tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54808492011-08-08T10:34:55.683-07:00I, for one, welcome our new black Muslim overlords.MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.comBlogger1661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-4285493991546393062008-11-05T21:51:00.000-08:002008-11-06T17:59:54.602-08:00

Admit it, it's got a nice ring to it.*****So when do I get my socialist wealth redistribution? Will it come as some sort of government check, or can I just go down to Blackhawk and take whatever I like?*****What can I say, I'm a political junkie.Here's what both excites and disturbs me about the forthcoming Obama presidency. I'm a big sci-fi fan (which is to say: a sci-fi fan who is large [

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McSweeney's chose to exercise their right of first refusal on a list I sent them, so instead you can read it here. I think it's much more convenient for the millions of you who've made this your homepage. List of Future John Grisham Novel Titles After He's Used Up All The Good Legalese <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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As I promised myself, here's my big post for the fifth anniversary. *Yawn*.Apparently, the traditional fifth anniversary gift is wood. So I'm gonna give myself wood right now.I could blog right now about my journey into fear and madness at the Winchester Mystery House flashlight tour last night, or about the drunk Peruvian lesbian who had us in stitches the whole time. Or I could blog about

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-3596354668330074972008-05-07T17:26:00.000-07:002008-05-07T23:54:17.794-07:00

One of the downsides of being an iPod fiend with a truly monolithic MP3 collection is that you develop a bubble around yourself that stunts your growth as a music nerd. You start losing touch with new music because you're listening to nothing but your library. So every now and then I take a break from being my car's personal DJ to listen to one of the local alternative rock stations - Live 105

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I was watching the 10 O'Clock News (bet they stayed up all night working on that title) on Channel 2 tonight, and they ran a story on the efforts to stem the Light brown apple moth tide that's currently gripping the Bay Area in mortal fear. The latest cockamamie scheme involves releasing some tiny stingless wasp that lays its eggs inside the moth's eggs, and then the larva eats its way out in

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-56565053606926077552008-02-21T17:24:00.000-08:002008-02-21T17:27:14.811-08:00

Sometimes these bumper stickers are just a little too obscure for me.I mean, someone's going to get in an accident trying to figure that one out.

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[comm is blinking, Max hits the button]Max: Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.Reader: What happened? Max: We had a slight DNS malfunction but, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We've switched webhosts. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?Reader: We're expecting a new post now.Max: Uh, uh, negative. We had a viral attack here now. Give us a

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When I put out the call for BBQ requests for this blog, the most requested reciper was Beer Can Chicken. It wasn't a hard sell. Although I've never tasted it before, I've been wanting to make this for years. For no other reason than this: every recipe for it that I've seen, from the grittiest BBQ guide to the poshest of Food Network chef-babes, has had to use some variant of "shove a beer can

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-27326712299317789632007-06-24T12:52:00.000-07:002007-06-24T13:28:00.190-07:00

People are always saying behind my back, "Max doesn't seem like the kind of guy who'd like Indian cuisine." It's true, I have all the sophisticated palette and appetites of a 10-year-old trailer trash brat who subsides on a diet of Chee-tos and Slurpees from the 7-11 next door, plus the occasional Taco Bell burrito when mom comes home strung out from that guy Derek's house. My parents tried

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-51569433032973995172007-06-19T18:48:00.000-07:002007-06-19T19:12:29.504-07:00

In an effort to bridge his love of the grill with his love of excruciating minutiae, the writer has begun an occasional series on his summer grilling. With pictures!I decided to start the Summer of Meat with Carne Asada tacos. They require a ridiculously low amount of effort, but they're mouthwatering. Low cost, high payoff? Sounds perfect for me.First the meat. I bought a couple pacakges of

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-31035876563356750342007-03-31T02:40:00.000-07:002007-03-31T02:43:19.468-07:00

Spotted by Yours Truly at the Multnomah Falls gift shop:

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My mom's going to be participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer this summer. Well, they're not really for breast cancer. They're staunchly anti-breast cancer. I checked.Anyway, she has to raise the ungodly fee of $1800 to enter. Apparently this shit isn't curing itself. I know most of my readers are a miserly lot (I can tell from your low-rent IP addresses), but maybe you can find it

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-85460585990324471322007-01-29T14:21:00.000-08:002007-01-29T14:52:18.278-08:00

What can I say? I'm highly sought after.Thanks to Jake for his meritorious headline scouting.

