Could it have been Jim's Journal? (Sorry, I can't find a better link, but it was drawn in the stick-figure style, and featured a cat named Mr. Peterson.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by malocchio at 1:05 PM on September 3, 2008

I just want that magic bar of soap.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 2:19 PM on August 8, 2008

China is still going through its awkward emo stage. A mix CD with some Motorhead and the Stooges may help.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 11:40 AM on August 7, 2008

Still, the "going through a stage" bit is rather obnoxious.

Yeah, I was being needlessly flippant. My apologies.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 12:11 PM on August 7, 2008

The Dems are the Washington Generals to the Republicans Harlem Globetrotters.

I wonder if we can get the national anthem changed to "Sweet Georgia Brown" - though "Yakkity Sax" often seems more appropriate.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 10:56 AM on July 29, 2008

2,990 results for cuil sucks

So why does it only show me three of the results? None of them helpful, I might add.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 10:02 AM on July 28, 2008

It dies without a message box, without an error message, without making a sound, it just suddenly destroys all its windows, discards any open files, and thus unadorned folds up and flees the mortal coil. It looks very much like the window has minimized, but it won't be found on the taskbar or in Task Manager.

That's almost....beautiful.

I've finally found the way I want to die.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 5:49 PM on July 23, 2008

I have never heard of a bank having an "official signature" on file for accounts.

I sign a signature card every year as Treasurer for our H.O.A., and I also signed one recently when I opened my business checking account. I can't remember specifically if I signed one for my personal account (it was ages ago), but I'm pretty sure that I did.
posted to Ask Metafilter by malocchio at 12:06 PM on July 22, 2008

When I was in fifth and sixth grade (public school, Orange County, California during the late 70's), every Wednesday two trailers would pull up to the front of the school, and the during the school day classes would file out of the school and into the trailers. One of the trailers was for Catholics, the other for Protestants. Basically, it was a little Sunday School type affair, with religious instruction, prayer, hymns, little workbooks and Jesus stickers. Students whose parents objected... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by malocchio at 3:06 PM on July 19, 2008

Am I the only person who finds this inappropriately disrespectful?

Absolutely. Sewage treatment and waste disposal are vital endeavors that protect the public health and welfare. These facilities deserve much more respect than this.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 7:21 AM on July 18, 2008

Just wait until they get their MySpace page up and running.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 7:44 AM on July 11, 2008

Yeah, me too. Thanks guys!
posted to Ask Metafilter by malocchio at 3:39 PM on July 10, 2008

I always love that opening sequence, where the City Hall is the tallest building of the downtown skyline. Oh, and how the Rampart district seems like a nice, middle-class neighborhood.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 7:32 AM on July 10, 2008

O Pan! Io Pan!

Strange Angel is another great book about the life of Parsons.

I've long been fascinated by his rather tragic tale, especially with the parallels between his own story and that of John Dee, with L. Ron playing the role of Edward Kelley. When I first began my research, there were no biographies yet released, and I was considering writing one myself, but ran into rather stiff resistance from Helen Smith among others. Still, this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 1:56 PM on July 4, 2008

If this guy never existed, then R.A.W. must have created him.

R.A. Wilson created his own version of events in Cosmic Trigger, even attributing the founding of CalTech in part to Parsons, which is wildly incorrect.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 1:59 PM on July 4, 2008

I just read that last link...Marilyn Manson thinks Parsons was responsible for the atomic bomb? And that the objective of the Babalon Working was to bring about the end of the world? I've always given him credit for being reasonably intelligent, but nearly everything that he asserts about Parsons is wrong.

(For those who have read that link and are trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, it is true that Parsons was a disciple of Crowley's, but Crowley was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 5:07 PM on July 4, 2008

Well, I've always thought of Crowley as something of a Rorschach blot...we tend to see what we want to see. If Crowley was a confidence artist, then by nearly any metric he was a rather poor one.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 5:44 PM on July 4, 2008

Oh, my apologies for not knowing you had a deep personal relationship to Parson's brain function. It must be my guiltless patriarchal attitude.

Hmm...I'm not sure what provokes your hostility. But if you can point me to anything in Parsons' writing that displays the nihilistic ambition of literal world destruction attributed to him by MM, please do so. Otherwise, I'll continue to maintain that Manson is full of shit.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 11:56 AM on July 5, 2008

This is an absolutely top-notch post. Well done and thanks, forrest.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 9:57 AM on July 2, 2008

It's ironic to watch people cling so desperately to the ability to take for free that which they turn around and proclaim "valueless."

If I see a penny lying in the street, I won't waste the effort to pick it up. And I won't bother defending my so-called "right" to do so when someone asks me to just leave it there.

If something has value, isn't it's worth paying for?
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 2:37 PM on June 24, 2008

You just reminded me that I've been meaning to purchase Aleister Crowley's General Principles of Astrology for some time. While I suspect that it covers much basic information, I've never come across any of his works that I would consider entry-level. And Crowley has such a knack for cutting through bullshit that his work is nearly always fascinating, even for one that is ultimately skeptical (such as myself.)

