The Ziggurat of Doom

Underworld, Gaming Store extraordinaire (and my favorite money sink in the glorious town of Ann Arbor, MI, when I could make it up there.), is going out of business.

There is no god.

I don’t know if other people are aware of it, so I’ll give a ping to PostSecret, a blog that posts… well, go there. It is, at the very least, profoundly interesting.

Another victory for non-evil. Trackback is re-enabled for new posts. The War on Spam continues.

Site design modifications are also in the works. Watch this space.

Apropos of very little, I’ve been watching Lost lately (grabbed the first season, catching up).

It’s quite good. Not Firefly good, but good. Watch it. The Hierophant commands you.

The truth is finally out.

W. Mark Felt, former high-ranking FBI official, was ‘Deep Throat’, the informant who passed to the Washington Post information that led to the Watergate investigation and Nixon’s resignation.

Felt has been on the ’short list’ of potential candidates for many years now, but denied his role in the affair until very recently. Woodward and Bernstein, who published the original story, had agreed to keep his identity secret until after his death, but following (one assumes) consultation with him, have confirmed his identity.

Interesting.

Can you spot the fake smile? I got 15 out of 20. For reference I’ve taken some of those BS emotional quotient tests in the past, and scored in the 140 range, which is considered genius. I must mention though, that was before I got my bachelors in engineering, so it may have gone down since then.

Rusty is a homosexual

Cell Phone Ring crosses into mainstream music, tops charts defeating Coldplay

Turns out, there’s more than one thing that’ll make you go blind, but it’s not what the nuns told me.

Wow, I’m feeling all bloggy today and everything. Anyway, drive by quote from an RPG.net thread:

A Gygaxian dungeon is like the world’s most fucked up game show. Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH! Behind door number 2: A magic crown! Behind door number 3: ten pounds of sugar being guarded by six giant KILLER BEES!

I still want to run a dungeon crawl, though.

Every now and again, I’m reminded that venerable movie critic Roger Ebert actually has a hell of a sense of humor.

Choice quote:

Q. I greatly enjoy your reviews and the thoughtful observations they contain. However, I get a little worried about the strength of your argument in your review of “Unleashed,” when you make the case for women being able to stir a man’s humanity by using Ann Coulter as your example. That is the same person who claimed women should bear arms but not be able to vote.

C. Perla, Miami

A. Wouldn’t you sleep more soundly at night knowing Ann Coulter was in the Army and not in a voting booth?

Harpers Explores: Creepy Fundie Megachurches

A quote:

Linda had seen with her own eyes the sex demons that make homosexuals rebel against God, and she said they are gruesome;

Wow.

(Hat tip to Slacktivist. Also recommended: Slacktivists’s Left Behind Fridays, a page-by-page deconstruction of the truly terrifying Rapture series.)

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Well, I just saw Star Wars III. No, I’m alright. Anyway, I just thought I’d throw my eight bucks in:

[DISCLAIMER: I haven’t really read anybody else’s reviews or summaries, largely due to my intense spoiler hatred, so it’s quite possible much of this has already been said. *shrug* Also, some spoilers.]

The very short version: In the words of Darth Vader, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOO0o00o10o0o1o1!!11!1eleventyone!!”

The short version:
Dialogue: Oh my god. I feel like I’m being force-choked.
Story: Within reason.
Characters: Uhm, straightforward?
Music: Haven’t I heard this somewhere before?
Set design, costuming, and art: Some of the best I’ve seen.
Best line: “So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.”
Worst line: … “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *cough * pant * etc * OOOOOOOOOOO”
Best scene: Construction of Vader’s robot body.
Worst scene: Oh, gods, I don’t know.

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This is because I hate you

Judge: Parents can’t teach pagan beliefs

Foot-long penis shuts down I75

Random Drivel links to a new to me web comic. It looks like a pile of crap. Then I read a few from the archives. It’s going to be a daily read for me now.

Via Haylee:

A list of 100 surreal things. Most hilarious. She says it gets a bit dull in the middle, but there are still gems.

Like the Transformers, do ya? Well there’s some news about the new upcoming comic book over on CBR:
Take Diamond’s “Publisher of the Year (Under 5% Market Share),” add one of the hottest licensed properties available, and what do you get? In all likeliness, a book that flies off the shelves when it hits your retailer. This is the situation we’re looking at now that IDW Publishing has acquired the Transformers license from Hasbro.

Oh, but that’s not all. They got the skinny on the movie too:
He is supposed to have the script in his hands by the end of this week (if not sooner). Per his description, the take on the project is simple: Every young male can relate to owning their first car — typically a clunker. Well, imagine a kid who gets his first clunker car, but it happens to be a Transformer.

Mmmm… My first car was a red 1989 Chrysler Lebaron, 8 years later. Not much to look at, but that car could bury the needle at 120 mph… or so I read. My friend’s dad dubbed it the Red Rocket, and that’s the way my family and friends still refer to it.

As an aside, the director is Michael Bay , but a messed up edit in the article leaves that out.

This seems like a website we should all contribute too. Great idea, but only a handfull of pics