what they seem
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
I would be much happier if I had a creamsicle.
CP: I’m A Loser — The Beatles
Comments about creamsicles and songs about masturbation on the same episode. Truly awesome. 😉
Back from spending money, again. Had a bacon cheese dog for lunch, yum
CJ, next time we’re on Skype at the same time, ring me. I want to talk to you about something (nothing evil so don’t worry 🙂 )
TEB – I’m eternally on Skype. I’ll look for you now.
CP: The Guitar Man – Bread
It’s at moments like that I wished I worked for the NSA and could tap into that TEB/Cj skype conversation…
CP: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – Bachman-Turner Overdrive
TEB: Maybe we should start arranging an informal ManganCon in September. Probably best done through email.
JohnBoze: LOL! I seem to have coined a term. 😀 And yes, these Effpiem-wide outages are getting annoying. I keep having to wait until later in the day on Thursday for my new Deadpan.
My appearance in the Deadpan Bar stories has come!!!!! I’m so excited!!! I look forward to what comes next! I love what you’ve done with this story arc, by the way. I’m a huge fan of stories involving alternate dimensions/universes/realities/etc., which is why I loved Really Big Things so much. 🙂
TEB, ditto: I agree. If you start planning, please keep me in the loop. I may be able to wrangle a trip out to AZ to see everybody.
Adding to an earlier discussion: I followed Enterprise during its third and fourth seasons. I enjoyed them, the fourth more than the third. I think I would have enjoyed them more if I had actually seen TOS, instead of just reading all about it. (I’ve only seen bits and pieces here and there.)
Ah not me TEB, too hot and too many BIG spiders.
CP: Going Underground – Rostok Vampires
Sure, ditto. My plans are pretty much set for The Sept long weekend anyway. I’ll be at the Tempe Mission Palms. So if anybody else wants to hook up, just let me know (via e-mail is fine).
IT’s one of the reasons I prefer the cold.
Given September is far enough in advance, I might be able to swing the time and $$ to manage that.
Cluck, cluck!
Yup that’s me…
CP: Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) – Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
2 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct.
CP: Fisherman’s Daughter – The Waifs
Me too. Arizona is easy to get to for me.
I don’t want to hear about spiders, Van. I’m the type that, if I see a spider, I run to the other room and scream at my husband to kill it.
Whereupon he will capture the spider and take it outside. Leading to many (not actual) arguments about how evil that is because the spider will just find its way back inside.
My favorite part: “A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.”
Yep. It’s bad. Real bad.
CP: Mighty Storm – The Duhks
Van, I’ll protect you..
And as for the TEB/Cj Skype chat – it was quite titillating! 😉
CP: Shut Your Mouth — Garbage
I’ll be in my bunk.
CP: Mockingbird – Allison Moorer
Time for a cold shower.
Must… resist… comment…
Down, boys of Deadpan!
So, ladies, let’s hear about this call, shall we?
Most of the conversation centered around how CJ likes to make herself pretty for Jack 😉
CP: Done – Beth Thornley
Nah. Why ruin the mystique?
Oh, did I say that? See, and here I thought we talked way more about the uses of sour cream.
CP: Worms – Beth Orton
that’s true too, CJ. Sour cream and oranges 😀
CP: Right Back to Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale
I’m leaving the house as soon as my daughter’s bus comes to take her to school. Grocery and dollar store runs are badly needed.
I’m sizzling here!
cough
I’ve got more! Though it is still all “upstairs” at the moment…
Glad to see this gets the Ambassador’s stamp of approval. Not going to comment too much “in process,” (though that is exactly what this style affords) but “Amelia the Ambassador” in the bar is not exactly nice. She may be a statuesque badass, but she is the antagonist, probably not purple-eye evil… There were elements I had some concern over.
Pinky, tells us a story!
Well I’m now going to lose all my deadpan cred.
CP: D.I.S.C.O – Ottawan
Narf!
I even have that one on 45.
cough
CP: Ballroom Blitz – Sweet
CP: Wonderful Life – Black
CP: Good Tradition – Tanita Tikaram
Melted orange creamsicles FTW.
With sour cream, Jack?
Jack is welcome to all of my creamsicle.
My daughter’s bus is 20 minutes late so far.
JB: I don’t mind being cast as the antagonist. It’s something different for me. I’m not anywhere near as statuesque in real life as I am in your story, but I’m flattered by it.
OK, late bus finally arrived. I’m off to the store!
Oooooh I want a chicken.
Yeah, I want a chicken.
Daughter currently on the phone to the insurance company. Sure is a lot of work to move out of your parents house.
I much prefer character driven stories, and I do see some of his points. However, his article comes off as a self-righteous tirade. I think his anger is clouding his judgment, even if he’s entitled to his opinion.
CP: Brainstuff
I think he’s trying to put too much into a simple TV show, ditto.
My downloads over iTunes are always bloody slow…grrrrrr!
TEB: I agree. When he starts throwing around “betrayal to the fans” when talking about TV show writing, well… I just feel like telling him to lighten up.
It’s only make believe…
I agree, Van. i-tunes is only make believe 🙂
Well, I have house work to do. Then butts to kick.
Til tomorrow, Pan!
I believe.
I believe.
Some folks do develop deep attachments to their favorite franchises – especially in Sci-Fi fandom.
Rabid SciFi fans are pretty much exactly the same as rabid sports fans.
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Woot! Jack read a comment of mine!!!
Not sure how much you’ll hear from me until next week.
Until then, stay frosty. Stay Deadpan!
Take good care, ditto!
I would agree with you with the exception of Bladerunner.
/whistles innocently.
Have a good week, ditto.
I’m home from shopping. I forgot to buy bread. DOH!
(not bread dough- Bread, Doh!)
I didn’t buy any creamsicles either…
hm. I did buy milk, soda, and lunch meat and this bar of soap that smells pretty good.
I’m lured by pretty smells.
Hmmm, ditto and TEB both left at about the same time….
Very suspicious, indeed.
Good afternoon pan 🙂
I have some very Deadpan news
Silversun Pickups (a great band by the way) has just put out a new album this week entitled: Swoon
I think they may have written this album for me 🙂
wait wait wait
is ditto cheating on me with Bunny???
How come I wasn’t invited?????
awwwww… I was listening to toonage while typing here and a Jack Mangan toon shuffled on 🙂
my iTunes knows me.. its a little scary sometimes how it picks up my actions/mood
I am at 1 with my Mac
Wow, so much chatter and now silence…..like the sound of one hand clapping.
Well, here’s something for when you guys come back in the morning. Some of these are just brilliant:
I’ve been writing a bunch today. I made a little progress on my ’07 NaNovel today. What a massive, tangled morass of plot threads and motivations it is. It’s like opening an old jewelry box to find all your old necklaces tangled together in a ball. You can’t even see how many you have or what they are, let alone start untangling and separating them. I still had some fun writing, though.
Haven’t quite left yet, and now that my computer is alive again, I thought I’d share this music find: Shiny Toy Guns’ version of “Major Tom” that is being used in the new Lincoln commercial. http://www.lincoln.com/extras/asset/majortom.zip
Good night, Pan.
Good night, Amy. I really shouldn’t be up this late, either.
Alas, I’m geeking out over a new Geotagging tool I’ve discovered.
Alright, I’m sending myself to bed now. Work still beckons in about six hours. I am getting to old to get away with that little sleep anymore.
Good night, Ed, Amy, Johnboy, Kings of Maine, Mush.
The guy on Tor talking about BSG is a little hyper, eh? He’s wrong that the narrative voice has to tell the truth. It’s hard to an unreliable narrator that doesn’t destroy the tale, but it can be used to good effect. I just wish I could think of the examples I’ve read. Stupid useless memory.
Damn. Those wildlife photos are impressive. I have to pass them on to my wife. She’ll probably be jealous and deride them. Heh.
Yes, the BSG rant was a humorous read. Why is it that atheists seem more likely to assume that “God” was behind Starbuck and the Head characters? From the way it played out, it seems it could have as likely been an advanced alien race such as the Vorlons or the Ascended ones from Stargate.
I think Moore and company left it open ended enough for each viewer to have their own preference of belief.
And the ranter really doesn’t understand “Deus ex Machina”.
But, enough of BSG. It is finished.
Here’s today’s Haiku theme challenges. Pick one or pick them all:
Fruit
British Sci-Fi
Card Games
Sea creatures
Run, imagination, run.
Hmm, my haiku rules post didn’t come through for some reason.
Well as a non believer, it looked to me like a VR sim with the programmer messing around.
Ed lost a postie too. Now we’re gonna get fines from the FCC and Timberlake will claim it wasn’t scripted and…
I’m an unbeliever… and I love mythology. So I don’t have a problem with the religious aspects, even at the end. What bothered me was the poor pacing and the answers that weren’t delivered. I can ignore the way everyone fell out of character at the very end simply because I don’t see any way to wrap it up from where they were without extending the story for a few more episodes. Some things had to be dropped.
What bothered me was the way that everytime I started to become emotionally invested in a scene, it changed tone. For instance, the whole opera scene… I was getting seriously excited, this is it, what is it going to mean… oh.
It meant nothing. Great, now I’m emotionally conflicted, i.e. ANGRY.
Heh.
I like subtle stories that don’t bludgeon me. Show me how she loves him, don’t just have her saying it over and over again. On the other hand, give me something to work with. Don’t promise me an explanation and then don’t deliver. I’m referring to Kara and the head*s. There is NO explanation for Kara, just speculation from the viewers. And the “angels”… Head*six literally held Baltar up at one point and there is nothing about her being an angel that in any way explains how that happened or what it meant. I don’t care, fine, she’s an angel. What the hell did that mean?
Hm. I was going to save that up for a BrainWyrm, but… well, here it is.
Oh crap. Erm. SPOILERS!!!!
S*P*O*I*L*E*R*S*!*!*!*!
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Morning, Deadpan!
I was out later than I like last night entertaining Evil, Inc. folks. Then I couldn’t sleep. Now I have a headache.
/whining
Good Morning EssBee. Drink water for the headache?
Morning Deadpan!
Last night was very nice, in which ditto and I overcame several hundred miles and our respective spouses to feed the Deadpan rumor mill 🙂
CP: Brainstuff
It doesn’t take much to feed the deadpan rumour mill TEB.
At least nobody mentioned baby oil…
How about cooking oil?
CP: Stuff you missed in history class
CP: Tech Stuff
Whipped cream is even better 😉
CP: HDTV podcast
TEB and ditto! Creamsicles and Whhhipped cream. It must be Friday.
I’m drinking water, Nomad — it has a lot of coffee in it, though. Does that count?
Morning…
Does anyone here know who John Bell is?
*sigh*
I tried
Son of Mr. Bell?
Morning.
ditto! my secret lover!
A physicist.
CP: The Hot Spot
Secrets are fun!
So secret even I didn’t know about it.
Obviously ditto is that quick.
Cough
Christina Scabbia’s is rocking my world this morning.
Rhettro – Both albums are quite good. Somehow I didn’t realize it was the same voice on the Apocalyptic one. The variety of vocalists makes it a bit uneven though.
Wolf – Who needs TV? I have netbook, mwuahaha. XP
Oh no. Another podcast to podsume. And just when I’d worked my back log down to 35 hrs… not including serials.
Erg, I just remembered. I never did check out that Chattanooga radio ‘cast. Do you still have the linkage?
Just finished putting a new shower curtain in the upstairs bathroom. My hubby was upset when he found out I was changing it. The old one had little fishies on it which, for some reason, he was quite partial to. The new one doesn’t.
Also, what the hell am I doing up still? My wake up comes in 3.5hrs.
Night Pan! Don’t lose anything.
Well Pan. I’m off to do some grocery shopping. Then I see a Cappuccino cookie recipe in my future
Night Scry.
Dr. Boze motioned to Joe. “Hit me with another.” Joe passed John a fourth bar napkin.
Jack set down his beer, two thirds empty. “So how is it working out?”
“Well, based on The Ambassador’s insistence the the box was ‘everywhere’ I think introducing it into a subset space amplified and distributed its effect.”
“Which is?”
“Beg pardon?”
Joe stopped his somewhat compulsive polishing of the bar. “You’ve never really said what this box is, just that it ‘concentrates fictional vortices.’ What is that in layman’s terms?”
“Oh, well, see,” Boze mopped at his perpetually sweating brow. “All of the potential plot threads become concentrated near this box, so…” He searched and then grabbed a fifth napkin, and drew a target on it. “Out here, on the periphery, you have typical drama, maybe a coming-of-age novel or something. Slice-of-life stuff. Then closer to the box, things get a little more gritty, real sturm und drang, murder, passionate love, hate, death. Then as the vortices are concentrated closer and closer they get hyper-real, then finally a thin veneer of surreal, which is the region from which the Ambassador sprang forth.”
“So if that’s been amplified ‘everywhere…'”
“Things might start to get, keeping with layman’s terms, pretty weird around here.”
No more fishies for Poopsie Bubblefanny.
We have a big trial happening in my neck of the woods right now. It’s the murder trial of Angie Zapata, and the first test of Hate Crimes Legislation as applied to transgendered people in the state.
I started following the victim’s sister on Twitter, and have found it extremely painful to follow along with what is happening in the courtroom.
My question for this morning is this: Why can’t we just treat each other with simple respect and dignity?
Not the trial OF Angie Zapata. The trial of Angie Zapata’s killer.
CP: Make Way for the Living — Harry Manx
Netbooks are cool NS.
Dell Mini 9 for me.
Will even play Amiga games via WINUAE.
Rob.
EssBee, I wish there were a good answer to that question. There’s certainly far to much hate around. I hope her family finds justice.
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Robot I forgot the + sign
I agree, Ed, and just have to point out that you calling her “her” just made me cry. Good man.
Ah Amiga games. I recall beating SDI and It Came From the Desert. Loved playing Laser Chess with my father and there was one where you commanded a starship on a grid. Something with Zaldrons. Loved that game.
EssBee, I recommend a book: The Lucifer Principle. “Evil” is born in all of us as with all life. Great read. Not to say we should just allow “evil” to get the best of us and run rampant, you understand.
All missing comments have been found and freed from their cages.
The Amiga and Atari ST had a lot of common games. . . . Projectyle was beyond fun.
Sorry to alarm you Nomad, I was just sighing at the human race.. which brings me to EssBee’s question:
My question for this morning is this: Why can’t we just treat each other with simple respect and dignity?
Because I truly dont believe the majority of humans have diginity, respect for one another nor grace. Humans are judgmental, very judgemental. I see fewer and fewer examples of just basic old human decency anymore. Call me a pessimist (although I am actually truly an optimist) I just believe when you are dealing with humans and they have a choice to let their guard down and actually be nice to one another, they will choose to sit back and judge. Most people care only for themselves, and what they want and don’t care who they step on to get what they want.
But really, I am an optimist. I swear it 🙂
I tend to agree, TSH. I am an optimist – at least in that I have hope, but I do see a lot of dog-eat-dog. Or, this has been a particularly rotten week.
Home from shopping and lunch. Now just waiting for my i-pod to sync so I can listen to some podcasts while I bake cookie.
Remember Jack Nicholson’s speech during the campfire scene in Easy Rider?
People who live unreflective lives feel absolute terror when they see someone who’s chosen a wildly divergent way of living. It shakes up their perceived stability of their narrow way of being. And sadly, those understanding-resistant types often act aggressively toward the thing that caused them to feel fear. Understanding, acceptance, tolerance, etc. – – would require a fundamental change in their way of living and thinking.
/$0.02
I love that, Jack, and find it to be true. We also have the Bernie Madoffs scheming grandmas and grandpas and holocaust survivors out of their nest eggs.
Sorry to be a downer! Back to celebrating Friday, how ’bout?
CP: One Big Crunch — White Zombie
CP: Daughter — Pearl Jam
You Slipping Last Transylvanian
Oh Naked Clip Catfish
CP: Sweet Side — Lucinda Williams
Tongue Wild Touche Brother
Jesus Look So Napoleon
CP: And Darling — Tegan & Sara
CP: Obsession – Animotion
CP: Groove is in the Heart – Deee-Lite
Dig.
CP: Remedy — The Black Crowes
CP: Sleeping Satellite – Tasmin Archer
CP: I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – The Proclaimers
CP: Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something
CP: Bitch – Meredith Brooks
CP: How Bizarre – OMC
CP: Senses Working Over Time – XTC
Returned from the blood center. The vampires have been fed 🙂
CP: Rehab – Amy Winehouse
CP: Come On Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Heart Please Eisler Technicolor
Honesty Red Brown Sweet
Red Right Hand — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I’m home. For now. Busy.
Going out tonight.
Hoping I have a reason to make myself pretty. *smirk*
CP: In A Big Country – Big Country
CP: Barracuda – Heart
I have no doubt you’re already pretty, Cj.
CP: Cry Baby – Janis Joplin
CP: Enola Gay – OMD
CP: Mr. Roboto – Styx
Thanks, EssBee 🙂 You are sweet! 🙂
CP: Living in a Box – Living in a Box
CP: Mary’s Prayer – Danny Wilson
CP: Turn Me Loose – Loverboy
CP: Shattered Dreams – Johnny Hates Jazz
CP: Dreaming – Blondie
CP: There She Goes – The La’s
CP: Hell In A Bucket — Grateful Dead
Might be goin’ to hell in a bucket
But at least I’m enjoyin’ the ride
CP: Long Time Gone – Tex Ritter
CP: Can’t Help Falling in Love – Lick the Tins
I want to go dancing, but looks like I’m having a garage sale tomorrow instead.
/disjointedthoughts
CP: Where have all the cowboys gone? – Paula Cole
CP: Stay – Lisa Loeb
CP: Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit of..) – Lou Bega
CP: Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe – Barry White
[not a critique] Vanamonde is having a poppy musical day. [/not a critique]
CP: Candle Song 3 – Mojave 3
btw, Van, I made the mistake of googling for D.I.S.C.O. and found a youtube post of a music video.
CP: Begin the Beguine – Julio Iglesias
CP: Promises, Promises – Naked Eyes
CP: What’s Your Game — The Ramones
Jack won’t admit it, but I’m sure he’s actually listening to Tiffany or Debbie Gibson right now.
CP: Cum on Feel the Noise – Quiet Riot
A lot of one hit wonders as well.
cough
Stranger in Paradise doesn’t sound half bad in Spanish.
CP: Aquarius – The 5th Dimension
I suddenly feel so free and full of love – I wonder why… and where’d I put that ring of daisies… oh… it’s on my head…
ting a ling a ling..
la la la..
Aquaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarius………ooooohhhahhhhhh
This song is better than valium.
Let the sunshine in.
CP: Apache – The Shadows
CP: Run to You – Bryan Adams
Speaking of which, time to run and pick up the kids. My parents are coming to visit for the weekend, so free babysitters while me and momma go out for a dinner w/o the kids 🙂
CP: Peter Gunn – Duane Eddy
CP: When You’re Gone – Bryan Adams and Mel C
That one I’m going to play again.
There was a terribly pretentacious TV programme on the ‘arts’ in the UK that used that Aquarius track as it’s theme tune.
Home from a long, fun day of service. Must get up early tomorrow, so going to bed in a few minutes. Good night, Pan! 🙂
I’m home from a not-so-wild night out. Glad to be home. I’m going to nerd out for a while.
Morning Pan, I see the tumbleweeds need tickling.
Morning, Pan!
Off to clean up the beach. It’ll be a full morning.
Morning it is. The wife and I enjoyed our evening. Now, I must make the mental preparations for a couple dozen eight year olds running about for my daughter’s birthday party this afternoon.
Read an article this morning about the FX designers working on the new Enterprise. While, I must confess, I think the engines on the new on are rather excessive and ungainly looking, I’m still looking forward to the new movie.
Though, from the comments on the article, it seems J.J. Abrams has a shot at beating Lucas in the “raping people’s childhoods” race.
I’m probably a near equal fan of Trek and Star Wars. I’ll save judgement until I’ve seen the movie, but from what I’ve seen so far, I think it’s going to be hard to beat the job of trashing an iconic franchise that Lucas himself did with Star Wars.
I had no idea that some people hated the Comic Sans font so much. Frankly, it seems a dubious basis on which to get married.
“Empty pubs could get new lease on life by turning them into alcohol free-bars for teenagers with games, music, soft drinks and convenience food. Back in the days, we called those “arcades””
Ah, to be young again. Battlezone, Gauntlet, Tron. I could probably retire if I still had those quarters 🙂
Morning, Deadpan!
I was planning to go visit my folks solo this weekend to celebrate Easter, but our snowstorm has other plans. So I’ll be home alone (Sly B is engaging the astronauts of tomorrow today) catching up on TV today. As I’m sad not to be eating the traditional Czech Easter foods, I will set out to make Sedak (Easter cheese) for the first time on my own. Wish me luck!
CW: Kings. This show sucks. No longer watching Kings.
In honour of Ed’s last post I will now hum the gauntlet theme tune.
EssBee needs Sedak
Justa Joe shot the food!
Good luck on the Sedak. I’m not familiar with that one, myself. What goes into it?
It’s a really mild cheese made with eggs and milk. Some people put cloves in it, but I don’t like cloves. I’ll throw some parsley in for pretty, I think. My only challenge is that I can buy cheese cloth, but I can’t sew a bag to hang the cheese in. Hmm. I guess i kind of need my mommy.
The cheese is served with horseradish. It is part of a Russian Orthodox Easter meal, and everything has connotation. The cheese is made with eggs and milk – bounty and Spring. The horseradish is hot, and reminds us that there is hard times that must be conquered during the year. There are lots of other foods served as well. I just want the cheese!
I’m catching up on Heroes. Does anyone else (SPOILER ALERT) think that Coyote Sands is the Heroes version of The Dharma Initiative?
Morning Pan!
Off to kick butt in an hour. Apparently I’m testing in May so I have to practice lots
Lots of comments last night.
Still 3 weeks behind in Heroes so don’t know what you’re taking about EssBee.
Basically this is the transition between a junior and a senior belt. Green belt being considered a senior belt – which would be next.
