Can I assume that this business with the Focus RS on Top Gear means you've actually started putting engines in your cars instead of anemic hamsters on wheels?

Do the cars actually go forward? Up hills?

EDIT: The shittier and more derivative a rap song is, the likelier it is to be played as loud as possible in a parked car with the doors open. Under my window.

Scrivener has a speech function.

Basically it sounds like Stephen Hawking is reading Pale Sky back to me.

This is the greatest moment of my life.

Now back to the giggling.

Happy Birthday, aphelion_orion! I hope it was a good one.

Thank you! It was a fun surprise!

self-employment means setting my own schedule which means eating omlettes when god intended.

12:47 am.

The only logical business of ever seeing 5 a.m. is when it's the last thing before closing your eyes to sleep.

please to be cutting it the fuck out with the aching and hurting. I have my second pliates lesson on monday and we BOTH KNOW how horribly humiliating the first one was. Doing the second with a bum knee will not improve the situation.

Yours in humiliation
-t

EDIT: Johnny Cash makes everything better.

http://www.offworld.com/2009/07/one-shot-cooking-mama-and-fait.html

Who don't read boingboing already.

"No animal, large or small, was safe from Darwin's voracious and eclectic appetite. Darwin devoured rare birds, rodents and, it was rumored, even a puma."

is I get to see exactly where Milale's gag reflex kicks in.

He has an impressively thin margin of acceptability for what constitutes "meat."

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Also, interest in watching Desmond have bizarre food cravings rising. I'm getting a decent feel for the Renaissance but I wonder what Alta'ir ate. He strikes me as a 'food on sticks' sort.

EDIT: "Desmond," Lucy yawned, rubbing at her eyes. "It's four in the morning. What are you... are you cooking?"

"I don't know! It's horrible!"

I was stuck in a moment of grand horror and despair and all of those good things that happen on Sunday nights, and then I watched this and it made it all better:



Stick through to the end, with the calves foot jelly.

EDIT: Go on to part two, with the sheep's head. You really should.

mr_magpie, they are coming for you.

Now go grill something and then light something on fire and make it explode.

The way our forefathers intended.

EDIT: Traditional Holiday Video - Holy Crap, Mel Gibson Kills All The British A Lot



EDIT: Alternate Traditional Holiday Video - Matthew "America, Fuck Yeah!" McConaughey rips off shirt, beats up British Christian Bale

Also, thebaconfat reminded me of the biggest thing Canada has that the U.S. seems not to be able to find with both hands and a flashlight.



"... and people say the United States is the greatest country in the world. Well, how do you know? Have you checked every other country? Maybe other countries are just giving shit away. Like.... HEALTH INSURANCE!!!!!!!"

Also same-sex marriage. *sigh*

Happy Canada Day. Canada is awesome because they are right over there and we've never had to fight about it, and that is cool.

Also, like most of them could come over to the U.S. for lunch. Which we should do, since July 4th is so close. We could have a big buffet along the border.

Vancouver is the most beautiful city ever. Canada has so many breathtaking natural wonders.

Canada is like the roommate that forgives you for that piece of pizza that somehow ended up on the ceiling.

Their money is way cooler looking. If you live in Michigan, you can use their quarters and nobody cares. It doesn't work in Texas though.

(Canada, if you want Michigan, now's the time to negotiate. It's a buyer's market. We have water and fudge and crippling depression. Maybe you could plant some trees.)

In short: Canada. Yay for Canada!

EDIT: Also, one of my favorite bloggers is Canadian. Yay for Yarn Harlot!!

Also beatonna, but you all already know that.

"Taco Bell New Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito"

They're not even trying anymore.

I want two.

Here's the thing. I'm not sure exactly what to expect with Disney's "Frog Princess" movie but I am desperately, desperately hoping it does extremely well in the box office. Obscenely well.

Why?

Remember that the Disney now is not the Disney of five years ago or ten years ago. Remember the massive release of low-quality, direct-to-DVD 'sequels', the firing of the entire 2-D animation department, the subsequent rehiring under PIxar of many of these people, and Pixar's absolute understanding of 2-D animation as a viable storytelling tool.

So we're dealing with the Pixar revitalization of Disney here, about to make their first real 'Disney' movie.

"Frog Princess" is obviously intended to be a return to form. A return to the Mermaid-Beauty and the Beast-Aladdin-Lion KIng-Mulan days of yore. Days that - except for Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch, kind of dried up. Now I've seen all the other ones - even Treasure Planet, yes - and though the stories often weren't great, the animation was beautiful - 2-D animation is just beautiful, and deserves to exist alongside a 3-D world.

And I'm not saying that if "Frog Princess" does badly, that it will kill 2-D for good. I'm not saying some other U.S. company won't come along and revitalize it or that it will ever completely disappear or that we don't always have anime around doing great things. I'm saying that there's a good chance we will lose the beautiful Disney 2-D movie for a very long time, and that would be a damn shame.

So yeah, I'm rooting for this one.

I've read tentacle porn with a more compelling story and stronger characterization than Resident Evil: Degeneration.

Also fewer cliches.

EDIT: And better romance.

DOUBLE EDIT: Beneath the cut, the most graphic and horrifying image of the movie. It may be more than you can handle.

( Unrelenting terror lies beneath )

I need you to help me come up with two new labels for two specific concepts. Or tell me what the term is I'm looking for.

1. The nervous dread in the pit of the stomach that comes from wondering if a company actually intended to tell the story you thought you enjoyed in their game that made it unique and special, or if they're about to fill up all the holes and interesting nooks and crannies in the follow-up game with 150-proof generic, dull bullshit.

Ultimate example of this epic fail: Guilty Gear: Overture
Possible upcoming examples of this epic fail: that new Metroid game, Assassin's Creed 2 (please no please no please I'll be good)
Forthcoming examples Squeenix will inevitably create to hurt me very badly: WEWY 2

Possible labels: Narrative Fumble, Greatness Gap, Fail from the Jaws of Win.

2. The realization that you're enjoying the 'perfect' version of the badly flawed game you're actually playing only in your own head, and have filled in all the gaps and ugly bits with carefully composed fanon, so that when you recommend it to others they wonder what the hell you see in such a two-dimensional, uninteresting experience.

Possible labels: Canon Adjustment Syndrome, Video Game Beer Goggles

In Germany!

What's he not doing?

Inappropriately massaging public officials!

YAY.

I love my uncrazy President.

Anyone know what this song is?

http://awesomegodrave.ytmnd.com/

Warning: sacrilege.