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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject:

man this is fucking crazy:

http://www.laweekly.com/eat+drink/dining/the-bacon-wrapped-hot-dog-so-good-its-illegal/18276/

first off, bacon wrapped hot dog = gross

but second off, making it illegal is even more gross.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I've had one of those, outside of E3 a couple years ago. When the cops showed up, the carts totally melted away into the crowd.

It was delicious.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

The article didn't get into detail about food safety regs.

It looks like pompous yuppie harassment of the unwashed, but the actual regs may make some kind of sense.

non sequitor:

gun coupons

edit:

Saint of Handgunners?
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?&articleid=1072505&format=&page=1&listingType=col#articleFull

If you're going to make faces like a sorority girl who's seen a puppy, don't fucking complain when they get published. Maybe obama looks cool and collected in photos because he IS cool and collected?
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

Man, there is a restaurant in downtown cleveland that takes a huge all beef hotdog, cuts it down the middle, stuffs cheese in there, and wraps bacon around it, and then puts it on a wonderful bun. Oh so tasty. Oh so godawful for you.

dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:26 am Post subject:

ewww. but i'm not one for poly-meat abuse.

unrelated:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=272&objectid=10491443&pnum=0

weird unintended consequences issue #1665452
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dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:28 am Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

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dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhut?

is that some lord of the rings thing?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Gaiman's Sandman.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:37 pm Post subject:

once again i'm off by 50k miles.

unrelated:
http://dhex.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/om-pilgrimage-and-conference-of-the-birds/

man i got like 400 albums to review.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:05 am Post subject:

so to continue on that whole ANONYMOUS V. SCIENTOLOGY thing...

is there anything even remotely related to anime that's not totally fucking soul-destroying and ultimately destructive for our culture in general? i mean, i started the whole har har soul cancer thing as a joke but apparently i am a goddamn fucking sage. i'm off to go play lotto now because apparently i have psychic powers beyond anything previously imagined.

seriously, is it the cartoons or the japan or the combination of both or what? i want to know because then maybe we can stop this before it fully destroys america. were all their older brothers unavailable for wedgie-giving?

is it the same with all kinds of sci-fi and other marginal entertainments? i know plenty of record nerds of varying degrees of intellect but none of them seem to form pods of stupid like this. it's fucking baffling is what it is.

man, it's stuff like that which makes me think even evola had a point.

edit: ok, so let's roll with the evola thing. perhaps this is partially a result of the meeting of a hyperindividualistic, uncentered culture with the mindspace - pyschosexual poo-flings - of an eastern culture far more totalistic than anything we have in the west. combined with a social space that's largely devoid of the trappings of physical social spaces - i.e. getting arrested and/or butt raped for playing with kiddie porn, cartoon or not - and we have the end result - widespread fuckfacery.

alternate explanation: people need to get their fucking asses kicked more often to help recenter their explorations in the syncretic mindspace into the here and now. like building a damn, working in a soup kitchen or making wiccans read books of actual scholarship and depth, this could be considered a public service of the highest order.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject:

http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/02/the_quintessenc.php

ha ha ha ha ha
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dhex · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:13 am Post subject:

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/02/charges-dropped.html

i don't trust people who refer to steyn as a "journalist" rather than "foamy ideologue" but maybe this is a step in the right direction for canada. maybe assholes are needed to fight assholes, legally, so as to help move things away from government repression.

especially in the guise of verbal hurt. that's a deadly inroad, because it is so unquantifiable.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:03 am Post subject:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4095

the story title is lame as hell, but the content is sorta interesting.

(i think it has more to do with cultural attitudes towards work than anything else)
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

I thought it interesting enough to update my never-used blog. I figure there's no point arguing with any of the particular quotes, since they're cherry-picked from a whole bunch of textbooks, but needless to say if they're generally representative then, just, wow, man.

I love reading H&R responses sometimes, because it's always basically:
Everyone: "Ha ha what idiots free market free market!"
Joe: "Some irrelevant fact that would be evidence against you if you didn't know anything about statistical regression or other, related facts."
Everyone: "Wait, we don't know anything about statistical regression or other, related facts. Your fact confuses us, Joe! Quit trolling!"
Everyone including Joe: "Shitfight."
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I read as far as:

dhex · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

DEMAND KURVE!

yeah joe used to say interesting things. then about a year and a half ago something went weird. maybe it was too much time around his republican twin john (the meletary loier whoo kant sphell) or maybe his wife turned off the sex faucet or something. i don't know what the deal is but he's basically insufferable now.

which is fine because the DEMAND KURVE kids are pretty fucking bad too. i'm just there to be a dick in music threads, really.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:05 am Post subject:

man i got a counterfeit bill last night at a libertoid meetup at revival, that bar down by irving plaza.

