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I also write Britishisms, a blog about moving to the US, and Tuneage, a music blog I co-founded. I curate Give Me Something to Read. I started Word Journal, and I occasionally contribute to The Small Picture.
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Vintage Mouse Porn is pre-1970s porn, re-drawn with cartoon mice.
I have no idea why.
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The kind of girl that suggests we buy Snow Leopard and gets excited when I give her a Field Notes notebook.
And sees me writing this post and comments: “gay.”
That’s my kind of girl.
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Decaf Diary
Day 1: I accidentally bought decaffeinated coffee. Never mind, I’ll give it a go, I guess.
Day 2: Fuck this bullshit. Buying real coffee.
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Here’s the family tree that inthefade is referring to (I assume). This thing starts all the way back at Katzenjammer in 1988 (Brant Bjork, Josh Homme, and Nick Oliveri made up 3 of its members) and traces it right up to QOTSA 2001-era when Grohl took up drumming for them.
This used to be on QOTSA’s website, until it was taken down (Josh Homme commented that it became more like a forest than a tree), but thanks to archive.org, the tree as of 2006 is still accessible.
An updated version of this would be a fun weekend project.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Kyuss - “Demon Cleaner”
Merlin knows exactly how to get my day off to a good start: by making sure the first thing I see on Saturday morning is Queens of the Stone Age live. Heather and I just so happen to have been killing “Songs for the Deaf” for most of last week.
Last night, however, I introduced Heather to Kyuss. Here — on their 1994 album “Welcome to Sky Valley” — we find Josh Homme, pre-Queens, with Scott Reeder’s first album appearance (replacing Nick Oliveri, whose name you know because of QOTSA and Mondo Generator). The drummer? Brant Bjork. He joined Fu Manchu right after this album. What a line-up.
I tried to find a live performance on Youtube, but this song was on one of the Guitar Hero releases, so it’s all video replays of some assbag scoring 100% on Super Duper Expert mode.
Here’s Tool covering it in 1998, having invited Scott Reeder to play bass. So good.
It’s definitely a stoner rock kind of weekend.
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The F Word →
Last night’s episode of South Park was magnificent. If you didn’t see it: it was all about the word “fag” changing its meaning to the more broad “irritating douchebag” (specifically, in this episode, with reference to Harley-Davidson-riding bikers). I loved how they made the process of the definition being amended such a big deal, I loved the “bike-curious” joke (best part of the whole episode), and I loved Emmanuel Lewis being the lead “English Dictionary Officiate” (a fairly obscure pun, to me, that I had to have Wikipedia explain). Language buffs will get a kick out of this one, as will anyone looking for a socially authoritative reference for it being ok to call a person a faggot (if South Park satirizing it doesn’t make it ok, I don’t know what does).
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CrunchPad Dead? Delayed By Higher-Than-Expected Costs? →
The difference here is that the CrunchPad is not aimed at developing countries, but at Silicon Valley nerds. And if it’s going to cost $600 or $700 for a CrunchPad, which only supports Web surfing, it’s going to be tricky to compete with better devices from tech giants that cost just a few hundred dollars more. (For instance, the forthcoming Apple tablet, which could cost less than $1,000.)
Excuse me for just one second, Business Insider, but did you just compare the cost of an as-yet-nonexistent device that doesn’t even have a price tag to the cost of another as-yet-nonexistent device that doesn’t even have a price tag?
I believe you did.
Woah. Deep.
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First pang of regret about moving to the US came today: no Guy Fawkes Night!
No fireworks, no bonfires, no burning effigies of Guy Fawkes, no annual funfair, no toffee apples. No ridiculous traditional rhymes:
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of* no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Genuinely, Guy Fawkes Night is one of my favourite nights of the year, and I’m going to miss it.
But I’ll probably be having sex instead, so whatever.
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