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I was less than impressed TV On The Radio's performance on Saturday Night Live. Something was lost in the translation. Here they are on The Colbert Report, though, being interviewed and making a much better musical showing, I think:

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Somebody made an Obama doll aaaaand a Dick Cheney doll!

Just kidding folks. Several days into a new administration and my life feels pretty much the same. Not that I expected anything else. Here's wishing Obama well. I think he makes a pretty poor messiah, but I'm hoping he'll make a good President. We can always use one of those, right?

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I don't watch American Idol and have no intention of doing so in the near future - but by God, missing Ryan Seacrest try to high-five a blind guy is enough to make me somewhat sorry.

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Gerald, the bass player for Sunday Valley, linked to some pictures from their reunion show up on Facebook.  Check out this one and see if you recognize anybody in the crowd...

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The video below is apparently of Ryan Gosling's band Dead Man's Bones.  I found the video on my friend Cameron's blog.  She didn't like the song, in spite of wanting to.  Oddly enough, there's nothing about the phrase "Ryan Gosling's band" that fills me with any kind of hope - but I'll be damned if I didn't kind of like it.  It's got a pleasantly dark Nick Cave feel to it.  And the creepy little children's choir with the masks is a nice touch.  I don't know that I'm ready to buy an album, but I at least want to hear a little more.

In The Room Where You Sleep (live video version)

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Dr. Pepper is making good on it's promise to give everyone in the country a free soda as a result of Chinese Democracy dropping before the end of 2008. Details here.

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Ray Charles does Elenor Rigby:

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From the awesome Wondermark web strip by David Malki:

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Go here to read the awesome true story behind Guns & Roses' Welcome To The Jungle.

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I say the following with the caveat that I am not involved with any of my alma mater's alumni programs, don't donate money to them, nor have any real investment in their day to day activities beyond occasionally glacing at their website.

That being said:

I was extremely disappointed to find out that Kentucky Christian University is offering a credit card to alumni and friends of the university as a way of raising money. I know lots of responsible, successful people have credit cards. I realize they are a tool and like any tool their effectiveness and benefit is largely determined by how they're used.

But...

Credit cards are a dangerous tool and make it really easy for people to get in debt way over their heads. I find it somewhat ironic that a school known for having strict rules about dancing, alcohol, and staying out late (because while those kinds of activities may not be sinful, they can easily escalate into sinful behavior) isn't adverse to letting their "friends" flirt with debt and financial slavery (yeah, slavery is a little heavy handed, but the Bible said it, not me).

As I pointed out above, KCU has absolutely no reason to care what I think. If I were them I'd be much more inclined to listen to someone who was actually invested in them as an institution. I'm just disappointed. And a little incredulous.

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This is totally a real product. See here. Kellogg lawyers are asleep at the wheel.

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I stumbled across spoilers for M. Night Shamalamadingdong's new movie The Happening. Stupid internets.

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This goes on the essential viewing list:

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The Onion AV Club interviews everyone's favorite skewer of television and host of The Soup on E!, Joel McHale.  Click here to read.  I don't want many people's jobs.  A few comic book writer's, maybe.  That one guy who told me he was a bikini inspector and then Joel Mchale.  That's it.

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Some of you might have seen this posted around the net last week. I'm putting it here because it's so incredible and seems like something that couldn't be real in the 21st century.

These are pictures of a heretofore uncontacted Amazon Indian tribe located near the border of Brazil and Peru:





You've seen this kind of thing in movies so much that it almost seems like a cliche - primitive villagers shooting arrows at the strange metal bird. Although, that might just be me projecting cultural superiority and a Hollywood plot onto some pictures. For all I know the guy in the airplane sold the villagers bad iPhones and now he's making a break for it.

Assuming that's not the case it's cool to think that despite how small technology has made our world, there are still bits of it that civilization hasn't yet crept into.

If I find out this was staged or is a movie promotion in a few months, I'm going to be really disappointed.

