R.I.P.

My turtle died this weekend and I am very sad about it.

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- Inconceivable.
- Captain Bicycle.
- Fun game.
- Yikes.
- Check out these great beer reviews. Two Guys On Beer.
- I agree with the sentencing.
- For the love of.....
- Moon landing map.
- Hooray!
- Unreal.
- WANT ONE!
- Famous last words.
- Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone.
- Interesting.
- I thought his face was going to come off.
- Welcome home, boys.
- Who owns all the cars.
- From the superhero movie, this is spot on.
- This guy's great.
- Remember that walking robot from last week? Here's the prototype.
- So?
- Just when I try to start liking Gore again.
- Hilary wasn't lying about being under fire! Video proof!

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Fun Lovin' Criminals
Scooby Snacks
Reminds me of high school

Music Cavalcade pt. 4

I was in a bad mood this morning and it's been a weird day already so lets see how that affects the playlist.


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Iron and Wine
Boy with a Coin
That's a beard



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People in Planes
If You Talk Too Much
Directed by Joaquin Phoenix



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Thursday
Understanding (in a car crash)
Screemo....their first album was great....i thought the following ones were garbage.



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Limp Bizkit
Re-Arranged
Jim? Is that you?



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Method Man Remixed by Prodigy
Release Yo' Delf
I love this so much

Turtle, turtle

Many of you know I have three turtles. Well, the first one someone bought me then I got the second 2 on my own. They are already officially the oldest pets I have ever had. The first one I got has never grown. He has not grown because he has what is called softshell(leaves them in terrible pain) and he doesn't get to eat because, I found out, the other two bully him for all the food.

Now I think due to this Cooter has been close to deaths door. So I cant stand to just let him die so I took him to the vet. Now this is what I really wanted to tell you about. My roommate was happy I was taking him, but every other person I told laughed at me. My boss, who sucks, laughed to the point where conversation stopped, for like 10 - 15 seconds.

I'm not usually offended but in the time between writing that last paragraph and starting this one my boss came up to me and joked about making turtle soup out of them. Imagine if I came up to you and asked if you were going to make Chinese food out of your sick cat. While I love offensive humor and (i.e.) tasteless Terry Schiavo jokes , I would NEVER tell them to her parents. Not that human= turtle.

Heroes in a half shell.
'thew

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- I've been telling you Battlestar Galactica is amazing.
- What percentage of military deaths came after "Mission Accomplished"?
- Well at least Bush was genuinely sympathetic....Cheney is just a monster.
- That's crazy.
- Whose pictures do you think this pictures is made out of?
- Man, I must be trying to piss people off today.
- Most controversial political ads in history. I like the LBJ one.
- Real Life Homer. Creepy. Check this Famous Art depicted in the Simpsons.
- That's absurd. But monitor your damn children online!
- These are great.
- How much?
- All South Park episodes. Online. For free. And it's legal!
- And some think I'm geeky for having 2 monitors.
- Beautiful.
- Snake eyes!
- Someone who is a fan of this White House explain this to me...how does this happen?
- Whoa!
- Caste systems.
- Aurora Borealis from space.
- What?!
- Another map of the internets.
- Mary Todd was a bitch.

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The Raconteurs
Salute Your Solution
New album out yesterday

Family Gatherings

Seeing many of my family this Easter Sunday was refreshing for the soul.(Loyal readers too!)

'thew

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- Maybe the change can come about in the country without us(read:US) getting involved.
- Numbers on the war 5 years in.
- Jackie Chan is the man.
- Pentagon admits it.
- That's a big crater.
- I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
- Anyone remember Croonchy Stars?

Massive links Wednesday.

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Arrested Development
Tennessee
A Game of horseshoes!

watching the tourney

I be busy watchin b-ball. No cavalcade.

Arthur C. Clarke

R.I.P.


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- SNL is still funny. MacGruber!
- Look what we can do.
- Freedom Boarding.
- St Patrick's jerks.
-Ha ha! Your medium is dying.
- New Philly skyscraper will be tallest in country and hemisphere.
- Obama's wonderful speech.
- Touching.
- That's not good.
- Cool.
- What are we teaching children?! She's a hero, don't punish her.
- This completely expresses my sentiment on these things.
- Is this real?
- Hey! Look at that. Some good news!
- Look what we can do.
- HAHAHA.
- This is frickin' crazy.
- Crzy azns.

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The Muppets
Mahna Mahna
Something silly today.

St. Patty's Day

Happy St. Patty's Day! Now get outta my bars!

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- Look at that thing dance!
- When will you get added?
- Sounds like thought police to me.
- Haha...though number 1 is weak.
- How sad.
- Cool animation.
- Hilarious.
- Actually only one is real but still cool nonetheless.
- Ecto-1!
- Cool.
- This is what the Superman movie should have been like.
- The origin of the Universe.
- You might like this.
- Cool representation.
- Afraid of losing, the GOP is dastardly.
- Awesome news.
- This makes me so angry. I blame the parents.
- I agree on this but he actually dares to use the word Orwellian?! What a loon.
- Cool.
- Haha. Take that, street cred.
- Gross.
- You idiots.
- Oh well, then I guess you'd better stare into the sun.
- Science photos.

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Kaki King
Playing with Pink Noise
Reminds me of Rodrigo Y Gabriela.

Music Cavalcade Pt. 3

Placebo
Pure Morning
This whole album is great



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Portishead
Only You
This is directed by Chris Cunningham, one of my favorite video directors...very dark. I hope he starts directing movie soon.



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Fatboy Slim
Praise You
This is so great. "We got some b-boy moves, guys."



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Root Down
This and the one above are directed by Spike Jonze.



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Radiohead
Blow Out
This band will be as influential to music over the next 40 years as the Beatles were over the last 40.

