Per aspera

Instructions for making a 20-sided pie.
(via Boing Boing)

Except perhaps this recent post by Per Aspera favorite belledame222…
I feel like the universe has been poking me in the left shoulder at points over the last few weeks, saying, “REMEMBER.”
So maybe this week I’ll manage, I hope, to have a post up, riffing off of belledame’s, about getting the goose out of the bottle.

From HotSoup.com, which makes HuffPo look like the Weather Underground:
Where else on the Internet do people of opposing views mix things up?
Wh-
Yeah, you guys are going to do great.

Seriously, I need that pagoda, like now.
Right.  iTunes go!
1. “Before You Were Born,” Toad the Wet Sprocket
2. “Melody Calls,” Doves
3. “Nip It in the Bud,” The B-52’s
4. “War on War,” Wilco
5. “I’m Coming Over,” X
6. “Birth Ritual,” Soundgarden
7. “Melt Your Heart,” Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
8. “Smoke & Mirrors,” Rjd2
9. “Fox Confessor Brings the […]

In my travels in Intarspace, I frequently come across news that is no longer news,* and am astonished that I’ve made it this many years into my life without encountering this information until now.
I have two from this week:
First, while reading the CNN obituary for Gerald Levert, I discovered that he did a supergroup album […]

For realz!  I was beginning to despair that she would never come to her senses, but she has.  As Nicole brought up in comments, Britney cold filed for divorce.  Finally.  And K-Fed got the news by text message!  ON TAPE!  It’s like the godz were like, “Steve, be cool.  Have a slice of schadenfreude pie […]

I’m pretty sure they’ll revoke my blogging license if I don’t do an election summary. To begin: so much for the genius of Karl Rove.
Anyway, the situation is encouraging. As of right now, AP’s calling the VA senate race for Webb.
Both houses, by fuck. Both.
Democrats have won 29 seats in the house, […]

I’m disappointed in my home state.  Even the Republicans should’ve known better.
I’m totally running next cycle on the Cockpunches for Joe Lieberman ticket.  Start contributing to the campaign today.

TBogg has predictions about the election:

No matter how many seats the Democrats take in the House it won’t be enough to keep the Republican echo chamber from pointing out that it most certainly is not a mandate, while all the time whining about the loss of control of the commitees.
Joe Lieberman is going to win […]

Vote vote vote!
Then keep your fingers crossed. Because even if the Democrats can overcome vote suppression, “spoilage,” disenfranchisement, and rigged/malfunctioning electronic voting machines* (which never, ever seem to malfunction to the Democrats’ advantage, do they?), and get enough votes counted to take both houses of Congress, that’s just the beginning.
If the voters manage to […]

This was an accidental post (stupid Ecto), but it was up long enough to be commented upon before I noticed it. So I can’t exactly delete it, since it’s now part of the conversation. I’ve put it behind the jump. I’ll put up more of what the monetization guys call “content” when […]

Rogers does a “best of” index, from time to time, over at Kung Fu Monkey, and is it via the latest of these that I found the Top 10 John Wayne movies that could also be porn titles.
When I got to “And the winner is,” I started cackling out loud.

Further validation through search results:  turns out I’m the number-one hit on MSN Search for “smell my but hole.”  Y’all can tell people you know me.

I think this is proof that Lemmy is Metal Jesus. A Bennetton-ad’s-worth of people throwing goats and rocking the fuck out to “The Ace of Spades” performed by puppets.
Seriously, who’s better than Motörhead? Lemmy’s been around for-fucking-ever, they’ve performed on an episode of The Young Ones, and “Ace of Spades” is one of […]