Cool and Good Luck.
/swoooooooon
🙂
I finished all my “front side” self defenses (that means, in theory, if someone comes at me from the front, I can handle it) and have now been working on what to do if I’m attacked from behind in various forms.
As I said before, I seem to be really good at kicking butt.
Thanks, Van. Luckily I still have two weeks of practice before I test, though.
I’m off to see ‘In the Loop’ later. a political satire, a bit doubtful about this one.
Good morning!
Ed, thanks for the links – I just spent like 30 minutes going through them. “Squatter” is such an unattractive word.
EssBee, good luck with your cheese. Mmmm I love cheese.
Good morning also to Van and TEB
Woot for TEB kicking butt – I’ll *swooon* for that too!
Cheese is good 😉
Well, I’m off ,Pan.
Later
CW: Sarah Conner finale. I think I love Shirley Manson.
Kick some ass, TEB!
Summer Glau is awesome.
So according to the latest quantum physics research, if skynet ran on quantum computers, it could reset it’s memory and transfer to a univerese where John Connor never existed.
Wouldn’t have made a good movie though..
That was an awesome finale. I loved it.
Currently Drinking: Root beer and milk. “Just like Mason Rocket drinks on TV!”, according to that kid in “Really Big Things.” I decided to try it today, and I like it.
EssBee, I had to google Dharma Initiative. I see it’s a part of the TV show LOST, which, alas, I was never really able to get into.
CJ – I think next week’s “Cheesy Bits” section of LLAP should be dedicated to Sedak in honor of EssBee. Sedak sounds suitably Star Trek, I think – like some lesser known Vulcan philosophers 🙂
I agree, cheese is good.
Sedak is really great after some hot Pon Far. . . . .
. . . . . . . . . We are such nerds.
NERDS!!
A fast food joint called Five Guys Burgers and Fries just opened down the street and I tried them for lunch. While I’m sure I just gained five pounds, that was THE best burger I have had in a long, long time. Damn . . .
CP: LOST, Dead is Dead
Jack is going to have some fun picking…er, randomly choosing this weeks greasy nipples.
Mmmm Jack said “hot Pon Far”
*swooooon*
*pass out*
Star Trek is delicious!
Ed,
I made a show note. The next episode we are watching is We’ll Always Have Paris . I’m sure we can work some cheese into that discussion.
Man have I got a storm going on down here. We’re under a tornado watch for the next two hours.
CJ: Excellent!
Hunker down, Ed!
Back from martial arts.
Also did a bit of yard work so had to have a shower. Now all damp and happy 🙂
So CJ, did you get to make yourself pretty last night? Was there sour cream involved?
My husband showed me something silly last night, which I will have you guys demonstrate. It’s hard to visualize without someone doing it in front of you, but here goes…
First: Take both hands, palms out, and do the Vulcan hand gesture with them (please tell me you know what one I mean)
Next: Turn the hands palm inwards, keeping the Vulcan salute.
Now relax the arms and the hands a little bit, keeping the hands in Vulcan salute mode, just somewhat relaxed. Hold them closer to your chest (not right at your chest, just in a relaxed arm gesture), one hand slightly higher than the other
Now, shake the hands a bit and repeat after me…
CD: Strawberry cheesecake milk shake.
“Yo, Yo, my Vulcan Homies! Why do we go up to my crib and get some hot PonFar going with some Vulcan babes…”
LOL
Hopefully you can visualize what I was trying to do 🙂
I am baking today. Zucchini bread!
Not to brag… OK just a little. I’m out in Fountain Hills listening to Jack play live. RAWK!
Save some for me EssBee!
So ‘In the Loop’ was better than I was expecting.
[tweet]Added a bit more to Questors. A plan has been laid out and is about to be set in motion.
My husband and I dissolved into a fit of giggles at the Vulcan homies.
TEB, Last night was totally worth getting pretty for. No sour cream though, I did have hummus. Jack can tell you about the giant tree leaves that floated onto his pizza though. (They really weren’t THAT big /that’s what she said/)
If the basil on my pizza had been any more fresh, it would have been Fawlty.
I love me some hummus. Thankfully Costco now carries the big tubs of Sabra hummus. Hands-down the best premade hummus I’ve had. Have yet to make my own yet, though. Supposed to be very easy to do.
Oh, hey, it’s Dan S! Welcome to the Deadpan boards! 🙂
Jack: LOL! 😀
imag1narynumber: I agree, Sabra is really good.
Good night, Pan.
DanS is made of awesome. 🙂
Be careful there, Ed. Hope you and yours are well.
vulcan homies was good 🙂
We may not of seen Jack play but we still had a really good night here in Chicago 🙂
Hugh would like to report on the latest in Chicago sports.
Hugh?
Hugh sez: *ahem*
Bulls playoff series stats: 1-0
Blackhawks playoff series stats: 2-0
🙂 he is so happy.
we’ve had entirely too much fun tonight and need to go to sleep
night pan
night mush
night cockles
Hugh sez: night
Afternoon Pan, the Sun is shining and I’m at work..meh!
Good morning, Pan!
Coffee is brewing.
Mmmm coffee. Good morning!
Basil! Manuel! Duck’s off.
I don’t get Caprica. Is it going to air on SyFy? Or is it only available on DVD?
Nomad, thanks for the SciFiGenre tip – I have moved all my subs over there!
Also, I got Ignition City #1 yesterday and dig it!
morning pan!
Hugh and I are being really really lazy this morning and we’ve finished reading our books and thought we would do a little play by play
EssBee I know you said you just moved your subscriptions to scifigenre, but here is another good subscription place. Its the one I use:
usually comics are 30-40% off, but sometimes it is even higher. They boast that you can get comics up to 75% off and its true sometimes. Like usually some of my Batman comics will be that much off.
They do not offer free bags and boards, you have to pay for them but the bags they use are really nice quality.
Morning Pan.
Calgary down 0 & 2 in the playoffs. Not totally surprised (I know you picked them to win in 7, Jack but I had them losing in 6)
Beautiful Sunny day right now. Only plus 4, but should get up to 12.
Later, will be taking my Boo to the fabric store. She wants me to make her some curtains for her new place.
and if you are really into weird independent comics, may I suggest my local shop. I love this comic book store.. I have been going to this shop since I read my 1st Sandman. Even though I am doing the subscription thing, I still go in here to browse cause they carry an amazing amount of indies and the staff are really cool.
Hey Energizer Bunny.. sorry our Blackhawks got you down 🙂
Welcome 1 and all to the Deadpan retro (rhettro) hour
Staring: Hugh and Andrea
Featuring: that classic Episode, Deadpan 102!!
is this someones stolen paragraph
Hugh sez: cock and endless balls??
methinks thats what she said
I don’t think there is anyway to say ‘Deadpan is the motherfucking way biatch’ and really truly sound Deadpan
Hugh sez: especially biatch. YOu want to put emphasis on biatch
be-yotch!!!
Hugh sez: like that 🙂
unrelated thought
mouse click
LOL
that was good Jack
LOL
you’re cracking us up with this
its me at NIN methinks!
LOL
Hugh sez: thats about how it would sound. Hence the need for communicating through texting while at lollapalooza
fer sure 🙂
Heh, that was me w/ the “cock & endless balls”. *blush* I submitted that when my friend Steve died – that poem was kinda how I felt.
Thanks for the tip on the Mailorder comics! I’m a newbie, so need all the help I can get!
So Hugh you think Energizer bunny is waiting for us to leave 😉
Hugh sez: that happens to us alot
methinks people here hate our play by plays, Hughie 🙂
Hugh sez: eh, who cares. We are enjoying ourselves
sorry if we annoy the crap out of everyone here 🙂
EssBee! Awwww.. I’m sorry about your friend.
We really like the mailorder comics place
I LOVE the play-by-play! Don’t stop!
and by the way.. in case you are not used to our sense of humor.. we were kidding about the waiting for us to leave Bunny 🙂
unless of course you are.. LOL.. 🙂
don’t mind us.
we’re crazy
We won’t stop EssBee.. we just always remember this one time we started a play by play and it was Truckre Overdrive who had wanted to put a comment up for everyon to see and answer and he literally waited until we were done to post his question again, it was kinda finny. We felt bad 🙂
“That was me with the ‘cock & endless balls'” isn’t something I say often. LOL!
we know this has to be a little annoying.. it does interrupt the usual flow of events here. We thought Sunday AM would be quiet and therefor we wouldn’t disturb things
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“That was me with the ‘cock & endless balls’†isn’t something I say often. LOL!
LOL
we’re dying
oh my God we can’t stop laughing
that was the best essbee
ok.. back to pan if we can ever get a hold of ourselves…
Ha!
Ok, I must shower, so I’ll give you some time to compose yourselves!
🙂
Don’t hold too tight, TSH, you could cut off circulation to something important.
Jack sex: Greasy uhh spoon comments game (long pause)
We have 6 nipples today!!
Hugh sez: 6?!?!?!????!!?? w00t!!
“Jack sex”
hawsome typo
Good advice Ed 🙂
Essbee’s in the shower everyone!!!
*swooon*
Hugh sez: I think she should of invited us
agreed! 🙂
Survived the storms – I hear we broke records for rainfall. The drainage ditches around here were the highest I’ve ever seen them.
Thankfully, we were smart and had my daughter’s birthday party indoors this year. She and the kids had fun. I’ll have to get some pictures posted later.
EssBee and TSH in a shower?
I’ll be in my bunk….
anywho.. I consulted the historical documents:
Greasy Spoon Cigars Comments spoons Comments nipples through unshow XX
Hugh sez: speaking of food that causes orgasms. My baby made Chicken Cacciatore yesterday. Holy fuck, babe. I know I orgasmed while eating that
it was damn good wasn’t it?
Hugh sez: I can’t wait to try it today after its sat in the fridge and gotten even better
mmm mmmm!!!
More orgasmic food: Sly B made burgers the other night (grass fed, free range, butchered by my dad) that had green chile (grown in our back yard) mixed in and a disc of goat cheese in the center. OMG.
Hey, TSH. Not waiting for you to leave. Just doing other things this morning so being very intermittent on my posts 🙂
Shower – accomplished. Solo.
😉
Someone is rambling about work being a pain and that if it frustrates you you can consider changing careers
Hugh sez:I used to do that climbing the corporate ladder thing. I’m over that now 🙂
LOL.. I love the sound effects you’ve added to this
Well see baby, I think thats the difference between you and many others. You didn’t go to school for what you do. You started that job because it was just a job that paid money at the time and then you found you really loved it and moved up the ladder
Hugh sez: plus, I am happy. I’ve made my money. We live a good life. Now at almost 40, I’ve changed my focus. I want art and my wife to be my focus in life. I like where i stand at work and I don’t need to move up anymore. They like me, they like the work I do. Life changes that way.
Right like we were focused on us for a long long time, then when we got straightened out we both kinda focused on work for a while, now we are back around and focusing on us again.
Hugh sez: exactly.
its cool bunny 🙂 we were just being stupid.. like i said there was that 1 time when Trucker Overdrive was waiting for us to finish and we felt bad 🙂
Essbee is clean!
Hugh sez: time to get her dirty again!
LOL.. 🙂
ok I think we need to get Sly B’s burgers, the chicken cacciatore and some absolutely heavenly chocolate dessert and have food orgasms!!!
Hugh sez: Yes. I concur!
🙂
He hasn’t given up
he is ok with what he gets paid
its good enough
enjoys his evenings
enjoys nights at home with his wife
awwwww
Hugh sez; good for him. But I don’t regret my choices either. I enjoy the life my working hard for a few years is allowing us to have now.
Well I guess the key to what he was saying is you stopped climbing the ladder to take the time to enjoy what you did, enjoy the fruit of your labor. Some people never do that
Jack works with a bunch of chinese people
LOL!!!!!
that was the most awesome story evar, Jack
Duel of the fates!
Poor Dubshack
Amy Bowen!
I was thinking, just last night, that Jack should include Buffy Summers in his next DOTF.
We forgive you for being late with ep 2 of Questors, Amy 🙂
Hugh sez: sez the people who are what? 5 months behind on Deadpan?
LOL.. true 🙂
Wait, we can figure this out.. ok this episode had me calling from Lolla, I assume he used those vm’s not too long after i sent them.. that was August of last year
Holy moly!! Thats 9 months ago!!!
Hugh sez: we suck
9 months behind????? thats inconceivable!!
Hugh sez: inconceivable!!
[inigo montoya] I do not think that word means what you think it means [/inigo montoya]
A busy DP Sunday…nice!
It is August for sure, TSH. Steve passed away on August 6th, and I recorded the “cock & balls” stolen stanzas then.
Back to comics – I just read the latest Buffy Season 8 (issue 24?) and Faith’s boobs are GIANT. She would have a helluva time kicking ass with those knockers.
Buffy Summers would kick ass!
Jack we 2nd (and 3rd) the Buffy Summers vote!
Hugh sez: put her up against that lame vampire from Twilight
oh man.. I hope none of you loved that movie. Hugh and I were thoroughly disgusted by that movie. Didnt even finish watching it
Hugh sez: we pay per viewed it and I wanted my 3.99 or what it was back
My review of Twilight (the movie, didn’t read the book) was:
I don’t get it. Why did that gay chick fall for that simple-minded vampire?
Cough.
How do those comic book babes kick ass the way they are drawn
Have you seen Catwomans boobs??? and then her tiny waist- how the hell does she stand upright?
Hugh sez: plus she is in a painted on outfit so her boobs have no support, they are just flapping around
LOL “flapping around”
Hugh sez: LOL it was more of a comment on how her outfit is so tight it HAS to be painted on. Boobs that big need some support.
would you like to support them Hughie?
Hugh sez: Yes, yes i would
I saw Twlight at the cinema..ugh indeed!
I read the Twilight book and made it about 1/2 way through the movie. It was so bad
I read it cuz I love vamire romances and I wasnt very impressed. The vampire was 80-some years old dating a 15-16 year old girl? huh????
The teenyboppers in the cinema seemed to like it though.
ok almost done with ep 102 here then we are gonna go
it was sooooo teenybopper-y
it was a perfect movie for a 13 year old girl to love
Jack sez: “sucked an icecube”
*swooon*
Hugh sez: ice cubes are fun
🙂
Deadpan is the motherfucking way
palooza idea: PCU
Jack gave us homework
Hugh sez: Damn you!
sphericaljackmmmmmmmmmmm
comments.
nipples.
Eraserhead rulez
I like the idea of doing the Watchmen graphic novel too
what a great idea!!
you should do it!
Hugh sez: I think he does
he does!?!?!?? 😉
he is truly outrobabbling
Jacks most painful music
Jack sez: “I like to do deep and sultry”
I bet you do Jackamo 😉
hugh sez: *swooon*
swooon2
Is Jack coming back after the music game!
Hugh?
Hugh sez: ladies first
methinks he really isnt this time
your on woman
TSH: I enjoy your play-by-plays. 🙂
Jackmo this is high pitched for you
Hugh sez: but it isn’t bad, man. What are you worried about?
I like it Jack
Smarty Hotties approve
Oh thank you Amy.. *blush*
we have fun doing them, and that is what is most important to us. After everything we’ve been through the past few years, we treasure the moments of peace, quiet, and fun.
Hugh sez: we treasure our moments together
we do 🙂
sorry to get all sappy on you guys 🙂
*claps at the end of Jacks song*
Hugh sez: you have the clap?
LOL.. shut up Hugh!
Jack came back after the music!!!!!
greasy jelly bean game
557 won
Rhettro!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Maki got his breakfast this past weekend
mouse click
take it away Mennennennnennenennenennga
That’s what matters, TSH.
alright guys and dolls
we hope to be back soon to try and make up 9 fucking months of backlogged Deadpans!!! Holy!!!!
Hugh sez: We aim to do better this year
even though this year is 1/3rd over already
we agree Essbee
ok, we’re off
be around soon to check up on y’all
take care of each other please 🙂
buh-bye
Hugh sez: l8r
Bye! 🙂
That was fun TSH 🙂
Always fun to read your play-by-plays.
Have a good day, Chicagoans.
Hi Amy!
I am off to the grocery store now, and then will be back to read, read, read.
Hi Van, Cj!
Mmmm reading is the best.
Today I’m doing laundry, making grocery lists, and cleaning house.
Gotta find out who has Matzoh on sale. My Gram is requesting it for breakfast one day this week. And… while it is my favorite breakfast food, I don’t keep it on hand because nobody else here will eat it.
Hi, EssBee, Van, and Cj!
Location: bedroom
Eating: Sun Chips
Drinking: water
Doing: finances and bills
Well, it was tough to capture the action yesterday, but this one is my favorite from the party:
Today I broke through a block I’d had for a long time on one of my novels. I’m about to get into a scene I’ve been anticipating for a long time. It’s not the climax, but it’s an important turning point that sets things up for how the climax will play out. I’ve been writing (not really nonstop, but close) since 5:15 – 5:30 ish, and it’s now almost 7:30 and I CAN’T STOP WRITING!!! Not even to go downstairs and get dinner! This feels fantastic and exhilarating.
That’s very inspiring, Amy! Go go go! 🙂
Thank you!
Dinner has been eaten. Now relaxing with music, TVTropes, and other websites. Final word count for the night: 71,317. Novel’s still not done, but I’m really proud of what I’ve accomplished today. 🙂
That’s excellent, Amy.
Sorry to hear about the Sunday Suckage, CJ. Hope Monday is better.
My evening is already better. Thanks, Ed. I’m smiling again – tomorrow will be my usual awesome type of day, I’m sure. 😀
Well, gang, I don’t know if I’ll be much help breaking records this week. Mrs. from Texas is out of town this week at her company’s home office. She normally works here at the house, but has to travel to the main office a few times a year. So, this week, it’s just me and the kids and the days are pretty full of various sports/church/ballet and homework.
By the time I’ve gotten finished with the kids each day, I’m usually ready to crash myself. Which is what I’m going to do now.
G’nite, Deadpan.
Night, Pan.
But I’m not tired yet.
Night, Amy and Ed.
and when we find we have no words, Mr. Jonathan Coulton is there to provide them.
Some things we always remember, some things we forget
No way to make it up now no room for regret
That’s no good for anyone
And so I come undone
Now I am less than what I was
Whatever’s left is yours now
Fold my heart up small
Or break it into pieces
Find somewhere and keep it there
Take it when you go
Justa j0e!! *hug*
RIP JG Ballard
that is all
your smarty hotties® will enter into sleep mode now
ps music always has a funny way of saying the things we can’t say i’ve noticed. I’ve also noticed songs will evolve in my life. They start out meaning 1 thing to me, then something happens in my life and suddenly the song has a completely different meaning, or just a whole new significance.
Plus my iTunes has that funny way of shuffling up those songs at that moment that say the things I cannot say. I will be really sad about something, listening to tunes unable to grasp my own sadness and a song will come on that says it all for me. I love that.
that my dear pannitos is the main reasons I love music so much
sleep mode has been delayed. Smarty hotties® will commence immediate shutdown procedures in 10…
Then what does it mean when my iTunes shuffles up “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Grooving in a Cave with a Pict” ?
In all, utmost seriousness – your friends are here for you and care for you.
Ah yes JG Ballard, I see they are already downplaying his scifi work, fooking literary snobs.
That was your oh so mini rant for a Monday Morning.
Oh and if you have a spare 1.5 million quid in your back pocket:
If you ever find yourself in Houston, you owe it to yourself to visit the Johnson Space Center and see the Saturn V that is on display there.
CP: Wander Radio #39
EssBee – Do not listen while in the tub… You’ll turn into a prune before you get out. 😉
I’m safe at the office! With earbuds, noting the NSFW note on the episode.
EssBee – The poem and the final song are really the culprits here.
Quiet around here today…
hmm
I did shower…
I think.
Very quiet!
Although I did NOT shower with EssBee…
Just so you know.
If we had, I would have borrowed your cham-poo-pagne, Wolf.
BTW, happy 4/20, Deadpan. I don’t personally partake, but am sure that some of you do.
LOL
CP: Tiffany- I Think We’re Alone Now
Hugh sez: Turn that shit off!!!
🙂
Hugh sez2: We’re not listening to your iTunes anymore 🙂
errrrr.. dumb Dre question: whats the 4/20 significance.. what am i missing?
4/20 as faar as I can think is the day before the new Depeche Mode album is released 🙂
That maybe it wolf, some like the smell of wild wolf.
So I feel I’ve become emotionally flat to horror stories. So I could appreciate what emotions the writer was trying to instill with the poem without actually feeling anything at all.
OOO the Hotties have decided to grace us with their presence.
The Smarty Hotties: 4/20 = weed. Dumb IMO, but lots of dumb things are popular. It’s also my sister’s birthday, but that’s not nationally recognized.
and to prove what I was saying about my iTunes, it knows Hugh was upset by Tiffany so now:
4/20 is a huge event on the CU campus in Boulder every year. Since I have an insider, I am always amused at the university’s attempts to quell the event. This year, they are expecting over 10,000 stoners to converge at 4:20 this afternoon outside of the library and toke up.
Not too surprisingly, it is always a peaceful event.
I’ll shall have to see if that black flag song is on spotify.
In my day the would put strips of coloured cellophane on the monitor to’colour’ the graphics…
+y
I want my pong.
Fall Guy! Knots Landing! Yeah, that song is bit dated…
Good morning to all of you. This is so my favorite place on the web now.
Unfortunately, I may be quiet today. I’m so sick that my dear husband has had to call off work today to help me. I have a migraine that surely surface from the depths of hell. It’s a cluster migraine which means that I’ll have moments of working vision and the pain will regress for a short time – like now. So, I took the free moment to drop in a hello.
Now I have to get as much work done as possible before the next hit of incapacitation. Stupid spreadsheets are not going to help my cause.
Have a great day! Hopefully I’ll be able to come back and read at least a bit later!
Take care, Cj! Keep your eyes off the computer screen, girl.
