9622.net

Also, I check my celebrity news every day. They cull their info from a variety of sources and always seems to stay a day or two ahead of the pack. I read things here that I rarely see anywhere else.

Boredom sends me to these fine sites now and again...

Failing that, you can always play a little chess. Very little.

Happy happy coldchef!
Here are places i go at least once a week:
Sharpeworld-always something interesting
Boingboing- likewise
Blort-quonsar's and madamjujujive's place
Iwantmedia- medianews (like poynter, but more complete, with less personality)
bifurcated rivets-english guy From here, I always go to his daily dozen on his homepage, and go surfing around
and rotten.com's fun, if you're in the mood, but not safe for work...

Tiny chess whupped my ass.

oh, oh--also, when i'm really bored and/or avoiding work, i pick a random day (not a holiday or 9/11, etc) from mf's archives from before i joined--there's usually at least one good link to something...or i go to vacapinta's user profile for the same...

Chef! Hugs to you, workin' man.
Visit a museum, read some stuff, crash the copter, send cards to your nice friends, or to your naughty ones.
And if you're still bored, play Freecell.
*sending you a big virtual hug*

thanks, folks. That should get me through the day.

Eat some pie for me.

The one link that I can never seem to delete is Dancing Paul. God help me, but every now and then it's good to go back and see something familiarly goofy.

And, did anyone read about this today?

"For a second, we looked at each other. Then I screamed, 'Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!'"

From the article:
Elsewhere, brazen monkeys have come into towns, stealing from open vegetable markets, snatching children's bags, and wandering into homes in search of a free meal.

Sounds like my plans for later today.

From the article:
Elsewhere, brazen monkeys have come into towns, stealing from open vegetable markets, snatching children's bags, and wandering into homes in search of a free meal.

Sounds like my plans for later today.
"monkey, monkey, monkey."

Hmmm...let's see...

Damn you for all the linkwork, ColdChef...

The only website I like which you've probably not heard of is The Literary Salon and all its links. I regularly read Arts and Letters Daily, plep/nutcote, woods lot,portage, apart from filepile, memepool, boingboing, gmt plus 9, quonsar's and madamjujujive's everlasting blort and bifurcated rivets. Fark is fun too.

Not much help, eh?

Here's one of the more warped cartoonists going. He might turn the tummy in some cases, but it's funny as hell. All of his weekly strips are archived, but make sure to look at "Drinky Crow Gets a Job" in the "Animation" section. I think this encapsulates all my dirty thoughts about work, and might be especially appropriate for you when working on a holiday...

Happy happy, chef. I saved you some pie.

("Drinky Crow Gets a Job" is in the SNL shorts in the animation section...you know, to be clear)

Heh. I was in a super Wal Mart last night at about 12:30 am. It was jammed, the line not moving because the person at the front of it was buying two cart loads of stuff with something that wasn't cash. I think she was trying to use beaver pelts or arcade tokens or something. Point is, I had an extended stay in the impulse buy section, and I got to wondering what a much more interesting country this would be if they sold handguns in that bit before the register.

This also reminded me of the Drinky Crow short, a work of genius that seemed only to bum out the SNL crowd upon it's airing.

I was also in Super Walmart last night. I needed some speakers for my computer at work so that I could listen to some music at work today.

It occurred to me last night that people buy a bunch of shit. I'm not talking about people buying a bunch of stuff, I'm talking about shit. Disposable, cellophane wrapped, cheese covered shit. Decades from now, historians are going to look back and try to figure out how the middle class disappeared and it's going to be this: they spent all their money on shit from Walmart.

Seriously, I looked around that store last night and felt like John Doe in "Se7en."

(I also bought some Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, a microwave turkey dinner (for lunch today), and a really cheap packet of "Thank You" notes.)

In the spirit of having to work on Thanksgiving, I give you: Low Brow.

[sample:
Dead Bunnies Haiku #909
Bunnies in the yard
Monuments of man's advance
My tractor is cruel. ]

We had a similar reaction, Chef.
I remarked that "if they repacked the usual butter as Bitin' Stix, people would buy them out weekly.

We seem to have a theme, here.
This is what I got when I clicked Eyeball's link :

Why does someone always walk around the corner whenever I fart in a deserted Walmart aisle?