Spam. A Lot.

So for the first of the next 100 posts I've been wanting to show you guys a compilation of the best Spam headlines I've gotten lodged in my spam filter. Enjoy:

Sometimes the names are just as great. My comments in blue.

Name || Title

Canaan Zuckovas || Women hate small equipment (like a camcorder?)
Santos Scruggs || Stop feel shy of your device size (your blackberry is more confident than mine)
Shamir Sandberg || All your gay issues solved (Thank heavens! What will happen to the Bravo network?!)
Albert Wilson || Our target is your happy life (Why do you want to destroy it?)
Blanca Haney || Patek Phillipe as low as 229$ (He's cheap!)
brod basil || She will call you Macho (I shall call her Consuela!)
Mohammad Childress || Did you not fix this? (NO!)

There are a ton more that I cant reprint here, as you can imagine.

Spammin',
'thew

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- The Digital shorts on SNL are almost always hilarious. I lost it at the end of this one.
- The sheer amount of money being wasted(paid to halliburton et al.) saddens me.
- George Carlin.
- One is missing.
- A sea of people by the sea.
- Montel Williams get's it straight. This should go for all news channels. Not just Fox.
- Haha. Celebs if they were poor and midwestern.
- Traffic jams recreated.
- Top ten hubble images.
- Electronic Rubik's Cube.
- I brain zombies.
- Ahhhhhhhhh!
- Now you can see why I do it.
- Great if you are a fan of LOST.
- White rabbit Star Trek. Sulu's face is the best.
- Get bent, dude.
- Wait they' re not even paying taxes?! Now I'm pissed off.
- That's on Mars.
- They flooded the grand canyon.
- Brett Favre through the years.
- The newest boy band. Careful you might catch the bear ass of a comedian.
- Can something be cute AND gross?
- This was very interesting to me.
- Beautiful bridges.
- The evolution of alternative music.
- Yeah, really.

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Jake Shimabukuro
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
At the 3rd minute mark it goes off.

100

This is #100. Do you believe it? Well, do ya, punk?

If you want to see another 100, please watch this.

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- Haha...free speech.
- Atheism's Commandment.
- (NSFW maybe)Hot chicks with Douchebags...I've become a regular reader of this...hilarious and true.
- AHAHAHA.
- The Bush Legacy.
- Bottled Whater.
- They seem accommodating.
- Conspiracies that are true!
- (NSFW definitely....also probably not safe for anywhere.) Will Arnett from Arrested Development is a genius. (Update....this was broadcast on MTV....still NSFW. Do you know what station your children are watching?)
- Funny old baseball cards.
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Queens of the Stone Age
Little Sister
In honor of lead singer Josh Homme being a guest appearance on ATHF last night.

Friday Music Cavalcade - Pt. 2

The Decemberists
Summersong
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Suicidal Tendencies
Institutionalized
All I wanted was a Pepsi...



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One of These Days
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James Brown and Pavarotti
This is a Man's World
To take you out...

CLIN-TON!!!!

Seriously Hilleree...go away. You are bothering those that want to unite this country. It's making the dems look weak in the upcoming election because you hang on in an eventual impossibility bid.

Go away and do something for your country and not yourself. Thank you.

Stumpin'

'thew

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- Crazy buildings.
- St. Joe's Prep quiz.
- Balloon tank.
- Forget how big Alaska is?
- Moses was high?
- Cellphones of the future...my sister will have them as soon as they come out.
- He spent well over a year ON VACATION.
- Subprime mortgage explained in layman's terms. NSFW language
- Jack's faces. Only funny if you watch Lost.
- Great article about how a game can become art.
- Cute OVERLOAD! More.
-That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
- Amazing Honda ad. (Morley for the win!)
- Grafitti Artist Bansky.
- That certainly takes a brass set.
- Death Star hotel.
- This made me laugh.
- Sweeeeeeeeeeeet. (Only cool if you are cool(You watch Battlestar Galactica))
- Whoa! Joey Whoa!

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Yeasayer
2080
This is a fan made video.

Reactions

When people are told by me or someone else I write this blog, they usually express one of three reactions: They are either, genuinely impressed, slightly bemused, or, as best I can describe it, snarky apprehension. The first two are understandable. The first, that maybe that I am writing, or that this thing actually turns a tiny profit. Tiny. The second reaction, they really don't pay attention to blogs, or don't know what they are, which is fine, maybe that gets them to check them out.

But the third one really surprises me. Some people seem to genuinely look down upon it. All blogging. I am curious whether it is in response to a new "nerd fad" or a feeling of jealousy in not doing it themselves. Either way if they don't want to read it they can go take a long walk of a short bridge.

Blastin',
'thew

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- Stuff White People Like. Hilarious blog about what its titled.
- 6 things we need to see in the Arrested Development movie.
- What?! Why?
- Why aren't we using this in Iraq? If you saw the 60 minutes piece, you'd wonder too.
- Yummy. Bacon cups.
- So explain to me how or why our beautiful system of checks and balances is NOT being honored?
- Gross.
- HAHA. Ass.
- Check it.
- Map of the internetting.
- There are way too many of these types in America. Thank you MTV, for turning a generation into stuck up, selfish, entitled idiots.
- I hope they don't think they are taking that anywhere.
- I hope this isn't true.
- Play all your favorite NES games right in your browser.
- Whoa.
- What a guy.
- Interesting look at the dichotomy of being "American".
- I for one welcome our robotic overlords...
- Terrible...
- Timeline of media misdirection.
- Ahhh, Rick Astley, you are the greatest....Never gonna give, never gonna give...
- That's one way to come into the world.
- Just.....awesome. I wonder if they can do Rick Astley?

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Blind Faith
Can't Find My Way Home
This short lived band included Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood