Vacation, all I ever wanted
Posted on June 30, 2006
I needed a vacation after all the blogging I’ve done lately (ha!), so the K-Girl and I are heading down to Key West for the next few days. In theory, I have my blog set up to spit out new daily facts for my 100 Facts in 100 Days while I’m gone. Feel free to leave comments; I’ll catch up when I get back. See you soon!
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Commodore 419
Posted on June 30, 2006
Want a wood-carved replica of a Commodore 64? Why not con a Nigerian e-mail scammer into making one for you? This guy did. Such fine workmanship! [via]
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A user, a boozer, and a loser
Posted on June 30, 2006
Meet Florrie Fisher, motivational speaker and the inspiration for Strangers With Candy’s Jerri Blank. Be sure not to miss the bizarre stream-of-consciousness video clip where Florrie discusses LSD, laminectomies, and lion maulings. [via]
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100 Facts in 100 Days: Fact 2
Posted on June 30, 2006
2. Despite what my blog’s design and content may suggest, I haven’t purchased or read comic books in well over a decade now. I have nearly two thousand comics stashed away in our closets, but for all intents and purposes, I’m a comic book poseur.
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100 Facts in 100 Days: Fact 1
Posted on June 29, 2006
Inspired by AAYOR, I’ll post (approximately) one fact about myself every day (more or less) for the next one hundred days (or thereabouts). Let the self-indulgent navel-gazing begin!
1. I was born and raised in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. When I was younger, I had a pretty thick Appalachian accent. I’ve worked to tone it down over the past several years, but you can still hear it creep in from time to time — especially on words with a long ‘i’ sound. For example, “lightning” comes out sounding more like “laht’nun.”
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Superman Returns
Posted on June 28, 2006
All the boredom of King Kong with none of the monkeys.
Blech.
The verdict: C-
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I demand links!
Posted on June 28, 2006
Since I dropped off the face of the Internet last year, I’ve lost touch with what’s hip in the world of blogging. You know, because I used to be totally on the cutting edge of hipness. What blogs are you reading (or writing) nowadays? Feel free to provide links in the comments.
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The Skeletor Show, starring Skeletor (as Skeletor)
Posted on June 28, 2006
Random YouTube weirdness: The Skeletor Show, redubbed cartoons starring everyone’s favorite evil Eternian sorceror and his hapless henchmen.
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We are Venom!
Posted on June 28, 2006
Mmm…Spider-Man 3 teaser. Is it 2007 yet?
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The return of Fedora-and-Pipe Guy?
Posted on June 27, 2006
Probably the single question I’ve been asked most since I returned to blogging last week is whatever happened to my old archnemesis, Fedora-and-Pipe Guy (see here, here, and here). By way of an update, it’s now been over a year since I last spotted FPG. I don’t know if he graduated, went underground, or just stopped wearing a fedora and smoking a pipe, but I haven’t seen him. Nevertheless, I had a chilling Fedora-and-Pipe Guy related experience just last weekend.
I had arrived fashionably early at a friend’s party, and her husband was giving me the grand tour of their house. Now, I already knew that her husband occasionally smoked a pipe. I don’t have a problem with that. Nor do I have a problem with college-aged people who wear fedoras. What makes Fedora-and-Pipe Guy my archnemesis is the fact that he double-dips from the gimmick bowl, wearing a fedora and smoking a pipe. That’s just not right.
So, we’re on the tour. Oh, lovely wine rack. Ooo, inlaid bookcases! Did you build that coffee table yourself? Very nice. Then we reach the master bedroom, and I see it ominously sitting there atop his dresser.
A fedora!
Now, barring extensive plastic surgery, I’m confident my friend’s husband isn’t the Fedora-and-Pipe Guy, but I find it no less disturbing that he’s a fedora-and-pipe guy. Are there more of them? Are they acting independently or in support of the original Fedora-and-Pipe Guy? Most importantly, how do I fit into their schemes?
Needless to say, I spent the rest of the evening inconspicuously spitting hors d’œuvres into a napkin rather than swallowing them. You can’t be too careful with these fedora-and-pipe people.
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Al Gore, streetwise pimp
Posted on June 27, 2006
Stand by for a terrifying message from Al Gore and the creators of Futurama! If you can find a theater where it’s playing, I highly recommend seeing An Inconvenient Truth. A+ material all the way.
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Talent on loan from God, drugs on loan from unscrupulous doctors
Posted on June 27, 2006
Rush Limbaugh detained at Florida airport for possession of Viagra without a prescription. Authorities say El Rushbo could face a stiff penalty. He might even end up doing hard time. Please, for the love of God — somebody stop me!
Hold the pickles
Posted on June 26, 2006
Today, on Maury: “My fear of mustard and pickles is ruining my life!”
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Magneto vs. Body Odor
Posted on June 26, 2006
Original image via Marvel Masterworks. The Apropos Comics archive is here.
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Stereophonic shampoo
Posted on June 25, 2006
I thought that I had found the coolest product ever at Target today — a pair of Panasonic headphones that play music and dispense shampoo while you shower — but it turns out it was just a regular pair of headphones misshelved in the shampoo aisle. Bummer.
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