For no reason whatsoever: How I Will Picture Eyeballkid from now on.

Mmmmm. "Bitin' Stix!" Do those come in "Ranch" flavor, too?

Miguel and his wife.

....and I'm the guy in the back with the cigar peering over...

The Original Thunderreslutte.

Nothing I can add would make this any funnier. Ladies and gents, I give you...Dong_Resin's granddaddy.

The less said about this one, the better. (not for the delicate type)

Yay, The party guests are here...

ColdChef takes a break..

Dude. Check out my bulge! Who says that smoking causes impotence?

Dude.
Thanksgiving is dark.

That dude echo was unintentional.
eyes on yer own paper, chef.

The 9622 crew enjoys a seaside holiday...the kid just to the left of the one with the hat...that's gotta be dong_resin

I'm the one to the left. The one holding his nuts.

Brother Dong: Spreading the Lord's good news.

"My name is Kafkaesque. Will you be my friend?"

I blame myself.

You weren't really that far off, Jon.

Man, kafka's snake looks frightened.

Flipping through the channels. Stopped on the Mos Eisley Cantina. Costumes still look cool. Music takes me back. Then, Greedo shoots first.

Point blank range and the bounty hunter hits the wall four feet to the right? Han acts only in self defense.

Everything that's wrong about Lucas is all right there.

Fucking ruined the series with that one change.

B****Fire finishing off her Thanksgiving buffet.

"I hope the kids like pie!"

Um. I realize that we've long-since drifted away from the topic at hand, but...

the more well-known dailies, for me, are the morning news, pitchfork (for pretensious music reviews), splendid (for less pretentious reviews), and the drawings of exploding dog.

less nefarious and even more special to me are devoted bee (fabulous, strange, wonderful art), ftrain (paul ford is, by far, the single best writer on the web. he puts mcsweeneys' online product to shame, and consistently makes me dream of finding his words). there is also the one-of-a-kind I Love Music, which has taught me more about music appreciation and the pitfalls of assumption than anything else...

oh, and there's joshblog - ruminations on music and philosophy from a very smart cookie.

Thanks for the links, my Canadian friend. I never did thank you for your (as always) fantastic mix. Great, great stuff. Very replayable.

Did I ever tell you that I was an honorary Canadian citizen? It's a long and not very interesting story, but...there ya go.

many, many thanks, coldchef. an honorary citizen!? wow! are you, like, the governor of louisiana or a famous portuguese author or somethin'?

your wedding mix has gotten a lot of play here, too, filling us (me and she) with fuzzy peachy feelings. i hope, again, that your wedding, honeymoon and the proceedings centuries prove(d) deliriously happy!

Tê Jota and me loafing around waiting for a job.

ColdChef talking to The Man.

*peeks head in*

The step-uncle's on his fourth Bloody Mary and he's giving me the hairy eyeball!

Yay, Thanksgiving!

I hope he didn't literally give you his hairy eyeball. I think that would put me off my oats for a very long time.

That sounds marvellously dirty...'the hairy eyeball'.

I've got to ask my SO tonight : "darlin', how you would feel about me giving you the ol' hairy eyeball?" Imagine (or not, if you have a weak stomach) all the fun trying to figure out what it means!

Also, so far not mentioned here, cursor.org and dailyrotation are daily stops for me. Plus a lot of blogbuddy's sites, everchanging. And Worth1000, too, usually. I hang at the oft-sophomoric but always fascinating Something Awful Forums when I'm drinking of an evening sometimes, but they cost 10 bux to get in now, so no point linking, I guess. Amazing how many memes and links that do the rounds start there, never mind photoshopped images....

Er, grammar. Poop.

What, no boobie sites?

Southern Charms is chock-full of nice amateur ladies willing to show what God gave 'em, and in all shapes and sizes.

I should mention that the site is, of course, not safe for work, even though that's implied, what with "boobie" and all.

What, no boobie sites?

Well hold on, I haven't had a turn yet. I'm usually pretty scholarly, so I'm not ashamed to post my guilty favorite of all that's lowbrow on the net. Celebrity Oops. Has a celebrity you're interested in ever, at any point in her career, done a nude scene? Or if not, has she ever had a "nip slip" in public anywhere near a camera? If so, look her up here (by first name, since the usual Oops clientele doesn't spell last names too well).

