Per aspera

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, […]

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.

Okay, so Battlestar Galactica.  Pretty much the greatest show ever put on television, huh?  I’m halfway through season two so far.  Sweet Jesus.

A whimsical poem.
This happened in September:
Authorities in the capital Reykjavik will turn off street lights on Thursday evening and people are also being encouraged to sit in their houses in the dark, writer Andri Snaer Magnason said on Wednesday. While the lights are out, an astronomer will describe the night sky over national radio.
(via BLDGBLOG)

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. I’m serious.

Yacht Rock Episode 1
Yacht Rock Episode 2
Yacht Rock Episode 3
Yacht Rock Episode 4
Yacht Rock Episode 5 (my favorite)
Yacht Rock Episode 6
Yacht Rock Episode 7
Yacht Rock Episode 8
Yacht Rock Episode 9
Yacht Rock Episode 10
After having made episodes for a year, they stopped […]

I know for a fact there’s a dent in the wall of one of the second-storey rooms in the house in which I grew up that was caused by the hurling of a twenty-sided die.  That’s just how I rolled, as a lad.

I did not love Garden State when I saw it in the theater, at all.  It’s not that I’m immune to trite, sentimental crapola.  I am positively susceptible to it.  Oh, I most definitely am, especially sentimental crapola with a sensitive young thing for a protagonist.  It certainly doesn’t hurt if said crapola features Natalie […]

It cannot be coïncidence* that I’ve spent the entire weekend playing Guitar Hero.
Lauren has been watching a metal documentary, and is clearly no stranger herself to the metal.  From comments, I followed a link to the Wikipedia page for Lemmy Fuckin’ Kilmister.  Imagine my surprise as I learned that “Kilmister” — and a metal-er fuckin’ […]

Arrrrrrrrrrrr!

I’ve been watching Bill Hicks on YouTube this evening.
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX (credits)
Stick with it through part eight; that’s where he describes the conception of the antichrist.  It’s perfect.

I was noodling around at Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog (n.b. the Strunk-and-White-approved s-apostrophe-s), clicking on the “best of” links, and came across his post about Count Dante, who used to advertise in the funny books.
Born John Keehan, he changed his name in the mid ’60s to Count Juan Raphael Dante and explained it by saying his […]

So that our top post is not one full of partisan sheep’s venom and blogofascism, I give you a video of a Japanese show wherein successively heavier fish are put out for cats to carry away. Who is strongest kitty? The scientific method will tell us.

(via Cute Overload, natch.)

Hartford Courant:

Connecticut

August 09, 2006 - 12:55AM ET
(i) = incumbent

= winner

= runoff

U.S. Senate -
[…]

So I was farting around on YouTube again, watching some Ramones videos, which goddamn. The debt we all owe to the Ramones is tremendous.
And then for whatever reason, YouTube threw me a link to some Stevie. It must have known.

Besides the fact that holy balls is Stevie Wonder a national treasure, I’d like […]