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It's a funny thing about the holidays - they make you reflect on the important things in your life: Soul Calibur. Bittorrent. My autographed copy of Fight Club. Pam from "The Office". My extreme hatred of My Chemical Romance. All of these things are crucial to me and enrich my life in countless ways.But it also gets you thinking about all the things that aren't important, things that seemed

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1160100745617351632006-10-05T19:11:00.000-07:002007-01-29T15:33:44.663-08:00

I had the distinct pleasure yesterday of returning a bounced check for $5000 someone had written to the Benny Hinn Ministries. As you can imagine, it did my heart good to keep money out of that shyster's pockets. But it got me thinking: what on Earth would make someone give five large to a televangelist? How much good did Hinn promise to do with that cash? I'm talking specifics here; these guys

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1156221532914101432006-08-21T21:26:00.000-07:002006-08-21T21:41:25.036-07:00

Well I did it. I did it and now it's over. Would that my life were powered by Windows, and a simple Ctrl-Z could undo what I just did to my soul! For truly, it was one of the most difficult experiences of my life.Now, I never went to 'Nam and saw my best friend’s head explode when a gook claymore went off next to it, and the closest I’ve ever come to an Andrea Doria-style martime accident was

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Hail and well met! As you've no doubt surmised, I'm Academy Award-nominated actor Liam Neeson, and I'm here to tell you about an exciting opportunity I'd like to share with all of you.Do you find yourself constantly unable to kick ass? Have you taken self defense lessons and found them to be too time-consuming and frustrating? Do you long for days of yore when REAL MEN OF DESTINY walked the

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I sat down today for some quality time with Mrs. Sony and started looking for a movie to watch. There's always something good on cable on a Saturday afternoon, or something better at least than going outside. And what do I find on HBO HD but my old nemesis: the 1989 Kevin Costner vehicle "Field Of Dreams". It called to me like a siren..."It's only a few minutes in. You haven't missed much."

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In short, Perplex City rules. Like its ancestor the Net Riddle it's occupying all my free time. View Team Wicked Machine's profile here (#1584 with a bullet!). See the cards we need and have for trade here.

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More commercials done with The Apprentice/Chevy's commercial generator."It Was Funny 5 Years Ago""Experience Points""Options"

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A little something I cooked up with The Apprentice's Build Your Own Uglyass SUV Commercial generator.

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I've started what I hope will be a recurring...feature?...over at Circvs Maximvs. I call it "Homework". YES, I have ripped off Fight Club. YES, I have taken my pomposity and eagerness for self-promotion to Trump-ian heights. So go look now.My goal is to create a new assignment every week. Some might be photos, some might be compositions, some might be unholy experiments performed in

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I was listening to the local alternative rock station on the old wireless crystal set recently, and they were playing a "classics of the 90's" countdown. The 90's are a decade near and dear to me; I was 13 in 1990 and got to grow up right along with the decade. MC Hammer pants? I had a pair. Metallica shirt? Check. Flannel grunge shirts? I had one. Some Halloween I'm going to put on all

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So here I am. You'll pardon my neglect of this site as I've been very busy at work. They plan on promoting me to analyst or messiah or something anyday now. But anyway, I'm back in the ha-ha chair and recording some tracks for an upcoming audio project that I hope to finish by next weekend and upload here for public consumption. I've been cleared by my lawyers to tell you the following about

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I've received a coded email from new correspondent MakingShitUpMan on upcoming episodes of ABC's LOST! He's been arrested six times in Honolulu for breaking into Damon Lindelof's bungalow to steal scripts, and now he's ready to spill the beans. Read on...Ep. 2-14: Baby Aaron is kidnapped by the Others or Locke or Hurley or someone, and Claire's just like "fuck it". In her flashback, it's

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While listening to the news at work, I got a good chuckle when I heard that Pat Robertson has declared that Ariel Sharon's massive stroke was divine punishment for "dividing God's land". I was unsurprised because I've been a big fan of this man's work for years. You talk about edgy humor, he makes Lenny Bruce look like Bob Hope. I mean, I've been known to take a potshot every now and then at

