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"A friend of mine had a summer job on the grounds crew of a college in St. Paul. One day, he was working on some undeveloped land on the fringe of campus, and came across a little fort built in the woods. He saw a couple of early-adolescent kids..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by schyler523, pushing paper and bottoming chairs, stenseng
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I would love it if more political debates involved rap war-style chest beating. That's what was missing from the Bush/Kerry debates.
As far back as 2000, I was saying I'd vote for Bush with a smile on my face if he'd opened a debate with,..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"The koo-oo-koo-koo-whoo-oo-koo-koo call the MacKenzie Brothers like to make?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by comiddle
Last month
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"Fair enough. But I'm curious how far that extends beyond vocals-- if, say, you record a guitar track that tottaly kills except for a couple of Jimmy Page*-esque dead notes in the middle of a solo, do you still run with it, or do you rerecord (or try..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ZenMasterThis
2 months ago
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"i think this isn't as clear-cut as you think. many music consumers--even some of the more sophisticated ones--are still operating under the old assumption that a recording is an attempt at a faithful representation/approximation of a live musical..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by saulgoodman
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey, Woody Guthrie! What do you think?
Let's have Christ our President
Let us have him for our king
Cast your vote for the Carpenter
That you call the Nazarene
The only way we can ever beat
These crooked politician men
Is to run the money..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by NolanRyanHatesMatches, punilux
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I feel sorry for those who are atheists. Rather than being smarter, atheism reflects a poverty of thought, and a lack of appreciation of the universe, including of love and evil.
After putting a lot of thought into it, I've decided that I love..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Megafly, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, lord_wolf, flaterik, theredpen, bonecrusher, Mister_A
2 months ago
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"At 5:38 on Sunday afternoon, the heavens opened and a beam of fortune shone down upon South Minneapolis. A lone warrior, weary from a weekend of wrestling with an intractible light fixture, decided to give it one more try before he and his wife..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrisamiller
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I was actually going to email interrobang about this story, but what the hell: I'm on a committee at work that's assigned to put together an internal staff wiki. At a meeting earlier this week, we were testing out a bunch of platforms, and wanted to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by SybiL, interrobang, taz
2 months ago
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"From observing my own marriage and those of my friends, I've decided pretty conclusively that the dynamics of each marriage are wildly different, and it's tough to make universal statements. The POV of this article, and the comments in this thread..." [
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3 months ago
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"Agreeing with what everyone else said, let me reiterate: music journalism probably seems a lot cooler when you're not doing it. I bailed after about 5 years of steadily working up the freelance ladder, and by the time I was done, I was completely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
3 months ago
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"My band's bass player's brother (wow, that sounds like the start of a joke) is in one in Chicago, called Mucca Pazza. At least I think Mucca Pazza counts as the same genre if understand things, which I probably don't...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jeanmari
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My guess is that someone who is a bit older than 11 sees deeper things in the film.
I was in my 20s when I saw it and thought, "Wow, Verhoeven likes to make his points with a fucking sledgehammer...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kato
4 months ago
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"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...." [
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4 months ago
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"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...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LeeJay, goodnewsfortheinsane
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Last fall, I walked out of the museum where I was working and saw that mother parked on the sidewalk. It was a pretty fucking cool thing to walk out to.
Ironically, one of my only non-weather complaints about living in MN is our ridiculously..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Cracked.com is looking more and more like an STD I'm glad I didn't get in college." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But he could save a bunch of time by saving out some of his layers and making a vector library of voice bubbles, eyes, mouths, hands, hair, and other objects.
I can see voice bubbles, but I think it'd a mistake to do the rest as just replaceable..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sebastienbailard, krf
5 months ago
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"Ahh, shit. One of my favorite argument escalations in junior high and high school was, "you're wrong, so completely wrong that we could mail a letter to Gary Gygax and ask him if you're wrong and he'd send back a postcard right away saying..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by misha, Deathalicious, axon, tehloki, flatluigi, Kattullus, scrump
5 months ago
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"One last thing that popped into my head: if you ever get the chance to watch the entire run of Freaks and Geeks (and I recommend you make sure you get that chance), the final episode does a perfect job of showing how awesome D&D could be for a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dr. Curare, JHarris
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Y'know, I just thought of something. Like everybody, I default to thinking of Gygax as an enormously influential guy who most people haven't heard of. but, on the other hand, living in a remote-ass town in rural Nebraska in the 80s, I knew who Gary..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by eclectist, These Premises Are Alarmed, symbioid, khaibit, Bookhouse
5 months ago
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"Really interesting... but when they say this:
A very cinematic graphical convention encountered time and again in the manga adaptations is the complete absence of backgrounds when a dramatic moment demands all attention to the foreground...." [
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5 months ago
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"These comments were my gateway drug into the awesomeness of Interrobang's work. IMG! IMG!
One of my many Interrobang tributes: a Potato cameo." [
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6 months ago
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My desk always gets overrun with creeps.
favorited 9 times, recently by arcticseal, dripped, gemmy, logic vs love, Cool Papa Bell, studentbaker, Hey, Cupcake!, cgg, Divine_Wino
7 months ago
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"From what I've read of the interior conditions inside the Bear, resumption of long-range patrols is especially bad news for all the poor sons of bitches who're going to go deaf riding in the things...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KokuRyu
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I always thought of Bombadil, and Old Man Willow, as vestiges from the Hobbit-sequel childrens' book that Tolkien started to write, but which changed into an epic about halfway through the first book. If he had done a second draft, I think both those..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Manjusri
8 months ago
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"I think a good dog needs to be able to be left alone over a weekend and to be able to sit politely when taken along as a guest. If your dog can't do either of these things, you're in over your head with him.
Try as I might, I can't perfect the..." [
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8 months ago
