Oh. thank you thank you thank you I needed a good laugh and this post gave me three or four, best investment I made all week.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:46 PM on September 22, 2008

The speech was masterful except for the "8 is enough" line. Too cute. I teared up and I am generally without emotion.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 11:53 PM on August 28, 2008

Made me laugh and made me snackish.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:58 AM on August 20, 2008

L-l-l-ove those Blipverts!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:08 PM on August 12, 2008

is the hive mind's blue too faint to read?

How dare they.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:55 PM on August 3, 2008

This list is not very good, and they failed to find an image of Hunter Rose. However, the flag behind Doom looks like Grendel.
Viviat Grendel!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 4:48 PM on July 11, 2008

I'd also make a case for Namor, but then again I hate Arthur Curry.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 5:13 PM on July 11, 2008

Yes. Pogo warms my bitter, enlarged geek heart.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 8:52 PM on July 11, 2008

Lou Reed, eat your heart out. You too, Trent Reznor. Regarding Briliant Noise. I haven't watched the first one yet.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:37 PM on July 10, 2008

And the next time you trespass into my bedroom, I will spit my disease into your eyes.


I'm using that next time I have to break up with someone.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 1:28 PM on July 8, 2008

Yeah somewhat trippy, and sure she is a pretty girl, but context is king.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 7:04 PM on June 27, 2008

I hated this untill I read the title of your post and now I love it. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:23 PM on June 25, 2008

These very well may be the lost missing link twixt cave paintings and LOLCATS.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:15 PM on June 25, 2008

When I saw that blue_beetle posted this I was hoping it was all about Vic Sage.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:40 PM on June 23, 2008

Was Mcain....sort of....goosesteping?
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:06 PM on June 13, 2008

Hopefully, he will create a cabinet level department of funk.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:49 PM on June 13, 2008

Anyone got a link to that one host segment where they throw action figures of pop singers out of the lighthouse? I need that for my FBB league.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 11:43 AM on May 23, 2008

I made a succesful library use roll when i read this post, then i lost 2d10 san, went nuts, and gahhhrhghaaarh aaaaaghh rathan ia i acthulhu fhthaghen ia
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 12:42 AM on May 11, 2008

.....glagh gurrrrrrurt th eblacl goat of the woods and her thousaaaaaannd young oh craistssseh bkugh blug...
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 1:05 AM on May 11, 2008

Wait...Tom waits is real?

I kid.
Pescajamba, everybody!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 9:48 PM on May 7, 2008

I believe that's PEHDTSCKJMBA

yeah, i'm doin it now and its good. I'm not weird or anything about it. I don't tie myself up first.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:47 PM on May 7, 2008

Darn, I missed an awesome thread. Thanks Doc, your problem child made this problem child's time at Umass tolerable, and yet terrible.

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posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 5:52 AM on April 30, 2008

Peak.Oil. Baby.

Rising prices -> food riots -> border wars -> robot and/or zombie apocolypse.

Think of it as invisible inflation that trickles down to the poor and converts instantly to misery and chaos.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 12:23 AM on April 23, 2008

Don't look for fish in the treetops.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 12:04 AM on April 23, 2008

Sigh...when will the superich assjacket republicrats wake up and smell the sweet kona profits that waft from all that taxable, sustainable, groovy agribussiness? I smoke cigarettes. I smoke pot. If the smokes were banned, I'd be a lot healthier.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 11:17 PM on April 20, 2008

Racecar spelled backwards is racecar. That is all I know about motorsports. Grats for Ms. Patrick. It can not be easy to drive the same loop over and over again faster than everyone else.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 7:29 PM on April 20, 2008

Don't forget about the boarding of troops. Imagine having to house and feed a few soldiers for weeks at a time. I doubt they helped out with the chores.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:16 PM on April 19, 2008

I'm a skrull.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:28 PM on April 17, 2008

The Higgins Armory was the easily the coolest weekend trip when I was a kid growing up around Wormtown. Nice to see it on the blue.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 9:34 PM on April 14, 2008

Is this the entheogen thread?
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 9:39 PM on April 10, 2008

Which is awesome, because it shifts the standard of being a better person from what you do and believe to your adherence to a set of social conventions; it becomes more important to give the appearance of decency than to be decent.