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1135302964660945302005-12-22T17:45:00.000-08:002005-12-22T17:58:39.503-08:00

I saw King Kong last week and loved it something fierce, but I'm really hoping that the big movie this Christmas is "Brokeback Mountain". Not because I'm particularly interested in gay cowboys, but Hollywood being Hollywood, its success will mean that all the great genres will be redone rainbow-style. Gay gangster movies. Gay barbarian movies. Gay pirate movies!"Yaaaarrrr. Why can't I quit

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1132301053173271172005-11-18T00:03:00.000-08:002005-11-18T00:22:53.150-08:00

Fun with Lore Sjoberg's new site, Untitled States.

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I discovered the following passage of re-purposed Emily Bronte appended to an email I received today for what I presume to be Swiss watch knock-offs ("For Superb Quality Swiss timekeepers, Frequent this increasingly popular site").was a carpet profit - a mighty good one,but the pattern was obliterated bydust; a fireplaceA branchlonely single glue lizard robotthat she was too weak.Truly haunting

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1131784516250954952005-11-12T00:24:00.000-08:002005-11-12T00:35:16.980-08:00

I've been spending a lot of time at Myspace lately. It's a good time, especially if you like your signal-to-noise ratio to look like your lotto odds. I even made up a little blog there with their surprisingly robust blog generator. I use it to forward my favorite hobby: responding to email surveys. If you've ever wanted to know what my favorite cereal is (Cinnamon! Toast! Crunch!) or my porn

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1131711137164643632005-11-11T04:01:00.000-08:002005-11-11T04:15:25.396-08:00

Fox has reduced the episode order for "Arrested Development" from 22 eps to just 13, and won't start re-airing them until December: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Earmarked For Demolition??...and I die just a little inside. This show has gone to some outrageous places. After the revelation of "Mr. F" in the last episode, I don't think there's any doors left that AD's writers wouldn't kick down.In the

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1129338616338593382005-10-14T17:47:00.000-07:002005-10-14T18:20:11.126-07:00

A quick postscript to the toilet saga: I went to those same facilities this afternoon for a good session upon the Throne of the Gods, and who should be waiting for me when I exit but Mr. Wetseat himself. It gave me no end of satisfaction that though he may be missing 20% of his senses, he can still smell. And I gave his schnozz plenty to work with.Anyway, I got a nice commendation from management

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1128755552737271142005-10-07T23:23:00.000-07:002005-10-08T00:12:32.773-07:00

Every now and then I experience something incredibly profound that takes my breath away and I am compelled to share it with others. A moment when the universal consciousness reaches out and touches me and I feel I must broaden the minds around me by committing it to the written page. When I become a conduit to the indescribable beauty and awe of the universe. This is not one of those times.

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1127891092313372832005-09-27T23:51:00.000-07:002005-09-28T00:04:52.320-07:00

First-ever photos of live giant squidI'll be the first to say it: The Architeuthis was so much cooler when it was undiscovered. It was like, you had to seek it out, and only the coolest knew to even look. You know, us indie-ichthyology hipsters. It wasn't being spoon-fed to us by some wannabe hack phylogeny 'zine. Coelacanth? That thing was a big old sellout. Giant squid was the underground

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1127181622910547622005-09-19T18:47:00.000-07:002005-09-20T18:07:04.516-07:00

Newest performance clips of my brother Seth are now up here. He and his fellow guitar students performed at Cue in Concord last Friday. His performance was much better than my exhausted-after-9 hour-workday camerawork on "Under the Bridge", but my mom made up for my shakycam by shooting his screaming guitar on "Losfer Words". So right-click-save away!Losfer Words.Incidentally, I saw Arcade Fire

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1125328227424087672005-08-29T08:00:00.000-07:002005-08-29T08:10:27.430-07:00

No one in ancient Italy had Italian accents. I guess modern Italians just made the whole thing up. I know it's a given that English people are the best actors in the world, but can't they try for a smidgen of authenticity? Watch a Pesci movie. I'm betting Marc Antony sounded more like that than some limey.(Which brings me to my new goal: Stage a production of Julius Caesar with nothing but

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Best band name I spotted in the club section of The Onion's print version this week: Bludtfart.Runner-up: Experimental Dental School.

