This site, and everything hosted by my host has been down all night. Now, it seems like everyhting is working OK. In fact, everything feels BLAZING fast. Could it be that they performed some type of server upgrade without telling me? Wow, if this performance keeps up, I’m all set.
Thank witold for sending me this great article about a bank robbery gone wrong[new: link added 10/1/02]. I wish there were more details, and maybe a link to video footage. We’ll have to do with only the details provided. Guy tries to rob bank with semi-automatic pistol. Guy gets money, but shoots self in leg […]
I have always been the type of guy that thinks of new ideas, sometimes far-fetched, sometimes not, and doodles them down on paper. These ideas have ranged from new products, to sci-fi weapons, to fantasy characters, to simple video game ideas, to marketing campaigns. My doodling ability has made it possible for me to communicate […]
The following people were listed as licensed to carry a concealed firearm in NYC:
Tommy Mottola
Steven Seagal
Buddy Hackett
Robert De Niro
Harvey Keitel
Chazz Palminteri
Howard Stern
Don Imus
Buddy Hackett?!? Who’s out to kill him? Can you imagine the guy who actually called in a death threat on Buddy Hackett? That’s pretty much a one-man deal, the whole […]
I have been working on the moveabletype blog. I got it working finally. Now I have started trying to make it use this template, with the images and everything, and it’s proving to be not so easy. In fact, very hard. To distract myself I made some pixel art (cartman and some works-in progress), and […]
Don’t be afraid of that title. I know many of you have ties to that little slice of Xanadu we call ‘Long Island’
Anyway, if you know of anyone that lives on LI Click Here. You can search any property in Nassau County - find the size of the lot, the year the house was […]
It looks like Dr. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist in some university in England has been performing research on jokes. He sampled and got ratings on over 40,000 different jokes and broke the results into various demographics and statistics. He found out for instance that Germans find almost anything funny, which makes me feel a little […]
This seems to be working very well. Moveabletype is pretty much genious. Special thanks to the Trotts for doing such thorough work. It really is fantastic.
God, I hate Sunday nights. I always sleep in too late in the afternoon, and can’t fall asleep at night. It’s now about 3:45am, and I am screwed tomorrow. Walking dead. Goddammit. Anyway, I had a busy weekend of drinking and partying way too hard.
Today was rough after last night’s 5am drinking debacle. I […]
I forgot to mention a special little shout out. As you may have noticed, there is a change in the Anna Nicole pixel person. There’s now an old-school version of the hot, but still a little larger Anna, and the new school, 250lb crack-whore Anna. I have to give special thanks to my friend Tara, […]
Again, I find myself thanking Tara for some inspiration. She sent me this article this morning about a guy who killed himself with his own booby traps. Apparently he was an 80 year old Belgian guy, former chemical engineer who was trying to keep his children out of the house. He set assorted booby traps […]
I am a dumb man. Today I am reading CNN.COM about how Afghanistani President Hamid Karzai believes that Bin Laden is dead, but is sure that Mullah Omar is alive. All I kept thinking was “man, this guy sure looks like Destro”
Judge for yourself
President Karzai vs. Destro
Check out what claims to be the world’s smallest website. I don’t know how it couldn’t be.
To keep you all happy, let’s take a look at how our generation’s holding up. That good, huh? I don’t know what’s more disconcerting, the facts or the ‘you people are screwed’ tone the over-50 journalist takes.
The only thing to do is to become a longshoreman who apparantly make more than […]
This is quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Keep in mind it’s absolutely real. This looks like late 50’s and the guy that wrote it probably thought nothing of it. We know better now, don’t we?
For those of you who are forced to work with parents who swear their kid is the: cutest, smartest, most athletic, future president, etc…
This site cracked me up.
There is something very ‘Diclerico-esqe’ about the writer. I’m not sure what it is. Maybe it’s the misplaced rage.
I haven’t been posting much because I have been working on the new and improved moveabletype version of this blog. It is currently working fairly well, but I haven’t imported these blogs yet. Unfortunately we are going to lose all these previous comments, but it doesn’t seem to be such a big deal. I have […]
Umm, yeah.