Soon, we’ll all be able to choose between same-sex or opposite marriage:
Today is 10 years since Columbine, wow. I remember where I was on that day. I was in Fort Collins, doing an exit exam and picking up the bound volume of my master’s thesis at CSU. I had just started dating Sly B, and it was our first mini-road trip together.
This one is for Hugh TSH:
Nuggets playoffs: 1-0
What’s most socially disturbing about Columbine is the number of gun-toting psycho incidents that have followed. Is this a cultural inevitability for this stage of our collective emotional development – – or is there some particular facet of contemporary culture that has helped enable this kind of thing?
My $0.02 on the matter, Jack, is that as a society, we have allowed kids to raise themselves. Imagine that the Columbine shooters gathered up an arsenal in their parents’ homes completely undetected.
Also, I think that bullying has become a constant torment and torture for kids who don’t “fit in.” Think of the 11 year old boy who hung himself last week in Springfield, MA rather than face school another day.
One of the reasons I refer to my once-beloved employer as “Evil, Inc.” is because we used to deploy to communities where something awful like Columbine or Springfield happened because we knew how to help communities design and implement bully-proofing plans.
CP – Side 2, ZZ Top “Eleminator” LP
Take that, sadness.
CP: Oh Well — Fleetwood Mac
*dancing in my office*
Essbee – RE: 4/20
Get a couple of boxes of Lucky Charms and a few boxs of small Ziplock bags.
Fill the bags. Wander past the library at 4:25 selling the bags of sugared joy for a buck a piece.
Ka ching!
I’m not a 4/20 partaker, but I could so go for a ziploc baggie of Lucky Charms right now.
… then you whip out your cooler full of those little pint containers of ice cold milk and sell those for $5 each.
later Deadpan
A guy could make a pretty nice profit on something like that next year. Hmm . . .
Quiet Monday…
At 4:20 on 4/20 I will be responsible for 5 little minions running around my house.
I’ll probably wish I was a partaker – but, alas – I have never been.
As for the kids who cause destruction, I tend to lean toward the blame-the-parents end of the spectrum.
Parents, IMO, of a very selfish generation seemed to either ignore or over-medicate their rambunctious children instead of spending time with them and paying attention to them. This doesn’t mean that it’s always the case, but I firmly believe that many of the negative actions taken by teens over the past decade could have been prevented with a bit of parental responsibility. I think these selfish parents decide somewhere along the line that the kids are merely a burden to them and basically toss them aside to fend for themselves.
Bad parenting tends to really piss me off.
Totally, agree about the parenting issue, Cj. I think that we were the first generation of latch-key kids, and our kids (thinking of kids who are near 20 now) are the first generation of self-raised kids.
CP: Was It A Lie? — Sleater-Kinney
I think/hope it’s changing now. I even wonder how much the mommy/daddy blogging phenomenon has affected parenting now. I see more parenting blogs and my “MightyMommy” account on Twitter is being followed by anywhere from 3 to 10 new parent bloggers/podcast listeners daily.
If it’s a trend in parents wanting to be better parents then hopefully, the generation of children who are small now, will have a better chance. My kids are 3 and 5 and I’m going to be 40 in a little over a month from now and I’ve noticed in the parenting groups of which I’m a member, most of the moms are close to the same age as me – so I think that parents starting later in life is also a trend and a good one at that! As always, I’m hopeful.
I’ve been over an hour without headache issue. I think I may be out of the dark and after almost 3 days of this pain – I’m about to shout hallelujah.
CP: Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice – Beatallica
Selfish people will always set their own petty wants and fleeting impulses as a higher priority than the well-being of their children.
And OK – can’t watch this here, but it looks like it’ll be worth checking out at home: http://digg.com/d1p9f9
I am not here to be my children’s best friend. I’m here to guide them, support them, and set boundaries for them. I’m eligible for vacation benefits after about 20 years on the job.
Ed, we have something else in common, which is our philosophy on parenting.
CP: Goons Of Hazzard — Dead Kennedys
CP: Cool Drink Of Water — The Gun Club
Personally I think blaming the parents is a kopout. It’s an easy excuse to try to explain why kid x did these horrible deeds.
I don’t care how you were brought up, you do a horrible act and the blame is on you and nobody else.
You should be ok as long as you don’t summon a demon using an hexagram.
Tonight is bachelor night for me, so I’m having a pot pie. Mmm.
CW: The Tudors S3, E2
Do Satanists send each other pick-me-up messages via singing pentagram?
That would be a great dating service!
“We base all of our matches on a battery of 666 questions.”
Cj said: “This is so my favorite place on the web now.”
Awww!! That warms my heart. It’s mine, too. 🙂
EssBee said: “My $0.02 on the matter, Jack, is that as a society, we have allowed kids to raise themselves.”
What both you and Cj said about this was right on the money.
Cj: I didn’t know that parents starting later in life was a trend now. That is interesting, and I agree that it’s likely to be a good thing in terms of parental responsibility. I was born in 1986 (Mom was 33), and my sister was born in 1991 (Mom was 38). I think that was slightly unusual when we were growing up. I think the upside was that she had an established career, but the downside was that she had less physical stamina than parents who started younger, so she didn’t like doing things like going camping in tents (which I liked doing, and still do).
At my university, we had a tradition of yelling “FOUR-TWENTY!” and cheering really loudly when the clock hit 4:20 at both soccer and basketball games.
I too enjoy camping! I love fishing and all of that stuff too… it’s my 33-year-old husband that doesn’t like it! grrr…. I shall make him be outdoorsy! I shall!
/charge
Well, Deadpan, that’s it for me. I think I took some of your headache, Cj — not all of it, but some of it. Now I must stop looking at this computer for awhile.
Nighty night, you beautiful denizens of the ‘pan.
You know, now that I hold the new Enterprise in my hands – I have to say the new warp engines are indeed on the awkwardly large size.
I hope the designers weren’t trying to compensate for something.
Shriveled Photon torpedoes?
We are old skool pot smokers and didn’t know about this 4/20 thing 🙂
I’m not a parent so I can’t really comment reliably on the whole who is responsible thing.. but based on my experience- I do tend to agree that its the parents fault when they are young and impressionable, then there comes a point when a child is making their own decisions and at that point it becomes iffy for me. Real generalization here but when kids are living under their parents roof, parents should be more aware of whats going on. Once a kid is away making their own choices, it becomes the childs choice and the parents less.
Essbee- I will tell Hugh of your basketball shout out 🙂 He just watched the Bulls play and now is watching the blackhawks.. I am hiding from it all. LOL. I did watch the end of the bulls game, it was a really good game.
I can say based on my own life, my parents did have a huge impression on me. I am also from a hispanic family with slightly different issues then American families. When I look back at my life and my successes and failures I really do believe up until.. lets say… 14/15, maybe even 13/14 I could point the finger at my parents, after that I made my own choices.
I can say that the worst my parents did was they did little to prepare me for the world. I learned most things about life on my own, through trial and error and meeting other people and actually going out and exploring life, seeing it for myself. Taking chances. So the choices I made when I did that are all on me.. but I guess if you wanted to look at my parents you could say they could of prepared me better and not just let me out with the wolves so unprepared. They were entirely way too overprotective of me, to the point that they stunted me in a way.
ok sorry 🙂
for someone who started out saying I can’t really comment on a subject, I sure commented a whole bunch.
Yes. TSH and to Van – Ultimately, once the kiddos are thinking for themselves, there are cases, where regardless of upbringing – people can simply be idiots or, deranged and unbalanced people.
I think all points and perspectives are valid, but I still believe that if the parents had taken the time to get involved and paid attention to their children, at least some of these kids could have been helped or saved.
I want to hold your Enterprise, Ed. Pretty please? 🙂
I’ll be sure to bring it if I ever get to visit AZ. For now, you’ll have to settle for a picture 🙂
Beautiful 20 C yesterday. The weatherman says snow for tomorrow.
I don’t know if I can take anymore of this crazy weather
The Red Mile was happy last night, now that Calgary has decided to actually join the playoffs.
Only one item on today’s todo list:
Disillusion TEB about another fairy tale.
Cough
A friend of mine starts her first day of work today. Normally, not an issue but in today’s economy she got a job in record time. She’s from the US and only received her work permit at the end of March. She put out her resume, did an interview and got a job within a couple of weeks. You don’t see that very much anymore.
You won’t disillusion me Van, I know the evils of Rumplestiltskin. The poor man who tore himself in half…
I still say the king was the bad guy in that story.
I don’t even have the best pants.
CP: Scientific American Podcast
*Pushes the reset button*
Will that work on the weather, EssBee?
Heh! this ain’t a Sar Trek episode Essbee.
CP: Escape Pod 195
Junk Sound Itkin Pressure’s
CP: Get Out the Door – Velvet Revolver
CP: Me and My Arrow – Harry Nillson
CP: I’m a Believer – The Monkees
CP: Of Sins and Shadows – Symphony X
Robert Smith is 50 today.
Damn. You’re right, Van.
Sorry about the weather, TEB. In Colorado, it’s gorgeous and supposed to be 77 today.
Morning, Deadpan!
CP: Salve Virgo Virginum – The Mediæval Bæbes
So far weather not bad +8C. But give it 24 hours…
CP: The look of Love – Diana Krall
CP: Battery – Metallica
CP: WanderRadio EP 39
Well, no more music for now. Gotta do an on-line course for work. Will be out for an hour or so.
The squeaky artichoke winds up as dinner.
Conference Call Hell – Ditto I need help.
I’m sorry, Wolf. ditto can’t come to the phone. Can I take a message?
Good morning, beautiful people. Consider yourself hugged. I’m hoping to be away from the computer for most of today, at least until I have to clock into work.
mmmm artichokes – now I want to make one for dinner. Yum.
CP: I’ll be your baby tonight – UB40 and Robert Palmer
CP: Hound Dog – Robert Palmer
CP: Proud to Be (a honky woman) – Vinegar Joe
CP: Joe 90 theme
CP: UFO theme
CP: Babylon Podcast 152
CP: Insomnia Radio UK #65
Completely off the topic…
(what topic)
I was looking WR Stats… Someone is listening to my show on their PSP…
Wow you can do that?
(Yes you old man they can…)
CW: Chuck s2e20
Doesn’t Van listen on PSP? Could’ve sworn someone on here does…
“As in ball shaped,” said Jack.
And I snorted.
Not any more JB, but I’ve listened to DP on a PSP, PS3 and a Dell Axim X30 PDA.
Cough
However you can use the RSS feed to stream or download episodes direct to the PSP.
Boy the bunnies are out in force today. Usually you don’t see them so wildly hopping around the neighbourhood.
I may get a life one of these days.
I started my podsuming habit on my PSP, and the automatic wifi scheduling works fairly well. I think I stopped using it as my main device because I only had a 512MB memory card in it at the time.
Van don’t bother You don’t get out of it what you put in to it…
Ah I remember when the PSP seemed sleek and sexy and then the iPhone came along and made it look liked a bloated whale.
Still, Super Stardust is a cool shooter on the PSP..
TSH – I wish my local comic shop was as on the ball, internet-wise, as yours is. Neither one is open during the hours I can get to them and neither one has a web store. I’m all for supporting the little guys, but… [shrug]
Wolf – You get DUST!
Well he’s a wolf after all.
I tried to use the test model at the AT&T store within two days of them chaining it to the wall. So it is possible, but unlikely, that the touch sensors were already damaged in some way.
As the primary (only?) method of input, touch screen is not something I can use. Even on the newfangled tech that is used for the iPhone.
What is it called? Is the iPhone capacitive touch or resistive touch? Grrr, can’t recall now.
I don’t know Wolf -quite- well enough, but I love to tease my friend Gorath about his wolfie nature by calling him a “woof” all the time. Just doing my vampire part to put down the revolution.
Van, getting a life is over-rated 😉
AmazonMP3 has the new Depeche Mode for $3.99
BestBuy has it for $9.99 or $14.99 with a DVD.
… But I still want the disc.
Well, the arbourist is here to trim my trees. Gotta go!
Later Pan
Is that a metaphor TEB?
cough
CP: Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) — Bob Dylan
NS – Hopefully we will not ever know each other that well…
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
😉
At lunch today, I think I’ll run to Best Buy and get the Caprica DVD. I might also pick up the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs disc, and I’ve been wanting a Garbage CD. Why not?
LOL, Wolf.
… I’m confused now. How did my nipple for this deadpan end up in this deadpan? Shouldn’t it not have existed until after this particular unshow existed? Are my nipples traveling in time?
Wolf – XD
We get on well enough. Two different creatures of the night, both better than the normals that sleep walk around us.
Could define pretty much anyone here. It’s not like we’re a majority population.
I’ve got Caprica coming in the mail. The wife and I will check in on for date night on Friday. Honestly, if it weren’t for Farpoint Media (here and Slice, etc) I wouldn’t even know it was available, much less that I’d have to get a DVD to watch it.
Sadly, no Blu-Ray.
I heard there’s nudity on the DVD.
That is all.
I hope nipples don’t require 1.21 gigawatts to travel through time.
Jack has a new Super Power. He can direct Lightning Bolts to peoples nipples causing them to go 88 mph causing them to travel in time with out the owners knowledge.
Recommendation keep your hands on all nipples that are important to you…
Says Wolf, obviously using one of his hands at least to type out the warning. Good ole’ one-nipple Wolf.
EssBee I am not worried about my nipples…
Borrows Vans *Cough*
There’s someone out there for everyone’s nipples. I truly believe that.
I’m skeptical, just going by the male/female ratio alone.
So they’re still trimming my trees (no euphemisms – despite the current nipple conversation). With any luck, I won’t have to worry about branches falling on the neighbours car come next snowfall (which is tomorrow from what the weatherman says).
I Think I’m going into gaming withdrawal. There are approx a dozen games I want to purchase this year (that I know of, anyway) but none of them have been released yet. Need to find something to do until next month.
Van, This is for you. This cake was made by a sixteen-year-old cake decorator and I couldn’t help, but think of you when I saw it!
While, going back to our earlier discussion, I certainly say this boy in a man’s body is wholly responsible for his current condition, the fact that his mom is proud of him is a pretty big indictment on the family.
I don’t think any bonehead should be given leniency because they cry about their poor upbringing, but bad parenting is definitely at the root of the bonehead epidemic.
I’m back…
Some responses:
Welcome, Dan S.
i: I like hummus too.
TEB: lol vulcan homies
Hugh: Absa-frakin-amen, bro! Who needs the corporate ladder anyway?
TSH: Re: Catwoman’s boobs: You don’t think *that* is a superpower? 😉
Amy: Yea! Glad to you are making progress on the novel.
mp3s vs CDs: I still buy the CDs for the better sound quality.
And I like to add: computers seem to hate me.
ditto, thank god you’re back.
🙂
American Idol is really awful, isn’t it?
I think I’ll go hide now. 😉
I did pick up the Caprica DVD today. Now just to get Sly B to quit working and watch it with me. Hmmm.
I see that the show won’t actually air until 2010. Not shocking, but still, WTF.
I was eating breakfast and flipped past the last few minutes of Idol. I am unimpressed with the lot of ’em. They sound better than me, but that isn’t say anything at all.
Nomad, I am the Celene Dion of Deadpan, and I say they stink too.
Sacre Bleu.
The good news is that one could download tonight’s performances on iTunes tomorrow. In case you want to hear them again. And again.
One more Idol question. WTF is Paula on? Any guesses?
EssBee – Good. Now I don’t feel so hypocrankikal for being unimpressed. (And I do not wish to hear them again.)
Parkinson’s disease, maybe? Or just the alchohol?
I was gonna guess oxy m’self, but it could just be a red Coca Cola cup full of vodka. You have a point, sir.
Work, she drags me under. Gulp.
I must say, I catch bits and pieces as my wife and her mother and sisters enjoy it…..this is turning into a run on sentence and I don’t know how to stop it.
American Idol – I agree this has not been a strong batch. I can usually count on Simon to cut through Paula’s sunshine crap, but even he’s let me down with approving some of the performances.
CW: last night’s Castle
ditto: Welcome back! The novel’s not done, but I uploaded it to CreateSpace this morning anyway, in hopes of getting my free proof copy before my discount code from Nanowrimo ’07 expires (and even if it does, I’m excited enough about the whole thing to pay for a proof copy). I’m currently waiting for a confirmation email from them.
“RT” @evoterra:
“It would give me a raging hard-on for days if Phoenix became THE capital of weekly SM meetups. #FN is the motherfucking way. (Sorry, Jack)”
w00t! I just thought I would “retweet” this here to make absolutely sure that Jack saw it. 😀
Re: American Idol
If Freddie Mercury and David Bowie could have had a baby, it would be Adam Lambert.
My latest donation to Gutenberg, The Homesteaders, has gone live:
Trying to pick out a decent cell phone is ridiculously complicated. Even employing my awesome google fu, there is just no info out there. How is this possible?
When I picked my phone, I had spent about a year deciding what features I wanted and waiting for a phone that had them to come out.
Which is a rough way of saying there is no easy way that I know of.
Sascha Segan from PCMag is pretty knowledgable, as is Bonnie Cha from CNET.
Hmm, too many linkages in my prior comment. When Jack de-mods it, it is for Marlo. ‘K?
I don’t watch American Idol, myself. The only reality shows I watch are Top Chef and Biggest Loser.
ditto: I can’t watch the cooking shows, or I’d never ever be able to eat again.
I have my crew and 2/3 of the second shift crew tonight and they are driving me nuts. Wah wah. And wah.
… And they are gone. phew. No more stupid questions about things that have no bearing on anything.
What you looking for in a cellphone MD?
I don’t watch reality shows, a few attempts at watching Big Brother when it first started in the UK was enough to put me off the concept for good.
Welcome back ditto.
Morning Pan, the Sun is shining and I’m going to watch moving pictures in a darkened room later.
CW: a week of In Treatment episodes
CL: Dani’s Truth Seekers Podcast: Special Edition: Live from a Tea Party
… ???
Well no good ??ing NS, you’re the one listening to that podcast.
The people speaking at the “Tea Party” seemed to enjoy yelling about socialists and communists and such.
Which is not exactly a good way to get -me- to agree with them, but it seemed that the audience appreciated it.
And then there were numbers and facts being strewn about … I don’t know anything about what they were discussing, but my instincts are yelling that it is not only nonsense and lies but contradictory as well.
I have this sick-fascination / disgust with this politic nonsense. And I think that is what I’m ???’ing most.
And ScottyJ says JustaJoe is Highlander, he can never die. But that is Cj’s LLAP, not Dani’s TS.
!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Amy.
And yes, there can be only one JustaJ0e.
I was a bit worried that SM meant something else and Amy was showing a dark side.
cough
Van – I think I have figured out why you like #34…
It is fast paced moving from segment to segment quickly. Jack Jaffee’s Muppet pieces are hilarious.
And I do not speak in that episode…
Proof of my face for radio and a voice for print…
😉
Not true Wolf, you speak at the beginning when it sounds like your son is asking what the episode is this week.
LOL – true. That is my son…
ditto: I am a fan of Top Chef. I don’t know why, but I love Padma. And cooking.
Morning, Deadpan!
justa JOe is the frakin’ way. There can be only one.
I really dislike most “reality” shows. Many of them don’t deal with reality at all and are engineered to cater to the train-wreck crowd. I like Top Chef because it really is all about the cooking. There is little that can be faked on that show. And, my wife recently exposed me to Biggest Loser. There are some dumb game components to the show, but overall it is very inspiring and educational.
Other than that, I don’t know what I’ll be watching on TV anymore. Almost all my shows are gone. I guess I’ll do more reading. 🙂
CP: Hey Joe (Joe Bully) — Beatnik Turtle
Yep, it’s a total coincidence that I’m playing that song.
EssBee: I love Padma, though I’m disappointed about the Hardee’s commercial. They must have paid her a lot for that!
I read an interview she did not long ago where they asked her what is her favorite thing about herself. She said the scar on her arm.
I haven’t seen the Hardee’s commercial – what’d she do? I DID see that she recently posed nude for some magazine (W?).
The scar on her arm is my favorite thing about her too. I have a big scar on my left forearm that makes for great stories when people pretend not to see it/can’t take their eyes away.
Sly B picked me up a magazine yesterday because the Grateful Dead were featured on the cover. I can’t remember the name of the mag. It had a free Various Artists CD attached, and I am listening to it now. It’s called. Uncut: White Winter Hymns, and features artists such as Fleet Foxes, Lift To Experience, and The Kissaway Trail. It’s basically really fun hippie music. It’s turning out to be a nice way to start the day.
Sex sells, but I object to using sex to sell (most) products.
Wow, that commercial kinda grossed me out.
Maybe it’s the mom in me – I just saw germs everywhere!
Oh… I also have a scar on my left arm just above my wrist – it’s almost undetectable, but also an interesting story to share if/when someone asks.
I would like to forget ever seeing that commercial. Damn you, ditto!
I have lots of scars. I guess I’ve just lived an interesting life. 🙂
Now I’ll have to avoid getting some new ones after sharing that video. 😉
Imagine the director for that commercial:
“Can you hold the hamburger further away from your face, yet still lick it?”
Oooh go on Cj and tell the story of the scar.
I’ve one on my foot. I have no memory and what caused this, but was told later that I had grabbed the hot poker for the coke fire as a bairn and pulled it onto my foot.
It’s not an exciting story – just interesting to me.
I’d rather hear about EssBee’s scar story!
But.. I’ll share too…
Yes, come on Essbee spill your guts about the scar.
Well that killed the conversation.
I married my first husband in 1993 in Arizona even though we lived in California at the time. Whenever we traveled, we brought our cats with us so, of course, my cats were at the wedding.
I was standing outside in my parents’ backyard after the wedding, but before we left for our hotel and I was holding my black cat, Dinky, in my arms. My dad decided at that very moment to celebrate the marriage by setting off a series of firecrackers – – – which scared my cat, but I couldn’t let go of her because we were out in the boonies/desert and I didn’t want her to run off and be eaten by a snake or something…
She left a big gash in my arm which is now barely detectable, but she died April 9th of last year so I’m perfectly happy to have the reminder of my first “baby” etched into my arm.
