Another cogent observation by xkcd:
And yes, this has been noticed by others: in my experience people aren’t really too interested in your fund-raising efforts or the awesome things your outstanding and brilliant Center in Toenail Studies is doing in fungus-stricken New Jersey (though they should be with the latter).
They do, however, really want to know what the local weather is, or perhaps, if you have an art history program.
A slight deviation from the normal deviancy that goes on here at The Skwib. As you know, I am a writer of novels in addition to this blog, and my second book is now available as a Kindle edition.
As we lead up to the official release of the paper version, I’ve priced the Kindle version at $3.99. (Actually, I priced it at $1.99, but Amazon adds a $2 fee for downloading.) But even at $3.99 it’s a helluva deal. And it’s a limited-time offer!
You can buy it here, and find out more about the book here.
I’ve actually had a job wearing big mascot-like costumes. For a brief period in 1988, I was employed as a singing telegram man, singing birthday greetings, anniversary congratulations and nuptial announcements in a number of places around town. I was able to play guitar and sing, so most of the time, I was given the top hat and tails costume, which yields just a small amount of psychic residue. However, the gorilla suit… (Well, just look around my website, and you’ll see it caused a certain amount of damage.)
All things you should keep in mind as you watch Meat Treat.
Okay, so it’s a promotional video, but kinda fun. Just try to ignore the cliché Justin Long uses at the beginning of the video to discuss overused tropes in les flick des chicks.
Try YouTube if the embeddy thing can’t come up with something original.
p.s. It would have been much funnier if at the end, after Connolly says “thanks for watching” Bradley Cooper asked, “did any of that seem a little gay to you?”
VATICAN CITY (The Skwib) — In the ecclesiastically chaotic schism between the Pope at the Vatican and the RoboPope at Avignon, the warring Popes have been able to agree on one thing: there is no room for a SinoPope.
Both the Vatican and Avignon Holy Fathers have excommunicated two bishops ordained by China’s state-controlled church without papal consent.
The state-conrolled quasi-religious Communist-Catholoic church — the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association — announced that it was splitting from both Vatican- and Avignon-based Holy Fathers, was constructing its own android Pontiff to lead the Chinese “Catholics”.
A press release stated that the so-called SinoPope, would be superior in design to RoboPope, and that its organic components would include brain tissue cultured from the Chairman (Mao Zedong), thus ensuring its political purity and popularity with the Chinese people. (According to the Chinese schematics for their robotic religious leader, other organic parts must be replaced frequently, and thus will come from tissues harvested from recently executed “criminals”.)
Chinese officials have said they expect the SinoPope will be 70 percent infallible, and that the 30 percent fallibility is an acceptable loss.
RoboPope told The Skwib in telephone interview that “SinoPope can kiss my shiny metal ass.”
The Vatican did not return our phone calls.
RoboPope saga:
RoboSchism | Avignon releases Robopope schematics | No room for SinoPope