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Made it through Xmas. Whew.

Last night my cat, Inkblot, who doesn't really like anybody but me, slept on TK's lap while we were watching Exodus. My other cat, Milo, already loves TK more than me. Sigh.

Sleeper Cell

I can't wait to watch this new Andy Richter comedy called "Sleeper Cell." It looks like a riot. Have you seen the ads on the MTA buses? "Friends, Neighbors, Husbands, Terrorists."

It looks like Paul Reiser's on it too. This is gonna be better than 3rd Rock.

Resist the Borg

The Borg are (is?)the ultimate imperialists on Star Trek. I mashed together photos of a Borg and George W. Bush in Photoshop at the beginning of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. I used the image on a couple of signs at protests. Here was the result.

I guess I should have chosen a more oligarchical race of Star Trek people to which I could compare the prez. I don't know Star Trek that well. Maybe I should have painted George W. as a Romulan. Romulans seem kinda boring though. Boring and dickish.

Gateway to L.A.

About fifteen years ago, Los Angeles had a big competition to design a Gateway To L.A. that would be an iconic monument that visitors would see when they flew into LAX, along the lines of the Statue of Liberty or the St. Louis Arch. They got a lot of designs and picked a winner. I'm not sure if the funding fell through or it turned out everyone hated the winner's design except the committee that chose the winning entry. It never got built.

At the time, my father suggested that the Gateway to L.A. should reflect the attitude of people in the city and be a big "fuck you" sign. I drew his idea at the time and here it is.

Nerve

Someone gave me a couple of these fake dollar bills a few years back. I always figured if I got really poor service at a restaurant one day, I'd leave one as a tip.

Once a long time ago I went to a Swenson's ice cream parlor and said, "I'd like an ice cream sundae." The waiter said, "So?" This was in the early 90's before I had the "Kiss My Ass" dollars. I wish I had had them then. I haven't had a mean waiter like that since.

Clack: the Egg Cracker Update

If you're looking for a Clack device to ease the pain of removing the shell from your soft boiled egg, I recommend buying one from German eBay (ebay.de). You can't find a Clack on U.S. eBay, but there are plenty of German sellers out there. A lot of them have the "Buy It Now" feature, so you don't have to go through the bidding process. I bought one with a little, hand-painted porcelain egg at the top that resembles an angry rabbit.

Miss Evilkins

Inkblot now has a page on Catster.

What am I doing with my life?

Now that the holidays are rolling around

Mun Mun is working on "What Do You Say, Pops 3: Xmas Edition." At the rate it's going, it should be done by about Xmas 2006.

Did you ever notice that my dad and Marlon Brando in his old age looked alike?

Internet Archive

You may have wiped the slates, but the Wayback Machine remembers.

German saying

My dad's been using this expression lately,
Was man nicht im Kopf hat,
hat man in den Füßen.
The literal translation is "What one doesn't have in the head, one has in the feet." The meaning is if you aren't mindful of things/keeping track of things/planning ahead, you end up doing more leg-work.

Leeeeeeeroy Jennnnkins!

Have y’all been following the Leeroy Jenkins phenomenon? (TK heard about this from Julian Dibbell.There’s a very funny video floating around the net that is ostensibly a multi-user online gaming battle that someone has captured from the game World of Warcraft. A bunch of game players are about to enter the lair of some monsters and hash over their complicated strategy to avoid fighting all the monsters at once and getting slaughtered. Then, one of the players ignores the strategy and rushes into the cave, shouting his name as a battle-cry, ruining the plan.

I’ve read that the video was scripted and not a real game, but it’s hilarious either way. Check it out, man!

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2671154?htv=12 (Click "Skip Ad" to get to it)
(Check leeroyjenkins.net for other video files if this one doesn’t work for you) I think this video’s got a real central european ex-austro-hungarian sensibility to it:)

Apparently Leeroy Jenkins has entered the popular consciousness already. He was in a question on Jeopardy!
(http://tinyurl.com/8ytor)

You needed to know this.

More thoughts on the Astro Blasters ride

If Disneyland would only add a laser tag component to It's A Small World and let us shoot the little dollies, that ride would finally be an "E" Ticket. They could change the ride's name to "Find the Enemy Combatant."

I actually find It's A Small World fairly entertaining as is. It was always everyone's mother's favorite ride. I think a little more diversity in the African section could be represented though.