ross already saw this but can’t get the tune out of my head. thinking about getting into new edition. no need to watch past 1:00 where the annoying voice comes in.

i think mark will particularly appreciate this; it has a very duck dodgers vibe:

i guess this is part of a whole disney series

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hey guys, sorry i haven’t really been pulling my weight with posting recently
miniblog: had a lot of fun crushing the mooshlock with a random deck and today i had oh!s for breakfast.

i also watched a documentary on the chiptune scene called “reformat the planet” that i found pretty interesting. it’s like watching this you can almost suss out who the heroes and villains would be if it were a heroic drama.

i think my favorite group of the bunch though is the depreciation guild, who come in kind of a ways through the documentary and have a very 4ad feel. coova is a shoe-in for mark’s fav, and could mark denardo be ripping off dan any harder? there’s one awesome shot of him (pt.3, ~6:50) when a chiptune festival is about to start and nobody’s even started playing yet and he’s just going out of his mind with joy and anticipation.

Rob, Kelley, Chu, and I all got together for a sweet Chengdu-style barbecue (authentically pictured above) in Sacramento’s Tahoe Park (just down the street from where I’m living right now). There was a little BBQ place across the street from the place I worked last summer that had all sorts of stuff on a stick that you buy and they grill for you in a really spicy sauce. For whatever reason I’ve been missing Jiading a little recently, so I was super pumped to try and recreate it in Sacramento. All in all it was decent, I thought. Chu ripped it up with some chicken, lamb, tofu, vegetables, and pineapple. I had an assist with some mango guacamole and lighting the charcoal. I think we made a boner covering part of the grill with foil (to protect the vegetables from sticking/falling into the fire). I think the foil ended up reflecting a lot of the heat so it took forever for the vegetables to get appropriately charred. Live and learn.

Also in that category, a pall was cast over the entire affair by two jerk park patrol guys citing Rob for drinking in a city park. Not only does Rob now have a criminal record, but he also has to pay a ridiculously heavy fine. All of which happened about 30 seconds after our arrival at the park. Apparently I’ve been Rob’s Typhoid Mary recently, since he also got a speeding ticket after dropping Chu and I off a few weeks ago. Sorry, Rob!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway I hope you guys are having a sweet 4th and everything.

Miniblog

• Dual Transform – A pretty cool text adventure if you’re into that.
• Stoked that Avatar: The Last Airbender is a total critical failure. I know it sucks for Shyamalan but he made his bed. I feel worse for the Delgo people. Plus there’s this.
• For some reason I watched the Rent movie because it was on TV. Found it 100% disgusting. I think out of all of the characters the only people I didn’t think were horrible, terrible people were Taye Diggs (the villain) and a smokin’ hot Tracie Thoms.

Tracy Thorn – “Why Does the Wind?”

Recommended if you’re mark:

Snow Snow For Lucy from SnowSnowForLucy on Vimeo.

Does anyone still take Kristol seriously?? Obama, re: BP oil spill:

And I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar; we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

Kristol, re: Obama:

Guess the criticism of him as a professor and seminar leader has gotten to him. But his pseudo-macho defense of “talking to experts” is itself professorial: He talks to experts so he’ll “know whose ass to kick.” Real men don’t need experts to tell them whose asses to kick.

That’s right! Real men force their perceptions to conform to their a priori assumptions about the world so that whose ass needs kicking is a fait accompli!!!
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“bit and run” — Mario’s Ladder from Cory Godbey on Vimeo.

not to steal mark’s thunder but the FN discussion brought me to this website food network humor. So good. Some choice bits:

and a Rachael Ray photoshop that as juvenile as it is I found hilarious. Also note that even though this is a “bad” Rachael Ray picture, she’s still smokin’ hot. I STILL LOVE YOU RACHAEL.

what is the deal with all the talking/cgi animal movies recently?

furry vengeance – remarked to rob once that I can’t imagine who would want to see this movie:

marmaduke – continuing to mine the comedic gold of the comic strip, where every punchline is “marmaduke is a bad dog.”

cats and dogs 2: the revenge of kitty galore – not since baby geniuses 2 has there been a less necessary sequel

Michael’s mom must be freaking out right now.

Some more stuff under the cut

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