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Watched this documentary online. While I don't share his beliefs, I've always found chick tracts bizarrely fascinating and always wondered about their history.
Just in time for Halloween: the animated Dark Dungeons
If you're of a certain age, you may remember the infamous Jack Chick tract Dark Dungeons. For those of you who don't, here's the tl;dr from the Escapist: Dark Dungeons is possibly the most widely distributed piece of anti-game propaganda in the history of gaming. It was first produced by Chick ...
Today has been a sad day for me. I said goodbye to a lot good people being let go from my library system, not because they weren't doing a good job, and not because there wasn't a demand for their service, but because of politics and small minded, short sighted thinking. I read Phillip Pullman's statement yesterday and yours today and am grateful that there are people out there who get it. You warmed the cockles of my heart today Wil,and normally no one touches my cockles.
librarians are awesome
I was recently invited to participate in an awesome literacy project, and I wanted to share an excerpt from my contribution: I want to take a moment and say thank you to librarians, because it was a librarian who made me fall in love with reading. In third or fourth grade, part of our curriculu...
I think one of the most surreal moments in my TV watching history was seeing an edited version of Glenngary Glen Ross. Profanity was such an integral part of the rhythm of the dialog, I was amazed that someone thought the movie would even be watchable without it.
I must admit that when I saw the title of the post, I thought you were referring to Sandman comic fans
regarding dangly ankh earrings and the 18 year-olds who wore them in 1990
I shoot Big Bang Theory on Monday before I go back to Vancouver to finish out the fourth season of Eureka, so I have scored an entirely unexpected bonus weekend at home with my wife. Yesterday, we heard that Toy Soldiers was playing on local station KDOC (which was one of the truly great UHF sta...
This reminds me, what's going on with the LE HDOOL from subterranean press?
In which the audio versions of Happiest Days and Just A Geek get a new home
I've had such a great experience using Lulu to sell Sunken Treasure and Memories of the Future, Volume One, I have decided to start out 2010 by moving the audio versions of The Happiest Days of Our Lives and Just A Geek to Lulu. It made a lot of sense to me to keep all of my self-published work ...
When I saw this design submission posted on Boing Boing I hoped it would force Threadless to select it. I had no idea it would happen so quick (4 days!!)Now just hoping this will come in a tie dyed long sleeve one day.
when memes collide, we all win
Years from now, our kids are going to ask us about the Wolf Shirt and Keyboard Cat memes and wonder why in the world we cared about them so much. When that day comes, some of us will reach into our dressers, pull out this shirt, and tell our children, "We needed them, so we could have this."
I too, feel your pain. 20 Years ago I was invited to join a group playing "Vampire the Masquerade" but banned the same day by my then boyfriend for bringing too much of our "relationship issues" into my character. *Sigh* been doomed in the role playing front ever since.
beware the mad hermit of the northlands
So you've listened to the D&D podcasts I did with Scott Kurtz, Gabe, and Tycho... You've read my series of posts about playing 4E with my son and his friends... You've read my post about being a Dungeon Master... You've read my other posts about gaming, especially how much I love D&D, how surpri...
Sadly no, but perhaps even sadder was the constant chattering about what greeting card/drug stores had what lines of stickers (i.e. "Hey, I was at freddy's over the weekend and they have the new Sandylion, or my friends cousin works at the Hallmark store and told me they got some new smellie stickers in")
I also had a subscription to Sticker Collector magazine, oh yeah!
You should check out this site, brought back tons of memories for me, man Lazer Blazers!
http://smurfwreck.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=80%27s%20Stickers
my god, it's full of unicorns
A little known fact about me: I'll do just about whatever my friend Chris tells me to do, just because I want to be popular*, so a half an hour ago, when he told Twitter to go to espn.com and type the Konami code into the search box, I stopped performing life-saving CPR on a hobo and did exactly...
What scares me is how many of these unicorn/rainbow images I remember owning as a sticker/folder/stationary set, but I am disappointed that there seems to be no lisa frank unicorn.
my god, it's full of unicorns
A little known fact about me: I'll do just about whatever my friend Chris tells me to do, just because I want to be popular*, so a half an hour ago, when he told Twitter to go to espn.com and type the Konami code into the search box, I stopped performing life-saving CPR on a hobo and did exactly...
Hmmm, this forthcoming book on audio + TNG season 1 on DVD + a bottle of Jäger (or as my Grandma called it "the medicines")...... naw, no good could come of this
it's all inside the wrist. it's all inside the way you time it.
Some more Memories of the Future edits, for your (and my) amusement. Here's the original: After a bit of exploring, they find themselves in the lab of Data's creator, Dr. Noonian Soong. Riker, Geordi, and Tasha all join forces to be sort of an Exposition Voltron, informing the audience that Noo...
Is a moving average also referred to as a "rolling" average? I guess I've underestimated the popularity of Portal as well as that of corpulent mythological creatures. In any case, cool shirt, glad I got mine and sad to see it reckoned.
my shirt.woot fails its saving throw
I don't know why, but Woot never e-mailed me to tell me that my shirt design was going into the Reckoning, and it slipped to number 22 when I wasn't looking. I was told that I'd get fair warning before it was in danger of being Reckoned, and I'm pretty pissed that that didn't happen. In fact, I...
I picked up one of these the other day when I saw it had dipped in the ranks. I've been buying woot shirts for a while now, but I still don't quite get why shirts like the cake is a lair (11/2007) and fat unicorn (4/2008) are still going strong after all this time, while newer fresher designs seem to fade out after a scant few weeks (or months). I'm confused as to how the ranking works, since it doesn't seem to be based on number of shirts sold. The #20 lists woots sold at 2962, while yours has 5183. I'm curious to see how often this one will pop up in the next random shirt woot.
Ok, I'm putting way to much thought into the inner-workings of shirt woot now, and I still have that TPS report to hand in.
my shirt.woot fails its saving throw
I don't know why, but Woot never e-mailed me to tell me that my shirt design was going into the Reckoning, and it slipped to number 22 when I wasn't looking. I was told that I'd get fair warning before it was in danger of being Reckoned, and I'm pretty pissed that that didn't happen. In fact, I...
Thanks for that! Battitudes is classic! I especially like that for a parody religion it doesn't come across as snarky, actually it's pretty sweet (and promotes concientious driving habits)
"And we spoke of the things which Steve would endorse, and revile"
It's one of those weeks where all my creative energy and time is going into projects that pay the bills, so posting here will remain light for at least the next few days, and probably a bit longer. However, this post my friend Cherie wrote about the First Church of the Intergalactic Fruitbat Ste...
I'd like to recommend the Wizzywig series of comics by Ed Piskor (There was an article about them recently in Wired) which is a fictionalized account of Kevin Mitnick's exploits and the early days of hackerdom. Good stuff.
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/magazine/17-03/pl_print
http://www.edpiskor.com/
Books I Love: The Hacker Crackdown
Now that we've figured out which one is Pink, allow me to welcome you to the machine... In the late 80s, I kind of knew a bunch of people who were involved in what we called The Computer Underground. They weren't my friends, and I couldn't even tell you what their handles were (well, I could, bu...
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