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# The Moronosphere

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## Posts

- [I dream she is alive even now](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-dream-she-is-alive-even-now/) - I was going to post this because the ‘I miss her’ theme is more present in my mind than it has ever been. but I find I posted it here not long ago, with totally different context. read this. but the quote is now all the more crushingly apt, without the detached sense of
- [I resent the way you make me like myself](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-resent-the-way-you-make-me-like-myself/) - When we talked the first time, she quoted, or sang, a line from Mike Doughty's song Rising Sign. I've seen The dangers of your rising sign, But I swear I'd like to drink the fuel straight from your lighter It's all inside the wrist, It's all inside the way you time it I resent the
- [I sent a card.](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-sent-a-card/) - I don’t know if it will make any difference. I don’t know if it will bring any comfort to her family, to have a random stranger who was in love with their daughter, pick a card, paste a stamp. Cards are stupid, but it’s what one does. I hated every card I could find, on
- [](https://www.moronosphere.com/7111-2/) - I’m obsessing over her. I can’t stop. I can’t stop thinking about her death. I know next to nothing, so I imagine scenarios. each thing I imagine is horrifying. I finally broke down and cried today, real tears, wracking sobs. It did not help; it did not make it feel any more real. My mind
- [find me in the sky](https://www.moronosphere.com/find-me-in-the-sky/) - Ok, auto-post-to-bsky seems like it works, though I don't think it's inserting a link to my blog post yet. For the 0.5% of people who may actually still follow this blog (what's wrong with you), I'm mostly done with twitter (for obvious reasons) and am more active now on bsky, which so far seems to
- [no titles, no time](https://www.moronosphere.com/no-titles-no-time/) - I keep telling myself I'll post here more, but that requires - hell, I dunno. Something. I can't seem to sit still long enough anymore to string more sentences together than would fit in an original-lenghth tweet. Add to that - well, let's not start on politics yet, shall we? I might wind up on
- [Gin and Kisses](https://www.moronosphere.com/gin_and_kisses/) - I went to leave a comment on a post by the lovely Bree Leto (https://secretthoughtswithin.com) but she has comments turned off, alas. But I thought I'd say here, what I would have said there. I used to drink a lot of gin, particularly with one friend. I wrote, in this blog and elsewhere, about gin,
- [Yeah, sure, soon](https://www.moronosphere.com/yeah-sure/) - I keep trying to come back and update. Good fuckin' intentions and all that. It's weird how I seem to be doing almost nothing, and yet feel busier than ever. Dogs, guitars, home, health, mumble, mumble. More coming, I swear, because why even have this thing if I don't write? ADHD is a hell of
- [semi-yearly what the hell am I doing post](https://www.moronosphere.com/semi-yearly-what-the-hell-am-i-doing-post/) - I used to write every day, or at least try to write every day. I used to strive to keep up with, if not everything in my life (in a classic journal sense), at least, or major events and strongly held opinions. Today, I have to look back and thing, where the fuck was I,
- [Balance, later](https://www.moronosphere.com/balance-later/) - It's been a weird year. (how long has it been since it hasn't? I don't know that I remember that far back) HST once said “It never got weird enough for me.” I once would have agreed with that sentiment, but honestly these last few years, i'm it being weird. Weird isn't as much fun
- [Job Hunt](https://www.moronosphere.com/job-hunt/) - Well, it's been a long and interesting ride, but, after 23 years in one of high tech's leading companies, i'm job hunting. There's a whole story here to tell, but it's not gonna get told as yet. Changes happen, for good or ill, and I do tend to land on my feet. Meanwhile
- [Guitar Geekery - Les Paul Jr on a budget](https://www.moronosphere.com/guitar-geekery-les-paul-jr-on-a-budget/) - This was going to be a tweet or an instagram post but it quickly got too long (because of course it did.) I've long wanted a classic 50s or early 60's less paul Jr double-cut (not the SG shape one, which was referred to by the same name during some dispute between mr Paul and
- [Almost half the man I used to be](https://www.moronosphere.com/almost-half-the-man-i-used-to-be/) - scroll all the way down if you wanna go straight to the before-and-after pictures. I could update on any one of a number of things but it seems any story I tell, needs to have another story first to set the scene. This is why I never liked Twitter - even a short story, for
- [Proof of (something akin to) life](https://www.moronosphere.com/proof-of-something-akin-to-life/) - it’s been a minute, as the kids say, since I’ve been here (or fucking anywhere). I’d say sorry but who’d notice? life fucking gets in the way. Family shit, health shit, job shit. just, you know, shit. details later. I’m ok, but too overwhelmed by piles of trivial stressors to get my mind back in
- [Silvertone 1457](https://www.moronosphere.com/silvertone-1457/) - I've been a guitar nerd far longer than i've been playing, at least, far longer than i've been playing with any consistency. I loved guitars since my very first experience with music, and I grew up around music, my mom lived and breathed music so it was always there. There are a few guitars I
- [I write when I write](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-write-when-i-write/) - So much for writing every day right? Fuck it though, I write when I write and I feel like I have something to say Lately, what i've felt like I needed to say has more to do with longing and loss than anything else, for reasons that are both incredibly complicated and not strictly my
- [I miss her like that as I fall through my life](https://www.moronosphere.com/i_miss_her_like_that_as_i_fall_through_my_life/) - There are pieces of writing that make one stop - full stop - and put down a book, because they are so beautiful, or so well said, or so evocative, that the passage needs to be left to ring out, to resonate in the mind. Sometimes they need to be re-read, sometimes they just need
- [need, love, longing](https://www.moronosphere.com/need-love-longing/) - "You should be inside me right now," she said, and I agreed. "I just need to be crushed beneath you tasting only your kisses and being filled and consumed by you." Words like these will light a fire in me, will make me forget anything other than a need to be there, now, doing exactly
- [Fresh Ink](https://www.moronosphere.com/fresh-ink/) - First tattoo since well before pandemic, and I could not be more pleased with it. This is a tribute to two dogs gone too soon - mine, Thela (named for a King Crimson song, Thela Hun Gingeet), five years ago, and my friend’s, (Otis) two or three months ago. Both far too young and much missed.
- [In the pandemic era, faces are mysterious](https://www.moronosphere.com/in-the-pandemic-era-faces-are-mysterious/) - A funny thing about the pandemic era is that we now (in some places/cases at least) now have people we routinely see, who in effect have faces that stop below the eyes This makes the rest of the face a mysterious, intimate place, much as things must feel in cultures that routinely veil. There is
- [Tattoo Future](https://www.moronosphere.com/tattoo-future/) - So much for writing every day (it's been almost a week now) but, I do my best. Fuckin' life, you know how it is. It has a way of interfering even if you're getting fuck all done. That said, i'm feeling a bit more positive than when I wrote this a week ago. Conversations with my employer
- [Shot!](https://www.moronosphere.com/shot/) - For full coverage of this story, click here. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend pussy hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. Thank you BoingBoing and Charles. (People keep telling me these links are broken, but
- [If you love me...](https://www.moronosphere.com/if-you-love-me/) - ...You'll buy me this poster: And if you know why this connects to my domain name, I love you even more than I do now.
- [So many blogs, so little time](https://www.moronosphere.com/so-many-blogs-so-little-time/) - It seems the more I wander around the blogosphere the more I add to the list of blogs I like and want to follow. And of course I can't even begin to keep up. I mean, there are the ones I always track. Circe, Doxy, who doesn't update anywhere near enough, Trance, Brother Ray, Gregg
- [FTW](https://www.moronosphere.com/ftw/) - So you may have noticed the new banner - thanks to Brandon who makes all this possible here at the 'sphere. He just whipped this out for me (tee-hee) for his own entertainment. It won't stay long so here's a sample for later when I've changed again. But an interesting question was raised. What's FTW
- [Skin and Moomin](https://www.moronosphere.com/skin-and-moomin/) - This is one of those 'odd where the web can take you' bits. Let's trace it as it happened. Brother Ray was talking about the tattoo he's getting. Quinn responded with a mention of Shelley Jackson's 'skin' project. So I went off and googled that, and got skin. Basically, Ms. Jackson is writing a book
- [Boobielicious](https://www.moronosphere.com/boobielicious/) - I just have to draw attention to Doxy's breasts. Ok, not her actual breasts. But these: About which a man can only say yum or possibly, Wubba-Wubba. And then there's this: I never before thought you could put the words Pussy and Bug together and have it turn out yummy. I wish Dox would update
- [Tag, I'm it](https://www.moronosphere.com/tag-im-it/) - I'm just reading up on how to use Technorati tags. It's an interesting idea. The two main uses I've seen in MT blogs is to convert either keywords or categories into tags. I've got a cool plugin for MT that automatically converts keywords, only, I don't use keywords. I've also got an applescript in ecto
- [Skull Me, Redux](https://www.moronosphere.com/skull-me-redux/) - I posted recently about my hunt for a really cool skull ring. Surprisingly hard to find, actually. You wouldn't think so, but almost to a one, they're all ugly, with a garish "let's make it scary" look. All I want is a ring that really looks like a skull. This is made worse by the
- [Slashdotted by Proxy](https://www.moronosphere.com/slashdotted-by-proxy/) - It's funny, I have not checked my logs in a couple days -- I just did and suddenly I've got a huge traffic spike, just huge, even bigger than when erosblog links to me. I tracked it down -- it seems that traffic spikes run downhill; Brandon over at contemporaryinsanity.org just got slashdotted, and since
- [What was this about anyway?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-was-this-about-anyway/) - When I started this thing, it was all about writing. There's been a lotta stuff since. Orkut, way too muchg about orkut, but it made things happen in my life. Geekery, and the blogosphere in general. Travel. Kids. Family. Friends. Sex. My life, I guess. But I finally, finally got something written. A story I
- [More orkutful entries](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-orkutful-entries/) - So if you are bored to tears with the whole orkut thing, you can skip this, or you can come over, strip down, and give me something novel to write about. Meanwhile, just an update on the sacrifice and rebirth story. And incidently, people on the Apple corporate campus stopped me today to talk about
- [The Artist and the Toons](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-artist-and-the-toons/) - So a few people have asked me where I got the Kartoon Karl Elvis image I use here and on my Orkut profile. Contact info for the artist is here, courtesy of Doxy's site. The work's damned good, and the artist is a rockin' babe as well.
- [a thousand nameless hells](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-thousand-nameless-hells/) - What makes this entertaining isn't the slippers. I mean, sure, they're cute and all, but you seen one c'thulu plush, you seen 'em all. No, what makes this entertaining is Cory's description: "...keep your feet warm even as they damn them to a thousand nameless hells."
- [Pink Elephants on Parade](https://www.moronosphere.com/pink-elephants-on-parade/) - I could stand the sight of worms And look at microscopic germs But technicolor pachyderms Is really much for me I am not the type to faint When things are odd or things are quaint But seeing things you know that ain't Can certainly give you an awful fright! What a sight! Chase 'em away!
- [Scratch Street](https://www.moronosphere.com/scratch-street/) - This just completely rules. To steal Cory's description from BoingBoing: Scratch n Spin is a very amusing short video advert that combines footage of a DJ's hands working on a set of turntables with footage of a streetscene; when he grabs a car and moves it around the roundabout, it is synched to the sound
- [Set the Wayback Terminal](https://www.moronosphere.com/set-the-wayback-terminal/) - There are a few of my readers who will look at this and say oh my god yes I remember that and the rest of you are too young or not geeky enough. But this is hysterical. A terminal emulator for OSX that acts like one of those old wyse terminals. I just downloaded this,
- [That's my kind of military maneuver](https://www.moronosphere.com/thats-my-kind-of-military-mane/) - God damn this is funny. I can't find any detail behind this but BoingBoing has a link to video of british troops on LSD. I don't know when this was or what the intent of the test was, but they looks like they're having a fantastic time. Click the image to play. I'm still giggling.
- [P of the C redux - I'm scared.](https://www.moronosphere.com/p-of-the-c-redux-im-scared/) - Via BoingBoing, Inside the Magic has a first look at the Florida WDW version of re-made Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm scared. It's hard to suss out how much they've goofed around this ride; the video's a little choppy and dark, and this is the Florida version, already a distant second in quality to the
- [Hello Bankruptcy!](https://www.moronosphere.com/hello-bankruptcy/) - When you finally get ready to buy your hello kitty guitar, here's how you're gonna pay for it. Because you know, debt and bankruptcy are so adorable! (props to boingboing, i guess, though I'm a bit queasy from all the sugary-sweetness)
- [Our job is to think critically and rationally](https://www.moronosphere.com/our-job-is-to-think-critically/) - God, this is what we all need to be saying every time someone says 'terrorist' and 'terrorism'. It makes me want to fucking scream; They win when we panic. The fucking win when we panic. Here's a snippet from a great piece on Bruce Schneier - go read the whole thing, it's worth it, but
- [google disappearing sex blogs](https://www.moronosphere.com/google-disappearing-sex-blogs/) - I knew this already but BoingBoing has a good page on it. From BoingBoing: A number of bloggers who cover topics related to human sexuality say they've suddenly disappeared (or at least been deeply demoted) in Google search results. Popular "indie" blogs that deal with nonfiction sex ed or indie alt-erotica fare (Tiny Nibbles, Comstock
- [clue detected: thoughts on music](https://www.moronosphere.com/clue-detected-thoughts-on-musi/) - I gotta say I'm pleased to see that Apple's CEO (some number of regressions of boss up the ladder from me) has a fucking clue about the failure of DRM and the music marketplace. Read: Steve Jobs Thoughts on Music, or BoingBoing's excellent excerpt here. It's what I've been saying since we started selling music;
- [Kurt Vonnegut, RIP](https://www.moronosphere.com/kurt-vonnegut-rip/) - One of my literary heros, Kurt Vonnegut, has shuffled off this mortal coil, as they say. Cory says it better than I can. Vonnegut's short story collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, was one of those books that opened my world. My first significant sci-fi, my first read by someone who'd be considered a major,
- [Stupidly funny machine gun of dirty words](https://www.moronosphere.com/stupidly-funny-machine-gun-of/) - This is for the bad little kid in all of us. NWA's Straight Outta Compton, edited down to only the explicit content.So for example the title track, which starts: Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube From the gang called Niggaz With Attitudes When I'm called off, I got a sawed off Squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off You too, boy, if ya fuck with me The police are gonna hafta come and get me Off yo ass, that's how I'm goin out For the punk motherfuckers that's showin ouIs then reduced to simply:motherfucker, niggaz, fuck, ass, motherfuckers.This reduced to me absolute giggles.
- [Star Wars Tattoos](https://www.moronosphere.com/star-wars-tattoos/) - All I can say is, wow.
- [That's my tinkerbell](https://www.moronosphere.com/thats-my-tinkerbell/) - I love this drawing. BoingBoing has the history and another link to the b/w version.
- [Romance Remix!](https://www.moronosphere.com/romance-remix/) - BoingBoing is the coolest place on the net. More Romance Novels, Remixed.
- [I Want It Now, Muthafucka](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-want-it-now-muthafucka/) - I am now officially in love with Nina Gordon.Nina Gordon, late of Veruca Salt, has recorded a mind-blowing cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton, in the style of a Baezesque guitar folksinger.
- [Happy birthday, Pac-Man!](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-birthday-pacman/) - Twenty Five years ago, Pac-man was born.
- [Hot Chat with the Mouse](https://www.moronosphere.com/hot-chat-with-the-mouse/) - Phone Sex via the Big D:he Walt Disney Internet Group and Sprint have announced an agreement through which Disney will create a national U.S. wireless phone service specifically designed for families.... Disney Mobile plans to offer wireless voice service, exclusive handsets and a package of features and applications including a range of entertainment content for the family.[ from BoingBoing, of course]I'm suddenly picturing phone sex with Minnie. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [MAKE THEM STOP LOOKIN' AT ME!](https://www.moronosphere.com/make-them-stop-lookin-at-me/) - It looks innocent enough - an amateur Photoshopping contest for making headshots of women and girls look more angelic. But once you start scrolling down, the aesthetic really starts to squick you out..."From BoingBoing, as usual. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Ouch.](https://www.moronosphere.com/ouch/) - From BoingBoing: Q: What's George Bush's position on Roe v. Wade? A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.
- [Ow. Ow. Ow.](https://www.moronosphere.com/ow-ow-ow/) - How Not To Do It - Group motorcycle ride gone horribly wrong. Via BoingBoing, of course.
- [Baby Got Folk](https://www.moronosphere.com/baby-got-folk/) - This is fucking brilliant. Folk singer Jonathan Coulton just released a soulful-folky cover of Baby Got Back. And this kicks the kinda ass that Nina Gordon's Straight Outta Compton does. Go get it. And yeah, as usual, props to BoingBoing
- [Ground Beef Panties](https://www.moronosphere.com/ground-beef-panties/) - Ok, this is too fucking funny. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Quaker Maid Meats Inc. on Tuesday said it would voluntarily recall 94,400 pounds of frozen ground beef panties that may be contaminated with E. coli. The beef products were produced by Reading, Pennsylvania-based Quaker on July 19 and shipped to retail stores in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia,
- [The c'thulu family circus](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-cthulu-family-circus/) - Not as brilliant as dysfunctional family circus, sure, but still, pretty fuckin' brilliant. The Nameless Dread - C'thulu Family Circus. (Props to BoingBoing of course)
- [BoingBoinged over the death of mashuptown](https://www.moronosphere.com/boingboinged-over-the-death-of/) - http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/28/riaa_targets_mashups.html
- [Yarn Fetish](https://www.moronosphere.com/yarn-fetish/) - Suddenly almost all the females in my life are knitting. I'm hoping this isn't what I'm getting for christmas. I'm really, REALLY hoping that's not what I'm getting.
- [Still LIfe - Ramone, with Goose](https://www.moronosphere.com/still-life-ramone-with-goose/) - Johnny Ramone's gravestone: From GodPhoto via BoingBoing
- [Lord of the Hissy-Fit](https://www.moronosphere.com/lord-of-the-hissyfit/) - I worship whomever made these. They're here, thanks to BoingBoing for the link.
- [I do love the pulps](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-do-love-the-pulps/) - Again, what would we do without BoingBoing.This is from a gallery exibit on the pulp work of Norm Eastman.Take a look here, at pages one, two, three, four, five and six.It's a festival of nazis and women in torn clothing. I guess we add this to the Sick and Wrong Art category.
- [skull ring links back in place](https://www.moronosphere.com/finally-got-my-skull-ring-links-back-in-place/) - Ok, it's been way too long since I've been able to give link-love to my skull ring frineds - sorry guys, life has a way of giving us lemons, right? I've finally started to get 'em in place again. I can't change the sort order, so it's in the default alpha sort. There are some
- [who's yer april fool?](https://www.moronosphere.com/whos-yer-april-fool/) - You know, I didn't hear a single peep about april fool's day this year. Its like our entire culture forgot the custom this year - or conversely, it's like I just had my head so far down that I managed to miss the entire thing. I don't know which it was. I remember years back,
- [Search Word Poetry](https://www.moronosphere.com/search-word-poetry/) - It's funny, I'm suddenly seeing a resurgence it hits in my logs, on "survivor am naked", which I think we can all agree is a worthy sight. Now, these never really went away; they'd turn up monthly or so, proving that america loves a naked,fake-breasted lesbian, no matter how long she's been gone from reality
- [t-t-t-twenty questions](https://www.moronosphere.com/ttttwenty-questions/) - Swiped from Damn Jezebel 1. If you could be doing what you really want to be doing for a living, what would it be? Piracy on the high seas. Or at least being a dive master in some beautiful place. 2. If you could slap the shit out of any famous person, alive or dead,
- [CrazyPig](https://www.moronosphere.com/crazypig/) - Which is good, it means there are a lot more/better pictures.... For the full experience, as designed, go see If nothing hapened clic here... karlelvis, moronosphere
- [black bars over our eyes](https://www.moronosphere.com/black-bars-over-our-eyes/) - I finally figured out why some of my friends can't get to my site from their places of employment, and why my friend Arvind, the brilliant young developer of MtBlogRoll, can't get to my site at all from the United Arab Emirates. Moronosphere.com is on the SmartFilter blacklist. I'm listed as a "Pornography" site and
- [one without so much ferret](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-without-so-much-ferret/) - I'm only posting this because I'm sick of looking at those stupid fucking ferrets. While I certainly have plenty to talk about, I'm actually way too aggravated - not to mention fatigued - to be all that eloquent. It's just been one of those weeks at work. The ones where everything breaks and you get
- [Skulls and one spade](https://www.moronosphere.com/skulls-and-one-spade/) - The full collection, so far. Top row, left to right: MT Maloney, Sinners Inc (the one they named after me, the 'Elvis' skull), and $eri0s silver (a company that was ripping people off last I heard, so I don't link to 'em anymore). Second row: Ruby Crush, Dave's Customs, Ruby Crush, Deadringers Third row: Ruby
- [Shiny little things](https://www.moronosphere.com/shiny-little-things/) - Seems I've pretty much given up blogging. I could claim it's for lent, but I've given religion up for lent. In fact though, it has more to do with time than with anything else. Work has become a fuckin' whore, a new project starting up, a new team in lower-middle-upper-management and a re-org, bringing with
- [Sinners Skull](https://www.moronosphere.com/sinners-skull/) - My new ring, courtesy of of my brutha Carlos of Sinners Inc. The first thing you'll notice about this thing is, it's freakin' huge. I mean, absurdly huge. When Carlos decided to make a skull (after working with me for two years and seeing my double fistful of skulls every day), he decided he had
- [Damn You, Slava!](https://www.moronosphere.com/damn-you-slava/) - A reader names Slava, one of many who seem to wind up here because of a search on skull rings, pointed me to a site called Bill Wall Leather.
- [beauty in your fading kiss](https://www.moronosphere.com/beauty-in-your-fading-kiss/) - My friend Kenny - after sharing with me the evil that is the sake bomb, and then engaging in karaoke until the sushi bar kicked us out - played me his latest recordings. I attempted to post something about Kenny last year, when he left to chase true love in the outback. I found the
- [Deadringer Classic Xmas sale](https://www.moronosphere.com/deadringer-classic-xmas-sale/) - My mates Mark and Steve at Deadringers - who are fucking brilliant - are also just good guys. Not only are they treating me right, but they also make my favorite skull ring in the whole world, the classic: And it just got bettter - the classic is on special, normally $395, you can have
- [Courts and Hackett Skull Ring](https://www.moronosphere.com/courts-and-hacket-skull-ring/) - For years I've heard the question among skull ring collectors - Who made Keith Richards skull ring? From what I can tell, the origin of the guitar-players-in-skull-rings thing is Keith. Eric Clapton wears one, Billy Gibbons wears one, Zakk Wylde wears one, James Hetfield wears one. Johnny Depp wears one. But Keith's is the original.
- [MT Maloney - elv13 and fortitudine](https://www.moronosphere.com/mt-maloney-elv13-and-fortitudine/) - My friend MT Maloney just sent me a couple of samples of his work to check out, and I could not be much more delighted with them. I blogged a couple weeks ago about his work-in-progress blog, From the Workbench. But now that I have my hands on his work (and his work on my
- [Deadringer 'Mourning Beads'](https://www.moronosphere.com/deadringer-mourning-beads/) - It should be no surprise that I'm a HUGE fan of Steve Gillespie's Deadringer jewelry. Steve's just a brilliant designer, a jeweler of consummate skill, and a hell of a good guy. I love everything they've ever made, and would happily own one of each, if I were made of money. That said, I'm particularly
- [My Skulls](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-skulls/) - My skull ring collection, so far. Left to right, that's: Deadringers Yorrick, Tony Creed Riffman, srs slvr 'eric clapton', Ruby Crush full-jaw, Deadringers classic, Ruby Crush jawless, Dave's Custom Skulls jawless. Click for a full-size view. The Dave's Custom, above, is the last ring available after Dave's death. I'm glad to have it, it's one
- [Deadringer Minima - a smaller skull ring](https://www.moronosphere.com/deadringer-minima/) - Since I've been back on the skull ring thing lately (thanks to Carlos at Sinners Inc), I realized I never posted about the latest DeadRingers skulls. People have been asking me for ages about smaller rings; the cool thing is, some of the jewelers I'm friends with have started to listen. The Deadringers version is
- [Shindig at the Chateau](https://www.moronosphere.com/shindig-at-the-chateau/) - I sort of intended to blog about my short trip to hollywood as it happened, every stripper-encounter, every meal or drink in a local hot-spot, every random celebrity sighting. It didn't quite work that way in practice; work chased me down over and over, and I spent the majority if the two-days-three-nights in SoCal fielding
- [Merry Chrifsmas](https://www.moronosphere.com/merry-chrifsmas/) - (Thanks to Chris and J. Matt, and to Bobby Henderson at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster)
- [Flight 816](https://www.moronosphere.com/flight-816/) - Whump That was the sound of me collapsing at the end of my week. As of now i'm on vacation, until December first. I'm not actually gone yet - that's still (as of now) about 78 hours away. But mentally i'm already high above the pacific, thinking about hula girls and slack-key guitar, and hoping
- [Fresh Kilts!](https://www.moronosphere.com/fresh-kilts/) - Today and possibly most of the weekend (we'll see about that), I will be Utilikilt-vending at PantheaCon in San Jose. I actually, wonder of wonders, did find a reader who's going. (Come 'an give daddy a kiss, Sonja!). Not what I expected, but maybe she found me by accident via a google search. In any
- [Slice of Cake](https://www.moronosphere.com/slice-of-cake/) - So when exacly did Cake change their name to Weezer?Because you know, I thought Weezer were that band who did Hash Pipe and Sweater.
- [blood on the ice](https://www.moronosphere.com/blood-on-the-ice/) - You know i tell you, any time i'm feeling stressed, i need to go to a hockey game. There's nothing that gets it out quite like screaming and yelling, seeing guys absolutely hammering each other into the boards, and then watching the rink repair guys scrape blood off the ice before the zamboni comes out.
- [Updating my freaking blog](https://www.moronosphere.com/updating-my-freaking-blog/) - We can't all be Trancejen. We can't all be Circe. Some bloggers find something to say every day. I'll be goddamned if I can figure out how they do it, honestly; I'm stunned that I have anything to say here,...
- [One Large](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-large/) - This is Moronosphere blog entry number 1000. And I look at that number with a mixture of confusion and pride. In January of 2004, my friend Jennifer offered to host of a domain I owned. I wasn't doing anything with it, but I figured, hell, I might as well host it someplace and use it
- [A Fine Day on Folsom Street](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-fine-day-on-folsom-street/) - Sunday: I lost count of how many penises I saw. We got dozens of men out of their pants. I fell in love with a woman who claimed not to like boys, but had a Daddy's Little Girl tattoo. She asked to me adjust her corset and enjoyed when I 'accidently' felt her up, over
- [Skull Sporran](https://www.moronosphere.com/skull-sporran/) - So I have this leather Utilikilt. I earned it by working a lot of shows the last couple years, and it's a thing of beauty, truly. Only problem with it is that, unlike a regular Utilikilt, it has no pockets. This means I've gotta wear either some sort of waist pouch or a sporran. But
- [Balls Out](https://www.moronosphere.com/balls-out/) - A one minute google exercise didn't turn up the origin of the phrase 'balls out'. But we all know what it means; full bore, full throttle, maximum speed, turned to 11..Technorati Tags: karlelvis
- [Ink Lust - San Jose Tattoo Convention](https://www.moronosphere.com/ink-lust-san-jose-tattoo-conve/) - I spent a little time at the San Jose Tattoo Convention today - a wholly different vibe than the Central Coast Con that I went to early this year. That other con, in Paso Robles, CA, was more about the meth set than about the art. I didn't really have time to get tattooed today
- [Tattooists are Pirates](https://www.moronosphere.com/tattooists-are-pirates/) - "Tattooists are Pirates" -- Klem The above quote was part of a conversation about japanese tattooing traditions and tattooists names; the "Hori" prefix in names like Horiyoshi, Horikoi, Horitaka, etc, which I understand means, literally, to poke. We progressed on to the way American tattooing picked up, used, and altered the best of other traditions.
- [Whackity Spankity](https://www.moronosphere.com/whackity-spankity/) - The title of this entry is from something Kenny used to say when describing self-indulgent soloing in bands we went to see. The kind of playing that's all about the player and his ego, not about the song or the band or what belongs there. He'd describe the guitar solos as "so much widdly-woo" (Which
- [When Mullets Attack](https://www.moronosphere.com/when-mullets-attack/) - I'm taking a guess here -- 1993? This is my Very Best Mullet, and this is how we feed my friend Kenny his beer. I met with Tricia, and the tattoo plan has changed. It was going to be a Marquesan thing called the Bowl of Light but for various reasons, we decided against it.
- [WDW - twenty years later](https://www.moronosphere.com/wdw-twenty-years-later/) - Almost twenty years ago, I realize now, since I've been to Walt Disney World in Florida.... An entirely self-contained world.
- [Scream in the Dark](https://www.moronosphere.com/scream-in-the-dark/) - There was a time, a lifetime or two ago, when I used to spend a lot of time in dark clubs and sleazy bars, listening to bands give it all up for audiences that only sometimes got it. Some of these bands today are names you know; CDs you have in your collection, if sometimes
- [ukuleles](https://www.moronosphere.com/ukuleles/) - This afternoon I went to a 'ukulele jam party' at the Poor House Bistro (a remarkably authentic cajun joint in down town San Jose near the Shark Tank). Friends (Kenny, Heather Courtney, DB Walker played, and then the gang from Ukulele Underground jammed for a couple hours. It wasn't that the music was good -
- [a little help for my friend](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-little-help-for-my-friend/) - This is not a request I make because of a political cause, or because of some overt sense of social consciousness. It's a request I make because a friend needs it. Brandon, the man who makes *this* possible, and who won't take any form of repayment from me, even gratitude, is in harm's way for
- [That be the best way to repel boarders!](https://www.moronosphere.com/that-be-the-best-way-to-repel/) - Psst! Avast there! It be too late to alter course, mateys. And there be plundering pirates lurkin' in ev'ry cove, waitin' to board. Sit closer together and keep your ruddy hands in board. That be the best way to repel boarders. And mark well me words, mateys: Dead men tell no tales! Evidently some trackback-spamming
- [...but nobody's home](https://www.moronosphere.com/but-nobodys-home/) - Thanks to the lovely and talented Miz Lemay by adding mirth to my morning:A guy goes to the doctor.... You need a psychiatrist.""I was on the way to the psychiatrist," says the guy.
- [Shoot First](https://www.moronosphere.com/shoot-first/) - My new tattoo. By Blake Brand, Polished Tattooing, San Jose, CA. If you don't get it, google "dl-44 heavy blaster" and "han shot first" Edit: it's kind of amazing, this pic got picked up on fytattoos.com, and yet I got only ONE comment. almost 800 likes and reblogs on fytattoos,
- ['H' is for handcuffs.](https://www.moronosphere.com/h-is-for-handcuffs/) - I have to post this, only because that first line should win an award: LOS ANGELES - The red and cuddly Sesame Street Muppet Elmo has learned a new lesson: 'H' is for handcuffs. Yeah, that's my kinda muppet.
- [Laugh or Cry](https://www.moronosphere.com/laugh-or-cry/) - I feel a mixture of nausea and excitement when I read this article: TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) - British singer and songwriter Phil Collins said on Sunday he would be open to a reunion of his old band Genesis. It was pretty much just pure nausea until I read this line: "I'm happy to
- [Bryan Harvey, RIP](https://www.moronosphere.com/bryan-harvey-rip/) - Oh, god. Here we go with our musical heros dying. LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Bryan Harvey, singer-guitarist for the two-man '80s rock band House of Freaks, was found dead with his wife and two children in the family's Richmond, Va., home over the weekend. House of Freaks. One of my favorite bands of the
- [Random nonsense](https://www.moronosphere.com/random-nonsense/) - Random thoughts since I can't make sense of much today. The cut on my left index finger still hurts. Man, I did a number on this. But I don't think I can blame it for my lousy typing anymore. The Sharks are up two-zero over the edmonton oilers. Don't tell me the strike killed hockey;
- [Sleepin' with Keith](https://www.moronosphere.com/sleepin-with-keith/) - This is why I love Keith Richards (other than his obvious good taste in jewelry). On being woken up after brain surgery: "I was pissed off when they woke me up because I was in such a good sleep." Keith. Dude. I understand. Some days, a coma sounds fuckin' grand.
- [Elvis was a Spy](https://www.moronosphere.com/elvis-was-a-spy/) - Today is the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and I wish I could find the whole lyric to Elvis Was a Spy by the Frontier fuckin' Wives, one of my favorite bands ever. Best I can do is to say here's the song (this was broken when I uploaded it in aac/m4a, I just changed
- [Papa's Got a Brand New Bag](https://www.moronosphere.com/papas-got-a-brand-new-bag/) - James Brown is dead at 73 - leaving the world a whole hell of a lot less funky on this christmas day. I wish I could post one of the tracks from the James Brown christmas album, about which I had a very strange conversation just the other day. Of course, I can't find it
- [Celtic Cross, Kaiser Skull](https://www.moronosphere.com/celtic-cross-kaiser-skull/) - I've been trying to get a post done on this for-fucking-ever. My first try got somehow eaten by the ether (mmm, ether...) and i never could seem to get back around to it, for which i must apologize to my good friends at Deadringers. They have, at long last, released two new pieces they've been
- [Alas Poor Caveman](https://www.moronosphere.com/alas-poor-caveman/) - The latest from DeadRinger - and yes, I have one on it's way to me, any day now they tell me. "Yorick", Steve calls it, but you could just as well have called it the caveman. It has all of Steve R Gillespie's attention to detail and precision, all of his amazing artistry, yet it's
- [The Jawless Deadringer](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-jawless-deadringer/) - After a long wait and a lot of requests from customers, here's a first look (in real life anyway) at the Deadringer jawless skull. I'll take a better pic later, this is with phone-cam and none-too-stead mitts. Even so, the ring is a thing 'o beauty, considerably smaller than the Classic, yet with a more
- [on writing](https://www.moronosphere.com/on-writing/) - I just finished reaidng Stephen King's On Writing. It's one of those books several people have told me I should read; so may I can't even remember them all. Doxy, I think, and maybe miss syl, and others (circe?); the latest was elizabeth spankington. I tend to be highly resistant with things like that. If
- [Head Fulla Fog](https://www.moronosphere.com/head-fulla-fog/) - I keep having fragmentary ideas for things to write about and then I get a paragraph in and in and the idea fades out.
- [tis the season for my head to explode](https://www.moronosphere.com/tis-the-season-for-my-head-to/) - Oh, how I love this time of year. Fall. The leaves change (well, kinda, it's California), Halloween starts happening (and when did Halloween get to be such a big deal? When I was a kid it was all about kids and cheap costumes - now it's... Well, fuck it, that's another entry), it's no longer
- [Dirty Martini](https://www.moronosphere.com/dirty-martini/) - "I like to have a martini, two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host" --Dorothy Parker I have the feeling I would have liked to party with Ms. Parker. What is it about a martini? Tequila's a drug. Scotch is an obsession. Bourbon's a statement. Vodka
- [Templates and Styles and Booths, Oh My...](https://www.moronosphere.com/templates-and-styles-and-booth/) - I've changed the style on this blog again, but I must say, I'm sick of the canned styles I can download for MT3. There are a lot of styles free or cheap for MT2. BUt now that I've moved to MT3, not only is my style switcher broken, but I've got a terribly limited set of choices available.
- [All Moved Back In](https://www.moronosphere.com/all-moved-back-in/) - With Ecto working, I was able to post all the archived stuff from July 17 on; so I lost nothing but posted images. I had it all saved in Ecto's cache. So we're now complete, in effect. Broken image links I'll try to replace, though I may not get to all of them. But the
- [What can I do to help?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-can-i-do-to-help/) - The question is always this when there's a disaster on the scale of a huricane katrina; what can those of us far away do to help? In many ways, the answre is not fucking much. But there are a couple ways we can help out - money, and time. I'm no expert on this. So
- [Not THAT Karl MacRae](https://www.moronosphere.com/not-that-karl-macrae/) - Not THAT Karl MacRae , karl macrae
- [Gorg'd with the Dearest Morsel](https://www.moronosphere.com/gorgd-with-the-dearest-morsel/) - You have gorg'd me with the dearest morsel of the earth! Quickly, my love! These bonds excite me to a fever's pitch but I fear me that the Lady will soon be wanting her petticoats back! Strike me sharply Emil, afore I think you effeminate! Ah, let your fingers play and twine in the young
- [Best Pals](https://www.moronosphere.com/best-pals/) - Remember way back when we were kids and the idea of best friend was so important? When you're ten. Twelve. Fourteen. When you're a kid or a teenager. When you're at that Stand By Me age. When does that stop being such a big deal? I dunno. Maybe it doesn't really, for everyone. Maybe some
- [Live Wrong!](https://www.moronosphere.com/live-wrong/) - This, I need: From AZBikes, via Laura And yeah, I ordered one.
