mushin no shin

I lack the discipline to get into weekly theme posts like the “feel good Friday” thing, but Halloween on a Friday calls for some celebrating. Perhaps a double shot, even.
It’s just not Halloween without Danny Elfman:

Or that master songsmith of gothic macabre, Weird Al:

(Sorry I couldn’t find a version where the video didn’t sort of [...]

I don’t really have much to add on the new Ted Stevens mess, but Rex pointed us to this Gawker post which introduced us to:

which is just awesome in its own right. Of course I think it’s the lolcats that make it ring true. Well, that and His Noodly Appendage, of course.

Success! I sampled the first bottle of my homebrew tonight, and it turned out quite tasty. Well, the shitty thing is that it’s a standard issue golden pilsner-style lager, since that’s the mix that came with the kit — will have to brew a good stout or something for the next batch. At which point [...]

Except of course “Darkness = 100%” should have been worked in there somewhere…

What Famous Leader Are You?

It seems that even “Socks” Clinton has crossed over to endorse Barack Obama:

Probably at least partially in retaliation for the gross indignity of being named “Socks”.

Well now that we’ve determined that Kate is a Romantic Corporate Goth (I had to rearrange it, “goth” must always be the last word. It’s more depressing that way.), I figured I should try to find out what sort of goth I am. Luckily the internet has about fourteen zillion quizzes ready to judge me.

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From the LOLcat Bible:

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat waz invisible, An he maded the skiez An da Urf, but he no eated it.
2 The Urfs wus witout shapez An wus dark An scary An stufs, An he rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An [...]

So the lovely miss Lesley took this little quiz, and of course I couldn’t resist:

You’re Les Miserables!
by Victor Hugo
One of the best known people in your community, you have become something of a phenomenon. People have sung about you, danced in your honor, created all manner of art in your name. And yet your [...]

Well I’m a day late posting about B’s Beantown Bash, and it’s already well documented by most everyone else that was there, so there’s not much I can add. It was a blast, at least the parts I can remember. And according to Kate it sounds like the parts I don’t much remember were pretty [...]