The gorgeous ladies of lebanon,” at “Stop the Bleating”.
Via a DBA email message, of course.
Author: Nate
Downtime and administrivia…
Web server was down from 10PM last night to 5PM or so today. Mea cupla, and I’ll try not to let it happen again.
Also, in case regular readers may not have noticed, SFChat.org no longer points directly here, and instead has a brief directory and the note:
If you’ve come looking for Nate’s Blog, the correct address is https://www.cubiclehermit.com/.
Feel free to click on either of these links to go there now. There are some hacks to enable permalinks to continue working, but these (and this message) will be going away. The old “official” address (http://www.sfchat.org/wordpress/) is now being redirected to the correct one, and while this redirection is permanent you are encouraged to update any links or bookmarks.
I’ll maintain the links as long as it’s practical to do so, but please update your bookmarks/favorites. If and when I ever get enough readers that it gets impractical to keep hosting this on a DSL line, I’ll probably have to make some compromises and the links may not remain practical.
“Cheese it, the fuzz!”
Whatever happened to Joe Berger? OK, that question won’t mean much to those who aren’t familiar with my fraternity, but this week the Weekly World News brings you “HOW TO TELL IF YOUR PROSTITUTE IS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL (all caps theirs.)
A sample, out of their list of ten:
2. Out-of-date lingo — Alien prostitutes try to fit in by using streetwalker slang — but often use outdated terms. A hooker who sees a police car and whispers, “Cheese it, the fuzz!” likely hails from deep space.
Funky six-degrees thing
The alumni association at Dartmouth College, where I attended as an undergrad, has set up a web application called “incircle” which lets alumni list their friends and then look up profiles, and see who their friends’ friends are. It’s interesting, as is the fact that it uses full middle names – it’s sort of odd seeing them for a lot of people who I knew in college but didn’t know their middle names.
In any case, if you’ve found my blog via the Dartmouth listings, hello and welcome and sorry that posts are so sporadic – we’re in a big deadline at work, and I just have not had the time to procrastinate that I usually do.
Right wing loons at it again…
First Spongebob, now Shrek?
Instead of Communists under every bed, it’s some “secret queer agenda” that’s frightening these guys. Fortunately, the country is not so easily frightened as it once was.
Three (oops Five!) TV serieses I really want on DVD…
- “The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.”: Bruce Campbell, in one of his funniest roles, and what the Wild Wild West movie could have been, even if Kenneth Branagh was cool as the villain.
- “Voyagers”: Early 1980s time travel TV show. Probably in retrospect not as cool as “Quantum Leap,” but one is less demanding at age 7 than at age 14 I suppose, and the “Titanic” episode is stuck in my memory.
- “Dungeons & Dragons”: My favorite game as a kid, turned to one of my all time favorite cartoons. Shlocky, and simultaneously dumb and intelligent. (Actually, this one IS on DVD, but last I checked only in the UK… UPDATE Sep. 2005: Marie bought the UK Region 2 DVD box set when we were in England a few months ago,)
And how could I forget “War of the Worlds”, and”Friday the 13th”, both late 80s shows I watched when I finally started staying up late? Both vaguely science-fictiony, and at least in the case of War of the Worlds, there was something of a story arc as well.
Given the riches of recent TV re-releases on DVD(
,
,
, etc…) perhaps I’ll get to see these again after all. Do they ever live up to memory? Perhaps not, but I still want to see them again.
Sportsfans, I don’t get ’em
Some people are too stupid to live…
Well, this one survived, but yeesh!
Can we call it GannonGate yet?
From AMERICAblog:
Has Jeff Gannon told Peter Fitzgerald all he knows about the Plame affair? If you’d like to “spread the word” on the Gannon story to help encourage the Prosecutor’s office to give Jeff a call, put a link to it on your Web site.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html
The more links, the more likely Google is to pick it up in their Google News. The more news coverage of this story, the closer we are to getting to the bottom of the Plame crime.
Note also warning regarding the linked article:
WARNING: A number of the links in this story are to x-rated photographs, and some of those might prove shocking to some people. Please exercise your own discretion when clicking. (And, as you read, please forgive the necessary typos – I’m going for rock-solid facts, rather than spelling.)
“What about a catapult?”
From a post on a post of RASF.written:
The idea:
http://qdbii.pyoko.org/upload/catapult1.gifThe execution:
http://qdbii.pyoko.org/upload/catapult2.gifI think this all started from a discussion some geeks were having on
Somethingawful.com. I have nothing to do with it, just thinks its pretty
good work.
Beware.
“Weird and funny?”
Or a caution for the future?
You decide.
They come in threes.
So I hear that Ossie Davis and Max Schmeling passed away on the radio this morning. And apparantly, John Vernon Dean Wormer from “Animal House” also just died.
Aside from the eerie coincidence that “they come in threes” actually applied this time without much of a stretch, it’s a sad loss of some quality talent.
“I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.”
from GOP’s Red Light District at Oliver Willis’s Blog:
The right is investing massive amounts of money in a growth industry. Hardcore porn. How much did Jenna Jameson contribute to the Bush war chest?
linking to the not-quite-so juicy:
Will the “Moral Values” GOP Refund the Money?
The Republican Party likes to call itself the party of “moral values.” So the question is, will it return the tens of thousands of dollars it has pocketed from companies that air pornography?
As reported by the LA Times today, “Adelphia Communications Corp. has quietly become the nation’s only leading cable operator to offer the most explicit category of hard-core porn.”
According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Adelphia gives the overwhelming amount of its financial support to Republicans, the party of “moral values.”
Which in turn links to GOP Corporate Donors Cash In on Smut
Shill time: Quote in subject from patter before “Smut” by Tom Lehrer, a very funny song which can be found on his album 
That Was the Year That Was