I got a “Visit Wonderful Skullcrusher Mountain” t-shirt for my bday. I can’t wait until I’m wearing it and someone comments on it. Great t-shirts are my favorite way to meet new geeky friends.
I was so proud of my Iron Maiden T-shirt purchase, but I’d forgotten the prime rule of buying concert Ts and got a medium. So now, after it’s been through the dryer, it’s a little too snug.
“You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my best
I’ve been gone for a month, I’ve been drunk since I left
These so-called vacations will soon be my death
I’m so sick from the drink I need home for a rest.”
Hey Rhettro, too bad I missed your call Saturday night. I was totally buck cherry nude on the couch watching the X-Files. Would have loved to hear about your 8 inch penis.
Oh well. Maybe next time you can leave more than girlish giggling as a message.
Amy-
Cool. I am so glad to hear you liked it, it sounds so rewarding. What an amazing experience. I sometimes feel like I have no time to give to help a worthy cause, but whenever I do help just a tiny bit I feel so much better about myself.
Hugh and I were unable to do the teaching to the inner city kids this year but we have done absolutely everything we could of done to help them. I wish we could of done it, those kids and those classes were so amazing, so rewarding and inspiring. To see kids that their families and society ignores and gave up on find joy and fulfillment from creating art instead of drugs or shooting each other.. God, it was incredible. The pain and the talent those kids hold inside them that gets ignored…. ugh.
Rhettro
ummm…. I need to hear more about this new info that has been revealed about you. Actually I would rather see it then hear about it. Call me!!! ;)
LOL
ok I think this comment is officially hi-brow low-brow
Amy
sorry 1 more comment about your internship
I think its cool how you were able to do so many different things and how towards the end you were given the challenge of organizing all the pick ups and stuff, it sounds like you really learned a lot from the experience. It can be overwhelming when you have to set all this stuff up that needs to help so many people.
I think that was really cool.
Re: inner city kids: I hear you, and appreciate your goodheartedness.
It *was* cool to get to do so many different things. I did learn a whole lot, and yes, I was overwhelmed by scheduling conflicts a couple of times during those weeks that I was organizing pickups and deliveries. It’s a good thing I had coworkers who helped me straighten things out.
And yes, that was definitely the most Highbrow-Lowbrow comment we’ve had around here in a long time. :-D
So the moral of the story is that when a woman claims “size doesn’t matter”, break out a ruler and see if her nose has grown that just little bit longer…
According to the wankish MBAs in this room, it’s a fancy way of saying “from start to finish.” For my business, it means that we can impact your school from student performance to superintendent performance.
It’s dumb. I think if you say it often, though, that Evil, Inc. gives you an immediate raise.
You can find that type of person for everything. I tend to just ignore it and go on with my own happy little life in my own fantasy world… which is quite different from theirs :)
“Marketing Wankery” – not only is that the name of our band, that is a brilliant coinage.
I once shared a cubicle with my old company’s Marketing Director. God, the bizspeak wankery that I heard all day. . . . .
LOLBat was pretty hilarious, Rhett. Just as long as he doesn’t commit adultery. Then he should be executed.
“I know you know the words I wanna hear
it’s just that you never say them when I’m near
to you
my dear.
You only reach out on my machine.
Is it easier surrounded by beeps?
Beep. I love you. Beep.”
My brain is ljafoqeuiranvoaffha after fighting with a massive architecture document. Can’t really do much other than post interesting songs on shuffle.
As it turns out, I dropped my wife off at the airport at 4:30AM today. She’s going to visit her sister, her folks and my folks and bring the kids back from their extended out of state vacation. I was planning on playing lots and lots of guitar while I’m home alone, but the effects of getting up so earily and my out of control job are catching up to me. Maybe I’ll go to bed early tonight. LOL
Sheila: Times have changed
Our kids are getting worse
They won’t obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It’s Canada’s fault!
