Not-politics – Page 1205

I’m aware that the video offerings were, not, ah, well received today…

…but this one is nice.

Song: Fanny Power, O’Carolan
Harper: John Kovac

Doesn’t have any other reason to be, except being nice.

My longer review of the Star Trek movie. [pause]

[longer pause]

Moe Lane

PS: Were the first ten minutes ’emotional?’ Not at all! I merely had my allergies flare up. Happens all the time, to lots of people. Never to you, you say?

Really?

Uh-huh. Continue reading My longer review of the Star Trek movie. [pause]

The new laptop has arrived!

It is being stripped for action even as we speak.

Thanks again to everyone who helped out with that; I’m not done with all the sonnets*, but hope to be so fairly soon.

Moe Lane

*I’m still selling them for $20/sonnet:

Nothing political that I wouldn’t agree with anyway.

FU, Penguin gets a book deal?

(Via Little Miss Attila) No, really: F U, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What’s What comes out at the end of August. FU, Penguin is quite pleased about it, too.

I’m appalled. Which is to say, I’m deeply envious. Although I still want to believe that this picture of the Tibetan fox is photoshopped.

Changeling? I don’t suppose that an actual one is involved…

…no, probably not.

Anyway, Ace of Ace of Spades HQ has an interesting review up – OK, he has two interesting reviews up, but I’m working under the assumption that I’ll see Doubt more or less by accident* – of Changeling, which looks like it just came out. Ace liked it a lot, but it clearly lacks the exploding starships and/or gun fu that I normally associate with Good Movies; anybody else who saw it have an opinion?

Moe Lane

*I assume that what will happen is that it’ll be on or about to be on, somewhere, just as I’m wandering by; and then I’ll watch it. And then I’ll agree that it was a good film, and that I enjoyed it.

Sweet Monkey Jeebus, there is such a thing as bubblegum techno.

They call it ‘bubblegum dance’.

I’m sorry.

Girls’ Generation

I’m so terribly, terribly sorry.

I got nothing that beats iTunes/WMDs, sorry.

And I don’t even want to know if it’s fake. Honestly, I’d rather that it was real.

Computertan.com.

I was originally going to run with the joke, but as this article points out there are some graphic images associated with it, and it’s not very nice to pull that on somebody without warning. Check out Blue Crab Boulevard for more…

Moe Lane

PS: Could somebody who has read Barnum!: In Secret Service to the USA tell me whether it’s any good?

You be illin.

Depressingly, this song is old enough to buy me booze. Given that I was not old enough to buy cigarettes when it came out and swiftly became our ‘clean up the Mickey Dee’s after we chased out the last drunk and closed the store’ song, well.

You Be Illin’, RUN-DMC

My wife reported that she thought that she heard this song in a McDonald’s ad, actually. I am happy to report that if so, I have not yet found it.

I don’t really get this regional BBQ rivalry thing.

I know that this is going to be rank heresy and everything, but speaking as somebody who doesn’t actually come from a region with a BBQ tradition… it all tastes about the same to me. Chili, too.

There. I said it. I was tired of living the lie.

Moe Lane

PS: Look, I’ll happily eat both BBQ and chili until I burst. But I’m not detecting the variations that I’m apparently supposed to be experiencing, here.

PPS: All that being said; suggestions for good BBQ and chili cookbooks welcome.