Amusements

A few random amusements for you, before I toddle off to get some real work done:



A terrible audio track that my friend Jack posted that WILL make you laugh.
Sunset Grill is a webcomic made by my friend Kat.
Anyone notice that Obama mentioned non-believers [...]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Doh and Whew!

Well, I don’t know why, but suddenly my blog template is malfunctioning in a very weird, and very specific way. I’m not sure what the cause is, or whether it has to do with my recently upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress, but for some reason, the templates that are working perfectly on [...]

The Fake Yuzna (I’m Pretty Sure)

Would it be weirder if a famous horror movie producer/director — Brian Yuzna, a successful popularizer of H.P. Lovecraft in cinematic form — had stopped off in the Washington area and visited my site and crapped in the comments section over a disagreement with my opinion on zombies movies, even though it seems not at [...]

Stuff Going On

Well, lots of things going on… in a personal sense, too, though I’m not ready to blog my recent news.
Instead:

There’s some great fiction online that I need to link to. For now, just one story: the wonderfully nastyglee party that is Tina Connolly’s “A Day Out, with Stereoscopes” is up at Birkensnake. I’ve a copy [...]

fErthEr bRrilyaNtS on the bLlogossSFearz [all very sic, sic, sic]

Yes, it seems people out there truly want to be mocked in a public forum! On my entry here, a review of Jonathan Spence’s The Question of Hu, an entertaining little text which is also a great introduction to Spence’s approach to Chinese history, one Anthony Dawkin (let’s assume he can spell his own name, [...]

Surface-to-Troll Smackdown

If you troll my site, I will delete your comment unreplied to, unless it’s worth posting in a post of its own for a little mockery and hack’n’slash, because heaven knows on a long day, that’s a great stress reliever. Frex, the following comment that showed up on this post.

Anon
[Email address: cunninglinguist [[[#AT#]]]yahoo.com – [...]

골프 영어 학원?

(Trans. “Golf English Cram School”?)
It could have happened.

Responding to protests, the Ladies Professional Golf Assn. announced Friday that it would back down on suspending golfers who do not speak adequate English, reversing a controversial decision that had thrown the organization smack into the nation’s long-running culture wars.
The LPGA Tour had announced last month that it [...]

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