I actually can’t believe she’s already been gone for a year. Sometimes I swear I still see her out of the corner of my eye. We had a good 16 years together.
Ok, here’s mine (and I’m totally off task today because I’m following the Zapata trial on Twitter. The trial just opened, and closing arguments are about to begin):
I was playing with my brother when we were kids – I was maybe 12 or 13, he is 2 years younger. He went all Lord of the Rings on me, and wielded his sword, which was actually a piece of wood with a huge rusty nail sticking out of it. He tore my arm open from the inside of my elbow around to the tip of my index finger. It’s kind of a curvy scar, most noticeable on the top of my forearm and the back of my hand. There’s also a nice slice on the index finger right under the nail.
He was always a little shit. He’s an oncologist now. Still a shit, as I have recounted here in the past.
I have several other scars as well, but this is the one they could use to identify my body when talking to my loved ones. “Any tattoos or defining marks?” Yep, she had a big-ass scar on her left arm.
All we need now is a big fooking shark.
CP: Dead Skunk – Loudon Wainwright III
CP: So Damn Happy – Loudon Wainwright III
I just learned today that I will be in Phoenix for a 2 days of training in June.
CP:Primrose Hill – Loudon Wainwright III
CP: 4 x 10 – Loudon Wainwright III
4 x 10 – Loudon Wainwright III
it’s not strange, no mystery
you and I are history
I put up my protective wall
it’s 4 feet thick and 10 feet tall
10 feet tall and 4 feet thick
granite, concrete, steel and brick
protection for you, understand
the little boy, the inner man
boys kissed the girls
then made them cry
that’s a man’s job, that is why
when you cry, you’re just a clone
of every woman I have known
and every Harry, Dick and Tom
gets all of this shit from his mom
who was unhappy, mom was sad
because of a wall that dad had
once its up it wont come down
and mom’s a queen and dad’s a clown
it’s not strange, no mystery
that you and I are history
it’s 4 feet thick and 10 feet tall
CP: Singin’ in the Rain – Gene Kelly
Jack: You’re welcome!
Van: That occurred to me, too, but no, Evo was using it to mean “Social Media.”
Someone in Phoenix may get the chance to stroke a wolf.
Cough
CP: Kung Fu Girls – Blondie
CP: Hanging on the Telephone – Blondie
CP: Islands of Lost Souls – Blondie
I’ve been taking lunchhour walks for the past 6 workdays. Today, I’m waiting for the temp to creep north of 50ºF. Apparently tomorrow they expect a high of 83ºF, then back down for Friday and the remainder of the 10-day…
What 2 days Wolf? I’d love to have a wolf at my birthday party!
He was involved in one of my all time fav movies ‘A Matter of Life and Death’.
Stairway to Heaven for those in the USA.
CP: Jake the Peg – Rolf Harris
CJ – Right now that is not clear somewhere between 1st and the 18th…
Will let you all know as details develop. 🙂 Cj I would love to get together for a Cj traveled around the sun party. But I will wait until further information is available before I make any promises.
Going way back on this conversation – – I was able to watch a live Iron Chef type of thing this past weekend. It was amazing just how calm and relaxed the chefs and their assistants were the entire time. Nothing like what you see on “reality” TV.
Conference call hell.
Also, the jury has the case in the Zapata murder trial.
No scars Jack?
Conference call hell here too.
Bring Marshmellows next time…
I hear they roast well.
I am the marshmallow. Burnt to a crisp. 🙁
CP: Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps) — David Bowie
I am the cracker.
cough
Koo Koo Ka Choo.
Crunch crunch.
Wibble!
I’m not wearing underpants on my head though.
Conference call now at one hour, twelve minutes.
EssBee ask them if they would mind if you ordered pizza.
If Vanamonde won’t, then maybe the conference call participants should wear their underwear on their heads.
Jack, there was an interesting blog post from our own local Andrew Zimmern (“Bizzare Foods”) about “Hell’s Kitchen.”
You know I would like Heroes to end with Hiro grabbing Sylar and transporting him to the far future, when time restarts for Sylar, he’s in a desert with a big bloated Sun in the sky…
Scary thought of the day: Hiro & Sylar slash fiction.
Allen Andrade is guilty of 1st Degree Murder and a Hate Crime.
“Hiro grabbing Sylar”
When the Wolf is in town, even if not during my festivities, we should at least have a Jack collective!
One can never have too many Jacks.
You can, however, have entirely too many underpants on your head if you aren’t careful.
I like the way “I am the marshmallow” feels when I say it.
I am the marshmallow.
Then again, I like mushrooms for basically the same reason.
I once rented a white Ford Probe and it felt like I was driving a marshmallow. Don’t know why – I just remember feeling that way.
CP: Master and Servant — Depeche Mode
CL: Whatever the downstairs neighbor is playing. Grumph.
Conference call currently at 2 hours, 26 minutes.
Well at you know what Hell is now Essbee.
+least
2 hours, 54 minutes . . .
CW: The Daily Show with the ‘horror’ of socialism in Sweden.
Indiana Jones Lego game on Xbox 360 – my daughter incredibly masterful at this game.
She’s like a 5-year-old video game prodigy.
Takes after her dad in that respect.
Sometimes I worry.
3 hours, 8 minutes . . .
Andrade is now being sentenced. The victim’s mother is addressing the court.
CJ – Yeah we could do that whole you will be assimulated thing… We are Jack of Borg you will be satarized…
I do not have video game skill…
You can’t get much simpler than Space Invaders..left, right, shoot!
I lose at that one as well… I have no coordination
Made of Deadpan.
T’was the eve before Deadpan…
Oh wait we did that already…
So… if Trucker Overdrive showed up too… would that make the mother, maiden, crone of Jacks?
I want All Jack TV – All the Time – swooooon
I have always wanted to be the maiden…
I don’t have the bust for it.
We could bronze you?
Goodnight Mush. I will see you all briefly tomorrow. Then a weekend of fun and partying — right… believe that.
Dream sweet, Maiden Wolfy.
Fun? Backups and beating my computers qualifies as fun? OK. I guess it does when I’m drinking ice wine.
*hic*
My proof copy of my ’07 novel is on its way to me now! 😀
Night, Pan. Tomorrow will be a very long day. 10 hours of work followed by a conference call. Yay. I am looking forward to the conference call, though – it’s a career development seminar specifically designed for AmeriCorps Members.
Congrats, Amy!!!!
ditto, “If a problem comes along, you must whip it.”
Amy, rock on, girl.
Tomorrow is a very exciting day for me as well. Maybe I already said this, so if I did forgive me. I wrote my master’s thesis on a book by a pretty controversial performance artist named Holly Hughes. She was part of the NEA 4 back in the 80s. I think she’s completely brilliant, even if she is a bit edgy.
She will be in Denver tomorrow performing a new piece. Tomorrow is also Sly B’s mom’s (my mother-out-law) birthday, and she is with us to celebrate. So, we are going for an early dinner of all-you-can-eat Sushi, followed by Holly’s performance. w00t!
Here’s a link to her book, in case you all want a good giggle:
I had the greatest idea when I was driving today. I was listening to WNDR Radio’s interview with Rob Paterson from Kung Fu Action Theatre, and they were discussing how voice acting for audio dramas is better if the actors are actually in the same room together. So I thought: During the informal ManganCon we were talking about earlier, we should totally record a Questors episode live at either the Draco Vista or LLAP studios. Even if I have reached the end of the story and finished all the episodes before then, it would still be fun to do a live version. 🙂 Just a thought.
BTW, I can eat A LOT of Sushi. In case anyone was wondering.
Brain = funk.
I should really talk to the Discworld Con people, huh…….
Well, it’s been a really emotionally draining day. I am off to find some aspirin and my pillow. I think I have a good book waiting.
Hugs to everyone out there. Thanks for being who you each are.
I can eat lots ‘o sushi too. 🙂
And once again the sun sets on a week of deadpan.
Good night, John Boy….
Night, Ed.
Amy – Way to go, Girl!
EssBee – Very exciting. Have a great time!
G’nite boys and girls who are heading off to bed.
Sushi is win! (dammit. Someone take me out for sushi. My silly husband doesn’t like it!)
LLAP Studios will always be available to the Pan.
Uhm uhm uhm…. I have to work now.
I’ll be up late.
I’m going to drink some Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi and use a Red Vine as a straw.
I’m the slowest Easter candy eater of all time. My hubby goes nutz wanting to eat my candy which just sits there uneaten… tempting him.
EssBee I just read about the verdict on that Zapata case
It is about time all hate crimes are treated the same. That girl was a person with a family just like anyone else. The horrible things he said about her.. ugh. Hate is so ugly.
in happier news, Hugh is quite excited watching the Blackhawks vs Calgary right now
🙂
I am hiding from it 🙂
l8r pan
hope everyone is good
sorry I am going back to the bad story for a second.. at what point can you justify in your mind that this person, this human being in front of you is less that you, is less human than you in some way, that they are beneath you? That killing them isn’t killing because somehow this person isn’t a human being like you.. what the fuck is that? what causes that?
so disturbing
ok thats all I have to say about that. I just needed to vent on that
Yay! It’s here!
Jetpac
Cj was quickest on the F5 draw!
😉
Merph. I was reading a bit on fearnet from Joss talking about the magic episode 13. I did not understand.
aha!
un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un un
I think that’s thirty five.
Heh. The bot didn’t like my rendition of ‘un.’
Morning Pan!
CP: PC Gamer Podcast
Aaaaaaand the Deadpan is back. Looked like an Effpiem-wide outage, no?
Mornin’ TEB!
A very strange video my hubby showed me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4
Creamcicle?
“Full beers,” Jack walked over to the bar where Joe was buffing away with a bar towel.
Joe looked up, “What was that?” and then as an afterthought, “Nice legs.”
“You’d do better with full beers, or at least mugs of water, better weight to them.”
“Yeah, I guess.”
“Frosty mug would help too, I bet. It should be illegal to get this hot up in the mountains.”
“I hear ya. Typically isn’t this bad.”
Creamcicle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io8nM4r6kSw
You do a google search on creamcicle and this is the first thing that pops up. Somehow I find it disturbing
http://misterdiplomat.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/creamsicle.jpg
Even Thor eats creamcicles
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Gd8NBIma-zo/R32lmhu5djI/AAAAAAAACQk/L98fjM4h1tw/s400/creamsicle.JPG
Who will be the first to record themselves eating a creamcicle for the DP? (Don’t look at me, I’m more of a Del-Monte fruit-cicle person).
Enough creamcicles
Here’s a bacon gun instead
http://www.thisisfreakingridiculous.com/tifr/2009/4/13/ba-k-47.html
Or, bacon cutting through a pan
http://www.popsci.com/bacon
Whether or not these are iconic is arguable, but they are time wasters
http://www.urlesque.com/2009/04/07/the-100-most-iconic-internet-videos/
TEB – The video – Quite popular with some of my men friends. Someone actually arranged the magnets on my front door (I have alphabet magnets there) so they were something like
JZ IN MY PANTS
As a matter of fact … I have found a photo of the incident:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovelongandprosper/3447728708/
Good Morning, Pan.
Up and *yawn* at em.
The picture of the little girl gymnasts is so entirely inappropriate there are simply no words … Ugh.
Just then a small man burst through the front door of the bar. He paused a long moment, looking back out into the blinding sunshine, searching, then let the door fall closed. As he stepped up to the bar, Jack and Joe could see that he was panting and sweating profusely.
“She’s-” he paused, gasped, took a deep breath. “She’s coming! I need to hide it! Please!”
Jack looked to Joe, gave a little shrug. The small man placed a small black cube on the bar. “It needs to be hidden very well, or she will detect it.” Joe peered at the cube. “Hurry!” The man nearly shouted, in exasperation.
Joe shrugged back at Jack, then pulled out the stepladder. “I’ll put it on the top shelf. Hmm, it’s heavy!” Joe hefted the leaden box up and pushed it into the cache hole.
“It can’t be that simple!” the man panted, though he was regaining his breath by now.
“Trust me,” said Jack. “That spot has hidden more than you’d believe in the recent past.”
Morning CJ
What Has that spot hidden in the past, JB? G’s?
😆
Hi pan, long time no lurk…..
I scanned through and didn’t see any links or talk about this…. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/14/amazon_book_delisting/
I first saw it on P.W. Thoughts?
Sorry if this is a repeat topic
CP: Tom Petty “Don’t Do Me Like That”
Yay, Deadpan is back!
Morning, all!
Hey, cynful – long time, no see!
I think the amazon.com thing is curious, but am choosing to think the best (i.e., that it was a glitch). It’s been kind of a rough week to be gay, from my perspective, so I just couldn’t stand it if amazon.com was out to get me!
Oh – and – well… a new Love Long and Prosper was also released last night, as Ed has discovered.
http://www.lovelongandprosper.com/podcast/?p=206
Cynful, as I mentioned on FB, I wonder if the glitch had happened with SF&F it would have went unreported.
Present and accounted for, sah!
You know in regards to TNG, I can remember hating Wesley but not Tasha Yar…where does the hate for TY come from?
discuss..
Congrats to everyone for the comment count on the last ep!
Van: Bad actress? I don’t know.
I didn’t like either Wesley or Tasha, but I certainly didn’t hate them. The fandom can be unjustifiably harsh sometimes.
Morning Van, Cynful, EssBee, etc, etc.
I was never a TY fan. I actually liked Wesley more than her. I can’t really give a good reason why. She just never clicked for me.
Now back to scanning photos. Presently doing wedding pictures. I wore black to my own wedding.
And speaking of fandom, I don’t mind a good zombie story from time to time, but really don’t understand the fervor surrounding zombies. So, it’s unlikely I’ll every read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies,26559/
Denise Crosby’s acting was pretty bad. I don’t personally have any Tasha hate – but since I am watching TNG through for the third time, I have to say that her lines (as well as many others’) simply were horrible. It’s not entirely her fault.
And good morning now to EssBee, ditto, TEB, Cynful, again to Van, NS, and of course, JB who made me laugh out loud first thing this morning with
‘Joe looked up, “What was that?†and then as an afterthought, “Nice legs.‒
It’s interesting because the focus has been on the LBT&G community but this effects even Health books and classic literature. One book mentioned in previous articles “Our Bodies, Ourselves” and authors Anais Nin, J.D. Salinger, Eugenides and Khalid Hossein.
And I do think this would get attention if it was the SF&F community because it is amazing how powerful those authors can be and the community that supports them….. look around at all these amazing people.
Okay…. endrant.
ditto, it was the Onion headline it the background that grabbed my eye more than the book itself 😉
cp: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “Do You Want to Touch Me”
The first cup of coffee is starting to take effect.
I’ve packed my darling hubby his lunch (though he’s still snoring away in bed *jealous*), fed my kids breakfast, taken my vitamins, and even indulged in a nice toasty Eggo waffle myself.
I’m toying with the idea of taking the kids on a little hike around The Riparian Preserve to see some birds this morning. http://www.riparianinstitute.org
Didn’t feel like talking about the amazon mess since it is well covered elsewhere.
Back to the TNG fun! 🙂
Or… I’ll just go grocery shopping because really, one cannot live on Red Vines, Robin’s Eggs, and coffee alone…
Will wait until I’m well into my 2nd cup of coffee before I decide today’s fate.
ditto, you wanna talk about Star Trek? Cuz if you do… I’m your girl! 😉
TEB: The AV Club is not a parody site, unlike The Onion. This book really exists.
Secret TNG conspiracy: Data had Tasha killed off to cover-up their indiscretion. 😉
CP: Black Cat — Ladytron
CP: Yesterday’s Rachel Maddow Show
The teabagging jokes still aren’t old.
ditto, I knew that. I actually saw the book in our local book store.
As for the TY discussion. I liked her better once she became a Romulan (spoiler alert?)
TEB: Silly me going assuming things again. 😉
And I agree, she was much better as a Romulan. And even when she reprised Tasha in the Enterprise C/D episode. I think by then the show had better direction and she decided to have fun with her new roles. I wish they did more episodes with her Romulan character.
DS9 was my fav of the new ST series though, especially when they moved away from the goody twoshoe image of Star Fleet.
For amusement: I used the “I’m feeling lucky” with the word “Mangan” and got:
http://www.manganinc.com/
I preferred B5 to DS9. DS9 only got better towards the end, imo.
CP: Money Changes Everything — Cyndi Lauper
ditto is listening to Cyndi *swoooon*
Oooooohhhhhhhhh. Great rock pictures. 🙂
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/apr/08/geology?picture=345700282
google.ca gave me this for feeling lucky “mangan”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangan
Yep. I like *all* kinds of music.
We must invade and conquer Manganland for the good of all Mangandom!
TO ARMS!!!!
I haven’t watched DS9 yet. I’m looking forward to it!
I’ve seen all of the Original Series once through, the first season of Voyager, and I’m on my third way through TNG. Just coming to the end of the 1st season there.
Oh, and I did watch all of Enterprise, which unlike most people, I really enjoyed.
Me too, ditto, me too!
Where’s the small arms locker?
These wet noodles won’t scare anyone!
Is a noodle from Canada a Kanudle?
Enterprise crew must get paid. There are some jobs on there I couldn’t see people wanting to do for free, even if it means travelling in space (red shirt?)
A deep rumble filtered into the room from the street outside, getting slowly louder. “She’s here!” The little man’s breathing quickly un-recovered, and he began looking frantically about the room.
Jack took the man firmly by the shoulder. “We can hide downstairs, you wouldn’t fit in the cache with your cube.” He looked to Joe. “We’ll be in the keg room, keeping cool.”
The rumble grew even louder as Jack and the man went downstairs, then cut off suddenly. Joe put on a bar apron, and began to polish the bar. Bright sunlight flooded in from outside, and he could at first only see her silhouette, tall and sleek. The door fell shut and her footsteps rang through the quiet bar. She was clad in motorcycle leathers, impossibly tight and leaving very little to Joe’s fevered imagination. She had a body by DC and a face by Marvel, thought Joe.
She looked down at him with an expression that somehow mixed condescendence and amusement, with just a drop of pity. “I am the Ambassador.” She sniffed deeply. “Where is the box?”
I liked Enterprise, CJ. However I admit I liked the last season best. That seems to be when they decided to let go and have fun.
“And even when she reprised Tasha in the Enterprise C/D episode.”
When did they do a crossdressing episode?
You don’t remember Data in a dress, do you JB? 😉
Jack shivered a bit and folded his arms, looking across at the sweating, nearly-hyperventilating man. “Okay, let’s get some answers. Who are you, who is she, what is the box and why are you here?”
The man swallowed hard, and attempted to bring his breathing back under control. “I’m Dr. John Boze,” he said in a small voice. “She calls herself ‘The Ambassador.’ The box is my experiment, and I’m desperately trying to hide it from her, but she keeps tracking me down.”
That list bit made me laugh JB. Hide the box. 😉
I’m starting to feel like something crawled into my lungs and died. Not pleasant, especially since I have to travel tomorrow.
Huzzah! Deadpan Lives!
Overall, I think Star Trek, on television anyway, peaked during the late seasons of DS9. Voyager had it’s moments, but could never really escape the whole “Gilligan’s Island in Space” concept.
Enterprise stumbled to early. My wife watched all of it and I came back during the fourth season. I really would have liked to have seen in continue as they were coming along well by then. But, I think the verdict had already been given.
Malcolm was too much of a whiner for me to really like him. But I admit I wouldn’t kick either Connor Traneer or Scott Bacula our of my bed 😉
My husband has a T’Pol Christmas tree ornament 🙂
The woman bent down, looking directly into Joe’s eyes. Her eyes are brilliant green, thought Joe, then…
“I am the Ambassador, but you may call me Amelia.”
Joe’s mind buzzed. “Amelia?”
“And soon you will call me ‘Mistress!'”
Joe blinked and the fuzziness faded away. “Uh, I think you may have me confused with my friend C.A.”
“What? This is not possible. I smell the box. It is here, but it is everywhere, and you should be enthralled by me!”
*giggling uncontrollably* C.A. LOL tee hee
TEB – True.. Scott Bakula=YUMMY and I didn’t think much of Malcolm Reed until I was at the Star Trek con in 2007 and Dominic Keating walked right past me and stopped to offer me a big smile – I was just staring and he blushed and smiled more… I immediately fell in love.. In real life, he’s just delicious!
He was also a vampire in an episode of Buffy. I remember we were rewatching it once and my husband and I saw him and both piped up “Hey, that’s Malcolm!”
“I’d been increasingly fearful of what my measurements have been telling me about reality.”
“Reality?”
“It isn’t. I can say that firmly at this point.”
“Isn’t?”
“Right. We are living in an unreal universe. All around us is fiction.”
“Are you really a doctor?”
“No, the title just gets me laid.”
“Oh, thought so.”
“Yes, I’m really a doctor, and yes, this reality is not.”
“So what is the box?”
“Once my suspicions were 99 percent confirmed, I developed it to prove the last one percent. It works by concentrating the fictional vorticies in a localized spatiotemporal region.”
“‘vorticies in a localized…’ Is this all true?”
“Sort of. If you’d been paying attention just now you’d see that truth is fiction.”
“My head is starting to hurt.”
“That’ll happen.”
..and before Buffy and Enterprise, he was in a comedy show called Desmonds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond's
CP: Holding Back the Years – Simply Red
“What is this place?” the tall woman was becoming demanding, whipping her head back indignantly, which caused her blonde tresses to arc backward, yet land in perfect array.
“This is the Deadpan. Jack Mangan’s Deadpan.”
“I will return, Jack Mangan. And I will have that box!” She turned and strode to the door. Joe watched her go. Really, couldn’t help himself, as this view was just as intriguing as when she entered.
CP: Katherine, Kiss Me – Franz Ferdinand
CP: Molly’s Chamber – Kings of Leon.
Well, I need to buy a new pair of work-out runners. Maybe I’ll have lunch at the mall at the same time.
Later, Pan!