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1123552434619818142005-08-08T17:42:00.000-07:002005-08-08T18:56:05.556-07:00

Inspired by this thread over at Slashdot, here's some tech I miss or expect to start missing soon.#1. Napster. There was nothing like Napster before, and sadly, nothing since. I knew people who bought computers or upgraded their internet connections just to use Napster on them. It was, without a doubt, THE killer app. And I will testify to my dying day: I purchased more CDs because of Napster

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DreamHost Blog » Let’s Save Our EnvironmentFirst, do watch this video as it has important things to say about Gaia and shit. That, or Karl Rove put this toupeed karaoke king to work to make the enviro lobby look bad.Now, once you've gotten the message, the fun part begins. Let the video play for the first 15 seconds or so, then mute it. Now, put on Eazy E's "Gimme That Nut" and watch that fat

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There came a point on Saturday night, as I drank a toast on the balcony of the exquisite Truckee restaurant Cottonwood, while looking out over the sun setting over the Sierra, that I thought to myself "I could have been making awkward small talk with some ex-cheerleader at my 10-year high school reunion right now". Oh darn. Well, there's always the 20th...If I start planning now, maybe I can

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1119925748807790112005-06-27T17:15:00.000-07:002005-06-27T19:30:05.903-07:00

I just received my latest copy of Spin magazine, with its countdown of the best 100 albums of the last 20 years. I don't own every single one, but like any good blogger, I'm not gonna let something like an informed opinion get in the way of my blowhardiness. And away we go:1. Radiohead - OK Computer: Great great great album. I thoroughly agree with its placement at the top. This is what I call a

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Not About Water Committee - It's not about water, man. It's about the music!Master Bakery - Look for us in our new location, next to Wankers Country Store.Guardian Angel Test Kits - Have you ever wondered if someone up there is watching over you? Have you felt the presence of the divine when you were at your lowest, and wondered if you really do have a guardian angel? Now your uncertainty is

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1117847660460483632005-06-03T17:46:00.000-07:002005-06-03T18:15:22.680-07:00

Boy, once again it's been an unreasonably long interval since I updated this thing. I better make some goofy comments about the various timewasters I've currently been focusing my energy on instead of posting!So, I went to see the latest summer blockbuster movie. Wow! It was about what I expected, which is to say, most of it rocked. Some of it occasionally blew, and there were a couple of scenes

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1115089033465403962005-05-02T19:31:00.000-07:002005-05-02T19:57:13.466-07:00

I'm sorry I've been away. I was on a strange metaphysical journey deep into the very core of my inner being. I found myself in a place where the illusions of the material world were cast aside, and I was left naked before the inescapable truth of the universe. My journey brought me to a world where the inter-connectedness of all matter, energy and thought was made clear to me, and my

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I'm working on a giganto-fantabulous new project with Homie Jake that (knock on wood) will be done this month. It's currently tapping all of my funny mana to write it, so I've unfortunatly left my website neglected. You'll forgive me when it comes out.In less funny video news, right-click here to watch my brother Seth's rocking (or "rawkin", if you prefer) talent show performance from last

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Ultra-Sleek, Ultra-Lightweight Kyocera phone setHeh. This makes me want to put together a package consisting of a blanket and some tinder and matches, and billing it as a "Navajo Text Messenger". Finally, communication inspired by the wisdom of Native Americans...

MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17483182955505094806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480849.post-1111629564968597582005-03-23T17:21:00.000-08:002005-03-23T17:59:24.970-08:00

Just some human misery I've been wallowing in lately, that I like to call the news:I found a website today for the Canadian Citizens Against the Death Penalty. On it, it has snail mail addresses and profiles on death row inmates looking for pen pals. That's right, even the scum of the earth love getting mail! I had this French girl as a pen pal when I was in junior high and I got ONE FRIGGIN'

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Wicked Machine's got the new Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith trailer. And you don't even have to sit through an episode of The O.C. or shell out hard coin for a Hyperspace membership to watch it, you lucky bugger.Click here for red-hot Sith-on-Sith action!And click here for the glorious, youngling-slaughtering Hi-Def .avi version!Right-click and "save as...", you know the drill. Is anyone else as

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Decided what my vacation needed today was a Keanu movie. Constantine didn't disappoint on that count, as it's veritably loaded with Mr. Reeves from beginning to end. They can't take that away from this movie - it definitely has Keanu Reeves in it.Other than that, your mileage may vary. I was willing to go along with the K-Man as John Constantine, with the small proviso that he not suck like a

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Real quick: hard drive crashed, and my computer spent a nice week at a health spa called CompUSA. Everything's okay now (better than before, in fact), but I'm spending a lot of time reloading my old programs and whatnot. I'll have more to post this weekend. So sorry for the delay. Just sit tight for a couple more days, and I'll make with the funny ASAP.

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As you, the audience at home can see, we've made some changes around here. Repurposing the paradigm for the 21st century while building a broad-based coalition of synergistically-aligned units to affect an enhanced global mindshare. In bed. I've picked up just enough HTML in the last week or two to make myself dangerous (mostly to myself). I constructed the new splash page, utilizing an image

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[Editor's Note: The following may be strictly too much information, or "TMI", for some people's sensitivities. I'd advise those people to take a mild sedative, spend several hours on ratemypoo.com, and come back here when they feel properly jaded.] I found out tonight that, for Rachel's family anyway, the height of strangeness is people who fold toilet paper so as to get more than one wipe from

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This just in: two new "Lost" tribute videos by trained chimp Jake Leenerts. The first one, uploaded a few weeks ago, focused on Jack to the dulcet tones of the Eels's "I Need Some Sleep". The new ones spotlight Locke with the Eels's "My Beloved Monster and Me" (heh), and Charlie's pretty little number "It's A Motherfucker", by, uh, the Eels. What, is E Jake's cousin or something? Locke. Charlie.

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This has been a bad week for conservative douchebags. First, Armstrong Williams was outed as the Alan Freed of punditry for accepting $240,000 from the White House to flog No Child Left Behind. Then my good ol' buddy, serial corpse-raper Tucker Carlson was handed his walking papers by CNN, and to top it off CNN's cancelling the whole Crossfire shitfest! Will this turn out to be the best year

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Jake's sent me a sweet little music video he made for a Lost fan site. In said video, Lost's Jack is continually beaten down by the failures of his existence to the tune of "I Need Some Sleep" by the Eels. I like the way he synched up drumbeats with fistfights, nicely done. If you're coming here from one of the Lost fan boards Jake is no doubt plastering with links to here, my advice: come for

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Like a snarling pack of ravenous wolves, the Christmas season is now upon us. Every year we run the same stupid gauntlet of shopping crowds, cloying Christmas songs, perverted mall Santas, and fawning over bastardized pagan mummery like decorating trees and hanging mistletoe while putting up signs that say "Jesus is the reason for the season". Like androids, we're all supposed to be programmed

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Please feel free to steal it and use it to adorn your message board rant response post, refrigerator or CD cover. Prints suitable for framing may be purchased in the gift shoppe. The creation of this image was aided and abetted by the use of Google's image search engine. Curiously, my search for large images using the word "crucifixion" looked like this (notice the number of hits): Google,

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Things I learned from watching the 60 Minutes interview with Bob Dylan on Sunday night: Bob Dylan is humble to the point of neurosis. It drove me a little nuts, and I'm not even that big a fan. Every answer he gave was something to the tune of "Well, y'know, I wrote a couple of songs, people liked 'em, whatever." There's such a thing as having too much perspective. Bob Dylan doesn't sound

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I'll be real here: my mind has not been in a blogging kind of place this last month. Directly after the election it was in a "crawl into a cryo-tube for the next four years" kind of place, which led directly to the "refusing to leave the house whilst curling into a ball" frame of mind. So I just sorta dropped out for a bit. But don't fear, I've been keeping myself entertained. Here's what's

