Tag Archives: Misc

Billy West Interview

The Onion’s AV Club has an interesting interview with Billy West, the voice talent behind Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy and Fry from Futurama. He seems just a touch bitter, but reading his comments it seems like his bitterness is not unwarranted. An interesting tidbit is the mention of several Futurama movies direct to DVD.

2Bangkok

A bit ago I posted about a site that had pictures of the abandoned Russian Embassy in Bangkok. Well I have forever since been drawn back to that site 2bangkok.com. It is really one of the best sites I have ever been too. It is not for everyone. I learned much about the international operations [...]

The Monster Engine

What a great concept, take doodles of monsters and superheros as done by children and turn them into pieces or very cool art.
http://www.themonsterengine.com/

Black Squirrels

When we used to live in DC I remember seeing Black Squirrels fairly often. Ever since we have moved out to the Northern Virginia Suburbs I have never seen one, that is until this past Sunday. I came home from a birding expedetion to find a Black Squirrel lounging on top of my bird feeder. [...]

Russian Embassy in Bangkok

These pictures of the abandoned Russian embassy in Bangkok Thailand are strangely fascinating.

Reading Update

I had to finally order The Stars My Destination from amazon as nowhere had it locally. I also decided to order Shardik by Richard Adams. Looks interesting. Watership Down had a real affect on me as a kid so I look forward to this one. In the meantime I am almost done with No Laughing [...]

Man Killed Mayor’s Aide For Crack

I wonder if the perp in this recent fatal DC stabbing realized that Marion Barry is no longer Mayor? Why else would he stab a Mayor’s aide to get crack?
Say Cheese
But Watch Out!

Moleskine

A good while back I read this crazy story about some writer who was obsessed with his notebooks. These notebooks had to be of a particular kind, namely Moleskine. At some point the last manufacter of these notebooks had gone out of business so the man bought all that he could find, some 100 or [...]

Sick — ugghhh

I have had a terrible sinus infection so I have not been doing
much with the site. Sorry to let my loyal reader down. Now back to
suffering.

A Moment in Time

I sit here. Drinking a Rodenbach Grand Cru. One of the finest beers in the world. Listening to Holopaw. Upstairs my son Niels fitfully sleeps through his first virus. Outside it is raining when it was supposed to be snowing.