Sharon: Don’t blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the damn cartoon
And now he’s off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: It seems that everything’s gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Copy Guy: They’re not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true,
Instead he burned up like a piggy on the barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hullabaloo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
For…
The smut we must stop
The trash we must bash
The Laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
So we didn’t tell you guys yet that we put our house for sale :(
Hugh sez: cuz it isn’t really great news to us
But we’ve shown the house 3 weekends in a row now methinks, right?
Hugh sez: Yeah, I think its 3 weeks
and we’ve gotten a ton of interest!
Hugh sez: But I ain’t fucking backing down on my price. That house is too valuable and its a buyers market so fuck em.
Yeah Hugh Yeah!! You tell em!!
Hugh sez: but our realtor told us today this snooty rich woman looked at it today and didn’t balk at the price and her realtor called again later asking a bunch of questions.. wethinks she might go for our asking price
Oh yeah I had a question.. not sure if any of you will read this but I had a question about copying DVDs*
*for my own personal use, not for any illegal purposes.. I promise
I am on a Mac (of course) and use Mac The Ripper for all my DVD ripping needs.. never had a problem with it until I was hit with a disc with ARccOS Protection on it. Mac The Ripper no likey it at all.
Anyone have any experience dealing with such things?
B – The Black Keys
(okay – one per letter or we’ll be here all day)
C – The Coup
D – Dengue Fever
E – Erykah Badu
F – Funkadelic
G – Grateful Dead
H – Herbie Hancock
I – Iron and Wine
(you thought I was going to say Indigo Girls, didn’t ya?)
J – Jack Mangan
K – Kanye West
L – Lou Reed
M – Mother Love Bone
N – Neil Young
O – Ozomatli
P – Papa Grows Funk
Q – Queen
R – Radiohead
S – Santana
T – Tori Amos
U – Ulali
V – The Velvet Underground
W – Widespread Panic
X – X
Y – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
Z – (Frank) Zappa
That one was a cheat
Okay, runch.
details/dates posted for Dr. Horrible:
http://whedonesque.com/comments/16734#236716
Rhettro’s huge what?
Donkus…
Although I’m sorry to say that that myth is greater than the man. My S.O. is prone to hyperbole when high levels of alcohol are involved. LOL
Modesty is a great trait, Rhettro. Remember that.
Words to live by EssBee. :)
I’m gonna choose to believe the stuff Mrs. Rhettro was saying.
No proof is necessary though. Please.
As long as I have her fooled, that’s all that matters. :)
Fooled, inebriated, being modest — what’s the difference, really?
I got a “Visit Wonderful Skullcrusher Mountain” t-shirt for my bday. I can’t wait until I’m wearing it and someone comments on it. Great t-shirts are my favorite way to meet new geeky friends.
I need to get a few more geeky t-shirts as well.
This is one I have:
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-23599503122488_2007_121388873
In black, of course. :)
CP: Haunted — Poe
I was so proud of my Iron Maiden T-shirt purchase, but I’d forgotten the prime rule of buying concert Ts and got a medium. So now, after it’s been through the dryer, it’s a little too snug.
CP: Wild — Poe
That sucks, Jack.
I guess that makes it a muscle tee now. :) You probably could order an online replacment for half of what you paid for it.
Who knew there was an Eddie Megastore? http://www.eddiesmegastore.com/
LOL
http://tinyurl.com/5ls84q
Dang, I see mine on there for about half of what I paid for it. Oh well, as long as it keeps Bruce & Co. flying.
Worky time. l8r
You better shop around. ;)
I so don’t want to work.
But I have to. It pays the bills.
500!!!!!!!!
Yes!
I so don’t want to work, either. I’m so glad the deadpan is here!
CP: For You — Barenaked Ladies
CP: Home For A Rest — Spirit of the West
“You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my best
I’ve been gone for a month, I’ve been drunk since I left
These so-called vacations will soon be my death
I’m so sick from the drink I need home for a rest.”
ditto – can I come over and pirate your music collection?
CP: Gum — Cornelius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9gJysJSA8o
lol :)
Sounds fine to me as long as I get to raid yours.
Deal!
Oh!
CP: Shoot’n Up and Gett’n High – Me’Shell Ndegeocello
CP: #1 Hit Jam – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
I just want to bang on the drum all day.
Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Listening to old Wander radio episodes is a combined time travel/learning experience.
Just listened to 07, roll on 8.
Enjoy the evening, pan! I’ve got to pretend like I give a crap and go entertain for work this evening.
Well after reading the latest Ansible, I discovered Algis Budrys died earlier this month:
http://tinyurl.com/5vqhfu
Rogue Moon was a classic, after reading about the book for years, I had the joy of discovering it in my local library.
I’m sure I got my tenses mixed up there.
It would all be simpler if everything was in binary.
0
no crap
1
0100101001100001011000110110101100100000010011010110000101101110011001110110000101101110001001110111001100100000010001000110010101100001011001000111000001100001011011100010000001010000011011110110010001100011011000010111001101110100
Doesn’t that just roll of the tongue?
Not forgetting that classic Neuromancer first line:
0101010001101000011001010010000001110011011010110111100100100000011101110110000101110011001000000111010001101000011001010010000001100011011011110110110001101111011100100010000001101111011001100010000001100001001000000111010001100101011011000110010101110110011010010111001101101001011011110110111000100000011101000111010101101110011001010110010000100000011101000110111100100000011000010010000001100100011001010110000101100100001000000110001101101000011000010110111001101110011001010110110000101110
Hey Rhettro, too bad I missed your call Saturday night. I was totally buck cherry nude on the couch watching the X-Files. Would have loved to hear about your 8 inch penis.
Oh well. Maybe next time you can leave more than girlish giggling as a message.
Well that’s an image that is going to require a large amount of alcohol to erase.
Brain Bleach. STAT!
Amy-
Cool. I am so glad to hear you liked it, it sounds so rewarding. What an amazing experience. I sometimes feel like I have no time to give to help a worthy cause, but whenever I do help just a tiny bit I feel so much better about myself.
Hugh and I were unable to do the teaching to the inner city kids this year but we have done absolutely everything we could of done to help them. I wish we could of done it, those kids and those classes were so amazing, so rewarding and inspiring. To see kids that their families and society ignores and gave up on find joy and fulfillment from creating art instead of drugs or shooting each other.. God, it was incredible. The pain and the talent those kids hold inside them that gets ignored…. ugh.
Rhettro
ummm…. I need to hear more about this new info that has been revealed about you. Actually I would rather see it then hear about it. Call me!!! ;)
LOL
ok I think this comment is officially hi-brow low-brow
Got my iPod Shuffle in the mail today, purchased with a gift cert from my b-day. Really didn’t fancy dropping my $350 iPod in the yard whilst mowing.
Got it engraved:
Why sure, climb into my spoon! H. Chef
Amy
sorry 1 more comment about your internship
I think its cool how you were able to do so many different things and how towards the end you were given the challenge of organizing all the pick ups and stuff, it sounds like you really learned a lot from the experience. It can be overwhelming when you have to set all this stuff up that needs to help so many people.
I think that was really cool.
Ok…
l8r paniacs
Well Dub, I can totally understand why you would want to hear about it, I mean who wouldn’t? LOL
But alas alcohol seems to have added a few inches to my wife’s memory. I see no rush to correct her on the matter however. ;)
TSH: Thanks for reading the blog!
Re: inner city kids: I hear you, and appreciate your goodheartedness.
It *was* cool to get to do so many different things. I did learn a whole lot, and yes, I was overwhelmed by scheduling conflicts a couple of times during those weeks that I was organizing pickups and deliveries. It’s a good thing I had coworkers who helped me straighten things out.
And yes, that was definitely the most Highbrow-Lowbrow comment we’ve had around here in a long time. :-D
So the moral of the story is that when a woman claims “size doesn’t matter”, break out a ruler and see if her nose has grown that just little bit longer…
On second thoughts, best forget about the ruler, it could be taken off you and used to have a good laugh at your expense.
Morning, Pan!
Amy, your blog is really great! I spent some time reading this morning.
JB, awesome engraving! I’m on my 2nd iPod video — I didn’t lose the first one to a lawnmower, though!