bah.

for some reason on the train this morning, i thought back to a hit and run "conversation" from before i got married. i was castigated by a "rational atheist" whose typically irrational behavior was pushed by my mention of going through pre cana because my wife wanted to get married in a catholic church. apparently i was collaborating with the enemy.

i tried to correct him by saying "no, no, i'm sleeping with the enemy, there's a difference." but it was for naught.

since i'm reading a rational irrationalist (evola) and at the most irrational part of the book - jumping off from how the feminizing influence of cultural decadence has taken transcendent male virility and turned it into the illusion of phallic control (i.e. you are controlled by that which you desire) and going all the way into soft-boned giants from hyperborrea type genetic memory nonsense - it's struck me that i'm even more wary of the people who live supposedly rational lives. at least i know, going in, that evola is a nutbag of sorts with flashes of tremendous insight.

a truly rational atheist would no more get angry at being a minority within a majority than a fish would get mad at the sea for being larger. this doesn't mean not resisting social pressures, if they exist, or especially legal restrictions (if there are any). but being angry that some people have a metaphysical system that's more totalizing than your own?

that's nuts.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

As laughably misguided France is, I'd rather be there at this point considering the situation in the UK.

Better food, for one.

Still, it's horrifying trying to have a dialogue with a Frenchman in this day and age.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:30 am Post subject:

there's a bunch of fishy stuff here, but obscene? no way.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:01 am Post subject:

mr. gillen reprints his breaking up is hard to do piece at rps.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Vote Green - go blackshirt!
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:07 am Post subject:

well, both left and right are generally deeply uncomfortable with demographic change, if not actively hostile, because it is an unknown quantity.

the protectionism is typical parochialism; whereas racially-motivated protectionism is a more mystical narrative.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:42 am Post subject:

jane fonda said cunt on tv!

oh wait that's irrelevant and silly.

edit: it's so irrelevant and a non-issue even the normally head-slappingly dumb pandragon crew is basically on the money:
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/14/6738/

that cunt poem in there is absolutely knee-slappingly hilarious, though it does make me sad that people think social change comes via words alone, as if words have magic powers in and of themselves.

this just in: words are not magic. context is magic.

double edit: somewhat related, but good news instead of bad.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/14/0214sextoys.html
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:56 am Post subject:

oh god
the far cry trailer
oh god
oh god
oh'
god
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

This just in: People are God damn children.

I wish there was a way of putting it that didn't insult children, but there you go.

EDIT: I love you, Uwe! Fuck da hatas! ;_;
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:07 am Post subject:

oh to hell with children. they're dumb and unable to care for themselves until about 15 years of work have been put in. and even then they're so socially obsessed that they have the self-will of a bag of donuts.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Does this mean my comment still applies?
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:14 am Post subject:

not the second part, no.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

oh brady campaign we love you so
make sure you fuck those bodies
before they get cold
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:14 pm Post subject:

whaaaaaaaaay?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

You're linking to pages and not even scrolling through them!
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject:

i only cared about the first item.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject:

neat story:
http://reason.com/news/show/125004.html

i've seen idealist listings for witness but they're all part time and entry level.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Big_Fat_Brain/You_Suck_at_Photoshop/YouSuckatPhotoshop2_399.aspx
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I know you and the Beatles don't get along; I'm going to throw some track from Revolver at you at some point and see what you think though.

dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

my god my god why hath you forsaken me?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Dude there are a couple good tracks work with me here.

dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject:

notice: toups' band (brass bed) is fucking hot to death live. they were really good tonight.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

It's true! When they psych out it's really good listening.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:54 am Post subject:

hey this is a neat story:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0211/p13s02-wmgn.html

dhex · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject:

man is there anything more fun than doing taxes?

no, says i.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:16 am Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

rpg titles where women wear plate armor with boobs on them - odd or truly deranged?

(and no i'm not ripping on the witcher for once)

not that one should expect an actual plate armor simulator in every game, but a) you can usually tell a character's sex by the hair, face and voice so it's not like the player really needs the extra cues and b) wouldn't taking a gently curved surface and creating two highly stressed cones basically defeat the entire point of having chest armor in the first place?

this might just be due to the whole "seven habits of marginally-effective chainmail bikini fantasy artists" legacy, though.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:24 am Post subject:

if you have even marginally complicated taxes, you may find the tax organizer linked in this posting from twc useful.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject:

i guess the question then comes up as to how much of the audience do they comprise?

niche markets have it rough sometimes. captivity via fandom is one of those rough patches.

semi-related: i think i am looking forward to age of decadence, and no matter how it turns out, will buy a copy.

though i find myself wondering why a civilization like that would have a fixation on the concept of decadence by that very word. generally that shit gets blamed on outsiders.
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