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• Commented on Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009
  @#58 Brother Provisional: Circumstance is one thing, but it's hardly the only determinant in one's life. I come from a long line of lower-class white people, and I don't act like that. Never did. I was repeatedly disenfranchised, bullied, and...
• Commented on Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minutemen turns 25.
  I was born too late to catch the Minutemen in their heyday, sadly. In a weird twist, I only found out about them in the first place because I read a guitar mag interview with Watt around the time of...
• Commented on Mariachis covering unlikely songs
  Funny? Not really. Indescribably awesome? Well yeah, now we're getting somewhere......
• Commented on Abusive "coal-thugs" try to break up anti-mountaintop-removal festival
  On a more perplexing note, did anyone else notice the apparent Purple Nurple the big guy receives at 1:31-2? Maybe that's why he was so cranky......
• Commented on Obama promises to suspend Habeas Corpus
  #4- ...so, we ought not worry because our government promises to incarcerate people indefinitely only when it's absolutely sure that they might be inclined to do something dangerous in the future? Well, I for one feel better already......
• Commented on Dear Esther: bizarre, touching Half Life 2 mod
  Is there some literary or cultural significance to the phrase 'Dear Esther'? I only ask because as I was reading up on this mod an old Chuck Mosely-era Faith No More track came up in my shuffle ('Crab Song'), and...
• Commented on Obama Shoes
  @#2 ...and yet the catalogue promised they'd be transparent. Those are some highl disappointing shoes......
• Commented on Altruistic vaccines: take them after you get sick and your blood becomes mosquito-poison
  I love this idea- it's practically a poster-case for lateral thinking -but there's a traitorous little voice in the back of my head endlessly repeating: What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? What could......
• Commented on Apple's censors remove NiN app and Anda's Game from iPhone store, citing "objectionable content"
  The sun rises, the sky is blue, and Apple thinks it can tell its users what to do with what they've bought. Dog bites man, in other words....
• Commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
  I don't know what it is about Ohio, but here in Columbus we usually encounter 1-3 of these in any given year (and damned if that doesn't sound like a Monster Manual statistic). I confess in the past I've been...
• Commented on New age holy water
  #14 posted by Takuan Too damned right - I wish I'd thought of it first....
• Commented on The Big Takeover: A Must-Read from Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi
  #2 - Truthfully, in this case I'm not sure the analogy is valid. Our regulators have been quite brazenly wearing fishnets for years, and not once did any of 'em actually say no to the assault. At the risk of...
• Commented on Video: Fast reflex
  #12 - I don't know about motivational speaking, but if there's a career field for motivational pugilism this guy's gonna rise to the top. Come to think of it, if there's not such a thing as motivational pugilism I think...
• Commented on AIG Ripoff Gets More Maddening
  Count me with the shotgun crowd. Torches and pitchforks just won't get the message across anymore....
• Commented on NBC Stars Whimper About Jon Stewart's Skewering of CNBC
  The strangest thing about Santelli's spiel is the bit where he asks a room full of financial industry professionals (or simulacra thereof) what they think about bailing average Americans out of their end of the crisis, taking their shouted "No!"...
• Commented on Kid on Drugs
  #11 elagie: I'm sorry, I don't see the humor -- or the wisdom of the apparent over-anesthesia. My eight year old daughter had a tooth pulled with the aid of nothing more than some bubblegum scented laughing gas. Okay. But...
• Commented on Songsmithed version of Billy Idol's "White Wedding"
  The problem I have with Songsmith is that it doesn't seem capable of any sort of consistency. The chord progression changes seemingly at random, without any seeming relation to what Mr. Idol's singing at the moment. It really sounds like...
• Commented on Scrabble-tile keyboard
  Nice. But why's it got two F4 keys?...
• Commented on Voice Box - electronic harmonizer
  ...ahem... WANT....
• Commented on Frozen soap bubbles
  The pictures: lovely. The site's interface: maddening....
• Commented on Bush snubbed at G20 Summit
  The whole topic reeks to me of cheapshottery regardless of whose hand he might've shaken beforehand. After eight years of idiot knife fight tactics from the current administration and its fan club, I'd like to think the opposition in their...
• Commented on Unicorn Chaser
  Hate to say it but I don't find this any less unsettling than Jonestown....
• Commented on Man carves carrot and plays it as a clarinet
  Funny you should post this - I was walking through the produce aisle this very evening, wondering what would happen if Pete Postlethwaite were genetically spliced with Patrick Stewart. Talk about serendipity. Freeow!...
• Commented on How to avoid getting stuck in a ditch...
  For some reason the constant repetition of the phrase "drive into a ditch" now has me thinking of the Kids In the Hall sketch about never putting salt in your eyes....
• Commented on Apartments Designed to Challenge Residents
  As a child I always used to wonder what it would be like to live in a Habitrail. This strikes me as a pretty fair approximation, minus the whole crapping-in-cedar-shavings part....
• Commented on Last Supper Menu revealed: mmm, delicious eels.
  At the risk of pointing out the obvious, the inclusion of eels probably has more to do with Da Vinci-era Italy's culinary tastes than those of Christ-era Israel. That said, grilled eel with orange slices sounds really feakin' good to...
• Commented on Kid dressed as The Joker arrested for supervillainous crime of poster theft
  There is no telephone listing under his name in the Three Rivers area. ...because he lives in his parents' basement....
• Commented on Yahoo Music shutting down its DRM server, customers lose all their paid-for music the next time they crash or upgrade
  Instead, Yahoo recommends the old, lame, and lossy workaround of burning the files to CD, then reripping them onto the computer. Wait...did Yahoo! just advise all three of their digital music customers to violate federal law, or did someone finally...
• Commented on Eccentric dude puts lyrics to famous film scores (like Batman!)
  If he didn't play it so deadpan, the video wouldn't have been half as funny. Great stuff....
• Commented on Homophobic politician sends self-published comic book to voters
  John Coulthart: they give you the toga when you collect your copy of The Gay Agenda. The bastards! I joined the Vast Homosexual Conspiracy and all I got was a lousy Cher CD....