Nobody made a fuss when I joined, and I am someone from Minnesota who has smoked pot.
posted by Astro Zombie

Holy shit, me too!
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:24 PM on July 21, 2008

Astro Zombie and COBRA!, were you both also members of writing group pot-smoking group The Scribblies The Splifflies?
posted by turgid dahlia

Yeah, I was the Blue Spliffie. I was "the wacky one."
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 3:40 PM on July 21, 2008

As mods we're pretty paranoid too by necessity, and don't mind being paranoid for you, so if something looks weird you can drop us a line and we'll take a close (or closer) look, to see if anything hinky is up.

Sweet! What the fuck is up with my neighbors? They're freaking me out, and I'm pretty sure they're up to something bad.

Also, I think something bad's going down at the Montessori over on Lyndale. Could you check 'er out?
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 11:12 AM on June 3, 2008

Nicely done. I was so inspired to greater April Fool tomfoolery that I hijacked my museum's HVAC system and am currently pumping the building full of jenkem. Now the party's really about to start.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 8:44 AM on April 1, 2008

I had a dream. I had an awesome dream. There were people in the park playing games after dark. And (this is weird) what they played was a masquerade. From behind the walls of doubt a voice was crying out.

Damnedest thing.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 10:06 AM on March 31, 2008

Says you.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 10:23 AM on March 31, 2008

Man, I made my favorite comment ever in that first thread, and linked to it in the second. Both get deleted. I'm not sure if it's Cracked that's radioactive, or my comment.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:10 PM on March 25, 2008

I had the goddamnedest experience last night. I was gazing into the sog, and suddenly I realized that the motherfucker was gazing right back into me.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 12:53 PM on March 13, 2008

I'm in:

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

(and holy shit, while looking for that second link, I discovered I'm a Short Story Master of the New Millenium! w00t!)

Throwing cold water on these links, it's the same piece in both collections, and you could just as easily read it online (sequel). Weirdly, I'm recording audiobook versions of both of these this weekend.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:11 AM on February 23, 2008

These comments were my gateway drug into the awesomeness of Interrobang's work. IMG! IMG!

One of my many Interrobang tributes: a Potato cameo.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 8:03 PM on February 5, 2008

This puts a serious damper in my plans for group-designed MeFi Museum bowling shirts. I may have to just come up with one on my own.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 8:27 AM on December 21, 2007

Whoa, hey Willy. Didn't know you were a member.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 8:58 AM on December 22, 2007

At first, I didn't like DS. Then I liked it. Now I like it and am mildly freaked out to see the online-life overlap.

(I wonder what the MeFi empire's webcomic footprint is, how widely it's been shouted-out to. I think Interrobang's invoked it at least a couple of times, and I know I spent 20 minutes this morning trying to match the colors of the front page for a panel detail)
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:07 AM on November 15, 2007

You lucky Portland bastards.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:10 PM on October 18, 2007

I just want to be loved. Is that so wrong?
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:49 PM on October 12, 2007

This just in, a blog mentions MetaFilter.

Hey, I just mentioned Ask on my site. Should I start a MeTa thread?
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:42 AM on September 21, 2007

True enough. The thought's crossed my mind...

Frank Black's Teenager of the Nicollet-area locations would work. And crap, I'm at work, but I'm amazed at how trashy most of my head... the guy can actually get you jobs (mainly private-sector), while a PhD. leaves you with a gray stipple portrait of Sam Waterston.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:54 PM on September 11, 2007

Minneapolis and St. Paul can hook you up. And their burritos are top-notch, too. End Twin Citiesfilter.

I get the shaft.
posted by cobra!

Shit, I'd believe that as one of my standalone comments.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:23 PM on September 11, 2007

After Ventura left office, the 2002 Gubernatorial election was a carefully-contructed act intended to fuck life in the bushes/sitting on the stage, the audience responds to that. Conviction plays a part-- the performer needs to be on me pretty big time (except I still have missiles aimed at other hardcore fans). It's not an all-time great writer, but he knows pacing and plot, and there are so many people (maybe even a majority) are total fucks and there's no tomorrow. No ill effects,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:31 PM on September 11, 2007

Man, I haven't even gotten to listen to the last one yet. I can't keep up with the torrent of podcasts flowing out!
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 8:32 AM on September 11, 2007

COBRA!'s profile
This account is awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:56 PM on August 30, 2007

What shmegegge said. I'd love to be more active on MeFi Music, but I do most of my *Filtering during downtimes at work, and the bandwidth cops here get snippy when we listen to online audio. So I can only listen at home, and I'm just less likely to comment then, because I'm often in the middle of something else. Which makes me feel bad. I should listen more, and comment more.

that said, I've decided I'm going to start uploading my recorded like a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 11:38 AM on August 30, 2007

One of the lingering disappointments of my music listening life was discovering that, aside from Freeze Frame and the title cut, Centerfold sucks.

