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Evil Scientist

11:14 / 03.07.08

The films of Ice Cube are NOT to be criticised by the likes of us.

Nuke Kids on the Bloc

11:39 / 03.07.08

Isn't Zombies of Mars the better title, though.

Play to your strengths, film-makers.

Phil

17:09 / 03.07.08

How fast, exactly, would a "Bat Rock" tempo be, as seen in an arrangement of the Batman Theme to be played by the Mattapoisett town band sometime this summer?

Jim Farmer says it's a solid allegro, but I don't know if the awesomeness of Batman's brand of rock tempo can be qualified in such a mundane way.

grant

17:25 / 03.07.08

I think it's slower than it feels.

Sorry if that's a non-random post.

No higher than 120 bpm, maybe even 115 bpm, I think. Allegro moderato?

Phil

17:46 / 03.07.08

That's actually surprisingly accurate, now that I think about it. If the driving eigth notes are played too quickly under the melody, then some of the effect is lost. Likewise, if the tempo is allowed to drop any slower, the song drags and Batman might as well be out eating fast food instead of fulfilling the role of enigmatic vigilante that I've come to love.

Evil Scientist

10:46 / 04.07.08

You know who's also in Ghosts of Mars that only adds to its glory.

Once and future Doctor Who Jason Statham.

"Time to stay alive."

Oh yes.

Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)

11:36 / 04.07.08

Yeah, but doesn't he die? Good job there, Statham.

Evil Scientist

12:25 / 04.07.08

Statham cannot die, only the actors that play Statham can die.

Umm...hang on...

Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

20:17 / 14.07.08

I'm fairly prone to hyperbole, and regularly chuck around phrases like "the greatest book ever written" (usually in reference to Dhalgren, Blood Meridian or Ruby And The Stone Age Diet). But it occurs to me that if such a beast actually exists, I don't want to read the fucker until I'm on my deathbed, because otherwise it'll make everything else look crap by comparison, and therefore ruin reading for me for the rest of my life.

If that sounds overly precious and high-falutin', then please bear in mind that I gave up watching telly for about five years after Sunset Beach finished, on the grounds that after that anything would be a letdown.

Dead Megatron

22:20 / 14.07.08

Two days without internet or cable TV*!!!! It felt like the dark ages(aka "the 80s") all over again.

* or any TV at all,as a matter of fact.

ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
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00:08 / 16.07.08

I can, quite categorically, say that my dream job at this moment would be scripting episodes for an ongoing version of Mignola's Amazing Screw-On Head cartoon. It's a crying, crying shame that they only ever made one, because it's a thing of beauty and I'm inspired every time I happen to see it.

Liger, Audaciously Hopefull
(prev. Liger Null)

04:05 / 16.07.08

I think the most shocking thing in The Aristocrats is how attractive Drew Carey is when not in his Dilbert drag.

I really need to get out more.

Nuke Kids on the Bloc

22:41 / 17.07.08

Mistletoffelees
(prev. Mist van der Rohe)

23:28 / 17.07.08

There better be no droppings on this post.

Nuke Kids on the Bloc

23:35 / 17.07.08

But it brings good luck!

Evil Scientist

11:29 / 18.07.08

I know Barbelith is a little like Gotham in The Dark Knight Returns these days. What with the Mutants running all over the place, and Superman working for The Man, and Hal Jordan going back to the stars and all.

But it's nice to know Batman's still here.

Keggers From The Crypt

15:09 / 18.07.08

Oooh. Now I can play Duck Hunt: Barbelith edition?

Dutch

04:37 / 19.07.08

A proverb I knicked from a documentary about Andre Chickatillo:

"Never trust a fat man in times of hunger",

has been going through my mind for the past two weeks.

Dutch

05:39 / 19.07.08

There is no alcohol on planet teatotalerion

Dead Megatron

22:12 / 28.07.08

I understand it's a tragedy, and in tragedies characters die, more often than not in very stupid, easily-avoidable ways caused by unbelievably absurd misunderstandings, but god! every damn time I see this play I walk away feeling the same way: why, o why, Billy, did you have to kill poor Ophelia??? All the other characters had it coming, one way or the other, but that sweet kid deserved better.

ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
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00:47 / 29.07.08

By the time I actually see The Dark Knight, I'm probably going to be dying of Batman fatigue.

Keggers From The Crypt

00:53 / 29.07.08

ditto

Mistletoffelees
(prev. Mist van der Rohe)

09:54 / 04.08.08

There is an article about a new novel about the US civil war "Coal Black Horse". The author´s name is the same as the one from the protagonist of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", Robert Olmstead.

kallisti

13:09 / 04.08.08

I was pleasantly surprised by "The Lover of Ursa Major" by Sergiusz Piasecki, a Polish book from the 1930s. Slow developments, no major storyline, just a great book about life on the border between Poland and Soviet. Books are too to the point, nowadays.

Evil Scientist

15:49 / 08.08.08

I may stand alone in the belief that the Absolute edition of Final Crisis should have a title that reads "Absolute Final Crisis (no really)", and it may not be a gag that is even particularly funny or original, but I say unto you...Oh leave me alone, it's Friday and I'm 30 minutes away from hometime.

Janean Patience

10:37 / 15.08.08

Every year at this time of year, anticipating the pictures on the front of British broadsheet papers accompanying stories about record A-level results, I wish the songs of The Smiths and particularly the first album had made a bigger impact on the public consciousness. Because then there'd be a chance of a sub-editor using the headline that pointlessly haunts me, "PRETTY GIRLS' GRADE As."

As an aside, there's no way A-levels are getting easier. It's just that in my day we didn't get good grades because we were all lazy, thick twats.

Janean Patience

13:50 / 16.08.08

And while I'm attempting to exorcise pointless puns that drift through my neural network, I wish there was a use for almost being able to dismiss all the BBC's prominent historians in one faux-Jewish phrase: "Marr Schama."

Keggers From The Crypt

06:33 / 10.09.08

-At the reading of the Cleaver will-

Wally: Gosh Beav, They really did leave it to you.

Tsuga

02:15 / 13.09.08

Wal-Mart has a new logo. And now it's just Walmart. I thought about it, and the new logo looked kind of similar to another compressed-named corporation:

Is that random?

ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
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01:17 / 19.09.08

It would be wrong of me to have a child purely so I could name hir "Yeti."

Keggers From The Crypt

01:34 / 19.09.08

First thing I thought of when I saw the new Walmart logo was Kurt Vonnegut's ass drawing that he often includes when signing books.

astrojax69

05:04 / 19.09.08

not if you have twins, papers, and name t'other 'sasquatch'.

i've been wondering what the tallest peak on the palnet would be if all the seas drained away. i have no idea of where to find an answer.

maybe you should procreate, papers, and yeti and brother sasquatch could investigate this?

Pingle music is not a crime

13:51 / 19.09.08

Vonnegut still signs books? That seems quite impressive.

freektemple

14:59 / 19.09.08

i've been wondering what the tallest peak on the palnet would be if all the seas drained away. i have no idea of where to find an answer.

It would still be Everest, surely.

Quantum

15:38 / 19.09.08

"Hawaii's Mauna Kea rises an astonishing 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth."

from here

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