Here's an image of the wall cloud around 7pm tonight.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Flood of '08
Well, with 3 days of constant rain it looks like this can now be called the flood of '08.
Here's an image of the wall cloud around 7pm tonight.
Here's an image of the wall cloud around 7pm tonight.
Monday, June 2, 2008
The Downward Spiral
I felt I had to write a response to Saturday's Riversplash incident.
Mainly because I can't seem to go to any event which allows me to get intoxicated in an outdoor environment without some dip-shits messing it up.
Between gun toting morons, Beer prices closing in on $7 for a measly 8oz cup and live music stuck in 1984 I think festivals in this city are pretty much a dead-end endeavor.
"Where culture's defined by the ones least refined
And you’ll be left behind if you don't fit in...
My future's determined by thieves, thugs, and vermin
It's quite an excursion, but it's ok
Everything's backwards in Americana, my way"
-The Offspring, Americana
Nuff said.
Mainly because I can't seem to go to any event which allows me to get intoxicated in an outdoor environment without some dip-shits messing it up.
Between gun toting morons, Beer prices closing in on $7 for a measly 8oz cup and live music stuck in 1984 I think festivals in this city are pretty much a dead-end endeavor.
"Where culture's defined by the ones least refined
And you’ll be left behind if you don't fit in...
My future's determined by thieves, thugs, and vermin
It's quite an excursion, but it's ok
Everything's backwards in Americana, my way"
-The Offspring, Americana
Nuff said.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Ate My Balls
The internet wasn’t always as it is today. Long back in the Digital Dark Ages of the mid-90‘s, long before Myspace, You Tube and yes, even before the infamous Napster there was another breed of online craze. Ate My Balls. But what was Ate my Balls? And where did it go?
Long forgotten, and only remembered by those of us who were around for the Explorer v.3 days, crawling at slower than 56k, and looking for something other than free porn to kill time. This was the hay-day of Ate My Balls.
According to Wikipedia, the first Ate My Balls page was created by a man named Nehal Patel at some point in ’96. The fad soon reeked havok like a 50 car pile-up across the Information Super-Highway. During this glorious era there were thousands of these pages across the net and no one was innocent. Mr. T, South Park, and even The Care Bears had their own Ate My Balls pages. Today only a sack full survive.
These classic web pages are rather simple in design, as most meme parody pages, even from a mid-90’s standpoint. They usually consist almost solely of pictures of the poor soul who entered the artist’s crosshairs that have comicesque speech bubbles crudely edited in with ms-paint. These captions usually consist of a the character exclaiming their love of consuming testes. To take an example from “Pac-Man Ate My Balls“, “I turn blue when I eat blue balls!”
Some of the Ate My Balls creators even took the time to put crude storylines together, or have some sort of ongoing narrative to ad to the story. “Jar Jar Binks Ate My Balls” does so in a sad attempt of replicating the classic Star Wars prologue by typing the text in a triangular fashion.
But what happened to this once flourishing species? Nobody truly knows. Some people think that they were simply deleted by their host servers. Others believe they were wiped out by some strange virus that destroyed any site with the words “ate” and “balls” in the same sentence. Perhaps Star Wars Kid hunted them all down as Darth Vader did to the Jedi. But most agree that their creators just simply found something better to do.
All we have left today are a few scattered pages such as “Ric Flair Ate My Balls” and “Krazy Keith’s Ate My Balls Links Page” which will surely become some sort of Rosetta Stone of Internet history. Although 99% of these pages no longer exist, Krazy Keith has a list of over 320 Ate MY Balls links. Because of this cryptic roster we have some sort of idea as to who ate who’s balls back in those dark days of the late 90’s.
Perhaps someday, by the grace of the almighty Ceiling Cat, Ate My Balls pages shall once again rear their head.
Long forgotten, and only remembered by those of us who were around for the Explorer v.3 days, crawling at slower than 56k, and looking for something other than free porn to kill time. This was the hay-day of Ate My Balls.
According to Wikipedia, the first Ate My Balls page was created by a man named Nehal Patel at some point in ’96. The fad soon reeked havok like a 50 car pile-up across the Information Super-Highway. During this glorious era there were thousands of these pages across the net and no one was innocent. Mr. T, South Park, and even The Care Bears had their own Ate My Balls pages. Today only a sack full survive.
These classic web pages are rather simple in design, as most meme parody pages, even from a mid-90’s standpoint. They usually consist almost solely of pictures of the poor soul who entered the artist’s crosshairs that have comicesque speech bubbles crudely edited in with ms-paint. These captions usually consist of a the character exclaiming their love of consuming testes. To take an example from “Pac-Man Ate My Balls“, “I turn blue when I eat blue balls!”
Some of the Ate My Balls creators even took the time to put crude storylines together, or have some sort of ongoing narrative to ad to the story. “Jar Jar Binks Ate My Balls” does so in a sad attempt of replicating the classic Star Wars prologue by typing the text in a triangular fashion.
But what happened to this once flourishing species? Nobody truly knows. Some people think that they were simply deleted by their host servers. Others believe they were wiped out by some strange virus that destroyed any site with the words “ate” and “balls” in the same sentence. Perhaps Star Wars Kid hunted them all down as Darth Vader did to the Jedi. But most agree that their creators just simply found something better to do.
All we have left today are a few scattered pages such as “Ric Flair Ate My Balls” and “Krazy Keith’s Ate My Balls Links Page” which will surely become some sort of Rosetta Stone of Internet history. Although 99% of these pages no longer exist, Krazy Keith has a list of over 320 Ate MY Balls links. Because of this cryptic roster we have some sort of idea as to who ate who’s balls back in those dark days of the late 90’s.
Perhaps someday, by the grace of the almighty Ceiling Cat, Ate My Balls pages shall once again rear their head.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Clean Festive Green
It's time to kick off the spring and kick around your hacky sacks
Operation Adaptation, an eco-friendly concert to raise awareness about global warming is coming to Sullivan this weekend.
The two day festival taking place on two stages at the Concord Center will feature many Jazz, Blues, and Bluegrass bands from the U.S. and Canada. Among the headliners will include,
The complete list of bands performing is available here.
The show will also feature a main stage entirely powered by eight fans pedaling bicycle generators. Other eco-friendly activities include planting a tree for every ticket sold, as well as providing biodegradable plates and utensils for the crowd.
For those with a true nature spirit the Concord Center also provides tons of camping space which is included in the $5 parking fee.
The show starts at 4:30 Friday afternoon and runs through Sunday at noon. So come on down and help jam for the planet.
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