Monthly Archives: February 2006

links for 2006-02-06 The Colbert Nation “I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web…Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?” Bibleman In the […]

Well, it looks like my new banner of self-aggrandizement is finally operational. The rest will have to wait. Sleep is threatening to overtake me.

Ugggh. I had such high hopes for the blog tonight. I’ve worked for hours and hours on a new template design for the blog and things just aren’t working out. HTML hates me and I hate HTML. We have a relationship based on mutuality. I’ve sat in front of this damn computer so long my […]

links for 2006-02-05 VaderCoaster Well, the name kinda says it all. Al Lewis, Beloved as ‘Grandpa Munster,’ Dies at 95 Sad.

links for 2006-02-04 Brokeback to the Future — recut movie trailer du jour I saw this last week but I thought the whole trailer thing was played out so I didn’t post it. I think this one’s a bit of a stretch. For me the whole oedipal subtext outweighs the hoyay one in the Back […]

Last night Leigh and I drove up to Austin to attend a fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The CBLDF helps protect the first amendment rights of comic books creators who don’t have the financial means to incur the legal costs which censorship battles usually require. You can read more about them here. […]

links for 2006-02-03 I JUST WANNA RIDE SPACE MOUNTAIN!!!!!!!! Disneyland Hong Kong is the happiest place on earth, and by happiest I mean “f’in craziest.” Link takes you to a video showing Chinese people vaulting over wrought iron fences and throwing their children over locked gates in an attempt to meet Mickey. Text msg your […]

While rereading some of my posts I realized that I admitted to having wept while watching a television show. I must admit, that doesn’t sound very manly of me, and in this day and age non-manliness can get a fellow into a lot of trouble. I feel I should clarify and expound on the issue […]

links for 2006-02-02 100 Best First Lines from Novels They forgot a very important one: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Wesern Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.–Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Talking President Dolls featuring George W. Bush Click on the […]