- [Kilt Booth -- PantheaCon](https://www.moronosphere.com/kilt-booth-pantheacon/) - Looks like I'm going to be working a Utilikilts booth at an event called "PantheaCon" in San Jose this month. And you know, I'm still trying to figure out what the hell PantheaCon is all about. If you have some idea, hip me to it. It's a four day event; I don't yet know which
- [Garage fulla kilts](https://www.moronosphere.com/garage-fulla-kilts/) - So I walked out today to find 300+ lbs of Utilikilts on my lawn. And I now have this song stuck in my head: " Every day, I get up and pray to Jah And he decreases the number of clocks by exactly one Everybody's comin' home for lunch these days Last night there were
- [Guess Her Muff](https://www.moronosphere.com/guess-her-muff/) - I absolutely love this blog: "guess her muff". I love it because it's a game, AND becauseit's (good quality) porn (pictures of lovely real naked girls, not posed pros). I also love it because it's exactly the sort of game I play. I look at women in various circumstances (at work, at school-related parent meetings,
- [Band Crush](https://www.moronosphere.com/band-crush/) - I love finding a new band; or at least, a band that's new to me. I love that goofy NRE that comes from finding something I'm so overwhelmingly into that it's all I want. It's like a crush - a band crush. You know what I mean. The first time you heard a band that
- [Happy Birthday](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-birthday/) - Because I'm just that sort of friend, Doxy, I forgot yesterday was your birthday. I keep tellin' people, I'm an asshole. Anyway, a big moronosphere shout-out to Doxy. Happy Birthday, baby. You seem to have stopped blogging again, but I'm hope you're havin' a fine ol' day of it. It also seems to be Gina's
- [Turds and Treasure](https://www.moronosphere.com/turds-and-treasure/) - Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to tell the difference 'tween the goods and grime Turds and treasure And there's one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime --XTC, 'Senses Working Overtime' Turds and Treasure. That's the phrase that's been kicking in my head
- [More like performing](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-like-performing/) - This thought came from an IM conversation I had with the lovely and talented Rachel. One of them anyway, there are many. Orkut, we agreed, is in many ways more like performance art than like conversation or writing. I had this thought the other day while I was avoiding Orkut. I thought a little about
- [And through the wire...](https://www.moronosphere.com/and-through-the-wire/) - This started as a comment on an entry titled "Is it wrong?" on the Solipsisters blog. But then I felt an essay coming on (and you know how you know when an essay is coming on? You ears start to go numb, and your smile gets bigger and bigger and bigger), and so decided to
- [Whoa. Just - Whoa](https://www.moronosphere.com/whoa-just-whoa/) - So if that don't beat all. Just got this from Orkut. After (let's see) Oh, about three weeks since I sent it. Hi Karl, We sincerely apologize for our delay in responding to your request to have your account reactivated. We hope you'll be willing to rejoin the orkut.com community and give us another chance.
- [It's pronounced "slowth"](https://www.moronosphere.com/its-pronounced-slowth/) - Like Peter Cook in "Bedazzled". "Slowth" Not "slawth". It just sounds better that way. So once again, Austin Ray and I are on some weird wavelength. See his entry Sloth is the Mind Killer for context. Also, he owes some of you a long email but don't hold your breath. But we seem to be
- [The Mystic Pig](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-mystic-pig/) - How many books are there out there that bring you to a screeching halt? That make you stop and say 'wow' out loud when you read them? The Mystic Pig by Richard Katrovas One of -- and I'm not kidding -- the best books I've ever read. And no one's ever heard of it.
- [God Dammmit, Server Down](https://www.moronosphere.com/god-dammmit-server-down/) - So I'm happy once again that I use a local blogging client (ecto) because my web server is down 'n dead for some reason (D'oh! But that's free web space, which is long on love but short on support because I don't pay for it. Love you guys). If you're reading this it means we
- [Bula! Fiji!](https://www.moronosphere.com/bula-fiji/) - My Fiji Journal is up. I'm sure it needs more editing. What doesn't? Note that it's displayed in reverse order, so oldest entries first. Just because. There will be more pictures posted later. For those of short attention span, you...
- [The Uninvited Upgrade](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-uninvited-upgrade/) - So as you may have noticed, it's a whole new look for the Moronosphere. This wasn't exactly by choice. But we did wind up with a version upgrade to Movable Type 3.1. Here, basically, is what happened. We (Me and some of the other people hosted on a friend's server) were looking at Blog tool
- [Slacker](https://www.moronosphere.com/slacker/) - This is me, long ago, before I started shaving my head. Eleven to thirteen years ago is my best guess; I know where this was taken, in Kenny's back yard in Santa Clara, but I'm not sure the years he lived there. Yes, I just got a scanner. Boy do I have a lotta pictures
- [Blog about Blog](https://www.moronosphere.com/blog-about-blog/) - The pusher-man strikes again. Gregg, welcome to blogger-land. You are one of us. Ok, that's a little pre-mature you have yet to get a real entry up, but you will man, you will. While talking to Gregg (Who has too many gees and whose name I always want to spell with a differing number of
- [Under Deconstruction](https://www.moronosphere.com/under-deconstruction/) - If this looks funky, have patience. Or not. See if I care. I'm fiddling about with new templates. Trying to find something that looks cool but is still easy to read. Tell me if you think this sucks. I'm using style sheets from http://www.movablestyle.com. I keep changing my mind about this matrix template. On the
- [Alas, poor Pluto](https://www.moronosphere.com/alas-poor-pluto/) - Ok, so first things first. Pluto is dead. Disney World worker run over, killed by parade float at Magic Kingdom Second, is this the end of Disney as we know it, or the birth of a new, better, post Eisner Disney? Comcast proposes to buy Walt Disney Who knows? I'd like to ask Roy Disney
- [Comcast 1, SBC 0](https://www.moronosphere.com/comcast-1-sbc-0/) - So the Comcast installer-guy showed up right smack in teh middle of the assigned window, and it was a two hour window, so that ain't bad. Points so far. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Honor the name of it](https://www.moronosphere.com/honor-the-name-of-it/) - The fighting sheen of it The yellow, the green of it The white, the blue of it The swing, the hue of it The dark, the red of it Every thread of it! The fair have sighed for it The brave have died for it Foemen sought for it Heroes fought for it Honor the
- [Everything up until the killing, will be a gas.](https://www.moronosphere.com/everything-up-until-the-killin/) - Sin City "She smells like angels ought to smell.... The perfect woman.
- [Book Tag!](https://www.moronosphere.com/book-tag/) - Not at all a bad fantasy novel, though for some reason it's taken me montsh to finish it.4) What are the 5 books that have meant a lot to me?I can't do just five. Mystic Pig - Richard KatrovasLord of the Rings - JRRTLast Call - Tim PowersWizard of Earthsea - LeGuinTarzan of the Apes - ERBGate of Ivrel - CJ CherryhChump Change - Dan FanteBooked to Die - John DunningSarantium -- Guy Gavriel Kay (Actually everything by Kay)(and a dozen more)Extra credit question, 'What book would you wish to buy next': Shadowmarch -- Tad Williams , or the new JRR Martin, if he ever finishes the fucking thing...TAG!
- [Firefly](https://www.moronosphere.com/firefly/) - God, I love Joss Whedon. "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothing and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.""...Brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Now, with Extra Piracy!](https://www.moronosphere.com/now-with-extra-piracy/) - It's a whole new moronosphere here, now with extra Piracy. Let me know if you have any problem with the way this displays. Let me know if you like it. If you hate it, get on your knees and practice your oral skills. I started out just porting my old look to new templates, but
- [Tag Sandwich](https://www.moronosphere.com/tag-sandwich/) - Ok, ok. I give in. I got tagged by DarkNeuro on this, but I was up to the task of resisting it. And then I got tagged by AAG. I can resist them one at a time. I can't resist a sandwich, though. [homer] Mmmmm. Sandwich [/homer] Ok, so it goes like so: Delve into
- [A Man Called Elvis](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-man-called-elvis/) - I'm talkin bout the man, I'm talkin bout the man A man called Elvis U oughta get 2 know him U oughta try him (stolen from Prince with no apology whatsoever) I finally re-created my about me page. When I did my page redesign (with added piracy, thanks to Doxy), I forgot about it and
- [Happy D-day](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-dday/) - I just wanted to say happy birthday to my dear friend Doxy. I don't think she even dwells in the blogosphere anymore so I doubt she's reading, but still, she's one of those people who should be celebrated. Here's to ya, Girl.
- [Nobody's Fault but Mine](https://www.moronosphere.com/nobodys-fault-but-mine/) - That monkey on my back The monkey on my back, back, back Gonna change my ways tonight Nobody's fault but mine I will get that gun tonight No-no-no-no-nobody's fault but mine --Led Zeppelin, 'Nobody's Fault But Mine' You may remember the recent utter collapse of livejournal. Well now, Diaryland has taken a similar crap:
- [Rejected by Orkut!](https://www.moronosphere.com/rejected-by-orkut/) - I got this page when I logged in today: http://www.orkut.com/accountsuspended.html Account Suspended. Why? They're not saying. They're not responding. No fucking idea. Don't like it? I don't either. Let admin@orkut.com know how you feel! Fuck you, you fucking fucks! Update - There's now a 'Free Karl Elvis' community. See? It pays to have 200+ people
- [Fuck the MAN!](https://www.moronosphere.com/fuck-the-man/) - Up against the wall, Okut. The King is back: new Karl Elvis account. I got fed up. I'm finding "I was deleted" and "I was suspended" groups on orkut now, and I can do more to FIGHT THE POWER from the inside. Friend me. I'm trying to limit how many I go friend too fast
- [Time's the Revelator](https://www.moronosphere.com/times-the-revelator/) - Darling remember from when you come to me that I’m the pretender, I’m not what I’m supposed to be but who could know, lf I’m a traitor? time's the revelator, revelator. --Gillian Welch, Revelator I wish I had an mp3 of that song so I could put it up for you to hear,
- [Kenny Love!](https://www.moronosphere.com/kenny-love/) - It's a good time to get the Kenny Love this weekend; Basement3 acoustic at Blue Rock Shoot in Saratoga, CA. Kenny's words: just a simple, quick reminder about the Basement 3/Lyndie Way performance tomorrow ---- that's sunday, sunday, sunday, sept. 25th!! an event not to miss! Better than ice motorcycle racing (when you go down,
- [So deeply wrong](https://www.moronosphere.com/so-deeply-wrong/) - This is so deeply wrong I don't quite know what to say. It's a phony VW ad from the UK. The clip takes a while to load. And it's just... So very wrong. Damned funny though! Edit: Thanks to Stan for clarifying that it's not really a VW add. Snopes is our friend.
- [Can't you let me go to hell the way I want to?](https://www.moronosphere.com/cant-you-let-me-go-to-hell-the/) - Some goddamn point a man's due to stop argueing with hisself and feeling twice the goddamn fool he knows he is 'cause he can't be something he tries to be every goddamn day without once getting to dinnertime and fucking it up. I don't want to fight it anymore, understand me Charlie? - and I
- [dream of spanking](https://www.moronosphere.com/dream-of-spanking/) - god i wish my head would retain more detail from dreams. I woke up from an elaborate dream - I was on the phone with you, on my cell phone, but describing a scene to you. I was outside, and it was stormy, with an angry gray sky, the scent of rain and a cold
- [Let's talk about ADHD](https://www.moronosphere.com/lets-talk-about-adhd/) - I'd rather be telling filthy stories but i'm kind of fighting with an (unusual for me) anxiety issue. This is a long story and I would rather not tell it all right this moment, but we'll see, these things grow as I go one sometimes. I've worked in high tech for an absurd number
- [Just Write, she said](https://www.moronosphere.com/just-write-she-said/) - She reached in her purse and she pulled out a gun and said, "Now, just shut up and keep your hands on the wheel. And just drive," she said. "Just drive," she said. My friend Circe, one again invoking my name in vain (It's three times, like with beetlejuice), recently made mention of a question
- [Stream of Unconsciousness](https://www.moronosphere.com/stream-of-unconsciousness/) - Baby when you gotta sleep Lay your head down low Don’t let the world Lay heavy on your soul ’cause when you gotta sleep You gotta sleep Cool waves wash over me Cool water running free Lay your sweet hand...
- [One Percenter Name](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-percenter-name/) - I usually don't play the "my stripper name" or "my porn star name" thing. This one, I couldn't resist. According to the Outlaw Biker Name Generator, my one percenter name is: Ol' Ratso of the Donkey Punchers MC (Thanks, Syl)
- [Survivor's Ami, naked](https://www.moronosphere.com/survivors-ami-naked/) - Ami, the fake-breasted lesbian femme-fatal of Survivor Vanuatu, bare-ass naked. I guess these are from Playboy but I don't know. About all I can say is -- she looks as fake in these photos as her breasts look now. She's a cutie now, but in this pics, she looks like a cartoon character, and not
- [Dirty Fantasies about Wonkette](https://www.moronosphere.com/dirty-fantasies-about-wonkette/) - I wanna go to this, "A free-for-all discussion on the role of blogs and politics featuring Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox, which is being held at a bar, Porter's Dining Saloon. Alas, said bar is in Washington DC, and I'm here in the very left edge (physically and politically) of the country. But I have to
- [Ecto 2](https://www.moronosphere.com/ecto-2/) - Ok, I'm a convert. My first question when my partner in blogitude (who hosts this blog for me) broached moving away from Movable Type to some other platofrm was "does it support Ecto?" I can't blog without Ecto anymore. Hell, I just wrote something else in Ecto that wasn't even for a blog because it
- [big five - the wood anniversary](https://www.moronosphere.com/big-five-the-wood-anniversary/) - Five years. 1,175 entries. 6,000 comments. Three ISP's, a half dozen servers, several crashes. It's been a bit of a ride, huh? Five years ago yesterday I started blogging. You can read about that here or here or here or here. And each yeah it seems like I have less to say about it. This
- [Happy V](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-v/) - I've talked about it before; I will again. I don't think a lot of the idea of valentines day. Pink candy hearts and paper cards are not part my celebration of carnal, physical love, nor are they pat of my celebration of romantic love. My kind of love leaves marks, bruises, welts. It leaves one
- [Ink Ink Oink](https://www.moronosphere.com/ink-ink-oink/) - We used to say this, my friend/boss Jeff and I. It meant -- I'm a pig, and I'm needing to get a tattoo. Or sometimes, I'm getting tattooed. Ink Ink Oink. We both happily labeled ourselves pigs. People who had sex on the brain 24x7. People who never had a non-sexual thought. Ink Ink Oink
- [Wanna Be Sedated](https://www.moronosphere.com/wanna-be-sedated/) - I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow up----The Ramones, 'I don't wanna
- [Take Me Out To The...](https://www.moronosphere.com/take-me-out-to-the/) - This isn't really like going to a ballgame. Not at all. It's like going to fancy hotel that overlooks a ballgame. I can't honestly say if that's a good thing or a bad thing. But I can tell you it was fun. Last year, at a school charity auction, one of the families we're friends
- [Somewhere off the coast of Java](https://www.moronosphere.com/somewhere-off-the-coast-of-jav/) - Somewhere off the coast of Java Fell a little piece of lava that grew up to be the island known as Bali -Bali Boogie, Danny Kaye (From memory, I can't find the damned lyrics to that anywhere) I am going...
- [Reading and Writing and Resolutions](https://www.moronosphere.com/reading-and-writing-and-resolu/) - Man, do I need to write something. I've been wandering around for ages now thinking I should. But today - now - I'm suddenly compelled. I did a couple of things today. One was to post a snippet of silliness called Giant Rat on an Orkut group called "Hopped Up on Goofballs". No reason really,
- [Well Begun is Half Done](https://www.moronosphere.com/well-begun-is-half-done/) - A common thread for me throughout my life as a writer (and I say that as if I had such a life, when in fact what I have is phases of intense creativity with long bleak (the word bleak is there for dramatic effect only, it's a damned fine word) non-creaive stretches where inspiration left
- [God damn the pusher man](https://www.moronosphere.com/god-damn-the-pusher-man/) - I am the pusher man. Ok, not so much. But there are those moments. Where you buy a thing, a concept, a hobby, an interest, an activity. Where a friend pumps you up, gets you interested, and you start thinking, and then doing. Where (s)he is the pusher man, and you are thinking junkie thoughts.
- [It's like jazz, he said](https://www.moronosphere.com/its-like-jazz-he-said/) - Everything I ever said bad about rap and hip-hop? I take it all back. Just, you know, for the record. Ok. It was a long time ago the first time this white boy said 'you know, this rap stuff might...
- [Shaving It](https://www.moronosphere.com/shaving-it/) - Let's talk, shall we, about shaving. Starting with the face and head, and then working down. Now I gotta admit. I have not shaved my face, regularly, in at least -- um, now, I have to count it up, let's see, ah, I guess it would be seventeen or eighteen years. Sometimes I go full
- [Golden Age](https://www.moronosphere.com/golden-age/) - This was started as an email to a friendlast night, but that went off into the weeds somewhere and was terminated. But I liked the first part so here it is. ---- One of those funny moments when lots of thoughts collide. Wait - must warn you - I've had several really tall long island
- [Fat Tuesday](https://www.moronosphere.com/fat-tuesday/) - First, music. I have "Detachable Penis" stuck in my head after hearing it on the radio today. I can't find a good link, but here is a not terrible one for King Missile. To put it simply, they're fucking weird. Everyone needs to hear "Detachable Penis" at least once, but my favorite King Missile song
- [Here's to modern medicine](https://www.moronosphere.com/heres-to-modern-medicine/) - First, wefunkradio.com. Listen at work. Listen at home. I wish I could listen in the car. This shit is The Funk, y'all. It's spring here in northern California, or close to it. How can you tell? Well, there are some signs. The cherry trees are in bloom. We're having freak storms and torrential downpours, or
- [thanks, CG](https://www.moronosphere.com/thanks-cg/) - The lovely and talented ChelseaGirl pointed some of her fleshbotty traffic my way with a link; only I've not had much to say lately. If you folks got here following her link, go look here for my small catalog of written expression. -- ...And now CG's entry on writing has been picked up by (the
- [Unexpected Sex Dreams](https://www.moronosphere.com/unexpected-sex-dreams/) - Who doesn't love a good sex dream? Hell, without sex dreams, i have no writing career. My best work is all inspired by some form of sex dreams. The thing with sex dreams is, they let that part of the psyche free, let us savage or be savaged, romance or be romanced, do or be
- [Dream Woman](https://www.moronosphere.com/dream-woman/) - Damn, I wish I'd had some un-interrupted time to write this morning. I had a dream, some woman dredged from my subconscious. A person as complete and real and defined as any dream I've had in years. The last time I had a dream like this, about a person this real, that dream grew into
- [crested wave](https://www.moronosphere.com/crested-wave/) - Does it ever seem like somehow, without anyone planning it, blogging just sort of ended? I look over the list of blogs I generally follow (almost to a one they're friends blogs, though some only after I began to follow as a reader), and on by one, they're quitting, going on extended hiatus, moving, or
- [The World's  Best Peanut Butter Fudge](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-worlds-best-peanut-butter/) - The Recipe: Peanut Butter Fudge (makes 36 pieces) 4 cups sugar 2 Tablespoons corn syrup 1 1/3 cups milk 1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons smooth peanut butter (Jif/Skippy type, not natural) 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup coarsely chopped peanuts (we usually left this out) In a saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and milk. Stir together
- [Central Coast Tattoo Expo](https://www.moronosphere.com/central-coast-tattoo-expo/) - So I'm going to my first tattoo convention ever. A funny idea, considering I have tattoos older than some of the people likely to be tattooing there. Time was I kept meaning to go to these things and never got around to it, then later, I just didn't feel the call. There are better places
- [Wanton is back on line.](https://www.moronosphere.com/wanton-is-back-on-line/) - After losing my blog hosting a few years ago, non of my other writing (erotica, etc) has been on this site. I finally got it back up, thanks to some inspiration from my friend Elizabeth. find it under Writing or directly here Here. please drop a comment if you visit, it’s lonely out here in the Moronosphere.
- [Mamma, just killed a man...](https://www.moronosphere.com/mamma-just-killed-a-man/) - It's rather a unique experience, having one's mother read one's erotic writing. Not quite like anything else I've experienced. There's background on this of course. Both on the story in question (I imagine everyone reading this has most likely already read the story, but if not, whatcha waiting for?) and background on my mother, and
- [Could we have chilies for breakfast, mummy dear oh mummy dear?](https://www.moronosphere.com/could-we-have-chilies-for-brea/) - There's nothing like habaneros for breakfast. Beats the crap out of last night's tequila hangover. Though I have to admit, it's sort of worth the hangover when you're sippin' $50 tequila that comes in a faux-animal-skin covered bottle. Interestingly, the tequila in question has a name that means either "Three Women" or "Three Wives" (I've
- [More stupid housekeeping and moronosphere history](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-stupid-housekeeping-and-moronosphere-history/) - As long time readers will know, xmas eve, 2013, my friend Brandon Dawson died of an overdose. Brandon - despite the obvious - was a kind and generous human being, and a good friend, and i'm forever grateful to him for hosting so many of my (and my friends) blogs, free. However, his demons won
- [L O V E & H A T E](https://www.moronosphere.com/l-o-v-e-h-a-t-e/) - How I love hand tattoos.
- [L O V E & H A T E](https://www.moronosphere.com/l-o-v-e-h-a-t-e-2/) - How I love hand tattoos.
- [Emperor Norton Bridge](https://www.moronosphere.com/emperor-norton-bridge/) - Days when I wish I lived in San Francisco -- days when I am glad I live near San Francisco. There's a movement afoot to rename the Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton. Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. This guy was real. He's turned up in Tim Powers novels, in
- [Elvis Lives](https://www.moronosphere.com/elvis-lives/) - Final chapter in the skull ring story. I wrote recently about Tony Creed. Today, after being assured that I wasn't going to get a ring for xmas, this showed up in a small black box under my tree: Tony Creed rules. Take a look at what it says under the eye sockets in the skull.
- [More Skulls and Tattoos](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-skulls-and-tattoos/) - Ok, so I've got my tattoo idea more or less set -- which I'll talk about after it gets done. But the oink factor is in full effect now. I suddenly have an idea for something to go on my right arm in one of those spaces that needs a specific shape; it was going
- [Clapton Skull](https://www.moronosphere.com/clapton-skull/) - There's that skull ring that started me on the quest for a skull ring. The Clapton Skull ring. [ edit ] - I've removed the link to the site (serious silver) because they're criminals and crooks and will steal your money, do NOT order from them [ / edit ] I talked to the makers
- [girl on a motorbike](https://www.moronosphere.com/girl-on-a-motorbike/) - I sat at a light, and watched a girl on a motorbike. The bike was yellow; the girl was in leather, jeans. Her booted feet looked like a child's, tiny black leather boots. She passed me in an intersection as I waited for green, and then I tried to catch her; in my huge gray
- [Mister Peet](https://www.moronosphere.com/mister-peet/) - RIP, Alfred Peet If you love coffee, this man should be one of your culinary heros. He's one of mine. Ever wonder where the funders of starbucks got the idea? From Alfred Peet, that's where. The guy who founded Peet's Coffee - the guy who pretty much started america's current love affair with quality
- [Dressed to Kilt](https://www.moronosphere.com/dressed-to-kilt/) - I should talk about the kilt thing. But what I want to talk about is working the kilt both, so let's do a short version of 'why kilts'. Or maybe not so short, this one seems to be getting longer...
- [Love will have to do](https://www.moronosphere.com/love-will-have-to-do/) - I I've spent of a lot of my life, a lot of my time, thinking, and writing, about love. Love is a wholly inadequate word, in english, to express all the dozens of things we mean when we say love. I love a good sandwich, my favorite bourbon. I love my favorite band, my favorite
- [Lies, damn lies, and statistics](https://www.moronosphere.com/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/) - It's been interesting to look at stats since I got more active. I used to be able to judge engagement by comments, and had sitemeter (I think it was called) to measure hits. I learned a lot as to who was hitting from where, and how much, and when someting had gone viral (as when
- [About the author](https://www.moronosphere.com/about-the-author/) - because I just got new swag from my favorite doom band, monolord, here’s a fresh selfie. also reference for those of you who are now, or ever have, pictured being fingered by me, there’s what you’ll get.
- [Fuck Off, Ian](https://www.moronosphere.com/fuck-off-ian/) - Ironically my late brother was named Ian, and I imagine the title phrase has been said out loud, oh, a thousand times. But nevermind that, for now. This is about the namesake hurricane. This freaks me the fuck out: my best friend in the whole world, someone I have loved for decades, lives just about
- [I want to feel you clench](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-want-to-feel-you-clench/) - this short erotic piece is inspired by a conversation I had this morning, which provided the opening paragraph. the story is fiction, but inspired by a real person I’ve never met. I may finish this later, if I feel adequately inspired. “I want to put my fingers inside you, palm up, fingers curled
- [Shoelace moments](https://www.moronosphere.com/shoelace-moments/) - Some days nothing seems to work out. It’s not that anything is bad, relatively speaking, but it’s also nothing good, nothing going the way you want. Shoelace moments, I call them, in reference my favorite Bukowski poem. with each broken shoelaceout of one hundred broken shoelaces,one man, one woman, onethingenters amadhouse.so be carefulwhen youbend over.
- [what we call stalling](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-we-call-stalling/) - I"ve been trying to figure out ho wbest to create a 'favorite posts' menu. I'm relatively sure this will be easy when I focus on it for more than five minutes at a time, but, I thought i'd start with the idea of what favorites are. Most popular? I don't even know what that means
- [Do not think me gentle](https://www.moronosphere.com/do-not-think-me-gentle/) - Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is
- [HNT undersea rear view](https://www.moronosphere.com/hnt-undersea-rear-view/) - I have not done an HNT post in a LONG time. And since I spent a futile hour last night trying to blog something and failed, I figure, when words fail, post pictures or song lyrics. Thus - Happy underwater HNT; snorkeling near Pu'uhonua o Honaunau (click to see full size) This was taken about
- [Brew](https://www.moronosphere.com/brew/) - Portrait of the author as reflection in chrome.
- [Kid, have ya ever been arrested?](https://www.moronosphere.com/kid-have-ya-ever-been-arrested/) - "Kid, we only gotone question. Have you ever been arrested?" And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre, with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever go to court?" And
- [Welcome Back, Me.](https://www.moronosphere.com/welcome-back-me/) - It's been an extremely long time, but, here I am. ...why bother?
- [The world changed](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-world-changes-and-we-dont-notice/) - My god it's been a long time. I miss being what you might call a writer or at least a blogger. I miss days when it mattered. I miss being creative, and living a life that routinely got me in trouble - I miss the trouble, and the people I used to get into it with. Well,
- [Protect ya neck](https://www.moronosphere.com/protect-ya-neck/) - Or more accurately, your shoulders. I’ve spent the last 10 weeks recovering from a rotator cuff surgery, so unable to drive stick shift, ride my motorcycle, work out, or do fuck all that needs my use of my right (dominant) shoulder. (Ok, all of me is dominant, some of you know that, but, well, that’s
- [Lay yer comments on me](https://www.moronosphere.com/lay-yer-comments-on-me/) - Hey I know a few people are hitting this space. I see it in activity meters. Unless you’re just all robots but it’s ok, you don’t have to admit it to a Turing test. But in any case, let me know you’re here.
- [What’s it all about](https://www.moronosphere.com/whats-it-all-about/) - For the first time in at least a decade, i've updated the About page for this site (also linked on side bar and in menus, here here here, oh, everywhere, as the Genie said. You should read it, it's unimaginably brilliant. Really. Also, on the off chance that anyone is reading out there, I really
- [Previously on...](https://www.moronosphere.com/previously-on/) - So, you can see that it's been close to six years since a tragic, stupid, pointless death stopped my tragic, stupid, pointless blogging. Sometimes life is a series of small, largely irrelevant disruptions amounting to never getting a goddamn thing done. Whatever. Last week I posted something on facebook to the effect that most human
- [Roland Pacheco's blog](https://www.moronosphere.com/5777-2/) - I wanted to give a shout-out to Roland Pacheco, a tattooer, writer and owner of X-Isle Tattoo in Hawi, Big Island, Hawaii. I've met him a couple of times, but have yet to get inked by him (timing problems; I dive a lot when I'm in hawaii so it leaves my windows to get tattooed
- [Brandon Dawson - Fallen soldier, lost friend.](https://www.moronosphere.com/fallen-soldier-lost-friend/) - I just now learned - 3 fucking months later - that Brandon Dawson, my friend, my business partner, and the guy who's provided hosting for me all these years, passed away xmas eve 2013. I'm crushed. He was the guy I came to for web help, and he never failed me, no matter how rough
- [And that brings us up to date, again, with nothing](https://www.moronosphere.com/and-that-brings-us-up-to-date-again-with-nothing/) - it's weird to realize the last time I posted was just before - well, weeks before but time means nothing, never would again - before the world changed all at once (which is going ti be a theme for everything I post today, which is, well, this I guess). I see my last post before
- [WTF is it with poetry](https://www.moronosphere.com/wtf-is-it-with-poetry/) - what the fuck is it with poetry? It's a form I fundamentally don't feel, as a writer. Not that I don't love it - lyrics of songs and bits of poetry are in my head all the time. Things from tolkien, from ogden nash, from james thurber, from andy partridge, steven wilson, lloyd cole, phil
- [making stock](https://www.moronosphere.com/making-stock/) - My dear friend E asked me about making stock recently, and I figured I might as well do this in a blog entry instead of an email, so as to better share the wealth. I make stock all the time. Basically whenever I have enough roasted birds carcasses collected in my freezer. I've talked about
- [Something needs to explode](https://www.moronosphere.com/something-needs-to-explode/) - I've had a lot of conversations lately about some complex emotions. A friend whose marriage may be on the rocks, who thinks her husband is cheating on her. A friend who's dealing with an immense array of traumas from childhood, from adulthood, from disabilities and ailments. A friend who's commemorating two lost parents in the
- [Finding what's missing](https://www.moronosphere.com/finding-whats-missing/) - Ah, crap, I just realized that in conversion of my old site archive to this, I seem to have lost about half my total posts. I have it all, in a temporary blog I set up while moronosphere.com was down, but now I have the hard process of figuring out what's missing, entry by entry,
- [H O L D - F A S T](https://www.moronosphere.com/h-o-l-d-f-a-s-t/) - Hold Fast.(see the extended entry for photos)Getting the design laid out correctly: Klem at work.... Not really painful, as tattoos go, but man, annoying: Right hand done: HOLD fucking FAST: The green stuff is sharpie, it'll wash off.
- [Happy Birthday Andie](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-birthday-andie/) - Happy Birthday, Andie. I love you, and god DAMN I'm glad I know you. I hope to celebrate you forever, somehow or other.
- [backpiece: first session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-first-session/) - A picture being worth a few words, I'll stick to pictures. First session; three hours.
- [Greta Lee Ray:  10/19/28 - 11/9/2008](https://www.moronosphere.com/greta-lee-ray-101928-1192008/) - Greta died painlessly on November ninth, 2008. Her lungs, damaged by a lifetime of smoking, gave up slowly over the last two months of her life. When she was admitted to the hospital, it rapidly became obvious that healing her was beyond the reach of medical science. Her family respected her desire to
- [Dreams to Stories](https://www.moronosphere.com/dreams-to-stories/) - As I re-explore the blogosphere (in an attempt to rebuild a network of connections and, of course, to re-acquire an audience of readers), i've been using WP reader to discover active bloggers. I've been reading a number of blogs with some very good erotic content - mainly poetic but some otherwise. Not classic 'here's a
- [Anniversaries, so to speak](https://www.moronosphere.com/anniversaries-so-to-speak/) - I was trying to find dates for something nearly 20 years back. Anniversaries, so to speak - when I met certain people, when certain social things happened. I like to commemorate things like that, or al least acknowledge them. We met X years ago, that sort of thing. There’s a cluster of those dates coming
- [On getting strong](https://www.moronosphere.com/on-getting-strong/) - So let's talk about something other than writing for a moment, just because i'm almost repeating myself in the last few entries (plus i'm really distracted by a poet i've been reading and need to not think about eroticism for a bit). For the maybe one of you reading who hasn't known me for years,
- [What she looks like](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-she-looks-like/) - When I wrote Wanton, the character was vividly imagined, created by my subconscious, in a dream. I describe her in the text: Blood-red hair cut just past her jaw line, brushing her long, slender neck. Big eyes some strange color I could never put a name to. Full lips in a perpetual sneer. Her
- [Finding like minds in the blogosphere](https://www.moronosphere.com/finding-like-minds-in-the-blogosphere/) - As I resume this whole thing after a long hiatus (Really. Fucking. Long), i'm trying to figure out ways to find those individuals (like Bacchus at ErosBlog) who never stopped, or people who are new (ish) and have something to say that I like. In the old days, the best way to promote one's blog
- [ErosBlog](https://www.moronosphere.com/erosblog/) - Wow, I’m pleased to find my favorite sex blog (which I used to write for on occasion) is still around; http://www.erosblog.com. So many of the blogs I used to follow are gone, it’s good to see those still fightin’ the good fight.
- [Trying to Start](https://www.moronosphere.com/trying_to_start/) - I’m trying to start writing something. I’ve edited a lot over the last month, even re-wrote bits of things. It’s been cathartic to feel it coming back, to hear narration in my head again, to refresh memory of how to create. I’ve even got a friend asking me to write her something. How did I
- [Howling to the Void](https://www.moronosphere.com/howling-to-the-void/) - It’s funny, when I started this blog, which was mumble years ago, it was utterly free. Nobody read it, nobody knew it existed apart from my friend Jen who originally hosted it. There is a pure and complete freedom to write without any audience. I could say anything, do anything, didn’t matter. Social media changed that
- [Everything that's old is slightly less old](https://www.moronosphere.com/everything-thats-old-is-slightly-less-old/) - I pulled out all the old stories that were once up in a writing blog off of an old archive disk, and am gradually going through them. It's a mixed bag. There's nothing anywhere as good (he says, full of humility) Wanton, of which i'me very proud, particularly after a revision. But there's some treasure. Long
- [An admission of guilt, or at least, of writing](https://www.moronosphere.com/an-admission-of-guilt-or-at-least-of-writing/) - Well, today I more or less announced myself as a writer in Facebook. which won’t be big news for the people who used to read this space, or for the very few who have read my fiction, but in the modern, post blogosphereera world of social networks, I don’t think many of the people I
- [Old words, new friends.](https://www.moronosphere.com/old-words-new-friends/) - I suppose every writer understands the awkward, uncomfortable experience of trying to re-read or edit something they wrote a very long time ago. For me, at least, that experience tends to begin with cringing, and then moves on to a desire to we-write from scratch, just to avoid any more uncomfortable re-reading. At that point
- [The Submarine](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-submarine/) - This is another story about My Aunt Penny.
- [FXDB rolling again](https://www.moronosphere.com/fxdb-rolling-again/) - My FXDB Street Bob has been down for a couple of months; shortly before the holidays, the shifter arm broke loose. This wasn't your usual 'harleys suck' problem, this was all operator error; I fucked up the shifter spline when I was trying to adjust the shifter a few months back, and my kludge job
- [All The Skulls](https://www.moronosphere.com/all-the-skulls/) - That's the full collection, as of now. Instagram shots, so low res. I'll add tags with the individual details + links.
- [Drink Will Flow and Blood Will Spill](https://www.moronosphere.com/drink-will-flow-and-blood-will/) - The Orkut party to end all Orkut parties? Or just another ice-cream social? This saturday, people come from out of town, Orkut crushes will meet in in person, Ray wil make etouffee , and someone almost certainly will wind up with...
- [Things I Believe](https://www.moronosphere.com/things-i-believe/) - These are a few things I believe. It's better to regret what you did than what you didn't do. It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Ask for what you want. Reach out and take what...
- [Flowers for Addison](https://www.moronosphere.com/flowers-for-addison/) - It's hard to have a pet die in your hands and remain unmoved. My ten year old daughter keeps pet rats, as I did when I was a kid. And if you have never had pet rats, you have entirely the wrong impression of rats. They're excellent pets. Affectionate, tame, intelligent. Easy to care for
- [Dude, it's like...](https://www.moronosphere.com/dude-its-like/) - You know, those nutty linguists. Always takling the ambiguity out of things. Not just for slackers: linguist deciphers uses of word 'dude' Dude, I grew up in Nor-Cal. You don't have to tell me abouy the word dude. Though I have particular fondness for the way my friend Rachel, born in Canada and currently living
- [I wish I didn't love you so much.](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-wish-i-didnt-love-you-so-muc/) - As much as I love movies in general, and old movies in particular, you'd think I would have seen it before. For some reason, I've never seen Casablanca. For all the times I've seen the ending or some other key scene, I've never seen the whole thing. Well, finally, someone (Thanks Beano!) dragged me down
- [Too Hard or Too Soft](https://www.moronosphere.com/too-hard-or-too-soft/) - Andie and I decided to try to attempt mother's Peanut Butter Fudge. Fudge attempts so far: Four. Successful results: Zip. Zilch. Nada. Null. None. Goose Egg. We're skunked on fudge. I even picked up a candy thermometer, but due to a mis-read on it, the first two batches were very over-done and set up as
- [Stock](https://www.moronosphere.com/stock/) - No, I'm not talking about IPOs or dotcoms. Nor am I talking livestock. Not taking stock of oneself. I'm talking about cooking. Specifically, one of the most basic, core ingredients; something that goes into almost every sauce, stew, soup. Stock. I cook a lot. Maybe not as much lately, but I go through phases; sometimes
- [I told you not to invite the elf!](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-told-you-not-to-invite-the-e/) - From ImageShack: (Click for animated version) I just love the phrase Titty Bar. (Thanks Rachel!)
