“Lawyers, Guns, & Money,” acoustic.


Lawyers, Guns And Money, Warren Zevon

Not really the same tune, obviously: but it’s an interestingly sparse acoustic version in its own right.

Moe Lane

PS: Incidentally, Lawyers, Guns & Money is also a really good supplement for Unknown Armies, which is a really good urban fantasy roleplaying game.

No Joss Whedon for Buffy Movie?

Yes, I’m late to this particular party; and yes, it was Joss Whedon’s own decision… still.  Why precisely do they expect me to go watch it, without the cast OR the director?

Hey, fun game. Which was better: Once More, With Feeling, The Body, or Hush? I mean, obviously it was Once More, With Feeling – but I suppose that I should give other people a chance to justify their choice.

Quote of the day, corpse-eating robot pushback edition.

“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,”
– Harry Schoell, CEO of Cyclone Power Technologies

(Via Wired, via Genrewonk)

For those just catching up now, Cyclone Power Technologies is one of the companies working on the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR™), which uses ‘biomass’ for fuel* (it’s also steam-powered, which is an important consideration right there). I’m not sure whether this qualifies as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ publicity: calling your biomass-eating robot ‘EATR’ suggests that you’re prepared to milk whatever you can get for the full effect. And what’s with this ‘green’ nonsense? I mean, come on: EATR burns things for their steam. By definition something like that has a ‘carbon footprint,’ to use the theological term.

Moe Lane

*Which means that it doesn’t do this:

Which is actually a pity.

Bring Me The Heads of Kermit T. Frog.

While I do not approve of how What Would Tyler Durden Do? described Lady GaGa – it’s not nice to people with that condition – still…

Yeah. Apparently, it is easy being green; all you have to do is go out into the swamp, pick a spot that’s particularly rich in felt and googly eyes, and start reaping a deadly harvest.

Moe Lane

PS: I have never been so glad for a foreign language voice-over in my life.

“Stand by Me.” (With blatant crass commercialism attached.)

Early night for me: I shall be watching a movie, and not musing darkly on the pitiful status of my Amazon.com referrals this month to date. It’s especially aggravating because Thomas Harlan is finally getting Land of the Dead out. It’s only been, what, five years since the last book in this series?


Stand by me, Ben E. King

Sorry about the video: it’s pretty cringeworthy.