Electrolicious

Last night Dre and I walked by The Vogue (Seattle goth club), which was leaking enormously loud industrial/goth music at 5:45pm yesterday. It seemed sort of early for such pounding tunes.
In a moment of total glee I said, “Why, it must be UNHAPPY HOUR at The Vogue!” This cracked me up to no end, but [...]

This is one of my favorite pictures ever of my friend TC. He’s finishing up his PhD in Oceanography, and can get quite professorial and pedantic at times (practice makes perfect, natch). The photo reminds us all, however, of what’s really going on in that head of his. Most notably: The Tao of A Balloon [...]

Thanks to Terra and Levi, I now have several excellent books to read while on my xmas/new years vacation. Wonderful.

Question: Are autopsies performed by the King County Medical Examiner’s office available to the public?
Answer:
• First I checked Google. Dead end (ha! pun!).
• Then I called 411. I got a woman who kept asking, “So you want the CORNER’S office?” No, no: coroner. She gave me a number.
• I call the number. It’s for King [...]

I’m building a playlist on my iPod called “uplifting.” I think the descriptor is pretty self-explanatory. I’m looking for mp3s that make you feel like the heavens have cracked open. Music with warm chords, epic strings, bass that makes your colon vibrate. Oh and emotion. Thus far, I have one track in my playlist. It’s [...]

Fill in the blanks.
Martin ______.
Grab them by the ____ hairs.
I can’t reach the cookie jar. I’m too ______.
____ fuse.
____ stop.
Animated _____.
Go _____y, it’s your birthday.
Clue: it’s all one word. And it’s the state of my nerves today.

Apparently, my friend Kara’s vehicle of choice is a “go-go space pirate unicorn rocketship.” And that’s about the coolest thing ever.

While I’m happy to hear that Saddam Hussein’s government has fallen, the copywriter in me winces over the White House’s description of the Iraqis’ “unquenchable thirst for freedom.” When did Mountain Dew execs start writing for the US Government? What’s next, Iraq’s All New eXtreme Regime™?

Proof that fire dancing has reached terrifying heights of “overexposure”:http://seattleweekly.com/features/0236/diversions-stallings.shtml?
Last night I watched “Lilo & Stitch.” And it had fire dancing. Ok, ok, so it was hawaiian fire dancing, but still!

Do I have any malicious New York City readers? Because I need someone to go reek some havok at a bowling alley at 1am on Valentine’s night.