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This is beautiful. I wish I could write half this well:

We humans are endlessly complex. We are deep creatures... ginormous mansions full of revolving bookshelves and secret trap doors. We have tall lookout towers and dark basements and bricks of joy cemented into place by the mortar of pain and heartache. We are overflowing with rooms and cozy nooks and lofty rafters. And then... marriage? That day when we are handed a new set of keys and told that there has been a major expansion?

Cautiously at first, I run my hands along the foreign walls and seek out the fragmented sun spots to warm my feet in. I try the windows and slowly climb the stairs.

We were created to be Nancy Drews and Hardy Boys! We are mystery solvers and pioneers- stumbling upon treasures locked away for too long in our beloveds... bringing them out for display! Slipping these treasures into our pockets and smiling from our guts!

His heart is a cliffhanger. His mind is a maze. His skin is a warm comforter wrapped around me on a cold morning. His soul is oceans deep... attempting to know him completely is like trying to find the edge of God.

Go here and read the post in it's entirety.

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A lot of you probably see the Twitter badge in my sidebar but don't give it much thought - or don't know what Twitter is.

Well, here's a short video the Colonel found called, "Twitter in Plain English" that explains it excellently:



If you read this blog, I'd love to know what kind of stuff you're doing every day - so sign up for a free Twitter account and let me know about it. I'll follow you and add you to the sidebar.

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According to Apples' townhall meeting yesterday, iPhones will now start supporting Microsfot Exchange. Meaningless to me, but a big deal to a lot of folks.

More exciting to me is that Apple has also released their software development kit - meaning they're allowing third parties to build applications that, come June, can be bought and downloaded via an iTunes application store. Look for iPhone functionality to go through the roof.

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The new info on the Watchmen movie (see the post below this one) inspired me to look up the Wikipedia entry on the Doomsday Clock (the clock plays a big role in Watchmen's imagery). The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic representation of how close the world is to potential "catastrophic destruction," with midnight representing said catastrophe.

Right now we're at five minutes 'til midnight. The clock was pushed forward two minutes in 2007 due to North Korea and Iran's progress in their nuclear ambitions. The closest to midnight the clock has ever been was in 1984 at the height of the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The furthest the clock has ever been from midnight (since it's creation in 1947) was in 1991 when the U.S. and the Soviets both signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, pushing the clock back to 11:43.

Things that officially have the potential to move the clock? Nuclear weapons, climate changing technology, new developments in the life sciences, and nanotechnology. Circumstances rumored to be able to move the clock? The Colonel not acting like an ass, James listening to good music, and Dirty not going to Shamrock's for a week.

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Michael Chabon, Sara's mom's favorite author, wrote an essay about super hero costumes for the New Yorker. It's excellent. Here's a bit:

This sad outcome even in the wake of thousands of dollars spent and months of hard work given to sewing and to packing foam rubber into helmets has an obvious, an unavoidable, explanation: a superhero’s costume is constructed not of fabric, foam rubber, or adamantium but of halftone dots, Pantone color values, inked containment lines, and all the cartoonist’s sleight of hand. The superhero costume as drawn disdains the customary relationship in the fashion world between sketch and garment. It makes no suggestions. It has no agenda. Above all, it is not waiting to find fulfillment as cloth draped on a body. A constructed superhero costume is a replica with no original, a model built on a scale of x:1.

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Back when I was in high school I was a big fan Christian music. Since then my taste have changed and a lot of the things I appreciate about music these days I find sadly lacking in most Christian music I hear.

As a former fan of Christian music I was sad to hear that Larry Norman, the man pretty much universally considered to be the father of Christian rock music, passed away.

The news inspired a little googling on my part - which led me to this surprising Pitchfork Media story. Apparently Frank Black of the Pixies is a huge Larry Norman fan - even going so far as to cover his songs and appear on stage with him a couple of times.

Turns out that Black and Norman were working on an album together - along with Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse. What an awesome, yet strange combo. The album's due out later this year. Should make for interesting listening.

