Clementine, Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer
You know something? I’m going to go to bed early. It’s been a longish day and I’m tired.
Clementine, Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer
You know something? I’m going to go to bed early. It’s been a longish day and I’m tired.
Via @jaketapper, the story that you always knew that you’d read some day.
SAO PAULO, Brazil – In one murder after another, the “Canal Livre” crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim.
Do I really need to keep going?
Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show’s host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil’s Amazon region is awash in violent crime. Police also have accused Souza of drug trafficking.
The ironic bit is, of course, that you could throw a script around this concept and sell it to any number of crime drama television shows in a heartbeat*. Hell, take away the murders and the drugs and you’ve got a Scooby-Doo episode.
Well, maybe just take away the murders.
Moe Lane
*Except Law & Order: Infinite Regress. Too much work adding the three plot twists and twp places where they complain about New York judges.
I used to sing this one… nah, that’s a boring story.
Some might call it “indoctrination.”
Bah. Some are foolish.
Moe Lane
PS: You can watch all of Voltron: Defenders of the Universe on YouTube now.
You’re welcome.
…with my wife – well, this isn’t always a good example. Sometimes we go with gaming theory, I bore her with political minutiae, or there’s always something worth talking about involving the child’s Digestive System. If even that pales, we can spend quality time playing the game Is this a symptom of pregnancy? – only, the answer is always yes.
Nonetheless. Gnomic Verses with Harp. She does this for fun. When she’s not working on robots.
Ha!
Moe Lane
And Glenn Reynolds explains why the University of Tokyo is at this very minute suddenly not caring at all that there’s a recession going on.
Yup. Western civilization may now start making preparations for an orderly, controlled collapse.
This is wrong on multiple levels.
You can stop the pain any time you like, of course.
Although it must be admitted that there’s a certain schadenfreude to that version.
Look, if you let mere inane political rhetoric get in the way of your enjoyment of late Sixties music you’ll run dry pretty quickly. Besides, this is one of the few songs from that period that doesn’t require illicit drugs in order to make sense.
Also: I’m pretty sure that I’ve run into at least a couple of these guys at my local gaming store.
Moe Lane
Finally, yes: we’ll switch out SM Stirling’s The Sword of the Lady for Harry Turtledove’s The Breath of God, which is his sequel to Beyond the Gap. It’s pretty much an alien invasion series, only set during a Bronze Age with magic, and with no spaceships.
Since Neil Stevens over at RS did his Command Center post a few days back, I figured that I’d do the same. Behold:
(pause)
…yeah. Hold on; I swear, it gets better. Continue reading The Moe Lane ‘Command Center’ (With Unbearable Cuteness!)