- [Java Junkie](https://www.moronosphere.com/java-junkie/) - I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive and it loves me Coffee and tea and the java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup! -- Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Java Jive Hi I'm Karl Elvis,
- [Waiter Rant](https://www.moronosphere.com/waiter-rant/) - Ok, Ray pointed this out and then Andie demanded I read it. Waiter Rant rules. Why oh why do people like Dr. Zamir think it's ok to do the sand-in-the-vaseline trick to thier servers and then ask for special treatment? Special treatment is for special people, and unless you're god or the president or the
- [the last shared parent](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-last-shared-parent/) - I had a long conversation today, with Sam (my surrogate cousin, my imaginary first love, the girl my brother and I used to fight over). I had to tell her, in far too few words and in a conversation broken by lousy cell signals and interrupted by teenage children, about the looming loss of the
- [](https://www.moronosphere.com/6010-2/) - When there is no time for words, pictures. Not my amp, but my guitar.
- [What i've been doing since.](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-ive-been-doing-since/) - It's been a long, long time since I was active as a blogger, and i'm not going to go recap everything in my life since FEBRUARY 7, 2014, the last time I wrote a blog entry (before Brandon's death, which is where it all ended with losing my server). And anyway most of the people
- [All hat, no story](https://www.moronosphere.com/all-hat-no-story/) - I have this dream of writing a western. Not really - you know, a whole novel (because hell if I can finsih anything anymore). BUt at least a short story. In concept, it makes complete sense. My fiction is all tough-guy, man of action, violence, loneliness, and heartbreak. Bikers, cowboiys, private eyes; noir of the
- [Thank you, Ben.](https://www.moronosphere.com/thank-you-ben/) - My friend Ben Prisk just dropped this wonderful thing on my Facebook wall. He's an amazing artist, and an amazing man; I have yet to meet him, but one day soon. I love this drawing. ...And yes, day-after-tomorrow (Thursday) is my birthday.
- [Locked out, but damned sexy.](https://www.moronosphere.com/locked-out-but-damned-sexy/) - I got myself blocked from my own website somehow - I couldn't possibly explain how (because I don't know), but thanks to Brandon, who is a gentleman-and-a-scholar, and keeps this site and many others up and running for vastly inadequate pay, I'm back in and can resume inaction voluntarily, rather than enforced inaction. So there's
- [Skull Ring updates](https://www.moronosphere.com/skull-ring-updates/) - A couple of quick Skull Ring notes. First, Tony Creed has a new site that looks pretty slick. Go visit him at superskull.com! I love Tony's stuff; my first skull ring was my ELVIS LIVES 'riffman'. Tony's still the original badass in the industry and his stuff is stil as cave-man-biker as ever. Second,another favorite
- [Black Horses by Adam Franklin](https://www.moronosphere.com/black-horses-by-adam-franklin/) - I just wanted to push a particular favorite artist of mine, Adam Franklin. Adam was the lead guy in one of my favorite bands of all time, Swervedriver. He's been a significant solo artists for some while, and has released a number of excellent solo albums, both as Adam Franklin as as Toshack Highway He's
- [Dramatic Look Selfie](https://www.moronosphere.com/dramatic-look-selfie/) - Old photo. New treatment. Done with an iPhone app called 'dramatic B&W'. I swear, some day soon, I will start writing again. It's killin' me not writing, but I just can't right now.
- [TCB](https://www.moronosphere.com/tcb/) - New ring from Speakeasy Original. I love this piece.
- [Rabbit in the Moon](https://www.moronosphere.com/rabbit-in-the-moon/) - "The Rabbit in the Moon" - a pendant made by my father. I just found this one while cleaning up my office. I still need to polish it up, but here it is as I found it. Dad made a lot of things like this; it's one of the things I miss about him; his
- [bitter bowl, tasty cup.](https://www.moronosphere.com/bitter-bowl/) - It's called 'Kaepernicking'. I know it's only a fucking game. I get that, ok? But it's my game. I started watching the San Francisco 49ers play football at the perfect moment: early in the 1981 season. I got to see a team that had langusied at the bottom of the stats for some while rise,
- [f-bomb](https://www.moronosphere.com/f-bomb/) - Someone just sent me a note via my contact page suggesting I check out a skull ring by Speakeasy Original. If that was you, please, take credit. Anyway, this caught my eye. Love it - the F-Bomb. They have several other really good pieces, I recommend you check 'em out.
- [australopithecus skull from MT Maloney](https://www.moronosphere.com/5730-2/) - Here's a new ring my friend MT Maloney just put up. It's a 'caveman' (australopithecus) skull. It's brilliant. I want it. See it here.
- [Thin White Rope: "It's OK" 1992 Live Performance in Ghent, Belgium.](https://www.moronosphere.com/thin-white-rope-its-ok-1992-live-performance-in-ghent-belgium/) - [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VzUzKV_h-Y&w=480&h=360] Possibly the greatest band ever.
- [Skull gang](https://www.moronosphere.com/skull-gang/) - The Motörhead rings in the front are my latest, from Great Frog. Behind that are a several of my daily wear rings, from the MT Maloney, Deadringer, Tony Creed, Sinners inc, and Courts and Hackett - links are in the left side bar to all these. shot with my iPhone 5, processed with 'be funky
- [blogiversary 2013](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogiversary-2013/) - Wow. Nine years ago, I started this blog. That's an incredibly long time in internet years. I kind of want to load my posting data into a grapher to see how my posting frequency curve goes. From frequent to really really frequent, and then a long slide into almost-never. I bet you could lay that
- [In half moon bay](https://www.moronosphere.com/in-half-moon-bay/) - Me, shooting in Half Moon Bay, CA, Nov 1. This pic was shot with an iPhone 4s, actual photos from the shoot may get posted later when I get time to cull.
- [finally un-broken](https://www.moronosphere.com/finally-un-broken/) - My blog's been broken for some number of weeks or months, due to some stupidity of my own (removing the .htaccess file without making a copy of it first). Nobody noticed. Still, I un-broke it for now, and will shortly be back to posting nothing but pics and the occasional promise the wrote more. Or
- [Hysterical Literature: Session One: Stoya](https://www.moronosphere.com/hysterical-literature-session-one-stoya/) - This is absolutely incredible. And now I'm in love with Stoya. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQuT-Xfyk3o] Sound is increasingly NSFW as it goes on; use headphones. Props to my dream-girl Chelsea Summers for sending me links to this. I love you, baby!
- [That's how it starts.](https://www.moronosphere.com/thats-how-it-starts/) - It's been a long time wince I've really WRITTEN something. Not some cute pics of my kids, or pix of how sexy I am with muscles and scary facial hair, or arty photos of some rock or rusty tractor. I mean actually write. I used to write about politics - about how
- [let's be survivors, they'll never find us](https://www.moronosphere.com/lets-be-survivors-theyll-never-find-us/) - "let's be survivors, they'll never find us, It's all behind us, I know a place they've never been" [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Jfq0CE3fU&w=560&h=315] bill nelson and the gentlemen rocketeers, live, 2011. Christ this is great.
- [I'd prefer to be here.](https://www.moronosphere.com/id-prefer-to-be-here/) - Near Near Moʻokini Heiau, Big ISland of Hawaii.
- [Skull Keys](https://www.moronosphere.com/skull-keys/) - Chris Jercha of Guilded Splinters, skull ring by my friends Courts and Hackett.
- [all new, not at all different](https://www.moronosphere.com/all-new-not-at-all-different/) - Welcome to the all new, not at all different Moronosphere. I finally got fed up with Six Apart's ineptitude with Movable Type and gave in to the dark side. This blog is now driving my WordPress. Thanks, AAG. Please leave a comment just so I know someone other than stupid 'bots is still reading.
- [missed a blogiversary, I see](https://www.moronosphere.com/missed-a-blogiversary-i-see/) - Maybe this explains why I've missed a blog anniversary; my eyes ain't what they used to be.
- [Rear View](https://www.moronosphere.com/rear-view/) - New mirrors on the Thruxton, from Joker Machine. ..yeah, yeah, I know, you were hoping for a different rear view.
- [new toy](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-toy/) - I just picked up a new camera and wanted to try a similar self-portrait to this one. I'm still getting to know this camera - it still feels like I'm fighting it. But once I get out and shoot something other than test shots of myself and the bird, that should change quickly. I'm waffling
- [Harley Parts](https://www.moronosphere.com/harley-parts/) - Custom work by Extreme Custom Engraving The first two are the derby cover, full custom. The third - the points cover - is a stock item, referencing the iconic wallet from Pulp Fiction.
- [Where I'd rather be](https://www.moronosphere.com/ocean-view/) - Vashon Island, WA. Facing southwest. The green-roofed house in the background is where I was staying.
- [Biker Pose](https://www.moronosphere.com/biker-pose/) - My friend Rick's comment on this photo: "Sons of Atherton". Which I kind of liked, despite the sarcasm.
- [Hog.](https://www.moronosphere.com/hog/) - My new ride - 2008 FXDB 'Street Bob' See a couple more shots from the dealer's web side here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/karlelvis/5934551594/ When I was a kid, my Aunt Penny used to date a biker, a guy in some bike club vaguely connected to the Hell's Angels. His truck as always full of harley parts, and his
- [Sally's Song by Artemesia Black](https://www.moronosphere.com/sallys-song/) - Sally's Song by Artemesia Black.
- [Sisters](https://www.moronosphere.com/sisters/) - Ruby Lucille MacRae and Olivia MacRae.
- [Francis Rae](https://www.moronosphere.com/francis-rae/) - Sabine Heusler of Artemesia Black
- [Eye Flute](https://www.moronosphere.com/eye-flute/) - My friend Kenny Shick, at Picchetti Winery in Cupertino, CA.
- [Fiddle Head](https://www.moronosphere.com/fiddle-head/) - Shot at Picchetti Winery in the hills above Cupertino, CA. The cello belongs to my friend David Sierra, who plays stand-up bass (and cello, of course) for Artemesia Black. More photos from this gig can be seen on my flickr page.
- [love and rage](https://www.moronosphere.com/love-and-rage/) - It's been a long time. SInce I fell in love with - with her? With it? I don't know if it was a person -- a real flesh-and-blood person, a dream person, or just someone I made up. BUt I fell in love in a way that changed my life. Or maybe it wasn't a
- [Vox and IPA](https://www.moronosphere.com/vox-and-ipa/) - Shot at Sam's Chowder House in Half Moon Bay, CA, May 8. An impromptu gig by my friends Guilded Splinters. The foot, beer, and wah-wah pedal belong to Kenny Shick.
- [Are You Blueish?](https://www.moronosphere.com/are-you-blueish/) - I'm kind of a sucker for self-portraits. I even love those cheesy sexy-teen-girl-self-shooting-in-filthy-bathroom-mirror ones; the more awkward, the better. Here's an experiment with odd available lighting; a blue compact florescent 'party bulb' i had laying around since Xmas. I had the thing in a 6 foot tall brass torchiere lamp, so I wound up holding
- [new favorite artist  - Christoph Mueller](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-favorite-artist-christoph-mueller/) - Last June I picked up an amazing t-shirt after following a link from Boing Boing. Not so much because I'm into cigar box guitars (sure, i love 'em, but i don't play well enough to need to own one), but because the design blew me away. It's my of my favorite t-shirts. My friend Cuddy
- [Night's Burden](https://www.moronosphere.com/nights-burden/) - sigma 30mm �1.4 Manual focus Lit with a Phillips 3w LED lightbub
- [Noir Bird](https://www.moronosphere.com/noir-bird/) - This was really just a test of the new version (v2.0) of Nik Silver EFEX Pro plugin, but it came out pretty well. Camera Panasonic DMC-G2 Lens Lumix G Vario 45-200mm Exposure 0.006 sec (1/160) Aperture f/5.6 Focal Length 189 mm ISO Speed 100 Model Elphie (my friend Deborah describe Elphie as my muse. She's
- [Cemetery Mushroom](https://www.moronosphere.com/cemetery-mushroom/) - p
- [Midnight self-portrait](https://www.moronosphere.com/kidnight-self-portrait/) - I took this the other night, one of a series of shots I took without looking at what I was shooting. Most of the set were throwaways, but this one, I like. Shot with 20 mm f/1.7 'pancake' lens, iso 100, with built-in flash dialed down to its lowest intensity. Yes, I was entirely naked
- [First rock show](https://www.moronosphere.com/first-rock-show/)
- [Finite Regression](https://www.moronosphere.com/finite-regression/) - Karl shoots Ken shoots Dave - a finite regression.
- [Lost Dummy](https://www.moronosphere.com/lost-dummy/) - Taken recently at Hakone Gardens. Lens: Lumix 20mm f1.7 ASPH "pancake" Aperture f/2.8 No color correction, this one just came out looking b&w.
- [Paddlefish](https://www.moronosphere.com/paddlefish/)
- [Singer-Songwriter](https://www.moronosphere.com/singer-songwriter/) - My friend Kenny, Red Rock Coffee, MT View CA, 1/29/2011
- [on pictures being 1K*WORDS](https://www.moronosphere.com/on-pictures-being-1kwords/) - Suddenly, it's a picture blog, instead of one made up of words. Is that what happens when one's been blogging for seven years? Maybe so; maybe the economy factor (the 1k multiplier) necessitates that, when one is capable of only minimal words, one let images speak. Or maybe I just got a new camera. Yeah,
- [Blogiversary 2011](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogiversary-2011/) - Wow, it's kind of hard to belive I've been blogging for seven years. That's several eternity's in internet fad years. Blogging, as a cultural phenomenon, is more or less over. Yes, there are still many, many blogs, and some of them are very good, and very important (PZ Myers, for example); but those blogs have
- [Worth Two in the Bush](https://www.moronosphere.com/worth-two-in-the-bush/)
- [mirrorshades](https://www.moronosphere.com/mirrorshades/) - My friend Chris Jercha, lead guitarist for Guilded Splinters, a funk/soul/r&b band from San Jose. This was thier first real gig, at the Poorhouse Bistro on 1/8/11.
- [Thousand Yard Stare](https://www.moronosphere.com/thousand-yard-stare/) - I got my new camera yesterday, and was practicing shooting with different settings. The bird is a great subject - she's all texture and color, is always moving, and is pretty much constantly doing something funny or cute. It's only good luck that this shot happened to have that life's thousand yard stare, but I
- [Steampunk Aquarium](https://www.moronosphere.com/steampunk-aquarium/) - (click to embiggen) Shot at Monterey Bay Aquarium, saturday 1/1/2011, with my daughter's Lumix FH20 on 'film grain' setting. No retouching done afterward. This is an original steam boiler from the cannery era, similar to the one that would have driven the old Hovden Cannery that houses the original part of the aquarium.
- [My Planet Needs Me](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-planet-needs-me/) - Sometimes one just has to make lulz.
- [better sir?](https://www.moronosphere.com/better-sir/) - I'm trying to recall the last time i wrote anything. Wow, I can't. I sort of want to blame facebook. Just because I hate facebook so much that it seems like a good thing to blame. My updates are all there, I want to say. And on twitter. Only it's not true. I don't update
- [I remember when I used to be a blogger](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-remember-when-i-used-to-be-a-blogger/) - I remember when I used to be a blogger, rather than a guy who occasionally updates web pages. It was a long time ago, wasn't it? I can't even find a good way to graph my blogging frequency anymore. I know it used to be daily, and then several weekly, and then once in a
- [Elphaba loves her stick](https://www.moronosphere.com/elphaba-loves-her-stick/) - My daughter's bird loves her popsicle stick. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBhIKsV1jWY&fs=1&hl=en_US]
- [Look at your god, now back to me.](https://www.moronosphere.com/look-at-your-god-now-back-to-me/) - This is so brilliant I can barely stand it. (video after the cut) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc90UhV6hJA&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1]
- [Casket of Silver](https://www.moronosphere.com/casket-of-silver/) - WIth great delight, I received a package last week my from friends Mark and Stephen at Deadringer, NZ. This is the first time I've gotten the full treatment - the custom carved casket. Mark asked me what I wanted carved in the casket. Just have fun with it, I said. Do whatever you feel inspired
- [Kinky BDSM Dominants playing cards](https://www.moronosphere.com/kinky-bdsm-dominants-playing-cards/) - This isn't me. I swear though, it could have been. (video after the cut) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyP4pgxaL9w&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1] That there is an example of why I should never date or marry other doms.
- [From the workbenck of MT Malony](https://www.moronosphere.com/from-the-workbenck-of-mt-malony/) - I just ran across a great blog by jeweler MT Maloney. His web site is here - alas all in flash, which I hate, but nevermind, it's a good looking site with some good looking jewelry. I have not yet seen any of his work first hand, but I'm really enjoying seeing his creative process
- [Thruxton mods: Emgo Viper fairing](https://www.moronosphere.com/thruxton-mods-emgo-viper-fairing/) - Here's my first significant attempt at customization on my Thruxton. (I'm trying a MobileMe embed here, it should be a slide show, let me know if it isn't). (Click to go to full-size photos) After a ton of research and a ton of over-thinking, I finally pulled the trigger and ordered a fairing for my
- [Season's End](https://www.moronosphere.com/seasons-end/) - God, i hate it when hockey season ends. Used to be, I was a football guy. BAseball I didn't care about either way; I'd watch it, I liked a good game live, but it didn't matter. Basketball bored me to tears, and soccer more so. Hockey was one of those games I wanted to like,
- [It's epic. It's detailed. It's devastating. And it's hilarious](https://www.moronosphere.com/its-epic-its-detailed-its-devastating-and-its-hilarious/) - There are way too many sites talking about this, really, and I kind of hate to put sex-toy retailer and all-round bullshit artists Eden Fantasies MORE into the spotlight. But you know, this shit's just too good. If you're not following, Bacchus at ErosBlog gives a great summary. Even better is the post that stirred
- [corporate cube shuffle](https://www.moronosphere.com/corporate-cube-shuffle/) - One of the funny things that tech corporations do a lot of is shuffle people from bldg to bldg. I've been in tech since tech was new, so of course, I've done a hell of a lot of this. I've even done the moves myself, when I worked for a startup in this dim and
- [our story thus far](https://www.moronosphere.com/our-story-thus-far/) - I've been watching the new Doctor Who episodes. You know the one; season 5, 11th doctor. Matt Smith and Karen Gillian. If you don't know what I'm talking about, nevermind; you're not one of us, skip this entry. These episodes are several weeks behind in the US; in Britain they've been playing weekly since 3
- [The Elevnth Hour](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-elevnth-hour/) - I just watch the first episode of Matt Smith era Doctor who, The Eleventh Hour. In a word - excellent. I blogged recently about discovering the Russell T. Davis/Christopher Eccleston/David Tennant version of Doctor who. I happened to come in at the tail end of the run, so I had the pleasant ability to watch
- [easter beast](https://www.moronosphere.com/easter-beast/) - I have a particular problem with easter. Oh, long time readers will know I have problems with several holiday. One might take this all to mean I'm just a sort of joyless, curmudgeonly bastard. And I guess that's a little right. But generally my objections have more to do with the general pointlessness of american
- [backpiece: eleventh session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-eleventh-session/) - One mariner's dolphin done, one to go. We have two last sessions more and then i'm DONE. (click to embiggen)
- [Belladonna and Fetish skulls](https://www.moronosphere.com/belladonna-and-fetish-skulls/) - It's been a while since I've talked about my friend Juilan Lamb's work. Julian's company, Ruby Crush, makes some distinctive and creative jewelry. But as with many creative people, he's lacked a good web presence. His original site was updated once and then left. Recently though, he's started over; new site, new blog, and to
- [The Piston Ring](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-piston-ring/) - I have to share these photos of Carlos' new piston ring, customized for celebrity chef Guy Fieri. More details over in Dora's Guy Fieri Blog. Carlos is such an awesome guy; I really want one of everything he makes. I wear his spade ring every day, and he recently gifted me with a prototype of
- [The muse of distraction](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-muse-of-distraction/) - My head's been in a strange place of late. While my shoulder heals well ahead of schedule, my sleep still falls victim to it's ache. My normal sleep habits - a mess at the best of times - are now completely fractured. It's no secret that I've been had hell's own time writing recently, to
- [time lord victorious](https://www.moronosphere.com/time-lord-victorious/) - My friend Kyle just started a blog. He gets extra props for an excellent title. He's short of readers. Go give him some lovin'. http://timelordvictorious.blogspot.com/
- [I don't know anything](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-dont-know-anything/) - One of those Gurus songs I've never really payed attention to. Damn, what a great song. I Don't Know Anything - Hoodoo... I've got a lot to learn And bridges that I still have not burned. UntiI I find a way I'll only end up back where I am today but I don't know anything,
- [the polynesian tattoo](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-polynesian-tattoo/) - My friend Tricia Allen has a new web site (finally). She's the tattooist who did most of my Polynesian work, and is, I think, one of the world's leading experts on Polynesian tattooing. Go check out the new site at ThePolynesianTattoo.com (that's not Tricia, but it is some of her work)
- [Gangster Grandparents](https://www.moronosphere.com/gangster-grandparents/) - Chuck and Cookie Dillingham, circa 1927. My grandparents on my mother's side. (click to embiggen) He was from southern Oklahoma. She was a daddy's girl from Sherman Texas; her name was Hazel, though I never once heard her called anything but Cookie. They were drinkers, card players. She was a flapper with temper - he
- [backpiece: tenth session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-tenth-session/) - Session ten. Three more sessions to go - I have the last three booked.
- [when did sex become a controlled substance  - first try](https://www.moronosphere.com/when-did-sex-become-a-controlled-substance/) - I wrote this (though I never quite finished it) back in mid '08 when David Duchovny started mumbling nonsense about Sex Addiction. It sort of stopped feeling timely, so I didn't quite put the finish on it. But recently I ran across this on ErosBlog: I've long been hostile to the idea of "sex addiction"
- [those who can't, teach](https://www.moronosphere.com/those-who-cant-teach/) - One of the things that tells you how well you know a thing, is to teach that thing. I didn't really ever learn how to write, not in a classroom sense. Oh, I've taken english classes, but writing was something that sort of happened to me, not something I actually planned to do. I learned
- [Cleared to resume](https://www.moronosphere.com/cleared-to-resume/) - I kind of want to write something erotic and edgy, full of nameless back-alley couplings, violent, passionate encounters, or stolen moments in dark smokey bars. Unfortunately, I keep getting disrupted by things like severe lack of sleep the last four weeks. Supposedly, I'm still healing incredibly well; my doctor cleared me today to start working
- [Are you with me Doctor?](https://www.moronosphere.com/are-you-with-me-doctor/) - There's a Steely Dan song - Doctor Wu. As is typical of Steely Dan songs, it's about drugs, though it could also be about romance, or about something else entirely; The lyrics are elliptical, yet evocative. It makes you wonder what story is being told. Are you with me Doctor Wu? Are you really just
- [My Shoulder](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-shoulder/) - I kind of had this plan to blog my way through my surgery this week. I kind of think that was over-optomistic, considering a) I haven't been blogging at all most of the last year and b) I haven't really had much use of my left arm. I didn't quite get there; best I managed
- [what the hell is wrong with Dexter?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-dexter/) - Watch out, there be spoilers ahead . Ok, caveate: I think Dexter has always been vastly over-rated. It's one of those 'emperors-new-clothes' deals - has a rep for being all sorts of things it isn't, like great, edgy, dark. They've somehow created the aura of these things without ever having to actually deliver. But Dexter
- [backpiece: ninth session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-ninth-session/) - The formatting on this entry is fucked up, I'll fix it a bit later when I have a moment.
- [Gary Rocks on Keith Richards skull ring](https://www.moronosphere.com/gary-rocks-on-keith-richards-skull-ring/) - Gary at GARY ROCKS has a great writeup on Keith Richards C&H skull ring. Over the past 30 years Keith Richards silver skull ring has taken on its own mythology and iconic status. The most famous ring in the world has come to signify not only Keith Richards the man - seen wearing it at
- [Courts and Hackett graphics](https://www.moronosphere.com/courts-and-hackett-graphics/) - I just ran across these on the Courts and Hackett blog. They're fucking fantastic. I love my Courts and Hackett ring SO much.
- [Symphony of Science - Our Place in the Cosmos](https://www.moronosphere.com/symphony-of-science-our-place-in-the-cosmos/) - One more from the brilliant John Boswell at Symphony of Science. This one features a chorus by Richard Dawkins. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioZf4TjoUI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1]
- [When I fall I drive the hearse](https://www.moronosphere.com/when-i-fall-i-drive-the-hearse/) - I fucking love Porcupine Tree. And silence is another way Of saying what I wanna say And lying is another way Of hoping it will go away And you were always my mistake... Play 'I drive the hearse' here: (let me know if you can't play that, it should pop up with a quicktime music
- [RIP, one year later](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-year-ago-this-week-my-mother-died-1/) - One year ago tonight, my mother died. It feels like many times longer than that; the only reason I'm certain it was only a year is by checking the death certificate. This last year has been so absolutely brim full of business that I feel like I haven't caught my breath but once or twice
- [worst october since last october](https://www.moronosphere.com/worst-october-since-last-october/) - So here's how it's been the last month or so. First, about a month ago, Barb had to go in for abdominal surgery - a long story, which maybe I'll tell much later. The short version is that the surgery was more complicated than planned, lasted twice as long as planned, and had a much
- [one damned thing after another](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-damned-thing-after-another/) - I have, I'm not kidding, five entries sitting in draft state that I'm almost done with. But trivial time suck keeps eating my final touch ups. The latest one; a reminiscence about my fondness for pulp writers, interrupted by the need to go buy pet supplies. My war against the ants, nearly won, has moved
- [Kraken are the New Vampires](https://www.moronosphere.com/kraken-are-the-new-vampires/) - I haz crush on on maggie stiefvater. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwM6uoQAh50&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1]
- [blog like no one's reading](https://www.moronosphere.com/blog-like-no-ones-reading/) - I was helping out a friend of mine the other night - a blogger who's stopped blogging but wants to start again (i'll leave the question of exactly who that is open, in case he doesn't actually get so far as starting). While working on importing his entries into a current movable type install, I
- [I still smell like you (in progress)](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-still-smell-like-you-in-progress/) - A short story in progress. This is as far as I am, and now I'm at that point where I have to choose between endings before I go on; the complicated one that'll turn this into a novella, or the easy one that'll leave it a reasonable length. *shrug* I've done a first pass edit
- [backpiece: seventh session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-seventh-session/) - Anyone who's ever gotten a 'tramp stamp'; I feel for you. This hurts. (ok, my sympathy does not preclude me taking erotic interest in your pain)
- [I still smell like you (first chapter)](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-still-smell-like-you-first-chapter/) - This is the first chapter of a short story I'm working on. Very raw, no re-working yet, but just because it's the first thing I've had to post in ages. * * * * * * * * * * My phone made an anemic beep in my back pocket. I still smell like you,
- [We could walk for ever](https://www.moronosphere.com/we-could-walk-for-ever/) - Forty years ago today, I sat in my family's living room in San Jose, watching ghostly black-and-white images and listening to a message from as far away as any message ever delivered by a human voice. The little things are what I remember; the furniture, where the tv sat. The color of the drapes. And
- [backpiece: sixth session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-sixth-session/) - Sixth session. Shading is almost done, color is starting to enter the picture. I actually had no clue what this looked like til I got this picture, I couldn't get a good angle even with a mirror. Click to embiggen.
- [cobwebs and biomechanics](https://www.moronosphere.com/cobwebs-and-biomechanics/) - I've had my share of hallucinations in my time. Both the pure-fatigue type (which consist mainly of non-persistent but repeating peripheral visions), and the chemically induced type which can be persistent, but also include a distinct muzzy-headedness, and often don't repeat. Last night, though, I experienced a wholly unexpected side effect of a medication i
- [I don't belive in writer's block, Neil Gaiman said](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-dont-belive-in-writers-block-neil-gaiman-said/) - "I don't belive in writer's block", Neil Gaiman said. "I belive that what writers get, is 'stuck'." "Writers, you see, are very good at convincing people of things. What that means is that when they get stuck, they prefer something grand and dramatic; 'I have writers block' sounds very much better that 'I'm stuck'." The
- [the things we do](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-things-we-do/) - This is what happens when you drink with videographers. You get your beach house weekend turned into a music video. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp_QvObmulo&hl=en&fs=1&] This was a long weekend in Dillion Beach, CA; four couples, three children, seven cameras, 20 bottles of wine, fifty oysters, many cases of beer, and no internet connection of cell phones. It
- [knowing the question](https://www.moronosphere.com/knowing-the-question/) - That last entry was kind of grim, huh? I know I've written something grim when no one comments, but but I get email from loved ones saying "are you ok" or "I'm worried about you". The downside of tranks (which I just adore), is that there's a bit of a crash on the tail end.
- [time and burnout](https://www.moronosphere.com/time-and-burnout/) - I think one of the reasons I haven't be blogging lately is that I feel like a broken record. No time, fatigue, stress, burnout, beat until frothy and place in 350 degree oven. I get tired of saying it. There are few thing in the world a hate like I hate self-pity. Those who put
- [backpiece: fifth session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-fifth-session/) - The eagle, as they say, has landed. Fifth session: I was a little hung over today (man, what a party that was last night), so we made this a short session. Just the shading on the eagle. The only thing left to shade is the ship, and then we're ready to start coloring. That should
- [done now, kthxby](https://www.moronosphere.com/done-now-kthxby/) - Holy shit it's been a week. This is almost entirely work stuff, so of course I can't talk about details; you know how my employer is about details. But it's been the kind of week that phrase like 'for fuck's sake' were invented for. I've reached the point where I'm jumpy and flinching every time
- [Join or Die](https://www.moronosphere.com/join-or-die/) - I think I'm in love with Justine Lai. This is a bit of her 'Join or Die' series. In her words: "In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and
- [cure for pain](https://www.moronosphere.com/cure-for-pain/) - God I love morphine. Look how fucked up Mark Sandman is. (video after the cut) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=985JGeGq_tc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1]
- [backpiece: third session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-third-session/) - We're starting to work on detail and shading. This gives a better idea of what this will look like when we're done. The difference between shaded and un-shaded is striking.
- [my father's voice](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-fathers-voice/) - My relationship with my father was deeply immature. By that I do not mean that either one of us individually was immature; though in fact we were, both of us. I moved out, for all intents and purposes, when I was sixteen; living most of the time at a girlfriend's house. When I was home,
- [RIP, PJF](https://www.moronosphere.com/rip-pjf/) - Philip José Farmer, one of sci fi's great minds, is gone (see entry on him in BoingBoing). Damn. I shed a tear. PJF was one of the writers who turned me on to the genre. Not just to what sci fi was, but what it could do and where it could go. WHen I discovered
- [backpiece: second session](https://www.moronosphere.com/backpiece-second-session/) - I wound up having to re-schedule my planned surgery (it'll be pushed out a month or so). Which means I was able to get my second tattoo appointment in after all (luckily, Klem hadn't filled it). Hence, second session. Outline is done; next time, we start on adding details (scales on the mermaids, more detail
- [Courts and Hackett ring released](https://www.moronosphere.com/courts-and-hackett-ring-released/) - I can finally post pictures; David just emailed me and let me know the wait's over. The Courts and Hackett 'Keith Richards Death Head RIng' is available for purchase at courtsandhackett.com Here's the ring on my hand, New Year's eve. This thing is heavy. It's solid. It's the biggest skull ring I own. And it's
- [not for three weeks](https://www.moronosphere.com/not-for-three-weeks/) - I had these plans to post additional pictures for two of my last posts; better pix of the Thurxton, and of course, new pictures of my back once it was healed up. Clearly we're still waiting. My back is, to the best of my ability to tell, completely healed. Which means it's time for more
- [back to back](https://www.moronosphere.com/back-to-back/) - I feel like I should be writing about the 'new era' ushered in today, with Obama's inauguration. Or maybe about the end of blackest era in american politics since McCarthyism. About how history must remember George W Bush as what he is, the worst president in american history, at least in terms of negative effects
- [two wheels good](https://www.moronosphere.com/two-wheels-good/) - I just put a deposit on a new motorcycle. After looking at, and sitting on, and considering everything from retro-clasic ducatis to harley sportsters to street-fighter yamahas, kawasakis and suzukis, I fell back to a motorcycle that really, truly looks like a motorcycle. I'm buying another triumph. My last bike was a triumph as well.
- [not just machines](https://www.moronosphere.com/not-just-machines/) - It's funny, I almost never get emotional over selling cars. While I bond to them well enough, I don't name them, don't spend hours and dollars customizing them to a fast degree. But there are those I connect to. My jeep - I felt a deep pang of wrongness when I drove away from the
- [bad wing](https://www.moronosphere.com/bad-wing/) - Looks like I need surgery on my left shoulder. You know, the one with the flower tattoos, not the one with the swirly black tribal ones. This shoulder has given my trouble ever since I took up weight lifting ten years ago, and eventually it got bad enough that I pretty much gave up weight
- [what happened to the last year?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-happened-to-the-last-year/) - I don't know what happened to the last year. I looked around last night at holiday decorations and wrapped gifts and thought, it seems only a month or two back that I was cleaning up the detritus of opened gifts. I can't remember where my year went. I can't think of anything I did without
- [mouse time](https://www.moronosphere.com/mouse-time/) - It's not the three-weeks-on-a-tropical-island I need. Or the live-on-a-sailboat-with-a-beautiful-girl I keep dreaming about. But it's better than being at work. Tomorrow I'm taking the family down to visit the mouse, braving bone-chilling (for SO Cal) temperatures and holiday crowds. Early December is one of the best times of the year to visit Disneyland; the park
- [Whatever happened to my ukulele](https://www.moronosphere.com/whatever-happened-to-my-ukulele/) - This is a fabulous cover of BRMC's 'Whatever Happen to my Rock and Roll', on ukulele. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15e_qI9rvVk&hl=en&fs=1] Here's the original for reference, for those who don't know. (props to Syl for the link)
- [Can't Afford the Freeway](https://www.moronosphere.com/cant-afford-the-freeway/) - This is a cover of Aimee Man's Freeway by my friend Kenny. There's a longer story about this cover, which you can follow on Kenny's mySpace blog. In short Aimee held a contest - make a video of yourself covering this song. Ken's entry is here (make sure you wait for the out takes at
- [birthdays and burials](https://www.moronosphere.com/birthdays-and-burials/) - Some years I like to do something social for my birthday. When I turned forty, we rented an entire bar, and danced to funky tunes while drinking 'chocolate cake' cocktails. Some years I'd rather do something solitary; two years ago I spent my birthday diving on the big island. This year, I did something that
- [Another foot in in the grave](https://www.moronosphere.com/another-foot-in-in-the-grave/) - My friends at Pirates n' Plunder sent me this on mySpace. I kind of liked it.
- [What are you doing for Thanksgiving?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-are-you-doing-for-thanksgiving/) - I have no will or energy for cooking, so we started calling in a radius out from my home to find a fun place to eat. God knows the family needs festival this year. The good thing is, we found something close. The bad thing is, I think I could buy a new motorcycle for
- [more blog hackery](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-blog-hackery/) - Typically, when I want to be blogging and run out of words, I start fucking around with the technology that drives my blog. Which accounts for the several different templates I had up tonight, in case anyone was watching. And trust me, it looked pretty damn fucked up for a bit there. One of the
- [New Look and Feel](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-look-and-feel/) - Yes, I know this space looks weird and green. At least, it will as soon as your browser refreshes the stylesheet (shift-reload to force that). It's an unfortunate truth that while Six Apart make great software, they utterly suck at backwards compatability. So again I've abandoned my custom design temporarily for something off the shelf. That'll get
- [phantom](https://www.moronosphere.com/phantom/) - I had a dream the other night, about a girl I used to know. Not a girl I know in real life, but perhaps a composite of many. But in the reality of my dream, we had long history. We were sitting someplace - a bar, or coffee house. For some reason we were smoking;
- [mom's house](https://www.moronosphere.com/moms-house/) - I keep thinking of things I need to write about, since the whole 'mom' episode has begun to settle into dust - pardon my pun. About the process of planning burials (fire!), about how odd it must be to work in that industry. About reading a certificate that describes the end of a loved one's
- [impending upgrade](https://www.moronosphere.com/impending-upgrade/) - Sometime in the next week or so I'm planning to update this site to the latest version of Movable Type Pro. As usual, this means I need to blow away all my designs and templates, because the idiots at Six Apart don't grasp backwards compatibility. However, they have enough great new features that, once again,
- [how'm I doin'](https://www.moronosphere.com/howm-i-doin/) - One week ago about this time, I was in a hospital room, slowly dialing up the morphine drip and watching my mother suck irregular, shallow breaths. Thee hours later I drove home and collapsed in sheer exhaustion. Six am last sunday, I woke suddenly, worrying my phone was still in silent, that I might have
- [19/20](https://www.moronosphere.com/1920-2/) - Tattoo for mom. Read this entry for the reference. I considered various things, but mom didn't want a fuss made over anything. Never remembered her birthday, never wanted gifts. No damned nonsense. So here it is. As simple as I could make it. And I think it would make her laugh.
