Here’s my first shot at a “comic blog” (courtesy of stripcreator):
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Women are flocking to heroic epics – The Times Online critic explains why.
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Conan of the Rings
Posted in Carnival of the Vanities, Rants 'n' Whines
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I’m in a place where I don’t know where I am!
All right, all right. All the cool kids are doin’ it, so I might as well.
Click on the GeoURL button to find out who blogs in the cage next door to mine.
Note: I didn’t use exact coordinates. It’s in the neighborhood-ish.
Posted in Wouldya Lookit That!
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Gangs of New York
We went to see Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York Saturday night. It’s a powerful film, tackling a part of American history that is seldom covered in great detail–the violent early days of our largest city.
Posted in Blogcritics, The Big Screen
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Chillin’ With Da Spork Posse
All hail the Spork Queen! Long may she… um, SPORK!
Posted in Wouldya Lookit That!
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December Referrer Madness
I was poring over my stats pages with a magnifying glass today (yeah, like you don’t), and I thought of something that might be cool. Each month, I’d like to thank the people that send visitors to this Groovy place. By that, I mean actual blog link lovin’, not search engines or people clicking on my inane comments in other people’s space just to see what the hell kind of drugs I was taking.
So, here are the Top 20 Sites From Which Nice People Came To Look At The Monkey In The Window in December (drum roll ’em if ya got ’em):
1. PromoGuy – My Monday Mission Master (I promise to actually do one again soon).
2. Dandelion Wine – My favorite adopted college student (because I don’t have to pay the bills).
3. Inside Gretchen’s Head – The best damned agent in the biz (where’s my next gig, babe?).
4. Dania’s Dailies – Did I mention I love Canadians?
5. Techfluid – Going through a bit of an identity crisis right now…
6. Ain’t Too Proud to Blog – Home of the Princess of the Blogiverse™.
7. Ho Ho Holy Shit – Merry Frickin’ Christmas, indeed.
8. Random Ravings – I don’t visit Mr. Peace enough. That must change.
8. Florida Blog – Mark Lane knows where all the bones are buried…
9. Shattered Buddha – My ol’ cookie-bakin’, beer swillin’ bud Dragonleg is the first place I go when I’m bored out of my gourd.
10. The Gamer’s Nook – Life, Politics and Gaming… yup, he’s got those all covered better than anyone else.
11. Hoopty Loops – Oh that Hoopty…
12. Spleenville – Somehow, after meeting us in November, she just didn’t have the heart to be all mean and nasty and stuff (yeah, that’s it). So, now she’s at Too Much To Dream and is much more tolerable (I’m so dead).
13. My Single Mom Life 2 – This is the EVIL Kat’s site. Through most of December, it was her normal site, so that’s why all the hits (not that there’s anything wrong with getting hits from Evil Kat). Her new “normal” site is HERE. Mrs. Rasreth and I adopted her a while back. She hasn’t been much of a problem child… yet…
14. Blogatelle – QOTWFI, ’nuff said.
15. Pizza Dreams – I’ve been trying to adopt Statia as my kid sister, so I’ll have someone to punch in the shoulder and stuff and junk… she ain’t buyin’ it…
16. Gnome-Girl – My favorite West Coast livin’, skateboardin’ baybeeee…
17. feral living – Home of my favorite insect!
18. Big Pink Cookie – The Pink Chick seems to be getting me into trouble lately… hmmm…
19. Brian Kane Online – Citizen Kane has that kinda cool exterior that makes you go… hmmm… is he from the Government? Keep an eye on him, just in case.
20. Send Statia’s Boobies to Florida for Thanksgiving – I can’t believe I’m still getting so many hits from… er, wait, yes I can.
Please, note that this is not just another kiss-ass way for me to get on the front pages of more blogs. Yeah right. I sincerely believe that these people have put me in prime locations out of the goodness of their hearts. And me whining at them for months. They simply have readers with great taste and wit, who like to explore beyond the tiny confines of their usual blog reads. And couldn’t resist finding out what the hell type of tractor part a Solonor was. I thank them all.
Posted in Referrer Madness
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Spork Posse Off Da Hizzie Fo Sheezy
OK, so, like I’m having this conversation at this pink chick’s hizzouse about sporks and posse’s and stuff, when the discussion turns to whether it’s “hizzouse” or “hizzie”. And since I am so down with all that shiat, I impart wads o’ wisdom. When, suddenly, this chick points me at this place where I find this thing that makes me all verklempt.
Don’t worry. I barely understand it myself.
Posted in Strangeness
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You Need a Good Breakfast, That’s a Fact
So, Whiny the Elder wouldn’t get his butt out of bed in time for breakfast this morning…
ME: Aren’t you gonna be hungry? You need food.
WHINY: Bah! Food is for tiny, wussy people who say, “Ooh, I’m a tiny, wussy person. I need food.” Have you ever heard me say that?
ME: You just did.
WHINY: So hungry…
Posted in Life, the Universe and Everything
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I Reckon
At the risk of simultaneously sounding too geeky to live and too useless to be a true geek, I have been struggling with creating a script to show the current date in Shire Reckoning, according to the scheme found at The Shire-Reckoning.com.
Yeah, I know there’s this, but I haven’t put enough brain power into figuring out how to make it work, yet. Note to self: Ask for better PERL skillz next Christmas.
For now, I’ll just say, today is Highday, 20 Afteryule, some such year or another…
Posted in Strangeness
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Hidden Bias? Me? Never!
I saw this on TV a week or so ago, then promptly forgot about it. The Southern Poverty Law Center has a site called Tolerance.org that focuses on fighting hate and promoting tolerance. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Liberal claptrap and all that mush. Bite me.)
Anyway, they’ve actually got a neat little group of tests designed to uncover whether you’re as color-blind as you think you are. A series of pictures and words flash on the screen, and you must quickly categorize the image. For example, in the Native American test I took, you are shown white faces and Native American faces to put into the categories “White” or “Native American” (duh). Then, a series of place names are shown for you to tag as either “American” or “Foreign”. This is followed by a series of white faces to place in those categories (they tell you if you’re wrong). Finally, all the images and words are mixed together, leaving you to quickly decide: “American or Foreign?” The whole point being that, if we are left to decide whether a white face is American or Foreign, we’ll probably choose American, whereas a Native American face will be labeled “Foreign”.
Even though my results showed “Moderate automatic association between Native American faces and American,” I have several problems with this kind of test. It only measures instant reaction, not actual racial bias. One of the hallmarks of tolerance is to stifle your natural, human tendency to be wary of those outside your “tribe.” I might instantly react to someone with a hundred tattooes and piercings with “Ewww, scary!” That doesn’t mean I’ll treat them any differently, or that they won’t wind up being the coolest dude or dudette I ever met. Plus, if I knew who all the stupid white faces were, I would have put them in the right place! In fact, I tended to overcompensate and choose “Foreign” for all the whites! So, that kinda blows the test.
Anyway, it never hurts to do a little self-inspection. Go give it a shot. I’ll let you know how intolerant I am after I take the rest of the tests.
[ via The People’s Republic of Seabrook (I think he’s a damn furrinner…) ]
Native Americans as American: Moderate automatic association between Native American faces and American.
Sexual Bias: Slight automatic preference for Straight people.
Racial Bias (Arab Muslims): Moderate automatic preference for Other peoples.
Posted in Wouldya Lookit That!
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Amish Blogmeet
Looks like the Pennsylvania Branch of the 
bloggers are having a little hoopty-doo in The Poconos in March.
Where’d I put my buggy whip?
Posted in Yo! Listen Up!
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