Friday, April 27, 2001

EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! OKGO GETS SIGNED!

Well, it's just been a banner day for updates! I get home from work & check my email & find out that OKGo, my current favorite band, got signed by Capitol Records. Sure, some guys like Indie Rock Pete'll say they sold out, but Damian Kulash, OKGo's lead singer, sure sounded pretty happy about it!

If you're looking for the other two updates I've done today, just scroll down a bit, then scroll up a bit! ^_^

EXTRA! EXTRA! PAC MAN BLOWN AWAY BY RAMBO!

DOH! Man! I can't believe I forgot this one that remarcable sent me. The touching story of a music fan & what he's gotta do to get to a concert. Considering the fact that he lives in just about every Atari 2600 game ever made, that's quite alot! Awesome @#$%ing soundtrack!

If you're looking for my regular update, just scroll down a bit. ^_^

Take care y'all!

Some entertainment + a twitch update…

• Are y'all into puzzles? Normally, I'm not…but the investigation of Evan Chan's death has me completely engrossed.

• I'm not much into TV, or dictators, but the folks at smalltime industries have come up with an awesome little time-waster. BTW, I stumped it with the late Merritt Buttrick's character Johnny Slash from the less-than-hit '80s sit-com Square Pegs.

• twitch news: Well, my monitor has arrived, so I'm much happier & much more likely to update on a regular basis. Now I just need to work on getting a new computer, which should happen shortly after the government gives me back the money they've so kindly held for me…without paying me interest.

"So," I hear y'all ask, "twitch, tell us…does that mean we can expect an update this weekend?" Nope. I'm off to Aiken again, this time to play a little Mage Knight &, hopefully, a little more Last Blade 2. However, I will be home on Sunday, so y'all could expect a little something up here then.

Believe it or not, I'm making friends on the web! Weird, 'tis true & 'tis true 'tis weird, but I'm kinda happy about it. So, if you wanna, drop by & see some personal pages by mcfreak66 & AstroChick420. Sign their guestbooks, but be nice—these folks are my friends!

Y'all have great weekends! ^_^

Monday, April 23, 2001

NEWS FLASH…

This just in! My buddy remarcable got his car stuck in a ditch this evening! "So what!?" you say? Well, he wrote a pretty funny narrative about it, that's what.

Thursday, April 12, 2001

I am, I am Superman…

I've been sorta depressed lately (hence, no updates), & I'm seriously considering a career change. So you can bet that when remarcable sent me this link, I started getting my resume together. ^_^

Monday, April 09, 2001

twitch news…

I know, I know…I'm slack & haven't updated since last Wednesday. But I can explain…

Dial-up access really sucked for me, so I signed up for some speedy cable access. This, of course, meant getting cable TV, which in turn meant that my old TV had to go, because…well, it sucked. So Thursday afternoon, my usual update time, was spent waiting for the cable guy to arrive (which took for@#$%ing ever, I tell you!), then going out to get a new TV, then…well, watching it. So, no update.

Friday was the day for the internet access installation. This didn't take as much time as the TV installation, but I was hampered by the fact that my only monitor at home is now a 14" Magnavox which only supports a 640x480 pixel resolution! So, I couldn't even LOOK at my own page, much less update it very well. Plus, I've never had high-speed internet at home, so I got kinda caught up in it. Luckily, my new monitor is on it's way, so I should be fully up & running very, very soon!

Mini-monitor news…

Speaking of small monitors, I only found two sites that translate back into the admittedly anachronistic 640x480 size, & I wanted to send out my congratulations to both the designers for setting up such versatile pages:

• waferbaby: daniel just @#$%in' rocks anyway. Clean layout, frequent updates, awesome content. This is the Platonic ideal of a blog to which all lesser blogs (for instance, mine!) merely aspire.

• Fontalicious Fonts: Ben Balvanz consistently makes the hippest fonts on the web, & does it all because he loves it! Look around on his page…no ads, & no fee for his work! & his use of bright, websafe colors definitely influenced me here!

Wednesday, April 04, 2001

Creations & contortions…

• Wow! This is a brilliant idea. I wish I'd thought of it.

• This week The New Yorker features a neat photo of an old guy driving a railroad spike up his nose. The photo was taken by Joel-Peter Witkin, who I'd never heard of but who is, apparently, everywhere.

• House of Prayer teen says "Honey, I'm leaving you for another family." I say "Right on!"

• This actually affected my life yesterday, as I live in Carrollton & work at Tanner Medical Center. If you were driving that red pick-up: suck it up coward—turn yourself in.

• Trying really, really hard to end on an up note: this is just @#$%ing hilarious.

The prodigal artist returns!

One of my favorite sites on the whole, wide web is explodingdog. Sam, the artist, has been M.I.A. for about a month. Sometime after I went offline yesterday, he updated. So, if you haven't already, go check his new stuff out. And if you've never been, look around through the archives. It's beautiful, I promise.

Tuesday, April 03, 2001

It's pissing rain & the rent is due…

• Do y'all want one? I know I do. However, 3,200 euros translates to $2,871 and I don't own anything worth that much.

• First their parents beat 'em up, then Georgia state employees take a couple whacks: I wonder, WTF do these poor House of Prayer kids think of the world?

• Man, & I thought I was all about the garish colors! Look around, though—there's lots of very good info here.

• Beware the robots!

• Thank you, Modern Humorist, for keeping this tired joke alive for just one more @#$%in' day.

• Mike Doughty, of the now defunct Soul Coughing, is going out on tour. Why? I dunno. Why don't you ask him?

Monday, April 02, 2001

Art & cats, fairies & T-shirts, assorted gibberish…

• Generally I try not to rip links off of other sites, but this is simply too beautiful not to point out.

• "See, our God comes before our kids," so says The House of Prayer. Sure, omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, omnipotent beings are much more important than real, live, albeit limited, children. And if the tooth fairy wants to kick my cat…well, I guess I'd let her.

• Speaking of kicking cats, that's apparently not normal, y'know?

• Furi-Furi are officially my heroes. If you speak or read Japanese, make sure you check out their T-shirt shop. Then, do me a favor & ask them how much to ship some of the long-sleeved shirts to the U.S., then tell me, okay?

• glassrope news: Every now & again, I run a Google search for "glassrope," just to see what comes up. This is, by far, the most unusual thing yet. Can anybody at all tell me WTF this is all about?