- [death watch](https://www.moronosphere.com/death-watch/) - Tonight I took my mother off respiration and dialed her morphine up 'til she went out. She roused a few times. Once she asked if it was ok to pee right there in her diaper. Another time she asked for water, and then said, sleepily, that she was happy, floating away on the earth. The
- [ICU](https://www.moronosphere.com/untitled/) - This is starting to feel like a death watch. My mother is getting moved up to an intensive care unit. Her breathing is declining; co2 is building up in her blood. They're putting her on a cpap machine, but odds are she won't tolerate it well (anxiety). The next step is a ventilator, and obviously,
- [update on my mother](https://www.moronosphere.com/update-on-my-mother/) - I tried to post this update from work a couple of days ago and wasn't able to finish. And of course there it sits on my work computer, which for some reason I'm not able to get into. So again from scratch. I've posted fragments about my mother's decline. In short, she's 80, has severe
- [a dark age nears its end](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-dark-age-nears-its-end/) - America's fraud-in-chief is finally gone, eight years after he stole a presidency he never won. Eight years too late, with a legacy of death, tragedy, hatred, and economic ruin, we walks away a free man. History will remember him - because we must not be tempted to forget - as one of the worst disasters
- [Vote No on Proposition 8](https://www.moronosphere.com/vote-no-on-proposition-8/) - Get out and vote. Your voting stub is your bitching licenses; if you're not making a move for change, you're outside the process, and you got no business bitching about how it all comes out. I know I have readers outside the US; and sure this isn't your fight. Still, your friends over here need
- [No Kobayashi Maru](https://www.moronosphere.com/no-kobayashi-maru/) - Today in a school conference for my older daughter, one of her teachers said 'she seems a little stressed'. This stands out, because more typically, teachers say things like 'I wish I had a a whole class like her'. I explained to the teacher a bit about the current events regarding my mother The fact
- [Keith Olbermann gives good rant](https://www.moronosphere.com/keith-olbermann-gives-good-rant/) - This is a truly beautiful rant. It's long-ish but worth listening to every second (after teh cut so save having to load it every time you hit this page) (Thanks to Chelsea for forwarding that to me)
- [Lizard People](https://www.moronosphere.com/lizard-people/) - I submitted this to pundit kitchen. They have not yet posted it, but god knows they should.
- [talk to your parents about voting mccain](https://www.moronosphere.com/talk-to-your-parents-about-voting-mccain/) - IT's funny, because it's true. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxvHkFLmqRk&hl=en&fs=1]
- [outage](https://www.moronosphere.com/outage-1/) - We had a server problem last night and this morning, so moronosphere.com come was down. Let me know if any mail sent to me bounced back to you. Meanwhile, all looks well now.
- [Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book](https://www.moronosphere.com/neil-gaimans-graveyard-book/) - Cory just posted this on BoingBoing: Last week, I wrote about Neil Gaiman's video book-tour for his new young adult novel, The Graveyard Book. Gaiman read a different chapter at each day's tour-stop, and videos of the readings were posted, in sequence, to a website, so that you could follow along and hear Gaiman (a
- [i can't even think of a title](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-cant-even-think-of-a-title/) - I keep meaning to write something long about this because it's a topic that needs to be addressed in depth. The short version is that I'm in an utter funk right now because my elderly mother is is a state of decline and I'm fighting kaiser to get her taken care of, AND fighting my
- [Mystic Pig back in print](https://www.moronosphere.com/mystic-pig-back-in-print/) - This was just posted in the comments in Hiromi's blog, by Jon Gifford of Oleander Press: I just wanted you to know that Richard Katrovas' Mystic Pig is available again as of today [actually amazon USA isn't shipping it, but Amazon UK is taking pre-orders]. At the beginning of last year I came across an
- [Redneck Advertising](https://www.moronosphere.com/redneck-advertising-uploader-extra-frenulum-2-videos-200-fans-6-faves-luke-felson-relatedby-extra-f/) - Don't watch at work. And REALLY don't forward to your co workers. This is an HR nightmare. See more funny videos at Funny or Die
- [heros: season 3](https://www.moronosphere.com/heros-season-3/) - I'm stealing my daughter's one line review of Heros, season 3. "Epic Fail." You can't nail it more precisely than that.
- [new favorite band:  Portico Quartet](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-favorite-band-portico-quartet/) - I just ran across mention of these guys on BoingBoing. - Portico Quartet. I think they're incredibly fabulous. They're a jazz group with latin and vaguely middle-eastern/indonesian influences. The most distinctive thing about their sound is the use of a hang, a sort of steel-drum-meets-gemelan-meets-flying-saucer. One day after finding them, they're at the top of
- [Kenny in New York](https://www.moronosphere.com/kenny-in-new-york/) - My friend Kenny - the guy whose name is actually tattooed under my tattoo (I think that makes us some fucked up kind of brothers), is in New York next week. Words fail me for how much he'd love to have people who've heard of him come to these shows. Kenny plays a very personal
- [New Home](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-home/) - If you're reading this it means you've found the new, and not-at-all-improved, version of moronosphere.com. Lucky you. If anything seems broken let me know; all we did was swap hardware, so everything should be identical.
- [fall migration](https://www.moronosphere.com/fall-migration/) - I'm working on moving all the domains I host to a new server. This isn't helped much by the fact that that company that physically maintains our hardware fucked up the machine and had to wipe and re-do it, after I'd moved half my domains. But in any case, I'm down to the hard ones,
- [from my sad kermit period](https://www.moronosphere.com/from-my-sad-kermit-period/) - My friend Pink made this for (of?) me. It suits my Sad Kermit phase.
- [mo'c'bell](https://www.moronosphere.com/mocbell/) - This is funny in a fucked up pointless way: (via BoingBoing) MoreCowbell.dj is a little Flash app that takes in any MP3, analyses it, and adds rhythmic cowbell and Christopher Walken samples, thus vastly improving it. I didn't get it to work as far as uploading my own song, but click a couple. They're worth
- [Shake, Rattle and Roll](https://www.moronosphere.com/shake-rattle-and-roll/) - Ok, here's the new Koolknobs shift knob in place - plus custom shift boot by ShiftStyle, and hotrod flames on the console by Barb. (click for a larger view) Edit: For those who keep asking what the HELL is that?, it's a rattlesnake's rattle. Actually it will look great with my boots.
- [Bring me the head of the fortune teller](https://www.moronosphere.com/bring-me-the-head-of-the-fortune-teller/) - God DAMN I love swervedriver. Pisses me RIGHT the fuck off that I missed 'em when they did a reunion tour this year. Nevermind though - just Bring Me The Head of the Fortune Teller:
- [Tropic Thunder](https://www.moronosphere.com/tropic-thunder/) - It's not the sort of movie you write a detailed review of. It's just not. It's funny, though. It's howlingly, screamingly funny; it's about as offensive as it can be without being mean spirited, and it works way, way better than you would expect. Sure, Ben Stiller is still playing the same character he plays
- [Dexter](https://www.moronosphere.com/dexter/) - Ok, so you know there are some things you really, REALLY want to like? Sometimes you're lucky. Sometimes it's the food that blows your mind, the book that changes your life, the movie you'll see again and again, the tv show you buy your friends on DVD. And sometimes you try as hard as you
- [I'd HIt That - thoughts on the VEEP  candidates](https://www.moronosphere.com/id-hit-that-thoughts-on-the-veep-candidates/) - I haven't really commnented much on the presidential election. It's not that I'm apolitcal. On the contrary, I care a great deal. It's more than i'm so cynical about it, I have a hard time not loathing everyone and everything involved. In short, i think desire to be an elected official should disqualify people from
- [Good Cupcake, Bad Cupcake](https://www.moronosphere.com/good-cupcake-bad-cupcake/) - I may be in love with the wearer of this tattoo. Or the artist who did it. Or something. Click the image for a bigger version. Tattoos byAmanda Cancilla and feet belong to Alicia (dig the toenails). Found on All Things Cupcake via a random search for cupcake images.
- [Y SO SRS?](https://www.moronosphere.com/y-so-srs/) - This is a thing of pure brilliance. I'm not sure where it comes from though I imagine a 30 second google would tell me (click for full size).
- [b-b-b-bad](https://www.moronosphere.com/bbbbad/) - Come on, you know you want to play with my knob. Admit it! I'm still filtering ideas about a full custom shift knob; there are too many great ideas, and I don't wanna rush because then I'll have a better idea the day my first one arrives, and need another. I found Bruce at Koolknobs
- [Ferrets](https://www.moronosphere.com/ferrets/) - For Circe. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZzJELbFRI&hl=en&fs=1]
- [That's how I roll](https://www.moronosphere.com/thats-how-i-roll/) - Chelsea Girl, this cartoon makes me think of you. (Carton by Phil Selby, found on The Rut by Celtie - thx baby!)
- [The Dark Knight](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-dark-knight/) - So let's get a couple things out of the way up front. First, Heath Ledger's Joker is a thing of brilliance. Utterly mad, completely evil, frighteningly real. This is a performance that might have gotten oscar nods if he were still around; it will certainly get them now. He steals the film. Second, I have
- [More Bob](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-bob/) - I've just been on a huge Bob Mould kick lately. This is from Body of Song, which is great. I love how he's managed to make a vocoder work in this without sounding utterly 80's. I am Vision, I am Sound: (this cuts before the song is over, I'll fix that as soon as I
- [Days come, days go by](https://www.moronosphere.com/days-come-days-go-by/) - For some reason I haven't listened to Bob Mould's Workbook in ages. I've no idea why, I've been listening to Sugar and Husker Du. I'd completely forgotten how great some of these songs are. Days come, days go by So it matters, so you say But it’s all coming back in a way And nothing
- [iPhone 2.0](https://www.moronosphere.com/iphone-20/) - MacRumors and other sites just posted about an early release of the iPhone 2.0 software here. While I can't say I recommend being an early adopter, I've just downloaded and installed it. The new iPhone is about to be released (tomorrow). No, I don't know when I can get them. I'm at least as anxious
- [Portland is like...](https://www.moronosphere.com/portland-is-like/) - Typically, my trip is over too soon. Tomorrow evening I fly home from Portland, into the fire and brimstone that is northern California, and back into what we think of as real life though I think if one does it right, travel is real life and work is the other thing we do from time
- [in seattle](https://www.moronosphere.com/in-seattle/) - I kind of meant to keep a running log of my stay in Seattle as did in Victoria; or at least carry on a flirt-by-flirt, firework by firework overview. I never quite got to my computer in seattle; maybe it was flaky WiFi, or maybe the lack of a decent writing surface in my room.
- [oooooh, caaaanahdahhaaaa....](https://www.moronosphere.com/oooooh-caaaanahdahhaaaa/) - It wasn't planned this way, but my family and I wound up in Victoria, BC for Canada Day (Or as my kids insist on calling it, 'Canadia Day'). This wound up being a lucky coincidence; the dates were picked around my mother-in-law's trip to Everett for a high-school reunion, my work schedule, and my kids
- [land of pretty waitresses](https://www.moronosphere.com/land-of-pretty-waitresses/) - Victoria, BC; land of pretty waitresses. I know. It sounds funny. But oddly, it's true. I've been on Victoria Island for roughly 30 hours. That's a dinner, a breakfast, a lunch, and another dinner. It's not just that every waitress who's waited on me has been unusually pretty. It's that every waitress I've seen has
- [Joe's Skull Lust](https://www.moronosphere.com/joes-skull-lust/) - My brutha-man Dirty Uncle Joe, another skull ring enthusiast, just sent me a terrific picture of his collection. I need to post a similar one of my rings. These are left-to-right: First four: Dave's Custom (RIP, Dave), including an en-graveer option, and a full-jaw skull. Middle: Deadringers, engraved in honor of a N.I.N song. Last
- [hey hen, let's say I want a tidal wave](https://www.moronosphere.com/hey-hen-lets-say-i-want-a-tidal-wave/) - Joe Cocker at Woodstock - captioned for the clear-headed. Prepare to howl (well, if you're too young to remember Joe Cocker this might seem slightly less funny). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM&hl=en] (thanks for sending that to me, Jeff)
- [v-minus-four](https://www.moronosphere.com/vminusfour/) - I'm in that last-few-days-before-vacation zone. You know how it is; the spirit begins to leave and go elsewhere, while the mind deals with a steepening ramp of details, crossed with a descending curve of time. I had this vague notion I would have some free time toward the end of the week; as it turns
- [Iron Man](https://www.moronosphere.com/iron-man/) - I was going to write a detailed review but fuck it. Iron Man rocks. Go see it while it's still in theaters. It is, in my opinion, the best superhero movie of the modern era. I loved it. Iron Man was my favorite superhero comic, and the movie completely did justice to the character. I
- [Eveready Harton](https://www.moronosphere.com/eveready-harton/) - This is just so goddamn funny. I wish I had a better quality copy of it, some of the best bits are obliterated. But still. Details here: Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAo9kA4MW00&hl=en] NSFW, but honestly, unless you're looking close you'd never notice. (found on BoingBoing)
- [Pieces of Childhood](https://www.moronosphere.com/pieces-of-childhood/) - After Disneyland was opened in 1955, for whatever reason (economy? inspiration? copycatism?), many communities seem to have opened small local theme parks. I say this because every park I read about seems to have opened between 1958 and 1962. In 1961, we didn't have much to do at home on summer days; we had longer
- [Swingtown](https://www.moronosphere.com/swingtown/) - I watched the premier episode of Swingtown last night. My first though is, wow, i wish this was on cable. I want to see these good looking people a lot more naked than they are. Because it's a hot show full of hot people, taking about and having a lot of sex. My second thought
- [I Want You](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-want-you/) - I know, I know, I'v e said it before. I love Spiritualized: (Play it loud)
- [calaveras de azúcar de plata](https://www.moronosphere.com/calaveras-de-azcar-de-plata/) - To quote a recent post on 'i can haz cheeseburger', Want Want Want Want Want. I just found this ring via a link form some mySpace page, and it's just fabulous - click the image to see more photos and more info (and click on the 'Click to enlarge' link, you really need to see
- [songs in A & E](https://www.moronosphere.com/songs-in-a-e/) - For those who care, Spiritualized (one of the greatest live bands I've ever seen) just released a new studio album after a five year hiatus. I havn't decided yet how much I like it (because it's a Spiritualized album and they're all that way); it's no Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space, but
- [indiana jones and the search for a better plot](https://www.moronosphere.com/indiana-jones-and-the-search-for-a-better-plot/) - A couple of years ago I watched the original Indiana Jones trilogy with my kids. Over the last month, we've been watching the re-released Young Indiana Jones series. We're huge Indiana Jones fans. Now, let me say a couple things up front. Raiders of the Lost Ark is very close to my favorite movie of
- [when chocolate pigs fly](https://www.moronosphere.com/when-chocolate-pigs-fly/) - There are certain perfect foods in the world. We could come up with a few each; say, an apple, or a sea urchin, or an egg. The foods that are complete, satisfying, a compliment to other foods. For you it might be a cheese, or a pork chop; it might be toast or a wedge
- [Itchy. Tasty.](https://www.moronosphere.com/itchy-tasty/) - I started to post something about the annoying state of my tattoo; I've reached that phase where I'm peeling and leaving behind black flakes of tattoo dandruff, where it's itching madly and of course, it's not yet sufficiently healed to scratch. But when I started typing, the phrase 'Itchy. Tasty.' came to mind. Anyone who's
- [in the tiki-tiki-tiki-tiki-tiki room](https://www.moronosphere.com/in-the-tikitikitikitikitiki-room/) - Here's what I got yesterday. The shark, above the elbow, is older; so is the lighter gray work, below (the new ink will fade to that same color after healing.) More pictures after the cut. (click pictures for bigger view)
- [Straight Life](https://www.moronosphere.com/straight-life/) - Arthur Edward Pepper: Narcisist, Musician, Convict. Composer, Dope Fiend, Artist, Criminal. Author; Womanizer. One of the greatest alto saxophonists the jazz world ever produced; and one of it's most tragic flame-outs. What can I say about him; he tells the story himself with unflinching honesty and and an almost noir narrative voice. I've just finished
- [inelegant S curve](https://www.moronosphere.com/inelegant-s-curve/) - I've had trouble doing any writing all week - or, in fact, any work at all, at least any involving a computer. This is a bit problematic given that at least 75% of my work day involved eyes to screen and fingers to keys. The trouble would be more interesting it it was some existential
- [internet jones](https://www.moronosphere.com/internet-jones/) - What makes me know exactly how important the internet has become in my life is how nervous it makes me to not have it. This morning, while waking up over a cup of peet's, I was was ripping CDs, looking up details about a particular jazz sax player I've been into lately, paying a couple
- [ink at the end of the tunnel](https://www.moronosphere.com/ink-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/) - I'm beginning to feel like this last year's incredible load of work, death, illness and mayhem may be closing out, finally. I looked at a web site I built for the project I've been working in to see when we created it; I was thinking, five, six months ago. In fact it was just about
- [what tattoo are you getting?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-tattoo-are-you-getting/) - Several people have asked me what it was I was planning to get on my arm. I've been trying for an hour to find a decent example of what I have in mind and for some reason, the only things i can find are a few personal tattoo photos, which I don't really want to
- [Marks and scars and lusts](https://www.moronosphere.com/marks-and-scars-and-lusts/) - The wound in my hand wasn't as bad as all that; the following morning the pain was gone entirely, leaving behind only a vague tenderness. More interesting, though, was the leathery texture my skin has now. It's like it's someone else's hand, when I feel it against my skin. The ridges and whorls are burned
- [All Wrong](https://www.moronosphere.com/all-wrong/) - Tonight, I was cooking dinner; Grilled pork chops, bulgar wheat, and oven-roasted baby carrots. Now, when I'm roasting stuff, I often use a heavy frying pan. I own a number of very good such pans, and they go easily from stovetop to oven. Most of my frying pans have nice, stay-cool handles. No matter how
- [three hour tour](https://www.moronosphere.com/three-hour-tour/) - Yesterday I sailed the seven seas - or at least a couple of square miles on San Francisco Bay - on a reasonable facsimile of a realio-trulio Pirate Ship. Ok, so it was a school field trip with my fourth-grade daughter's class. There was no rum, no pillage, precious little mayhem. But terms like avast
- [Wicked Tinkers](https://www.moronosphere.com/wicked-tinkers/) - Ok, now we done with our once-a-year foray into irishness? Alright then. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpUdpZpVX3w&hl=en]
- [Dearg Doom](https://www.moronosphere.com/dearg-doom/) - Happy saint paddies day from Horslips: (Dearg Doom means Red Destroyer)
- [smoke and fire and a dearth of sleep](https://www.moronosphere.com/smoke-and-fire-and-a-dearth-of-sleep/) - I'm getting bored with bitching about how swampped I am. And I bet you are already clicking away, thinking, oh, sure, another whine-whine-i'm-so-fucking-busy-i-can't-blog-apart-from-blogging-about-being-busy entry. Fair enough. Thing is, I keep making the mistake of thinking - and saying, in some cases - it'll be better after this week. Which it isn't. I was pretty damn
- [I'm just sayin'...](https://www.moronosphere.com/im-just-sayin/) - (Thanks to Jeff fwa Dauber for sending me that and of course Piraro for being Piraro)
- [The Bad Plus](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-bad-plus/) - I meant to post this two weeks ago and as usual, the sheer load of stuff I need to do got in the way. I'm in the final two weeks of getting a project out and... well, nevermind, I don't wanna talk about work. Let's just say, busy with a side of busy. Anyway, I'm
- [girls who like men who wear kilts](https://www.moronosphere.com/girls-who-like-men-who-wear-kilts/) - The wise and incredibly hot Merrick says, of modern kilt wearers: The type of guy who wears a kilt regularly is not only stylish and can dress himself, but is, most certainly, a pervert. I mean, I know that kinky sex and nerdiness pretty much go hand in hand, but kilt wearers are just a
- [Wicked Witches](https://www.moronosphere.com/wicked-witches/) - The whole reason for my recent SoCal trip was to see Wicked. I'm not going to try to write a real review of of it; I'm no expert on stage musicals, and can't really accurately say how it compares to anything else in the genre. I also haven't read the book, so rendering a judgement
- [Hollywood and Boot Star](https://www.moronosphere.com/hollywood-and-boot-star/) - Since I've been on a shoe theme, I might as well show off my version of hollywood shoes. I've wanted a pair of boots from Boot Star for ages, but the last two times I was in SoCal I managed to miss going in; first because I kept showing up when they were closed, and
- [Hollywood and Spike heels](https://www.moronosphere.com/holly-and-spike-heels/) - I'm staying for a couple of nights in gray, rainy hollywood. I'd like to say that I'm here for the oscars, which are this coming Sunday and for which several blocks of hollywood blvd are blocked off; but no, I'm here instead to enjoy a wednesday evening show of Wicked (which in itself is a
- [RIP: David Caruso Jr.](https://www.moronosphere.com/david-caruso-jr/) - I just read this note on the Dave's Custom Skulls site: Dave's Battle with Cancer ended on 2-15-08. Hopefully you were able to know him or maybe were one of the few hundred people around the World to have had the Opportunity to Receive and Enjoy one of his Custom Rings. He will be Missed
- [Movable Type 4 template designer](https://www.moronosphere.com/movable-type-4-template-design/) - Ok, so I need some help from a template designer who knows movable type 4. I don't need a lot, but I do need someone else to suffer the slings and arrows for me. Payment will be in sexual favors and good old yankee dollars. I don't intend to port my old template as is,
- [Brave New World in Gray](https://www.moronosphere.com/brave-new-world-in-gray/) - I know. I know. It's scary in here. Different. It's ok. Really. It's the same old moronosphere with a new skin. Change is good, they say, and if it isn't, change is still change. The real story is that I've just upgraded to Movable Type 4.1, and because the folks at six-apart feel the need
- [Sad Songs of Server Troubles](https://www.moronosphere.com/sad-songs-of-server-troubles/) - You may have noticed we're having some server instability around here; comments disabled for various moronosphere-hosted blogs, server not responding, etc. For those of you I host, you'll have seen it as well when you try to post. We're working on it. We have several small problems that are adding up to a systemic pain-in-the-ass,
- [Helping the Helpless](https://www.moronosphere.com/helping-the-helpless/) - Y'ever try your best to help someone who just won't be helped? Actually I'm talking about work. We pretty much all have been there when it comes to personal life. I'm in deadline hell; the story is complicated and even if it were worth telling, I couldn't really tell it anyway. But to tell a
- [Nerd Handbook](https://www.moronosphere.com/nerd-handbook/) - Rands In Repose has written a frighteningly, hysterically accurate piece called The Nerd Handbook. "Understand your nerd’s relation to the computer. It’s clichéd, but a nerd is defined by his computer, and you need to understand why. First, a majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer works or
- [Smoke on Ooedo No Hikeshi](https://www.moronosphere.com/smoke-on-ooedo-no-hikeshi/) - I'm... entranced. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QjvTDulFg&rel=1&border=1] (thanks to Laughing Squid, and to Jeff FWA Dauber who sent it to me.)
- [Gonna be a long night](https://www.moronosphere.com/gonna-be-a-long-night/) - Man, I love this song. I heard it last night on The Shield: Heard that you are new in town Someone said you party down Well, later I'll be comin' round We'll rack 'em up and suck 'em down Don't call your mother - don't call your priest Don't call your doctor - call the
- [take it, torchwood, and my truck](https://www.moronosphere.com/take-it-torchwood-and-my-truck/) - I spent last night trying to write; my family were out, and I was alone, and reasonably free of urgent must-do tasks after having worked most of the weekend. I had in mind a short piece of erotica, something inspired by a scene in an episode of The Shield (the phrase 'take it' has a
- [baby it's cold outside](https://www.moronosphere.com/baby-its-cold-outside/) - Sometimes a guy needs a new coat. I had a coat like this in about 1971; a real vietnam-era vintage m65 field jacket. I loved that coat, wore it constantly. It was covered with patches with things like peace signs and the Sgt Pepper drum head and various hippy-dippy sentiments; I wanted Freewheelin' Franklin painted
- [Bad+](https://www.moronosphere.com/bad/) - I got in the car this morning to drive my 9 year old daughter, Ruby, to school. I jacked my iPhone into the stereo and handed it to her as I pulled out of the driveway. Pick something, I said. She spent several minutes scrolling around through my collection and chose something. She chose this.
- [blogiversary v4.0](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogiversary-v40/) - I became aware of this because a commenter on my previous entry mentioned it. This tells you how on-the-fucking-ball I am lately, when readers have to mention significant dates to me. I mean come ON, I'm mister significant dates. Today marks four years of blogging; four years of the pain and pleasure that is The
- [truck carnage](https://www.moronosphere.com/truck-carnage/) - How this happened is rather a long story. Let's just say there was a lamp-post, and a concrete garbage can. Was, because they suffered sudden, catastrophic failure when introduced rather rudely to my truck. "Hello lamp-post, What cha knowin'?" This is the aftermath vis-à-vis y truck. The other parties faired less well and are now
- [got got got got no time](https://www.moronosphere.com/got-got-got-got-no-time/) - I tend to like to write something at the end of a year, of the beginning of the next, looking back and forward, as I've done most years since I started this blog. This year was funny, though. It's been a while since I've done much partying on new year's; long years since I've found
- [chef space](https://www.moronosphere.com/chef-space/) - I swear, I've been trying to sit down and write something - blog entry, even a blog commen - for more than a week now. I can't sit still. I can't concentrate when I sit down. I've been off work since Dec 22nd, and had no travel plans nor major projects; I've been on call
- [Chad's Dad's Black Bean Hummus](https://www.moronosphere.com/chads-dads-black-bean-hummus/) - This is what I meant to post when I started the aimless ramble that became the next entry; my recipe for Black Bean Hummus. That entry went off into something else so here it is on it's own. I got a new food processor for xmas, and of course then needed to make pureed things.
- [I'm Your Plaything](https://www.moronosphere.com/im-your-plaything/) - Legate yourself here. (Thanks,E!)
- [Art for Arts's Sake](https://www.moronosphere.com/art-for-artss-sake/) - Thirty-four student artists from public schools throughout the county were honored when their work was accepted for display at the COE. Their work—selected from 280 submissions—now will hang alongside more than 600 other pieces that have been collected in the past 12 years.
- [Sci Fi Starters](https://www.moronosphere.com/sci-fi-starters/) - A friend of mine just asked me for suggestions - sci-fi/fantasy books for a very advanced fourteen year old boy. I'm having some trouble with it. I think about what I read now, and it's fairly adult and literary (Bujold's fantasy, GRR Martin, CJ Cherryh, GG Kay). It's been a while since I talked books
- [irresistable orbit](https://www.moronosphere.com/irresistable-orbit/) - let's take a trip together headlong into the irresistable orbit breathe in the cold black space with the glistening edges let's take a trip me and you let's go the scenic route get to finally get to finally get to finally get to know eachother just to be alone with you just to be alone
- [Happy Birthday to Me](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-birthday-to-me/) - Someone on another blog pointed out the significance of today's date. The trouble with a birthday on a wednesday is that it limits the amout of trouble I can get in somewhat. Wednesday is not the ideal day to celebrate anything. Still - lift one for me wherever you may be.
- [Myths and Mice and Thanksgiving MILFS](https://www.moronosphere.com/myths-and-mice-and-thanksgivin/) - I'm off tomorrow to fly to Anaheim to visit family and The Mouse. I'd be driving down already, as are half my family, only Olivia and I have tickets tonight to see Mythbusters Live. More on that later, as I've no real idea how they can turn that show into a live thing. Meanwhile, I'm
- [...about your dongle.](https://www.moronosphere.com/about-your-dongle/) - On my voice mail today - a girl named Dassie left this: "...the sticker on your dongle is incorrect." After that, I could not refrain from giggling.
- [bitter, dark night](https://www.moronosphere.com/bitter-dark-night/) - I think I've been trying to get something written for at least two week. Even testing the new beta version of ecto3, I wasn't able to manage anything more than test test, test. It has been, to say the least, nuts. There have been school plays (and much applause), trick-or-treating with teenage girls (the smell
- [Dropkick](https://www.moronosphere.com/dropkick/) - Somehow I managed to miss Dropkick Murphys until about twelve hours ago. I'm now making up for lost time. Don't wait for Burns Night for bagpipes - Listen: Warrior's Code (I suspect Ray is now thinking, I told you so)
- [...and one pill makes you small](https://www.moronosphere.com/and-one-pill-makes-you-small/) - I try never to post LOLcats, as much as I love and am addicted to them. Some get past me. You'll understand why.
- [Haunted Bela](https://www.moronosphere.com/haunted-bela/) - This is incredibly well done - a mashup of Bela Lugosi's Dead with the Walt Disney 'Haunted Mansion' soundtrack, by Howard Hallis . Listen (found on BoingBoing for course).
- [Big Al](https://www.moronosphere.com/big-al/) - What kind of (Deadwood) Cocksucker are you?created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Al SwearengenYou have carved out your powerbase from the mud under your feet and you'll be damned if some cocksucker is going to take it. You know how to play the fancy politician's games, but you know how to play things the frontier
- [Dad Points on Ice](https://www.moronosphere.com/dad-points-on-ice/) - There are certain things a man does for no other reason than to win the approval of women. This can include gifts, certainly. But it can be as simple as lawn-mowing, or putting the seat down, or getting one's fucking feet off the table. Little else, though, has quite the innocent payoff of pleasing adolescent
- [meet me at musso n' frank](https://www.moronosphere.com/meet-me-at-musso-n-frank/) - I've been having' one of those days - weeks, actually - when I'm just craving a cocktail. But not - you know, just alcohol. It's not really alcohol I want. It's the time, the place, the, you know, the thing. There are those places you miss; not a place place, not Hawaii or London or
- [TNK](https://www.moronosphere.com/tnk/) - Because I just loaded this up to show a friend what 801 sounded like: TNK. Enjoy. (Damn, Bill MacCormick is an awesome bass player...)
- [vacation from *](https://www.moronosphere.com/vacation-from/) - Damn, I wish I could get a day where no one else wanted anything, needed anything, had to have something fixed, looked at, cleaned up, or taken care of. You know, there's a down side to being problem solving guy; namely, when do I get the bandwidth to work on some of my own? I
- [punk rock young'uns](https://www.moronosphere.com/punk-rock-younguns/) - Last night, I watched a couple of good friends kids play punk rock in a bowling alley bar. It's hard to put name to the cocktail of reactions. Pride, for the kids in question. For the fact the thirteen, fourteen year old kids care enough, work hard enough, to actually sound like a band, not
- [block](https://www.moronosphere.com/block/) - It's a funny thing how a writer's block shuts one down. A friend asked me the other day, 'when will you write me something'. And I stared at the message and thought, when will I fucking write me something? Buck made mention in a recent comment of good stuff I've been writing and I wondered
- [seething dreams](https://www.moronosphere.com/seething-dreams/) - I woke up, gasping, my heart pounding. I could hear my own voice as some sort of wordless snarl trailed away; raw, white-hot rage gripped me, brutal, violent, killing rage. I sat up, breathing hard, sweating, my fists clenching. Needing to hurt the objects of my rage, already out of reach on the other side
- [newoldnew](https://www.moronosphere.com/newoldnew/) - I'm fiddling about with my blog template, seeing if I can get a new feel without too much effort. I liked that drop-in I had last week but I *hate* fixed column widths; fixing that one was more effort since I actually *know* this template. So there you have it. If something's fucked up, ignore
- [I'll tell you in earnest, I'm a dangerous man](https://www.moronosphere.com/ill-tell-you-in-earnest-im-a-d/) - For some reason, all these years I've never seen Richard Thompson. Finally - thanks to ticket-pusher Chris (also know as Papa Christo), I saw him last night. I told Chris he's GOT to keep buying tickets; I never go out to live shows anymore unless someone else plans it. Some of my friends have seen
- [Gone Black](https://www.moronosphere.com/gone-black/) - Something was broken in my template (I must have made some minor tweak I don't recall), so I decided to temporarily dump the purple-n-piracy. I really need a new layout but given my lack of time to write I can't quite see finding time to work on templates. Someday. Maybe. Anyway, if anything looks completely
- [Crowded House](https://www.moronosphere.com/crowded-house/) - Crowded House, last night, Mountain Winer above Saratoga, CA. The air was smokey from the massive grass file in the Cupertino hills, but it didn't stop the band from playing a fantastic set. I wish I had tickets to a second night - and when we realized how good our seats were, we really, rally
- [LOLburn](https://www.moronosphere.com/lolburn/) - Damn. This is hysterical. At least if you've read about this. (Thanks to Scott Beale at Laughing Squid)
- [Arm? Back? Leg?](https://www.moronosphere.com/arm-back-leg/) - You want to know how bad I am? This is how bad I am. No, not THAT. Sure, that, but I'm talking about tattoos. Filthy fucking minds, the lot of you. Anyway, here's how bad I am. I'm now in the worst part of the healing - you know what I'm saying, those of you
- [missed by ...that... much](https://www.moronosphere.com/missed-by-that-much/) - Here's a good pic of the house I was staying in last week, on Hanalei bay, Kauai; view from the edge of the bay. I post this as a visual reference. Between the house and the vantage point from which this was taken lies the main road that runs through Hanalei and on up to
- [pig and chicken](https://www.moronosphere.com/pig-and-chicken/) - The sailor's legend goes that pigs and chickens don't swim; they would thus be very very anxious to get out of the water if dropped in. This makes them a powerful charm against drowning, the animals desire to be out of the water helping one avoid a watery grave. Sailors, the story goes, tattooed these
- [artist's conception](https://www.moronosphere.com/artists-conception/) - my new tattoos (artist's conception by olivia, age 13). Not my favorite place to get tattooed, the feet. Tomorrow maybe, photos of the actual thing.
- [home already](https://www.moronosphere.com/home-already/) - I sorta intended to post some pics while I was here but i forgot to pack the cable for my camera. So you know, fuck it. Pix later, when I get home. In any case, one last day on Kauai and then back to california. As always, I leave Hawaii a vague feeling of sorrow;
- [bye bye flossie](https://www.moronosphere.com/bye-bye-flossie/) - ...and there she goes. In other news, i have three days left of my vacation. Damn, they go by fast. Remaining plans: Night dive thursday (assuming no fucked up ocean conditions left behind by flossie's passage), tattoo on friday at Uncle Tim's Blue Kauai Tattoo, and fly home saturday. Today, wednesday - no plans at
- [Hey Flossie](https://www.moronosphere.com/hey-flossie/) - Meet hurricane Flossie: She's a cute lil' thing but she's comin' my way. Actually, not quite my way; NOAA says she's gonna veer just south of Kauai. We're not under a storm warning yet. Which is good 'cause my house is right there at sea level facing open ocean. The word 'evacuation' was used to
- [room with a view](https://www.moronosphere.com/room-with-a-view/) - The view from my house - Hanalei Bay, Kauai (Click to view full size). I am roughly fifty feet from the ocean.
- [Forgotten Things](https://www.moronosphere.com/forgotten-things/) - I managed to forget a charger for my laptop when I packed to leave, so the plan to do a little writing about kauai was disrupted. Luckily I managed to dig one up. Annoying, really. One makes a simple plan and finds in foiled by a single missing part. I have nightmares like that, usually
- [Kauai bound](https://www.moronosphere.com/kauai-bound/) - In about five minutes I'll be boarding a flight for lihue - Kauai, here I come. (posted via iPhone)
- [...and counting](https://www.moronosphere.com/and-counting/) - Today - high: 84, low: 75 Tomorrow - high: 84, low: 75 ...and so on... One week to go. Nevermind the showers. It always says that.
- [Bill Walsh](https://www.moronosphere.com/bill-walsh/) - Bill Walsh - Football's greatest mind, and the man who trained the two greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game, is dead at the age of 76. If heaven has a football team, they're switching to a new kind of offense. Walsh is one of my few real heros. Here's to ya, Bill.
- [Serious Cat](https://www.moronosphere.com/serious-cat/) - Your Score: Serious Cat 22% Affectionate, 36% Excitable, 60% Hungry Hungry for knowledge in any internet forum, you demand decorum. Any off-topic remarks, absurd statements, or tomfoolery on the interweb is deeply frowned upon by you. Truth has no room for drollery. To see all possible results, checka dis. Link: The Which Lolcat Are You?
- [gadget porn](https://www.moronosphere.com/gadget-porn/) - test post from new iPhone Yay! The above was posted from my iPhone, pictured below.
- [Pretty Dumb Interviews](https://www.moronosphere.com/pretty-dumb-interviews/) - One of my favorite bloggers, and one of my favorite people in the whole wide world, Chelsea Girl (of Pretty Dumb Things) was recently interviewed by Susie Bright. The interview is fabulous and could have gone on twice as long - click here to listen. Turns out, in addition to being brilliant, she also has
- [Piracy from Deadringers](https://www.moronosphere.com/piracy-from-deadringers/) - My pal Mark at Deadringers sent me pictures of some new work. I can't post all of 'em yet, not 'til the new stuff's officially released; but I can show off this glorious thing (click for a larger view). This is a ring they made (custom) for some Disney muckity-muck to wear at the Pirates
- [I'm here for your brains](https://www.moronosphere.com/im-here-for-your-brains/) - ...With thanks to Len Peralta of monsterbymail.com
- [Rats, Penguins, and Stuff Blowing Up](https://www.moronosphere.com/rats-penguins-and-stuff-blowin/) - I've been in one of those frustrating phases of late where I feel the need to write but the combination of absolutely no time, and no mental energy, leave me struggling to make the arc from thought to action. When I've had time to myself - as I have several evenings lately, with family away
- [Final word on worth](https://www.moronosphere.com/final-word-on-worth/) - $4140.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth. From Mingle2 - Free Online Dating That pretty much tells the tale, doesn't it? I'm wondering though, if the tattoos and piercings raise or lower the value?