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I guess we had an election or coup or something last week. I was on the tail end of a 6-day vacation bender so my recollections are a little fuzzy. My voter stub says I voted for "Peach Schnapps" ... Cheer up fellow Blue Staters! There may be four more years of Vitamin W in store for us (just as Nostradamus prophesied) but at least they'll be relatively Ashcroft-free! Yeah, the composer of the

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Got up around 9:30 a.m. and sat around in front of the computer for a couple hours in my boxers, reading email and message boards. By about 11 I'd run out of internet to surf so I went back to bed for another 2.5 hours. Those were damn good hours. Vacation isn't about travelling to exotic locales or getting important chores done around the house, it's about saying "fuck it" and going back to

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Two weeks until the election and I still don't have anything to wear! ... Gov. Schwarzenegger has broken with the Republican platform to endorse California's Proposition 71, a bond issue that would generate $3 billion for stem-cell research in the state. My question to you: is anyone else a little alarmed that a rabble-rousing, egocentric Aryan is in favor of cloning? ... Speaking of our

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Would you buy a used car from this man? Congratulations Jarrod and Jennefer. May your foreheads grow like the mighty oak. Great wedding. Thanks for letting Rachel and I crash it.

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And that would be the god-awful cover of John Lennon's Imagine, repurposed for the gloom-metal crowd by Tool lead singer Maynard James Keenan's side project A Perfect Circle (their motto: "One shitty band wasn't enough!"). Somewhere between the monotonous, dirge-like singing and the de-tuned melody, they've somehow made Imagine depressing. Let me restate that, because I don't think I've quite

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My friend Jake Leenerts (AKA Jake Lee) is dipping his toe into the pool of professional graphic arts. You've seen his work here before: he shot and edited the Kill Bill parody and did graphics like Maximus vs. the Spider. And hey, there's his name down there at the bottom of the page under "credits". Needless to say, I think his Photoshop-fu and Premiere-fu are superior. I've posted a

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Imaginary Girlfriends - Find Your New Imaginary Girlfriend Today! Whoever thought of this is a bona-fide genius. "With an Imaginary Girlfriend, you can carry on a completely fictitious, yet authentic looking relationship with the girl of your choice."I think I've had a few of these kind of relationships for free before.

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Three Jews (Rachel, my brother Seth, and myself) set out on a Friday night to see three other Jews put on a simple hip-hop concert in SF. They were never seen again. They left only this review of the concert, and the following meta-review for uber-nerds. Original text appears in red. "Last night I went to the best fucking concert of my life!" Okay, I know he's a little over-exuberant. He says

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Every now and then something or someone comes along with a sense of humor that alters your point of view forever. Something that can take a subject that you never considered humorous and make you wonder why you ever laughed at anything else before it. I had one of those moments today, and I'd like to share it with all of you. I process business checks at the bank I work for. I see so many

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When I'm doing my Herb Caen impression, it must mean I've got writer's block. I'd kill for escarabajo loco right about now ... I was watching Lord Vader addressing his minions in New York this evening. Cheney just oozes sex appeal, the way he talks out of the corner of his mouth and hunches to one side. Is it any wonder why he's the sexiest veep since Schuyler Colfax? ... I had a couple of

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The scene: a hot September evening in 1978. Gertrude Stein was cooling her heels in my Hampton beach house, having left Paris after a lover's spat with Alice Toklas over whether a lion or a bear would win in a fight. Ordinarily, I brook no interruptions in my daily routine of "Post, Drink Scotch, Harass the Help, Drink Rum, Post Drunk, Collapse in Corner", but that summer I was happy for the

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I was 26 when I opened my first website. I'd been lurking around the fringes of the writing industry for years, and all I had to show for it was two failed marriages and a book of dirty palindromes I wrote in a drunken fog five years prior. I was staring down the barrel of 30 and every chamber was loaded, baby. So picture the scene: 12:30 on a Friday night, and I'm slinging back mai-tais at

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Wankers Country Store - Somebody needs to explain to these Wankers that you don't have to name your country store after your family name, especially if your name is generally associated with masturbation slang. Dance Force - "ASSEMBLE! Roll call: the deadly cyborg Popandlok! The master of lightning, Electric Slide! And Lambada, the Forbidden Superhero!" Women Kickin' It Inc - Hmm. Tae-Bo class