Not only will you find ubiquitous classics like Martina Hingis's butt hanging out from under her tennis skirt on a windy day, but also more obscure gems like a frame-by-frame analysis of Linda Koslowski stripping to a singlet in Crocodile Dundee, and even Rachel Blakely from the B-TV series The Lost World doing topless shots in an Aussie film. Truly, delightfully heinous. I dare you not to look.

Oh my. They already have shots of a nude Nicole Kidman handcuffed to a bed from the movie Birthday Girl. Did I mention Oops works fast? Not a bad film, either. Pretty entertaining.

File it under 'r' for random:

Just put this on my Christmas wish list.

I like the shirt so much I don't want any of you near it.

Virtual Bubblepack.

French cartoonist Jean Giraud (Moebius).

TexArcana (western horror comic) complete and online.

Stupid.com.

Museum Replicas Ltd (combat worthy swords, armor, etc).

BerkeleyBreathed.com and
Some things Berk has been up to since Bloom Cty.

The Donnie Darko website.

The World of Michael Parkes

Calvin and Hobbes complete on UComics (sounds kinda like a U-Boat, eh?).

Good night...

Oops--bad link on TexArcana. The site actually starts here.

Good call on Robb's site, shane. I've visited it fairly regularly for quite some time now (purely for research purposes, of course). Note: make sure to get Pop-Up-Stopper or a similar program before you go because pop-ups are definitely a major annoyance there.

Whoa, I was crazy on the bold type last night. Sorry, it was late.

...research purposes...

My research on Katie Holmes has led me to believe that she had surgical augmentation before taking her top off in Sam Raimi's film the Gift, then had said augmentation reversed afterwards. IMHO. Other people have postulated similarly with regard to Alyssa Milano.

You're right, see--'Oops' is all just dispassionate clinical trials and theories.

No one's mentioned Glenn McDonald's War Against Silence so I'll throw it out as one of the few sites I really read religiously. Every week. Sometimes our musical tastes diverge and sometimes I wonder "Why did you devote 5000 words to that?" but the beauty of WAS is that it isn't really a collection of music reviews, anyway, as much as a ongoing semi-autobiographical novel in fragments. Mobylives is also another favorite of mine.

Octobersurprise, I read twas, too. I enjoy reading his essays, but try as I might I just don't get the Big Country/Tori Amos obsessions. I mean, they both have their moments, but his writing about Amos in particular tends to border on the absurd (although he's certainly not the only one).

By the way, I'm also late to the party, but I religiously read Lileks and overlawyered.com -- neither of which are necessarily unknown sites.

I agree with most of Lileks' opinions, but even when I disagree it doesn't matter because the man can flat-out write. Overlawyered is currently on hiatus (until December 11), but it's a great clearinghouse for wacky legal-related stuff. It also (to me) proves that concerns about out of control verdicts aren't overstated.

I just don't get the Big Country/Tori Amos obsessions.

Yeah. I don't get some of Glenn's interests/obsessions, either. The Big Country thing. The Runrig thing. I've never particularly wanted to marry Juliana Hatfield. I can't imagine circumstances where I'd choose to spend good money on an A*Teens cd and take the time to write 5000 words or so on it. But that someone does, and writes about it, is a large part of what I like about TWAS.

As Toriphilia goes, though, Glenn's positively restrained ...

I'll second ftrain for great writing. Also enjoy openbrackets, textism, if.only.org, fireland, bookslut and plep.

And if anyone wants some poetry resources, I've been collecting a few here.

A note about posting images:

We encourage users to post images, especially those hilarous pics of monkeys wearing dresses or programming for Linux. But posting images that reside on someone else's server is considered by many to be bandwidth theft. Our thoughts on the matter, along with some solutions to the problem, can be found here. Thanks.

In an effort to help eliminate spam (and to preserve the sanity of the 9622 Volunteer Simian Spam-Cop Brigade) all threads older than 30 days will now be closed to comments.

Name:


Email Address:


URL:


Comments:

Remember me?