In ridiculous, Dilbertesque, meetings all day today. I may sit here and throw a helmet or two into the mix just to keep my sanity.
I thought this was pretty funny.
http://www.pvponline.com/2008/06/30/interlude-the-adventures-of-lolbat/
And congratz on your internship Amy! That’s quite an accomplishment.
Congrats, Amy!
Happy Canada Day, TEB! And to any other lurking Canadians. :)
These are cute, but the Graviton looks like something else entirely!
http://www.particlezoo.net/
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Morning All!
Happy Canada Day!
TEB will be spending Canada Day alone as hubby is leaving around lunch time for a five day seminar. Guess I’ll be cuddling a teddy bear tonight :(
No fireworks for TEB tonight. :(
What about you, ditto? do you have any plans for the Canadaland holiday?
Going to Old Chicago and have some celebratory beer. :)
Dilbertesque phrases so far from my meeting:
- “Collaborative, shared responsibility, hand-off”
- “Skin in the game”
- “Soup to nuts solution”
All right I’ll bite, EssBee. What the heck is a “soup to nuts solution”?
According to the wankish MBAs in this room, it’s a fancy way of saying “from start to finish.” For my business, it means that we can impact your school from student performance to superintendent performance.
It’s dumb. I think if you say it often, though, that Evil, Inc. gives you an immediate raise.
Ah, the joy of marketing wankery. ;)
CP: Watching Me Fall — The Cure
It should be clear to all by now that “marketing” is a language completely foreign to anyone outside of that tribal nation.
ditto, Marketing? How about Implementation Services?
OMFG. You have to read this to believe it.
http://www.getofftheinternet.org/jean-grey-is-whore-and-should-be-stigmatized-as-such/2008/06/24/
The end is the kicker.
Apparently some people don’t get the concept of tolerance.
EssBee: Yuck. That’s even worse. They should know better.
You can find that type of person for everything. I tend to just ignore it and go on with my own happy little life in my own fantasy world… which is quite different from theirs :)
Sorry, talking about ditto’s link, not evil inc’s language.
Yeah, know what you mean, EssBee, though it isn’t every day that some nut-job calls for the public execution of adulteresses.
*TEB not EssBee.
OMFG, I ditto ditto.
Her superpower is homophobia, methinks.
EssBee, Rhettro, ditto: Thank you!
My plans for today include writing, reading, and maybe working on my scrapbook from Kentucky.
“Marketing Wankery” – not only is that the name of our band, that is a brilliant coinage.
I once shared a cubicle with my old company’s Marketing Director. God, the bizspeak wankery that I heard all day. . . . .
LOLBat was pretty hilarious, Rhett. Just as long as he doesn’t commit adultery. Then he should be executed.
As long as he’s executed well, who can complain?
Hmmm, what is the manner of execution? Some ways are better to go than others. ;)
CP: Opus 4 — The Art of Noise
I can attest to the fact that an all-day meeting at Evil, Inc. is not the way to go.
My brain refuses to function properly today.
Sigh.
CP: World Spins Madly On — The Weepies
CP: Summer Overture — Clint Mansell feat. Kronos Quartet
Requiem For A Dream soundtrack
CP: Messages — The Trucks
CP: Wankery MBAs
“I know you know the words I wanna hear
it’s just that you never say them when I’m near
to you
my dear.
You only reach out on my machine.
Is it easier surrounded by beeps?
Beep. I love you. Beep.”
CP: You’re No Good — Sons of Freedom
CP: Electioneering — Radiohead
CP: Gouge Away — Pixies
ditto, your shuffle is being kind today!
CP: Hocus Pocus — Vanessa Mae
Aaaaallllllll alone……
missing my hubby already :(
CP: Circle the Fringes – Gutter Twins
Somewhere, a Smarty Hottie is swooning.
CP: Don’t Get Yourself In Trouble (live) — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
So what am I doing to console myself?
I’m working to get a jump on month end tomorrow.
My boss e-mailed me and said I was crazy. So I e-mailed her back asking what she was doing in the office today too…
My brain is ljafoqeuiranvoaffha after fighting with a massive architecture document. Can’t really do much other than post interesting songs on shuffle.
