Oh toxic lighter fluid,
you make such beautiful flame.
But how you burn
my lower lip.
Or maybe that was
the fire extinguisher.
This is only a short clip. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), there is no video of me being extinguishered in the face. Also… looking back on it, it looks like I was drinking that lighter fluid. Don’t try this at home, kids. Kerosene is a much less toxic alternative to lighter fluid. Or you can use corn starch to be completely safe about it (thanks for that, sis).
Tonight I partied with the White Wolf crew. Highlights below the cut, in video format. WMV, so sorry for those of you on Macs. I also breathed fire, but I do not yet have that video. And Justin Achilli made me drink horrible Icelandic vodka. Well, okay. He only asked me if I wanted in. Which, was the same way that I ended up guzzling and spitting lighter fluid. Man, lighter fluid burps are non-tasty.
Oh, also… the guy in the last clip LIT HIS FACE ON FIRE. But I didn’t catch that part on video. 🙁 He got extinguisher to the face. Which I got later that night, too. It does not taste good.
Well, things have finally come together, and today in the early afternoon we’ll be signing off the old house to its new owners. I am hopeful that everything will go smoothly, but it just seems like it’s come together a little too well for something not to go wrong. Like when we get there, they will have a donkey prepared. “Oh, didn’t you read the fine print? There’s a ‘Tijuana’ clause — it’s standard in contracts these days. You didn’t think you could really sell a house in this market that easily, did you?”
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ABC News reports that libraries in southeast Michigan are drawing teens in by offering games for checkout, and having tournaments of Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero to draw a crowd.
On the one hand, maybe they just want to get the kids in the habit of going to the library, even if it’s not for reading. But seriously, people… is putting teens in the physical presence of books going to make them want to read? That’s like saying that putting a stripper on stage at the opera will encourage people to explore the theater (yes, that’s “theater” — I spell it “-er,” not, “-re.” You wanna fight about it?), leading a horse to water will make it drink, or whatever analogy you care to throw at it.
The scientist in me would be interested to see statistics, though — if more teenagers have been checking out books (as well as video games) since this program started. Maybe the mindset is, “Well I’m here anyway… might as well check out the latest Hirsute Prestidigitator novel.” I’m skeptical, but it’s possible.
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Ajinbayo Akinsiku wants the world to know Jesus Christ, just not the gentle, blue-eyed Christ of old Hollywood movies and illustrated Bibles.
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Mr. Akinsiku says his Son of God is “a samurai stranger who’s come to town, in silhouette,†here to shake things up in a new, much-abridged version of the Bible rooted in manga, the Japanese form of graphic novels.
Is anyone else reminded of Battle Pope, or Loaded Bible (wherein Jesus fights vampires, which of course reminds me of Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter — “The power of Christ impales you!”)? Or perhaps Xtreme Jesus:
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So I was signing up for a site today that had a Captcha (the “type the text you see below”). These things seem to be getting harder and harder to read by humans, it seems like. Well, this one is over the line. The instructions were to, “Enter both words below, separated by a space.“ Well, can you tell what the word on the left says? Because I sure as hell can’t.
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