Moe Lane

Rock The Casbah, The Clash

I think that it was James Lileks who argued that bands like the Clash killed the Seventies dead, dead, DEAD.  If so… thanks.

SHOOT EVERY MOUNTAIN LION THAT STRAYS WITHIN AN AREA INHABITED BY HUMANS. TAN THE SKINS, STUFF THE HEADS, AND MOUNT BOTH IN PROMINENT PLACES.  THE MOUNTAIN LIONS WILL GET THE POINT VERY DAMNED QUICKLY.

THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT CONCEPT TO GRASP.

MOE LANE

PS: VIA INSTAPUNDIT.

I dunno.  This is all rather… uncivil, isn’t it?  Only a cruel and vicious person would laugh, surely.  And then there’s the video, too:

http://www.sweaterpunch.com/2012/02/bradying-makes-tebowing-look-cool/

Remember.  Only cruel and vicious people would find this funny.  Or the fact that the Giants came back from behind in the fourth quarter to beat the Cowboys [Patriots*].

Moe Lane

*Ah, my secret is out.  I may not have a favorite team these days, but I still retain a least favorite team.

Because I’m a cruel, heartless son of a bitch that way sometimes, that’s why.

Keep Me in Your Heart, Warren Zevon

Also: stupid allergies.

Desperado, Eagles

One of my two favorites from this band.

…because the Russians finally drilled through to that damnable lake lurking under the Antarctic ice. Oh, goody, here’s another detail: the site’s being bathed in the eldritch geomagnetic energies of the magnetic South Pole!

Well, maybe it’ll be a while before whatever was under the ice gets to here.

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, obviously they got back in touch with the Russian site.  Which is no doubt explaining in very simple Russian that da, everything is fine, no problems, everything is fine, no problems, everything is fine, but please send more dogs…

I have… good hopes about this film.  Then again, I liked Thor (it should have been a miniseries, but that’s life) and thought both Iron Man and Captain America rocked on toast.  In particular, I think that Robert Downey’s portrayal of Tony Stark is going to be one of the highlights of the movie, particularly if the director used him to play off the other Avengers.

Well, we’ll see.  New footage in the trailer, so check it out.  Movie comes out in May.

Dead, They Might Be Giants

Defining these guys… isn’t exactly easy.

…with a bottle of wine to hand and the sunset just beginning:

Too much sunlight is bad for the skin, but not enough may be a risk factor for stroke, according to a study presented here at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference.

Of the more than 16,000 black and white patients followed, those who lived in areas that had shorter exposure to sunlight had a 56% increased risk of stroke, Leslie McClure, PhD, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ala., and colleagues found.

This is SCIENCE.  You may not argue with it.  Red wine and sunsets; SCIENCE demands that you do this.

It also recommends a nice antipasto.

Go Giants.

(pause)

What? I’m from New Jersey and my dad was a hardcore Giants fan, God rest his soul.

Moe Lane

PS: If posting is light today it’ll probably be because of Skyrim, and it won’t be because of the game.

Note that I’m using that term colloquially, not offering a clinical diagnosis.  But this is an incredibly unappealing portrayal of John F Kennedy: it relates the story of an ‘affair’ between a barely-legal White House press officer and a manipulative, domineering, insensitive, distant, and frankly cruel scumbag with Daddy issues and a profound inability to keep it in his pants.  If if is also a true account, then there are a number of former Washington press journalists that need to make public atonement for their part in covering it up at the time.

And when I say ‘atonement’ I mean ‘sackcloth and ashes.’  Also, I am not actually using figurative language.

Moe Lane (more…)

Via Lowering the Bar, via Instapundit, this is all that you need, really:

8.    [Defendant] was highly intoxicated on this date and time, and decided in his drunken stupor that it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his anus on the [Alpha Tau Omega fraternity] deck, located on the back of the ATO house.

Variants of a certain phrase from the paragraph above appears multiple times in the legal document – indeed, it appears to have been, ahem, crammed into every place that it could conceivably fit.  Can you guess which phrase it was?

Moe Lane