Damn. Why isn’t my Sisters of Mercy on my iPod. :(
Well, one thing with my hubby being away, I can cook all the foods he isn’t fond of… Tonight’s menu; lamb
Heh. I know that feeling. It’s Thai food for me when the wife’s away. :)
CP: D.A.N.C.E. — Justice
Off to the bookstore.
Laters, yo.
CP: Double Agent — Rush
Have fun expanding your mind, ditto ;)
At exactly 12:48 Deadpan standard time I experienced an involuntary swoon
Amy- No problem, thanks for sharing :)
Happy Canada Day to the Canadian Deadpanites
Considering I worked for the Marketing and Advertisng industry for many years of my life, I know Marketing wankery better than anyone.
The food I eat when Hugh isn’t around is Taco Bell :)
My brain is fried. To… many… loose… ends… Bah!
As it turns out, I dropped my wife off at the airport at 4:30AM today. She’s going to visit her sister, her folks and my folks and bring the kids back from their extended out of state vacation. I was planning on playing lots and lots of guitar while I’m home alone, but the effects of getting up so earily and my out of control job are catching up to me. Maybe I’ll go to bed early tonight. LOL
I was once giving the excuse as to why a relationship was failing was because I didn’t like Chinese food.
She was Chinese? ;)
Just finished a fabulous Canada Day dinner: butter braised steak, sauteed cauliflower with bacon, and peach-mango salsa.
Sheila: Times have changed
Our kids are getting worse
They won’t obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It’s Canada’s fault!
Sharon: Don’t blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the damn cartoon
And now he’s off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: It seems that everything’s gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Copy Guy: They’re not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true,
Instead he burned up like a piggy on the barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hullabaloo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
For…
The smut we must stop
The trash we must bash
The Laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
Happy Canada Day, Canadians. And Canadiens.
Think light cycles game from Tron but in 3D and now multiplayer over the internet:
http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/Cubes.html
Try not to tie yourself into a knot.
Good evening pan de muerte, ¿como estan?
So we didn’t tell you guys yet that we put our house for sale :(
Hugh sez: cuz it isn’t really great news to us
But we’ve shown the house 3 weekends in a row now methinks, right?
Hugh sez: Yeah, I think its 3 weeks
and we’ve gotten a ton of interest!
Hugh sez: But I ain’t fucking backing down on my price. That house is too valuable and its a buyers market so fuck em.
Yeah Hugh Yeah!! You tell em!!
Hugh sez: but our realtor told us today this snooty rich woman looked at it today and didn’t balk at the price and her realtor called again later asking a bunch of questions.. wethinks she might go for our asking price
wehopes at least
Hugh sez: yeah wemostdesfinitelyhopes
oh yeah and he said she was checking out our art on the walls
Hugh sez: of course we covered the place in our own work
LOL. Typical self-centered artists that we are
Hugh sez: and he said as she was looking he said, that work is by the sellers, and she seemed impressed
yay us!!
Hugh sez: maybe she’ll buy the house AND all the art
that would rule!
Deadpan Unshow 13 play by play spoiler alert
Hugh sez: does Unshow 13 work like Friday the 13th?
You mean this podcast is unlucky?
Hugh sez: yes!
Damn you Jack Mangan!!
Oh yeah I had a question.. not sure if any of you will read this but I had a question about copying DVDs*
*for my own personal use, not for any illegal purposes.. I promise
I am on a Mac (of course) and use Mac The Ripper for all my DVD ripping needs.. never had a problem with it until I was hit with a disc with ARccOS Protection on it. Mac The Ripper no likey it at all.
Anyone have any experience dealing with such things?
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the show of Un
Hugh sez: Undies?
Yes!
No AKAs for Unshows
Hugh sez: BOO!
Before we get to grease, Deadpan news
Southland Tales (still haven’t watched it yet)
Jack is podcasting drunk!!!
Jack has a flying dog in heat in him?
Hugh sez: Jack you slut!
Greasy spoon… crap I need to look the spelling up on dictionary.com before continuing