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So there's this website called Archive.org that stores snapshots of old websites. I used it to go back and look at some of the past incarnations of my blog. After doing so I was struck by what a worthless, annoying piece of crap I was four or five years ago. Seriously, sorry to any of you who had to put up with me on a regular basis.

I did see a few things on my old blogs that had a little bit of value. Like the following (which I've edited slightly to get rid of some of the douchebaggery of old):

I've developed a test to determine if you hate me. Actually, I've developed two test for this purpose, but one of them requires peeing on a stick and that's hard to accomplish on the internet. So here's the other one. It's divided into two sections. For every question you answer yes to on the first section, give yourself one point. For every question you answer yes to on the second part, subtract a point. A positive number means you hate me. A negative number means you love me. A zero means you're fairly neutral. Post your scores.

Part one:
1. Has Patrick Drury ever hurt you physically?
2. Has Patrick Drury ever hurt you emotionally?
3. Has Patrick Drury ever made you cry (not tears of joy)?
4. Has Patrick Drury ever broken your heart?
5. Has Patrick Drury ever stolen from you?
6. Has Patrick Drury ever made fun of you?
7. Does Patrick Drury make fun of you on a regular basis?
8. Has Patrick Drury made fun of you today?
9. Do you feel this test might have been created as a way for Patrick Drury to make fun of you?
10. Has Patrick Drury ever taken credit for an idea you had?
11. Has Patrick Drury ever lied to you?
12. Has Patrick Drury ever drank your beer when you weren't looking?
13. Has Patrick Drury ever put the moves on your girlfriend/wife/sister/mom?
14. Has Patrick Drury ever c-blocked you (pardon the indelicate colloquialism)?
15. Has Patrick Drury ever damaged or lost your personal property?
16. Has Patrick Drury been responsible for the death of a loved one?
17. Has Patrick Drury ever received a favor from you without returning one in kind?
18. Has Patrick Drury ever posted mean things about you on the internet?
19. Has Patrick Drury ridiculed you from stage on in a video presentation?
20. Has Patrick Drury ever laughed at your misfortune.
21. Have you ever fantasized about killing Patrick Drury

Part two
1. Has Patrick Drury ever loaned you money?
2. Has Patrick Drury ever tended to a wound or injury you were suffering from?
3. Has Patrick Drury ever held your hair while you vomited?
4. Are you in love with Patrick Drury?
5. Has Patrick Drury ever bought you a drink?
6. Has Patrick Drury ever let you sleep on his couch?
7. Has Patrick Drury ever complimented your appearance?
8. Has Patrick Drury ever made you cry tears of joy?
9. Has Patrick Drury ever helped you meet a girl/guy or assisted you in the romance department?
10. Has Patrick Drury been nice to your pets?
11. Has Patrick Drury ever given you a ride?
12. Has Patrick Drury ever given you good advice?
13. Has Patrick Drury ever taken you to dinner or bought you a meal?
14. Has Patrick Drury ever told you he loved you while obviously sober.
15. Has Patrick Drury ever bought you a present?
16. Has Patrick Drury ever invited you to a party?
17. Does Patrick Drury call you semi-regularly?
18. Has Patrick Drury ever mentioned you on his blog in a favorable light?
19. Has Patrick Drury ever saved your life?
20. Has Patrick Drury performed your wedding?
21. Have you ever fantasized about Patrick Drury

Bonus Points:
Write a short paragraph about why you hate/love Patrick Drury. Give or subtract one point accordingly.

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While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the ground and start making clockwise circles.

Now, while doing this, write the number "6" in the air with your finger.

Your foot will change directions or, possibly, your head will explode. There's nothing you can do about it.

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This will only be of interest to close friends and Patrick Drury historians.

Click on this link and peruse the article it takes you to. Notice an interesting name a little over half way down the page? A totally made-up name?

That's gotta be him. It's in Virginia for one thing. And why wouldn't he be a Civil War reenactor? It would totally turn pretending to be someone else into a fun hobby!

