Not-politics – Page 1235

Originally looking for ‘America…’

Although, unlike Neil Gaiman, I knew where it was all along. Anyway, found this:

This song reminds me of college. And my first decent poem. And… stuff.

But where did he get the poodle?

I don’t know if robbery is really a realistic charge, here (H/T: Drudge):

A 14-year-old Saginaw boy has been charged with strong-arm robbery and assault in juvenile court after he pushed a woman and broke her cell phone while taking a walk naked with a large white poodle in Hart Township Monday, police say.

Lt. Craig Mast of the Oceana County Sheriff’s Office said a 14-year-old youth walked away from a youth behavioral treatment facility Monday morning, stripped down, and was with a “giant” white poodle when he approached a woman working in her yard just after 11:30 a.m. Monday in the area of Oceana Drive and Lake Road.

“The young naked man approached her with this poodle, and she immediately realized something peculiar,” Mast said.

You don’t say.

Moe Lane

PS: I guess that he technically stole the dog.

Hope Springs Eternal Watch: Serenity edition

“Why the time is right for a Serenity sequel.” (Via Fark)

I think that I’m going to be seeing articles like this come out at regular, clockwork-like intervals for the rest of my life. Look, I own Firefly. I went to go see Serenity as soon as it came out, and had many an adventure along the way. The statement “I aim to misbehave” has passed my lips many a time, particularly since the night of November 4, 2008. So I want a goram sequel to happen, OK?

It ain’t gonna happen.

Yet another Star Trek TV show?

“All parties, by the way, absolutely detest answering questions on this subject, knowing any response they give will spawn headlines and inevitably get them yelled at by somebody”

The above is from this article speculating – speculating! – that the upcoming release of the new Star Trek movie could result in a reboot of the franchise for television. I don’t know what I’m grimacing more at, though: the thought of what the author called “Gossip Girl in Space”(both I and Allahpundit winced at the trailer, which makes this allegation altogether too horrifyingly believable); or the first line of the article, which claims that faster-than-light travel is theoretically possible [UPDATE: unless it doesn’t; see comments below]. I am given to understand that this is wrong in a fashion that makes physicists gibber; I look forward to testing that in the near future*.

Canceled Enterprise or no, there’s money in Star Trek. It’ll be back. Whether it’ll be back in the highly bizarre – if not really implausible – fashion suggested above is another story.

Moe Lane

*Yes, I know about tachyons. That’s why the physicist is gibbering.

I would so totally do this job.

Not the guy with the hat’s. The other guy’s.

Of course, I’d probably need to exercise more. Breaking the fourth wall requires a certain amount of applied force.

A nice, soothing song for the evening.

Great Big Sea.

How to write something, and how to be a good writer.

This was sparked by a conversation with my lovely and talented wife, who by the way feels that I may have been a bit, ah, focused in my description of how to write something, and how to be a good writer. To which I can only reply that at least I’m not padding out several hundred pages here.

So, how to write something:

and How to be a good writer.

If this advice works for you, by all means: prove me right by hitting the tip jar.

Moe Lane

Order of the Stick #639.

Yipe.

Moe Lane

PS: This is why you don’t make deals with shadowy, evil-aligned figures in robes. Particularly when they tell you over and over again that the power that they give you is totally and unambiguously under your control.

PPS: You really should own this series.

No. This Baby Name is NOT a Fail.

I believe, in fact, that the phrase is Full of WIN.

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Mind you, I am not allowed to name any of my future children, so my judgment may not be universally respected.

I wonder if Glenn has had his coffee yet.

After all, when you’re talking about survival guides it seems odd to omit classics like The Zombie Survival Guide (now in flashcard form!). And I still have to somehow acquire How To Survive a Robot Uprising. Wilson’s Where’s My Jetpack? looks fun, too.

Finishing up, I heartily recommend Pocket Guide To The Apocalypse: The Official Field Manual For The End Of The World: it’s not really a field manual, but it does have the singular virtue of containing a general analysis of the various threads of Western eschatological thinking by somebody who doesn’t hate evangelical Christians. So I guess that it is a field manual, only not for the stated purpose.

[UPDATE] I have been properly dinged for not including How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies; let me head off future criticisms at the pass by also including How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator and How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!!. These kinds of books have pretty long subtitles, huh?