- [straight dope](https://www.moronosphere.com/straight-dope/) - A week or so ago i posted a meme for which I'd been tagged. Read that here. As I said, seven were true, one was not. Here you go: 1 (feet diff. sizes)- true. But at least they're not both left feet. 3 (mysterious half sister) - true. I need to do an entry on
- [That's when I reach for my revolver](https://www.moronosphere.com/thats-when-i-reach-for-my-revo/) - Once I had my heroes Once I had my dreams But all of that is changed now They've turned things inside out The truth is not so comfortable, no And mother taught us patience The virtues of restraint And father taught us boundaries Beyond which we must go To find the secrets promised us, yeah
- [outage](https://www.moronosphere.com/outage/) - For reasons unknown, out webserver was down last night and this morning. Sorry about that, folks. I'll try to identify why.
- [A Forest in Winter](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-forest-in-winter/) - You think the 911/pot brownies thing was all about *bad drugs? Think again. This fuckin' thing is about bad drugs. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_3b_zp9a8Q] *when I say bad drugs, i of course mean good drugs. You know what i'm sayin.
- [get thee thy jesusphone](https://www.moronosphere.com/get-thee-thy-jesusphone/) - Ok. It's time. Go get your iPhone. I don't get mine 'til late july (we get ours after you get yours - hell, I have the same philosophy in bed, so I can't argue). And no, I can't get you one, I can't get me one, apart from the one-per-employee apple's handing out as a
- [what's the score of the red wings game - i think we're dying...](https://www.moronosphere.com/whats-the-score-of-the-red-win/) - One can add only three words to this. "What The Fuck" (I had to move this after the cut because for some reason it totally fucks my formatting in safari) [funnyordie id=5574 width=480 height=400] EDIT: Greggggg found more words: here's the story behind the real 911 call. I knew the call was real but didn't
- [straight 8](https://www.moronosphere.com/straight-8/) - Ok, i got tagged on this one (lifts shirt to show indecipherable spray-paint marking). I don't usually respond to the tag kinda meme (nor dares neither), but a meme that came from susie bright, in which she tagged two of my very favorite girl-sex-bloggers (bitchy and chelsea) is simply hard to say no to. Or
- [get that German slut from the kitchens, will you?](https://www.moronosphere.com/get-that-german-slut-from-the/) - I just, finally got around to watching the second season of Rome (at least the first episode of it). I'd forgotten how brilliant this show is. Five, maybe ten minutes in, I was right back there, and by the end, I was Titus fuckin' Pullo, savage, bloody, unbeaten, enemies at my feet. This show makes
- [come together](https://www.moronosphere.com/come-together/) - Because when you're at the end of your rope you should always play Spiritualized at maximum volume: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-BeDy1FtJs] I'm not kidding now, maximum volume, until your brain bleeds. The odd thing about this video is that J spaceman is standing up and facing the audience. Normally he's nowhere near this interactive.
- [stupid internet.](https://www.moronosphere.com/stupid-internet/) - I'm havin' a shitload a problems with persistent, cached routes, PLUS I accidently published one of my other blogs over this site (pilot error - bad cut-n-paste (which I just typo'd cunt-n-paste as usual). If yer havin' a less than stellar experience here, well, I guess it's that. Or just the usual less-than-stellar experience, but
- [new digs](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-digs-1/) - Its one of those funny things when you get a new one and it's just like the old one. Like those weird people who get a new car and get the exact same car they had before (yeah I'm talking to you, Lisa). If you're readin' this it means you're now on a shiny, fast
- [disruption is my way of life](https://www.moronosphere.com/disruption-is-my-way-of-life/) - Due to an unexpected schedule change, The Moronosphere and all it's related blogs and domains will be moving to a new physical server this week. Not the best timing for me, personally but I live here by the good grace and generosity of my friend Brandon, and so I am grateful even if a bit
- [tatjana with her hammer](https://www.moronosphere.com/tatjana-with-her-hammer/) - For some reason this video is oddly hot. I can't quite identify why. (courtesy of Bikinirama) (Click the pic - I'm sorry i can't embed that. I've yet to figure out a workable way to embed quicktime in MT posts. I've tried all sorts of voodooo and it never embeds correctly.
- [my nipples explode with delight](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-nipples-explode-with-deligh/) - I decided, last weekend, to put bigger-guage rings in my nipples. The gauge I had (12) has a slight tendency to pinch, and the general rule is, the thicker, the more comfortable. Plus, thicker rings just plain look cooler. Now, I've had a lot of piercings over the years. I've still got six in my
- [Movable Type 4 beta - yuck.](https://www.moronosphere.com/movable-type-4-beta-yuck/) - And now, a geek interlude. (mmm. 'ludes.) I run this blog (and those I support) on Movable Type. I know there's a vast, imaginary religious war between WordPress users and Movable Type users, though in fact my loyalty to Movable Type has more to do with my expertise in the tool (I can put together
- [nevermind that, tell me what you're wearing](https://www.moronosphere.com/nevermind-that-tell-me-what-yo/) - I'm a sucker for women's voices. This happens to me all the time. I spend a lot of time on the phone as part of my job, dealing with software vendors, support people, sales. Sometimes I think, particularly in sales, they hire based on voices. So sometimes, while I'm on a business call, I'll get
- [hot for teacher](https://www.moronosphere.com/hot-for-teacher/) - A dream I had last night - fading already, because I dreamed it early in a night filled with other dreams. I should have gotten up and written this at two am, when I woke, for it was brilliantly vivid at the time, that kind of taste-smell-touch memory of intense dreams. *
- [days that conspire against you](https://www.moronosphere.com/days-that-conspire-against-you/) - some weeks just seem made of days that conspire against you. I am now in one of those weeks. Grumble. More on this theme when bullets stop flying over my head.
- [Pink Floyd at Pompeii](https://www.moronosphere.com/pink-floyd-at-pompeii/) - I bought the DVD of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (The Director's Cut) a year or so ago, but it managed to get filed away in a stack of kids DVDs and I'd forgotten I had it. I was looking through my DVDs last night, trying to find something better to watch than re-runs of
- [one pill makes you larger](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-pill-makes-you-larger/) - Well, my doctor says I have a sinus infection. That's two in a month. Shows you what happens when one works much and sleeps little for several months running. The casualties? social life, creativity, immune system. What sucks is that I've gone two or three years without one of these things (i used to get
- [Flavor of the Month](https://www.moronosphere.com/flavor-of-the-month/) - I was listening to this today, played at huge volume in my truck with the windows all open, as I sucked down a cà phê sữa đá. It's one of those songs that just makes me happy. Flavor of the Month, by the Posies. Play It. But don't even bother if you can't crank it
- [i want maggie gyllenhaal](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-want-maggie-gyllenhaal/) - I've come to the conclusion that Maggie Gyllenhaal may be the sexiest woman on the planet (well, apart from a couple of my readers, though I'm not naming names. Just assume it's you). Now, I sort of had this feeling after seeing Secretary, as I've discussed at length with the lovely Miss Syl. I mean,
- [Supernatural](https://www.moronosphere.com/supernatural/) - I keep meaning to post something about my favorite show on network teevee - Supernatural - and not getting around to it (and even posting this has taken me several hours due to the relentless interrupts and (not-the-fun-kind- of) distractions). Luckily, someone else did it for me, saving me the effort. Chelsea Girl says: "Supernatural,
- [time and dreams](https://www.moronosphere.com/time-and-dreams/) - I woke up from a weird, red-wine inspired dream about people I think I used to know. It was strange, and disturbing, and I think vaguely sexual, though it faded away all too quickly before I could digest who or what I was dreaming about. I woke feeling spacey, though, and not only because of
- [who doesn't love ZOMBIES!](https://www.moronosphere.com/who-doesnt-love-zombies/) - Admit it. You love zombies. How can you not? I mean - Night of the Living Dead. Do we have to go on? Yes. We do. It doesn't mater if they're darkly gothic and horrifying - The original, classic Night - or modern and stylish (28 days later). It doesn't matter if it's horrifyingly serious,
- [wild animals](https://www.moronosphere.com/wild-animals/) - One of those things i think is just plain good for the psyche every now and then is to work with kids. Now, I'm not one of those people who's just nuts for kids. I'm not above describing a child as an asshole, and my tolerance for any kid, even my own, isn't that long.
- [Words are the children of reason](https://www.moronosphere.com/words-are-the-children-of-reas/) - After the medication wore away, I was left with a soup of words. It wasn't a fetid thing, but it was un-refined, incoherent. The ingredients were there, but inexpertly mixed. It wasn't incomprehensible; it was simply kaleidoscopic. This is something like what I was trying to say the other night. I'm not sure it makes
- [what is it I was saying?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-is-it-i-was-saying/) - I wrote a great post the other night, filled with insightful linguistic philosophy; all about the difference between symbolic meaning in words themselves, and the cultural meaning, the psychological meaning; the way words carry not just inherent sets of meanings that are closely defined, but also a reciprocal meaning, a meaning the hearer or reader
- [Well that's the season, then](https://www.moronosphere.com/well-thats-the-season-then/) - Well, so much for hockey season. Nevermind the stupid cup. It's over. sigh When's football start?
- [forward more and backwards less](https://www.moronosphere.com/forward-more-and-backwards-les/) - it just turned summer somewhere between friday and monday - i can't quite tell when because I was well and truly out of it all day sunday. But it's 75 already and headed the general direction of 90, and i can NOT get my head around the concept of work today. I keep thinking, don't
- [Happy Cinco de Mayo](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-cinco-de-mayo/) - I don't know much about cinco de mayo Im never sure what its all about I say I want you, and you dont believe me You say you want me, but I've got my doubts Oh baby, I was bound for mexico Oh baby, I was bound to let you go Listen:
- [Regrets](https://www.moronosphere.com/regrets/) - Like you haven't felt this way... (Thanks to DN for sending me that and to Dave Coverly for drawin' it)
- [Pirates of Marketing-land](https://www.moronosphere.com/pirates-of-marketingland/) - I remember when I used to get home from trips and have time to write a big 'ol trip report with photos every time. Actually I don't remember it, but I have posts like that, so I should remember it I flew down late Wednesday; a great flight as it turned out. I'd been heavily
- [I have fantasies like that...](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-have-fantasies-like-that/) - It's conversations like this that make me like where I work. My group's director - who's also my long time pal and tattoo soul-mate, Jeff - walked into my office and began: "The great thing about having a personal trainer is that now, I really have a body" "Must be nice, man," I replied. "It's
- [Vote for Tricia](https://www.moronosphere.com/vote-for-tricia/) - My friend Tricia Allen of Tattoo Traditions - just about the best polynesian tattooist in the world - has written the definitive book on hawaiian tattooing. Said book is up for the 2007 Ka Palapala Pookela book award. We can help out by voting for tricia's fantastic book (follow the instruction below or just click
- [You'll just have to find that out for yourself](https://www.moronosphere.com/youll-just-have-to-find-that-o/) - I'm standing in Downtown Disney in my black workman's utilikilt, trying to get a cell connection (Cingular may have better service than verizon did but they really don't have quite the quality.) I'm standing in a stream of people who I assume were heading towards the disney trams; i am the rock around which the
- [Mouseward](https://www.moronosphere.com/mouseward/) - I'm leaving on a very short trip to southern california - getting on a plane in about two hours. I wish I had time for a real vacation, with time spent sipping cocktails by a pool, and energetically doing nothing. But this isn't that kinda trip; i've got two and a half days to hit
- [kitten heels](https://www.moronosphere.com/kitten-heels/) - I stopped my truck to let her cross. She'd emerged from from a shiny, modern auto, and was headed for starbucks, or jamba juice, one of those corporate purveyors of sweet-soulless beverages. I generally let people cross in parking lots; it's one of those general rules of courtesy I try to follow, all the more
- [prog-by-numbers](https://www.moronosphere.com/progbynumbers/) - Wow, what a resource. I just found progressiverock.com; a massive timeline of Prog, from 1967's proto-prog Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, all the way through Pink Floyd's bloated radio-rock opus The Wall, featuring reviews of pretty much every major prog-rock and krautrock album in between. There are reviews of major works - The Yes
- [spamattack!](https://www.moronosphere.com/spamattack/) - comment spammers have brought my (brandon's) server to it's knees. If you can't comment that's why. Sorry about that folks; we're working on it. I dunno if we finally did the right thing or if the spammers just gave up and ran, but this finally calmed down. I do NOT get what they think they're
- [You look like you been losin' sleep](https://www.moronosphere.com/you-look-like-you-been-losin-s/) - I posted that Swervedriver song the other day which made me go listen to Mezcal Head. And I'm reminded what a fucking brilliant album this is. Here then is the one I can't get outta my head, just cause I can't get it outta my head: Last Train to Satansville.
- [Motörhead Girl](https://www.moronosphere.com/motorhead-girl/) - I looked over my lunch date's shoulder, as we ate garlic-and-chili tofu and rice. I can't even say exactly why the girl in the corner of the restaurant distracted me so much; or maybe it's as simple as what she was wearing. She was blond; long, wavy hair. My best guess puts in her late
- [I want my money, bitch!](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-want-my-money-bitch/) - This video is too goddamned funny - The Landlord. Posted after the cut cause I can't get it not to auto-start.
- [Your First Tattoo](https://www.moronosphere.com/your-first-tattoo/) - I was talking to a friend recently about tattoos (ok, so, this could describe about a full quarter of the conversations have on a daily basis but nevermind). This is one of those conversations you get in regularly if you're heavily tattooed and in any way expert. "I want to get a tattoo, can you
- [Angry Atheists](https://www.moronosphere.com/angry-atheists/) - Stolen from the lovely and talented OG, because it's about time for a Really Stupid Quiz: You scored as Angry Atheist. Whoah! Down boy! It's time to let go of the belligerence and let someone else talk for a while. Even if the religious don't make must sense, you should probably observe the unspoken rules
- [like a start-up](https://www.moronosphere.com/like-a-startup/) - Skip this one if you're here for the dirty stuff. This is one in which I bitch about work and stress. How did another fucking week get by me like this? It seems like yesterday I was saying, i'm off for sake bombs and then two blinks I'm back, and the list of things I
- [dreaming little dreams](https://www.moronosphere.com/dreaming-little-dreams/) - For some reason of late I've been having weird - and weirdly vivid - dreams. Odd, since I've been sleeping little (or maybe not so odd, maybe that's why I'm dreaming this way). In no particular order, since I can't recall when I dreamed these: There was a woman I knew named Laurel, from my
- [The Easter Bunny Hates You](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-easter-bunny-hates-you/) - He does, you know.
- [love you must have](https://www.moronosphere.com/love-you-must-have/) - I ran across a bit of dialog in a book I was reading last night - a CJ Cherryh novel, one of Fantasy/Sci-fi's perennial greats, and in my opinion, one of the greatest writers working today (even if her recent books have been someone off her usual mark). She's a brilliant, insightful, lyrical writer, someone
- [sake bombs away](https://www.moronosphere.com/sake-bombs-away/) - some weeks just make your head wanna explode. You know how it is when things that should be simple wind up growing up to be problems, and then children of problems, and then problem-clans? They start as a spark and end a conflagration, start as a single point of data and fan out into a
- [Gurus and Beer](https://www.moronosphere.com/gurus-and-beer/) - The Hoodoo Gurus are back. And it's about fucking time. They haven't toured in more than ten years. This is snipped from a mini-review I posted on the band's mailing list; the photo is from a gig in Los Angels at the El Rey on 3/28 (photo courtesy of qsysue on Poison Pen. I saw
- [...and a hocky game broke out](https://www.moronosphere.com/and-a-hocky-game-broke-out/) - This right here is why i love hockey. What other sport would let this go on? We get a bunch of testosterone-laden, over-muscles goons get out on a playing field, work into a competitive frenzy, they we act like they're suppose to just walk like it's nothing when some joker makes a cheap shot. The
- [not even angry](https://www.moronosphere.com/not-even-angry/) - Christ, I wish I could marshall my thoughts enough to post something coherent. I just keep wanting to post songs that have the feel of the moment. I've started to post Richard Thompson songs, Be Bop Deluxe songs, Miles Davis songs, Graham Parker songs, and several more I can't quite recall. What I really want
- [I come old friend from Hell tonight across the rotting sea](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-come-old-friend-from-hell-to/) - I've talked a few times about stupid, meaningless holidays, and we've just passed another. Oh, i imagine to those of irish descent and catholic faith this day may actually mean something; and in fact I am of irish descent somewhere back in the family tree (somewhere in the stew along with scottish, french, german, dutch,
- [Sinners Ace](https://www.moronosphere.com/sinners-ace/) - My buddy and co-worker Carlos from Sinners Inc just laid a new ring on me. Carlos rocks. Here's a quick snap from photobooth; I'll do a better one later.
- [what the fuck time is it?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-the-fuck-time-is-it/) - Well, the dreaded DST bug was about as big a deal as the Y2K bug - ie, not, but mainly because IT pros like myself put in a lotta hours in advance testing, checking and uprading. Of course that still meant a lot of hours at work on sunday re-checking everything to make really-damned-sure before
- [Marquee Moon](https://www.moronosphere.com/marquee-moon/) - Because it's time for songs when we can't actually blog. Ray made mention of this the other day, which made me realize I only owned in on vinyl, which made me go order the 2003 remastered version. I remember how the darkness doubled I recall lightning struck itself. I was listenin listenin' to the rain
- [Ain't he Funky](https://www.moronosphere.com/aint-he-funky/) - i just figured out how to make ring tones for my phone in iTunes, and xfer them via bluetooth. Here's my current ringtone. Now I just need to find a good (free) app for OSX or Linux that lets me clean up the audio, boost volume, and do fades.
- [hyperdrive](https://www.moronosphere.com/hyperdrive/) - Between work and real life issues, I'm completely failed as a blogger lately. I'd say I'm taking a break from blogging only that's far more organized than i feel right now. I don't even have time or bandwidth to think. My world's gone into hyperdrive - and I'm not seeing anything to slow that down
- [Titanic](https://www.moronosphere.com/titanic/) - I pulled the trigger. That ain't mine - mine's an 06 and it's a darker color (they call it granite, I call it gun-metal gray). But it's close enough. Pix of the real one to be posted as soon as I get time. Edit: I found a better pic that's closer in color. Still not
- [Be My Guru](https://www.moronosphere.com/be-my-guru/) - One of my fave bands of all time, the Hoodoo Gurus, are (for now at least) back together and touring. This is it for US dates as far as I know: March 16, 2007 Austin, TX SXSW - Aussie Bar B Q show March 17, 2007 Dallas, TX Club Dada March 20, 2007 New York,
- [Celebrating love](https://www.moronosphere.com/celebrating-love/) - I always wish, on this day of the year, that I had something to say; something pithy or eloquent, something philosophical or carnal. I feel I should talk about love; love of the heart, love of the body. About the celebration - both in a universal sense, LOVE in capital letters, and in the small-scale,
- [Trucks, but not monsters](https://www.moronosphere.com/trucks-but-not-monsters/) - I have not fully escaped the tenacious grip of toadian motor madness. I try. Stop thinking about it i tell myself. Spend thee no money on wheels. But they call, the motor vehicles. Take me home they say, in a hellish chorus of steel and rubber and internal combustion. Take me home, temptresses with shiny
- [No Language in our Lungs](https://www.moronosphere.com/no-language-in-our-lungs/) - There is no language in our lungs to tell the world just how we feel no bridge of thought no mental link no letting out just what you think there is no language in our lungs there is no muscle in our tongues to tell the world what's in our hearts no we're leaving nothing
- [Oo-ee, oo-ee baby](https://www.moronosphere.com/ooee-ooee-baby/) - I posted the caricature version of me from that bar-mitzvah-on-the-bay; here's the real version. (click for full size) That's Alcatraz to my right (your left), and the city of San Francisco on my left (your right). The bridge you see is the SF bay bridge, and if i were looking over my left shoulder I'd
- [night's demons](https://www.moronosphere.com/nights-demons/) - I had another of those plaguing 3am wake-ups last night; 3am, which I've taken to calling the worrying hour for it's always the hour at which people wake to brood, or dread. It's the hour when we stare into the back heart of despair and can't see a way out. It's not a singular thing
- [twenny-five](https://www.moronosphere.com/twennyfive/) - Well, I'm suddenly up on 25peeps. No, not those peeps, 25peeps. I have no idea why. But go 'head and click me, early and often. EDIT: Well, 25peeps, which started out as a great idea (put up your face and see who clicks you and goes to your blog) has already degenerated into a farm
- [better things to do](https://www.moronosphere.com/better-things-to-do/) - Pardon me a moment while I grumble. This has been a very long week; various dramas of real life involving parents, a sudden huge uptick in my workload, drama from unexpected sources here and there. The kind of week where you really look forward to weekends. No; I have to work. One of the things
- [The Fuck-memes meme](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-fuckmemes-meme/) - From Fifth at Shoeless - Fuck Memes. Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one or two (maybe even three) reasons why I hate you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the hate. I love this. EDIT: New rule. After I tell you why I hate you, you don't
- [dead by now](https://www.moronosphere.com/dead-by-now/) - I was talking to a friend the other day, and she mentioned how many years she'd been working without a break. I started to do the math for myself. I started working when I was 18 or 19. Seriously working, full-time working. The next couple of years I went through a few jobs, fired twice
- [disappeared](https://www.moronosphere.com/disappeared/) - Someone in my group got disappeared today. It's one of those corporate moments that just freaks 'ya out, you know? Friday you're talkin' to a guy about a project you're working on, monday he's mysteriously out of work and your boss is saying you might need to handle that. And then they start with the
- [You Suck!](https://www.moronosphere.com/you-suck/) - Chris Moore - one of my favorite authors - has a new book out already. Chris. Dude. Slow down a little, k? You're gonna burn out. This is a sequel to Bloodsucking Fiends (A love Story); an utterly fabulous book, just as good as it's title. Moore's written a number of great books, and a
- [The real me](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-real-me/) - Well, i wasn't sure it was possible to reduce a person's essence, the totality of what makes them them in a few brush strokes. Bit it kinda seems like cartoonist Doug Shannon does a pretty good job. This guy was at a party I went to saturday (a Bar Mitzvah, actually, which was a unique
- [Neon Heat Disease](https://www.moronosphere.com/neon-heat-disease/) - Arrive in neurotica Through neon heat disease I swear at the swarming heards I sweat the foul terrain I rove the moving scenery I have no fin - no wing - no stinger - no claw - no camouflage I have - no more to say... You know it's that kinda day when you wind
- [llama song](https://www.moronosphere.com/llama-song/) - I've had no time to post, though in general I've been in a much better mood. My life, typically, is still in a state of constant upheaval (when, I wonder, does it get simple? Oh, right, when they shovel dirt over my face.) So here's something silly meantime, 'til I get time to put virtual
- [3.](https://www.moronosphere.com/3-2/) - I was going to post some fluffy light-hearted thing today about it being the anniversary of three years blogging. Today though I don't feel like a party. I feel more like a silent, angry brood. I feel more like banging my head against a wall than like waving the big foam finger. Why? Fuck if
- [dimensions of lust](https://www.moronosphere.com/dimensions-of-lust/) - I feel like all I've been writing about lately are objects of lust - material objects, not the lickable, suckable kind (nevermind that someone wanted to lick my new washer). Which makes this all seem one-dimensonal. Karl has a new object of material desire is all this blog seems to be about. I'm a big
- [Appliance Porn](https://www.moronosphere.com/appliance-porn/) - This is one of those things. You'll either get it or you won't. I am absurdly excited about this. The new washing machine & dryer were delivered today. Thus, Appliance Porn. Here's the old one. When I got it, eight, ten years ago, it was pretty much the best on the market; but it's astonishing
- [Soundtrack of my life meme](https://www.moronosphere.com/soundtrack-of-my-life-meme/) - I've seen this before but it's most recently stolen from Merrick. Thus, the iTunes 'Soundtrack of my Life' meme. Here's the instructions: 1. Open your library on your iPod (or in iTunes). 2. Put it on shuffle. 3. Press play. 4. For every question, type the song that’s playing. 5. When you go to a
- [iPhone](https://www.moronosphere.com/iphone/) - I've talked to a few of you about the project I've been busting ass on since before xmas - up nights supporting a development team in another time zone, etc. Here's why: It won't be out 'til june. But I want one.
- [Life on the Ocean Wave, FINALLY](https://www.moronosphere.com/life-on-the-ocean-wave-finally/) - I've been trying to lay hands on these images for ages. Finally, as I said, skin stories is out on DVD. What this means is that the image that I've long, long wanted to use as a design source for my tattoo backpiece is in my hands. Now all i have to do is decide
- [elmo likes fire](https://www.moronosphere.com/elmo-likes-fire/) - This is so utterly fucked up. "Immolate Me Elmo" - click to play Uh, props, or something, to Cory at boingboing for that.
- [blogiversary  three](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogiversary-three/) - I just noticed that my third blogiversary is coming up; middle of this month. Jan 15, 2004, as a lark, I posted my first blog entry. My friend Jen had offered me hosting space for a domain I owned; I just wanted a place to park the name, and maybe a few pages of storage.
- [comment troubles?](https://www.moronosphere.com/comment-troubles/) - I've had a couple users report trouble with the comments on my blog - seems like they're running afoul of some of my anti-spam measures. If you're having trouble posting a comment, let me know. Edit - I switched off one of the more agressive anti-spam agents, so anyone who was foiled by this (it
- [Lady Crush and Vampire Crush](https://www.moronosphere.com/lady-crush-and-vampire-crush/) - Julian's been working on some new stuff, and just gave me some previews. The first and second are the lady's skull ring in rose gold and silver. And it's sweet. I can just picture that ring on a delicate lady's finger (and, you know, that lady's hand on my...) The third is a couple variations
- [Boneman](https://www.moronosphere.com/boneman/) - Tony Creed, the Mad Doctor of Skulls, has been off the jobs for a bit due to a (i think minor) surgery on his arm; between that and the holidays he hasn't done much new work lately. He's back at it now though - he just sent a couple pictures of this fantastic Boneman skull
- [Is there any other bond?](https://www.moronosphere.com/is-there-any-other-bond/) - What James Bond Actor are You You are Sean Connery.Take this quiz!
- [I know you're out there](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-know-youre-out-there/) - I spend far too much time looking at web stats. I know who hits from where, when - for most of my regular readers, anyway. I know who's in NYC and who's in DC; who's in NO and who's in what part of TX; I know who's on the peninsula and who's in KC and
- [A drink to...](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-drink-to/) - I sit on new year's eve. I'm drinking wine, cooking for family. And thinking of those not present. My mother, alone in the prison of her home and her infirmity and her fear; she could come here, but will not. My father, my brother, dead now ten years or so; the first, a heart attack
- [Comments Fixed on The Written Word](https://www.moronosphere.com/comments-fixed-on-the-written/) - My other blog - the one where I post my fiction and other non-blog writing - has had the comments broken for a while now. I just noticed this. It's now fixed. I've you've tried to comment, sorry. If you have not, please do. Feedback is what keep me working. I you haven't had a
- [Skin Stories DVD](https://www.moronosphere.com/skin-stories-dvd/) - Skin Stories, a brilliant film by Emiko Omori and Lisa Altieri-Sosa, is finally available on DVD. This is a video I've talked about before, an in-depth exploration of tattooing in the south pacific, with a particular focus on tattooing in New Zealand's Maori culture. It's the best film i've ever seen on tattooing, largely because
- [design time](https://www.moronosphere.com/design-time/) - I'm thinking of doing a major blog re-design. I'm aces at the movable type template/plugins etc, but i sort of suck ass at graphic design (when I say suck ass, I mean in a bad way). So i need someone who can work with me on this who sorta gets movable type templates and who
- [Put on 'yer Daisy Dukes](https://www.moronosphere.com/put-on-yer-daisy-dukes/) - I'm in the grips of full-on motor madness, à la Mister Toad. This all started because of my kids (really). See, I drive a jeep wrangler. And that's a great vehicle, if impractical; it can take the beating, it goes forever with only minimal maintenance, it looks great dirty or scratched or dented. And in
- [Hail Santa](https://www.moronosphere.com/hail-santa/) - I love MC Chris. (swiped from the lovely and talented Merrick)
- [just like a real emo kid!](https://www.moronosphere.com/just-like-a-real-emo-kid/) - I heard the audio from this on the radio and I actually think it's funnier without the video. I was literally shrieking with laughter in my jeep on the way to work. I must have looked like a complete loon. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blk35pDBhLI] No idea how old this is, i never watched mad tv.
- [Fuck NBC and fuck youtube (dick in a box)](https://www.moronosphere.com/fuck-nbc-and-fuck-youtube-dick/) - EDIT: Youtube yanked this video ('Dick in a Box') over a copyright issue. Fuck them. Fuck NBC. Link removed. Assholes.
- [Law of Attraction](https://www.moronosphere.com/law-of-attraction/) - They sit to my right on a the banquette at one of this town's fancier eating establishments. I notice her first because she's somewhat pretty, and because she leans into the table with an attitude of rapt interest in what her date says. They're clearly on a date. I don't know how i can tell
- [If you have ghosts you have everything](https://www.moronosphere.com/if-you-have-ghosts-you-have-ev/) - If you have ghosts you have everything If you have ghosts you have everything if you can say everything you want then you can do anything you want if you have ghosts you have everything. -Roky Erickson, If you have ghosts God DAMN it why can't i find Roky Erickson lyrics anywhere? Oh, and
- [Me and the devil, we were walking side by side](https://www.moronosphere.com/me-and-the-devil-we-were-walki/) - I got to keep moving, I got to keep moving Blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail Mmm, blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail And the day keeps on remindin' me, there's a hellhound on my trail Hellhound on my trail, hellhound on my trail If today was
- [Some days](https://www.moronosphere.com/some-days/) - Some days you just wake up fuckin' mad at the world. You know what I'm sayin'. King Kong on the big 'ol building, swatting away annoying insect airplanes. Pissed and with all the power in the world to do nothing back to life's tiny, maddening annoyances. Bukowski said it better. I want it to be
- [anole](https://www.moronosphere.com/anole/) - I keep meaning to post a whole ting about my hawaii trip with photos but 1) i have no time and 2) i have so damned many photos to go through. So here's a sample set i like. I was in the town of Hawi, northenmost town on the Big Island of Hawaii. This is
- [Can't Bomb The World into Peace](https://www.moronosphere.com/cant-bomb-the-world-into-peace/) - It's re-posting other people's links day. This one's more serious though. My brutha-man Ray posted about a video that Gordon Soderberg made about Iraq Veterans Against War and the rebuilding effort in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. It's pretty compelling, and the intro set to Can't Bomb The World into Peace by Michael Franti
- [suddenly winter](https://www.moronosphere.com/suddenly-winter/) - Hell, when i left California, it was fall, almost summer weather. Now i come back and it's freezing - literally. That is a cruel trick to play on someone who's been wearing a kikepa/pareo and flip flops and nothing else for most of the last three weeks. brrrrrr! And yes, that means I'm home. More
- [everyone looks dorky under water](https://www.moronosphere.com/everyone-looks-dorky-under-wat/) - Dive Makai, the fine folks I was diving with the last two weeks, gave me a whole CD full of photos taken on our dives as a birthday present. Though that wasn't as great as the dive i had on my actual birthday with my man Todd Emmons (three different kinds of scorpion fish (Leaf
- [me 'n the manta](https://www.moronosphere.com/me-n-the-manta/) - Words can't add much here. That's me (the one without the wings). I'm actually touching the manta (a no-no, but in the moment - well, you know how I get, I'm all hands.) click the image to get a larger version - this is from a video another diver made of last tuesday's Manta dive.
- [islands call me](https://www.moronosphere.com/islands-call-me/) - I keep thinking of profound (or so it seems at the time, but maybe that's the nitrogen narcosis) things to blog, when I'm under water, or on a dive boat, or looking at pretty girls sunning themselves on beaches, lizard-like in the hot sun. But then later, here in my condo, between the cooking of
- [5.0 Thanksgiving](https://www.moronosphere.com/50-thanksgiving/) - My thanksgiving day started big-island-style with a 5.0 earthquake, centered just north of Kailua-Kona on the Kohala coast - same place the last one was, a month ago (though that one was considerably larger). My condo was rattling and shaking - though i am from California so earthquakes are nothing new. I thought my kids
- [lying on a beach](https://www.moronosphere.com/lying-on-a-beach/) - I was lying on the beach - or as much beach as you get on Hawaii's Big Island, which is more a giant hunk of lava than an island, and thus more generally rocky than sandy. I was in shady spot under a small palm tree, dozing after a picnic lunch and an hour of
- [not quite island time](https://www.moronosphere.com/not-quite-island-time/) - Well, i didn't wind up in a broken-off tail section, though i am on a vaguely mysterious island. More tales of my trip to come (for it is too hot to sit over my computer for very long). But so far, i've been diving, i've made fresh ahi poke, i've had a waittress at the
- [Islandward](https://www.moronosphere.com/islandward/) - Well, if i ain't packed it it ain't going. Since I'm leaving at the crack of way-too-fucking-early, there's none of my usual last-minute chick-minus-head running about. Next stop, Kailua Kona (via LAX). I plan to blog as i go but actual updates depend on where i find 'net access. Updates, then, whenever.
- [VOTE](https://www.moronosphere.com/vote-1/) - Get out there and vote - get the fucking GOP out.
- [v-minus](https://www.moronosphere.com/vminus/) - I'm incredibly wired. If you've met me you know this isn't unusual. But I mean, I'm incredibly wired even FOR ME. It's just sunk in that i have one week before vacation, and at least three weeks worth of things to do; mom to take care of (my mother's having some health issues and is
- [Fresh Crush](https://www.moronosphere.com/fresh-crush/) - My man Julian Lamb of Ruby Crush sent me some quick snaps of his latest work; this stuff ain't on his site yet (though I hope it will be soon); so this is a preview or what's to come. He sent me several but i particularly want to feature this, which I think us simply
- [100% free of wolves](https://www.moronosphere.com/100-free-of-wolves/) - Y'know, I'm just sayin...
- [This is Halloween, everybody make a scene](https://www.moronosphere.com/this-is-halloween-everybody-ma/) - I was trying to temporarily replace my current blog layout with something halloweeny (weenish? something like that), you know, black and orange with silly-scary lettering. I figured, you're home sick on halloween rather than out putting the trick in trick or treat, you might as well at least tart up your blog in halloween finery
- [saving my daylight](https://www.moronosphere.com/saving-my-daylight/) - i did the usual fall back thing this morning and went out with my watch wrong, and got myself confused because the place i went opened at nine and my watch said nine. Though of course here in the real world it was only 8. It's only an hour, yet a disagreement between internal and
- [Firefox 2](https://www.moronosphere.com/firefox-2/) - Firefox 2 was just released, and I have to strongly suggest that anyone not running Safari move to this new Firefox right now, particularly if you're still running Internet Explorer. I've been running the FF2 beta for several weeks and it's a seriously cool browser, even without a lot of tweaks and plugins installed. They've
- [How to eat...](https://www.moronosphere.com/how-to-eat/) - Ok, so the 'how to eat sushi' part is all well n' good. But how fucking cute is the girl? I'm tellin' ya. Only, why don't they show me more of the sushi actually goin' in to her sweet little mouth? That's what I wanna see*. (props to R for the find - you know
- [Nightmare in Three-D](https://www.moronosphere.com/nightmare-in-threed/) - I just saw the new Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D. And lemmee tellya, this ain't your mamma's 3D. 3D movies have come a LONG way in the past few years, as you'll know if you saw Monster House in it's 3D version, or if you've seen the latest 3D attractions at Disneyland or Universal or
- [rabbit](https://www.moronosphere.com/rabbit/) - This is a sort of artistic brilliance that defies my ability to describe. It left me utterly speechless. Rabbit by Run Wrake: It's longish (8 minutes) but watch the whole thing. It's utterly hypnotic. (Props to Dauber for the find)
- [I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-went-to-a-fight-and-a-hockey/) - (Wrote this a couple days ago but could not post it due to some server trouble) Mmm, i love me some hockey. My first game of the season - solid success, close enough to be thrilling, but never close enough that i was worried. Final score, Sharks 2, Dallas 0. I love a good shutout.
- [Self Review](https://www.moronosphere.com/self-review/) - Every year, around this time of year, it winds up being review time at my place of gainful employment, and I have to do the dreaded Self-evaluation-form. And every year i try to write a clever piece about it, to the effect that instead of this crap, i should get reviewed on what I'm I'm
- [Shaken and Stirred](https://www.moronosphere.com/shaken-and-stirred/) - Well, the whole Moronosphere and everything it contains went down like a cheap hooker last night. This wasn't unplanned, but we'd rather expected a short and simple downtime. Best Laid Plans, wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie. Due to some bad luck and just-ok support from the people who provide us physical hosting, getting the new-and-improved
- [Book thang](https://www.moronosphere.com/book-thang/) - Swiped this meme from Hiromi. (You know, i didn't realize meme was a dawkins-ism. It all makes much more sense to me now, AND it becomes obvious that somehow 'meme' has come to mean 'stupid quiz' around the blogosphere, rather than it's original meaning. But that's neither here nor there.) 1. One book that changed
- [Server Upgrades](https://www.moronosphere.com/server-upgrades/) - We're in the middle of some server OS upgrades (new linux version, new versions of some of our management tools) so if anything seems funky, bear with us, we'll iron it out over the next day or two. Once again, a bazillion thanks to Brandon at Athena Internet for puttin' up with us. Brandon, yer
- [six point six X eight oh eight](https://www.moronosphere.com/six-point-six-x-eight-oh-eight/) - Well, today I: 1) paid for my condo in kona, for a trip one month from today. 2) read the reports on a historically large earthquake in that same region. In that order. So you know, life remains interesting. More as I learn if this has any effect on me apart from possibly meaning it'll
- [You don't know what love is Bukowski said](https://www.moronosphere.com/you-dont-know-what-love-is-buk/) - I wish I'd written this. I almost wish Bukowski'd written this, but then it wouldn't be quite as cool. In fact Ray Carver wrote it - in circumstances I do not know. But he brilliantly captures both Bukowski's voice and his own in one single piece. I don't understand how he did it; but if
- [The Head Cat](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-head-cat/) - Rockabilly Lemmy? Yes. And you know, it kinda works. Lemmy wanted to make a record of the music he says inspired him to start playing, and it's hard to get much better backing players than Slim Jim Phantom and Danny Harvey for a record like this. Give it a listen: Big River Not Fade Away
- [MTLJPost fix!](https://www.moronosphere.com/mtljpost-fix/) - The most excellent Gavin of Kode Koan just got me an incredibly simple one-liner fix for MTLJPost, an MT plugin that cross-posts MT to LiveJournal (MT 3.x broke it.) If you read me there, you can see it works again! This fix is cake - in your MT install, edit this file: [MT
- [Life Beyond IM](https://www.moronosphere.com/life-beyond-im/) - I decided to try something new at work today. Not turning on any IM client. I know. Radical. Weird. Crazy Talk. But I'm just that livin' on the edge kinda guy. I just had this insane idea that maybe, just possibly I'd get some work done.