CP: Turning Japanese – The Vapors
Yeah I know but it’s one of my fav songs.
CP: Big Yellow Taxi – Amy Grant
CP: Cecilia – Simon and Garfunkel
“Well, the box is perfectly safe. The top shelf of this bar has it’s own pocket universe, as far as we can tell. Joe put it in there.” The small man grew pale and still. “What? It’s perfectly safe, I assure you…”
“He couldn’t have!”
“Well, sure it seems that way, given my understanding up till now of reality, but after what you just told me…”
“No! I mean he couldn’t have, based on my calculations, inserted the box into a subset spatiotemporal reality construct.”
“Uh, well, I can’t say it that multisyllabically, but, yeah. He did.”
CP: Aganju: – Bebel Gilberto
CP: Something the Boy Said – Sting
CP: American Dream — Lucinda Williams
Last time I saw you, you had dirt under your nails
Your eyes were glassy and you looked so pale
You said my life has become a livin’ hell
Ain’t got enough money to pay my bills
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Got a friend with a needle stuck in his arm
He got hooked on heroin in Vietnam
It used to help kill the pain some of the time
Now I can’t sleep at all since I got back home
I worked in the strip mines off and on
Now I can’t seem to get rid of this cough
Ain’t been many jobs these last few months
And the last one I had I got laid off
I ain’t got no hot water and they shut off the heat
Can you loan me some money for something to eat
Been out here on this corner for about a week
Tryin hard to stand on my own two feet
They want to try and tell me where I can live
They kicked me off my land and told me they’d give me
A nice little tract house with running water
But how am I gonna explain that to my Navajo mother
My American dream almost came true
But the things they promised me never came through
I believe in the American dream
But things are never quite what they seem
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
Everything is wrong
I would be much happier if I had a creamsicle.
CP: I’m A Loser — The Beatles
Comments about creamsicles and songs about masturbation on the same episode. Truly awesome. 😉
Back from spending money, again. Had a bacon cheese dog for lunch, yum
CJ, next time we’re on Skype at the same time, ring me. I want to talk to you about something (nothing evil so don’t worry 🙂 )
TEB – I’m eternally on Skype. I’ll look for you now.
CP: The Guitar Man – Bread
It’s at moments like that I wished I worked for the NSA and could tap into that TEB/Cj skype conversation…
CP: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – Bachman-Turner Overdrive
So, so true:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/funny-pictures-cat-ate-your-food-while-you-were-gone.jpg
CP: Wide Boy – Nik Kershaw
So, the Crusade for Manganland is not going well.
I guess that just means we need a ManganCon.
CP: Gold – Spandau Ballet
Via Scalzi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDpKx4w_NIc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatever.scalzi.com%2F&feature=player_embedded
Good Advice. 🙂
As I’ve said before, I’ll be in Arizona in Sept. How many can we get together?
CP: Green Onions – Booker T & the MG’s
CP: That’s Entertainment – The Jam
Playoff standings
Rangers 1 – Caps 0
Devils 1 – Canes 0
Pens 1 – Flyers 0
Canucks 1 – Blues 0
TEB: Maybe we should start arranging an informal ManganCon in September. Probably best done through email.
JohnBoze: LOL! I seem to have coined a term. 😀 And yes, these Effpiem-wide outages are getting annoying. I keep having to wait until later in the day on Thursday for my new Deadpan.
My appearance in the Deadpan Bar stories has come!!!!! I’m so excited!!! I look forward to what comes next! I love what you’ve done with this story arc, by the way. I’m a huge fan of stories involving alternate dimensions/universes/realities/etc., which is why I loved Really Big Things so much. 🙂
TEB, ditto: I agree. If you start planning, please keep me in the loop. I may be able to wrangle a trip out to AZ to see everybody.
Adding to an earlier discussion: I followed Enterprise during its third and fourth seasons. I enjoyed them, the fourth more than the third. I think I would have enjoyed them more if I had actually seen TOS, instead of just reading all about it. (I’ve only seen bits and pieces here and there.)
Ah not me TEB, too hot and too many BIG spiders.
CP: Going Underground – Rostok Vampires
Sure, ditto. My plans are pretty much set for The Sept long weekend anyway. I’ll be at the Tempe Mission Palms. So if anybody else wants to hook up, just let me know (via e-mail is fine).
IT’s one of the reasons I prefer the cold.
Given September is far enough in advance, I might be able to swing the time and $$ to manage that.
Cluck, cluck!
Yup that’s me…
CP: Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) – Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
2 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct.
CP: Fisherman’s Daughter – The Waifs
Me too. Arizona is easy to get to for me.
I don’t want to hear about spiders, Van. I’m the type that, if I see a spider, I run to the other room and scream at my husband to kill it.
Whereupon he will capture the spider and take it outside. Leading to many (not actual) arguments about how evil that is because the spider will just find its way back inside.
Scalzi’s take on “Battlefield Earth”.
http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/04/john-travolta-battlefield-earth.php
My favorite part: “A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.”
Yep. It’s bad. Real bad.
CP: Mighty Storm – The Duhks
Van, I’ll protect you..
And as for the TEB/Cj Skype chat – it was quite titillating! 😉
CP: Shut Your Mouth — Garbage
I’ll be in my bunk.
CP: Mockingbird – Allison Moorer
Time for a cold shower.
Must… resist… comment…
Down, boys of Deadpan!
So, ladies, let’s hear about this call, shall we?
Most of the conversation centered around how CJ likes to make herself pretty for Jack 😉
CP: Done – Beth Thornley
Nah. Why ruin the mystique?
Oh, did I say that? See, and here I thought we talked way more about the uses of sour cream.
CP: Worms – Beth Orton
that’s true too, CJ. Sour cream and oranges 😀
CP: Right Back to Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale
I’m leaving the house as soon as my daughter’s bus comes to take her to school. Grocery and dollar store runs are badly needed.
I’m sizzling here!
cough
I’ve got more! Though it is still all “upstairs” at the moment…
Glad to see this gets the Ambassador’s stamp of approval. Not going to comment too much “in process,” (though that is exactly what this style affords) but “Amelia the Ambassador” in the bar is not exactly nice. She may be a statuesque badass, but she is the antagonist, probably not purple-eye evil… There were elements I had some concern over.
Pinky, tells us a story!
Well I’m now going to lose all my deadpan cred.
CP: D.I.S.C.O – Ottawan
Narf!
I even have that one on 45.
cough
CP: Ballroom Blitz – Sweet
CP: Wonderful Life – Black
CP: Good Tradition – Tanita Tikaram
Melted orange creamsicles FTW.
With sour cream, Jack?
Jack is welcome to all of my creamsicle.
My daughter’s bus is 20 minutes late so far.
JB: I don’t mind being cast as the antagonist. It’s something different for me. I’m not anywhere near as statuesque in real life as I am in your story, but I’m flattered by it.
OK, late bus finally arrived. I’m off to the store!
Oooooh I want a chicken.
Yeah, I want a chicken.
Daughter currently on the phone to the insurance company. Sure is a lot of work to move out of your parents house.
I don’t agree with this guy about BSG & Moore lying to us:
http://www.tor.com.vhost.zerolag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=20954
I much prefer character driven stories, and I do see some of his points. However, his article comes off as a self-righteous tirade. I think his anger is clouding his judgment, even if he’s entitled to his opinion.
CP: Brainstuff
I think he’s trying to put too much into a simple TV show, ditto.
My downloads over iTunes are always bloody slow…grrrrrr!
TEB: I agree. When he starts throwing around “betrayal to the fans” when talking about TV show writing, well… I just feel like telling him to lighten up.
It’s only make believe…
I agree, Van. i-tunes is only make believe 🙂
Well, I have house work to do. Then butts to kick.
Til tomorrow, Pan!
I believe.
I believe.
Some folks do develop deep attachments to their favorite franchises – especially in Sci-Fi fandom.
Rabid SciFi fans are pretty much exactly the same as rabid sports fans.
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Woot! Jack read a comment of mine!!!
Not sure how much you’ll hear from me until next week.
Until then, stay frosty. Stay Deadpan!
Take good care, ditto!
I would agree with you with the exception of Bladerunner.
/whistles innocently.
Have a good week, ditto.
I’m home from shopping. I forgot to buy bread. DOH!
(not bread dough- Bread, Doh!)
I didn’t buy any creamsicles either…
hm. I did buy milk, soda, and lunch meat and this bar of soap that smells pretty good.
I’m lured by pretty smells.
Hmmm, ditto and TEB both left at about the same time….
Very suspicious, indeed.
Good afternoon pan 🙂
I have some very Deadpan news
Silversun Pickups (a great band by the way) has just put out a new album this week entitled: Swoon
I think they may have written this album for me 🙂
wait wait wait
is ditto cheating on me with Bunny???
How come I wasn’t invited?????
awwwww… I was listening to toonage while typing here and a Jack Mangan toon shuffled on 🙂
my iTunes knows me.. its a little scary sometimes how it picks up my actions/mood
I am at 1 with my Mac
Wow, so much chatter and now silence…..like the sound of one hand clapping.
Well, here’s something for when you guys come back in the morning. Some of these are just brilliant:
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4317284&cpp=1
Hi there.
I’ve been writing a bunch today. I made a little progress on my ’07 NaNovel today. What a massive, tangled morass of plot threads and motivations it is. It’s like opening an old jewelry box to find all your old necklaces tangled together in a ball. You can’t even see how many you have or what they are, let alone start untangling and separating them. I still had some fun writing, though.
Haven’t quite left yet, and now that my computer is alive again, I thought I’d share this music find: Shiny Toy Guns’ version of “Major Tom” that is being used in the new Lincoln commercial.
http://www.lincoln.com/extras/asset/majortom.zip
Good night, Pan.
Good night, Amy. I really shouldn’t be up this late, either.
Alas, I’m geeking out over a new Geotagging tool I’ve discovered.
Alright, I’m sending myself to bed now. Work still beckons in about six hours. I am getting to old to get away with that little sleep anymore.
Good night, Ed, Amy, Johnboy, Kings of Maine, Mush.
Morning Pan, tis the season to be grey.
Some stunning wildlife photos from a Sony comp:
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16648-sony-world-photography-awards-2009
Morning Van.
Super moody today. Gah.
The guy on Tor talking about BSG is a little hyper, eh? He’s wrong that the narrative voice has to tell the truth. It’s hard to an unreliable narrator that doesn’t destroy the tale, but it can be used to good effect. I just wish I could think of the examples I’ve read. Stupid useless memory.
Damn. Those wildlife photos are impressive. I have to pass them on to my wife. She’ll probably be jealous and deride them. Heh.
Yes, the BSG rant was a humorous read. Why is it that atheists seem more likely to assume that “God” was behind Starbuck and the Head characters? From the way it played out, it seems it could have as likely been an advanced alien race such as the Vorlons or the Ascended ones from Stargate.
I think Moore and company left it open ended enough for each viewer to have their own preference of belief.
And the ranter really doesn’t understand “Deus ex Machina”.
But, enough of BSG. It is finished.
Here’s today’s Haiku theme challenges. Pick one or pick them all:
Fruit
British Sci-Fi
Card Games
Sea creatures
Run, imagination, run.
Hmm, my haiku rules post didn’t come through for some reason.
Well as a non believer, it looked to me like a VR sim with the programmer messing around.
Ed lost a postie too. Now we’re gonna get fines from the FCC and Timberlake will claim it wasn’t scripted and…
I’m an unbeliever… and I love mythology. So I don’t have a problem with the religious aspects, even at the end. What bothered me was the poor pacing and the answers that weren’t delivered. I can ignore the way everyone fell out of character at the very end simply because I don’t see any way to wrap it up from where they were without extending the story for a few more episodes. Some things had to be dropped.
What bothered me was the way that everytime I started to become emotionally invested in a scene, it changed tone. For instance, the whole opera scene… I was getting seriously excited, this is it, what is it going to mean… oh.
It meant nothing. Great, now I’m emotionally conflicted, i.e. ANGRY.
Heh.
I like subtle stories that don’t bludgeon me. Show me how she loves him, don’t just have her saying it over and over again. On the other hand, give me something to work with. Don’t promise me an explanation and then don’t deliver. I’m referring to Kara and the head*s. There is NO explanation for Kara, just speculation from the viewers. And the “angels”… Head*six literally held Baltar up at one point and there is nothing about her being an angel that in any way explains how that happened or what it meant. I don’t care, fine, she’s an angel. What the hell did that mean?
Hm. I was going to save that up for a BrainWyrm, but… well, here it is.
Oh crap. Erm. SPOILERS!!!!
S*P*O*I*L*E*R*S*!*!*!*!
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Morning, Deadpan!
I was out later than I like last night entertaining Evil, Inc. folks. Then I couldn’t sleep. Now I have a headache.
/whining
Good Morning EssBee. Drink water for the headache?
Morning Deadpan!
Last night was very nice, in which ditto and I overcame several hundred miles and our respective spouses to feed the Deadpan rumor mill 🙂
CP: Brainstuff
It doesn’t take much to feed the deadpan rumour mill TEB.
At least nobody mentioned baby oil…
How about cooking oil?
CP: Stuff you missed in history class
CP: Tech Stuff
Whipped cream is even better 😉
CP: HDTV podcast
TEB and ditto! Creamsicles and Whhhipped cream. It must be Friday.
I’m drinking water, Nomad — it has a lot of coffee in it, though. Does that count?
Morning…
Does anyone here know who John Bell is?
*sigh*
I tried
Son of Mr. Bell?
Morning.
ditto! my secret lover!
A physicist.
CP: The Hot Spot
Secrets are fun!
So secret even I didn’t know about it.
Obviously ditto is that quick.
Cough
Christina Scabbia’s is rocking my world this morning.
S.O.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHEqpoADTY
Our Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDaDtHMgVxM
EssBee – piff!
Wolf – Fringe on your mind?
Smarty Hotties – Wassamatta? Everything okay?
NS – No…I don’t have a TV…
http://thebatfry.libsyn.com/
Rhettro – Both albums are quite good. Somehow I didn’t realize it was the same voice on the Apocalyptic one. The variety of vocalists makes it a bit uneven though.
Wolf – Who needs TV? I have netbook, mwuahaha. XP
Oh no. Another podcast to podsume. And just when I’d worked my back log down to 35 hrs… not including serials.
Erg, I just remembered. I never did check out that Chattanooga radio ‘cast. Do you still have the linkage?
Just finished putting a new shower curtain in the upstairs bathroom. My hubby was upset when he found out I was changing it. The old one had little fishies on it which, for some reason, he was quite partial to. The new one doesn’t.
Also, what the hell am I doing up still? My wake up comes in 3.5hrs.
Night Pan! Don’t lose anything.
Well Pan. I’m off to do some grocery shopping. Then I see a Cappuccino cookie recipe in my future
Night Scry.
Dr. Boze motioned to Joe. “Hit me with another.” Joe passed John a fourth bar napkin.
Jack set down his beer, two thirds empty. “So how is it working out?”
“Well, based on The Ambassador’s insistence the the box was ‘everywhere’ I think introducing it into a subset space amplified and distributed its effect.”
“Which is?”
“Beg pardon?”
Joe stopped his somewhat compulsive polishing of the bar. “You’ve never really said what this box is, just that it ‘concentrates fictional vortices.’ What is that in layman’s terms?”
“Oh, well, see,” Boze mopped at his perpetually sweating brow. “All of the potential plot threads become concentrated near this box, so…” He searched and then grabbed a fifth napkin, and drew a target on it. “Out here, on the periphery, you have typical drama, maybe a coming-of-age novel or something. Slice-of-life stuff. Then closer to the box, things get a little more gritty, real sturm und drang, murder, passionate love, hate, death. Then as the vortices are concentrated closer and closer they get hyper-real, then finally a thin veneer of surreal, which is the region from which the Ambassador sprang forth.”
“So if that’s been amplified ‘everywhere…'”
“Things might start to get, keeping with layman’s terms, pretty weird around here.”
No more fishies for Poopsie Bubblefanny.
We have a big trial happening in my neck of the woods right now. It’s the murder trial of Angie Zapata, and the first test of Hate Crimes Legislation as applied to transgendered people in the state.
I started following the victim’s sister on Twitter, and have found it extremely painful to follow along with what is happening in the courtroom.
My question for this morning is this: Why can’t we just treat each other with simple respect and dignity?
Not the trial OF Angie Zapata. The trial of Angie Zapata’s killer.
CP: Make Way for the Living — Harry Manx
Netbooks are cool NS.
Dell Mini 9 for me.
Will even play Amiga games via WINUAE.
Rob.
EssBee, I wish there were a good answer to that question. There’s certainly far to much hate around. I hope her family finds justice.
ot
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Robot I forgot the + sign
I agree, Ed, and just have to point out that you calling her “her” just made me cry. Good man.
Ah Amiga games. I recall beating SDI and It Came From the Desert. Loved playing Laser Chess with my father and there was one where you commanded a starship on a grid. Something with Zaldrons. Loved that game.
EssBee, I recommend a book: The Lucifer Principle. “Evil” is born in all of us as with all life. Great read. Not to say we should just allow “evil” to get the best of us and run rampant, you understand.
All missing comments have been found and freed from their cages.
The Amiga and Atari ST had a lot of common games. . . . Projectyle was beyond fun.
Have a great weekend, panimanicas
I’m humming the Blood Money chip tune now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcFSpbZO-g8
ditto ditto
CP: Radio Africa – Latin Quarter
Sorry to alarm you Nomad, I was just sighing at the human race.. which brings me to EssBee’s question:
My question for this morning is this: Why can’t we just treat each other with simple respect and dignity?
Because I truly dont believe the majority of humans have diginity, respect for one another nor grace. Humans are judgmental, very judgemental. I see fewer and fewer examples of just basic old human decency anymore. Call me a pessimist (although I am actually truly an optimist) I just believe when you are dealing with humans and they have a choice to let their guard down and actually be nice to one another, they will choose to sit back and judge. Most people care only for themselves, and what they want and don’t care who they step on to get what they want.
But really, I am an optimist. I swear it 🙂
I tend to agree, TSH. I am an optimist – at least in that I have hope, but I do see a lot of dog-eat-dog. Or, this has been a particularly rotten week.
Home from shopping and lunch. Now just waiting for my i-pod to sync so I can listen to some podcasts while I bake cookie.
Remember Jack Nicholson’s speech during the campfire scene in Easy Rider?
People who live unreflective lives feel absolute terror when they see someone who’s chosen a wildly divergent way of living. It shakes up their perceived stability of their narrow way of being. And sadly, those understanding-resistant types often act aggressively toward the thing that caused them to feel fear. Understanding, acceptance, tolerance, etc. – – would require a fundamental change in their way of living and thinking.
/$0.02
I love that, Jack, and find it to be true. We also have the Bernie Madoffs scheming grandmas and grandpas and holocaust survivors out of their nest eggs.
Sorry to be a downer! Back to celebrating Friday, how ’bout?
CP: One Big Crunch — White Zombie
CP: Daughter — Pearl Jam
You Slipping Last Transylvanian
Oh Naked Clip Catfish
CP: Sweet Side — Lucinda Williams
Tongue Wild Touche Brother
Jesus Look So Napoleon
CP: And Darling — Tegan & Sara
CP: Obsession – Animotion
CP: Groove is in the Heart – Deee-Lite
Dig.
CP: Remedy — The Black Crowes
CP: Sleeping Satellite – Tasmin Archer
CP: I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – The Proclaimers
CP: Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something
CP: Bitch – Meredith Brooks
CP: How Bizarre – OMC
CP: Senses Working Over Time – XTC
Returned from the blood center. The vampires have been fed 🙂
CP: Rehab – Amy Winehouse
CP: Come On Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Heart Please Eisler Technicolor
Honesty Red Brown Sweet
Red Right Hand — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I’m home. For now. Busy.
Going out tonight.
Hoping I have a reason to make myself pretty. *smirk*
CP: In A Big Country – Big Country
CP: Barracuda – Heart
I have no doubt you’re already pretty, Cj.
CP: Cry Baby – Janis Joplin
CP: Enola Gay – OMD
CP: Mr. Roboto – Styx
Thanks, EssBee 🙂 You are sweet! 🙂
CP: Living in a Box – Living in a Box
CP: Mary’s Prayer – Danny Wilson
CP: Turn Me Loose – Loverboy
CP: Shattered Dreams – Johnny Hates Jazz
CP: Dreaming – Blondie
CP: There She Goes – The La’s
CP: Hell In A Bucket — Grateful Dead
Might be goin’ to hell in a bucket
But at least I’m enjoyin’ the ride
CP: Long Time Gone – Tex Ritter
CP: Can’t Help Falling in Love – Lick the Tins
I want to go dancing, but looks like I’m having a garage sale tomorrow instead.
/disjointedthoughts
CP: Where have all the cowboys gone? – Paula Cole
CP: Stay – Lisa Loeb
CP: Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit of..) – Lou Bega
CP: Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe – Barry White
[not a critique] Vanamonde is having a poppy musical day. [/not a critique]
CP: Candle Song 3 – Mojave 3
btw, Van, I made the mistake of googling for D.I.S.C.O. and found a youtube post of a music video.
CP: Begin the Beguine – Julio Iglesias
CP: Promises, Promises – Naked Eyes
CP: What’s Your Game — The Ramones
Jack won’t admit it, but I’m sure he’s actually listening to Tiffany or Debbie Gibson right now.
CP: Cum on Feel the Noise – Quiet Riot
A lot of one hit wonders as well.
cough
Stranger in Paradise doesn’t sound half bad in Spanish.
CP: Aquarius – The 5th Dimension
I suddenly feel so free and full of love – I wonder why… and where’d I put that ring of daisies… oh… it’s on my head…
ting a ling a ling..
la la la..
Aquaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarius………ooooohhhahhhhhh
This song is better than valium.
Let the sunshine in.
CP: Apache – The Shadows
CP: Run to You – Bryan Adams
Speaking of which, time to run and pick up the kids. My parents are coming to visit for the weekend, so free babysitters while me and momma go out for a dinner w/o the kids 🙂
CP: Peter Gunn – Duane Eddy
CP: When You’re Gone – Bryan Adams and Mel C
That one I’m going to play again.
