This is an Andy shirt.

How to eat and breathe fire.

Via Lee, a YouTube link to Tom Waits’s appearance on David Letterman after Real Gone came out. “Tom Waits dances like he sings.”–Lee.

More research, blogger Lew Rockwell‘s description of eating Fugu, otherwise known as a pufferfish. Not only do pufferfish have big, nasty spiky things to prevent themselves from being eaten, they’re fatal to anything that does manage to choke one down.

The DVD just came out… I have to say I was surprised. From various things I’d heard, I was ready for this movie to suck. It didn’t. Not a stupid movie, not a one-sided movie, not a poorly-put-together movie. I can’t say I’ve been overwhelmed with affection for this movie, not the way, say, I’m

From Wikipedia: “The word cobalt is derived from the German kobalt, from kobold meaning “goblin”, a term used for the ore of cobalt by miners, who thought it worthless and who found that it was poisonous and that it polluted and degraded other mined elements, mainly due to the arsenic and sulfur also found in

My brother Matt just got a job for the Moody County (SD) Enterprise, the weekly paper, as a graphic designer. They say, too, that he gets to be the manager by the first of the year! Woot! Hooray! Congratulations!

Inspection completed. Most pressing: wiring/electrical issues and the 19-year-old water heater. In light of quick closing, accepted money against issues and going ahead. Roof good, foundation good, one side of the house needs to be repainted, and the attic is getting too hot and they’re venting the bathroom directly into it. Nothing major other than

Wandering around the mall tonight, I stopped at Austin Antler. I was immediately amused; the furniture was Dallas chic to its keratoid hilt. Anyway, I was looking for a specific type of table–heavy wood with a stone or tile top (on my wish list for house stuff)–when the manager came up to me and asked

I saw an ad for a Fullmetal Alchemist movie at the mall tonight, but now I can’t find it on IMDB. How odd. Ah…Okay, Wikipedia has it: Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa. The release date is August 25th. Compare and contrast: Not that I’m an expert or anything, but here’s my theory of