Then again, many people are still turned off solely by his... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by malocchio at 4:37 PM on May 29, 2008

Cool! I hope she enjoys it...I'm looking forward to receiving my own copy, so thanks for the prompting!
posted to Ask Metafilter by malocchio at 12:35 PM on May 30, 2008

Cthulhu f'taghn

I've always wondered if the emphasis should be placed on the "f't" or the "agh."

Then I wonder if I even want to pronounce it properly.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 7:13 AM on May 30, 2008

It's pronounced "Bill Smith", believe it or not.

Aha! That probably explains all the strange, amphibian sounds coming from the old Smith house. Good to know.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 7:31 AM on May 30, 2008

And even if you do manage to pronounce it correctly, locusts fly out of your mouth and the sun turns black.

And therein lies my apprehension...though it would be pretty cool to watch it happen to someone else.

(I used to have a friend, may he rest peacefully, who was fascinated by Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the whole Typhonian current. His greatest ambition: to unleash a plague of locusts upon the earth. One... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 9:41 AM on May 30, 2008

heh, adamdschneider...I should mention that the friend lived at least 500 miles away, so shenanigans were out of the question. It has all the makings for a hell of a prank, though!
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 9:55 AM on May 30, 2008

DA - fair point. I'm a genuine skeptic by nature, but the thought that he could have pulled this off through mundane means is almost more impressive to me than any mystical mumbo-jumbo I could imagine. Poor Bart was far too destitute, bi-polar, and out of his mind on trazodone or whatever he was on at the time to pull off a stunt like that, even though that is clearly the most likely scenario. But you really would have had to know him to believe that, so a good healthy dose of skepticism is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 10:21 AM on May 30, 2008

The OP said here I'll go first and gave several answers.

Which is an excellent definition of chatfilter. I wonder where we all saw it?

Here, I'll go first. At MetaTalk.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 8:00 PM on May 29, 2008

I would like to propose some sort of sketchy somethingorother to any MeFites within walking distance.

You know where to find me.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 6:16 PM on May 29, 2008

Goddamn. If it was that easy for me to evoke the chthonic entities, I'd be at home muttering passages from the Goetia right now.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 6:57 AM on May 29, 2008

jtron beat me to it. Torgo is a kickass name.
posted to Ask Metafilter by malocchio at 1:02 PM on May 28, 2008

I always thought David Bowie held that record.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 9:21 AM on May 25, 2008

Yeah, Japan, quit being so goddamned cute.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 9:18 AM on May 25, 2008

My god, it's like the literary equivalent of that horrible Lisa Loeb song. And an extremely extended remix at that.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 10:21 AM on May 22, 2008

Oddly enough, my dry cleaner has autographed pictures of porn stars on the wall. I've long suspected some sort of conflux between the two industries.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 6:29 AM on May 20, 2008

Well, I always assumed that the porn stars were the people doing the autographing, just as I also assumed that the dry cleaner was the person doing the cleaning.

I could be horribly mistaken about any of this.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 10:58 AM on May 20, 2008

I'm holding out for the "Invader" Zim model myself.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 12:36 PM on May 15, 2008

I'd like to go, but first I'd have to leave Los Angeles.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 10:44 AM on May 14, 2008

Don't worry, Pope Guilty, you'll get used to it.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 12:24 PM on May 15, 2008

*considers dusting off Universal Ministries ordination certificate and declaring self open for business*
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 11:40 AM on May 15, 2008

This is fantastic timing as I've recently decided to start hitting the links again. It's just like they say: when God farts, the devil opens a window.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 10:04 AM on May 14, 2008

ooh, i just got chills.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 9:53 AM on May 14, 2008

All righty then.
posted to MetaTalk by malocchio at 12:38 PM on May 9, 2008

"FREE TIBET!" available only with purchase of $100 or more.

Offer not valid in Taiwan or Tennessee.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 12:39 PM on May 8, 2008

The first rule of Tentacle Club of Mesonychoteuthis, with Swiveling Hooks is - you do not talk about Tentacle Club of Mesonychoteuthis, with Swiveling Hooks.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 9:00 AM on April 28, 2008

One of my favorite concert memories is from seeing the Cocteau Twins in Hollywood back in '85. After they had played their full set, the crowd naturally wanted an encore, for which they were not the slightest bit prepared. Flustered, Robin rewound the reel-to-reel which had their drum tracks, and they played a couple of songs from the yet-to-be-released Tiny Dynamine again.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 9:16 AM on April 21, 2008

This furthers my newfound appreciation for all things Finnish. I really would like to visit there someday.

My understanding is that a great deal of the population moves from the cities to their country homes in the summer. Is that still the custom? It looks like a bustling little city.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 1:57 PM on April 15, 2008

Dear God,

I am a close associate of Ex-head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Late General Sanni Abacha. I want to know if you can assist me by providing your foreign account for a quick transfer of a total sum of $95.5m U.S. Dollars from Africa to your account. You were recommended to me by one of your devout followers, Retired Col. Usman Mohammed. But I did not disclose my intentions to him. I promise to offer you 25% of the total sum if you can assist me as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 6:42 AM on April 14, 2008

I can't imagine anyone enrolling in law school without being high.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 8:03 PM on April 13, 2008

hey, I said LESS repulsive....I really should have stayed in bed today.
posted to MetaFilter by malocchio at 1:09 PM on April 10, 2008