Our little Ray is Almost Famous. I can’t wait to see our hit counts from this.
Our little Ray is Almost Famous.
I can’t wait to see our hit counts from this.
Our little Ray is Almost Famous. I can’t wait to see our hit counts from this.
Our little Ray is Almost Famous.
I can’t wait to see our hit counts from this.
BoingBoing is the coolest place on the net. More Romance Novels, Remixed.
BoingBoing is the coolest place on the net.
More Romance Novels, Remixed.
Gregg, didn’t you make one? Submit it, baby!
I’ve got a crush.This is the sort of thing I do when I’m hung over and way short on sleep on a sunday afternoon…. This is where I hope for a baseball game, or if it’s teh right season, a hockey game.
I admit it. I’ve got a crush.
This is the sort of thing I do when I’m hung over and way short on sleep on a sunday afternoon. I turn on random things on teevee. This is where I hope for a baseball game, or if it’s the right season, a hockey game. But if I get skunked on all that, and I really just can’t get up off the fucking couch, I’ll wander aimlessly around the dial (aside – who actually remembers when teevees had dials and we had to get up to change channels?).
Usually this leaves me with a cooking show, or a documentary. Sometimes even a re-run of American Gladiators, but we’ll talk about that crush later.
Sunday, though, I stopped on a little thing called Xtreme4x4.
Now, I drive a jeep. But there’s really nothing ‘Xtreme‘ about it. I don’t do a lot of actual off-roading (I try, you know, but who has time). I don’t have it heavily customized. Who can afford it, and when most of it’s miles are road miles, what’s the point? But saturday I was out shopping for some nice new tires, and my head was all full of four wheelin’, so when I landed on Xtreme4x4 on Spike TV, my thumb rested on the remote control.
Now, I think this would have held my interest for five, ten minutes. Maybe a whole episode, but maybe not.
Only…
Now, these pictures all suck. The stupid bastards who did the web site think we want pictures of trucks. We don’t care about trucks. We care about Jessi. She’s way, way cuter than that when she’s moving.
She welds. She uses power tools. She customizes trucks. She has tattoos.
I Want Her.





No, I mean I really, really love mashups. If you share any bit of this passion, get thee directly to mashuptown.com.
I love mashups.
No, I mean I really, really love mashups.
If you share any bit of this passion, get thee directly to mashuptown.com. Run, don’t walk. And get yourself a double handful of Owner of a Lovely Butt, a mashup of Mix-A-Lot’s Baby got Back and Yes’ Owner of a Lonely Heart. And yes, that’s as fuckin’ sick as it sounds, in a very good way.
I’m currently downloading everything they have linked on the site, which I’ll be listening to for the next several days. I’ve added them to my blogroll, I’ve added them to my RSS feeds.
I love this site…
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!
A game. I don’t know where it started. I got it from WhirlBrain.
1) What is the total number of books I’ve owned?
I’ll be fucked if I know. I own hundreds now. I’m out of room. I give some away every month when I run out of room. More than a hundred, less than a million.
2) What is the last book I bought?
‘My Life and Hard Times’, James Thurber. I’ve owned several copies, this one’s for a friend.
For myself — hmmm — Let’s count my pre-order of the new Harry Potter, or the last John Dunning.
3) What is the last book I’ve read?
Jereg, by Steven Brust. Not at all a bad fantasy novel, though for some reason it’s taken me months 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 Katrovas
Lord of the Rings – JRRT
Last Call – Tim Powers
Wizard of Earthsea – LeGuin
Tarzan of the Apes – ERB
Gate of Ivrel – CJ Cherryh
Chump Change – Dan Fante
Booked to Die – John Dunning
Sarantium — 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! You’re it!
Brother Ray
My beloved Doxy
Gregggggg with too many gees.
Buck Daruma, who isn’t named Buck
and how about Trance just to see if she’s paying attention.
Brett and the lovely Hiromi (and one truly can’t mention Hiromi without an implied Grrrrrrrowl) directed a littel love my way by mentioning me here.
Brett and the delicious Hiromi (and one truly can’t mention Hiromi without an implied Grrrrrrrowl) sent a little love my way by mentioning me here.
More importantly though, they sent me on to a really interesting article about moko-wearer Harawira Craig Pearless:
In short, Ta Moko is the New Zealand Maori tradition of facial tattooing; others have done a better job detailing it’s history and traditions, so for background, look at www.tamoko.org.nz, and a quick google will tell you more.
Ta Moko has fascinated me for years. The designs themselves are spectacular; the Maori themselves (And that’s ‘Mau-ree’, not “May-ori”, people) have pretty much the most sophisticated design sense of any ploynesian people. Not just the tattoos, but the art, the carving, the clothing. In a great tradition of polynesian art, they stand at the peak. I have several Maori-inspired tattoos and will almost certainly wind up with more.
But also, there’s the facial tattoo issue. As a heavily tattooed person, a person who intends to be mostly covered some day, I still have certain lines. The hands, at one point, now crossed. The neck. The scalp. And then, the highest level of tattoo statement, the face.
I’ve hit one of those damned creativity lulls where I it down to write several times during the day and stare at the blank, mocking screen. I’m not sure why — possibly it’s that I actually have the germ of an idea for a story, which I’m a paragraph into but haven’t had TIME to work on. But maybe that’s where all the energy is going.
I’ve hit one of those damned creativity lulls where I sit down to blog several times during the day and stare at the blank, mocking screen.
I’m not sure why — possibly it’s that I actually have the germ of an idea for a story, which I’m a paragraph into but haven’t had TIME to work on. But maybe that’s where all the energy is going. We’ll see. But in any case I have a feeling I might not be updating here quite as much for the next week or so.
That’s either a good thing or a bad thing. you tell me.
How the Scots keep things clean under the kilt: The WillyBrush.No, I have not tried one. I know better ways to keep the old weapon clean.
How the Scots keep things clean under the kilt:
The WillyBrush.
No, I have not tried one. I know better ways to keep the old weapon clean.
I love this drawing. BoingBoing has the history and another link to the b/w version.
I love this drawing.

BoingBoing has the history and another link to the b/w version.
I’m almost tempted to get a tattoo with that version if tinkerbell.