When in doubt, say it with the Japanese:

Just FYI:

This is probably old news to everyone but me. However! Jonathan Davis, the lead singer of Korn, has a son named Pirate.

What is it with rich people and naming kids?

There is something nice about having dinner and drinks with S.J., Ariana, CMV, Joe and Sinboy and K’Wiley. Something addictively nice.

God I’ve missed S.J., Cat and K. They’re the type of folks that just make where they are home. And Rasputin’s penis, Ninja Quinn, Medicine Woman and Madonna each only came up for a short while. Honest.

Nice way to end a weekend. If you have the means, I highly recommend it.

A) Did you remember to set your clocks back an hour?

B) After spending a long time writing Strange Angel I am now having a hard time writing shorter things, since I grew used to the expanse of space I had.

C) With that in mind: I am working on finishing the third and final Mister Binkles story (I highly recommend the short little stories of a teddy bear gone wrong. You can buy the first here and the second here.) but I am plugging away at Mister Binkles and the Inescapable Fate this windy morning.

D) I want to go out today and have a nice dinner at some bar. I might, in fact, do this.

E) I find that most relationship advice can be taken right to the 80s. I mean, watch Some Kind of Wonderful and realize you can still use that movie as a decent template for some low level advice. The Hitcher also works.

I have a play list with a bit more than 3200 songs. On the weekends I just turn the speakers off so when I want music I can turn them on and come into the middle of a song.

Lightning Crashes, by Live started just as I flipped the speakers on. The weather outside, this song blasting at me with all of it’s power, the quality of light: suddenly I’m back in Boston in the early 90’s.

The Boston I remember is gone, like all places we leave. Going back wasn’t a mistake when I visited last (hell it was work-related, so in a sense I was paid to go back) but it also wasn’t my Boston. Never will be.

Not the first time I heard the song but it will forever be a Sunday morning on the low part of the Hill, blasting the tune through a small boom box as me and my two roomies (in a tiny one bedroom apt) stood suddenly lost in the moment. Breakfast burned a bit. We were all just caught in the song suddenly, and nothing else existed but that moment.

That moment is still trapped by the song.

Fuck. Some songs. Ya know?

Naughty American History

Well. It’ss to be a game of strip history quiz. Male or female teacher. Pick one and answer multiple choice questions and watch videos of them stripping if you get a question right. They are timed. Obviously NSFW.

More than that I do not know, but the idea amuses me.

Super Hax0r the Final Update

He has the box back and I am not updating it for him. More than that? Not worth going into. But yeah, that’s done with and with no harm done.

Family Matters

So you need to understand that my family reads this. Well at least my mother does, I think one of my sisters does, I dunno but some of them do. I was thinking last night, wondering if that made a difference to what I post. You know I don’t go into the details of my new money making venture as a pimp or anything, so I guess it does.

Then again I post about Dustin Diamond’s sex tape a bunch.

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• I need someone who can code odd levels of html forms to do me a big and ongoing favor.
• Even though I have the 4 disc Superman DVD set I find myself eyeing this new set:

  14 disc-set includes:
  Superman: The Movie (Four-Disc Collector’s Edition)
  · Original 1978 theatrical version with soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1
  · Commentary by producer Pierre Spengler and executive producer Ilya Salkind
  · Theatrical trailers and TV spot
  · 2000 expanded edition movie with commentary by director Richard Donner and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz
  · Music-only audio track
  · Three documentaries:
  · -Taking Flight: The Development of Superman
  · -Making Superman: Filming the Legend
  · -The Magic Behind the Cape
  · Restored scenes
  · Screen tests
  · Audio-only bonus: additional music cues
  · Vintage TV special “The Making of Superman: The Movie”
  · 1951 movie Superman and the Mole-Men, starring George Reeves
  · Nine Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons mastered from superior vault elements: Superman, The Mechanical Monsters, Billion Dollar Limited, The Arctic Giant, The Bulleteers, The Magnetic Telescope, Electric Earthquake, Volcano, Terror on the Midway
  Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
  · Richard Donner’s cut includes footage shot but never used, including a never-before-seen beginning, a never-before-seen resolution, 15 minutes of restored footage of Marlon Brando as Jor-El, and more
  · All-new introduction by Richard Donner
  · Commentary by Donner and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz
  · New featurette “Superman II: Restoring the Vision”
  · Additional scenes
  Superman II (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  · The theatrical cut of the film
  · Commentary by executive producer Ilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler
  · Theatrical trailer
  · Vintage TV specials “The Making of Superman II” and “Superman 50th Anniversary”
  · New featurette “First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series”
  · Eight famous studios Superman cartoons mastered from superior vault elements: Japoteurs, Showdown, Eleventh Hour, Destruction Inc., The Mummy Strikes, Jungle Drums, The Underground World, Secret Agent
  Superman III (Deluxe Edition)
  · Commentary by executive producer Ilya Salkind and producer Pierre Spengler
  · Vintage TV special “The Making of Superman III”
  · Additional scenes
  · Theatrical trailer
  Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (Deluxe Edition)
  · Commentary by screenwriter Mark Rosenthal
  · Additional scenes
  · Theatrical trailer
  Superman Returns (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  · Bryan Singer’s Journals (Extended Edition)
  Look, Up in the Sky!: The Amazing Story of Superman
  You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

  I do so love extras.

