YouTube Tuesday: Death is my co-pilot

This edition of YouTube Tuesday comes from the creators of the Chad Vader series to celebrate tomorrow's holiday.



tagged: movie, YouTube, video, Halloween, death, Chad Vader, humor, comedy

Jumping on the bandwagon

Since all the cool kids are doing it, I'll do this week's Friday Feast:

Appetizer
Name a great website you would recommend to others.
I'll go with the aptly named KillSomeTime.com for obvious reasons.

Soup
On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night?
Well, I think I only dream about one night a week, so I'll give a ranking of 2. Of course, I dream every afternoon when I fall asleep under my desk (It's that recurring dream where your standing naked atop an Incan pyramid while thousands of naked women throw pickles at you. Everybody has that dream, right? RIGHT!?)

Salad
Did you have a pet as a child? If so, what kind and what was its name?
We had a Basset Hound that we called Soli because we couldn't pronounce the name my parents gave her: Solzhenitsyn (after the Russian author). I also had two goldfish named Fin and Gil.

Main Course
If you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise?
Easy, I'd advertise Trojan Magnum XL Condoms.

Dessert
What is your favorite kind of hard candy?
Crystal Meth.

tagged: Friday Feast, crystal meth, pets, Trojan Magnum, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, meme, Inca

Friday Blogthing: I was hoping for Blacula

I wanted to be the funkiest vampire ever, but this quiz has cursed me with the name of an upper-lower-middle class pop culture hero.

DOH!

Your Vampire Name Is...

Homer the Vile

What's Your Vampire Name?

tagged: Friday, test, Halloween, vampire, Blacula, Homer Simpson, meme, blog

Random Photo VI: Baptistery in Pisa

Browsing through the photo library the other day after adding the latest from our digital camera I came across this forgotten shot of the Baptistery in Pisa.

Though not as famous as its leaning neighbor, it's still part of a great architectural composition at the Piazza dei Miracoli, and it does lean slightly (though not as much as the famous bell tower).



tagged: Pisa, Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Baptistry, photo, architecture

Prepare for glory!

My fellow Latinos make no mistake: Events of the past week are a victory for Latinos everywhere!

The despot Francis Semler may still be the ruler of the Kansas City Parks Board, but we have demonstrated that the men and women of La Raza submit to no ruler.

By withholding our support for the NCLR convention, we have proven that although there may be only 300 of us on the Westside, we are more than a match for the godless heathens in the Mayor's office.

And this is only the beginning of the fight! Soon, the world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and that before this battle is over, even a god-king can bleed.

tagged: Kansas City, La Raza, convention, 300, humor, Latino

YouTube Tuesday: Ballad of the Noob

Today's edition of YouTube Tuesday is in honor of the recent news article that there are more World of Warcraft players in the USA than there are farmers.

If you don't know what World of Warcraft is, or if you don't get a half the jargon in this clip, don't worry. It probably means you're a functioning, productive member of society.



tagged: movie, YouTube, video, ballad, noob, World of Warcraft, music, farmers, machinima

Back on the chain gang

First let me say it sucked to be back at work. I had about 250 unread emails in my inbox, the last couple of dozen from our email administrator robot telling me that my inbox is full and has been shut down.

But, luckily after a week off I'm re-energized and up to task of cleaning it out. And while I have a few minutes over lunch I thought I'd give a quick bullet point recap of last week:

• While taking the week off is inherently good, there are a few things I would recommend NOT doing on your vacation:
  
  
  1. Waiting on hold with TimeWarnerCable for an hour and a half to get your home email situation figured out since you lost all your account information in the infamous computer crash of 2007.
  2. Having your teeth cleaned (not that there's anything wrong with having your teeth cleaned other than the sharpened steel implements being jammed into your gums... it's just that you don't want to take time out of your vacation to do this).
  3. Taking your dog to the vet and learning that you need to collect a "fecal sample" and bring it back. I mean come on, isn't that what I'm paying the vet for?
     
     
• My Supermodel Wife and I tried on several occasions to go see a movie only to learn that there are no movies worth seeing, with the possible exception of 3:10 to Yuma which we could never work in schedule-wise. So we just went back to the house of a little "afternoon delight" (wink wink, nudge nudge).
  
  
• We had lunch one day at the new Blue Koi location on Mission Road. Just as good as the original in my opinion.
  
  
• I picked up a copy of No Country for Old Men last Friday and had torn through it by Tuesday evening. Great read, very approachable. My only complaint is that McCarthy took the easy way out on some of the plot points. But I can't wait for the movie to come out next month.
  
  
  
• Friday was my kid's class field trip to the Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs. More on that later, but it was nice to have a family day together.

Well, that's about it. Doesn't sound like much, but it was great to be able to decompress after several months of high-intensity work shite.

It's back to the grind now, and back to providing top-quality blog entertainment to the adoring masses.

tagged: vacation, email, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, Blue Koi, afternoon delight

Friday Blogthing: Illegal Alien

I don't know whether I'm an according-to-Hoyle alien, but I've always suspected that strange growth on the back of my neck to be some kind of alien parasite.

You Are an Alien

You're so strange, people occasionally wonder if you're from another world. You don't try to be different, but you see most things from a very unique, very offbeat perspective. Brilliant to the point of genius, you definitely have some advanced intelligence going on. No matter what circles you travel in, you always feel like a stranger. And it's a feeling you've learned to like. Your greatest power: Your superhuman brain Your greatest weakness: Your lack of empathy - you just don't get humans You play well with: Zombies

What Kind of Monster Are You?

tagged: Friday, test, alien, monster, Halloween, meme, blog

YouTube Tuesday: Sweet Caroline

What could be more fun on your vacation than a Neil Diamond sing-along?

That's right: An ironic, hipster Neil Diamond sing-along!



tagged: movie, YouTube, video, Neil Diamond, Jonathan Coulton, Sweet Caroline, music

Oh, I forgot to mention

Did I mention I'm taking the week off?

That's right my friends, five whole days of NOT going in to the office. A solid week of avoiding cube drones and corporate zombies. Life is sweet.

The downside is that, while I'm not planning any big trips anywhere, I'm also not planning on spending too much time here at 3AM.

Oh, there might be the odd post rubbing it in that I'm taking a vacation. But don't look for too many updates.

I kind of feel bad about keeping my epic presence from you poor working stiff bastards. But I consider this a vacation from myself.

Luckily, you've got two and a half years of back posts to go through during the drudgery of your workday. You might try starting here.

Anycrap, ciao for now suckas!

tagged: vacation, work, cube drone, zombie, EU, Seinfeld