I don’t know what this movie is about but I want to see it based on this poster.
Oh and Morrison. Whatever
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Posted in: Film
Jul 22 10
July, 2010
I was just writing a gloomy post about my perennial obsession with trying to play the full Magnetic Windows version of Guild of Thieves on my Mac… and my inevitable failure.
I never beat the game (I got caught in an unwinnable state) and it still bugs me… since 1991. There, I admitted it. I’ve run the classic Amiga, C64 and Amstrad text versions using the magnetiX interpreter (among others) but for me the only way to fully regain my honor was to play it the way I did in the first place.
So I had just installed yet another really questionable emulator on my Mac and loaded up what turned out to be the text version. When my laptop went totally borko my automatic response to my technological failure was, as it has been since Aaron showed me this comic, Me am go too far.
But then. A gossamer Google thread lead to the files I’ve been looking for and an emulator that will run it properly.
Thank the internet gods! I finally got it.
I almost cried, I swear to god. Instead I ran around holding my laptop on high shouting
NOT TOO FAR! NOT TOO FAR!
I love me some Brandon Bird. Pretty much anything he has a hand in is hilarious to me, including this show he curated based on Law & Order.
“Each piece is an artist’s interpretation of a one-line episode summary from the DirecTV program guide”
The one that made me lol was Lawyer is Secretly a Stripper by Brigid McCabe.
Law & Order: Artistic Intent … These are Their Stories
Posted in: Artsy Crafty
Jul 18 10
I know I know! Nobody can believe I’m not watching True Blood. But after just finishing the first book and seeing a few clips I’m afraid this might be a pretty accurate recap of every episode (except with more tittehs):
lol
Don’t get me wrong- I have great and embarrassing affection for goofy sexy vampire stuff. But I don’t think I can handle the over the top accents and Sookeh’s adorably folksy southern moxie.
(On a side note, what is up with lateral incisors fangs? When did everyone stop making them the canines? Maybe it makes the actors better able to deliver lines but it just looks stupid)
EpicWin aims to turn your real-life tasks into a social game.
I think this might just be the only task manager that would compel me to get off my lazy ass and do things.
Hooray for this MeFi thread. I’ve been thinking that I was maybe secretly retarded all this time.
For instance: Until my mid 20′s I pronounced the word pamphlet pamp-let. Pretty embarrassing when you’re producing them for a living.
I still cannot seem to say ancient properly. My stupid mouth wants to say AINGK-shunt. I think it must be a southern verbal tic. Now I have a total complex about it so of course I say it wrong every time – except now I get nervous and say it wrong veeery slooowly. Ugh.
For most of my life I thought gospel was pronounced gos-full. But it’s okay, I probably only sounded stupid to the christian kids and they didn’t like me anyway.
Oh, and it wasn’t until Harry Potter came out that I learned that what I had thought was the most beautiful girl’s name ever, wasn’t pronounced HERM-ee-own, but rather Her-miny and rhymed with “her hiney”.
My most recent embarrassment was when Sunday was here visiting and kept giggling at me every time I said the word strength. When I asked what was so funny she was like “No! It’s totally cute!” (yes. like a gimpy cat is cute). I had no idea I was leaving out the g. No idea. When I heard someone saying “strenth” the other day I had this horrible little time travel moment where I flashed back to all the times I must have sounded like a walleyed hill person.
The irony of all this is that I think this mainly afflicts people who read a lot. Dammit, it’s not like I read a book with a dictionary in the other hand.
To make matters worse when I look things up now I have a tendency to automatically use Wikipedia, which uses that goddamn international phonetic guide. How the hell is the Ω symbol supposed to help me pronounce a word?? Yotz.
But I feel better.
(There is a ton of other great stuff in this thread that I had no idea about. I mean, Arby’s = RBs = Roast Beef. Right. Jesus, of course.)
You were doing it wrong | Ask MetaFilter. (via lifehacker)
Posted in: Jibber Jabber
Jul 9 10
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Looks like a very beautiful and altogether depressing film. But all I was thinking about while watching this was how much I wish I could live in Japan for a while.
The weirdest, most beautiful scene you’ll see today:A living sex doll discovers true passion – io9
Posted in: Film
Jul 3 10
So yeah, it kills me.
Ever since Gertie had all her bottom teeth pulled this has been going on. And while I’m genuinely sad about her losing her teeth, I’d be lying if I said this thing that’s happening right here didn’t delight me to no end.
And good gawd, every time she tries to nibble on things now and just winds up impotently gumming them— I have to try very hard not to squeal and laugh at her. It hurts her feelings, you know.
Posted in: Jibber Jabber
Jul 2 10
Look what I got today for no reason. Well, Aaron’s great, that’s a reason.
I’ve got tons of acorn tops that I’ve been meaning to do something crafty with forever. Maybe he got tired of waiting to see what I’d do with them and gave me the results of a less lazy person. Works for me.
Posted in: Jibber Jabber
Jul 2 10
FYP (by leesa.leva)
Behold!
The crazy delicious results of Aaron’s blueberry picking mania.
For a month I had to listen to his alarm going off every other day reminding him to check if the blueberry farm was open. And then he got up at an insane hour on his day off, drove 2 hours and wound up with a wicked sunburn. But oh man, was it worth it.
Fuck Yeah Pie.
Posted in: Jibber Jabber
Jul 2 10