If you wanna know the deal, you owe me a beer and I owe you a story.

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February 10th saw internet activist group Anonymous begin it's street-level protests on Scientology centers around the world. You can see some really fascinating pictures of the whole thing over on dreary old Warren Ellis' message board WhiteChapel.

One of the protestors from Sydney, Australia is pictured below. If you're going to protest something in the streets and possibly slow down traffic, even if it's for a good cause, please make sure you look like this in the process:



Gas mask protest girl, I salute you.

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By most accounts, the WGA strike appears to be pretty much over. Here's some details from Joe Harris.

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For today, here's a quick easy way to keep up with Super Tuesday results. I got it via Google, so if it doesn't work, don't blame me. Reload my page to reload the results. Next year to celebrate Super Tuesday I say we should all cook out in a parking lot somewhere. We could call it Delegaiting. GET IT?????



Anyway, enjoy speculating about our new boss, same as the old boss. Except possibly black. Or a women. Or Mormon. Or served in the military in a meaningful way. Or isn't functionally retarded.

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Paul Pope doing his Jack Kirby imitation, recreating an image from one of Kirby's lesser known works (compared to the Fantastic Four & The X-Men), OMAC The One Man Army Corps.

There was a ridiculous conversation between various parties after Kirby's passing about whether or not John Byrne or Rob Liefeld was Kirby's spiritual heir.

Obviously, Paul Pope is the only acceptable possibility here.

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I was mostly entertained and quite nauseated by J.J. Abrams' new movie Cloverfield. I appreciate any movie that tries to be scary by teasing you with only glimpses of it's monster/killer/Sara Jessica Parker.

As most everyone knows, J.J. Abrams is also the genius behind LOST, one of my favorite TV shows (it's my favorite because I kind of look like Sawyer, Jack, and Hurley rolled into one guy - oh, and the polar bear).

Anyway, it turns out that there's a little clue in Cloverfield that seems to imply that it and LOST are taking place in the same universe. Check this out:



See that in the corner? That's a Dharma symbol. Like in LOST.

I'm sure it's not really meant to be a sign of shared continuity, but rather just a little nerd Easter Egg. Either way, it's pretty cool. This little tidbit was found on Cloverfield Clues. Just so you don't think I'm some kind of super-observant genius or something.

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Last night I stumbled upon my old Buzznet site. It's where I used to upload all my cellphone pictures back when I first got a phone with a camera in it (back around 2003). Scrolling through the pictures was a strange, but fairly happy walk down memory lane. But then I took a couple of wrong turns and was in the bad part of town and a couple of guys beat me up for my watch.

I decided to save the pictures I felt any love for and upload them to Flickr before Buzznet gives up the ghost one day and disappears completely. They're all in a set here. But here's a few of my favorites.

This one's hard to make out, but believe it or not, it's from the first time I ever saw Sunday Valley. It was at High On Rose (which is gone now, replaced by office space or something stupid). This picture was like the historical find of the decade for me:


This is BP's old dog Nefti. I hate that dog, but to it's credit, it could take a punch:


Here's Dirty getting holes put in him:


Here's my first iPod. It looks so... so... primitive:


For my birthday part one year a bunch of us went out in a field and shot appliances. Here's my buddy Steve Edens with a gun - possibly the worst idea ever:


Here's Mike and Jennifer at one of my birthday parties. They both look 12. Of course it's quite possible they are 12 in this picture:


When you get a camera phone you're supposed to take a picture of yourself in a mirror. Hence:


Aaaawww, look at ET:


This is from the first Men's Weekend I ever went to (before the Kentucky chapter even existed). This is Ian trying to win a bet by eating an entire jar of Cheese Puffs before he went to bed. He didn't win the bet. I don't think he even put a dent in the jar, but God Bless him for trying:

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I stole this idea from a forum I visit. They stole it from another forum. The internet is made of stealing.

1. Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band. You can remove bits in brackets - eg. "(Seinfeld epsode)" - if you like, or you can leave them in.