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You can go buy a Wicked Machine tee-shirt at Cafepress.com now. My store's at http://www.cafepress.com/wickedmachine. This tee is made of organic cotton fiber; I wanted one made from a 50% tears of angels/50% shards of a thousand broken dreams polyblend, but Cafepress's selection is limited. It's retailing for 20 bucks. Expensive? You bet. Hey, those Guatemalan slave children aren't gonna

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The hit counter's gone nuts lately. A quick look at bStats said that I was 9 short of a 1000 for the month, putting me at my best month, uh, ever. Several months worth, actually. But now I really need to put this bitch over the top. So here's a nice bedtime story for all you Googlers out there. Once upon a time, a knight with the unfortunate name of BEYONCE'S ASS sought to free the beautiful

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I had a realization this week that, as a newly-minted Jewish banker, I'm embodying one of the oldest and ugliest cultural stereotypes in the world. I couldn't get any closer to a KKK caricature if I were a rooftop fiddler. But what am I to do? Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and Jews have to secretly contol the world via a massive Zionist banking conspiracy. I think there should be a

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And also a Sacramento band. My brother put up a link to a sample of their new album called "Wheels" and it's more awesomeness from John McCrea and crew. My brother met John McCrea at the Unlimited Sunshine tour and now thinks he's all that. "Meeting him", so what? I got him to play "Mr. Mastodon Farm" at the Green Christmas Ball in 19-effin-96! I got trampled at that same concert-- for him!

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At right you will see a new addition to the sidebar: direct links to Wicked Machine short films. Right now it's just the old films with a new compression to make them load much quicker. I got both down to the 5-7 meg neighborhood. Jake and I are working on some new ideas and I'll keep you all informed on our progress. Start clickin'. Peace out.

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It's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I think we all can agree that this one is not only inoffensive but pretty damn cool. What will this "revenge" entail? Will Darth Sidious hire Ashton Kutcher to "punk" Mace Windu? Will a sleeping Yoda find his hand in a bowl of warm water? Will Anakin give in to the dark side and give Obi-Wan the dreaded telekinetic wedgie? Check back in May

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Seen this on a few blogs lately. It's the 100 highest-grossing films of all time. Boldfaced titles indicate one I saw in theaters, asterisked ones are films I've seen on TV or video. 1. Titanic* SUCKED. A woman's heart may be a "deep ocean of secrets", but this movie was a shallow pool of dog vomit. 2. Star Wars I'm counting the re-release as "seeing it in theaters". Probably the second

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The bank's HR department called me before lunch yesterday and made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Starting next Monday I'll be a permanent employee of the bank. I can finally start telling people I work FOR the bank, not AT the bank. So who says perseverance never pays off? Well, me, usually. But here's to inertia, eh? To all of you temps out there: If you can just live through 22 months of a

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Just came back from a nice little excursion that actually threatened to suck from the beginning. Rachel got a wild hair up her ass to visit the Concord Flea Market out at the drive-in theater. It's as skeevy as it sounds, but I knew it would be. In days of my youth, I could be found trolling the booths looking for knives and swords. It was like a circus, only instead of elephants and jugglers it

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Coming soon to a garage near you... 

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I just killed a monster black widow in my garage. It didn't just have a red mark, it had corporate sponsorship stickers like a NASCAR driver. Drow were worshipping it. I saw it chase a hobbit under my washing machine. I bit IT, and it gained the proportional strength and agility of an out-of-shape temp. I hit it with a rubber band and it just said "You call that a hit, faggot!" in the exact

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Max's World is dead. Long live Wicked Machine! All part of my meager attempt at respectability. I can't help it; I want something that'll look nice on a business card. Anyway, Wicked Machine is the umbrella under which I will now be producing this blog, along with video and art projects on this site. One of these days I'll probably get around to filling out one of those fictitious business

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I was watching a commercial for LaBatt's Blue beer tonight that really spun me. In it, a talking bear is playing softball with his buddies, who deride what they perceive should be his poor softball skills, as he is Canadian and lacks thumbs. He knocks one deep into center and breaks someone's window. As a "peace offering" he takes a six-pack of LaBatt's with him so as to ease the tension.