If you don’t think germans are strange - check out what they do at their zoos
Rossi’s zoo story reminds me of my childhood…
When I was about 5 years old I tried to “milk” a bull in the children’s area of the Staten Island Zoo. Apparently bulls don’t have milk. Or utters. I realized all of this when it kicked my mom square in the face. Knocked her out cold. The […]
After six years Aardman animations is (finally!) releasing another Wallace & Gromit movie. To “warm up” to the task, they’re doing ten one-minute shorts, starting with this one. Even if they take forever, I just love how in the age of cgi Nick Park is still doing it ol’ skool. This short […]
This morning on the subway I was lucky enough to find a seat, but once I reached the first stop - I was looking up at 3 people more worthy than myself for the privilege of sitting. They were:
A pregnant woman
An elderly woman
A mother with a child (the kid was about 3 years old)
I […]
I know chris and rossi will appreciate this one. yoejoe.com has every 80’s G.I. Joe and Cobra figure ever made. I mean EVERY one. It reminds me of running home from St. Camillus, chucking my puke brown tie and figuring out how Snake-Eyes was going to escape from the top of the refrigerator. […]
Man, I stayed home form work today because I felt so shitty this morning. I have a serious cold..sore throat, coughing, excess snot production, etc… Anyway, I have been workingon the moveabletype blog all frigging day. I am encountering a bug importing all the old blogs from blogger that you read here. I really don’t […]
It looks like the upgrade to moveabletype 2.5 went well. It says I’m upgraded. This good news. I’ll try the import now…
Well, it appears that the import worked, but not without some minor glitches. First of all, it created all the users perfectly, except it made a new user for me and imported all my old posts as that user. I guess it’s no big deal. I made them have the same nickname, so all the […]
For all of you people who post on this blog -> DO NOT POST ON BLOGGER.COM anymore. We have to post in a different location now that I made the switch to moveabletype. I’ll post a special link for you all, and tell you your usernames and passwords and stuff. For right now, DON’T […]
I have added a guest account as an experiment. This is the first guest post. Emails sent to guest will go to me. I’ll add instructions on how to guest post soon.
~chris
Well, apropos of all the recent posts (and being that there’s now a “dirty” category) … here’s a very strange and very dirty game from Japan. Some weird stuff goes on in Japan. I used to date a girl who lived there for a while, and she had her underwear stolen from the […]
I am fixing many problems as we speak, but for the most part the transition worked very smoothly. For all of you people who post to the site, I sent you an email with your username ans password. I just realized with the help of rob, that I never granted permission for you to rebuild […]
Witold found some extraordinary ways to mess up the blog using the guest account. Therefore I removed the guest account entirely. Now even though I am suffering from a severe hangover and can barely see the screen I need to ask all of you people who have accounts to NOT fuck around with power-editing mode! […]
Let’s see if this works.
I never heard this when they announced it but I came across the plans for the new world trade center at cnn.com. I appreciate that they’re all trying to make a memorial park out of it but I’ve got one problem. All of the buildings are WAY smaller than […]
I haven’t been to the movies in months. For a while there I was seeing a movie-a-week. Usually on Sunday nights, with a few usual friends. Now, I can’t remember the last movie I’ve seen. I think the switchover happened when there wasn’t a single movie worth watching for the whole summer. Yeah that’s it. […]
What blogs do you all read on a regular basis? I have a few, all of which I mention here from time to time. I know some really great ones exist. I also know that Mitchell is an addict, Witold is an addict, and I don’t know who else of you are addicts. Let me […]
The only show worth watching on Nickelodeon is Invader Zim. Everybody knows it. Fuck Spongebob. He sucks. I have seen about 10 episodes of Spongebob and smiled a total of once. One time. Anyway, Invader Zim is frigging hysterical. The artwork (by the guy who created Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is fantastic. The style is […]
For my first post, let me rant for a second about the media. It’s really hard to find a group of dumber people. Maybe there might be a smart one or two in the whole lot of but they are by far the exception. Now I firmly believe in a free press. And I also […]
To add to the movie thread, I went to go see the Knockaround Guys last night (not with mitchell - although our similarities are getting freaky) And i have to say this was the biggest load of steaming hot crap I have seen in a while.