Controling one's impulse to speak ill of the dead, tamping down that impulse to unleash one's hate, is probably decent practice.

We can't blame Heston for the bad gun laws and gun... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 1:44 AM on April 6, 2008

I have a buddy coming over to watch tonight, this will come in handy. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:03 PM on April 4, 2008

This thread was a nice way to end the day, and happyhippo should report to Section Alpha at the Ad Hoc Psyops Think Tank post haste. Or later today. Whatever is easier.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:21 PM on March 31, 2008

Obviously the drunk Vader caused the camera crew some inconvenience, and is prepared to compensate them. Shall he say the sum of one million American dollars?
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 7:16 PM on March 30, 2008

PEAK OIL BABY!!!!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 8:32 PM on March 16, 2008

It's about a systemic mis-valuation of a whole litany of securities and financial instruments that consequently can't be hedged nor their risk evaluated in any meaningful way, and the likelihood of a credit/liquidity crunch as a result.

PEAK MIS-VALUATION, BABY!!!!!!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 8:49 PM on March 16, 2008

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil jumped to a record above $111 a barrel on Monday, as a surprise weekend cut in the Federal Reserve discount rate and the fire sale of stricken U.S. investment bank Bear Stearns sent the dollar to all-time lows.

THIS IS GOING TO BE FRACKING AWESOME.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 8:53 PM on March 16, 2008

Okay, correct me if I am wrong, but the Bear Sterns thing is a de facto bank failure, right?
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 9:11 PM on March 16, 2008

Yeah spiderskull, I got carried away there. I enjoy the idea of a worldwide collapse.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 9:22 PM on March 16, 2008

What is winding up? What is Guernsey Law?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment company Carlyle Capital Corp said on Sunday its shareholders have voted unanimously in favor of a compulsory winding up.
The company said it will now start winding up and sell its remaining assets under Guernsey law.

Peak winding up, baby?
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 9:34 PM on March 16, 2008

His sailing books are great reads, and for whatever reason, I choose to remember him for the best of what he was, not the worst.
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posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:33 PM on February 27, 2008

2nding Mark Hamil's Joker. TAS's Two Face was also done right. That show even made Killer Croc interesting.

Batman Beyond was a good cartoon. The later seasons were better than the first, I think.

Don't get me going on the Justice League/JLU cartoons. I once made everyone at a house party I was only partly the host of sit thru an episode of JLU. It was the Suicide Squad one. They mocked me at first, but even the least geeky at the shindig were... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 5:51 PM on February 15, 2008

Hell, TAS even did a great job with the Creeper, I recall.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:39 AM on February 16, 2008

I WANT THE FUCKING BLOCKS!!!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:45 PM on February 13, 2008

I WANT THE FUCKING FRIDGE AS WELL!!!
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 6:30 PM on February 14, 2008

Jaws was a huge part of my childhood. I still watch it when it comes around on television sometimes, and next time, it will be a little more sad.

But I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 11:31 PM on February 10, 2008

Thta > thsi. Got it. Thanks, f-jacks. Lost without you. Your faithful servant etc. etc., vrak.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 11:05 PM on February 3, 2008

Trakker, there is a magazine called "Sheep!" and it is not for zoophiles nor dictators. It is for people who raise sheep. What do you think of thta?
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 11:29 PM on February 3, 2008

Yeah, that last link should have examples of attractive lizard women, you know, so we have a baseline for debate.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:45 PM on February 3, 2008

It was haunting and tasty and low-fi, like a slice of pie with a spirit inside.

Also, fucking Giants.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 10:40 PM on February 3, 2008