July 2008
35 posts
With Garfield creator Jim Davis’s blessing, Garfield Minus Garfield will be published in book-form this fall.
Jim Davis is really cool about the whole thing. How many other publishers would have just fired off a cease and desist letter from their lawyers? (Answer: most of them)
And if you don’t have Garfield Minus Garfield in your RSS reader, well, here’s your reminder to do...
Note to Self →
Speaking of Chainmail
I’ve been saying that the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons is really two games in one: the game outside of combat and the game once combat begins.
That being the case, how hilarious would it be if the next time we entered combat we shifted from 4th Edition to 1st Printing Chainmail?
Wow!
That D&D auction for a pristine copy of Chainmail I linked up the other day ended at $2,253!
Turns out, when a significant bug is found in a core protocol that makes the Internet work—and said bug threatens to make the Internet stop working—during prime M&A activity at my Firm, I’m ridiculously busy for the next three weeks.
Who knew?
Wizards of the Coast Kills Gleemax →
Waaay past due. Randy Buehler had too much influence in that company.
Dungeons & Dragons box with books 1970's →
Includes a mint condition copy of Chainmail, the precursor to D&D. This auction for the little pamphlets should hit $1000.
Tarantino's Mind →
With a "Hi, hi, ho!" and a "Hi, hi, hey!"
we're hoisting a flag to be free.
We will steal the show (Jolly Roger go!)
We are the Wolves of the Sea!
Word to Latvia
Tastefully Done →
Jody: Tell me anything.
Fergus: When I was a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Jody: What does that mean?
Fergus: Nothing. Nothing.
Hold On!
Apparently some people haven’t heard The Hold Steady. That makes me sad.
Check out their MySpace to hear Stay Positive, their newest album, and Boys and Girls in America, their last album (which made most “Best of ‘06” lists). You can also check out the tour stops to see if they’ll be near you. The show in Billings tonight is free, sponsored by MySpace.
Their...
Astronaut Says Aliens Are Real
Aliens are real and have made contact with us several times according to Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon.
Listen to the interview.
Hold Steady
If you could have been at The Hold Steady’s show last night, but weren’t…
Well, where the fuck were you?
Without question, the hardest rocking show I’ve ever been to.
Back from Medora Celebratory Link →
Medora has Internet access!
Posted from my iPod.
According to Jim
According to Jim gets too much hate.
Yes, it’s a half-hour sit-com. Yes, the unsubtle Jim Belushi is it’s headliner.
But Larry Joe Campbell—as “Andy”—is a geek, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Kimberly Williams-Paisley are nice to look at, and if you’re married with kids and a home it is usually very funny.
Frankly, it’s Home Improvement without…,...
Mobile
If you don’t already have an iPhone or an iPod Touch in your house:
What is wrong with you?
Seriously.
2008 Emmy Nominations Announced →
But where’s “According to Jim”? I demand a recount!
May I Present...
Four adventurers currently trying to find a missing priest, who himself disappeared while investigating a quickly growing cult that is blamed for a halfing genocide:
Kornelis Syd, Horn of Pelor (Word 2003 .doc file)
Calla, the Curious (.doc)
Lamothi, the Eastern Gate (.doc)
Bazwynn, the Graceful Flame (.doc)
Sounds Like Summer
If you need a soundtrack to complement your Margaritas, may I recommend Jazz Samba (download) and Getz/Gilberto (download)?
Bossa nova will get you laid.
The Margarita
Ingredients
2 parts tequila
1 part Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice
1 part triple sec (orange liqueurs like Grand Marnier are overkill; their subtleties will be lost to the tequila)
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a pitcher.
Add a copious quantity of ice.
Pour individual servings into Old Fashioned glasses (a heavy bottomed tumbler)
Add a pinch of kosher salt and a twist of...
A Fairy Tale, but not of the Disney Kind →
I don’t often link up what I find at BoingBoing or Kottke since I figure most everyone reads them anyway, but this is just too bittersweet not to share myself.
Tomorrow: the third of The Four Essential Drinks!
Video of the Week! →
Make sure you have your volume cranked to the max!
WALL-E
Erika and I took Elizabeth to her first movie at the movie theater during our vacation this past weekend. It went OK, but the movie was lame and the animated short that preceded the feature scared Elizabeth to tears.
The short was essentially a modern Looney Tunes cartoon, but Elizabeth hasn’t seen much of those (if any) and so didn’t grok the slapstick violence. She was really upset...
You Should Be Pissed Too
If you aren’t as upset about warrantless domestic spying and retroactive immunity to prosecution as I am I encourage you to visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) info page
Please read our Constitution, read the laws and regulations, study the history of our nation and the Enlightenment principles on which it was founded, and be an informed citizen. Your active participation in our...
It's Official: the Terrorists Win
Obama is a cunt.
Not to single him out: so is everyone who voted for the “FISA update” garbage (or abstained like that incontinent incompetent chicken-shit McCain), against the rule of law, and against the basic principles that made our country great.
Conrad and Pomeroy voted for it. I will be voting against them this November. Dorgan had the good sense and respect for his...
I'm Back!
Had a great Independence Day vacation to Albert Lea, MN. Got back late evening yesterday. Have a ton of stuff to post, but have to catch up with work first.
Hitchens: "Believe Me, It's Torture"
At the request of one of its editors, Christopher Hitchens submitted to being waterboarded for the most recent issue of Vanity Fair.
Hitchens is a “writer, polemicist, and fierce proponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq”. In one of his articles for Slate, he implied a distinction between “extreme interrogation” (actions performed by American citizens, including...