I watch this little video for inspiration. And it always works. TMBG and HSR: acronyms that both really stand for Unforgettable and Cool.

So a guy walks up to an ATM…

This guy came before me and he actually works with steel: Jonathan Ward

This guy is new and possibly cashing in on the Steelbuddha flavah: LiveJournal User : Steelbuddha, but it looks like he moved from his Blogspot area under an assumed name.

Hello, other Steelbuddhas!

While reading mimismartypants — who gives herself too much grief for gushing about her incredibly cool daughter — I came across this link:

History of the Piñata, By Wendy Devlin in MEXICO CONNECT

Now, I wasn’t all that interested in the theories the website posed, but I did have a moment where I wanted to test my Spanish comprehension after studying it for five years in high school. For my data set, I used the song at the bottom of the page. I think I may have given myself an “F”.

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Dale, dale, dale, no pierdas el tino,
Come, come, come (?) Do not lose the…tino. That Dah-lay stuff could just be la-las. As for the tino, maybe the stick?

porque si lo pierdes, pierdes el camino.
Because if you lose it (the tino), you lose the street. Well, street could mean path in this case. That’s a little heavy for a song about mindless violence. That stick must be some sort of divining rod or something.

Esta piñata es de muchas mañas
This piñata is made from many tomorrows. Hm, some kind of Zen koan / carpe diem sentiment. We build a papier-mache representation of the future — in the form of a horse, usually, because horses are…always moving forward — and then we obliterate it with a heavy stick to show…that we’re nihilists? Wait, that says mañas. What’s a maña? Well, I’m sure the basic meaning is much the same.

sólo contiene naranjas y cañas.
It only contains oranges and … canes? Or candy, maybe? Candy canes! Aha! That’s a strange combination of foods. And hold on just a second, I thought the piñata was made of tomorrows. Now you’re just going to take that all back and say, “Dale, Dale, only fooling! It’s just a stupid papery husk with oranges and candy canes in it! Is your mind blown yet?”

La piñata tiene caca, Tiene caca:
The piñata has crap in it, it’s got crap in it. Oh, so now I don’t even get the oranges and candy canes? So what, now my tomorrows are hollow, or worse, filled with crap? To hell with this; if I wanted that kind of abuse, I’d pay some leather-clad warrior woman for it and I’d *be* the piñata. Not that…well, anyway, I’m not translating the rest of your stupid song; I’m taking my tino and I’m going home. Bunch of empty promises. Jerks.

A televised benefit shows how *affected* Kanye West is by the disasters in Katrina’s wake, but not how *effective* he is as a spokesperson for the plight. Still, Kanye’s obviously heart-felt rambling[.wmv, 4MB] is more easily identified with than Mike Myers’ comparatively wooden, going-through-the-motions cue card reading. Hell, even Chris Tucker looked speechless for a second.

Escape into a world of imagination [.wmv, 3.5 MB], with Chris from Family Guy.

That last two seconds could easily be an excerpt from my life.

BB can find some links, lemme tell ya.

Suicide Grasshoppers Brainwashed by Parasite Worms. Flee!

Jed Wards sent me this. And I curse the day. They are the fathers of Gospel Mime. You must click everything on this site, particularly the trailer on the merch page. It doesn’t necessarily load properly, but then, His will is ineffable.

“They will electrify, elevate and inspire you with quick reflexes…”

K&K Mime Ministries INTRO

And since you can’t get into the site proper from the flash file, I give you this, also: K&K Mime Ministries: learn more, if you dare.

And because nothing happens on the web without MeFi’s mandatory snarking, you should read all the funnies over there.

I’ve recently discovered, through my friend Andy, a couple of “comics” that I would rate among the greatest books in our modern literature. These are not only great stories, but easily contain enough material to fill a masters thesis, if you ask me.

Although the books seem to be looped in with the Sin City series, and while I am impressed with Frank Miller’s ability to create a tale, these two books extend beyond the gritty serial into the deeply affecting. The author is Alan Moore and combined with some stellar artists, he’s created works of which I am simultaneously awestruck and jealous.

Watchmen was the graphic novel Andy suggested and which really got me excited about the author. Right now I’m reading V for Vendetta which is soon to be a film starring Hugo Weaving, John Hurt and Natalie Portman. While I don’t doubt the acting and directing power behind the film, there’s simply no way even a three-hour movie will touch on the subtleties in these books, so I recommend reading V before the film is released.

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More likely that you simply won’t come in anymore, but hey! at least I tried.