There was a terribly pretentacious TV programme on the ‘arts’ in the UK that used that Aquarius track as it’s theme tune.
Bored me silly as a kid.
For your viewing pleasure:
http://tinyurl.com/dk7m2d
Spread sandwich spread!
Yay for free babysitter, Ed!
Well, there’s no Dollhouse tonight. I guess we’ll watch the rain/snow fly and watch a DVD or something.
I hope you all have a fabulous Friday night! I might check in later to make sure everyone is behaving, so be forewarned!
Review of the new Star Trek movie at IGN:
http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/973/973956p1.html
it contains mild spoilers. They weren’t impressed with the plot.
Hmmmm!
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Tree-Found-In-Lung-Seed-Sprouted-Inside-Russian-Mans-Chest/Article/200904315262048?f=rss
CP: Oh What A Night – Frankie Valli
Home from a long, fun day of service. Must get up early tomorrow, so going to bed in a few minutes. Good night, Pan! 🙂
I’m home from a not-so-wild night out. Glad to be home. I’m going to nerd out for a while.
Morning Pan, I see the tumbleweeds need tickling.
Morning, Pan!
Off to clean up the beach. It’ll be a full morning.
Morning it is. The wife and I enjoyed our evening. Now, I must make the mental preparations for a couple dozen eight year olds running about for my daughter’s birthday party this afternoon.
Read an article this morning about the FX designers working on the new Enterprise. While, I must confess, I think the engines on the new on are rather excessive and ungainly looking, I’m still looking forward to the new movie.
Though, from the comments on the article, it seems J.J. Abrams has a shot at beating Lucas in the “raping people’s childhoods” race.
I’m probably a near equal fan of Trek and Star Wars. I’ll save judgement until I’ve seen the movie, but from what I’ve seen so far, I think it’s going to be hard to beat the job of trashing an iconic franchise that Lucas himself did with Star Wars.
I had no idea that some people hated the Comic Sans font so much. Frankly, it seems a dubious basis on which to get married.
http://digg.com/d1owj9
Well, this is disturbing.
http://digg.com/d1oxMV
I can’t breath….I can’t breath…..must stop the laughter…..
http://failblog.org/2009/04/18/spoiler-fail/
Best FARK headline I’ve seen in a while
“Empty pubs could get new lease on life by turning them into alcohol free-bars for teenagers with games, music, soft drinks and convenience food. Back in the days, we called those “arcades””
Ah, to be young again. Battlezone, Gauntlet, Tron. I could probably retire if I still had those quarters 🙂
Morning, Deadpan!
I was planning to go visit my folks solo this weekend to celebrate Easter, but our snowstorm has other plans. So I’ll be home alone (Sly B is engaging the astronauts of tomorrow today) catching up on TV today. As I’m sad not to be eating the traditional Czech Easter foods, I will set out to make Sedak (Easter cheese) for the first time on my own. Wish me luck!
CW: Kings. This show sucks. No longer watching Kings.
In honour of Ed’s last post I will now hum the gauntlet theme tune.
EssBee needs Sedak
Justa Joe shot the food!
Good luck on the Sedak. I’m not familiar with that one, myself. What goes into it?
It’s a really mild cheese made with eggs and milk. Some people put cloves in it, but I don’t like cloves. I’ll throw some parsley in for pretty, I think. My only challenge is that I can buy cheese cloth, but I can’t sew a bag to hang the cheese in. Hmm. I guess i kind of need my mommy.
The cheese is served with horseradish. It is part of a Russian Orthodox Easter meal, and everything has connotation. The cheese is made with eggs and milk – bounty and Spring. The horseradish is hot, and reminds us that there is hard times that must be conquered during the year. There are lots of other foods served as well. I just want the cheese!
I’m catching up on Heroes. Does anyone else (SPOILER ALERT) think that Coyote Sands is the Heroes version of The Dharma Initiative?
Morning Pan!
Off to kick butt in an hour. Apparently I’m testing in May so I have to practice lots
Lots of comments last night.
Still 3 weeks behind in Heroes so don’t know what you’re taking about EssBee.
Just to give you a bit of help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQVIE-bUCys
What belt this time TEB?
CP: Stuff From the B Side
It will be my “green stripe”
Basically this is the transition between a junior and a senior belt. Green belt being considered a senior belt – which would be next.
Cool and Good Luck.
/swoooooooon
🙂
I finished all my “front side” self defenses (that means, in theory, if someone comes at me from the front, I can handle it) and have now been working on what to do if I’m attacked from behind in various forms.
As I said before, I seem to be really good at kicking butt.
Thanks, Van. Luckily I still have two weeks of practice before I test, though.
I’m off to see ‘In the Loop’ later. a political satire, a bit doubtful about this one.
Good morning!
Ed, thanks for the links – I just spent like 30 minutes going through them. “Squatter” is such an unattractive word.
EssBee, good luck with your cheese. Mmmm I love cheese.
Good morning also to Van and TEB
Woot for TEB kicking butt – I’ll *swooon* for that too!
Cheese is good 😉
Well, I’m off ,Pan.
Later
CW: Sarah Conner finale. I think I love Shirley Manson.
Kick some ass, TEB!
Summer Glau is awesome.
So according to the latest quantum physics research, if skynet ran on quantum computers, it could reset it’s memory and transfer to a univerese where John Connor never existed.
Wouldn’t have made a good movie though..
That was an awesome finale. I loved it.
Currently Drinking: Root beer and milk. “Just like Mason Rocket drinks on TV!”, according to that kid in “Really Big Things.” I decided to try it today, and I like it.
EssBee, I had to google Dharma Initiative. I see it’s a part of the TV show LOST, which, alas, I was never really able to get into.
CJ – I think next week’s “Cheesy Bits” section of LLAP should be dedicated to Sedak in honor of EssBee. Sedak sounds suitably Star Trek, I think – like some lesser known Vulcan philosophers 🙂
I agree, cheese is good.
Sedak is really great after some hot Pon Far. . . . .
. . . . . . . . . We are such nerds.
NERDS!!
A fast food joint called Five Guys Burgers and Fries just opened down the street and I tried them for lunch. While I’m sure I just gained five pounds, that was THE best burger I have had in a long, long time. Damn . . .
CP: LOST, Dead is Dead
Jack is going to have some fun picking…er, randomly choosing this weeks greasy nipples.
Mmmm Jack said “hot Pon Far”
*swooooon*
*pass out*
Star Trek is delicious!
Ed,
I made a show note. The next episode we are watching is We’ll Always Have Paris . I’m sure we can work some cheese into that discussion.
Man have I got a storm going on down here. We’re under a tornado watch for the next two hours.
CJ: Excellent!
Hunker down, Ed!
Back from martial arts.
Also did a bit of yard work so had to have a shower. Now all damp and happy 🙂
So CJ, did you get to make yourself pretty last night? Was there sour cream involved?
My husband showed me something silly last night, which I will have you guys demonstrate. It’s hard to visualize without someone doing it in front of you, but here goes…
First: Take both hands, palms out, and do the Vulcan hand gesture with them (please tell me you know what one I mean)
Next: Turn the hands palm inwards, keeping the Vulcan salute.
Now relax the arms and the hands a little bit, keeping the hands in Vulcan salute mode, just somewhat relaxed. Hold them closer to your chest (not right at your chest, just in a relaxed arm gesture), one hand slightly higher than the other
Now, shake the hands a bit and repeat after me…
CD: Strawberry cheesecake milk shake.
“Yo, Yo, my Vulcan Homies! Why do we go up to my crib and get some hot PonFar going with some Vulcan babes…”
LOL
Hopefully you can visualize what I was trying to do 🙂
I am baking today. Zucchini bread!
Not to brag… OK just a little. I’m out in Fountain Hills listening to Jack play live. RAWK!
Save some for me EssBee!
So ‘In the Loop’ was better than I was expecting.
[tweet]Added a bit more to Questors. A plan has been laid out and is about to be set in motion.
Now, off to dinner and a school play.[/tweet]
Classical music done using a beeper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9Mqapqn5o
My husband and I dissolved into a fit of giggles at the Vulcan homies.
TEB, Last night was totally worth getting pretty for. No sour cream though, I did have hummus. Jack can tell you about the giant tree leaves that floated onto his pizza though. (They really weren’t THAT big /that’s what she said/)
If the basil on my pizza had been any more fresh, it would have been Fawlty.
I love me some hummus. Thankfully Costco now carries the big tubs of Sabra hummus. Hands-down the best premade hummus I’ve had. Have yet to make my own yet, though. Supposed to be very easy to do.
Oh, hey, it’s Dan S! Welcome to the Deadpan boards! 🙂
Jack: LOL! 😀
imag1narynumber: I agree, Sabra is really good.
Good night, Pan.
DanS is made of awesome. 🙂
Be careful there, Ed. Hope you and yours are well.
vulcan homies was good 🙂
We may not of seen Jack play but we still had a really good night here in Chicago 🙂
Hugh would like to report on the latest in Chicago sports.
Hugh?
Hugh sez: *ahem*
Bulls playoff series stats: 1-0
Blackhawks playoff series stats: 2-0
🙂 he is so happy.
we’ve had entirely too much fun tonight and need to go to sleep
night pan
night mush
night cockles
Hugh sez: night
Afternoon Pan, the Sun is shining and I’m at work..meh!
Good morning, Pan!
Coffee is brewing.
Mmmm coffee. Good morning!
Basil! Manuel! Duck’s off.
I don’t get Caprica. Is it going to air on SyFy? Or is it only available on DVD?
Nomad, thanks for the SciFiGenre tip – I have moved all my subs over there!
Also, I got Ignition City #1 yesterday and dig it!
morning pan!
Hugh and I are being really really lazy this morning and we’ve finished reading our books and thought we would do a little play by play
EssBee I know you said you just moved your subscriptions to scifigenre, but here is another good subscription place. Its the one I use:
http://www.mailordercomics.com
usually comics are 30-40% off, but sometimes it is even higher. They boast that you can get comics up to 75% off and its true sometimes. Like usually some of my Batman comics will be that much off.
They do not offer free bags and boards, you have to pay for them but the bags they use are really nice quality.
Morning Pan.
Calgary down 0 & 2 in the playoffs. Not totally surprised (I know you picked them to win in 7, Jack but I had them losing in 6)
Beautiful Sunny day right now. Only plus 4, but should get up to 12.
Later, will be taking my Boo to the fabric store. She wants me to make her some curtains for her new place.
and if you are really into weird independent comics, may I suggest my local shop. I love this comic book store.. I have been going to this shop since I read my 1st Sandman. Even though I am doing the subscription thing, I still go in here to browse cause they carry an amazing amount of indies and the staff are really cool.
http://www.chicagocomics.com
Hey Energizer Bunny.. sorry our Blackhawks got you down 🙂
Welcome 1 and all to the Deadpan retro (rhettro) hour
Staring: Hugh and Andrea
Featuring: that classic Episode, Deadpan 102!!
is this someones stolen paragraph
Hugh sez: cock and endless balls??
methinks thats what she said
I don’t think there is anyway to say ‘Deadpan is the motherfucking way biatch’ and really truly sound Deadpan
Hugh sez: especially biatch. YOu want to put emphasis on biatch
be-yotch!!!
Hugh sez: like that 🙂
unrelated thought
mouse click
LOL
that was good Jack
LOL
you’re cracking us up with this
its me at NIN methinks!
LOL
Hugh sez: thats about how it would sound. Hence the need for communicating through texting while at lollapalooza
fer sure 🙂
Heh, that was me w/ the “cock & endless balls”. *blush* I submitted that when my friend Steve died – that poem was kinda how I felt.
Thanks for the tip on the Mailorder comics! I’m a newbie, so need all the help I can get!
So Hugh you think Energizer bunny is waiting for us to leave 😉
Hugh sez: that happens to us alot
methinks people here hate our play by plays, Hughie 🙂
Hugh sez: eh, who cares. We are enjoying ourselves
sorry if we annoy the crap out of everyone here 🙂
EssBee! Awwww.. I’m sorry about your friend.
We really like the mailorder comics place
I LOVE the play-by-play! Don’t stop!
and by the way.. in case you are not used to our sense of humor.. we were kidding about the waiting for us to leave Bunny 🙂
unless of course you are.. LOL.. 🙂
don’t mind us.
we’re crazy
We won’t stop EssBee.. we just always remember this one time we started a play by play and it was Truckre Overdrive who had wanted to put a comment up for everyon to see and answer and he literally waited until we were done to post his question again, it was kinda finny. We felt bad 🙂
“That was me with the ‘cock & endless balls'” isn’t something I say often. LOL!
we know this has to be a little annoying.. it does interrupt the usual flow of events here. We thought Sunday AM would be quiet and therefor we wouldn’t disturb things
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“That was me with the ‘cock & endless balls’†isn’t something I say often. LOL!
LOL
we’re dying
oh my God we can’t stop laughing
that was the best essbee
ok.. back to pan if we can ever get a hold of ourselves…
Ha!
Ok, I must shower, so I’ll give you some time to compose yourselves!
🙂
Don’t hold too tight, TSH, you could cut off circulation to something important.
Jack sex: Greasy uhh spoon comments game (long pause)
We have 6 nipples today!!
Hugh sez: 6?!?!?!????!!?? w00t!!
“Jack sex”
hawsome typo
Good advice Ed 🙂
Essbee’s in the shower everyone!!!
*swooon*
Hugh sez: I think she should of invited us
agreed! 🙂
Survived the storms – I hear we broke records for rainfall. The drainage ditches around here were the highest I’ve ever seen them.
Thankfully, we were smart and had my daughter’s birthday party indoors this year. She and the kids had fun. I’ll have to get some pictures posted later.
EssBee and TSH in a shower?
I’ll be in my bunk….
anywho.. I consulted the historical documents:
Greasy Spoon Cigars Comments spoons Comments nipples through unshow XX
Vanamonde: 5
EssBee: 4
wndr wolf: 4
Jack: 3 (from ep 100)
ditto: 2
Cynful: 1
Justaj0e: 1
Ed: 1
Smarty Hotties: 1
Amy: 1
Rhett: 1
Brad P: 1
Ed- so glad you survived okay and the bday party went off without a hitch 🙂
*pause for a moment*
please enjoy this intermission entertainment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YnDlEMXiU
Hugh sez: I love that band
they are AMAZING live. We saw them play here recently and we are hoping they end up in the Chicago area for Lollapalooza this year
Hugh sez: and we are hoping they do some lollapalooza after party thing
yes!
ok back to the 6 nipples
Hugh sez: I’m ready to take on 6 nipples
I bet you are. pervert
Jack sez: (about the 6 nipples) Which are 4 too many or not enough depending on how you look at it
Hugh sez: it depends on the male to female ratio of those nipples. 4 female, 2 male sounds good to me!
or 4 male and 2 female
Hugh sez: or all female
*swooon*
Hugh sez: NOW who is the pervert?
*raises hand*
Justajoe- ditto serving cake. Food that causes orgasms
[tangent]
we miss justa j0e!!!
[/tangent]
ditto- sieze the extra small day
Smarty hotties: pan unshow 16
Rhetrro- is this offline?
Dubshack- 12 minutes of Jack Mangan rummblings
Justa j0e- 8
Greasy Spoon Cigars Comments spoons Comments nipples nipples through Ep 102
Vanamonde: 5
EssBee: 4
wndr wolf: 4
Justaj0e: 3
Jack: 3 (from ep 100)
ditto: 3
Smarty Hotties: 2
Rhett: 2
Cynful: 1
Ed: 1
Amy: 1
Brad P: 1
Dubshack: 1
Hugh sez: speaking of food that causes orgasms. My baby made Chicken Cacciatore yesterday. Holy fuck, babe. I know I orgasmed while eating that
it was damn good wasn’t it?
Hugh sez: I can’t wait to try it today after its sat in the fridge and gotten even better
mmm mmmm!!!
More orgasmic food: Sly B made burgers the other night (grass fed, free range, butchered by my dad) that had green chile (grown in our back yard) mixed in and a disc of goat cheese in the center. OMG.
Hey, TSH. Not waiting for you to leave. Just doing other things this morning so being very intermittent on my posts 🙂
Shower – accomplished. Solo.
😉
Someone is rambling about work being a pain and that if it frustrates you you can consider changing careers
Hugh sez:I used to do that climbing the corporate ladder thing. I’m over that now 🙂
LOL.. I love the sound effects you’ve added to this
Well see baby, I think thats the difference between you and many others. You didn’t go to school for what you do. You started that job because it was just a job that paid money at the time and then you found you really loved it and moved up the ladder
Hugh sez: plus, I am happy. I’ve made my money. We live a good life. Now at almost 40, I’ve changed my focus. I want art and my wife to be my focus in life. I like where i stand at work and I don’t need to move up anymore. They like me, they like the work I do. Life changes that way.
Right like we were focused on us for a long long time, then when we got straightened out we both kinda focused on work for a while, now we are back around and focusing on us again.
Hugh sez: exactly.
its cool bunny 🙂 we were just being stupid.. like i said there was that 1 time when Trucker Overdrive was waiting for us to finish and we felt bad 🙂
Essbee is clean!
Hugh sez: time to get her dirty again!
LOL.. 🙂
ok I think we need to get Sly B’s burgers, the chicken cacciatore and some absolutely heavenly chocolate dessert and have food orgasms!!!
Hugh sez: Yes. I concur!
🙂
He hasn’t given up
he is ok with what he gets paid
its good enough
enjoys his evenings
enjoys nights at home with his wife
awwwww
Hugh sez; good for him. But I don’t regret my choices either. I enjoy the life my working hard for a few years is allowing us to have now.
Well I guess the key to what he was saying is you stopped climbing the ladder to take the time to enjoy what you did, enjoy the fruit of your labor. Some people never do that
Jack works with a bunch of chinese people
LOL!!!!!
that was the most awesome story evar, Jack
Duel of the fates!
Poor Dubshack
Amy Bowen!
I was thinking, just last night, that Jack should include Buffy Summers in his next DOTF.
We forgive you for being late with ep 2 of Questors, Amy 🙂
Hugh sez: sez the people who are what? 5 months behind on Deadpan?
LOL.. true 🙂
Wait, we can figure this out.. ok this episode had me calling from Lolla, I assume he used those vm’s not too long after i sent them.. that was August of last year
Holy moly!! Thats 9 months ago!!!
Hugh sez: we suck
9 months behind????? thats inconceivable!!
Hugh sez: inconceivable!!
[inigo montoya] I do not think that word means what you think it means [/inigo montoya]
A busy DP Sunday…nice!
It is August for sure, TSH. Steve passed away on August 6th, and I recorded the “cock & balls” stolen stanzas then.
Back to comics – I just read the latest Buffy Season 8 (issue 24?) and Faith’s boobs are GIANT. She would have a helluva time kicking ass with those knockers.
Buffy Summers would kick ass!
Jack we 2nd (and 3rd) the Buffy Summers vote!
Hugh sez: put her up against that lame vampire from Twilight
oh man.. I hope none of you loved that movie. Hugh and I were thoroughly disgusted by that movie. Didnt even finish watching it
Hugh sez: we pay per viewed it and I wanted my 3.99 or what it was back
My review of Twilight (the movie, didn’t read the book) was:
I don’t get it. Why did that gay chick fall for that simple-minded vampire?
Cough.
How do those comic book babes kick ass the way they are drawn
Have you seen Catwomans boobs??? and then her tiny waist- how the hell does she stand upright?
Hugh sez: plus she is in a painted on outfit so her boobs have no support, they are just flapping around
LOL “flapping around”
Hugh sez: LOL it was more of a comment on how her outfit is so tight it HAS to be painted on. Boobs that big need some support.
would you like to support them Hughie?
Hugh sez: Yes, yes i would
I saw Twlight at the cinema..ugh indeed!
I read the Twilight book and made it about 1/2 way through the movie. It was so bad
I read it cuz I love vamire romances and I wasnt very impressed. The vampire was 80-some years old dating a 15-16 year old girl? huh????
The teenyboppers in the cinema seemed to like it though.
ok almost done with ep 102 here then we are gonna go
it was sooooo teenybopper-y
it was a perfect movie for a 13 year old girl to love
Jack sez: “sucked an icecube”
*swooon*
Hugh sez: ice cubes are fun
🙂
Deadpan is the motherfucking way
palooza idea: PCU
Jack gave us homework
Hugh sez: Damn you!
sphericaljackmmmmmmmmmmm
comments.
nipples.
Eraserhead rulez
I like the idea of doing the Watchmen graphic novel too
what a great idea!!
you should do it!
Hugh sez: I think he does
he does!?!?!?? 😉
he is truly outrobabbling
Jacks most painful music
Jack sez: “I like to do deep and sultry”
I bet you do Jackamo 😉
hugh sez: *swooon*
swooon2
Is Jack coming back after the music game!
Hugh?
Hugh sez: ladies first
methinks he really isnt this time
your on woman
TSH: I enjoy your play-by-plays. 🙂
Jackmo this is high pitched for you
Hugh sez: but it isn’t bad, man. What are you worried about?
I like it Jack
Smarty Hotties approve
Oh thank you Amy.. *blush*
we have fun doing them, and that is what is most important to us. After everything we’ve been through the past few years, we treasure the moments of peace, quiet, and fun.
Hugh sez: we treasure our moments together
we do 🙂
sorry to get all sappy on you guys 🙂
*claps at the end of Jacks song*
Hugh sez: you have the clap?
LOL.. shut up Hugh!
Jack came back after the music!!!!!
greasy jelly bean game
557 won
Rhettro!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Maki got his breakfast this past weekend
mouse click
take it away Mennennennnennenennenennga
That’s what matters, TSH.
alright guys and dolls
we hope to be back soon to try and make up 9 fucking months of backlogged Deadpans!!! Holy!!!!