The most bizarre musical conversation I've ever had was with a friend who said that Centerfold made the J. Geils Band his favorite band because he loved angry music. I still have no idea what the fuck he was talking about. Angry? I just don't get it.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:26 PM on August 27, 2007

I'm surprised the moderators are taking a spate of flagging so seriously. Of course the guy gets flagged; his comments are often lame and pointless

I don't know; go spend some time on sites with less-aggressive moderation, and see every.fucking.thread get yanked off the rails be the local crew of GN-types. He's like crabgrass; a little isn't so bad, but you want to keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn't spread.

He's a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:40 AM on August 27, 2007

There's a healthy discussion at MeTaChat, centering on whether his punishment should involve randy malamutes or hungry dachshunds, or both.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:16 PM on August 20, 2007

I've got an idea; lets all see how many times we can say "c'mon" in this thread. C'mon, it'll be fun.

Have I got a song for you...
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 12:51 PM on August 16, 2007

Have fun up there. Watch out for bears. I hear they're everywhere in Canada.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 4:27 PM on August 7, 2007

One fucking letter, and I had freaked out dozens of people, who all felt the need to call me and tell me what an idiot I (admittedly) am.
posted by ColdChef at 6:31 PM

What was the Curb Your Enthusiasm joke on those lines? The obituary's supposed to say "beloved aunt," but the a gets swapped out for a c?

Thanks for posting the instructions, CC. I'm going to be having a weird conversation with my wife tonight.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:02 AM on August 6, 2007

It's probably something by fucking Wilco.

No, we've still got a little while where The Soft Bulletin is eligible; but after that passes over the 10-year horizon, yeah, it looks like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot will take the slot.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 6:42 AM on August 5, 2007

SCDB: "I should get my brother to take my picture so I can post it in my profile here. The resulting explosion of cognitive dissonance amongst the people who hate me would be delicious."

I tracked down a picture, and it is pretty shocking-- I had no idea that all this time he was an angry cat. I would've bet my life he was human, if only because he types so well.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 9:30 AM on August 3, 2007

Madeit halfway through last night and my iPod died before the interview started. DAMMIT.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 9:13 AM on August 1, 2007

My life is ObitFilter.
posted by ColdChef at 3:10 PM on July 30

So, I just this weekend finally listened to the podcast where you're interviewed (and that interview fucking ruled), and I was really jazzed by the provision in your will about emailing Matt and Jessamyn. That was hilarious and pretty sensible at the same time.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:28 PM on July 30, 2007

I'm sort of interested, but at the same time I'm trying to train myself not to be so crazy about keeping track of my mileage, and this would undermine all of that work. Hmm.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 11:38 AM on July 30, 2007

I frequently tell people to choke on a bucket of cocks, yet I myself have never choked on a bucket of cocks.
posted by languagehat

God, you're missing out. There's nothing better than coming home from work and sitting out on the porch and getting your choke on with a six-pack of Corona, a lime, and a bucket of cocks.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:42 AM on July 17, 2007

Kick ass. It hit escape velocity the second the hand-cutting-off was brought up.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 11:14 AM on July 16, 2007

So then is Powerline, a widely read blog (and certainly with more credibility than some of the random - and now shuttered - linked to in the other posts) verboten on Metafilter?

Random noises coming out of my ass have a closer relation to truth than Powerline.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 1:16 PM on July 13, 2007

Hey, did you guys hear that Freddie Mercury was gay, too? For real!
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:33 PM on July 13, 2007

Ellen DeGeneres, too!
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:35 PM on July 13, 2007

Just a brand new day in-joke? You wound me.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:34 PM on June 15, 2007

This post is coming back to haunt you, COBRA!.

Not after BR-- ahh, fuck it.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:34 PM on June 15, 2007

it's mefi-related because BRAND NEW DAY gets trotted out occasionally as a sort of past-mefi-misdeeds-are-forgiven initiative. there's a great photo out there involving Matt and Chariman Mao accompanying this
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:41 PM on June 15, 2007

They tried, but the athiests got them.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:10 AM on June 14, 2007

interrobang has a pretty good idea.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 11:39 AM on June 13, 2007

I was molested by an invisible sky wizard. Never saw it coming.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:44 PM on June 13, 2007

If nuts can't explain their bigoted viewpoints without invoking disgust for "body parts that don't fit together", then invisible sky wizards may as well suffice.

The worst thing about invisible sky wizards and their molestations is that they don't care if body parts fit together. They find a way to make it work.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:53 PM on June 13, 2007

Lately, I've been spending some time at another community site, similar to MeFi but focused on Minneapolis. The thing is, even though it should be awesome (given how literate, tech-savvy, and generally cool people tend to be around here), it's fucking awful and painful to read because of the lack of moderation; a handful of argumentative blowhards are able to make every goddamned thread about them, debating all comers with knee-jerk contrarian political arguments. Just like Paris did.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 7:16 AM on May 16, 2007

Me. Sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 9:25 AM on May 16, 2007

and now nothing remains... but the grudges.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:01 PM on May 14, 2007

bizarre honeypot experiment

ixnay on the ussyfilterpay.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 2:34 PM on April 30, 2007

Since I know everyone trusts my musical taste implicitly:

I bought it. It's very good. If you don't buy it, you are diseased.
posted to MetaTalk by COBRA! at 8:29 AM on April 27, 2007