StoutRepublican, Sigur Ros is definetly cool. Deep space cool. I’ll have to check out the Decemberists now. You’re the third person to suggest that to me in a month. I think I’ve heard Say Anything and I don’t remember being impressed, but I’ll have to go back and give ‘em a second listen. Or a first.

Also delectable:

Neko Case – “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood”
Camille Dalmais – “Le fil”

And Fiona Apple may be an idiot, but she still writes songs that make the angels smile. She’s like cigarette smoke and lowcut dresses in a barroom halflight. Here’s hoping she never gets the psychiatric help she clearly needs, cause that girl sends me.

And R.I.P. Elliot Smith and Jeff Buckley. Could’a used more of them before they left the building.

As for Tofurkey, it’s not bad. I had it once for Thanksgiving with a Hindu friend, before coming vegetarian myself.

(Tom Clancy’s “John Clark” used one to dramatic effect while torturing another character.)

Hyperbolic chamber? The whole thing was started on “The Onion” for crissake.

Hyperbole–hi-PURR-buh-lee–A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

I hate mouthy vegans.

Yep… vegan is pronounced “veggin’” in my book.

I kept reading it as “hyperbolic chamber”

Actually, that’s what the article said up until yesterday. They quietly corrected it. Wish I’d gotten a screenshot.

I’ve seen this several times over the last couple of days around the net… A hyperbaric chamber is NOT a time machine!! It is used for medical treatment of several different conditions. As much as I despise Wikipedia, a good description of a hyperbaric chamber and it’s uses can be found here

Yes. I realized this later on. I kept reading it as “hyperbolic chamber” which is a time machine in cartoon land:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_Time_Chamber

I could have SWORN the original artical said “hyperbolic” too – I remember copying and pasting that into google to find out what a hyperbolic chamber was. Might have been corrected later.

Four women gambeling and NOT wearing burqas?

The best part about the teen story is that his mom said no to a time machine, but said yes to a nuclear fusion reactor. Hilarious.

lorien1973 on November 22, 2006 at 12:42 PM

I’ve seen this several times over the last couple of days around the net… A hyperbaric chamber is NOT a time machine!! It is used for medical treatment of several different conditions. As much as I despise Wikipedia, a good description of a hyperbaric chamber and it’s uses can be found here

The Wii is pretty awesome and you should want one. Stay away from Red Steel though, they didn’t get the controller dynamic correct. Zelda is (as usual) a great game. Rayman’s Raving Rabbids and Monkey Ball are fun to play and great as a multi-player.

The downside of the Wii….it doesn’t have a ‘wired’ internet option and my wireless router is broken! After all the games, the controllers, the high def cable, and now, the wireless router I’ve been buying for this thing, it’s turning into the gift that keeps on giving (except that it wasn’t a gift to begin with…so, perhaps it’s more aptly a ‘money pit’? At least it’s a fun one!)

Wii: A Blue-tooth thief?

I think not. The Wii specs mention nothing about Blue-tooth capability, only 802.1 (for wireless internet connection). Furthermore, in Blue-tooth, there are protocol exchanges that require initiating and receiving equipment to “bond” with each other before any files are transferred. The only file “thief” activity in the Blue-tooth world might be in the hacker community…

Because you asked for it: You’ve heard of The Political Teen.

Who?

Try The Decemberists, Say Anything, and Sigur Ros…there’s an eclectic mix of musical goodness.

we keep HEARING about!

Sheesh!

Other topics:

It’s snowing … IN FLORIDA! Must be all that “global warming” we keeping about!

Four women murdered, ALL FACING EAST! I forget, which way is Mecca?

Huge explosion at Mass. chemical plant destroys 90 homes, poor man’s chemical weapons attack?

Feel free to fart gravy. — Puritan

ROFL

Puritan, you sure have a way with words. — BacaDog

…not really.

My kids all grew up talking like this, and the ones at home are picking up on it.

My wife *HATES* it. She’s afraid what they’ll say at church.

Then again, my Dad used to do the “pull my finger” thing with us as children, in front as many people as possible, hoping to hit the jackpot in front of a real bluenose.

I remember being 6 years old in a grocery store, and him looking sidelong at a pregnant woman, saying to nobody “Hmmm, wonder what got into her.” He got what he wanted later when I saw a pregnant lady on the street when we were in the car going home. I said the magic words, and Mom went ballistic.

I guess that it runs in the family.

I was about 16, in study hall in high school, when I suddenly remembered the incident, and finally got the joke. I fell off my chair.

Quare: Does the Second Amendment allow people to have their own personal nuclear deterrent?

Just curious.

Feel free to fart gravy.

ROFL

Puritan, you sure have a way with words.

I like tofu. I like turkey. The two should never meet.

If you’ve made the decision, for moral or any other reason, to not eat meat…then *DON’T EAT MEAT*. No tofu-turkeys, no soy bacon, no hamburgers made out of ground up snow tires…don’t cheat/no meat. There’s a carnivores dream of a bumper sticker.

If, on the other hand, there’s some reason that you *CAN’T* eat meat, because of cholesterol or some other health concern…then, you’re screwed.

For those with vegans in the family, especially strident ones, try to greet them this holiday season with bacon on your breath, maybe with little turkey-leg fragments between your teeth. Give ‘em a big smooch and a cheek-rubbing hug. Feel free to fart gravy.

I hate mouthy vegans.

Then I remember my parents wondering the same thing

Ahh, yes I still remember. Impatiently ripping the cellophane off of the cover, slipping out the big, black disk. Careful to avoid fingerprints. Placing the arm with the Shure cartridge down gently to hear….”GODD#$% THE PUSHER MAN”…..

My dad never quite looked at me the same way again after hearing Steppenwolf for the first time…

Is good music dead or merely dying?

I wonder that sometimes too.

Then I remember my parents wondering the same thing… as did my grandparents.

So yes, to our generation, The Music is dead! Long live The Music!

Homaidan Al-Turki

… and on that note, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! :P