From the Indie RPG community: Paul Czege's Nicotine Girls. The Pen and Paper game of teenage, lower-income girls looking for happiness.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 5:43 AM on June 19, 2008

I was introduced to his music at Christmas, a couple years back. My brother in law was playing Sam Stone in the background. It was an interesting Christmas.

I'm at work, so I don't know how good the clip is.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:05 PM on June 3, 2008

One of these days I plan to read some Doc Savage. Right after, those other hundreds of books in the queue.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:34 AM on May 27, 2008

I think the problem with Dune is that its less of story and more of a philosophical screed. Now don't get me wrong, I love (the first 6 books of) the Dune series, but as the literary aspects leave much to be desired. The prequels are bad fanfic which lacks the interesting philosophical bits but leaves in the shitty storytelling.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 12:34 PM on May 15, 2008

As for new series that didn't suck, the first book in R. Scott Baker's Prince of Nothing didn't suck. More philosophical fantasy. I have it on good authority that the Reality Dysfunction series is popular with all of the physicists that I know. I found his level of detail off-putting, but to each their own.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 7:22 AM on May 16, 2008

Whoa, that's awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 12:49 PM on May 15, 2008

Wait a minute, what the hell is wrong with Red fingernail polish?
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 8:46 AM on May 14, 2008

In addition to the mostly excellent A Case For Conscience mentioned above, Mary Doria Russell's duology The Sparrow and Children of God are good. More on Jesuits, first contact and forgiveness.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 5:56 AM on May 14, 2008

How many punks does it take to change a lightbulb?

None. Everybody knows that punk can't change anything.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:48 AM on May 13, 2008

damn my lack of preview
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:49 AM on May 13, 2008

Back when the Exorcist was being re-released, we got in to the preview screening the night before it opened. As we were watching, the film sort of disintegrated before our eyes and we all went outside to smoke while they fixed it. At like 1:30 in the morning, off in the distance was the ice cream truck playing its hellish "Hello" song. I fucking hate the ice cream man.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:10 PM on May 6, 2008

Am I the only one who kinda freaked at the Large Format Color machine breaking? I need a new job.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:18 AM on April 29, 2008

Thanks for this. I was just saying how I was afraid I might be too productive in the coming weeks.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 8:35 AM on April 16, 2008

Way back in 2002 I was an overnight at Kinko's. We had this young guy who'd come in regularly to print out his manuscripts, nothing exciting it happened all the time. So we start talking and it comes out that I'm going to seminary in a couple of weeks. He got that gleam in his eye. (Anyone who's ever accidentally tripped an off-kilter reigious person knows that gleam) He starts going on and on about his book series and how its going to be used to spread the Word of God and on and on. Pretty... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 10:59 AM on April 7, 2008

Thanks for this. I was looking to learn more about choral music.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 7:38 AM on March 28, 2008

The relevant part of the Bravestarr episode
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 4:51 PM on March 26, 2008

I was about 12 when I first saw this, not technicaly a cartoon but certianly directed at children. God damn snakemen.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 4:54 PM on March 26, 2008

That was cool. But now I have to go watch Beastmaster.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 12:12 PM on March 15, 2008

With the exception of Fire and Rain, James Taylor is lost on me. But, Fire and Rain is one of the most beautiful songs of loss I've ever heard.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 3:05 PM on March 12, 2008

Being gainfully unemployed is a lot of fun for about a month. Then it gets tedious.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 11:47 AM on March 11, 2008

Gnarls Barkley from the 2006 MTV Movie awards, complete with wookie on drums
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 10:47 AM on March 9, 2008

Like many others here I owe a large part of who I am to this man. My love of history, language, and myth were encouraged in ways that I can't begin to describe. I still remember reading through one of the appendicies of the 1st edition DMG and learning new Greek and Latin words. I'm still stunned.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 11:24 AM on March 4, 2008

"Mrs. Smith's Peas, even more delicious when your dead"
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 8:44 AM on February 18, 2008

They do seem to be rather atavistic:

"The Activities Association said it is considering whether to take action against the private religious school. St. Mary's Academy, about 25 miles northwest of Topeka, is owned and operated by the Society of St. Pius X, which follows older Roman Catholic laws. The society's world leader, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II in the late 1980s." from the first article.