2. Click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quotation is the title of your album. You can use the last three or five words if it sounds better.

3. Click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. If it won't let you save the pic (if this is the case, it will call the file "spaceball.gif"), press shift and print screen to take a screenshot, then paste it into the program.

4.Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together.

Here's what my first result looked like:



I was going to post just the album cover and talk about how much I liked the band and see if I could get anybody else to be like, "Oh, me too!" but I decided none of you are that desperate to be liked. If you were, why would you dress the way you do, right?

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Find Ultrasound technician schools near you

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I'm kind of the odd man out among my friends because I don't care that much about UK basketball. If I'd known there was booger eating going on during the games I might have been a little more interested. Wait, that sounds like I'm into booger eating. Never mind. Anyway, check out this clip of Patrick Patterson in all his gold-digging/eating glory.

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Wondering how the Writer's Guild strike is going to affect your favorite shows this season? This site has a hand run down of how many scripts different shows had in the can before the strike started and how many they're expected to be able to air. Sadly, no information is listed for The Office.

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...that according to the Office trivia quiz on Facebook (later confirmed by Wikipedia), Michael Scott and I share a birthday.

Life has new meaning.

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I found this website called World's Famous Photos. It does pretty much exactly what it says on the box - it's a site that compiles famous photos. Among lots of other interesting tidbits, I learned that this:



...is a real photo. I had always assumed it was some random computer-made image that Windows used as their default XP wallpaper. But it's actually a photo taken in the Napa Valley.

Weird.

That's all. As you were.

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So I was poking through Myspace looking at pages belonging to KCC alumni (They call it KCU these days, but I can't make it stick in my head) and I found this picture titled "The Burden of Chapel."



It belongs to some kid named Brian. I asked him if I could post it because it's so awesome.

That building in the background is KCC's chapel. When you attend KCC you have to go to chapel every Tuesday and Friday. It used to be that you couldn't wear jeans. I think Charley The Intern told me that's not the case anymore. If you wore jeans you'd get a demerit. After something like 25 demerits there was a cash fine. After my freshman year I think I wore jeans to every chapel service. I don't remember having to pay many fines, though. I must not have gotten caught much.

Anyway, Chapel was indeed a burden - as any compulsory religious activity usually is. I don't doubt the good intentions of it's founders or it's benefits given the right attitude or circumstances, but I was a poorly motivated jackass when I was in college so I naturally missed out on any of that. I simply wasn't willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt if they told me I "had" to do something. At 34 I'm still not real fond of that kind of thing, I guess.

Anyway, the picture brought back a lot of memories and emotions. I'm happy to be at St. Awesome's these days where I attend not out of compulsion but out of desire. It makes a world of difference.

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My Simpson's avatar via the Simpsons movie site.

Even yellow and I'm so damned handsome...

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BATTLING BOY
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Promo art from Paul Pope. Holy McCrap I love this guy!

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You Are Here
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The Superficial reports on possibly the strangest public comment I've ever seen out of Linday Lohan - or any celebrity for that matter. When asked about rehab Lohan said:

"It changed my life. I didn't have a good grip on it and I needed to get my shit together. I was going out too much and I had too much pressure on my shoulders. I was not that happy and I needed to go to that place to be happy. If I get stressed out I say a serenity prayer. I meditate too. I was going out with someone and they said I should read Machiavelli and I was like, 'nah', and then I was, 'OK, I'll read it' and now it is always with me."

What's so odd about that? The Superficial sums it up perfectly:

"Machiavelli's "The Prince" is the quintessential business guide on how to compromise your morals for personal gain. It's not something you turn to after rehab. It's something you turn to when you're trying to become the head of a corporation or overthrow a small government. No, a book I'd recommend for somebody like Lindsay Lohan is Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham". It might be a little over her head, but it's got pictures so she'll never be caught pretending to read it but really the book is upside down."

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...the comedy of Mr. Demitri Martin:

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This kid is blind, but he gets around using echolocation! Also, his mother's name is Aquanetta!!

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