I finally got everything working perfectly, and then I transferred my domain to the new host. NOW EVERYTHING IS FUCKED UP. Site outages, broken images, and links, and shit everywhere. I am busy at work and I can’t fix it. Damn! Please be patient. I am sure many things just don’t work.
Holy shit! I broke the whole fucking site for 2 days by changing my domain name over. It is sort of fixed now, though you might notice when posting that ALL the images in Moveabletype interface are broken. I am working on that now… Ummm. Thanks for your patience. This is betablog…
Let me thank chuck fletcher for helping to pinpoint the source of the problem: me. I found my config mistakes and learned a little about UNIX AND moveabletype. I also learned what ./ means and why I shouldn’t have used it. Ummm, and that’s really it. The site should be good-to-go now. There is one […]
I am having a Halloween party at my house in Astoria, Queens this Saturday. I sent an eVite to everyone who’s email I had. If I skipped you, you’re invited too. Please write to me and I’ll add you to the list. I won’t post the invite so my house address is public or […]
Tell me every movie studio isn’t hoping this sniper case wraps up today.
You just KNOW they are casting who will all the parts in - SNIPER - THE MOVIE!
Charles Dutton (who was in the fox show Roc - and the groundskeeper in ‘Rudy’) - as Chief Moose
Denzel Washington - as John Muhammad
Jaleel White - as […]
Todd Levin has a brilliantly funny post about the sniper in his blog today. This guy is really very funny. You should read it. He talks about the mystique surrounding the sniper after he wrote the “I am God” tarot card, and how that was all shattered after the “I need money.” note. I laughed […]
Since I have nothing interesting to say, and no time to say it, let me point out another interesting post about the Moscow hostage situation by Mike Hendrix over at Cold Fury. I love this guy. Mitchell pointed him out to us all in one of his comments.
I just read a few articles, and it looks like this is it. The real thing. John Muhammad and Lee Malvo. Batman and Robin, sort-of. Expert marksman but not a sniper, ex-military, converted to Islam, black!?, and sympathetic to the 9/11 hijackers, along with his 17 year old sidekick. So, I guess, unless a series […]
Sorry the site has been such a friggin mess all week. My host was switching servers or something, at the same as me switching to multi-hosted domain, from another host, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, the server logs show a bunch of new new people visiting. I am glad. I hope that today’s shitty experience didn’t […]
I saw this a while back on anarchitect and meant to post it here. I know how/why it works, but it still blows my mind. Of course I had to take it in to Photoshop to test it … and it holds up. Pretty amazing optical illusion.
The first time I saw “Unforgiven” I had to see it again immediately. It’s still one of my favorite movies, but the best part for me is the shot of English Bob, beaten to hell and run out of town screaming “You’re a bunch of bloody savages!”. English Bob was of course played by Richard […]
I got sent one of these blog questionaires that go around. I figured I would answer honestly and maybe ask you all to copy, paste, answer, and post your responses too. It’s pretty long, so if you’re interested, read on…
Chris wanted to see this and I’m sorry I ever did. You’ve been warned.
fat naked spidey
We designers reference others’ ideas and styles heavily at times … but this is ridiculous. What balls! My favorite is the guy who took XL5 and basically put shitty-looking fonts over a screenshot and changed the color of the 3-D image. I’m speechless. Maybe I’ll just go to another blog and […]
Demian5 lives in CH and made this great story 1999-2001. be kind and donate if you like it.
Demian5
Somebody wanna tell me what kind of a world we live in where this happens ? Okay Biggy, TuPac, those guys I can understand getting shot. P. Diddy with a gun? Yeah. Martin Lawrence coked up in his underwear with a gun? Absolutely. But who shoots Jam Master Jay? Did someone misread the […]
Some of you may have seen my costume for last Saturday’s party at me house because you were there. Others might have to wait because I haven’t posted any pictures yet. Don’t worry, they’re coming soon. (Actually I didn’t take any pictures myself. I was too drunk. I am relying on the pictures my friedns […]
70 months is a long time to have to sit and think about something really stupid you did.