- [Three Days to Never](https://www.moronosphere.com/three-days-to-never/) - I just finished Tim Powers new book, Three Days to Never: The short version is this - if you've never read Powers, this might not be a bad place to start, to get an idea of exactly how insane Powers' world is. If you're a completist, you'll wanna go grab it, like I did. However,
- [Ace of Skulls](https://www.moronosphere.com/ace-of-skulls/) - Oh my god. Tony Creed is the fucking MAN. I give you the Ace of Skulls. Tony. Dude. If I had a sister I'd give her to you. Here, keys to my car. I MUST HAVE THAT RING - but it's gotta have sparkin' gems in the eyes. If you like to gamble, I tell
- [Bruce Potts](https://www.moronosphere.com/bruce-potts/) - This guy is my new hero.
- [Lost fucking Posts](https://www.moronosphere.com/lost-fucking-posts/) - Crap. I spent an hour this morning writing something about nightmares and - nightmarishly - i nuked it somehow rather than saving it. I was just going to finish it up and post it and --- nothing. I can't even begin to describe how much that irritates me. On the other hand, I saw a
- [Dead Eyes](https://www.moronosphere.com/dead-eyes/) - I got skulls in the bottom of a whiskey glass I'm a big bold man, but I think I'll pass Better slow up, I'm moving up too fast Something's come for me at last Hot flame licking on the burning meat Black smoke broiling off broken bones Something came close in the dead of night
- [Darwin sez](https://www.moronosphere.com/darwin-sez/) - Someone gave me this today. I've heard the quote before, but i love the image and quote together. That Darwin, he was one smart geezer. (tx, B!)
- [it means 'nothing'](https://www.moronosphere.com/it-means-nothing/) - I'm trying to find interesting symbols that mean 'nothing'. Not devoid of meaning; no, i want symbols that represent nothing. Null, zip, zilch. Not zero, which is a numeric value; but the concept of nothing. It's hard to google for 'nothing' though. Anyone know of any such symbols? I keep thinking Buddhist traditions must have
- [HULK SMASH!](https://www.moronosphere.com/hulk-smash/) - I want to be Thor. Or Batman. But I'll take Hulk. Your results: You are Hulk You are a wanderer with amazing strength. Hulk 90% Spider-Man 90% Green Lantern 70% Catwoman 70% Iron Man 65% Supergirl 53% Superman 50% Batman 50% The Flash 50% Wonder Woman 43% Robin 28% Click here to take the Superhero
- [Wakin' Up Tired](https://www.moronosphere.com/wakin-up-tired/) - You know what the Gurus mean when they talk about Wakin' up tired: Oh, the nights are long And I'm so tired of waking up tired, Man, they just drag on and on And I'm so tired of waking up tired. The company I'm keeping Won't let me get my sleep in. Oh, I hate
- [Lost Boy](https://www.moronosphere.com/lost-boy/) - I can't say for sure when this was. Obviously it'd have to be the 80s, but given that I'm clean shaven, i'm thinking early 80s. Last time i can recall having that hair and no beard would have been about 85, but we could go a couple years either way from there. See? I told
- [Enter Aretha](https://www.moronosphere.com/enter-aretha/) - This rules: Art at Mashuptown sez: DJ Rolf takes Metallica and mixes it up with some Aretha Franklin. Simple A+B hard rocking Mash. If this track doesn't get you goin' nothin' will. Props to our man in the NL Rolf. Enjoy.
- [San Diego - some cloak, some dagger](https://www.moronosphere.com/san-diego-some-cloak-some-dagg/) - Anyone out there in the San Diego area? I've need of a little, you know, covert action, kind of a black ops deal. You know, black ops: (No, I'm not above stealing a graphic from Dave Navarro) Drop me a line if you're ready to, y'know, go undercover.
- [video geeks?](https://www.moronosphere.com/video-geeks/) - Anyone out there set up to convert VHS tape to some sort of digital format? I've got a tape I need to transfer to some sort of high-res digital video format (quicktime or some such).
- [Compute like a Pirate](https://www.moronosphere.com/compute-like-a-pirate/) - Not only is it Talk like a Pirate Day. We all know that. But it's also Compute like a Pirate Day. My laptop. Get yer own here, matey!
- [Deadringer Gallery](https://www.moronosphere.com/deadringer-gallery/) - My pals over at Deadringer have a gallery page up I hadn't noticed. Wow, i say. Wow. Here's a snapshot - but the page has so much more, each thumbnail clickable to see a close up. Want. It. All. The Deadringer Classic remains the gold standard for skull rings. There is none finer, and i
- [Life on the Ocean Wave](https://www.moronosphere.com/life-on-the-ocean-wave/) - No idea why I'm still awake. I even took a sleeping pill and yet, 2:15, i'm fuckin' around on line, listenin' to Horslips and looking for a decent image their logo to make a t-shirt from; reading song lyrics, tryin' to figure out sometihng to write about. And i just happened to stumble on a
- [Creed Compass Cross](https://www.moronosphere.com/creed-compass-cross/) - I'm lucky I don't live near where Tony Creed works and sells. Not only would I always be hangin' out at his studio 'cause I like watching jewelers work (and cause he's fuckin' cool), but I'd be in hock to my eyeballs because I'd be buyin' one o' everything he makes. This is the current
- [large, angry rat](https://www.moronosphere.com/large-angry-rat/) - Ever have that feeling, like there's a large, angry rat inside your skull and it's trying to tear it's way out? You know, like it started below and behind your left ear, and it's making it's way toward your left eyeball? No? Well I can't recommend it. I am now in day three of a
- [Fist fulla Elvis](https://www.moronosphere.com/fist-fulla-elvis/) - In my never-ending quest to cover my entire body - or at least my entire hands - with silver, I've acquired a couple more rings. And again, these are due to the generosity and genius of my friend Julian Lamb of Ruby Crush; Julian, I hope you're selling some of these, because I love them.
- [pimpin' it out](https://www.moronosphere.com/pimpin-it-out/) - You may notice some adverts here and there around the m'sphere. Which ain't exactly piracy, but you know, you do what 'ya gotta. I'm tryin' this out after helping a hot and lovely friend research ads. They may not stay, we'll see what i get in the way of filthy lucre.
- [always saturday](https://www.moronosphere.com/always-saturday/) - Waterfall pavement shimmering Sunshine washes everything A basket of light, I am trusting To water the lawn is a wondrous thing If I could have it this way I know I'd I'd wanna live where it's like today I'd wanna live where it's always this way I wanna live where it's always Saturday A chorus
- [dollars and $ense](https://www.moronosphere.com/dollars-and-ense/) - A sex-blogger friend 'o mine needs to get some advertising revenue coming in from her blog; I of course know very little about getting ads set up on a blog, particularly when it's a blog of the adult variety. Anyone out there know much about this? I have no idea where to get started, between
- [Hurts like Teen Spirit](https://www.moronosphere.com/hurts-like-teen-spirit/) - This gives me fuckin' chills. Hurts like Teen Spirit A brilliant, absolutely brilliant mash of Johnny Cash vs Nirvana vs Blue Oyster Cult vs New Order by DJ Dangerous Orange; you can get the track here. That Johhny Cash song seeps into my skull anyway and I walk around knowing exactly what he's talkin' about.
- [Gothy skull goodness](https://www.moronosphere.com/gothy-skull-goodness/) - Chelsea Girl, who's still in the midst of her Seaside rendezvous (so adorable), managed to pull herself away from the sand and sun long enough to point me to a couple of pieces of jewelry I love, from Barbara Klar of clearmetals.com. She has this awesome pieces she calls 'Victorian Skull Lockets' - and given
- [It's the shrinkage](https://www.moronosphere.com/its-the-shrinkage/) - I started with a new therapist this week. I don't know why I'm saying that, other than that it's true, and that it's the sort of thing I tend not to ever say in a public forum. for some reason it seems like a good idea, though, to simply say it. It's not the first
- [Tattoo Action Items from the Boss Man](https://www.moronosphere.com/tattoo-action-items-from-the-b/) - My boss, Jeff - well, my boss's boss's boss now, but nevermind - my boss just walked up to me and gave me an action item. "Get a backpiece," he said. The backpiece. I tried to find this on wikipedia and couldn't (I should go add a page for it). Best I could do was
- [Tremulous Antenna](https://www.moronosphere.com/tremulous-antenna/) - I just picked up another of those wonderful BBC live recordings. Though if you're not a Be-Bop Deluxe fan, this won't be that interesting. I'm a huge Fan - Be Bop Deluxe is just about my favorite band of all time; I think Bill Nelson's a brilliant writer, a brilliant lyricist, and of course, a
- [Oh my sweet Veronica](https://www.moronosphere.com/oh-my-sweet-veronica/) - Veronica Mars season two is getting released on DVD monday the 21st. At last. I was still watching season one when season two started and wasn't able to catch up, so I've seen not an episode of it. On the other hand I've watched season one through at least twice, and some eps I've seen
- [24 gone horribly wrong](https://www.moronosphere.com/24-gone-horribly-wrong/) - I hate to use the phrase jump the shark. It was clever when someone coined it but it's one of those things you hear all the damned time. People will say it every time a show has an off episode, or because they've decided it's not cool to watch that show anymore, or because something
- [stolen moments and entries unfinished](https://www.moronosphere.com/stolen-moments-and-entries-unf/) - I keep figuring I'll get some time, soon, to get progress on blog entries. And now, I'm starting to think that's not true and i'll never have anything to say ever again. I've got these entries started on movies, teevee shows (and why 24 went from best to worst between seasons two and three). On
- [Rock Star 6767](https://www.moronosphere.com/rock-star-6767/) - If you're as hooked on Rock Star as I am, you should follow Big Dave Navarro's blog, 6767. He's got some commentary going that's dead on about the issues with this season (though i think he's still holding back a bit, you can tell by his body language that he's frustrated with things, i think
- [Let's Pretend](https://www.moronosphere.com/lets-pretend/) - Let's pretend it's my birthday. And let's pretend you're all going to get together and buy me these. That store was right across from my hotel in hollywood last weekend, but somehow I never got over there while they were open. And maybe that's a good thing, for my wallet's sake.
- [puddle-deep wallow in self-pity](https://www.moronosphere.com/puddledeep-wallow-in-selfpity/) - I posted something last night that was a puddle-deep wallow in self-pity. The kinda shit that makes me want to bitch-slap myself. It makes me angry, you know, when I feel like that. I get angry with my own inability to express myself verbally, by inability to just spit out what bothers me. So I
- [...never write](https://www.moronosphere.com/never-write/) - I'm back at that point where people are asking me if I'm mad at them, wondering why I don't write. I don't fucking know. Like I said recently, sometimes the shark gets you. I can't seen to communicate at all - I'm sittin' here alone this eve - family gone again for a short trip
- [What do you think you’re looking at, Sugar Tits?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-do-you-think-youre-lookin/) - I'm not sure where this picture came from. But it rules. And I have to say, I'm utterly and completely taken with the phrase "sugar tits". Is it a kind of bird? A candy? a frosted fried dough confection? You know, it's the kind of thing I'd actually call someone, in a bar or in
- [How I Spent my Summer vacation](https://www.moronosphere.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/) - Here's photographic evidence of how I spent my summer vacation. Sometimes you get the shark, and sometimes... ...the shark gets you. (click that for a bigger view)
- [flyin' south](https://www.moronosphere.com/flyin-south/) - I had this idea I'd do some writing while I was alone, but it wound up as predicted; at work late every day, and then sapped of will when I got home. I started at least three blog entries, all of them now languishing. Ah. Such is life. Today i fly south to Los Angeles
- [Young Ace of Spades](https://www.moronosphere.com/young-ace-of-spades/) - Once again the fetching Miss Syl has pointed me to something that I can't live without. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYUgVNkWm80] A clip from a vintage 1984 episode of The Young Ones featuring an unusual four-piece lineup of Motörhead doing my theme song (ok, so it's one of my theme songs), Ace of Spades.
- [Hot as Hell and Time Alone](https://www.moronosphere.com/hot-as-hell-and-time-alone/) - It's been hotter than hell the last few days here in northern CA. The kind of days where I don't feel like being anywhere near a computer. Not just hot for here - hot for anywhere, anywhere that's not AZ or NM or some death-dry desert. It's the kind of hot we almost never her
- [Kick In the Eye](https://www.moronosphere.com/kick-in-the-eye/) - And he spoke of pastures green I was never told why Each journey lasts an age And my throat feels dry It must be the lesson Hidden deep inside It must be the lesson So roll the tide So I began the crossing My throat burned dry Searching for Satori The kick in the eye
- [Rockstar - thy name is mediocrity](https://www.moronosphere.com/rockstar-thy-name-is-mediocrit/) - I've said before - i loved rockstar: inxs. But so far, I'm not loving rockstar: prefabSuperGroup. I loved rs:insx because - well, because of the guys in inxs. Gary Beers, the various and sundry Farriss brothers, the odd but talented Kirk Pengilly. This was a big deal to them, finding a singer. And not just
- [Pirates 2 - 'slimy'](https://www.moronosphere.com/pirates-2-slimy/) - Elizabeth Swann: There will come a moment when you have the chance to do the right thing. Jack Sparrow: I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by. I asked a friend who'd seen a pre-release screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest how it was. "Slimy," she
- [the öutstretched grasping hand](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-outstretched-grasping-hand/) - The Motörhead logo is back. I am the one, Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand My image is of agony, my servants rape the land Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore. I
- [drinkin' the koolaid](https://www.moronosphere.com/drinkin-the-koolaid/) - I found this font I couldn't resist. So we're temporarily the, you know, kool-aid-o-sphere. Thanks to the lovely-and-talented Miss Syl, font geek and photoshop bitch extraordinaire.
- [Rock Star: Supernova](https://www.moronosphere.com/rock-star-supernova/) - I can't help it. I'm already hooked. Rock Star: Supernova I watched the first one - and cared - because it was INXS and they had a back-story. A tragic, sordid death, a band trying to come back from oblivion. But I kept watching it because it was just good. Better than it got credit
- [turn the dial 'til it comes off in your hand](https://www.moronosphere.com/turn-the-dial-til-it-comes-off/) - I was gonna post the lyrics to this song. But it turns out I already did. Only this time there's audio.
- [mod-rewrite grokage](https://www.moronosphere.com/modrewrite-grokage/) - Anyone out there good with mod-rewrite? I'm trying to do something really simple but I'm not getting some key point. I just wanna do: http://www.moronosphere.com/whatsis redirect to http://www.moronosphere.com/bobsyeruncle I know that's dead simple but for some reason I can't get my head around it today.
- [Fist fulla Crush](https://www.moronosphere.com/fist-fulla-crush/) - &t My friend Julian Lamb (Jeweler to the Queen) was kind and generous enough to send me a ring, the better to show off the quality of his work, from his shop, Ruby Crush. And when I say quality, I mean it, he ain't fuckin' around. A truly lovely thing it is - click the
- [Mad Jack Kidd](https://www.moronosphere.com/mad-jack-kidd/) - Hey, I like it. My pirate name is: Mad Jack Kidd Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr! Get your own pirate name from fidius.org. A
- [No indifference - and now, the sixties](https://www.moronosphere.com/no-indifference-and-now-the-si/) - I have to give ChelseaGirl some deep, wet kisses for pointing me to this site; the oddly named gentle indifference. "A compact disc-length compilation of relevant music from each calendar year dating back to 1960. Updated every Monday." I just pulled down 1968: 1. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix - 4:00 2. White
- [3.3 Beta](https://www.moronosphere.com/33-beta/) - We're up and running on the final MT 3.3 release candidate. Fingers crossed, we may have a full release on it by the end of the week.
- [Way to Go, Lewis](https://www.moronosphere.com/way-to-go-lewis/) - SFGate has a fantastic writeup of my friend Lewis' new book, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. Just as John Masefield's classic poem "Sea Fever" captures the ocean's age-old call, Lewis Buzbee defines the equally seductive attraction of the bookstore. Whether a sea of books or a large body of water, the siren call that each exerts is
- [Non-Consent Tattoos](https://www.moronosphere.com/nonconsent-tattoos/) - Wow. From SFGate: A nurse measures one of the many insult tattoos inscribed on a woman's body by her former boyfriend in Changchun, China. Zhou Jingzhi used a sewing needle dipped in ink to forcibly tattoo the woman and two lovers he was holding hostage. He has reportedly been sentenced to death for the deed.
- [...than hell](https://www.moronosphere.com/than-hell/) - It's hotter than hell, I still have not even caught up on all my email accumulation from last week's vacation, I've got server issues at work and server issues here on the m'sphere (teach me to go fucking with unix groups without knowing what I'm doing). I'm havin' a fucked up allergy attack from this
- [twennyfour](https://www.moronosphere.com/twennyfour/) - One thing. I want to be Jack Bauer. He gets to kill people. He gets to steal cars and point guns atg people and when he says Do it! NOW! people do it. When he says he'll kill you, he fuckin' means it. When he says I'm not going to shoot you, he doesn't mean
- [Father Day Tattoos and Rhinos](https://www.moronosphere.com/father-day-tattoos-and-rhinos/) - Father's day cards from my kids, which show you that adobe illustrator can be used for good as well as evil. Also with the tattoo card came another in the never-ending stream of devil duckies that seem to come to me (I think this makes fifteen of them) - Tattoo Devil Duckie. I may have
- [Bleeding Edge - MT 3.3 Beta 2](https://www.moronosphere.com/bleeding-edge-mt-33-beta-2/) - I just upgraded my MT install to MT 3.3 Beta 2. Which isn't, I guess, truly bleeding edge, but I like the phrase bleeding edge. If anyone has troubles, let me know. This new MT version has some cool features, I'm only just starting to play with them.
- [Returning, alas](https://www.moronosphere.com/returning-alas/) - travel
- [Family dis-union](https://www.moronosphere.com/family-disunion/) - It started out as a plan for a family reunion. This would be a good place I said, to do a family reunion. The 'sometime' was implied. My in-laws (you may remember them from an earlier episode, in fact many, known collectively as in-law vs outlaw) have one of those family reunion traditions. Sometimes we
- [Joomla Designers?](https://www.moronosphere.com/joomla-designers/) - Anyone out there know Joomla templates? I've need of a good Joomla designer who can take some bad CSS and make a good joomla template out of it. This is a paying gig. I'm not a designer, I suck at graphic design. Help. I'm working on setting up a server and getting the content in
- [Brokeback Mounties](https://www.moronosphere.com/brokeback-mounties/) - I post this only because it gives me a chance to use the phrase Brokeback Mounties. And who can resist. It's an I'm a Lumberjack sort of story. Two RCMP officers will finally get their man this summer, when Const. Jason Tree and Const. David Connors walk down the aisle and exchange vows. It will
- [MT 3.3 beta](https://www.moronosphere.com/mt-33-beta/) - Update - The MT 3.3 Beta has been released. I encourage MT users to get on board and help test - I'd like to see this release go GA shortly, it's got some REALLY cool features. I'm not planning to upgrade this-here space yet (not 'til they get to at least beta version 2 or
- [Blogrolling is down, down down](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogrolling-is-down-down-down/) - Blogrolling is down today, for those who use it. http://news.blogrolling.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/5/2008115.html Please note that blogrolling.com is curerntly down for maintenance reasons. We have been experiencing technical issues with the database and have to take down the entire service in order to repair the problem in a quick fashion. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have
- [Coop Boot Lust](https://www.moronosphere.com/coop-boot-lust/) - My god, I want these boots - made custom for Coop by a bootmaker named Pascal. I'm a sucker for boots and a sucker for custom-made shit. Coop, I'm afraid to ask how to get 'hold of Pascal, I can feel my wallet protesting already... (image from Coop's site, props to BoingBoing for the find)
- [I still love nina gordon](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-still-love-nina-gordon/) - I posted this two years ago and I just re-found it. And I still love this woman. And I still love this brilliant cover.
- [Piloh WHAT?](https://www.moronosphere.com/piloh-what/) - This is one of those moments where you want to ask a parent, did you try saying your new baby's name out loud? The very fuckable if sorta over-rated Angelina Jolie, and her current man-slut, the also somewhat fuckable Brad Pitt, just had a baby - who you figure is going to grow up to
- [Body Circle Sale '06](https://www.moronosphere.com/body-circle-sale-06/) - My favorite body-piercing jewelry maker, Body Circle, are having their annual everything-20%-off sale. It's a great time to get those more expensive pierces like the gold piercing jewelry (hmm, maybe I should get new, gold nipple rings), big, heavy rings for you well-sgtretched types, or a good time to stock up on piercing supplies for
- [Rock Paper Scissors... Monkey?](https://www.moronosphere.com/rock-paper-scissors-monkey/) - Maybe it's just me. But I think this is incredibly funny. It's a 25-gesture version of the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors. Here's the chart, and the list of the possible gestures with how they play with other gestures. Though you know, they need to make it 26 - Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shocker! Ok. Maybe it's
- [Half-Nekkid shock](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-shock/) - It's been a long long time since I've played Half-Nekkid Thursday, so i figure I either need to take the logos down, or contribute. So I took a pic today that may come as, well, you know, a bit of a shocker. You know. The Shocker. Not to be confused with the Vulcan Shocker. Happy
- [A Pirate's Wishlist](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-pirates-wishlist/) - From time to time people ask me if I have a wishlist. I have several as a matter of fact. Some of you are on that list if you know what I'm saying. But you could pretty much see this as my wishlist. I'll take one of each shirt. Size xxl.
- [Rubber Legs and Cemeteries](https://www.moronosphere.com/rubber-legs-and-cemeteries/) - Wow, are my legs sore. I realize now how long it's been since I've been on a bike. Where's my fuckin' advil? Wait, actually, where's my darvocet? Not that I need it, but if I'm takin' pills, it might as well be ones with side benefits. It's been a long time, and yet, I find,
- [Two Wheelers](https://www.moronosphere.com/two-wheelers/) - After a very long, hard struggle involving mis-teaching, panic, fear, anger, and desire, my daughter can now, at twelve, ride a two-wheeler. Your long dark nightmare is over, I told her. This was a long time coming. She was set up badly in the early days by grandma 'helping' - which is to say, pushing.
- [Here We Are Now](https://www.moronosphere.com/here-we-are-now/) - Oh my god. I'd be speechless if I wasn't both laughing and deeply impressed. The lovely and talented Miss Syl posted a clip, from Jools Holland's Hootenanny, of - well, you know, you just have to see it. Go there, then read the rest of this below the cut. The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain.
- [eight-oh-one](https://www.moronosphere.com/eightohone/) - The pure delight of finding something you never knew about. I love that feeling. This may be old news to you folks. Ray, DN, CG, i bet you guys all had this on vinyl. But somehow I missed it. 801. Phil Manzanera, Eno, Bill MacCormick, Simon Phillips, etc. Maybe I never payed attention to Manzanera
- [I Have No Mouth, and I Must...](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must/) - Evidently I've not only stopped blogging but stopped communicating almost completely. Even my mother just asked me if she'd pissed me off, and she's never said anything like that to me, ever. I'm certain there's a list of people who are likewise wondering if I'm angry, or who are angry with me. Mea Culpa. I'm
- [blog break](https://www.moronosphere.com/blog-break/) - I didn't really plan it but I seem to have taken some sort of break from blogging. I look back at my last couple weeks of entries and find that even though there are a few posts, they're free of content. And since last weekend I've had nothing whatsoever to say, not even able to
- [Leigh Ann Hussey](https://www.moronosphere.com/leigh-ann-hussey/) - Fuck. This is a friend of mine - or used to be, hadn't talked to her in a couple years. Old 'net friend from motorcycle newsgroups; a gifted violin player who played in local celtic bands. LIVERMORE - The Alameda County coroner's office identified the motorcyclist killed when a dump truck ran over her Tuesday
- [season over](https://www.moronosphere.com/season-over/) - Hockey season is officially over. Forget the cup. The Sharks are out, thus no no hockey from here matters. When's football season start? *sigh*
- [Not a model man](https://www.moronosphere.com/not-a-model-man/) - I've had this song goin' through my head all weekend. look at the signs look at the symptoms look at the slight calm before the storm I feel the silence I feel the signals I feel the strain tension in my head well, what more can be said... not a model man not a saviour
- [Daddy, what's MILF mean?](https://www.moronosphere.com/daddy-whats-milf-mean/) - A mother's day highlight: Having to explain to an 8 year old and a 12 year old what M.I.L.F. means. "Um. It's a, you know, really pretty mommy..." The little one was fine with that. The elder gave me one of those looks. You know the ones, the ones I'll be getting more and more
- [I think it's a message](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-think-its-a-message/) - There is something so bizzarly sweet/funny about this. This is a message I found on my voice mail. I edited it down - chopping out some identifying things like phone numbers and locations, and chopping about four and a half minutes of dead air out of it. It's still six and a half minutes long
- [sound tools?](https://www.moronosphere.com/sound-tools/) - Anyone know a good, free, easy to use WAV file editor for OSX? (Or an mp3 editor, I can convert it). I've got this sound file I wanna post - an inadvertent voice mail - but it's ten minutes long, with a lot of dead air. I need to chop the gaps out, and take
- [What a difference ten hours makes](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-a-difference-ten-hours-ma/) - Sometimes you don't know how fucking tired you are until you get un-tired. I've felt like shit since last thursday; had one of those days where i made a plan for something and organized my whole day around it, and then it went off track through no fault of my own. But it set my
- [Keith's Skull](https://www.moronosphere.com/keiths-skull/) - I'm sure we're all very concerned that Keith Richards recently fell out of a palm tree in fiji and had to be airlifted to new zealand (I guess he needed to get to Rivendell for some of that elf healing). And we're even more concerned that he just had holes drilled in his head to
- [Tragic, Doomed Heros](https://www.moronosphere.com/tragic-doomed-heros/) - This is a really dumb quiz. But I happened to find it while I was looking up something about Sin City. I came up Marv, but I also scored high as Dwight, and as Manute, and, somehow, as That Yellow Bastard. The fact that I'd like to whip jessica alba may have caused that last
- [it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse](https://www.moronosphere.com/its-not-the-large-things-that/) - the shoelace by Charles Bukowski. a woman, a tire that's flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still you can study them like pieces on a chessboard... it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he's ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire,
- [When mountains choose sides](https://www.moronosphere.com/when-mountains-choose-sides/) - Evidently, even Mount St. Helens is rooting for the Sharks to win the stanley cup. http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=85601 If we win, stand back. That could be some party, man.
- [Ow.](https://www.moronosphere.com/ow/) - God dammit. I was just opening my new Utilikilt - the new black workman's I bought after selling the Survival last month - and I did one of those stupid things. I keep my knives really really sharp. And I picked up the package and grabbed my gerber folder and slash. Only my aim was
- [Memesday Morning](https://www.moronosphere.com/memesday-morning/) - When you can't really write you post song lyrics, or you do memes and quizzes. From Hiromi, who snagged it from El Diablo: 9 lasts 1. last place you were: (wow, that's a vague question, I'll treat it as a travel question): Southern CA. 2. last soda: Probably mountain dew but god knows how long
- [Spring Fever](https://www.moronosphere.com/spring-fever/) - ok, so it's way too nice suddenly in sunny northern california to be inside or anywhere near a computer. I want to take the top off my jeep and just go, beach, mountains, whatever. Just out-fucking-side. Damn work. I don't wanna be anywhere near computers...
- [skunked sex?](https://www.moronosphere.com/skunked-sex/) - Suddenly I'm getting dozens of hits from people googling skunked sex. I don't even know what that means. But somehow I'm getting hits. (scratches head. shrugs.) I like it better when I get hits on daddy fuck me really hard, but I'll take what I can get.
- [Big Sports Weekends](https://www.moronosphere.com/big-sports-weekends/) - This is where a different geek-side (Geekseid?) shows. This is where I go all sports geek. This weekend is the NFL draft. And I hate to admit how much I care. I've been known to watch at least part of the first round on teevee, and I always track progress throughout the draft weekend. I
- [Bay Area Essentials](https://www.moronosphere.com/bay-area-essentials/) - Evidently the iTunes Music Store has released a playlist of what they call Bay Area Essentials. But the people at SFGate (Joel Selvin and Aidin Vaziri) don't agree with this list. What do you think? (from SFGate - COMPILED BY AIDIN VAZIRI AND JOEL SELVIN) THE CHRONICLE'S LIST COMPILED BY AIDIN VAZIRI AND JOEL SELVIN
- [Geek Support](https://www.moronosphere.com/geek-support/) - I'm trying to help a non-techie windows user ftp upload a bunch of data to my server for safe storage. Trouble is, when I think ftp, I think unix/macos command line (the way I do it): [motorhead:~] kmac% ncftp -u username hostname.com So I need to direct said user to a good, easy to
- [Go Sharks](https://www.moronosphere.com/go-sharks/) - God, I love hockey. I haven't been a hockey fan for a long time; i tried, back in '91 when the San Jose Sharks played their first couple seasons in the lovely Cow Palace in Daly City. But no one I knew particularly cared about hockey, and the team sort of sucked, and it's really
- [Browncoat weapon lust](https://www.moronosphere.com/browncoat-weapon-lust/) - Ok, my geek is showing. This is where my fetish for knives crosses my geekery. I've been looking for months for where I can get Jayne Cobb's Bowie Knife from Firefly. I've wanted a big-ass bowie knife for years. I've got balisongs, switchblades, straight-razors, tactical folders, bayonets, daggers, throwing knives, a million kitchen knives, machetes,
- [...surprise?](https://www.moronosphere.com/surprise/) - I just got hits in my logs from "buckeye, arizona" and from "surprise, arizona". And I'm thinkin'... Well. You know what I'm thinkin'.
- [forty-four one hundredths](https://www.moronosphere.com/fortyfour-one-hundredths/) - I've tried several times to do the hundred things about me meme but i never ever get it done. But Hiromi went with 20 out of 100, Syl did 69 things (no wonder I like you, Syl), circe did 20-ish things. And those seem vaguely doable goals. So I started going and was going to
- [more happy](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-happy/) - Happy Birthday to m'man Ray. Love ya like a brother, man. Have a good day. Eat until you fuckin' bust.
- [if you knew sushi](https://www.moronosphere.com/if-you-knew-sushi/) - No, I didn't run off today and play hookey. I didn't go get tattooed or blow work off to go drink beer or ride my motorcycle in the blue blue sunshine. I didn't even blog much. Instead, I worked. Or at least tried to, though I'm finding concentration hard without a day off. Somehow this
- [I need to get tattooed](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-need-to-get-tattooed/) - I need to get tattooed. I'm having a complete ink-junkie moment. I don't even care what I get right now, I just need to get tattooed. I'm having a very strong urge to blow off work and just go. I don't have any plan for where to go or what to get. Oakland, Santa Cruz,
- [More Alarms](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-alarms/) - Ok, there's a scene in a movie - and this is stuck in my head like an earworm, like a song frag you can't get rid of and can't identify, the way Soho's Hippychick used to stick with no song name or band name or other useful lyrics, just 'no hip, hip, hip, no hippychick'.
- [Like a dream that has no dreamer](https://www.moronosphere.com/like-a-dream-that-has-no-dream/) - I'm in one of those song lyrics phrases. A couple days ago it was Spiriitualized - and yesterday if I'd bothered, it would have been Hüsker Dü. But now I'm suddenly in a Be Bop Deluxe phase. Like a square peg in a round hole Like a harp without its strings Like a sailor who
- [cobbler's elves](https://www.moronosphere.com/cobblers-elves/) - looks like I've got one of those all-weekend pushes coming - a project that's due for release monday (this is internal tools stuff, not product. I don't do product, man) needs the cobbler's elves to do magic behind the scenes. So I'll be at my desk, or some variant of my desk, most of the
- [Cop Shoot Cop](https://www.moronosphere.com/cop-shoot-cop/) - Man, I love Spiritualized. Hey man there’s a hole in my arm where all the money goes Jesus christ died for nothin’ I suppose Cop shoot cop I believe I believe that I have been reborn Cop shoot cop I haven’t got the time no more Hey man there’s a hole in my head where
- [!Broke](https://www.moronosphere.com/broke/) - I think I've mostly un-done the template breakage, but I still need to tweak a few things. Right now I'm hip deep in Joomla, trying to figure out how to shoehorn a internal group website into a Joomla layout. Sections and Categories and Bears, Oh My. I'm finally putting the blog-related skills into something now
- [The Eyes Have It](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-eyes-have-it/) - This is fucking brilliant. I dunno how much I've talked about comics but i grew up on a steady diet of sci-fi pulps and comics. And Jack Kirby, more than anyone else, defined my early comic-reading days (Well, that and Gilbert Shelton, but that's spelled comix). My first comics ever were Kirby; an issue of
- [My Cock on Ebay](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-cock-on-ebay/) - I dunno if everyone's seen this or not.
- [Back in the saddle again](https://www.moronosphere.com/back-in-the-saddle-again/) - Ridin’ into town alone By the light of the moon I’m looking for ol sukie jones She crazy horse saloon Barkeep gimme a drink That’s when she caught my eye She turned to give me a wink That make a grown man cry Ok. Gots me a new computer. Seventeen inches of throbbing computational power,
- [Grumble.](https://www.moronosphere.com/grumble-1/) - I'm still without a decent computer; managing at work with an old Sun Sparc u60 with an out-of-focus monitor, and an incredibly slow g4 tiBook. If I'm not particularly communicative, that's why. I'm finding the basic tasks of computation frustrating. You get spoiled, I find, having a really good computer. Evidently my boss is working
- [Entry number 666](https://www.moronosphere.com/entry-number-666/) - Well, jolly fucking nice. My laptop just died. This is my only computer, my work machine, my play machine. My fuckin' life is on that machine. Ok, ok, so most everything that matters is backed up, aside form some photos and some music. I try not to keep important shit on that computer. But still,
- [Serious Silver Skull rings](https://www.moronosphere.com/serious-silver-skull-rings/) - Just wondering if anyone has had any contact AT ALL with the Serious SIlver people who make the Clapton Skull Ring and the Keith Richards skull ring. I've been hearing about them failing to ship orders, and despite several attempts I've been unable to contact them. They make some great rings (i love my Clapton
- [This place is getting to me. I think I’m getting the Fear.](https://www.moronosphere.com/this-place-is-getting-to-me-i/) - I dunno what it is. Maybe it's just being sick, still, with something I can't shake (or with a series of things which I can't fight off 'cause the other thing lowered my resistance). Maybe it's that everyone's sick; i talked to friends yesterday from Philly and San Jose, both of whom came down with
- [Oh, this is dangerous](https://www.moronosphere.com/oh-this-is-dangerous/) - CrazyPig, one of the coolest and oldest of the skull ring makers, now has an online store. I would happily buy almost everything on that page, and that's just the rings. Hell. There goes what's left of my paycheck.
- [Fuck Monday](https://www.moronosphere.com/fuck-monday/) - I won't sing that song but you know the song I mean. God, I don't want it to be monday. I've been trying to drag my sorry ass up outta the chair to get dressed for work for at least a fuckin' hour and I can't face the idea. I'm in that irritating place where
- [Still no sign of land](https://www.moronosphere.com/still-no-sign-of-land/) - Still no sign of land. How long is it? That's a rather personal question, sir. You stupid git. I meant how long has it been in the lifeboat? You've destroyed the atmosphere now. I'm sorry. Shut up. Start again. So the latest weather report says another week of the grim and gray. I think I'm
- [forty days in the hole](https://www.moronosphere.com/forty-days-in-the-hole/) - Is it forty days and forty nights yet? Pretty damned close. We've just set records for all-time wettest march here in sunny northern california and I'm wondering, here on this april fool's day, if we're getting the same sort of april. Because looking out the window I'm not seeing my sunny april weather. I'm not
- [Steve, don't eat it!](https://www.moronosphere.com/steve-dont-eat-it/) - I was talking to an old, old friend and trying to 'splain blogging. I didn't do that well, but I figured, I'l just show her. I was gonna direct her to my blog, but then I figured, no, wait, i need to start her off with a good blog so I went with Waiter Rant.