Rocky indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:15 PM on February 14, 2008

Damn it, I was doing good till that Moleskin comment.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 5:46 PM on February 13, 2008

Wow. I've lived here all my life and I had no idea. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:40 PM on February 13, 2008

I've hated anthropomorphic pigs ever since that damned video for Mr Krinkle. This didn't help at all.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:40 PM on February 6, 2008

The RPG Nobilis had sidebars filled with this sort of thing. I love this stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 2:40 PM on December 21, 2007

Dogs you cannot trust. Owners you cannot trust. This, this you can trust.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 12:42 PM on December 7, 2007

So, I was in Eugene OR and feeling pretty bummed out. I decided to take a walk and see what I could find. I wandered into a used gaming shop across the way from a fantastic used bookstore. I was browsing a selection of mid 90s D&D books when I hear from the back of the store: "Dave*, We figured out how to make breasts!"

My curiosity piqued, I wandered back that way. It seems that two teenage girls had figured out a way to make some breasts for an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 7:45 PM on November 12, 2007

I'm angry that she doesn't know how to use the word fundamentalist. One who believes in the fundamentals. This is easiest to demonstrate with religion, (wrong and an incorrect interpretation of scripture I'd argue, but that's beside the point) but not solely related to it.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:07 AM on October 30, 2007

Yup, atheists not rigidly adhering to anything. Nothing at all.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:32 AM on October 30, 2007

If you go in through Google Image Search, you can get the image galleries.

This is the closest thing to capturing that late night adolesence finding something different. I really appreciate this.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 7:32 PM on October 12, 2007

Apocamon
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 10:57 AM on October 11, 2007

I'm not sure that this is any different than any of the Children's Illustrated Bibles that the Catholic kids nextdoor were forced to have. Its just Zondervan trying to capitolize on a new market.

I mean, every time I'm in Borders there's always some kid sitting on the floor paging through some Manga.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 11:49 AM on October 11, 2007

I always feel weird because I love Joy Division, but I have gotten terribly sick of Love Will Tear Us Apart.

I am looking forward to seeing this though.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 12:35 PM on October 10, 2007

You know, I drive through St. George every morning on my way to work. Its been gloriously free of cops for three weeks. I'd wondered where they had gone. Now I know.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:23 PM on September 27, 2007

My favorite Feynman reference: "Albert Einstein was the smartest scientist the world has produced. Ricard Feynman was an alien sent here to teach us physics."

I love Feynman, his work sometimes makes me want to give up my Liberal Arts ambititions, and learn some real math.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 11:24 AM on September 16, 2007

dammit, Richard
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 11:25 AM on September 16, 2007

2007 is turning out to be an awesome year for a 12 year old version of me. Between 4th edition announced and the re-release and completion of Lone Wolf, its shaping up to be a fine year.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 11:30 AM on August 16, 2007

...but empire records is so awesome!

Those of us who like Empire Records didn't go to see it because it had a Gin Blossoms' song
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 8:36 AM on July 6, 2007

Dammit, now I've lost 1d10 SAN. This is why I don't read the articles.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 2:29 PM on July 5, 2007

Man, I love the Kusari-gama, have since the 1st edition Oriental Adventures. Can't decide between a weighted chain and a sickle? Here, have both!
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 7:34 AM on June 27, 2007

I'm no big fan of Marilyn Manson, possibly due to discovering Rozz Williams and Christian Death right before Manson hit big, but the article is just sad. He sounds like a petulant, depressed 15 year old. Which is fine when 15, less so, when 38.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 8:48 AM on June 12, 2007

Personally, I'm still waiting for his "Only Women Bleed". Something to convince me that he is more than a Brittany Spears, only wearing black.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:35 AM on June 12, 2007

Anyway, it's well known that new American cultral bogeymen are Emo Kids, with their Spiderman 3, gender-bending, disco moves and cutting.

Dammit, if they're gonna play part of the Glam kids role, at least they're music could be decent.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 10:24 AM on June 12, 2007

their, crap
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 10:28 AM on June 12, 2007

Firas,

Fair enough. How about, in the half a dozen or so albums that I have heard of his, I did not hear anything that convinced me he was more than a dark pop star. His music is alright, but it is crafted to be pop.

stinkycheese,
Janis Joplin is harder than Marianne Faithful because she was from Texas and she died at the magic age of 27.
Johnny Cash is cooler than Lemmy, which I suppose makes him cooler than God.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:03 PM on June 12, 2007

damn
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 1:09 PM on June 12, 2007

An acquaintence of mine was interviewing Mountain in the mid 80s, and asked Leslie West about Pappalardi. He said West got furious and even my body building friend got freaked. West was a big dude.

Also, Mississippi Queen is an awesome song.
posted to MetaFilter by khaibit at 9:45 AM on May 30, 2007