Hugh sez: We aim to do better this year
even though this year is 1/3rd over already
we agree Essbee
ok, we’re off
be around soon to check up on y’all
take care of each other please 🙂
buh-bye
Hugh sez: l8r
Bye! 🙂
That was fun TSH 🙂
Always fun to read your play-by-plays.
Have a good day, Chicagoans.
Hi Amy!
I am off to the grocery store now, and then will be back to read, read, read.
Hi Van, Cj!
Mmmm reading is the best.
Today I’m doing laundry, making grocery lists, and cleaning house.
Gotta find out who has Matzoh on sale. My Gram is requesting it for breakfast one day this week. And… while it is my favorite breakfast food, I don’t keep it on hand because nobody else here will eat it.
Hi, EssBee, Van, and Cj!
Location: bedroom
Eating: Sun Chips
Drinking: water
Doing: finances and bills
Well, it was tough to capture the action yesterday, but this one is my favorite from the party:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultimate_ed/3456403948/sizes/l/
My son is a flying monkey.
CW: Tudors S3, E1
w00t.
#writechat is starting again on Twitter! Whee! 😀
CP: Colditz March – The Central Band of the RAF
CP: Thunderbirds Theme – The Shadows
CP: The Lumberjack Song: Monty Python
CP: Galaxy Song – Monty Python
CP: Every Sperm is Sacred – Monty Python
CP: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Monty Python
All the MP songs are from an album called ‘MONTY PYTHON SINGS’ released in 1989.
Today = Eyestab
I request do-over.
A painful way to describe a day.
Err that didn’t come out right.
Sorry to hear about your bad day Cj.
Thanks, Van.
Sundays should certainly not suck in this way. Ever.
CP: Soldier Boy – Matt Mango
CP: Everybody’s Talkin – Madeline Peyroux
New Wander Radio episode downloading in iTunes..woot!
Yes Van – I run the Gambit in this episode…
72 min of fun!
http://www.trollandtoad.com/p215528.html
Dang! Sold out!
lol
phew!
Today I broke through a block I’d had for a long time on one of my novels. I’m about to get into a scene I’ve been anticipating for a long time. It’s not the climax, but it’s an important turning point that sets things up for how the climax will play out. I’ve been writing (not really nonstop, but close) since 5:15 – 5:30 ish, and it’s now almost 7:30 and I CAN’T STOP WRITING!!! Not even to go downstairs and get dinner! This feels fantastic and exhilarating.
That’s very inspiring, Amy! Go go go! 🙂
Thank you!
Dinner has been eaten. Now relaxing with music, TVTropes, and other websites. Final word count for the night: 71,317. Novel’s still not done, but I’m really proud of what I’ve accomplished today. 🙂
That’s excellent, Amy.
Sorry to hear about the Sunday Suckage, CJ. Hope Monday is better.
My evening is already better. Thanks, Ed. I’m smiling again – tomorrow will be my usual awesome type of day, I’m sure. 😀
Well, gang, I don’t know if I’ll be much help breaking records this week. Mrs. from Texas is out of town this week at her company’s home office. She normally works here at the house, but has to travel to the main office a few times a year. So, this week, it’s just me and the kids and the days are pretty full of various sports/church/ballet and homework.
By the time I’ve gotten finished with the kids each day, I’m usually ready to crash myself. Which is what I’m going to do now.
G’nite, Deadpan.
Night, Pan.
But I’m not tired yet.
Night, Amy and Ed.
and when we find we have no words, Mr. Jonathan Coulton is there to provide them.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/When%20You%20Go.mp3
.
Some things we always remember, some things we forget
No way to make it up now no room for regret
That’s no good for anyone
And so I come undone
Now I am less than what I was
Whatever’s left is yours now
Fold my heart up small
Or break it into pieces
Find somewhere and keep it there
Take it when you go
Justa j0e!! *hug*
RIP JG Ballard
that is all
your smarty hotties® will enter into sleep mode now
ps music always has a funny way of saying the things we can’t say i’ve noticed. I’ve also noticed songs will evolve in my life. They start out meaning 1 thing to me, then something happens in my life and suddenly the song has a completely different meaning, or just a whole new significance.
Plus my iTunes has that funny way of shuffling up those songs at that moment that say the things I cannot say. I will be really sad about something, listening to tunes unable to grasp my own sadness and a song will come on that says it all for me. I love that.
that my dear pannitos is the main reasons I love music so much
sleep mode has been delayed. Smarty hotties® will commence immediate shutdown procedures in 10…
Then what does it mean when my iTunes shuffles up “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Grooving in a Cave with a Pict” ?
In all, utmost seriousness – your friends are here for you and care for you.
Ah yes JG Ballard, I see they are already downplaying his scifi work, fooking literary snobs.
That was your oh so mini rant for a Monday Morning.
Oh and if you have a spare 1.5 million quid in your back pocket:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8007586.stm
CP: Beeswing – Richard Thompson
We’ve been missing you, JOe.
RIP JG Ballard!
Good morning, you beautiful Deadpannites! How is it Monday already?
If money is supposed to flow like a river…
Who keeps damming my flow?
(ok that didn’t work…)
Yes, please:
http://www.rocketryplanet.com/content/view/2829/30/
If you ever find yourself in Houston, you owe it to yourself to visit the Johnson Space Center and see the Saturn V that is on display there.
CP: Wander Radio #39
EssBee – Do not listen while in the tub… You’ll turn into a prune before you get out. 😉
I’m safe at the office! With earbuds, noting the NSFW note on the episode.
EssBee – The poem and the final song are really the culprits here.
Quiet around here today…
hmm
I did shower…
I think.
Very quiet!
Although I did NOT shower with EssBee…
Just so you know.
If we had, I would have borrowed your cham-poo-pagne, Wolf.
BTW, happy 4/20, Deadpan. I don’t personally partake, but am sure that some of you do.
LOL
CP: Tiffany- I Think We’re Alone Now
Hugh sez: Turn that shit off!!!
🙂
Hugh sez2: We’re not listening to your iTunes anymore 🙂
errrrr.. dumb Dre question: whats the 4/20 significance.. what am i missing?
4/20 as faar as I can think is the day before the new Depeche Mode album is released 🙂
That maybe it wolf, some like the smell of wild wolf.
So I feel I’ve become emotionally flat to horror stories. So I could appreciate what emotions the writer was trying to instill with the poem without actually feeling anything at all.
OOO the Hotties have decided to grace us with their presence.
The Smarty Hotties: 4/20 = weed. Dumb IMO, but lots of dumb things are popular. It’s also my sister’s birthday, but that’s not nationally recognized.
and to prove what I was saying about my iTunes, it knows Hugh was upset by Tiffany so now:
CP: Black Flag- TV Party
TV Party is one of the greatest songs evar.
How did we not know this about 4/20?
Happy Birthday imag1narynumber’s sister!!!
Hi Wolf
ok, back to work 🙂
isn’t it though?? 🙂
we love Black Flag in this house
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
It is in Wikipedia so it must be right…
Isn’t it?
4/20 is a huge event on the CU campus in Boulder every year. Since I have an insider, I am always amused at the university’s attempts to quell the event. This year, they are expecting over 10,000 stoners to converge at 4:20 this afternoon outside of the library and toke up.
Not too surprisingly, it is always a peaceful event.
I’ll shall have to see if that black flag song is on spotify.
OOO Bubbles….
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/rhettro1/FreeSpace2.jpg
Old school game of the day. Freespace. wOOt!
You call that old school? LOL
In my day the would put strips of coloured cellophane on the monitor to’colour’ the graphics…
+y
I want my pong.
Fall Guy! Knots Landing! Yeah, that song is bit dated…
Good morning to all of you. This is so my favorite place on the web now.
Unfortunately, I may be quiet today. I’m so sick that my dear husband has had to call off work today to help me. I have a migraine that surely surface from the depths of hell. It’s a cluster migraine which means that I’ll have moments of working vision and the pain will regress for a short time – like now. So, I took the free moment to drop in a hello.
Now I have to get as much work done as possible before the next hit of incapacitation. Stupid spreadsheets are not going to help my cause.
Have a great day! Hopefully I’ll be able to come back and read at least a bit later!
Take care, Cj! Keep your eyes off the computer screen, girl.
Soon, we’ll all be able to choose between same-sex or opposite marriage:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/carrie-prejean-miss-calif_n_188897.html
Today is 10 years since Columbine, wow. I remember where I was on that day. I was in Fort Collins, doing an exit exam and picking up the bound volume of my master’s thesis at CSU. I had just started dating Sly B, and it was our first mini-road trip together.
This one is for Hugh TSH:
Nuggets playoffs: 1-0
What’s most socially disturbing about Columbine is the number of gun-toting psycho incidents that have followed. Is this a cultural inevitability for this stage of our collective emotional development – – or is there some particular facet of contemporary culture that has helped enable this kind of thing?
My $0.02 on the matter, Jack, is that as a society, we have allowed kids to raise themselves. Imagine that the Columbine shooters gathered up an arsenal in their parents’ homes completely undetected.
Also, I think that bullying has become a constant torment and torture for kids who don’t “fit in.” Think of the 11 year old boy who hung himself last week in Springfield, MA rather than face school another day.
One of the reasons I refer to my once-beloved employer as “Evil, Inc.” is because we used to deploy to communities where something awful like Columbine or Springfield happened because we knew how to help communities design and implement bully-proofing plans.
CP – Side 2, ZZ Top “Eleminator” LP
Take that, sadness.
CP: Oh Well — Fleetwood Mac
*dancing in my office*
Essbee – RE: 4/20
Get a couple of boxes of Lucky Charms and a few boxs of small Ziplock bags.
Fill the bags. Wander past the library at 4:25 selling the bags of sugared joy for a buck a piece.
Ka ching!
I’m not a 4/20 partaker, but I could so go for a ziploc baggie of Lucky Charms right now.
… then you whip out your cooler full of those little pint containers of ice cold milk and sell those for $5 each.
later Deadpan
A guy could make a pretty nice profit on something like that next year. Hmm . . .
Quiet Monday…
At 4:20 on 4/20 I will be responsible for 5 little minions running around my house.
I’ll probably wish I was a partaker – but, alas – I have never been.
As for the kids who cause destruction, I tend to lean toward the blame-the-parents end of the spectrum.
Parents, IMO, of a very selfish generation seemed to either ignore or over-medicate their rambunctious children instead of spending time with them and paying attention to them. This doesn’t mean that it’s always the case, but I firmly believe that many of the negative actions taken by teens over the past decade could have been prevented with a bit of parental responsibility. I think these selfish parents decide somewhere along the line that the kids are merely a burden to them and basically toss them aside to fend for themselves.
Bad parenting tends to really piss me off.
Totally, agree about the parenting issue, Cj. I think that we were the first generation of latch-key kids, and our kids (thinking of kids who are near 20 now) are the first generation of self-raised kids.
CP: Was It A Lie? — Sleater-Kinney
I think/hope it’s changing now. I even wonder how much the mommy/daddy blogging phenomenon has affected parenting now. I see more parenting blogs and my “MightyMommy” account on Twitter is being followed by anywhere from 3 to 10 new parent bloggers/podcast listeners daily.
If it’s a trend in parents wanting to be better parents then hopefully, the generation of children who are small now, will have a better chance. My kids are 3 and 5 and I’m going to be 40 in a little over a month from now and I’ve noticed in the parenting groups of which I’m a member, most of the moms are close to the same age as me – so I think that parents starting later in life is also a trend and a good one at that! As always, I’m hopeful.
I’ve been over an hour without headache issue. I think I may be out of the dark and after almost 3 days of this pain – I’m about to shout hallelujah.
CP: Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice – Beatallica
Selfish people will always set their own petty wants and fleeting impulses as a higher priority than the well-being of their children.
And OK – can’t watch this here, but it looks like it’ll be worth checking out at home: http://digg.com/d1p9f9
I am not here to be my children’s best friend. I’m here to guide them, support them, and set boundaries for them. I’m eligible for vacation benefits after about 20 years on the job.
Ed, we have something else in common, which is our philosophy on parenting.
CP: Goons Of Hazzard — Dead Kennedys
CP: Cool Drink Of Water — The Gun Club
Personally I think blaming the parents is a kopout. It’s an easy excuse to try to explain why kid x did these horrible deeds.
I don’t care how you were brought up, you do a horrible act and the blame is on you and nobody else.
Cue the Americans don’t know geometry jokes….
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/breakingnews/114771.php
Yes, that was on purpose 🙂
No, wordpress, I’m not posting too fast!
You should be ok as long as you don’t summon a demon using an hexagram.
Tonight is bachelor night for me, so I’m having a pot pie. Mmm.
CW: The Tudors S3, E2
Do Satanists send each other pick-me-up messages via singing pentagram?
That would be a great dating service!
“We base all of our matches on a battery of 666 questions.”
Cj said: “This is so my favorite place on the web now.”
Awww!! That warms my heart. It’s mine, too. 🙂
EssBee said: “My $0.02 on the matter, Jack, is that as a society, we have allowed kids to raise themselves.”
What both you and Cj said about this was right on the money.
Cj: I didn’t know that parents starting later in life was a trend now. That is interesting, and I agree that it’s likely to be a good thing in terms of parental responsibility. I was born in 1986 (Mom was 33), and my sister was born in 1991 (Mom was 38). I think that was slightly unusual when we were growing up. I think the upside was that she had an established career, but the downside was that she had less physical stamina than parents who started younger, so she didn’t like doing things like going camping in tents (which I liked doing, and still do).
At my university, we had a tradition of yelling “FOUR-TWENTY!” and cheering really loudly when the clock hit 4:20 at both soccer and basketball games.
Makes interesting reading:
http://www.applet-magic.com/mortality.htm
Seems in the UK it wouldn’t do to suggest that booze gives you confidence:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7999250.stm
After 2am, yawn, night pan.
Amy,
I too enjoy camping! I love fishing and all of that stuff too… it’s my 33-year-old husband that doesn’t like it! grrr…. I shall make him be outdoorsy! I shall!
/charge
Well, Deadpan, that’s it for me. I think I took some of your headache, Cj — not all of it, but some of it. Now I must stop looking at this computer for awhile.
Nighty night, you beautiful denizens of the ‘pan.
You know, now that I hold the new Enterprise in my hands – I have to say the new warp engines are indeed on the awkwardly large size.
I hope the designers weren’t trying to compensate for something.
Shriveled Photon torpedoes?
We are old skool pot smokers and didn’t know about this 4/20 thing 🙂
I’m not a parent so I can’t really comment reliably on the whole who is responsible thing.. but based on my experience- I do tend to agree that its the parents fault when they are young and impressionable, then there comes a point when a child is making their own decisions and at that point it becomes iffy for me. Real generalization here but when kids are living under their parents roof, parents should be more aware of whats going on. Once a kid is away making their own choices, it becomes the childs choice and the parents less.
Essbee- I will tell Hugh of your basketball shout out 🙂 He just watched the Bulls play and now is watching the blackhawks.. I am hiding from it all. LOL. I did watch the end of the bulls game, it was a really good game.
I can say based on my own life, my parents did have a huge impression on me. I am also from a hispanic family with slightly different issues then American families. When I look back at my life and my successes and failures I really do believe up until.. lets say… 14/15, maybe even 13/14 I could point the finger at my parents, after that I made my own choices.
I can say that the worst my parents did was they did little to prepare me for the world. I learned most things about life on my own, through trial and error and meeting other people and actually going out and exploring life, seeing it for myself. Taking chances. So the choices I made when I did that are all on me.. but I guess if you wanted to look at my parents you could say they could of prepared me better and not just let me out with the wolves so unprepared. They were entirely way too overprotective of me, to the point that they stunted me in a way.
ok sorry 🙂
for someone who started out saying I can’t really comment on a subject, I sure commented a whole bunch.
typical
I always have something to say
I leave you with The Gutter Twins
*swoooon*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL0pxLQg5_E
Yes. TSH and to Van – Ultimately, once the kiddos are thinking for themselves, there are cases, where regardless of upbringing – people can simply be idiots or, deranged and unbalanced people.
I think all points and perspectives are valid, but I still believe that if the parents had taken the time to get involved and paid attention to their children, at least some of these kids could have been helped or saved.
I want to hold your Enterprise, Ed. Pretty please? 🙂
I’ll be sure to bring it if I ever get to visit AZ. For now, you’ll have to settle for a picture 🙂
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultimate_ed/3461580346/sizes/l/in/set-72157602076059713/
The new toy looks be to be about the same scale as the original series movie version. Both are a good bit smaller than the original TV series one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultimate_ed/3460767485/in/set-72157602076059713/
You know, I’m mildly disturbed by the fact that I’ve only posted those images in the last few minutes and 40 people have already found them.
Oh, why not – 600!
Very awesome, Ed! 🙂
And Calgary has made a series of it.
Ed, are the little ones allowed to play with those models?
Morning Pan,
CP: Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy
Some nice guitar work for a Tuesday Morning.
CP: The Boys are Back in Town – Thin Lizzy
CP: Dancing in The Moonlight – Thin Lizzy
CP: Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy
CP: I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats
CP: Mona Lisa – Nat King Cole
CP: Route 66 – Nat King Cole
CP: Walking My Baby Back Home – Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole
CP: These Boots are Made for Walkin’ – Nancy Sinatra
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
I’m not real familiar with Nancy’s version, but I really enjoy the version that Operation Ivy did.
Jack, only when they are closely supervised and have put down a deposit 🙂
Nah, toys are meant to be played with. I’m not a true “collector” in the museum sense.
Talking of models, I whiled away many a rainy afternoon as a kid playing with the following model:
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/models/w2mstarcruiser.html
It separated into four bits for more variety..
Morning Pan
Beautiful 20 C yesterday. The weatherman says snow for tomorrow.
I don’t know if I can take anymore of this crazy weather
The Red Mile was happy last night, now that Calgary has decided to actually join the playoffs.
Only one item on today’s todo list:
Disillusion TEB about another fairy tale.
Cough
A friend of mine starts her first day of work today. Normally, not an issue but in today’s economy she got a job in record time. She’s from the US and only received her work permit at the end of March. She put out her resume, did an interview and got a job within a couple of weeks. You don’t see that very much anymore.
You won’t disillusion me Van, I know the evils of Rumplestiltskin. The poor man who tore himself in half…
I still say the king was the bad guy in that story.
I don’t even have the best pants.
CP: Scientific American Podcast
*Pushes the reset button*
Will that work on the weather, EssBee?
Heh! this ain’t a Sar Trek episode Essbee.
CP: Escape Pod 195
Junk Sound Itkin Pressure’s
CP: Get Out the Door – Velvet Revolver
CP: Me and My Arrow – Harry Nillson
CP: I’m a Believer – The Monkees
CP: Of Sins and Shadows – Symphony X
Robert Smith is 50 today.
Damn. You’re right, Van.
Sorry about the weather, TEB. In Colorado, it’s gorgeous and supposed to be 77 today.
Morning, Deadpan!
CP: Salve Virgo Virginum – The Mediæval Bæbes
So far weather not bad +8C. But give it 24 hours…
CP: The look of Love – Diana Krall
CP: Battery – Metallica
CP: WanderRadio EP 39
Well, no more music for now. Gotta do an on-line course for work. Will be out for an hour or so.
The squeaky artichoke winds up as dinner.
Conference Call Hell – Ditto I need help.
I’m sorry, Wolf. ditto can’t come to the phone. Can I take a message?
Good morning, beautiful people. Consider yourself hugged. I’m hoping to be away from the computer for most of today, at least until I have to clock into work.
mmmm artichokes – now I want to make one for dinner. Yum.
TSH
http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/images/200903/my-name-up-in-lights-extralarge_1236374277170.jpg
CP: Time of the Preacher – Willie Nelson
Once again, CJ is the Scrabble master 🙂
I’m pretty excited! I just bought tickets for a performance this Thursday by Holly Hughes, the subject of my master’s thesis. Cannot wait.
http://belmarlab.org/femco2009.php
CP: I Like It – Dixie Chicks
CP: I Like It – Gerry and the Pacemakers
in mono
CP: Need you Tonight – INXS
CP: I’ll be your baby tonight – UB40 and Robert Palmer
CP: Hound Dog – Robert Palmer
CP: Proud to Be (a honky woman) – Vinegar Joe
CP: Joe 90 theme
CP: UFO theme
CP: Babylon Podcast 152
CP: Insomnia Radio UK #65
Completely off the topic…
(what topic)
I was looking WR Stats… Someone is listening to my show on their PSP…
Wow you can do that?
(Yes you old man they can…)
CW: Chuck s2e20
Doesn’t Van listen on PSP? Could’ve sworn someone on here does…
“As in ball shaped,” said Jack.
And I snorted.
Not any more JB, but I’ve listened to DP on a PSP, PS3 and a Dell Axim X30 PDA.
Cough
However you can use the RSS feed to stream or download episodes direct to the PSP.
Boy the bunnies are out in force today. Usually you don’t see them so wildly hopping around the neighbourhood.
I may get a life one of these days.
I started my podsuming habit on my PSP, and the automatic wifi scheduling works fairly well. I think I stopped using it as my main device because I only had a 512MB memory card in it at the time.
Van don’t bother You don’t get out of it what you put in to it…
Ah I remember when the PSP seemed sleek and sexy and then the iPhone came along and made it look liked a bloated whale.
Still, Super Stardust is a cool shooter on the PSP..
TSH – I wish my local comic shop was as on the ball, internet-wise, as yours is. Neither one is open during the hours I can get to them and neither one has a web store. I’m all for supporting the little guys, but… [shrug]
Wolf – You get DUST!
Well he’s a wolf after all.
I tried to use the test model at the AT&T store within two days of them chaining it to the wall. So it is possible, but unlikely, that the touch sensors were already damaged in some way.
As the primary (only?) method of input, touch screen is not something I can use. Even on the newfangled tech that is used for the iPhone.
What is it called? Is the iPhone capacitive touch or resistive touch? Grrr, can’t recall now.
I don’t know Wolf -quite- well enough, but I love to tease my friend Gorath about his wolfie nature by calling him a “woof” all the time. Just doing my vampire part to put down the revolution.
