Meanderings Archived
12/24/05 - 01/29/05
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Meanderings Archived
12/24/05 - 01/29/05 |
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House of 1,000 Corpses (2004)
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Wraith Reviews
Previously on Meanderings: Thanks to everyone that came by for the whatnot on Saturday... we managed to... make out... with... Daniela Hantuchova's... fantastic... GIANT JELLYFISH
da da da da!!!
Mack came over yesterday for a spot of 40k, playing a match each against my Witch Hunters and Muckboot's Chaos Marines. This time around marked the first appearance for the Witch Hunters' Exorcist and a Necron Wraith, with interesting results. I need to start compiling a win/loss report from all the photo albums, maybe I'll get around to that this week at some point.
I got back from Lake Amistad Friday. It was a fairly decent adventure this month - the weather was beautiful for the most part, some rough boat rides, and hiding out in a secret cove for lunch. Here's the usual plethora of pictures. And I realized I hadn't posted pictures from November or December. So here they are. December's really only a couple of pictures, mostly I couldn't get my fingers to work the shutter it was so ridiculously cold.
Anyone who caught the Henin-Hardenne/Sharapova match on Wednesday night might agree that it was the best of the women's tournament so far. Honestly I feel like matches that hinge on shitty judge calls like that one are necessary. We've got the technology, let's use it to check those outs. But then again, not everyone that plays tennis in their spare time can get themselves their very own line judges, and if the professionals start to depend on it, the next thing you know people refuse to play each other without a third party and mutual respect and sportsmanship between opponents suffers.
Next time, on Meanderings: a ridiculously kick... but Zombie... experiments... I do... only to sell... figurines.
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A Skanksgiving Mas Tarde
Thanks to everyone that came by for the whatnot on Saturday, here's a few pictures we managed to get. Unfortunately almost all of them came out too dark. If you look close you can almost make out various figures geeking out on Guitar Hero. If anyone else has some keepers send them my way and I'll include them in the book with due credit. Sorry about the lack of updates, been working the internship and now I'm getting ready for another (and possibly my last) sampling trip to Amistad. But enough too-busy bullshit.
At least you can see what's going on in the pictures from last week's UT Victory Celebration. Thanks as always to McCecil for his wise counsel and coordination.
I had heard so much about this Narnia rap from a recent Saturday Night Live, and it was amusing but I don't exactly agree it stands up to the byline "anybody who says SNL isn’t funny anymore needs to see this." But still crazy delicious. Browsing around the site I found some more ice cold comedy. What a massacre that movie was.
Decide-Dominate-And-Destroy. Is this creepy or what?
TheFreeDictionary.com's definition of "niggling" replete with helpful (?) graphics. Maybe I'm just paranoid. This was the usage, from an ESPN tennis report, that prompted my investigation (italics are mine):
Davenport Fights Off Kirilenko Women's world No.1 Lindsay Davenport is through to the last 16 of Australian Open 2006, but not without a fight, after a three-set victory over Russian teenager Maria Kirilenko on Rod Laver Arena. Davenport struggled with the searing heat and a niggling ankle injury before prevailing 6-4 4-6 6-2.Speaking of the Aussie Open, I have to report that I haven't been watching it as much as I'd like. Before a somewhat dowdy Sharapova beat her out, I managed to catch a couple of Slovakian Sensation Daniela Hantuchova's matches, including her win over Serena Williams, which was fantastic. I officially crown her the Maybe A Little Too Young New Hotness. Is there anything cooler than GIANT JELLYFISH? Not for my money. |
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On the Prowl
My best try at rendering Mouton, in full Dirty Professor regalia, out on the town like he did once back in the day. I was able to do this with the South Park Studio 2, a nifty little java program that, while it's only spitting out South Park characters, I imagine could serve other interesting purposes.
Well, of course I made the mistake of raving to McCecil about my latest infatuation: Ladytron's Witching Hour. I should have known he was already way into them, and where the hell had I been the whole time? "So you discovered Ladytron," he says when I answered the phone yesterday. Single drop of rain, McCecil. Just one is all it takes. Anyone else down to tailgate the Championship victory celebration on Sunday? It's looking like we might get some of the gang together for a parking lot grill'n'sip.
Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan have recorded a new record together called Ballad of the Broken Seas. It's pretty hit and miss from where I'm standing, but I wouldn't be suprised if it grew on me. I do think their cover of Hank Williams "Ramblin Man" is awesome, much better than I expected it to be.
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Cedar Fresh
Fuckin' a. Every year I pretend like it's not going to happen again, but the Ashe Juniper reigns undefeated. The winter is his; when it grows cold, soon all your sinuses are belong to him. He will not be denied.
