Matt Staggs

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• Commented on Mighty Boosh Halloween Costume: The Spirit of Jazz
  Might want to watch where you wear that get-up. Could read as blackface minstrelry. And it kind of is, really....
• Commented on Vampire killing kits from the 19th Century
  I'm deeply skeptical of these vampire killing kits. I suspect that at least some of them were assembled out of individual items of comparatively little value by contemporary antiques dealers. Also, I'm no historian, but I've lived down south all...
• Commented on Bordertown/Borderlands fantasy series to get another volume
  Excellent! I just found the first volume at a local used book shop. Looking forward to checking these out....
• Commented on Guards are the worst prison-rapists
  Thanks for this. I've offered the opinion that no one deserves to be raped - cons or not - may times only to be met by the "hur hur hur...don't drop the soap...that's what they deserve" right wing vomitus so...
• Commented on Basil Wolverton's Bible: the putting the grotesque into the Old Testament
  @ #7. Um, you lost me....
• Commented on Basil Wolverton's Bible: the putting the grotesque into the Old Testament
  I'd love to have this and Barry Moser's Bible as well....
• Commented on Everything Is Alive
  "Or maybe, in the right frame of mind, I can feel an affinity to the rock---in a way, there's no telling where one thing starts and the other thing stops." Common symptom of schizophrenia. Just sayin'....
• Commented on 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail: beautifully designed, superbly written history of the 2008 election in graphic novel form
  Looks good, but that's not a very good likeness of Palin. If she was that hideous looking we would have had an even easier time of defeating McCain/Palin....
• Commented on Steampunk D&D Beholder sculpture
  Cool! I don't think he needs to classify it as a beholder, though. I think that the potential PC terror at seeing some multi-tentacled, heavily armored saw-blade swinging monster charging down a dungeon corridor justifies the creation of this as...
• Commented on Books about (or at least by) weird but interesting people
  there [are] really super wealthy people who control a heck of a lot of the world, and that they have institutions like Princeton to help their kids find one another and then inherit their daddies' places. This. THIS THIS THIS....
• Commented on Noodling: catching a catfish by letting it bite your arm
  I once met a man who had lost most of his fingers on one hand due to his having accidentally grabbed a water moccasin in this way when he was a boy. It's a dangerous sport....
• Commented on Lush Life art show at Seattle's Roq La Rue
  Much of the pop surrealism stuff leads me cold, but not these particular works - sounds like a really good show, and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention....
• Commented on Entertainment industry's greedy lobbying is their undoing
  Agreed. The Gredy lobby has far too much power in today's Washington.......
• Commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
  I love bugs and assorted creepy crawlies, but that thing even gives me the creeps. Yeesh!...
• Favorited The 9 most badass Bible verses on Boing Boing
• Commented on Tolkien's City of Kings made from matchsticks
  Tolkien....
• Commented on Urban chickens of the Bronx
  Don't be fooled by the coop that I got/ I'm still chicken from the bronx....
• Commented on Xeni on the road in West Africa: Ritually Stolen Penises and Vaginas - Not a Joke Here.
  "Turned you into a newt!?!" "Well, I got better..."...
• Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
  #8: I'm not sure what you mean by a "Mississippi mindset" when it comes to walking and children. I've lived in this state all of my life and grew up walking all over my small hometown from the time I...
• Commented on Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium revival
  What happened to all of that "hope" we were feeling just a few months back? Let's not panic ourselves into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Oh, and I've invited a clown to cheer you all up. /Honk honk!...
• Commented on Dead body delivered to pet store
  Frank: Let me ask you a question: did you ever see that movie, "Night of the Living Dead"? Freddy: Oh, yeah, yeah - that's the one where the corpses start eating the people, right? What about it? Frank: Did you...
• Commented on When is a free credit report not a free credit report? When it's from freecreditreport.com
  Yikes! Hope you won't be selling fish to tourists in t-shirts now....
• Commented on Joydick Atari game controller
  Any chance you could put this video after a jump? I'm no prude....but my employers I can't vouch for....
• Commented on Name this Insect
  Yep, it's a variety of stick insect. They're absolutely harmless, although if you try to pick one up it will curl its tail up at you like a scorpion - an empty threat. I live down south, and they're everywhere...
• Commented on Problem of saggy-pants "much bigger" than Constitution, says Mayor
  Melton has a lot more to worry about than baggy pants. He's currently the defendant in a federal trial alleging that he and a gang of his thugs knocked down someone's house with sledgehammers after designating it a "crack house"....
• Commented on What will you miss about newspapers?
  I'll miss its impact on the Silly Putty industry. Think there's a bailout for them? Hell no....
• Commented on Citizen journalists versus US Airways 1549
  Was that picture taken with a Holga?...
• Commented on Archaeology of a hippie commune
  Bong Bong?...
• Commented on Two-headed calf (RIP)
  "Sometimes, dead is bettah...."...
• Commented on DOD Wants parent bots to fool tots
  Reminds me of Harry Harlow's experiments into primate surrogate attachment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow#Surrogate_mother_experiment...