I got toads in my nodes and a stoat in my throat.
Geekzapoppin
To those of you not in the “know”, this past weekend I was at the Wizard World 2001 comic book convention, here in Chicago. I spent ridiculous amounts of money and met Kimmi (see preceding article), and also:
Elektra: Assassin and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man were on hand to demonstrate the perils of wearing spandex too frequently. Oh, the rashes!
James Marsters, aka “Spike” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, appeared briefly on the convention floor, rapped freestyle for a few minutes, and turned to mist.
Optimus Prime asked to bum a cigarette off me. I didn’t have any. I asked him to transform, but he wouldn’t. Asshole.
Kimmi = AWESOME
Pictured: myself with Kimmi from “Survivor 2″:
Sweet!
Another me
I made the Honor Roll! I got all A’s and B’s on my report card. Hooray for alternate me!
This is possibly the best Flash-animated interpretation of Shakespeare I have ever seen. Bravo!
More fun weird-o animations
Hey, kids.
http://www.frashii.com/wldo.swf
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.st/b3ta/
Bon appetit!
When it rains, it pours
I feel like I’ve been scooped. On Monday, Salon.com ran an article about the “camgirl” phenomenon. In a nutshell, the trend is young girls – aged, say, 15 to 21 – setting up websites that have a daily blog, not unlike my own, and a webcam image that is updated a few times a day. Many of these girls also link to Amazon wishlists, and generous lonely old perverts purchase items for them, which get shipped anonymously. The article makes a few good points, but it is largely one-sided with the “Who’s Exploiting Whom?” angle. I think there’s a lot more to this than exploitation. More in both the positive and negative senses. And the article sensationalizes that these girls “show skin” – some do, but as a generalization it is wrong. (One of the girls profiled, Katneko, had other issues with the article… read them at her site.) So anyway, this article is run, and now they’re talking about it on MSNBC, and these girls are getting booked on Ricki Lake and Jenny Jones, and here I am in the middle of writing a script, one which I spoke of a few weeks ago (THE INADEQUATES was the working title at the time; I don’t know what it is now), about a meek 16-year-old girl whose parents get her a new computer for her birthday, and it all goes downhill from there… and now I’m all, FECK! I’m just following a trend now! KRAP! You can see the position I’m in. I mean, I think that my take on the thing might be unique enough to still be interesting, and my character doesn’t have much in common with most of the girls mentioned in the article, but it’s no longer a subject that’s all mine to plunder.
If you steal any of my ideas, I will beat you.
I am taking a break.
If the President can do it, so can I!
rum bum bum
It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity
Today’s highest temperature in Chicago, not including the heat index, was 101?F. In such hot, humid weather, my hair tends to curl up. Observe this photograph, taken today:
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That’s right. I am turning into Mr. Kotter.
Hatten är din [hatt-baby] revisited
Remember this?
I was poking around through a few search engines, trying to find some way to get that music on CD, because it was very addictive, and I turned up a translation of the lyrics. Reprinted from http://www.geocities.com/pommesrotweissx/:
| Lalalalalalala… Ååååååh-åhåhåhåh |
Lalalalalalala… Oooooh-ohohohoh |
| Vinna kinky roligt, vinna kinky roligt | Winning kinky and fun, winning kinky and fun |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatt-baby, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours Hat-baby, hat-baby |
| Den hatten lever så roligt, Den hatten lever så roligt |
The hat is living it up, |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatt-baby, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours Hat-baby, hat-baby |
| Det här är förjävligt Det tycker vi blir bögigt Det alltid var roligt |
This is hopeless We find this is becoming gay It was always fun |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatt-baby, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours Hat-baby, hat-baby |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatten är din, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours The hat is yours, hat-baby |
| Lalalalalalala Ååååååh-åhåhåhåh |
Lalalalalalala Oooooh-ohohohoh |
| Cool kille med läsk i hand Ja det tycker vi – nånting sött. |
Cool guy holding a soda Yes, that’s what we like – something sweet |
| Cool kille med läsk i hand Ja det tycker vi – nånting sött. |
Cool guy holding a soda Yes, that’s what we like – something sweet |