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On our way to a Gerry family dinner a month or so ago, Rachel and I started talking about what to expect that night. I told her that I'd guarantee that if me, my dad and my uncles are all in the same room, eventually we'll start talking about the Godfather. She naively thought I was joking, and maybe I was. But when we walked in the room, there's my pop and his brothers, TALKING ABOUT THE

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While looking quite busy today at work (note: Actually, I was composing a musical version of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" in my head to be titled "O! Plan 9!") a "tech-support guy" wandered out of the blue to my neighbor's cubicle and announced he was taking her printer to another department. And an amazing thing happened: she gave it up without seeing ONE FORM OF IDENTIFICATION. Apparently, the

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Same tired Beyonce jokes. My very own top-level domain at last. Can't wait to test drive it. I've got something like 800 megs of space and tons of bandwidth. I'm gonna cram enough whimsical musings down your collective throats that when you cough, all that'll come out is "Fuck Ikea". Word is bond. I have no idea if the old address will still update, so I'm gonna poke around and change all

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With one year down, I'm plotting out some key directions the site will be taking in the coming months. Limited only by cash and time, here's what I want to do: 1. New hosting. Time to move up to the big show. 2. Another movie. People liked the last one (by "people" I mean "friends I conned into watching it by telling them it was the Paris Hilton video") and I'm brainstorming for the next.

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I've been fishing for a raise at the bank for a week or two now, when my boss called me over for a pow-wow. I asked her if more money was coming my way and she said no. A raise just wasn't in the cards and neither was permanency. She saw the dejection in my face and quickly piped up, "Oh, but we do want to worship you as a god." Well, anyone who knows me will tell you that's all I've ever

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I meant to say some more funny stuff before, but I just found out my friend Ryan Boell (Angelsboi from EN World) died of AIDS-related illness a few hours ago, with his friends and family by his side in Atlanta. I chatted with him a few times, and used to love reading his wrap-ups on Buffy and Angel in the TV forum. Later on, I (and lots of other EN Worlders) became very wrapped up in his trials

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First off: apologies to everyone for my spacing out. You see, yesterday was the one year anniversary of Max's World and I had a big bash planned to celebrate it. There was going to be a live party with full webcam coverage from the Viper Room in LA. A couple of hot up-and-coming bands were booked. The Wayans brothers were all set to host. But there was a problem with the lighting, Marlon

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Rachel, her brother Mike, his girlfriend Vanessa and myself took in the 8:00 show at Cobb's last night. Chris Hardwick opening for Patton Oswalt. Good guys. Evening a bit marred by the presence of not one but two bachelorette parties, which apparently are the fire ants of the stand-up comedy picnic. Chris mentioned he played D&D; I now officially wanna get in a game with him and Wil Wheaton.

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Very slick movie. Definitely the best of the three so far. Alfonso Cuaron has got directing style for days. It has the look of an old-timey film with "tunnel"-style dissolves between scenes, and some really gorgeous shots of the Scottish countryside. The kids are much better in their roles than they've ever been. That said, I am a little disturbed about something - the story editing. I

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I'm going out to see Prisoner of Azkaban tonight with a bunch of people. This was my favorite of the books and I hear it's the best of the movies so far. Full details when I come back. In other news, I saw that SongMeanings is back up. That's by far the best lyric site I've been to, not the least of which is for the comment feature so you can discuss, well, the song meanings. I was just

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Early response has been very good about the new Max's World (Typical focus group response: "We like that you got somebody who's 'TV-Ugly' for the main character") so consider it done. And hey look, it even has a little picture of me, in trendy nightvision no less! So now all of you strangers who haven't watched the Kill Bill video know what I look like. Or know what I look like as if you were

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I'm trying out a new template. If it sucks let me know. They're doing template coding in a slightly different format so I'll have to play around to figure out how to personalize it.

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Sunday arrived bright and on time, and I got the smart idea to go to Ikea to purchase an entertainment unit for my living room. (If you don't have an Ikea near where you live, it's a furniture store, rougly the size of your average Death Star, that traffics in inexpensive furniture that's held together mostly by particle board, allen-head screws, and the power of prayer.) With some quick

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