Burrito Boy

Damn. I loved the PBS version of The Lathe of Heaven starring Bruce Davison and read The Left Hand of Darkness just last year. I really need to track down more of her books. She was great.

"This is Josh, he lives up on the mountain. He's a mountain man."

"It's just a hill. I'm a plain ole hillbilly."

But I don't wanna accidentally burn my house down.

No, I haven't burned Spanos in effigy. Even though it's winter, we haven't gotten much snow so it's still too dry to play with fire.

Another year that I don't get a Chargers vs. Chargers Super Bowl. Why do I even watch football anymore?

Awesome. Now that all of that is in one place, I need to get off my lazy butt and copy it so I'll have it if I ever get back to my books.

The Vikings won and that is all I care about

I care about that too. The Vikings were my dad's team so I always root for them. But I also care that the Chargers won. Against the Raiders. No matter where they move the Chargers, a win against the Raiders is soothing to my soul.

"I don't know if there's another storm coming or what."

"Why, you achin'?"

"Yeah, bellyachin'."

I recently saw this in the comments on a YouTube video and thought it was hilarious:

Mild Max: Light Traffic Road

It's not a genre-crossover in itself but it would be if Mild Max was played by Mr. Rogers.

How about moving them to LA where no one wants them and make them play in a soccer stadium full of fans from the opposing team?

Too soon, man. Too soon.

Free retro game for Stranger Things

 

Edit: I thought this was something you needed an actual game system to play. Now that I know it's available in the Google Play Store, I can change "I would play the heck out of it" to "I will play the heck out of it".

Bomb shelter

+1 for Wild Cards.

 

-1 for Verhoeven's Starship Troopers movie. As a dark humor satire of military sci-fi it has watchable moments intermixed with moments of utter stupidity. As an adaptation of Heinlein's novel, it is an atrocious hatchet job.

 

@Spence: I had no idea the book had been altered by publishers. Who in the hell approved that? Surely not REH himself.

I know you meant RAH but I would seriously love to read a version of Starship Troopers written by Robert E. Howard.

The last time that I watched Flash Gordon, I think that I ended up channeling my late wife, because I became extremely fascinated with the decor and the costuming*. The plot, not so much.

 

 

 

*When you're looking at an action scene, and all that you can think of is just how much work it was to sew on all of those bugle beads by hand, you've probably lived with a crafter.

I've been doing that for a while now. I can hardly watch a movie without wondering how much the sets cost to build and how they were built, who made the props, how many people it took to film the scene, and so on. In my case, I blame the special features on DVDS. Back in the days of VHS I didn't care about those things.

From the "Name for a new campaign" thread over in Star Hero; I realized one of my suggestions probably belongs here instead:

 

Space Bunnies and Edgar Rice Burroughs!

I would play that game.

Would San Diego take them back?

I think San Diego would take the Chargers back. As long as they left Spanos in L.A.

NFL reportedly considering moving Chargers back to San Diego

I read the whole article this time.

"Don't bark at sh*t that doesn't matter."

Los Angeles Has Football Fever. Don't Go to a Game or You Might Catch It!

I stopped reading the article when the writer mentioned the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams are in Saint Louis. So either this article is old or the reporter didn't bother to do any fact checking. If the latter is the case, I can't trust him. He probably made up the whole thing. Who knows what other crazy things he might say. I bet he thinks the Chargers are in L.A. too.

I love the way Mjolnir looks.

Tony Romo’s Debut Introduces Exciting Possibility That Football Commentators Don’t Have to Be Terrible

I thought Dan Fouts already proved that.

While working to repair the wheelbarrow I salvaged at the dump, my friend noticed the wheel was crooked and asked, "Do you want to go to the wheelbarrow races in Virginia City like that?"

I have the DVD...

Well what are you waiting for?

Oi Hermit !

 

There are better things for us to worry about like three active hurricanes off your coast. Or the fact that we are not going to win the contest but are still taking part.

You heartless monster! Worried about the masses while Hermit continues to languish in obscurity? I question your very humanity, sir!

Insomnia causes madness

 

Sleep well!

True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

On a serious note, I'm not surprised. I've dealt with insomnia for most of my life and I'm not all there. Keep your distance.