- [L O V E - H A T E, baby!](https://www.moronosphere.com/l-o-v-e-h-a-t-e-baby/) - This rules: I of course also own a pair of "L O V E - H A T E" motorcycle gloves, which I think you can't get now, but which rule. But I'm gonna have to snap up these baby gloves, for, you know, whoever breeds next. B^) (via boingboing)
- [I don't want to go on the cart](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-dont-want-to-go-on-the-cart/) - A quick update - despite what people say, I'm not dead. in fact I'm feeling much better. I think I'll go for a walk. I Feel Happy! Thanks to modern medicine (and visions of nubile slave girls), I'm startin' to feel human again. I took some time off work and did pretty much nothing but
- [Walkin' Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu](https://www.moronosphere.com/walkin-pneumonia-and-the-boogi/) - I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall I wanna holler but the joint's too small Young man rhythm's got a hold of me too I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu Well, I finally listened after several people said go to the doctor you stupid bastard. And you know, you people
- [Kilt - Sold.](https://www.moronosphere.com/kilt-sold/) - Wow, that didn't take long. I listed my kilt on ebay yesterday with a 'buy it now' price and it got snapped up already. Nice. I'm suddenly thinking, what *else* can I sell on ebay? (kids. I wonder how much kids would get)
- [V](https://www.moronosphere.com/v/) - Yesterday, on very short notice my boss decided to take my whole team out. I guess we're at quarter end and he had budget for something that went away next week. The result was the sort of day that works out perfectly with no planning whatsoever. One of my co-workers is from Ethiopia, and he's
- [Comment Freaky Styley](https://www.moronosphere.com/comment-freaky-styley/) - I just found a trick at LMT to make author comments show up differently than comments from the peanut gallery. I tried this out yesterday in Hiromi's blog (which worked out pretty well) so today I added it to my blog. Still tuning but I think it's pretty cool, it make it clear which comments
- [A Dirty Job](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-dirty-job/) - Christopher Moore, one of my very-most-favorite writers, has a new book out: A Dirty Job I've talked about Moore before; I think he's just awesome. Clever, funny, brilliantly creative. He sits in a weird gray area, part horror, part sci-fi, part humorous fiction. Weird, fucked up things happen in his books. Demons and vampires, talking
- [DeadRingers update](https://www.moronosphere.com/deadringers-update/) - My hand it up on the DeadRingers web site, along with some other fantastic new pictures (Love the gold skulls). They've also got some new items on the site, and some sketches of upcoming pieces (Want that celtic cross - nice!) As usual, fabulous designs and incredibly creativity. These guys are awesome.
- [Happy Blogday to CG](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-blogday-to-cg/) - I just wanted to give a nod to the lovely and talented ChelseaGirl who's celebrating her one year BlogDay anniversary with an all-day house party. And I wanted to point to what I made for her, a little bit of erotica called Chelsea, which wasn't bad for being written under the influence of tequila. Happy
- [Crazy Old Uncle Joe](https://www.moronosphere.com/crazy-old-uncle-joe/) - One of my readers, crazy old uncle joe (one of those madmen who types all in caps so you always feel like he's SHOUTING EVERYTHING AT MAXIMUM VOLUME) just sent me a pic of his fabulous brand new Tony Creed DestinyMan skull ring (Click for a close-up): That's one sweet ring, Joe. Wear it well.
- [Oh my god, they killed elvis!](https://www.moronosphere.com/oh-my-god-they-killed-elvis/) - While we're on south park, there's a newer character generator I hadn't seen. So, you know, south park elvis.
- [We love to funk you, Funkenstein](https://www.moronosphere.com/we-love-to-funk-you-funkenstei/) - I was writing something last night and typo'd Doctor Frankenstein as Doctor Crankenstein, and I was so taken with that I left it, but now I have this song going through my head: We love to funk you, Funkenstein Your funk is the best Take my body, give it the mind To funk with the
- [South Park vs Co$](https://www.moronosphere.com/south-park-vs-co/) - I'm sure you've heard about the shit-canned southpark episode where they take on those fuckin' freaks Tom Cruise and John Travolta and the Co$. The episode can be found here at Contemporary Insanity. rm format only, no quicktime, alas. And props again to Brandon for the logo. I just sized it, he did the work.
- [Huh.](https://www.moronosphere.com/huh/) - You never really know who's reading your blog, now, do you?
- [Meaningless Holidays in Green](https://www.moronosphere.com/meaningless-holidays-in-green/) - Let's hear it for stupid, pointless holidays. You know, it's funny; one of the things that's weird about america is our lack of a native culture. The native in native culture includes rain dances and chants; but that really hasn't seeped into american popular culture due to the, you know, genocide and culture-cide of a
- [I need this font](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-need-this-font/) - I need this font. If anyone sees it anywhere, point me the way... (and no, this isn't the font called "motorhead", which would be too easy. that font is some ugly thing that someone slapped the motorhead name on)
- [interruptus](https://www.moronosphere.com/interruptus/) - I keep having these ideas for things to write about - a couple good memes goin' around, some more on the desire to get inked (two new ideas in the last week), a book I finished that I wanna review, and then some ideas for fiction that are starting to come together. I want to
- [Dust in my Korn](https://www.moronosphere.com/dust-in-my-korn/) - Wow. This pretty much defines fucked up. Korn vs. Kansas I want to stick an icepick in my ear. But, you know, in a good way. (Thanks, Art, you rule)
- [Things ain't been the same since the Blues walked into town](https://www.moronosphere.com/things-aint-been-the-same-sinc/) - You woke up this morning Got yourself a gun, Mama always said you'd be The Chosen One. She said: You're one in a million You've got to burn to shine, But you were born under a bad sign, With a blue moon in your eyes. You woke up this morning All the love has gone,
- [I need to get inked](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-need-to-get-inked/) - I'm having one of those 'I desperately need to get tattooed' fits. I dunno if this connects to teh mood I woke up yesterday (long past, pretty much purged by writing it, though thanks all for the offers of gifts, distractions and sexual favors), or if it's just time. But I've suddenly got tattoo images
- [Up on the Wrong Side](https://www.moronosphere.com/up-on-the-wrong-side/) - Ever wake up, for no good reason, just sort of pissed at the world? Actually, for some people the question is, do you ever not. But anyway, that's not usually how I wake up. Usually I'm ok. Maybe not great, but ok. I don't mind being awake; sun in the window, or the sound of
- [Half-Nekkid Drag](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-drag/) - I can't find my fucking camera. I think maybe I need to get another one. So from the archives - some guys really shouldn't do drag. (Happy HNT) For extra credit, identify the future reality-show contestant whose rubber fake nipple I'm biting.
- [Re-Imagineering](https://www.moronosphere.com/reimagineering/) - God, I have a new favorite blog. Re-Imagineering: A forum for Pixar and Disney professionals passionate about the Disney Theme Parks to catalog past Imagineering missteps and offer up tenable practical solutions in hopes that a new wave of creative management at Imagineering can once again bring back some of the wonder and magic that's
- [Prog Rock Island](https://www.moronosphere.com/prog-rock-island/) - I can't stop listening to this stunning song. David Gilmour - possibly the most stylish guitarist of all time, and the other brilliant creative mind behind Pink Floyd - is about to realease a new album. I picked up the single from iTunes music store - On an Island. It's a dreamy, ethereal piece that
- [Personal Pages, Profanity](https://www.moronosphere.com/personal-pages-profanity/) - Well now. I've been upgraded - or downgraded - or degraded. Or just, you know, graded. Feels like that, or maybe that's more grated, and it feels like that as well. Secure Computing, the motherfuckers who sell STOOPIDfilter to repressive countries and companies, agreed that I wasn't Pornography, sex. Evidently I'm Personal Pages, Profanity, with
- [Mashup vs. Mashup](https://www.moronosphere.com/mashup-vs-mashup/) - It's been too damned long since i gave a shout-out to m'man Art's site, MashupTown. So here y'all go. Put on the Super Freak - Superfreak vs. Roxanne. This clip fuckin' rules. Wonder Bop - the Ramones vs. Oasis. Some love it, some hate it. It's so wrong in a way that's so right. And
- [Half-Nekkid Extreme Close-up](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-extreme-closeup/) - Nuthin' to do with nekkid, but i like the picture. Thus I give you HNT - Extreme Close-up! Taken at Disneyland, I think.
- [Samurai no Kokoroe](https://www.moronosphere.com/samurai-no-kokoroe/) - I ran across this over in Buck's blog; or rather, I ran across a reference to it. Buck helped me with translations, which I then cross-checked on a number of web sites. I do not know the origin of this, nor do I know of it's accuracy, nor am I certain the translations are correct.
- [Theme Song](https://www.moronosphere.com/theme-song/) - This in the nature of a Stupid Quiz or a meme. But it's a question I asked someone the other day and I thought it'd be good BlogFodder. What is you there song? Visualize yourself walking into a room. What's playing in the movie? Are you Shaft (One Bad Mutha - Shut Yo Mouth!)? Are
- [Mouse Police](https://www.moronosphere.com/mouse-police/) - lying in the cherry tree. Savage bed foot-warmer of purest feline ancestry. Look out, little furry folk! He's the all-night working cat. Eats but one in every ten leaves the others on the mat. ...And the mouse police never sleeps Jethro Tull, '...And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps' I was going to tell this
- [Fast n' Bulbous](https://www.moronosphere.com/fast-n-bulbous/) - No. More. Stupid. Quizzes. modern fucked-up geniuses. When it comes to creating, you rank right up there with the likes of James Mangan, John Wilmot and Edvard Munch. Which fucked-up genius composer are you? brought to you by Quizilla I can pretty much hang with being Captain Beefheart though) Quit it, Fredlet.
- [blog-free mouse](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogfree-mouse/) - I had this whole plan for daily blog entries while I was down here, only I always forget how whipped I am when we get back from the park each day. I didn't have the juice to even think about writing. Still, I had pictures I wanted to post, so last night, after a couple
- [Network fuckedness](https://www.moronosphere.com/network-fuckedness/) - Grumble. I picked a hotel partly based on free high-speed wireless in room. Which is great. High signal, rippin' speed. Only I can't get VPN in to work. And that's where my email is. All of it sucked off of the apple corporate mail server, and off of the engineering mail server, onto my own
- [Down with the Mouse](https://www.moronosphere.com/down-with-the-mouse/) - Now that my boss owns the Mouse, I figure I better check up on that little rodent. Which is to say, I'm headed south to visit Disneyland. I'm gonna try n' blog from down there - I'm taking the cable to upload pictures and everything. We'll see if that actually happens, I didn't do any
- [Freelove](https://www.moronosphere.com/freelove/) - Sometimes it's gotta be Gurus. You can't take me anywhere, I'll strip down to my underwear If you give me half a chance. Hippy-freelove, outtasight! I'm gonna turn off every light And hold a private dance. It started out one afternoon, hot sake in my living room Among some special friends. Soon some others dropped
- [Last?](https://www.moronosphere.com/last/) - I'm playing with last.fm, which is kind of cool. I got a plugin for itunes that reports my listening habits (spyware I installed on purpose - really that's a wrong idea but it's still kinda cool). I'm working on a good way to do dynamic updates on my blog but haven't found a good way
- [FVD](https://www.moronosphere.com/fvd/) - Oh my god I love this site. fuckvday.com. They get it. Love hurts. (Thanks to the lovely chelseagirl for hippin' me to this)
- [What I Like About You](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-i-like-about-you/) - This is sort of interesting. The Johari Window. Kind of an Ingram personality whatsis, it's interesting because I pick six words from the window that describe me, then you-all get to do the same, again, for me. I guess I am supposed to see how my view and the world's view differ. For some reason.
- [Sex and Candy](https://www.moronosphere.com/sex-and-candy/) - Songs about Sex and Candy. To suit a sweet new look for the Moronosphere: Hangin' round downtown by myself And I had too much caffeine And I was thinkin' 'bout myself And then there she was In double platform suede Yeah there she was Like disco lemonade
- [Half-Nekkid, with hair](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-with-hair/) - Ok I meant to take a new picture for this. Given that last week was an ancient pic of me with long hair, I was gonna follow it up with a current hair pic. I'm in one of those rare non-shaving phases. I've got about a month of hair going, and a full beard not
- [Where the spare keys do the most good](https://www.moronosphere.com/where-the-spare-keys-do-the-mo/) - Harvester of eyes, that's me And I see all there is to see When I look inside your head Right up front to the back of your skull Well that's my sign that you are dead And my list for you checks off as null I'm the harvester of eyes Here's the start to my
- [Worn Thin](https://www.moronosphere.com/worn-thin/) - It's nearly midnight. I'm tired and should be sleeping, something, as usual, I'm not doing enough of. Instead I'm working on a few things, cleaning up loose ends from my day. I'm scheduling training for a group of users (when did I become training guy? I suck at training), answering email, closing out tracking tickets
- [Blogless Weekend](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogless-weekend/) - Wow, I managed to get all the way through the weekend without a blog entry. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's, you know, a thing. I also managed to put off paying bills for another weekend. I keep looking at the pile and thinking, didn't I set
- [Half-nekkid prog rock](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-prog-rock/) - Another Half-nekkid-thursday is here with no time for picture taking. I had something for last week of course but didn't have time to post until friday or saturday so it didn't count. Still, I was writing something the other day on prog-rock (as yet un-finished and un-posted), so I might as well pull out the
- [fo' thangs](https://www.moronosphere.com/fo-thangs/) - Stop me. Will somebody please STOP ME? Four fucking Things. 4 Jobs I’ve had: Fork Lift Operator Bong Salesman Kilt Salesman Some shit in high tech. Four movies I can watch over and over: Desperado (Possibly the most perfect movie ever made) Holy Grail (The funniest) Pirates of the Caribbean. (best pirate movie ever, though
- [When tuesday feels like friday](https://www.moronosphere.com/when-tuesday-feels-like-friday/) - It's only the middle of tuesday and and I already feel like I've had a week. Out of my five person team, two are out; manager and our do-everything technical lead guy, so I'm point man for everything my group does. Which is good because I was sort of out on the edges for most
- [3/5 of a fistful](https://www.moronosphere.com/35-of-a-fistful/) - I've been meaning to post about this since thursday - when it was going to be a sorry excuse for a half-nekkid-thursday post. Only I wound up not having time to even fuckin' think the last couple days. It was then only an after-thought, since I wasn't really feelin' half-nekkid so much on thursday. In
- [Take Me With You](https://www.moronosphere.com/take-me-with-you/) - (forgive me for a work interlude) Typically, I'm the guy at work who knows everything. The guy who's got it all in his head, the guy who gets the phone calls with obscure questions at 3am. The guy who's gotta write out a novel of process when he goes away on vacation for more than
- [satinslippers.com offline](https://www.moronosphere.com/satinslipperscom-offline/) - Satin Slippers - one of the net's best erotic sites, is (temporarily we hope) off line. I'm trying to get details from the People Who Know about if/when it will come back. This is the site where my stories (Wanton, Man with the Bag, etc) were hosted, though I've got 'em here now.
- [Best Blond Joke Ever](https://www.moronosphere.com/best-blond-joke-ever/) - This is the Best Blond Joke Ever. I promise. Sure it's an old one, but some things are classics.
- [INXS](https://www.moronosphere.com/inxs/) - You know, not that many people watched Rock Star INXS, and there seems to be a negative critical buzz around it. But anyone who watched and wasn't caught up simply missed the point. Sure, it's teevee, it's a game show of sorts, so it's a little silly and very contrived. It has to be in
- [24 and deadringer](https://www.moronosphere.com/24-and-deadringer/) - My deadringer classic ring just shipped, or so they tell me. So I should have it soon. I'm not sure HOW SOON since it's coming all the way from New Zealand (Carried by hobbits, I should think), but soon. In other news, after many, many people told me I should, I finally went and watched
- [Need help from you New York types](https://www.moronosphere.com/need-help-from-you-new-york-ty/) - Ok, I need some reference. Anyone out there ever been in the Village Vanguard in NYC? I'm working on something - a jazz-flavored piece set in around 1960, 1961. But I need some reference for what the area of NY is like, and what the club looks like inside. I'm just trying to fill in
- [Half-Nekkid Gunslinger](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-gunslinger/) - Yep. That's me, on a family beach trip to Capitola, CA. I'm guessing, 1968-ish. Maybe '69. Then, like now, always playin' with my gun. Actually in the original photo I was entirely nekkid but I'm not puttin' that photo here un-cropped. (Happy HNT)
- [small things that make life good](https://www.moronosphere.com/small-things-that-make-life-go/) - Some small things make life good in a big way. And you know who you are. No, wait, I'm not talking about that kinda things. I'm talking about these kinda things: This: And This: and you know, This: There isn't much that can make Kind of Blue better. I've heard it on $50,000 stereo systems,
- [One of my little episodes](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-of-my-little-episodes/) - I think I've said this before but I seem to have hit one of those phases where I can't seem to communicate. I stop sending email, I don't call, I don't always respond to IM. I'm suddenly not stunningly clever and seductive. It's funny, I crave contact when I get like this, but I seem
- [There's no pleasing me, Batman.](https://www.moronosphere.com/theres-no-pleasing-me-batman/) - The final conclusion - up front, newspaper style: When it comes to Batman on film, there's no pleasing me. I finally got around to watching Batman Begins, after hearing over and over, from everyone from Olivia to the video store clerk what a great film it is. I can't say it sucked. I really didn't
- [Tequila®](https://www.moronosphere.com/tequila-1/) - Do you have feelings of inadequacy? Do you suffer from shyness? Do you sometimes wish you were more assertive? If you answered yes to any of these questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist about Tequila®. Tequila® is the safe, natural way to feel better and more confident about yourself and your actions. Tequila® can help
- [Football, and If you can't write, edit](https://www.moronosphere.com/football-and-if-you-cant-write/) - Well, as much as I tried to get myself writing yesterday, it wound up being mostly football and lethargy. But it was pretty good football, I forgot we're in mid NFL playoffs. I have the advantage of not caring which teams win since my teams all sucked ass this year. So I'm choosing who to
- [Too Much Texas](https://www.moronosphere.com/too-much-texas/) - Um. 48%? Wow. What's wrong with me, man? I scored a 48% on the "How Texas are you?" Quizie! What about you? (Sorry, comments were broken for this entry (pointed out to me by Ray). Fixed now.)
- [Home Alone](https://www.moronosphere.com/home-alone/) - Family are taking off on one of those quick weekends away with another school family (Who also have the dad-who-has-to-work issue) The kind you can do when you get things like MLK day off. Not like us workin' stiffs. Which means I'm all by my lonesome this weekend. I'd like to picture the moms goin'
- [In your eyes I see a thousand lives, where do you come from?](https://www.moronosphere.com/in-your-eyes-i-see-a-thousand/) - In your eyes I see a thousand lives, Where do you come from, Where do you belong. --Dave Davies, Where Do You Come From I look at my logs all the time - because I'm that kinds of guy, part OCD, part detective, part complete geek - who likes to see the man behind
- [Half-nekkid Piercings](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-piercings/) - Let's hear it for Half-Nekkid Thursday. My Right Nipple. You only get one nipple today because it's half-nekkid, not wholly nekkid. You know, I was thinking about this earlier when I was talking to the very lovely and extremely talented chelsea girl, about when I got various tattoos and piercings. And I realize that the
- [Deadringers, Gimmee](https://www.moronosphere.com/deadringers-gimmee/) - Ok. Fine. I give in. Lust wins out every time with me. Which should not come as a great crashing surprise to anyone. I have a ring on order from Deadringer. Mark and Steve, the main men behind Deadringer, made me an offer I couldn't refuse. They don't have a pic of exactly what I'm
- [Tree to Firewood in only minutes](https://www.moronosphere.com/tree-to-firewood-in-only-minut/) - The tree butchers are here dismembering my fallen tree. A moment of silence. Plus chain-saws. (I can't help it, whenever I think of a chain-saw I hear Ash's voice saying "Tool Shed") You know I'd gotten used to this monstrous fallen thing in my street. I kind of liked it. It gives my street corner
- [What I work on, can I have one?](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-i-work-on-can-i-have-one/) - It takes a lot of sexy to make me lust for a computer. Now, lusting after the flesh and blood, well, you know about that. And lusting after certain inanimate or mechanical objects, sure. I mean, look at my obsession with skull rings, or something like the car from Supernatural. But computers - well, you
- [I Like To Move It Move It](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-like-to-move-it-move-it/) - Moving day. We're doing one of those pointless corporate re-shuffle where we all move from one office to another, many of us in the same bldg. I've been in my current job for almost six years now - a while, in my time line, only one job I've ever had (cisco) was longer and that
- [7even Things Meme](https://www.moronosphere.com/7even-things-meme/) - I got this from Whirly but I monkeyed with the questions a little because I fuckin' felt like it. Following Whirly's lead, I won't tag you (though I might goose you.) Some of these it's hard to think of seven. Some, hard to stop at seven. The 7 Things meme. 7 Things to do before
- ["LSD spoke to me," Mr. Hofmann said](https://www.moronosphere.com/lsd-spoke-to-me-mr-hofmann-sai/) - Brutha Ray told me yesterday that my recent entries seem kind of on edge. And he's right of course. Ray's always right, except when he disagrees with me. Then, he's only right half the time. Yeah, it's true. I've been a little edgy lately. I could give you a catalog of the minor and major
- [Half Nekkid Scar Stories](https://www.moronosphere.com/half-nekkid-scar-stories/) - It's another Half-Nekkid Thursday already. I was trying to take a decent photo of one of my scars. But the funny thing is, my skin just doesn't really scar that much. I'm trying to find scars that photograph well and most of them are too flat and faded to show up in a photo. Two
- [Lonesome Graveyard](https://www.moronosphere.com/lonesome-graveyard/) - I been running like a man who's been running in place I been actin' like a fool who can't remember his place I been thinkin' bout the day when I'm dead and gone won't you scatter my ashes and remember this song --House of Freaks, Lonesome Graveyard I've been listening to that album -
- [Another Fucking Year](https://www.moronosphere.com/another-fucking-year/) - (I was working on this new years day before my power went out and my tree fell down, but find that it's worth posting) It's another new year. 2005 is behind me, and god, does it need to be. Some day I may write about all the things that went badly off track in my
- [More of the Morning Wood](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-of-the-morning-wood/) - Click the image to see the whole set on flickr. (I fuckin' hate flickr.) (and I blame Whirly for the title of this post)
- [if a tree falls on my house, will anyone hear it?](https://www.moronosphere.com/if-a-tree-falls-on-my-house-wi/) - I'll have more pictures on flickr as soon as I can upload them (flickr's being a bitch right now), but here's the tree that almost fell on my house new year's day (click the pic for detail). We had what is, for northern california, a major storm come through new years eve. Major winds and
- [New Year's Food Porn -  Sopa de Tortilla](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-years-food-porn-sopa-de-to/) - I've never done a food porn posting. I figured it's about time. Pictures and recipe below the cut. I'm hosting a very small, low-key gathering for new year's eve; my friends Bonnie and James, their little boy Tate, Papa Christo, and possibly Bonnie's brother Mark. Bonnie is a very-long-time friend, from our music scene days;
- [Beauty Killed the Beast](https://www.moronosphere.com/beauty-killed-the-beast/) - I'm not gonna write a whole long detailed review of King Kong. Go read yahoo movies or someplace like that for your recaps, though you can ignore the one from the SF Chron, Mick LaSalle obviously spent three hours with his head up his ass, not actually watching the movie. But in a word -
- [Half Nekkid Garters](https://www.moronosphere.com/half-nekkid-garters/) - My half-nekkid arms adjusting the garter belt for a half-nekkid friend. How could I have been the only person at this party who knows how to work a garter belt? One of my many skills. Knowing how to dress - and undress - beautiful women. And I have to say, I did this job very
- [Celebrations of Trance](https://www.moronosphere.com/celebrations-of-trance/) - Happy birthday, one (or two Depending on how you count it) late, to TranceJen. Trance, if you gots and amazon wishlist, let it be known to me. Happy day, baby. Kisses all over...
- [In Too Deep](https://www.moronosphere.com/in-too-deep/) - Ah, it's too deep I'm in too deep Drowning in the fire Burning in the lake Dying from desire, dying for desire Dying from desire, dying for desire Dying from desire, dying for desire ---Matthew Sweet, In Too Deep I know something's gone off the rails in my head when I start to dream
- [The box in your boxing day](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-box-in-your-boxing-day/) - I can't seem to find a lot to say this morning, partly due to my being sick, partly due to the way-too-much-food hangover. I had a decent xmas day - lower than usual in-law tension, due to one old irritant having died and one being out of town this year, and due to my having
- [Merry Xmas](https://www.moronosphere.com/merry-xmas/) - Jesus Christ, the Musical. This is much less scary than the benny hill one.
- [Cause joy is something they don't bring](https://www.moronosphere.com/cause-joy-is-something-they-do/) - Outside the carolers start to sing I can't describe the joy they bring Cause joy is something they don't bring me My girlfriend is by my side From the roof are hanging sickles of ice Their whiny voices get irritating It's Christmas time again So I stand with a dead smile on my face Wondering
- [The very definition of 'sick and wrong'](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-very-definition-of-sick-an/) - If there was any doubt about my going to hell (oh, right, as if), this settles it. All you need to know is that I laughed life a fucking fiend all the way through this. The Passion of Benny Hill (If you've never seen the The Benny Hill Show this won't make sense. Don't even
- [Dress You Up in My Love](https://www.moronosphere.com/dress-you-up-in-my-love/) - I had an oddly hot dream last night, after not being able to get to sleep until very, very late. It has to have been inspired by an episode of Project Runway (and I'll have to put off talking about that show for a bit because of the promise I made myself not to talk
- [Stinky Boxes  and Dead TiVos](https://www.moronosphere.com/stinky-boxes-and-dead-tivos/) - Life's trivial annoyances. Yesterday, I got a shipment from Sephora.com - items selected from someone's wishlist for xmas. Like, a hundred and fifty bucks worth of high-end beauty products. So the box just reeks when I get it. Like a fucking french whorehouse. And I'm thinking, this can't be good. Turns out one of the
- [War Photographer](https://www.moronosphere.com/war-photographer/) - This video is so utterly cool. "War Photographer" by Joel Trussell from Jason Forrest at CockRockDisco I can't stop watchin' it.
- [Care and Feeding meme](https://www.moronosphere.com/care-and-feeding-meme/) - Swiped from Herr Wolfe, who is certainly a gentleman and a scholar. No idea the true origin of this, but it isn't as trite as most of these. How can I tell if you are angry? My gut response to this is to steal Wolfe's answer, I'll tell you when I'm angry. But I don't
- [Half Nekkid Nutkin](https://www.moronosphere.com/half-nekkid-nutkin/) - Hiromi, that perpetually half-nekkid tart, just reminded me it's Thursday. I'm not in a particularly half-naked mood, but you know, you start someon - uh, someTHING, you need to finish. Thus - this is my second tattoo, on the back of my left shoulder (Yeah this is reversed, shot in a mirror and I didn't
- [Who Killed Rudolph?](https://www.moronosphere.com/who-killed-rudolph/) - My boss (Actually my director) Jeff just walked into my office and showed me this. ORLANDO, Fla. -- A holiday display is getting some negative attention from neighbors. A homeowner's display in the Hunter's Creek subdivision features Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer hanging from a tree. That's just too cool for words.
- [I struggle with words for fear that they'll hear](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-struggle-with-words-for-fear/) - This is what happens to me when I'm in that emotional, unable to express myself state. When the poet in me wakes up tries to claw it's way out. That poet has no means of egress; on my best day I am a writer of decent prose, but poetry eludes me completely. Yet what I
- [Santa's Little Whore](https://www.moronosphere.com/santas-little-whore/) - I love what I find in my sitemeter. I got hits today on the phrase "Santa's Little Whore". I love it. C'mere, Santa's Little Whore, wherever you are!
- [RE4](https://www.moronosphere.com/re4/) - Ok, I'm on my second play-through of Resident Evil 4, and I have to say, I love this game. I'm not a huge video game guy. I lose interest in 'em pretty quickly for the most part. I don't care about high scores. Never played a lot of donkey kong or mario, though I loved
- [Getting through the day](https://www.moronosphere.com/getting-through-the-day/) - There are little things we do that get us through the day. A bite a chocolate in the afternoon. A cup of tea, or a stiff shot of espresso. A conversation with a friend, a favorite blog; a little bad teevee or a gossip magazine. Sometimes it's something good for us - a run, or
- [Who else would I be?](https://www.moronosphere.com/who-else-would-i-be/) - No. More. Quizzes. This is chelsea girl's fault. Which Action Hero Would You Be? And of course, take a guess. You scored as Captain Jack Sparrow. Roguish,quick-witted, and incredibly lucky, Jack Sparrow is a pirate who sometimes ends up being a hero, against his better judgement. Captain Jack looks out for #1, but he can
- [Santas and Hackers](https://www.moronosphere.com/santas-and-hackers/) - So evidently sometime yesterday, a group of bad-boy hackers got in through a back door on our host server. They didn't do anything that we can find other than to steal bandwidth to do a buch of port-scanning, though we're doing a more complete scan. No harm no foul as far as moronoblogs are concerned,
- [We Wants the Redhead!](https://www.moronosphere.com/we-wants-the-redhead/) - A late birthday gift from Brutha Ray, shipped from the Magic Kingdom. Thank you my friend, You know the way to a pirate's heart. Strike your colors you brazen wench! No need to expose your superstructure! (click the image for detail)
- [Hello Kitty, Hello Dave](https://www.moronosphere.com/hello-kitty-hello-dave/) - You know, really, I hate the whole hello kitty thing. I just don't get how it became some sort of pop icon. And yet - for some reason I don't understand - I love this Fender Hello Kitty Guitar. Maybe it's just the image from the web site: I dunno. But someone I find the
- [Half-Nekkid Thursday](https://www.moronosphere.com/halfnekkid-thursday/) - Ok, ok. I keep promising to do this and then flaking. Not having a camera handy that can take a decent picture is only an excuse. Half-nekkid thursday. Go read about it here: . I guess I should have saved the mohawk pic for HNT. Anyway, this shot (Scanned from a fuckin' polaroid) is from
- [I'm gonna be at the Christmas tree with my ma cher ami-o](https://www.moronosphere.com/im-gonna-be-at-the-christmas-t/) - I've been looking for the words to this song for, like, two years now. Papa Noel by Brenda Lee. Written by someone named Roy Botkin. I picked this up on a collection called Christmas Belles from Rhino, and simply fell in love with it. But give it a listen and you'll see how hard it
- [Axegrinder](https://www.moronosphere.com/axegrinder/) - I said "they broke the mold" to someone earlier tonight and it sparked one of those where the hell did I hear that song lyric searches. After quite a while poking around in the memory banks, and then some googling, I give you Axegrinder by one of my all time favorite bands, the Hoodoo Gurus:
- [MohawkMaster 1997](https://www.moronosphere.com/mohawkmaster-1997/) - Just about the last time I had hair, and certainly the last time I had a mohawk. Me. Summer 1997. I like these so much it almost makes it seem worth growing hair again.
- [Island Call](https://www.moronosphere.com/island-call/) - Hiromi just posted this over on Panties3: Gabby Pahinui, Hi'ilawe It's fucking beautiful, and stopped me dead, absolutely swept away by that island feeling, that sense of time and place I get. Hawaii makes me understand how one can have a love affair with a place that has the emotional and physical intensity one normally
- [More Human Than Human](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-human-than-human/) - Can I erase my whiny, I'm-so-sick-and-sorry-for-myself entries from earlier this week? Of course I can. It's my blog. I'm god here. Same reason I can delete comments I don't like. Freedom of speech? This ain't your fuckin' america, folks, there ain't no constitution. No fuckin' rules. And yet, I won't delete 'em. I'm finally starting
- [Grumble](https://www.moronosphere.com/grumble/) - It's been about a year and a half, maybe even two years, since I've been really really sick. That's kind of a record, as people with kids will know. From the time your kid goes to pre-school until they get second grade or so, cold season starts with school and lets up somewhere late in
- [Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt](https://www.moronosphere.com/another-day-older-and-deeper-i/) - I'm fourty-four years old today. And I'm trying to write something meaningful and staring at a mocking blank screen with nothing to say about my life to date. I turned comments off on this. If I can actually finish something it'll get replaced later.
- [Cold for the holiday](https://www.moronosphere.com/cold-for-the-holiday/) - Ignore me, ok? I hate bitching about being sick. And yet, I feel compelled to. Nothing quite like using a nice holiday weekend to sleep off an annoying fucking cold. Just what I was wanting. Instead of having some sort of night out on the town with friends, or some sort of nekkid holiday revel
- [GRRM makes my brain hurt](https://www.moronosphere.com/grrm-makes-my-brain-hurt/) - GRRM (George R. R. Martin) make my brain hurt. I swear, the man must sit around all day thinking, how can I make these books more dense and confusing? I'm maybe a hundred pages into A Feast for Crows, GRRM's latest brick in the Song of Ice and Fire googology. And my eyes are crossed
- [Thankless Thanks](https://www.moronosphere.com/thankless-thanks/) - I recall last year trying to write an entry about giving thanks. I thought I'd posted it, and I find I had the same issue then as I have now - I can't seem to quite find what I want to say. Like the silly cultural tradition of the new year's resolution, we in america,
- [Gym Manners](https://www.moronosphere.com/gym-manners/) - It's been a while since I was working out regularly. And you know other than in highschool, I've only ever worked out in one gym, the 24 hour joint near my house. I've tried a few other places, the Y, a work gym, other fitness chains. But my local 24 is very close to me,
- [You smell like Cumming](https://www.moronosphere.com/you-smell-like-cumming/) - Alan Cumming, star of Spy Kids, the brilliant Anniversary Party, X2, and about a zillion other movies, has a fragrance out. And it's called - wait for it... Cumming. Suddenly, guess what you're all getting in your xmas stockings? Ah, it gets better. I just updated the above link to point to the official cumming
- [Goblet of Missing Plot-Lines](https://www.moronosphere.com/goblet-of-missing-plotlines/) - Ok, so I loved Goblet of Fire. However, I loved it in a Shining way. Because they butchered the book. They left out most of it; key characters, key plot lines, key developments. They whipped past things like the Quiddich World Cup and the Pensieve so quickly as to make them fairly irrelevant. They cast
- [WWPD (What Would a Pirate Do?](https://www.moronosphere.com/wwpd-what-would-a-pirate-do/) - I love getting a mysterious package in the mail. Well, unless there are, like, human heads in it. * I just got this: From the lovely and talented DarkNeuro. And my birthday isn't even 'til next week. * in fact I don't even mind the human heads, if they're nice 'n fresh...
- [Frog in my Hair - I'll have what he's having](https://www.moronosphere.com/frog-in-my-hair-ill-have-what/) - I'll have some of what Joaquin Phoenix is having, please: ...Out of the blue, Phoenix suddenly changed the subject, asking, “Do I have a large frog in my hair?” Reporter: No, no. Phoenix: “Something’s crawling out of my scalp.” Reporter: No, you look great. Phoenix: “No, but I feel it. I’m not worried about the
- [Goblet of Fire Book/Movie differences](https://www.moronosphere.com/goblet-of-fire-bookmovie-diffe/) - Warnings for detail geeks. If you're like me and went through Prisoner of Azkaban saying Wait, that's not right, get ready to do it a lot more in Goblet of Fire. Here's your handy checklist: Goblet of Fire Book/Movie differences I'm hoping it's a Shining thing where it might be wrong, but it's good. That
- [I wanna be Titus Pullo](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-wanna-be-titus-pullo/) - I wanna be Titus Pullo. (Warning, there are minor spoilers toward the end of this, after the cut) If you're watching Rome you know what I'm talkin' about. If you're not watching Rome, well, we're down to the last episode, so wait for the DVD to come out; which should hit when next season rolls
- [Justifiable Homicide](https://www.moronosphere.com/justifiable-homicide/) - Justifiable Homicide. The brutal killing - sometimes after appropriate torture - of people who richly deserve it. Case in point: customer service reps who fuck something up, then want to argue about it instead of saying I'm sorry sir, I'll get it fixed. The word service is, theoretically, in there for a reason. You'd think.
- [that old line about calgon](https://www.moronosphere.com/that-old-line-about-calgon/) - I'm having one of those weeks. I know I talk about running away to that mythical tropical isle, (or that mythical sailboat so I can visit all the tropical isles) all the time. That's sort of always running in the back of my head, 24x7. And you know, it could happen, I could just snap
- [the opposite of nightmare](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-opposite-of-nightmare/) - We've all woken from nightmares a time or two. Woken, sometimes gasping, sometimes screaming, sometimes just to an awareness, oh thank god that was a dream. The sweaty, sheets-cumppled, heart beating, terror-bleeding-into-relief feeling as dream fades. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the opposite of that. Have you ever a dream
- [Archie McPhee needs a Wishlist](https://www.moronosphere.com/archie-mcphee-needs-a-wishlist/) - Want. You know I'm all about want don't you? Archie McPhee has a whole pirate collection. And I want it all. You know, my birthday is the end of the month. And a guy just can't have too many pirate accessories... Archive McPhee needs a wishlist, like Amazon has. Thx to Greggg for making me
- [Does the name pavlov ring a bell?](https://www.moronosphere.com/does-the-name-pavlov-ring-a-be/) - I'm looking at my hit logs - as usual. And I see it a hit from Porto, Portugal. And suddenly I'm sitting here absolutely salivating for a glass of port. I would kill a man right now for a vintage tawny. Good lord, I'm so suggestible. Must. Have. Port.