| Välte hatten i Berts cola-au-lait Välte hatten i Berts cola-au-lait |
Threw the hat in Bert’s coke-au-lait Threw the hat in Bert’s coke-au-lait |
| Men sen visste nog du att baby Men sen visste nog du att baby Men sen visste nog du hatt-baby Men sen visste nog du att baby |
But baby, of course you knew that But baby, of course you knew that But hat-baby, of course you knew But baby, of course you knew that |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatten är din, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours The hat is yours, hat-baby |
| Lalalalalalala Ååååååh-åhåhåhåh |
Lalalalalalala Oooooh-ohohohoh |
| Låna LP:n “Hatten är din” Man kan klä ut sig och hångla i TV |
Borrow the LP “The hat is yours” You can dress up and make out on TV |
| Låna LP:n “Hatten är din” Man kan knarka och hamna i TV |
Borrow the LP “The hat is yours” You can do drugs and end up on TV |
| Hatten är visst det din, din! Hatten är visst det din, din! |
Yes, the hat is yours, yours! Yes, the hat is yours, yours! |
| Alla vet varför och allt blir perfekt Alla vet varför och allt blir perfekt Alla vet varför och allt blir perfekt Alla vet varför och allt blir perfekt |
Everyone knows why and everything will get perfect Everyone knows why and everything will get perfect Everyone knows why and everything will get perfect Everyone knows why and everything will get perfect |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatten är din, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours The hat is yours, hat-baby |
| Lalalalalalala Ååååååh-åhåhåhåh |
Lalalalalalala Oooooh-ohohohoh |
| Limma skinkbit, cooligt Limma skinkbit, cooligt, cooligt |
Glue piece of ham, cool. Glue piece of ham, cool, cool. |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatt-baby, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours Hat-baby, hat-baby |
| Hatten lever så roligt, Ja, hatten lever så roligt |
The hat is living it up, Yes, the hat is living it up |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatt-baby, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours Hat-baby, hat-baby |
| Det här är förjävligt Det tycker vi blir bögigt Det alltid var roligt |
This is hopeless We find this is becoming gay It was always fun |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatt-baby, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours Hat-baby, hat-baby |
| Hatten är din, hatten är din Hatten är din, hatt-baby |
The hat is yours, the hat is yours The hat is yours, hat-baby |
| Lalalalalalala LALALALALALALA… |
Lalalalalalala LALALALALALALA… |
The lyrics very strongly give me the impression that the whole thing was made just to be freaky. And I suppose there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s more romantic to think that other cultures can be so different from America that such a bizarre thing can have a deep intrinsic social/psychological explanation.
In a similar vein, I also turned up an interesting animation here. This one is from Japan, apparently. I read somewhere that while the Japanese have a tendency to employ non-sequiturs and absurd cultural references in their entertainment, they do not do so because they get more understanding out of them, but because they think the crazy little absurd things are funny. But I cannot decide for certain whether this animation is an authentic wacky Japanese production or a parody of same or some combination of the two. I honestly think it was made by an American, or possibly a Brit – if you watch it, you will understand why. Not that it matters much, because it’s very well done either way, and will drive you just as insane on repeat viewings.
Question:
Mixing vanilla-flavored vodka with root beer Schnapps tastes a bit like a root beer float, doesn’t it?
Short answer:
No.
Long answer:
Not even remotely.
I have been redesigning my web page all afternoon. I have been redesigning for so long that my shoulder hurts and that my fingers and wrists ache with carpal tunnel syndrome. This is an awful lot of hard work for something from which I will enjoy little to no reward. YES, I WOULD LIKE SOME CHEESE WITH MY WHINE.
Pictures taken one year ago
These pictures are of my brothers, John and Tim, and were taken at the Old North Church in Boston one year ago at my cousin’s wedding.
Clowns.
To drop shadow or not to drop shadow
Hi. I’ve been working on a site redesign, and right now I’m really still playing with ideas. But I think I may have come up with a basic letterhead. The question is, should I use drop shadows, or should I let the colors remain flat? I’ll let the images speak for themselves…
With drop shadows:
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Without:
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