Edward Gorey Adaptation of "Trouble with Tribbles"

I like Gorey. I like Star Trek. I love this.

Lord Byron on Religion

"I do not believe in any religion. I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another."

- Lord Byron

Bush Will Protect Us From Those Who Would Eat Our Brains

Philip sent this my way:

This is Internet Commenting

What if common "social web" behaviors were applied in life?

Very funny, NSFW (language).

Flogging Molly kicks ass

Woo!

Yesterday, we drove to Buffalo to go to the Warped Tour. Yeah, that's a little out of character- but we had good reason and a great time.

My friend Meesh, who I've known since high school, married Bob Schmidt. Bob plays mandolin and banjo in kick-butt Irish-rock band Flogging Molly.

We actually just met Bob a few weeks ago at my high school reunion after hearing about him for years from Meesh and mutual friends Ellen and Eric. Turns out that they hadn't exaggerated. Bob really is ridiculously nice and a charming, funny, smart feller. After saying goodbye at the end of the reunion, Liz and I commented to each other that we absolutely had to see Flogging Molly play the next time they played within reasonable driving distance of Syracuse. Heck, if we didn't love the band, we'd still get to hang with Bob- and that would be worth a drive.

So Meesh called earlier this week to let us know that FM was playing about two hours from us and that Bob would put us on the guest list if we were interested. We jumped at the chance. I got the afternoon off from work and we drove a couple of hours west.

Bob met us at the gates and walked us through the grounds for the Warped Tour.



Liz mocked me for taking a picture of all the band tour busses, but I thought it was an interesting sight.



So we got to meet the band (who are remarkably pleasant and friendly considering that they deal with a lot of gawking doofuses like me every day) and we got to see Bob's preparation to play as he described some of the logistics of the event.



And this was cool: we got to stand on stage while they played. It was really cool to see waves of teenagers chanting every single lyric.







Flogging Molly was amazing. If you have the chance to see them perform in person, you really, really, really should. The CDs are great, but just can't compare. There's no more ass left to kick anywhere near Buffalo- they kicked it all. More ass will need to be shipped in from Rochester or Albany for future acts that come through town and want to do some kicking.

Bob also got us on stage for Bad Religion's set and made it possible for me to shake Greg Graffin's hand. I have been listening to Bad Religion or about 15 years, so that was a real treat.







Bob and his bandmates spent a couple of hours signing autographs and taking pictures with fans (all warmly and cheerfully, mind you), so we walked around and watched Warped as it started to wrap.







We went out for dinner at the only restaurant nearby we could find before Liz and I headed back to the 'Cuse. It was loads of fun and we're hoping to see both Meesh and Bob at a Flogging Molly show in September.

If you haven't heard Flogging Molly, you should. Listen below. Buy CDs. Go see 'em live.


SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search

Yideoz: a Jewish YouTube Clone

Oy.

http://www.yideoz.com/

Muffins

I hate myself for being amused by this.


Worse, there are tons of tribute videos.

Incarcerex: For Electile Disfunction

Thanks for pointing this out, James!

The future of computing: a big-ass table

When I first saw this video of Microsoft's "surface computing" a few months ago, I really was impressed.

But today I saw this parody:

It turns out that Elton John is an Idiot

Who knew?

Sir Elton thinks the internet is ruining music.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html

Futurama Returns in November!

Yay! Below: Trailer from Comic-Con



16 new episodes will be shown on Comedy Central AND sold on DVD.

Again: Yay!

Kevin Smith to direct Heros spin-off

This means that we can expect these first six episiodes to contain a lot of fart jokes?