robroy fingerhead

"We are not having a conventional funeral, but a celebration of his life and would welcome all of Pat's friends to join us on Saturday the 17th at the Monte Sano park picnic area here in Huntsville, Alabama beginning at 4:00 pm. If you need directions, please call 256-881-7028. And please share this info with all you think would like to share this day with us."

I saw Iron Man this morning.  My geek meter hit the roof.  The acting, effects, story, writing, direction - everything - all superbly executed.  Of all the comic based films I’ve seen, I have to put this one toward the top.

See it now, and make sure you stay through the credits.

I have a new online addiction. It is called Bitstrips. With Bitstrips, you can design you own characters and place them in your own comic strip. I've been designing characters, including a few of you LJ friends, all day long. Check it out, sign up, and let's strip together.

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Since muxtape does not archive old playlists yet, I'll use LJ.

Nooooo!!!!


( See my shattered dreams... )

Charlton Heston is dead. He was a decent actor 25 years ago.  No one could say “damn” like Heston.  As he became more politically active in the 90’s, however, he showed his transparent self-serving hypocrisy. I do not mourn his passing.

This is a test post to make sure I have the RSS feed and other groovy goodies correct as I attempt to resurrect emsoc.org.  This re-animation stuff is tougher than they make it look in the movies.  

I've been seeing these pop up all over the place.  Since I'm such a tagalong, I figured I'd make one up myself.  Ladies and Gentlemen, my first muxtape.

from  suthrncan.

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions or otherwise "looking it up."

Now with added hints!



Happy guessing.

So. The other night I had a rare long chat with my mother. I told her about a friend of mine who used to live in Tallahassee. My friend had asked me how I enjoyed living in the "asshole of the country." I replied that if one were to be genuine with their country to body analogies, I live in the taint of the U.S.

I thought it was funny, and I figured my mother would agree. The only problem is that my 60 year-old mother had no idea what the "taint" is. So for the rest of the conversation, I had the dubious task of explaining to my mother what a taint is - not one of my prouder moments.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

I'm trying to compile a list of the noteworthy events of the past year. Any help would be appreciated.

Al Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel.
Karl Rove got out while the gettin was good.
Oprah started a stable for girl diddlers.
Sports games were boring - every championship was a blowout.
Sports participants were scandelous - Basketball refs cheat. Baseball players pop 'roids. Quarterbacks kill puppies.
Writers went on strike.
And so did stage hands.
"LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!"
Harry Potter lived happily ever after.
Dumbledore got posthumously outed.
Miss South Carolina thought our kids needed more maps.
"Don't tase me, bro!"

The 40 deaths I can recall off the top of my head: Liz Claiborn, Anna Nicole Smith, Sidney Sheldon, Boris Yeltsin, Ernest Gallo, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jerry Falwell, Porter Wagoner, Morman Mailer, The Fabulous Moolah, Chris Benoit and his family, Momofuku Ando (a hero to poor people everywhere), Robert Anton Wilson, Pookie Hudson, Molly Ivans, Ray Evans, Larry "Bud" Melman, Kurt Vonnegut, Don Ho, Kitty Carlisle, Tom Poston, Charles Nelson Reilly, Lady Bird Johnson, Tammy Faye Messner, Tom Snyder, Ingmar Bergman, Merv Griffin, Max Roach, Leona Helmsley, Hilly Kristal, Luciano Pavarotti, Madeleine L'Engle, Robert Jordan, Marcel Marceau, Werner von Trapp, Robert Goulet, George Osmond, Mr. Wizard, Mr. Whipple, and The Sopranos

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

23. Q: Consider this possibility:

a. Think about deceased TV star John Ritter.

b. Now, pretend Ritter had never become famous. Pretend he was never affected by the trappings of fame, and try to imagine what his personality would have been like.

c. Now, imagine that this person—the unfamous John Ritter—is a character in a situation comedy.

d. Now, you are also a character in this sitcom, and the unfamous John Ritter character is your sitcom father.

e. However, this sitcom is actually your real life. In other words, you are living inside a sitcom: Everything about our life is a construction, featuring the unfamous John Ritter playing himself (in the role of your TV father). But this is not a sitcom. This is your real life.

How would you feel about this?

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

22. You work in an office. Generally, you are popular with your coworkers. However, you discover that there are currently two rumors circulating the office gossip mill, and both involve you. The first rumor is that you got drunk at the office holiday party and had sex with one of your married coworkers. This rumor is completely true, but most people don't believe it. The second rumor is that you have been stealing hundreds of dollars of office supplies (and then selling them to cover a gambling debt). This rumor is completely false, but virtually everyone assumes it is factual.

Which of these two rumors is most troubling to you?

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

21. Imagine you could go back to the age of five and relive the rest of your life, knowing everything that you know now. You will reexperience your entire adolescence with both the cognitive ability of an adult and the memories of everything you've learned from having lived your life previously.

Would you lose your virginity earlier or later than you did the first time around (and by how many years)?

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

20. For whatever the reason, two unauthorized movies are made about your life. The first is an independently released documentary, primarily comprised of interviews with people who know you and bootleg footage from your actual life. Critics are describing the documentary as "brutally honest and relentlessly fair." Meanwhile, Columbia Tri-Star has produced a big-budget biopic of your life, casting major Hollywood stars as you and all your acquaintances; though the movie is based on actual events, screenwriters have taken some liberties with the facts. Critics are split on the artistic merits of this fictionalized account, but audiences love it.

Which film would you be most interested in seeing?

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

18. Your best friend is taking a nap on the floor of your living room. Suddenly, you are faced with a bizarre existential problem: This friend is going to die unless you kick them (as hard as you can) in the rib cage. If you don't kick them while they slumber, they will never wake up. However, you can never explain this to your friend; if you later inform them that you did this to save their life, they will also die from that. So you have to kick a sleeping friend in the ribs, and you can't tell them why.

Since you cannot tell your friend the truth, what excuse will you fabricate to explain this (seemingly inexplicable) attack?

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

17. You have won a prize. The prize has two options, and you can choose either (but not both). The first option is a year in Europe with a monthly stipend of $2,000. The second option is ten minutes on the moon.

Which option do you select?

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

16. Someone builds an optical portal that allows you to see a vision of your own life in the future (it’s essentially a crystal ball that shows a randomly selected image of what your life will be like in twenty years). You can only see into this portal for thirty seconds. When you finally peer into the crystal, you see yourself in a living room, two decades older than you are today. You are watching a Canadian football game, and you are extremely happy. You are wearing a CFL jersey. Your chair is surrounded by books and magazines that promote the Canadian Football League, and there are CFL pennants covering your walls. You are alone in the room, but you are gleefully muttering about historical moments in Canadian football history. It becomes clear that—for some unknown reason—you have become obsessed with Canadian football. And this future is static and absolute; no matter what you do, this future will happen. The optical portal is never wrong. This destiny cannot be changed.
The next day, you are flipping through television channels and randomly come across a pre-season CFL game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Knowing your inevitable future, do you now watch it?