How I savor my recollections of childhood in the hill country, taking a hacksaw to many a young cypress while building grand tree forts. The gentle oak we spared from blade or nail! And so it is that his pollen holds no hidden dangers for me. But the memory of J. ashei is long and his numbers are many. Old men hunched over filthy bars manically grumble stories - crazy stories - about how every night at midnight, clumped and hidden in the darkness, each cedar begets 5 further cedars! It can't be true. I won't believe it.
Lubesta recommended what he called the "Neti Pot," a sinus cleanser that is ostensibly street legal. To me it looks like some kind of nose-douche, but anything is better than the antihistamine fog I've been wading through lately. I may have to take him up on this strange device. He threw in some yoga mumbo-jumbo with the praise, so if I show up to poker wearing a sari, with my leg behind my head, just roll with it.
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The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
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Kung Fu Hustle (2005)
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Till Gabriel Blings His Horn
First of all, the Rose Bowl was fantastic. Vince and the rest of the crew played a spectacular game that was probably the most exciting one I've seen all year. That being said, UT is such a cash whore.
Local news is aflutter with tips on how not to get "swindled" by counterfeiters, rip-off merchants, scalawags, carbetbaggers, and any other miscreant that might miterate upon all things holy by selling "unauthorized" merchandise. Now, copyright infringement, ok, that's a law, it's illegal, great. But in almost all of the news broadcasts I've seen, the anchor ends the story with a comment like "if it doesn't have the hologram, it won't support the team." Like it's a 4H club or Girl Scouts. Maybe I'm being childish, but I've got friends at Wells Fargo Education Financial Services that can tell you how much I already supported the team. All the unbearably odiferous troglodytes with whom I was uncomfortably crammed into a bus for those 5 years were most likely themselves contributing similar support.
One of the reputable vendors being interviewed for KVUE's version of the story said the fake merchandise was crappy and shoddily made. Twenty dollars for a T-shirt? ANY t-shirt is already the most crappy piece of clothing you can get this side of a truck-stop bandana.
They have the right to sell their logo, fine. As for "supporting higher education" being a rationale for a 200% markup, bullshit. What do I want? I want a free shirt.
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Serenity (2005)
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With Dealf
The imminently buxom Sisters Repentia made their battlefield debut last week against Mackus' Necrons. An unlucky failed leadership test sent nearly a full squad of Warriors running for the pyramids, eventually contributing to the army's phasing out in the bottom of the fourth turn. The Witch Hunters cleanethed the proverbial house.
Happy New Year to everyone. We were invited to take part in festivities over at K&K's Kondo Komplex, and a good time was had by all. Somehow my lover or myself managed to take a few pictures, here's they is.
OK, late christmas present idea - if you didn't get me anything this year, please think about picking me up one of these (from News of the Weird):
British store owners seeking to drive away obnoxious, congregating teenagers have turned to security consultant Howard Stapleton's recent invention, similar to a dog whistle, that emits a high-frequency sound audible to most teens but few older people. "The Mosquito" (it's "small and annoying," Stapleton told a New York Times reporter, who vouched that she couldn't hear it, either) emits what one merchant called a pulsating chirp, not painful but surely irritating. A professor of neurophysiology verified that the ability to hear high frequency dissipates with age but that some people in their 20s and 30s could probably still hear it. [New York Times, 11-29-05]CNNsanity:
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Bullypicks 2005
It's time once again to gather the year's favoured children around me and sing their praises in the form of a top-ten list.
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Bling Blong
Thank goodness my brother wasted his money on King Kong, because I'm not going anywhere near that 3 hours. Sorry Peter, we stopped using the word loyalty around here a long time ago. Drew's review:
King Kong. Wow. Way to suck it big time. I saw you, because the critics said you were the second coming of Christ, but I should have listened to my gut when I saw the trailers: STAY AWAY, it said, AND PUT A BURRITO IN ME. NOW! I will address the reader now. When I say 'you' from now on it's really you, not the movie. Once I come to understand rave reviews are across the board for a film, my curiosity is the King himself, breaking free of the inevitably too-weak-for-Kong shackles of doubt. Speaking of metaphors, if you like them, the movie is sure to please - all three hours of it. Don't be disheartened if you miss any allusions at first. Rest assured the point will be slammed home over and over until you're a total retard for having read Heart of Darkness, whereas before it made you kinda good and edumacated. I did enjoy the opportunity to see the old JP dinos again, I was starting to wonder how they'd cope with that all-too-desperate period between 3rd and 4th sequels (NOT looking too good for them after that with a subtitle like 'The Extinction') . Yeah, don't go see this. |
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Murderball (2005)
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March of the Penguins (2005)
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Señor Plow
We got back Thursday from our vacation in Ruidoso, NM. Saw a lot of sights and whatnot; here's the requisite photo album.
Amusing?
Pyoro is a pretty entertaining little webgame. The quicker you snatch up the little seeds, the more points you get for them. The high score is ridiculous; I can barely get over 6000 before my little bird gets plunked. Also The Way of the Ninja is nice for old Lode Runners like myself. Good times.
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