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Harry Cooper, Soldier of Destiny, True Prophet (In Nomine)

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Harry Cooper, Soldier of Destiny, True Prophet (In Nomine)

I Brake For Zombies.

No, really. The damn things have the mass of a living human, remember? Try to barrel through a crowd of them and you end up crashing the car, which probably means that you’ll break a window, and then it’s all over for you, Sparky. If you absolutely can’t go around, just take your foot off of the gas pedal, get down to three miles an hour, and keep swerving the wheel left and right to sort of nudge the undead hordes out of the way. With any luck, none of them will have the leverage needed to smash the glass. With even more luck, they’ll not smell your tasty, tasty brains in the first place.

…this is what I think of, typically, when I see stories like:

Construction signs warn of zombies
Hackers change public safety message

This is simply the sort of person that I am, and everybody around me has had to learn to accept that.

Moe Lane

PS: The Zombie Survival Guide doesn’t think you should drive at all. To which I say, try transporting more than 10 lb. of looted medical materials to your isolated fortress on a bicycle and see how far you get.

PPS: Heh. I guess that AoSHQ was saving this story for Saturday, too. Theirs have more pictures.

Still no eruption on the Alaskan volcano.

But it’s starting to look like it’ll be soon:

If Mt. Redoubt blows, Alaskans may get a light show

The volcano watch for Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt continues apace.

According to the Anchorage Daily News:

An observation flight by scientists this afternoon reported no sign of ash emission yet, but discovered significant steaming from a new melt depression at the mouth of the summit crater….

That flight took place Jan. 30.

Not much to add to this, except that: volcanoes are pretty cool, and if there’s an eruption where no-one gets hurt it’d be an interesting and educational thing to see. So if you live near Mt. Redoubt, move well away from the area, please. Let’s not have another Mount St. Helens.

Crossposted at RedState.

I have tentatively changed the background image.

Not entirely happy with it, but it’s certainly brighter around here now.

Now would be an excellent time for an artist-type to chime in.

Maxfield Parrish is apparently in the public domain!

Which explains why there’s umpteen billion examples of his work online.

Anybody got a favorite that they wouldn’t mind seeing for a while?

The Darth Giger gave it a run for its money, though.

I was sent an email on this Star Wars photoshop contest (supposedly the link’s on Fark). Some pretty good, some not so much. This one is probably the best so far:

I’d like to note for the record that the original has always kind of haunted me. Something about the endless Friday night at 3 AM that it represents. This, on the other hand, does not.

Two Products you badly need.

First this, to put you in the mood:

…then check these out.

Roll on, May.

Moe Lane

PS: Please, God, don’t let it suck.

The New Ledger has gone live.

I’d like to bring to your attention The New Ledger, which is a new online site analyzing politics, the market, and the news. It’s been started up by a couple of friends of mine (and former colleagues from RedState), and a look at the masthead may reveal a few more names that would be familiar to RS readers. They’ve also set up a Transom feature on the site which will link to various interesting news stories.

There’s some good, solid writing talent on that site: I suggest that you check them out. I expect that it’ll be a regular stop for me.