Crawford Tillinghast

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• Commented on Cataloging the lies in Palin's "Going Rouge"
  The biggest lie in the book probably has to be SP's own name on the cover. According to somebody over on Harlan Ellison's messageboard, it was actually ghosted by a "Lynn Vincent"....
• Commented on The Coming Apocalypse is Pretty Funny Actually
  Whatever, I'm still gonna do a whole lot of mushrooms on 12/21/2012. Terence McKenna had that part right, at least....
• Commented on Portrait of the blogger as a young D&D addict
  So Cory, fill us in on everything that's happened to you in the ensuing 20+ years since the game drove you to commit suicide........
• Commented on How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine
  "It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new...
• Commented on Robbers wearing markered disguises
  "We're very skilled investigators ..." (police chief Jeff) Cayler said jokingly. Yes, we got the joke. (Seriously though, how many cases such as this end up solved far more on account of the crooks being so much more overwhelmingly stupid...
• Commented on Sabotage on the Large Hadron Collider?
  Supercollider? I just met her!...
• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  Sounds as if Mr. Allen really needs to lay off that salvia divinorum....
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  This is what passes for an angry mob in Minnesota these days....
• Commented on Doctor Who Exit Interview: David Tennant + Russell T. Davies, with Richard Metzger (BB Video)
  (She's a fan too, but drew the line at me using the TARDIS landing for my ring tone). Definitely for the better that she ain't married to me......
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  In before ZOMG, SOSHULISM! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE, TEA PARTY!...
• Commented on Terrific review of the execrable Transformers movie
  My sight-unseen capsule review of this is the same as for the last one: Transformers? FUCK that shit! SURVIVAL... RESEARCH... LABS!!!!!!!!!!...
• Commented on TV preacher proves that only the Christian god is real
  So, if being horribly burned is a sure-fire cure for hell why isn't he out there setting people on fire instead of preaching to them? (Not that I really want to give him any ideas, of course, or anyone like...
• Commented on Coffin sofa
  Oh lord, why am I suddenly having more Young Ones flashbacks..? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasty_(Young_Ones_episode)...
• Commented on No Entry sign changed to Ninja Entry sign
  One of my all time favorite sign nods was in the genre of adding one or two words to stop signs, i.e., "STOP WAR", etc. This one just said "STOP BEING LAME"....
• Commented on Polka Grammy axed
  This is why they need to do a death metal polka theme song for the next Bond movie. Seriously, after that gawdawful hip-hop thing in Quantum of Solace, anything's gotta be a step upward....
• Commented on Homeless people and the Internet
  For some reason when I first looked at the subject line I thought it said "Homeless people *ate the Internet". Long night folks, sorry....
• Commented on Woman has developed an imaginary, but useful, third arm
  I'm pretty sure the arm only exists in the fourth dimension....
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  "Educational Decree No. 98: Those wishing to join the Inquisitorial Squad for extra credit may sign up in the High Inquisitor's Office..." -- Imelda Staunton as the voice of "Dolores Jane Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the...
• Commented on Hugo ballot is up -- Little Brother up for best novel!
  Novellas are male, novelettes are female....
• Commented on Gandhi's eyeglasses and other items up for bid
  "Look, very rare...Hitler's pencil box!" -- Richard Lee Sung as "Mr. Cho" in M*A*S*H: Dear Mildred...
• Commented on J & B, Still on the Rox
  Heh...LML, I wasn't dogging you for any delays in the DVDs or anything, just mentioning that the guys were in the process of trying to get it out there eventually. I remember the plastic seesaw show too. And "Pots, Pans...
• Commented on J & B, Still on the Rox
  A few, but I don't exactly trust used equipment (and got burned last time I took a VCR in for repairs)....
• Commented on J & B, Still on the Rox
  Last time I picked up a VHS deck I was forced to get one with a DVD player built in (this was immediately after dropping $100 on a new DVD player). If I'd had the scratch for it then, I'd...
• Commented on J & B, Still on the Rox
  I was on ROX a couple times (no, not under this name) and still have a load of VHS tapes stashed away. They've been trying to get the vintage ones ported over to DVD finally also, but it's taking more...
• Commented on Robert Rankin's badass homemade raygun
  If that thing actually works, I might just be feeling a little inadequate right now. If not, then I don't....
• Commented on Easy Encryption
  My handwriting is the only absolutely 100% foolproof encryption scheme on the planet....
• Commented on Senator's bill to ban profanity
  And we actually pay this pisshead titfaced fucktard asshole??...
• Commented on Laughing gas, imagination, and suggestibility
  N2O was the major reason why I always paid my dentist bills....
• Commented on Little digital video camera
  Threads like this always remind me of one of my favorite Star Trek quotes: "The more they overcheck the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty in Star Trek III...
• Commented on Trailer for Psych-Out (1968)
  I got a great deal on the double-feature DVD with Corman's The Trip on side 2, and just screened 'em both a couple months ago. Of the two, and despite the cheesier moments and occasional bit of exploitation, I found...