- [New Toys for Big Kids](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-toys-for-big-kids/) - So, I have this iSight web cam. And I never use it, even though, you know, you'd think I would. But I just download a new application that's simply too much fun - PhotoBooth. I've been playing with this all day, when I should be working on my stupid self-assessment for my stupid review. But
- [Body Circle Sale](https://www.moronosphere.com/body-circle-sale/) - Body Circle Jewelry - my favorite maker of piercing jewelry, and damn fine people - are having their winter 20% off everything sale. All sorts of good things to be had. This is when I order the 14k jewelry, like the 8ga gold ring I have in my right ear: (Suddenly I have 'Radar Love'
- [Suffocated?](https://www.moronosphere.com/suffocated/) - Lord. Why? They don't even have the real answers on this like, my head will explode or I'll die during a dangerous sex act. Suffocated93%Stabbed93%Gunshot73%Posion73%Cut Throat67%Accident60%Suicide60%Disappear53%Bomb40%Drowning33%Eaten33%Natural Causes13%Disease7%How Will You Die??created with QuizFarm.com
- [domain monkeys](https://www.moronosphere.com/domain-monkeys/) - I'm monkeying with my domains - changing dns from zoneedit to a local nameserver and so forth - so if you have any trouble getting to any of the moronosphere.com blogs (or editiong your own blog if you're one of the bloggers I host), it should be temporary. Why? Just because I can. Ok, I
- [Tsunami of Spam](https://www.moronosphere.com/tsunami-of-spam/) - I'm suddenly getting a lot more comment spam slipping past my spam filter so I just switched on comment moderation. You'll get a note saying your comment needs to wait on approval (but that sexual favors offered should speed this approval process). But please, comment early, comment often. Show me the love. Me Love You
- [Reasons for naught](https://www.moronosphere.com/reasons-for-naught/) - I'm having one of those weirdly incommunicado weeks. I can't find anything to write, I don't seem to be talking to anyone. I just can't seem to communicate. I can blame this on Resident Evil 4, or on the fact that I just started working out and it's eating up my time, making me tired,
- [Day of the...](https://www.moronosphere.com/day-of-the/) - I can't seem to find any time or inspiration to write anything. So a few quick updates. Go celebrate halloween - pagan or otherwise, candy or black midnight rites, carnal or child-like. But have yourself some horrific fun. For myself. I'm planning to hand out candy to cute teenage girls and try to scare them
- [The Burn](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-burn/) - I always forget how much better I feel when I'm working out. I used to work from home a lot of the time, so I had a gym routine down, week in week out. For several years. But then that changed a few years back, and ever since, it's been hard to hit a workout
- [j-void](https://www.moronosphere.com/jvoid/) - I'm having trouble reading any of my friends journals this week. they're all fucking sqeeeeing about journalcon. I've always said, one of my life rules is that I'd rather regret what I did than regret what I didn't do. That's central to who I am and always will be. I'll do things in life I
- [Agent Smith (but not doctor smith)](https://www.moronosphere.com/agent-smith-but-not-doctor-smi/) - Which sci-fi/fantasy character are you? Fredlet, you need a spanking. Ok, folks, which one do you think I am?
- [Skull Lust](https://www.moronosphere.com/skull-lust/) - I seem to be all about lust this week. (Yeah, I can hear you in the back, whattya mean this week? - shaddup, willya.) First there was tattoo lust, then seventies-spanish-babe lust, and now we're back to my unending desire for cool skull rings. We'll talk about my other, never-satiated lusts later. I just found
- [Chicas de calendario de los años 70s](https://www.moronosphere.com/chicas-de-calendario-de-los-an/) - This is what girls looked like when I learned just how much I really liked girls. That's from a 'Chicas de calendario de los años 70s' collection - 70s pinups from Spain. (found as usual, on BB) Man, what a difference from today's porn.
- [History of Violence](https://www.moronosphere.com/history-of-violence/) - Quick summary review - A History of Violence is a spectacular film. Without any major spoilers, the story is of a normal guy named Tom - almost too normal - played by Viggo Mortensen. He's got great kids, runs a little coffee shop, has a hot, loving wife, played by Maria Bello. All is well
- [No J-con](https://www.moronosphere.com/no-jcon/) - Looks like I won't be able to get to j-con after all. Which is a long and uninteresting story that maybe I will tell later if I get really really bored. To all you j-con people, I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am. Drinks on me when we finally meet, drink 'fo
- [This could be me](https://www.moronosphere.com/this-could-be-me/) - This could be me, almost. I mean, you got the beautiful polynesian arm tattoo, words on the fingers. You got squashing jesus like a bug. I guess I have some catching up to do though. That dude's got better ink coverage. Tricia? Let's see what we can do with the back of my hand (no,
- [Dirty Pirates](https://www.moronosphere.com/dirty-pirates/) - Here's one for my XXX-mas wish list: Pirates! (actually I'm not a big fan of glossy production porn, I'm more the dirty-debutants type, but still, pirates...) Props to Nymph at ErosBlog for that one. Give us a kiss, Nymph!
- [Which Tarot Card?](https://www.moronosphere.com/which-tarot-card/) - Since I'm having trouble doing any actual writing this week, we'll stick with the stupid quizzes. Which Tarot Card Are You? Go ahead and look. Though you know the answer already. You are the Devil card. The Devil is based on thefigure Pan, Lord of the Dance. The earthyphysicality of the devil breeds lust. Thedevil's
- [Last Rites - more on Death by Ink](https://www.moronosphere.com/last-rites-more-on-death-by-in/) - It gets better. Evidently he was getting a tattoo called "last rites". That's. Um. Poetic. Or ironic. Or something.
- [Death by ink](https://www.moronosphere.com/death-by-ink/) - Man Getting Tattoo in NYC Falls Down, Dies I can't decide if that's cool or not, but I must say, I like the headline.
- [more snakes on a muthafuckin' plane](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-snakes-on-a-muthafuckin-p/) - Go see overCompensating about those muthafuckin' snakes. And there ain't a got-damn thing you can do about it! (Props to Larry B)
- [Snakes on a Plane](https://www.moronosphere.com/snakes-on-a-plane/) - I just don't quite understand it. But evidently someone found this idea so scary, they made a movie of it. I can just hear the pitch - "There are these snakes, and they're on a plane, and that's really really scary..." "Why is it scary?" "Well, they're snakes, right? And they're on this plane..." "And
- [conversations overheard](https://www.moronosphere.com/conversations-overheard/) - You ever want to stop and ask some random stranger, what the hell are you talking about? Some overheard snippet of conversation, some phrase, something. And you just gotta hear more. I heard a woman's voice say, as I walked through cube-land today, "It's like I had a charley-horse in my vagina." And I just
- [Lost in...](https://www.moronosphere.com/lost-in/) - Ok, I admit it. I've never seen Lost in Translation. At least until now. And since everyone in the world has already seen it, I'm not gonna add a lot to the public dialog. But just lemmee say this; Wow. Let's just say, I know these characters, and I love this film. The list of
- [Too much clay](https://www.moronosphere.com/too-much-clay/) - So we now have conclusive proof. 23 is right. 85 is right out. That's the account for how much Wallace and Grommit is right. Now, let's state up front. I love Wallace and Grommit. I think Grand Day Out is simply one of the best animations ever made. I love all the W & G
- [Never Learning](https://www.moronosphere.com/never-learning/) - Geez, you would THINK I would learn. I'm not doing nightly database dumps on my new server. Yeah, I meant to, but... Anyway, I just bolloxed up my main template while I was working on someone else's. Luckily, I have some copies that are a month or so old, and was able to restore quickly,
- [How much I really hate you all](https://www.moronosphere.com/how-much-i-really-hate-you-all/) - This is just how much I hate you all. I'm going to stick this stupid song in your heads. Magical Trevor Magical Trevor 2 Magical Trevor 3 Because Badger Badger isn't evil enough, not even when you get the xmas badgers or the lotr badgers. I blame it on my dear, sweet Booty Girl. Boots,
- [Slashdotted (or is that fleshbotted?)](https://www.moronosphere.com/slashdotted-or-is-that-fleshbo/) - So I check my site stats today, like, you know, always, to see who's reading what. I'm like that about checking the logs. He knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake. Like that. And I see this big fuckin' spike it my hits over the last three or four hours. Turns out
- [Long Dark Car](https://www.moronosphere.com/long-dark-car/) - Time for a dirty story. This is a slight expansion upon one of the best sex dreams I've ever had. This was a long time ago, and certainly, some of the dream detail is lost, and thus replaced with the writer's waking imagination. Still, the basic details are direct from the dream. In the dream
- [Sex Dreams and Dirty Stories](https://www.moronosphere.com/sex-dreams-and-dirty-stories/) - Somehow sex dreams are the source of a lot of my best erotic writing. I've got a piece finished, but I think I need to proof read it one more time before I post it. It should be up tomorrow sometime. It feels good to finish one, even if it's a short piece.
- [MirrorMask](https://www.moronosphere.com/mirrormask/) - Go. See. MirrorMask. Now. Two words sum this thing up. "Wow", and "Acid Trip". Wait that's three words. But nevermind. I sat, partway through this movie, and thought, I'm watching an acid trip with my eleven-year-old daughter. And the sad thing is, I can't explain to her how cool that is, not yet anyway. What
- [Image stash](https://www.moronosphere.com/image-stash/) - I just figured out that ecto, my blog editor (and dude if you're not using ecto, get on it, it rules, at least on the mac) keeps an image cache of all image uploads. So I have this whole directory full of images I'd uploaded in the past. I'm right now pushing them all up
- [Serenity - T-minus...](https://www.moronosphere.com/serenity-tminus/) - Serenity premiers tonight. Greggg has the advantage over most of the rest of us; he's already seen it. For the rest of us - god, high hopes, fears, and I know whatever I see, I'll be left waiting for more. Joss, you better be hard at work on Serenity II already. I'm a firefly newcomer;
- [I don't get Alias](https://www.moronosphere.com/i-dont-get-alias/) - You know, I just don't get the whole Alias thing. Or maybe it's the Jennifer Garner thing that escapes me, and that's what the whole Alias thing is about. But you know, I look at Garner, and all I can think is, 'eh'. Maybe a dose of 'whatever'. And you know, no one, anywhere, likes
- [TAR, family style](https://www.moronosphere.com/tar-family-style/) - So, first impressions on TAR, family style (Amazing Race 8), before my medication takes effect. The family concept worked better than expected. I liked it. Most of the families are likable. I liked seeing some kids in this game, and damn, ain't Carissa Gaghan adorable? My favorite team so far are the Aiellos -- good
- [Jumbo Squid](https://www.moronosphere.com/jumbo-squid/) - I don't know that anyone else cares about this, but you know, I'm a geek. Finally, after all these years, they got pictures of Architeuthis, the giant squid. Researchers have been trying to do that forever - they've seen dead ones, and young ones, but this is the first time anyone has ever gotten pictures
- [yeah, I knew that.](https://www.moronosphere.com/yeah-i-knew-that/) - This just in - the doctor tells me I'm sick. That'll be a hundred simoleons, please. Thanks, doc. At least it's not a sinus infection. The downside is, no pass-go-collect-two-hundred-dollars pills. The upside is, I don't have to take antibiotics, which is always a good thing. His prescription? Sleep. Thanks, doc, I'll get right on
- [Go read someone else.](https://www.moronosphere.com/go-read-someone-else/) - Some days it feels like nothing is working. I had the classic three am wakeup again. What the fuck is it with three am? It's the fucking worrying hour. I wake up at three am, every goddamned bad thing in the universe comes to camp out behind my left ear. Everything I have to do,
- [Legendary K.O.: The video](https://www.moronosphere.com/legendary-ko-the-video/) - From Guerilla News Network via Mikey via Ray: George Bush Don't Like Black People, the video. Wow. Just -- wow.
- [for some value of 'naked'](https://www.moronosphere.com/for-some-value-of-naked/) - My friend Lisa sent this to me. New Yorker cover, aug 2005. Hugs 'an kisses, Lisa! I'll let it speak for itself. If anyone knows the name of the artist who painted this, give me a shout.
- [Dorthy Parker Mood](https://www.moronosphere.com/dorthy-parker-mood/) - Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. I bet 'ol Dorthy was a riot at parties.
- [Corpse Bride, first impression](https://www.moronosphere.com/corpse-bride-first-impression/) - Ok, maybe I'll do a detailed review of this tomorrow. Or maybe I need to see it again to form a full opinion, sometimes Burton's like that. I needed to see Nightmare three times before I really got into it. But the quick impression; aesthetically stunning, truly, completely stunning. Technically brilliant. I've never seen animation
- [Meant to be underwater?](https://www.moronosphere.com/meant-to-be-underwater/) - I'm not really a fatalist. I don't really think very many things were meant to happen. Ok, there are a few people - very, very few - who walked into my life and I felt, this had to be, this person needed to be here, and the universe would have brought us together somehow. People
- [New Digs](https://www.moronosphere.com/new-digs/) - It's like moving into a new house that looks exactly like your old house. So I jumped the gun last night and transferred moronosphere.com to it's new home. I figured out how easy this was gonna be and just did it. Things should be a little faster, that's about all you should notice.
- [Now that's a landing.](https://www.moronosphere.com/now-thats-a-landing/) - If you're scared to fly, don't look. These are some great pictures of a JetBlue plane making an emrgency landing at LAX with bent, twisted landing gear. Those are some good pilots. Landed with no one hurt. But I can't stop picturing the feeling inside that plane as the flames came off of the wheels.
- [M'oving M'sphere](https://www.moronosphere.com/moving-msphere/) - 'Cos I'm moving on up. You're moving on out. Movin' on up. Nothing can stop me. Moving on up. You're moving on out. Time to break free. Nothing can stop me, Yeah. Time's come to find a new home. What's this mean? Well, not much to you, the reader, nor to my friends for whom
- [Right man for the job](https://www.moronosphere.com/right-man-for-the-job/) - I gotta say, I watched the whole season, and each and every time INXS sent the person home who should have gone home. Not once did they falter in any way. I was saying that to myself when I watched the finale - they've been right every time. (I'm gonna put the rest of this
- [...fucking suspense is killing me.](https://www.moronosphere.com/fucking-suspense-is-killing-me/) - Honestly. Why do I care? It's one half hour until the west coast showing of the rock star inxs finale, and I'm climbin' the fucking walls. Ok, I know I could go look up the result on the net. But I don't wanna spoil it, right? I just want it to fucking start already! I
- [more referral nonsense - dirty margaritas?](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-referral-nonsense-dirty-m/) - Ok, so I've talked about the whole referrals in the logs thing. I get all sorts of useful info about who's reading (Hello out there! Yeah, you! I see you!), where I'm getting hits from (how'd I get on Sam Burns random blogroll, and how can I get her in bed?), and all sorts of
- [Tattoos that make you wonder](https://www.moronosphere.com/tattoos-that-make-you-wonder/) - Sometimes you see a tattoo and you wonder - what's he/she saying with that? I was playin' goofy-golf and there was a hispanic family ahead of us. Nice, friendly people. Woman in her twenties, a couple little boys, and a guy. But the guy was kind of interesting. Older, a bit, but it was hard
- [Talk like a Pirate Day](https://www.moronosphere.com/talk-like-a-pirate-day/) - Arrr, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day, t'day, the nineteenth' a' september. Avast there ye bilge rats! Be spreadin' the word, sez I. (I'm sorry) (No, actually, I'm not.)
- [Veni, Vedi...](https://www.moronosphere.com/veni-vedi/) - What exactly is the latin for I came, I saw, I watched some great teevee? So we've talked a little bit about reality teevee (c'mon, people, pick JD already), and we'll get back to that shortly with new incarnations of Survivor and Amazing Race going down. But let's talk about something a little bit artier,
- [She-Male Threatens Florida](https://www.moronosphere.com/shemale-threatens-florida/) - Ok so I keep seeing this headline on CNN.com: TS Rita gains muscle to threaten Florida ...And sure, I know they mean Tropical Storm. But hell, we all fucking know TS stands for TranSexual. So this rita, she's some big, muscular tranny, threatening Florida. Um. You know, that's kinda hot.
- [Summer Sunday](https://www.moronosphere.com/summer-sunday/) - I spent my sunday not being at the computer. I think this was a good choice; I'm arm-wrestling a lotta frustration and staring at a screen on which I'm unable to do anything useful makes it unquestionably worse. I managed to sleep unusually late, thanks to lovely chemicals; what was was that old DuPont quote?
- [Stupid Rubber Bracelet for New Orleans](https://www.moronosphere.com/stupid-rubber-bracelet-for-new/) - If your kids, like mine, are all batshit for the stupid rubber bracelets, here's one they should be the first ones in school to have. Click the image. They're yours for a donation to the Renew New Orleans Foundation. Y'know, I've spent five bones for a lot worse things, and my kids will love these
- [Never call, never write.](https://www.moronosphere.com/never-call-never-write/) - I'm having a terrible time with any sort of communication these days. I can't seem to get a blog entry finished (I have at least a half dozen started). I'm not able to maintain an IM session for more than a few flirty comments. I'm not responding to email. I'm not able to maintain a
- [Note to INXS - pick JD!](https://www.moronosphere.com/note-to-inxs-pick-jd/) - Ok, I've avoided writing about this because, well, writing about teevee seemed so fucking trivial lately. But sometimes a man just has to take a stand. INXS? Guys? I'm fuckin' talkin' to you. Listen up. C'mon. Come closer. Closer. I'm gonna get real close and whisper this in your ears. Ready? PICK JD! PICK JD!
- [Anansi Boys](https://www.moronosphere.com/anansi-boys/) - New Neil Gaiman book is due out shortly: Anansi Boys. High hopes for that. Gaiman is a hell of a creative guy, and a pretty good writer. Sandman is, I would say, one of the major works of fiction of the late 20th century, despite being just a comic book. But Gaiman's novel output isn't
- [Dance of the Broken Cell Phone](https://www.moronosphere.com/dance-of-the-broken-cell-phone/) - Nothing quite like the feeling of your cell phone cracking into pieces under your foot first thing in the morning now, is there? Now, you gotta understand I live by my cell phone. I do engineering support for a living. I'm the go-to guy for my group 24x7. I'm never off-call. When they can't find
- [My Father's .45](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-fathers-45/) - I started to write this ten days ago, but have been unable to finish it with the intervening events. It felt self-involved to go on writing about an oddly painful memory of my father inspired by a replica firearm. So I put it away. Tonight, this just felt right, sitting alone on a thursday night,
- [Empty Archives](https://www.moronosphere.com/empty-archives/) - ...yes, I know the category archives for this site seem to be empty. I'm playing with dynamic indexes to see if I can speed up rebuilds. Not quite working yet, and I'm not sure why. -edit- I couldn't get that to work. It required some .htaccess surgery, and I couldn't get it to produce any
- [All about the chains](https://www.moronosphere.com/all-about-the-chains/) - Yes, it's a work entry. But never fear, I can make it dirty. A few weeks ago, I was working on that super secret project that I could have told everyone about, but then would have had to kill you. Well, then it 'leaked' and then it got announced; macs with intel chips. Now, some
- [Birkin Therapy](https://www.moronosphere.com/birkin-therapy/) - Ok. So enough angry politics for a moment. I need to take a deep breath and enjoy some Pretty Girl Therapy. This would be Jane Birkin, and it would be courtesy of a wonderfully eclectic 60's color gallery at discosantigos.com (via BoingBoing, of course). Here's another favorite. There. I feel a little better. And if
- [Chilton Update - alive, evidently!](https://www.moronosphere.com/chilton-update-alive-evidently/) - Evidently Alex Chilton's ok. From pitchforkmedia.com: Alex Chilton, frontman for Big Star and the Box Tops, is safe and sound, according to various sources, including e-mails to Pitchfork purporting to be from friends of Chilton’s family. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports that Chilton spoke to Ron Easley (his former bandmate in the Memphis punkabilly group
- [What they should be saying](https://www.moronosphere.com/what-they-should-be-saying/) - Robert S. Rivkin on what BushCO should be saying right now: In his weekly radio address to the nation Saturday, President George W. Bush attempted to sanitize the blistering criticism from virtually all shades of the political spectrum that his administration had received for its handling of the tragic (and partly avoidable) Hurricane Katrina calamity.
- [Tricia Allen on tour](https://www.moronosphere.com/tricia-allen-on-tour/) - If you're a california reader, Tricia Allen will be tattooing in CA Sept 8 -> Oct 11. Check her schedule here. She's got limited appointments so contact her right away if you're hoping to get inked this trip. Tricia is one of my favorite people; not just one of my favorite tattooists, but truly one
- [We told you so](https://www.moronosphere.com/we-told-you-so/) - You know, way back in the days of a newsgroup called alt.showbiz.gossip, I used to get in regular fights with this guy. He gives quality rant, but had a tendency to get on the wrong side of a fight and keep fighting hard when he was clearly beaten. He's come a ways since then; his
- [...sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round](https://www.moronosphere.com/sing-for-alex-chilton-when-he/) - If he was from Venus, would he feed us with a spoon? If he was from Mars, wouldn't that be cool? Standing right on campus, would he stamp us in a file? Hangin' down in Memphis all the while. Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round They sing I'm in
- [Ecto Works!](https://www.moronosphere.com/ecto-works/) - A tiny bite of good news. Ecto works. Six Apart just got me a bug fix. Yay! I can update some things now...
- [Got Backups?](https://www.moronosphere.com/got-backups/) - Ok, I feel better. I got mySQL database dumps going on our server, as I had before, but I also am automatically copying them to a remote machine nightly. I test this tonight via a cron job but it worked when I launched it manually. So starting tonight I'll have dailys and we won't risk
- [One Damed Thing After Another](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-damed-thing-after-another/) - I shook out my cloak and brushed myself off. I traveled for perhaps half an hour then, leaving the place far behind me, before I halted and took my breakfast in a hot, bleak valley smelling faintly of sulfur. As I was finishing, I heard a crashing noise. A horned and tusked purple thing went
- [google talk and adiumX](https://www.moronosphere.com/google-talk-and-adiumx/) - (this entry copied from my blogspot blog) Mac users who want to use the new Google Talk (I'm not sure why you would want to, honestly, we already have more than enough chat clients and chat protocols, but, you know, what the fuck), adiumX supports it, but it's not exactly obvious how. Take a look
- [My Revolver](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-revolver/) - Sometimes you just have to reach for your revolver. Once I had my heroes Once I had my dreams But all of that is changed now They've turned things inside out The truth is not so comfortable, no And mother taught us patience The virtues of restraint And father taught us boundaries Beyond which we
- [Jittering](https://www.moronosphere.com/jittering/) - I'm absolutely jittering today, waiting for word from Seth on the drive recovery. Yeah, I know it's too soon, we really could not hear before tomorrow at earliest and friday at latest. But something in my head decided it was today and I can't stop checking email and looking at my IM client (adiumX) to
- [Groan.](https://www.moronosphere.com/groan/) - My weekend. Went to a surprise 40th birthday party for a friend; a social group I don't see much anymore, from a school my kids used to go to. The birthday girl was surprised in a bad way, but seemed to make up for this with a lotta margaritas. Her husband is one of those
- [Back on Beta](https://www.moronosphere.com/back-on-beta/) - Ok, I finally got my beta upgrade in place. I'm up and running MT beta five. Not that I'm doing a lot with it, given what happend. Still, I feel better. I'm just waiting for my recovery. Next week, we see if anything survived the disk melt-down; we may get our full databse and all
- [Marching Penguins and Swashbuckling Shaw](https://www.moronosphere.com/marching-penguins-and-swashbuc/) - It was a two movie day yesterday. (this entry copied from my blogspot blog) I had my kids to entertain last night, and they've been begging to see March of the Penguins (Which sounds way cooler in the french, la Marche de l'empereur.) So off to the mall we did go. It's funny, you avoid
- [Mystic Pig - What Ray Says!](https://www.moronosphere.com/mystic-pig-what-ray-says/) - (this entry copied from my blogspot blog) Ray has posted a short review of one of the best books I've ever read, Mystic Pig. Go give it a read. Seriously folks, you gotta read this book.
- [Climbing back from the Primodial Ooze](https://www.moronosphere.com/climbing-back-from-the-primodi/) - One. Step. At. A. Time. I'll have more here shortly. Yeah, I know images are broken. This is also a restore from an incpomplete archive. Meanwhile, I'm blogging at http://moronosphere.blogspot.com/, and Ray's at http://rayinaustin.blogspot.com/. But we're giving my creation LIFE!
- [Everything you never wanted to know about Apache](https://www.moronosphere.com/everything-you-never-wanted-to/) - I pretty much spent today working on Apache. (this entry copied from my blogspot blog) This is one of those deals where the thing I'm doing for work just happens to line up with something of my own; getting better 404 error pages up on Seth's machine (where moronosphere has been hosted). He just had
- [Prog! Ress?](https://www.moronosphere.com/prog-ress/) - It's a couple steps forward and pair of steps back, all weekend. I get something going and it blows up in my face. You know, that's how it is when you're makin' it up as you go. On the one hand I have my temporary domain (and again, thanks a million to the beautiful and
- [Thank you D!](https://www.moronosphere.com/thank-you-d/) - I got set with a temporary home for moronosphere.com (Thanks Dox, yer a fuckin' peach), so at least I have pages up that say "we're down, go to..." Long term prognosis - we'll see. It'll be a week before we know if we can recover any data, and I don't know HOW long until our
- [Found a backup!](https://www.moronosphere.com/found-a-backup/) - I found a backup from July. Whew. We can patch it back together, somewhere. The later posts can be gotten from google cache. Still, I'd rather we get Seth's disk recovered. Where and when moronosphere.com rises again, we'll see. For now I'm here, and soon I hope to have a forward from that address to
- [Blogsaster](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogsaster/) - (this entry copied from my blogspot blog) I don't know why I'm writing this. I have nowhere to post it. Last night sometime - late, I'm not sure when, but late, because readers first noticed it then - our server crashed. Moronosphere.com is hosted by my friend Seth, on a machine he keeps at his
- [Set me on fire - kereosene!](https://www.moronosphere.com/set-me-on-fire-kereosene/) - This sort of pointless toys the web is made of.
- [One Click Away](https://www.moronosphere.com/one-click-away/) - Whirlbrain, one of those lovely people I know only as another blogger, but whom I'm glad to know, hits it right on the fucking head.It's funny, that blog depression thing, silly as it is, distills something floating in the ether for a lot of us who've been blogging for a while.
- [Authors who make you crazy](https://www.moronosphere.com/authors-who-make-you-crazy/) - I've been waiting for GRR Martin's A Feast for Crows for - hell, it seems like a decade. It's the fourth book in his phenomenal A Song of Ice and Fire.I just read that he's done, and I went looking to see when my book will ship.
- [Rock Star - no more fucking reality teevee!](https://www.moronosphere.com/rock-star-no-more-fucking-real/) - I'm hooked hard on Rockstar INXS. I'm looking forward to the tuesday show all week.
- [Blog Depression](https://www.moronosphere.com/blog-depression/) - as blogging has exploded and, under the stewardship of the veterans, the form has matured more and more bloggers are finding themselves disillusioned, dissatisfied, taking long breaks, and in many cases simply closing up shop. this debilitating scourge ebbs and flows but there is hardly a blogger among us who has not felt it’s dark touch.
- [A vile drink](https://www.moronosphere.com/a-vile-drink/) - I keep thinking I should try it, but when it comes down to it, I'd rather just drink. I'm throwing a luau today; mai tais, hawaiian food (vaguely hawaiian, anyway), hawaiian music.
- [Black Skull](https://www.moronosphere.com/black-skull/) - Anyone read japanese? I Want This.
- [google goodness](https://www.moronosphere.com/google-goodness/) - You know, there are a number of reasons to check one's hit logs. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [who needs sleep, anyway?](https://www.moronosphere.com/who-needs-sleep-anyway/) - I'm getting on to that fog state where I'm sleepy and wired; I fall asleep when I'm watching TV but can't sleep when I get in bed. I need to do some one some violence, but it needs to be, you know, the good hurt kind of violence. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [I'd know you better if you were naked](https://www.moronosphere.com/id-know-you-better-if-you-were-1/) - Ever have a moment where you look at someone and they look familiar, and you think, if you were naked, I would know. Or is that just me? It's been a few times lately. My friend Andrea waits tables at a local, upscale restaurant, a wine and cocktails type bistro. She often comes over to
- [If you love the Mashups](https://www.moronosphere.com/if-you-love-the-mashups/) - Show some love to MashupTown - get yer mashup town shit:Yeah I got mine, but mine is grey. Yours, though, should be pink. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [working on sundays](https://www.moronosphere.com/working-on-sundays/) - My tar process got the files moved over, finally, but now I have to nuke about 100 million files.... I have to copy the fucking think and delete (obliterate, in perforce terms) everything I don't want. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [I'd know you better if you were naked...](https://www.moronosphere.com/id-know-you-better-if-you-were/) - Ever have a moment where you look at someone and they look familiar, and you think, if you were naked, I would know. Or is that just me? It's been a few times lately. My friend Andrea waits tables at a local, upscale restaurant, a wine and cocktails type bistro. She often comes over to
- [someplace else](https://www.moronosphere.com/someplace-else/) - I'm having one of those weekends where I just can't seem to focus on anything. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Happy Birthday, Ruby](https://www.moronosphere.com/happy-birthday-ruby/) - My daughter is seven years old today.... I remember the first one, who's now eleven, being born only a couple years ago. This one can't possibly be this big, this old already. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [It's that time already?](https://www.moronosphere.com/its-that-time-already/) - Doxy, it's almost football season, already. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Sun and Sea](https://www.moronosphere.com/sun-and-sea/) - It's been a while since I've sat at work and daydreamed about a sandy beach, diving exotic oceans, sailing sunny seas.... I want to sleep in a hammock under a palm tree. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [More on Firefly](https://www.moronosphere.com/more-on-firefly/) - Ok, now that I've seen it all... karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Can't do nothin' with a dull knife](https://www.moronosphere.com/cant-do-nothin-with-a-dull-kni/) - I own a lotta knives.... Finnish Pukko knives. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Blogosphere Dropout](https://www.moronosphere.com/blogosphere-dropout/) - I really haven't even thought about any entries of note in a week, I have not read anyone else's blog in a week.... Even though I've been working like a dog all week, I still feel like I've been on vacation from everything. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [That's why it's candy](https://www.moronosphere.com/thats-why-its-candy/) - That's why it's candy.I wrote a bit of this over in Ray's comments, but I wanted to go into it here for a couple reaons. One is that I just read a very good article on Roald Dahl in The New Yorker. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [work in progress](https://www.moronosphere.com/work-in-progress/) - But I finally hit a stride today and the words started to come, and I had that "don't stop don't stop" feeling I get when the writing is working. Now if I can switch into edit and re-write mode I might have something to put up in public soon. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [The Bachelor](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-bachelor/) - about me being alone. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Trotsky Icepick - Band Names you don't expect to see on CNN](https://www.moronosphere.com/trotsky-icepick-band-names-you/) - I'll take Band Names you don't expect to see on CNN for $1000, Alex!MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- One of history's most infamous murder weapons, the ice pick used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has apparently resurfaced after being lost for decades. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [the garp problem](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-garp-problem/) - I've read a few very good pieces of erotica lately that friends have sent me, and looked at some tasty pictures, and I feel incredibly inspired. I want to write something short and direct without getting over-involved in the plot and characters, which is my typical failing.
- [My Next Tattoo](https://www.moronosphere.com/my-next-tattoo/) - This. Thanks Ray. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [monday-on-tuesday](https://www.moronosphere.com/mondayontuesday/) - The cost of the three day weekend - the monday-on-tuesday, where everything we put off last week because of the weekend is now urgent and behind schedule.... Instead I spent saturday doing not a fucking thing, just recovering from a long week. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Pierce It!](https://www.moronosphere.com/pierce-it/) - My favorite body jewelry maker, Body Circle, is having a pretty good 20% off sale on everything through July.
- [Keeping America Scared](https://www.moronosphere.com/keeping-america-scared/) - This rocks:http://www.fluxview.com/v/RNC/gopconstrm.movBut someone needs to do a mashup of it and give it a beat.
- [When the kick-stand ain't down](https://www.moronosphere.com/when-the-kickstand-aint-down/) - Ok this has to be shouted.I DROPPED MY MOTHERFUCKING BIKE in the MOTHERFUCKING PARKING LOT.There.... Because, you know, I DROPPED MY FUCKING BIKE.God I hate when I do this.
- [Can't get my blog on](https://www.moronosphere.com/cant-get-my-blog-on/) - I have all sorts of shit I want to blog about. A movie I watched saturday (awful!), doing kid-stuff with my kids (simple pleasures), cooking, a book I just finished (very good).
- [Fuck you five times](https://www.moronosphere.com/fuck-you-five-times/) - the 5 Right Now Meme:5 things you feel right now:1.... My pimp-blue-flame wallet, with the chain mail wallet chain from Dwarven Metal Works5. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Weed Sucker](https://www.moronosphere.com/weed-sucker/) - (06-21) 13:15 PDT ATLANTA, (AP) --Marijuana-flavored lollipops with names such as Purple Haze, Acapulco Gold and Rasta are showing up on the shelves of convenience stores around the country, angering anti-drug advocates."It's nothing but dope candy, and that's nothing we need to be training our children to do," said Georgia state Sen. Vincent Fort, who has persuaded some convenience stores to stop selling the treats.The confections are legal, because they are made with hemp oil, a common ingredient in health food, beauty supplies and other household products. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Fuck You SBC](https://www.moronosphere.com/fuck-you-sbc/) - For some reason I can't completely put a finger on, I feel angry, and sad, and frustrated this morning. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Howl and Father's Day](https://www.moronosphere.com/howl-and-fathers-day/) - So the short review of Howl's Moving Castle.As Miyazaki goes, don't expect Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke.... Sweeping vistas, skies that glow with life, inventive creatures, motion that's not like any other animator. karlelvis, moronosphere
- [Skin Again](https://www.moronosphere.com/skin-again/) - Just an update on this - I wrote about it back in October of 2004; Shelly Jackson's 'Skin'I finally heard back from Ms. Jackson, albeit in a form letter. karlelvis, moronosphere

## Pages

- [Wanton Complete Story](https://www.moronosphere.com/wanton-complete-story/) - Wanton A novella of sexual obsession. November 29, 2003 TW: violence, drugs, explicit sex, gun For PJ - you will always be my Wanton. Chapter One I met her by chance. My local tattoo shop. Me under the needle. Morphine's 'Cure for Pain' playing, loud and low and ominous. Her black t-shirt said,
- [Writing](https://www.moronosphere.com/writing/) - Wanton - an indelible love story. a dark, intense novella about sexual obsession & tattoos. Long Dark Car - a short erotic piece inspired by a dream The Man With The Bag - Winner of a 'bad santa' erotic story contest on a long-gone site called Satin Slippers. What if mr Claus was not at all
- [The smell of every inch of her](https://www.moronosphere.com/the-smell-of-every-inch-of-her/) - This was from a conversation on facebook, about scent memories. I typed without thinking, and this is what came out. This is a forever memory, one of those momenets I wish o could put in a loop and feel over and over. ---- I met her at a party, and she showed me how her
- [Wanton - an indelible love story](https://www.moronosphere.com/writing/wanton-an-indelible-love-story/) - This story began as a dream; in the telling it grew into a novella. It came from some weirdly channeled muse, as if the take were telling itself to me; it possessed me until I completed it. It was written in early 2003; I wrote it not with the intent of sharing it, but only
- [About](https://www.moronosphere.com/about/) - The Moronosphere A blog, a journal, a web site, about writing, love and lust, sex and pain, anger, kilts, skull rings, drugs, music, piracy, tattoos, geekery, books, food, movies, politics, insanity, and whatever the hell else I feel like saying. My life, in short. In oblique slices and obscure cross-sections. What Does It All Mean?
- [Pu`uhonua o Honaunau](https://www.moronosphere.com/puuhonua-o-honaunau/) - (Written on the Big Island of Hawaii - originally a blog entry on The Moronosphere titled Lying on a Beach) This one isn't fiction, if I recall correctly, but was just written to capture a feeling of person, of time-and-place. I was lying on the beach - or as much beach as you get
- [Long Dark Car](https://www.moronosphere.com/long-dark-car/) - This is a slight expansion upon one of the best sex dreams I've ever had. This was a long time ago, and certainly, some of the dream detail is lost, and thus replaced with the writer's waking imagination. Still, the basic details are direct from the dream. In the dream the ending was, as all
- [Wanton V1 Chapter Three](https://www.moronosphere.com/writing/wanton-an-indelible-love-story/wanton-v1-chapter-three/) - Things have a way of falling apart when you don't give a rat's ass. My job went first. They had to call me to tell me I was fired. 'Let Go', they called it, euphemistically. I guess that's what happens when you just quit going to work. Entropy seized my universe after that. When
- [Wanton V1 Chapter Two](https://www.moronosphere.com/writing/wanton-an-indelible-love-story/wanton-v2-chapter-two/) - The drive home was long, fueled by endless cups of 7-11 coffee and when that stopped working, small white pills I bought from a gaunt lady trucker in some nameless truck stop. She'd called me 'sugar' and wanted to 'get comfy' with me in the sleeper back of her truck, but her nicotine breath,
- [Wanton V1 Chapter One](https://www.moronosphere.com/writing/wanton-an-indelible-love-story/wanton-v1-chapter-one/) - A novella of sexual obsession. Chapter One - Tattooed Boy meets Tattooed Girl. An indelible romance. It began with a chance meeting. My local tattoo shop. Me under the needle. A girl. Morphine's 'Cure for Pain' playing, loud and low and ominous.Her black t-shirt said 'Yes It Hurts'; Her arms were tattooed to the wrist.

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