Van, getting a life is over-rated 😉
AmazonMP3 has the new Depeche Mode for $3.99
BestBuy has it for $9.99 or $14.99 with a DVD.
… But I still want the disc.
Well, the arbourist is here to trim my trees. Gotta go!
Later Pan
Is that a metaphor TEB?
cough
CP: Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) — Bob Dylan
NS – Hopefully we will not ever know each other that well…
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
😉
At lunch today, I think I’ll run to Best Buy and get the Caprica DVD. I might also pick up the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs disc, and I’ve been wanting a Garbage CD. Why not?
LOL, Wolf.
… I’m confused now. How did my nipple for this deadpan end up in this deadpan? Shouldn’t it not have existed until after this particular unshow existed? Are my nipples traveling in time?
Wolf – XD
We get on well enough. Two different creatures of the night, both better than the normals that sleep walk around us.
Could define pretty much anyone here. It’s not like we’re a majority population.
I’ve got Caprica coming in the mail. The wife and I will check in on for date night on Friday. Honestly, if it weren’t for Farpoint Media (here and Slice, etc) I wouldn’t even know it was available, much less that I’d have to get a DVD to watch it.
Sadly, no Blu-Ray.
I heard there’s nudity on the DVD.
That is all.
I hope nipples don’t require 1.21 gigawatts to travel through time.
Marty!
How did you get that nipple to 88 mph?
I dunno! Jack did it!
And how did I not notice until now?
Funny or Die strikes again:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6eddb255b2
Jack has a new Super Power. He can direct Lightning Bolts to peoples nipples causing them to go 88 mph causing them to travel in time with out the owners knowledge.
Recommendation keep your hands on all nipples that are important to you…
Says Wolf, obviously using one of his hands at least to type out the warning. Good ole’ one-nipple Wolf.
EssBee I am not worried about my nipples…
Borrows Vans *Cough*
There’s someone out there for everyone’s nipples. I truly believe that.
I’m skeptical, just going by the male/female ratio alone.
So they’re still trimming my trees (no euphemisms – despite the current nipple conversation). With any luck, I won’t have to worry about branches falling on the neighbours car come next snowfall (which is tomorrow from what the weatherman says).
I Think I’m going into gaming withdrawal. There are approx a dozen games I want to purchase this year (that I know of, anyway) but none of them have been released yet. Need to find something to do until next month.
Van, This is for you. This cake was made by a sixteen-year-old cake decorator and I couldn’t help, but think of you when I saw it!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4cDIuOceXIU/SKzdW52Vf3I/AAAAAAAAAPk/ZZsQYuYrIGw/s1600-h/beatles+001.jpg
TEB, more Scrabble? New game? Yes? 😀
700
CJ. Yes. I as much a masochist as the next person.
CP: Fluting on the Hump – King Missile
CD: Wander Radio 34 to my PSP
Just because I can.
LOL – Thanks Van.
TEB, if you want to a challenge, download Geo Defense for your iPod Touch, there is a lite version available.
Downloading it now, Van. I have Tap Defense on my touch. That was fun for awhile.
Also, just downloaded Flock for my PC
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/flock/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review
Something to tide me over until the “real” games come out 🙂
TEB, if you want a challenge, play Scrabble w/ Cj!
Ah that pacman song from WR 34 is class.
Yup, CJ’s a Scrabble master all right.
It helps when you can do this as well:
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/pacman_flash/
CP: Raspberry Swirl — Tori Amos
CW: Ashes to Ashes S2E1
Van – What makes #34 so appealing?
CP: Lullaby – Editors
I wish I knew Wolf, just everything seem to ‘gel’ for that episode.
CP: Pure Imagination – Maroon 5
CP: Lola (My Love) — Buckingham Nicks
And now, a very special edition of Jackass….
http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/236511
While, going back to our earlier discussion, I certainly say this boy in a man’s body is wholly responsible for his current condition, the fact that his mom is proud of him is a pretty big indictment on the family.
I don’t think any bonehead should be given leniency because they cry about their poor upbringing, but bad parenting is definitely at the root of the bonehead epidemic.
I’m back…
Some responses:
Welcome, Dan S.
i: I like hummus too.
TEB: lol vulcan homies
Hugh: Absa-frakin-amen, bro! Who needs the corporate ladder anyway?
TSH: Re: Catwoman’s boobs: You don’t think *that* is a superpower? 😉
Amy: Yea! Glad to you are making progress on the novel.
mp3s vs CDs: I still buy the CDs for the better sound quality.
And I like to add: computers seem to hate me.
ditto, thank god you’re back.
🙂
American Idol is really awful, isn’t it?
I think I’ll go hide now. 😉
I did pick up the Caprica DVD today. Now just to get Sly B to quit working and watch it with me. Hmmm.
I see that the show won’t actually air until 2010. Not shocking, but still, WTF.
I was eating breakfast and flipped past the last few minutes of Idol. I am unimpressed with the lot of ’em. They sound better than me, but that isn’t say anything at all.
Nomad, I am the Celene Dion of Deadpan, and I say they stink too.
Sacre Bleu.
The good news is that one could download tonight’s performances on iTunes tomorrow. In case you want to hear them again. And again.
One more Idol question. WTF is Paula on? Any guesses?
EssBee – Good. Now I don’t feel so hypocrankikal for being unimpressed. (And I do not wish to hear them again.)
Parkinson’s disease, maybe? Or just the alchohol?
I was gonna guess oxy m’self, but it could just be a red Coca Cola cup full of vodka. You have a point, sir.
Work, she drags me under. Gulp.
I must say, I catch bits and pieces as my wife and her mother and sisters enjoy it…..this is turning into a run on sentence and I don’t know how to stop it.
American Idol – I agree this has not been a strong batch. I can usually count on Simon to cut through Paula’s sunshine crap, but even he’s let me down with approving some of the performances.
CW: last night’s Castle
ditto: Welcome back! The novel’s not done, but I uploaded it to CreateSpace this morning anyway, in hopes of getting my free proof copy before my discount code from Nanowrimo ’07 expires (and even if it does, I’m excited enough about the whole thing to pay for a proof copy). I’m currently waiting for a confirmation email from them.
“RT” @evoterra:
“It would give me a raging hard-on for days if Phoenix became THE capital of weekly SM meetups. #FN is the motherfucking way. (Sorry, Jack)”
w00t! I just thought I would “retweet” this here to make absolutely sure that Jack saw it. 😀
Re: American Idol
If Freddie Mercury and David Bowie could have had a baby, it would be Adam Lambert.
My latest donation to Gutenberg, The Homesteaders, has gone live:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28579
Random Geekery:
Trying to pick out a decent cell phone is ridiculously complicated. Even employing my awesome google fu, there is just no info out there. How is this possible?
When I picked my phone, I had spent about a year deciding what features I wanted and waiting for a phone that had them to come out.
Which is a rough way of saying there is no easy way that I know of.
Sascha Segan from PCMag is pretty knowledgable, as is Bonnie Cha from CNET.
http://www.pcmag.com/author_bio/0,1908,a=2974,00.asp#
http://www.cnet.com/profile/bonnie.cha/?tag=mncol;txt
And another good source of info is the MobileTechRoundup podcast.
http://mobiletechroundup.com/
Hmm, too many linkages in my prior comment. When Jack de-mods it, it is for Marlo. ‘K?
I don’t watch American Idol, myself. The only reality shows I watch are Top Chef and Biggest Loser.
ditto: I can’t watch the cooking shows, or I’d never ever be able to eat again.
I have my crew and 2/3 of the second shift crew tonight and they are driving me nuts. Wah wah. And wah.
… And they are gone. phew. No more stupid questions about things that have no bearing on anything.
What you looking for in a cellphone MD?
I don’t watch reality shows, a few attempts at watching Big Brother when it first started in the UK was enough to put me off the concept for good.
Welcome back ditto.
Morning Pan, the Sun is shining and I’m going to watch moving pictures in a darkened room later.
CW: a week of In Treatment episodes
CL: Dani’s Truth Seekers Podcast: Special Edition: Live from a Tea Party
… ???
Well no good ??ing NS, you’re the one listening to that podcast.
The people speaking at the “Tea Party” seemed to enjoy yelling about socialists and communists and such.
Which is not exactly a good way to get -me- to agree with them, but it seemed that the audience appreciated it.
And then there were numbers and facts being strewn about … I don’t know anything about what they were discussing, but my instincts are yelling that it is not only nonsense and lies but contradictory as well.
I have this sick-fascination / disgust with this politic nonsense. And I think that is what I’m ???’ing most.
And ScottyJ says JustaJoe is Highlander, he can never die. But that is Cj’s LLAP, not Dani’s TS.
!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Amy.
And yes, there can be only one JustaJ0e.
I was a bit worried that SM meant something else and Amy was showing a dark side.
cough
Van – I think I have figured out why you like #34…
It is fast paced moving from segment to segment quickly. Jack Jaffee’s Muppet pieces are hilarious.
And I do not speak in that episode…
Proof of my face for radio and a voice for print…
😉
Not true Wolf, you speak at the beginning when it sounds like your son is asking what the episode is this week.
LOL – true. That is my son…
ditto: I am a fan of Top Chef. I don’t know why, but I love Padma. And cooking.
Morning, Deadpan!
justa JOe is the frakin’ way. There can be only one.
I really dislike most “reality” shows. Many of them don’t deal with reality at all and are engineered to cater to the train-wreck crowd. I like Top Chef because it really is all about the cooking. There is little that can be faked on that show. And, my wife recently exposed me to Biggest Loser. There are some dumb game components to the show, but overall it is very inspiring and educational.
Other than that, I don’t know what I’ll be watching on TV anymore. Almost all my shows are gone. I guess I’ll do more reading. 🙂
CP: Hey Joe (Joe Bully) — Beatnik Turtle
Yep, it’s a total coincidence that I’m playing that song.
EssBee: I love Padma, though I’m disappointed about the Hardee’s commercial. They must have paid her a lot for that!
I read an interview she did not long ago where they asked her what is her favorite thing about herself. She said the scar on her arm.
I haven’t seen the Hardee’s commercial – what’d she do? I DID see that she recently posed nude for some magazine (W?).
The scar on her arm is my favorite thing about her too. I have a big scar on my left forearm that makes for great stories when people pretend not to see it/can’t take their eyes away.
Sly B picked me up a magazine yesterday because the Grateful Dead were featured on the cover. I can’t remember the name of the mag. It had a free Various Artists CD attached, and I am listening to it now. It’s called. Uncut: White Winter Hymns, and features artists such as Fleet Foxes, Lift To Experience, and The Kissaway Trail. It’s basically really fun hippie music. It’s turning out to be a nice way to start the day.
EssBee: Here’s the commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nJKa13sBo
Sex sells, but I object to using sex to sell (most) products.
Wow, that commercial kinda grossed me out.
Maybe it’s the mom in me – I just saw germs everywhere!
Oh… I also have a scar on my left arm just above my wrist – it’s almost undetectable, but also an interesting story to share if/when someone asks.
I would like to forget ever seeing that commercial. Damn you, ditto!
I have lots of scars. I guess I’ve just lived an interesting life. 🙂
Now I’ll have to avoid getting some new ones after sharing that video. 😉
Imagine the director for that commercial:
“Can you hold the hamburger further away from your face, yet still lick it?”
Oooh go on Cj and tell the story of the scar.
I’ve one on my foot. I have no memory and what caused this, but was told later that I had grabbed the hot poker for the coke fire as a bairn and pulled it onto my foot.
It’s not an exciting story – just interesting to me.
I’d rather hear about EssBee’s scar story!
But.. I’ll share too…
Yes, come on Essbee spill your guts about the scar.
Well that killed the conversation.
I married my first husband in 1993 in Arizona even though we lived in California at the time. Whenever we traveled, we brought our cats with us so, of course, my cats were at the wedding.
I was standing outside in my parents’ backyard after the wedding, but before we left for our hotel and I was holding my black cat, Dinky, in my arms. My dad decided at that very moment to celebrate the marriage by setting off a series of firecrackers – – – which scared my cat, but I couldn’t let go of her because we were out in the boonies/desert and I didn’t want her to run off and be eaten by a snake or something…
She left a big gash in my arm which is now barely detectable, but she died April 9th of last year so I’m perfectly happy to have the reminder of my first “baby” etched into my arm.
I actually can’t believe she’s already been gone for a year. Sometimes I swear I still see her out of the corner of my eye. We had a good 16 years together.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovelongandprosper/3123520168/
Ok, here’s mine (and I’m totally off task today because I’m following the Zapata trial on Twitter. The trial just opened, and closing arguments are about to begin):
I was playing with my brother when we were kids – I was maybe 12 or 13, he is 2 years younger. He went all Lord of the Rings on me, and wielded his sword, which was actually a piece of wood with a huge rusty nail sticking out of it. He tore my arm open from the inside of my elbow around to the tip of my index finger. It’s kind of a curvy scar, most noticeable on the top of my forearm and the back of my hand. There’s also a nice slice on the index finger right under the nail.
He was always a little shit. He’s an oncologist now. Still a shit, as I have recounted here in the past.
I have several other scars as well, but this is the one they could use to identify my body when talking to my loved ones. “Any tattoos or defining marks?” Yep, she had a big-ass scar on her left arm.
All we need now is a big fooking shark.
CP: Dead Skunk – Loudon Wainwright III
CP: So Damn Happy – Loudon Wainwright III
I just learned today that I will be in Phoenix for a 2 days of training in June.
CP:Primrose Hill – Loudon Wainwright III
CP: 4 x 10 – Loudon Wainwright III
4 x 10 – Loudon Wainwright III
it’s not strange, no mystery
you and I are history
I put up my protective wall
it’s 4 feet thick and 10 feet tall
10 feet tall and 4 feet thick
granite, concrete, steel and brick
protection for you, understand
the little boy, the inner man
boys kissed the girls
then made them cry
that’s a man’s job, that is why
when you cry, you’re just a clone
of every woman I have known
and every Harry, Dick and Tom
gets all of this shit from his mom
who was unhappy, mom was sad
because of a wall that dad had
once its up it wont come down
and mom’s a queen and dad’s a clown
it’s not strange, no mystery
that you and I are history
it’s 4 feet thick and 10 feet tall
CP: Singin’ in the Rain – Gene Kelly
Jack: You’re welcome!
Van: That occurred to me, too, but no, Evo was using it to mean “Social Media.”
Someone in Phoenix may get the chance to stroke a wolf.
Cough
CP: Kung Fu Girls – Blondie
CP: Hanging on the Telephone – Blondie
CP: Islands of Lost Souls – Blondie
I’ve been taking lunchhour walks for the past 6 workdays. Today, I’m waiting for the temp to creep north of 50ºF. Apparently tomorrow they expect a high of 83ºF, then back down for Friday and the remainder of the 10-day…
What 2 days Wolf? I’d love to have a wolf at my birthday party!
RIP Jack Cardiff
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8012994.stm
He was involved in one of my all time fav movies ‘A Matter of Life and Death’.
Stairway to Heaven for those in the USA.
CP: Jake the Peg – Rolf Harris
CJ – Right now that is not clear somewhere between 1st and the 18th…
Will let you all know as details develop. 🙂 Cj I would love to get together for a Cj traveled around the sun party. But I will wait until further information is available before I make any promises.
Scheduling by Magic 8 Ball.
CP: If I Were a Rich Man – Topol
CP: Drifting — 4 Non Blondes
CP: Turn on the Sun – Nana Mouskouri
CP: All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan
ZP shouts Tally Ho and he reviews HAWX:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/689-Tom-Clancys-H-A-W-X
Currently Addicted to: Gimme Sympathy — Metric
JB, that sounds like Colorado weather!
CW: Fringe S1E17
Going way back on this conversation – – I was able to watch a live Iron Chef type of thing this past weekend. It was amazing just how calm and relaxed the chefs and their assistants were the entire time. Nothing like what you see on “reality” TV.
Conference call hell.
Also, the jury has the case in the Zapata murder trial.
No scars Jack?
Conference call hell here too.
Bring Marshmellows next time…
I hear they roast well.
I am the marshmallow. Burnt to a crisp. 🙁
CP: Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps) — David Bowie
I am the cracker.
cough
Koo Koo Ka Choo.
Crunch crunch.
Wibble!
I’m not wearing underpants on my head though.
Conference call now at one hour, twelve minutes.
EssBee ask them if they would mind if you ordered pizza.
If Vanamonde won’t, then maybe the conference call participants should wear their underwear on their heads.
Jack, there was an interesting blog post from our own local Andrew Zimmern (“Bizzare Foods”) about “Hell’s Kitchen.”
http://blogs.mspmag.com/chowandagain/
You know I would like Heroes to end with Hiro grabbing Sylar and transporting him to the far future, when time restarts for Sylar, he’s in a desert with a big bloated Sun in the sky…
Scary thought of the day: Hiro & Sylar slash fiction.
Allen Andrade is guilty of 1st Degree Murder and a Hate Crime.
“Hiro grabbing Sylar”
When the Wolf is in town, even if not during my festivities, we should at least have a Jack collective!
One can never have too many Jacks.
You can, however, have entirely too many underpants on your head if you aren’t careful.
I like the way “I am the marshmallow” feels when I say it.
I am the marshmallow.
Then again, I like mushrooms for basically the same reason.
I once rented a white Ford Probe and it felt like I was driving a marshmallow. Don’t know why – I just remember feeling that way.
CP: Master and Servant — Depeche Mode
CL: Whatever the downstairs neighbor is playing. Grumph.
Conference call currently at 2 hours, 26 minutes.
Well at you know what Hell is now Essbee.
+least
2 hours, 54 minutes . . .
CW: The Daily Show with the ‘horror’ of socialism in Sweden.
Indiana Jones Lego game on Xbox 360 – my daughter incredibly masterful at this game.
She’s like a 5-year-old video game prodigy.
Takes after her dad in that respect.
Sometimes I worry.
3 hours, 8 minutes . . .
Andrade is now being sentenced. The victim’s mother is addressing the court.
CJ – Yeah we could do that whole you will be assimulated thing… We are Jack of Borg you will be satarized…
I do not have video game skill…
You can’t get much simpler than Space Invaders..left, right, shoot!
I lose at that one as well… I have no coordination
Made of Deadpan.
T’was the eve before Deadpan…
Oh wait we did that already…
So… if Trucker Overdrive showed up too… would that make the mother, maiden, crone of Jacks?
I want All Jack TV – All the Time – swooooon
I have always wanted to be the maiden…
I don’t have the bust for it.
We could bronze you?
Goodnight Mush. I will see you all briefly tomorrow. Then a weekend of fun and partying — right… believe that.
Dream sweet, Maiden Wolfy.
Fun? Backups and beating my computers qualifies as fun? OK. I guess it does when I’m drinking ice wine.
*hic*
My proof copy of my ’07 novel is on its way to me now! 😀
Night, Pan. Tomorrow will be a very long day. 10 hours of work followed by a conference call. Yay. I am looking forward to the conference call, though – it’s a career development seminar specifically designed for AmeriCorps Members.
Congrats, Amy!!!!
ditto, “If a problem comes along, you must whip it.”
Amy, rock on, girl.
Tomorrow is a very exciting day for me as well. Maybe I already said this, so if I did forgive me. I wrote my master’s thesis on a book by a pretty controversial performance artist named Holly Hughes. She was part of the NEA 4 back in the 80s. I think she’s completely brilliant, even if she is a bit edgy.
She will be in Denver tomorrow performing a new piece. Tomorrow is also Sly B’s mom’s (my mother-out-law) birthday, and she is with us to celebrate. So, we are going for an early dinner of all-you-can-eat Sushi, followed by Holly’s performance. w00t!
Here’s a link to her book, in case you all want a good giggle:
http://tinyurl.com/dj52bh
Thanks! 🙂
I had the greatest idea when I was driving today. I was listening to WNDR Radio’s interview with Rob Paterson from Kung Fu Action Theatre, and they were discussing how voice acting for audio dramas is better if the actors are actually in the same room together. So I thought: During the informal ManganCon we were talking about earlier, we should totally record a Questors episode live at either the Draco Vista or LLAP studios. Even if I have reached the end of the story and finished all the episodes before then, it would still be fun to do a live version. 🙂 Just a thought.
BTW, I can eat A LOT of Sushi. In case anyone was wondering.
Brain = funk.
I should really talk to the Discworld Con people, huh…….
Well, it’s been a really emotionally draining day. I am off to find some aspirin and my pillow. I think I have a good book waiting.
Hugs to everyone out there. Thanks for being who you each are.
I can eat lots ‘o sushi too. 🙂
And once again the sun sets on a week of deadpan.
Good night, John Boy….
Night, Ed.
Amy – Way to go, Girl!
EssBee – Very exciting. Have a great time!
G’nite boys and girls who are heading off to bed.
Sushi is win! (dammit. Someone take me out for sushi. My silly husband doesn’t like it!)
LLAP Studios will always be available to the Pan.
Uhm uhm uhm…. I have to work now.
I’ll be up late.
I’m going to drink some Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi and use a Red Vine as a straw.
I’m the slowest Easter candy eater of all time. My hubby goes nutz wanting to eat my candy which just sits there uneaten… tempting him.
EssBee I just read about the verdict on that Zapata case
It is about time all hate crimes are treated the same. That girl was a person with a family just like anyone else. The horrible things he said about her.. ugh. Hate is so ugly.
in happier news, Hugh is quite excited watching the Blackhawks vs Calgary right now
🙂
I am hiding from it 🙂
l8r pan
hope everyone is good
sorry I am going back to the bad story for a second.. at what point can you justify in your mind that this person, this human being in front of you is less that you, is less human than you in some way, that they are beneath you? That killing them isn’t killing because somehow this person isn’t a human being like you.. what the fuck is that? what causes that?
so disturbing
ok thats all I have to say about that. I just needed to vent on that
I need to leave with a happy comment now
errrr….
Happy Earth Day!
I tried 🙂
Happy Earth Day to you too.