Archive for September, 2007

Good Noises: The Darkest of Hillside Thickets

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

The Darkest of Hillside Thickets is a theme band dedicated to rock based on HP Lovecrafts mythos. This can easily turn camp but their album The Shadow Out Of Tim is surprisingly good with some songs that have interesting stories in them and nice musical hooks. It is sort of a story album, but as [...]

Do Not Call List Expiring

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

If you registered with the federal Do Not Call Registry when it was first created your registration is about to expire. Why? Keeps people employed doesn’t it. Anyway, I didn’t know the registrations expired every five years, did you?

Dinosaurs Lived In Harmony With Nature*

Friday, September 21st, 2007

The dinosaur age was was actually a garden of eden like paradise with pleasant giant turkeys wandering about rather than fierce Jurassic Park monsters. This combined with the polite T-Rex that would only eat you if you were already dead shows that if we could somehow return to the dinosaur age we could skip about [...]

Friday? Web Badge Day!

Friday, September 14th, 2007

My Rockstar name is: What’s yours?* Via Poptown * Yes, I know these are a waste of time, but it made me chuckle.

Summer of Fear Podcast: Help I Am Being Eaten By A Bear

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The only podcast you will listen today narrated by a jerk being eaten by a bear. You will laugh, you will cry, you will believe a man can be eaten by a bear.

I Love The UK, I Swear To God

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

OK, real news story: The study, carried out by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, looked at 35 recipes published by five of the most popular celebrity chefs and assessed their readability and writing style. So the government in the UK has nothing better to do then criticize celebrity chefs for being too wordy. [...]

End of a Tradition

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

For years the UK newspapers have used fat American’s as an excuse for a number of things like the widening of theater seats in London and the like. Indeed in certain types of stories ‘American’ became a euphemism for fatso. I would then go into the city center of Nottingham and see hundreds, sometimes thousands [...]

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Just in time to improve a dismal season for the Orioles, another steroids controversy. I was wondering if the season could get any more dire, I guess it can.

Good Noises: Blaze Foley – Live At The Austin Outhouse

Friday, September 7th, 2007

I got an email from someone on Amazon asking if I would listen to an album and review it based on a review I had done for a Merle Haggard album that I enjoyed. I replied I had never heard of the artist but would give them a listen and put up a review. The [...]

Blasphemy

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

This is one of the most hideous things I have ever encountered on the internet. No sex, no gore just absolute mind numbing blasphemy. Don’t click through unless you are prepared for ruin and despair.