It’s time for a…

DANCE PARTY!

So I was thinking the other day about reading groups. Some of you belong to them. Some don’t. I’m talking to the some that do, really, with this post.

If you are in a reading group and want to read a book, have you considered The Nature of Monsters by Ronald Damien Malfi? Well, if you haven’t. let me entice you to think about it.

First of all you can download a 7 page excerpt. You can also read an interview with Malfi.

Anyway. If you mail info@5storywalkup.com with the details of your group and gather interest and such we will not only get you the books directly from the publisher (us), we will discount them and arrange for other special things.

Do I know exactly what those are yet? Nope. But they will include free copies of other books, author incentives (if you are in a location we can get Malfi to you then we will happily work to get him to come speak to your group if you want, also signed copies and other stuff), and so on.

So yeah. Reading group = special offer. Spread it around and enjoy.

Dei linked to this and oh my lord is it magical. Magically bad and wrong and so fucking funny I snorted. It got a snort.

And I was going to post a link. Here is the link to an utterly bad Metal Gear Solid fic. But some of you, you may not click it. you may not ever find out that “he lighted on fire” or read dialogue like “Solid Snake fighted you bad guys and now i have to. you will pay fools”. So I will repost the ENTIRE FICLET for you. I did not write it. Someone who wants to be called “squirreking” wrote it. It is his. I reproduce it here without changing ONE SINGLE WORD:

Metal Gear Solid: Fight of Metal Gears
Author: squirrelking

Solid Snake was old and died before and his kid Jake Snake had to do things now for the world. Jake Snake growed up with Solid Snake and helped him beat metal gears but now Solid Snake was not there anymore and only Jake Snake was.

“Solid Snake what happens when you die” Jake Snake asked Solid Snake one time.

“It will be you left to beat the bad guys in the world and do what needs to be done.” Solid Snake said to Jake Snake then he died later.

Jake Snake got a call from Otacon and Otacon said “Jake Snake metal gears are fighting in Out Heaven and you have to go there to fight them” so Jake Snake said “Otacon you were Solid Snakes friend and i want you to be my friend so i will fight metal gears too” so he left to Out Heaven to fight metal gears.

Jake Snake got his wepons and cigars becaus he didnt smoke cigarets and got on a plane and drove fast to Out Heaven to get where metal gears were fighting there. Jake Snake got to the top of the sky near where metal gears were fighting and put on autopilots and flipped out of the plane. Jake Snakes parashoot didnt open so he landed in water and swimmed to fighting metal gears. Jake Snake got out of the water and crawled fast and quiet to where metal gears were. Jake Snake pickd up a rocket gun and crawled faster and quiet so metal gears couldnt see him there.

Jake Snake stoped and smoked a cigar becaus he was tired then out of no where Otacon came on the phone and yelled “JAKE SNAKE BEHIND YOU!’ so Jake Snake turned around and saw a bad guy with weapon pointed at Jake Snake.

“Why are you working for bad guys” Jake Snake told the bad guy with the weapon

“Becaus they hav metal gears and hav weapons that shoot lasers” the bad guy said back to Jake Snake.

Then Jake Snake said “I have lasers too” and brought it out of his pocket where it was hiding and shot the bad guy in teh face.

“I dont like bad guys like that” Jake Snake said to the dead bad guy then he threw his cigar on him and he lighted on fire.

Jake Snake crawled fast again to where metal gears were fihgting becaus he could hear the bullets and booms. Jake Snake brought out his rocket gun and shot a rocket at a metal gear and the metal gear blew up and fell. Other metal gears came when the boom happened and came to Jake Snake who was crawling fast in bushes.

“They saw me” Jake Snake said so he put on camoflosh and disapeard.

“Where did he go” a metal gear said to the other metal gears

“Over there” and the metal gears shot at the bushs but they only hit ground and nothing.

Then Jake Snake said “i am here you bad guys” and was behind them. The metal gears turned around and saw Jake Snake in a metal gear that Jake Snake hided somewhere.

“Solid Snake fighted you bad guys and now i have to. you will pay fools” Jake Snake said. Then Jake Snake and the metal gears shot bullets and rockets and lasers and there was a lot of booms and dust came. The dust went away and Jake Snake was still in his metal gear but the other ones were there too and they said “We have armor Jake Snake” and Jake Snake said “What about this?” and shot something special at them.

to be continued…?