Puny Humans

Cat tips over kerosine lantern, burns down house. Dog responds by grabbing owner by arm to awaken him, alowing him to escape. This pretty much matches up with my opinion about the base motivations of both dogs AND cats. I read once, of cats, thusly: “Thumbs! If only we had…

Reads

I’ve Been Reading: Warren Ellis – Crooked Little Vein William Gibson – Spook Country Drew Curtis – It’s Not News, It’s Fark Penny Arcade – Birds are Weird Ellis’s book is a fine novel, but somewhat less dark, and much less dense than I was anticipating. I’ll be buying…

Superior Nomenclature

Check out this article about US Army reservists. They mention a guy called “Max Fightmaster”. He’s a Staff Sargeant. STAFF SARGEANT MAX FIGHTMASTER! Although the article states that he’s a computer tech, so he’s likely a tech that’s fit enough to pass basic training, but in…

Neverquest

Sony are making an Everquest movie. Um. I mean, I’m not even sure if they should make a WoW movie, and WoW is pure crack cocaine to Everquests’ dime bag of skunk weed all full of stems and heavily cut with oregano and grass clippings. What’d be hilarious…

Seriously. Rocks.

A man who burst into an Upper Hutt house had a cache of weapons, including a machine pistol. He surrendered to armed police yesterday after officers threw rocks at the house, ending a two-hour standoff that forced shoppers to remain in a nearby supermarket. I had to read that twice.…

There. Defended it. Job done.

These “Media Defender” people seem to have been in the news a lot of late. I’m perplexed at the “value” they bring to the media companies. Their whole reason to exist seems to be to introduce fucked up versions of movies and tv episodes and music into the various…