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Jimmy Hoffa was also under the desk
So I was sick as a DOG last week and the previous weekend, which meant the house looked like a tornado hit it by last Friday. It was sort of like those houses you hear about every now and then on the news, where federal clean-up crews have to go in wearing spacesuits to clean out all the garbage and dead animals and body parts. Well okay, there were only a couple body parts. Anyway, the nice Polish ladies came on Friday to do their bimonthly floor cleanings for me wherein the two-inch layer of Sparky's cat fur is stripped using chemicals and power saws, and so while they were working on the rest of the house I took the opportunity to work on cleaning out my "office/music studio". After (literally) about six hours I got it to the point where everything was off the floor and I washed the floor and most importantly I finally took all my HAFT stuff and put it away in various plastic boxes and then into the closet. Prior to this all my HAFT stuff was strewn all over my back room in a six inch layer (I'm not kidding about that) and I couldn't get anything done back there. In the tidying process I managed to also find two of my disability checks (!), a bag of medicine, $600 worth of my ophthalmology lenses which I'd given up on ever seeing again, three boxes of comic books (unread) and these guys:
I totally forgot I had these guys. I'm so excited. I have another Halo 1 figure I've had put aside for a long time that I've planned to use for "Rhonda" but I'd forgotten about these two. WOOT. Considering this toy line has long since been discontinued, finding new toys is a big deal to me. There are still a few figures I don't have, like the Arbiter, or the yellow or brown Halo 2 Spartans, but I sort of decided I wasn't going to spend more money on eBay buying new figures unless I came up with some compelling reason to do so. I can't remember buying these guys. Maybe I got them at the Tied the Leader LAN meet two or three years ago when I got the Spectre? So weird.
Anyway, now I can use my office again. Now I just have to come up with something exciting for my two Teal toys to be doing in the world of HAFT. And what to name them?! Tee hee!
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The Steve n' Lois Chronicles
presents
Issue #198: Tag, You're It! (?!)
...the Admiral really needed an iPad. Really badly.
PS: I've discovered another anime series that I'm enjoying now that I finished with "Planetes" (which I still highly recommend to anyone who is a grown-up (25-40) who likes science fiction). This new one is called "Samurai Champloo" and is geared more for a younger 18-30 audience and the concept is, I think, that there would be an undercurrent of rap/hip-hop to the whole Samurai anime idea. It has a really bizarre opening credits sequence, but is otherwise entertaining. Evidently it is by the guy who did a show called Cowboy Bebop (which I'm not familiar with), but I started watching this series after googling "good anime happy ending" and so far (I'm on episode 18 of 26) it isn't bumming me out.
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iPad
Ooh! I want one.
...I don't really... ...need it... ...or anything...
BUT IT'S SO COOL!
www.apple.com/ipad/
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Next up, brown shirts for everyone
I was reading this morning about the laws in various European nations in force or being considered forbidding Muslim women from wearing headscarves or veils over their faces. LOL, it's ironic that the Europeans refer to the Americans as being racist and intolerant when they have these sort of rules in place. I teach at a local college that boasts students from all walks of life from all over the world and there are women wearing veils on campus every day. I don't really see what the big deal is. Actually, I'm a bit jealous. It seems like it would be nice not to have to do your hair every day. At Hopkins, sometimes we'd have these sheiks from the United Arab Emirates come for their eye exams and they'd bring their wives with them wearing full burkas and those metal mask-things that look like mustaches... it worked out since all I'd be examining would be the eyes anyway.
I won't deny that there is something unsettling about talking to a person when you can't see their face. My son had a math teacher last year who wore a headscarf and face veil. Granted, her 13-year-old students referred to her as "the Terrorist", but they were thirteen and she was a math teacher. When I was in high school, our English class read Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" and my English teacher conducted the entire class wearing a black veil over her face and it creeped everyone out. Some of those European countries cite "terrorist concerns" as reasons for banning the face veil, but come on, you'd have to also ban ski masks, and scarves in the winter, and motorcycle helmets, and surgeon's masks... ...come to think of it, banning surgeon's masks might be a good idea, so you could keep people from stealing your political leader's nose. But I digress.
Anyway, I just thought the whole idea of banning the headscarf in France was particularly humorous. Those wacky Frenchmen. You'd think they'd know better than to encourage Nazism. Will they never learn?
PS: Sorry there's been no HAFT. I've been laid up in bed for a week now with some sort of cold/flu-type thing and I haven't gotten up to do much more than throw food at the cat. Stupid cat.
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New Ringo Movie
Here's a conversation I had (as "Mazha") with my son ("Tony") on Dec 20 while he was down in Florida visiting his dad. I think he's going to grow up to be a genius scriptwriter.
2:37am
Tony
i still want Disney to make the octopus movie where Ringo and his friends from his factory help the octopi fight evil oil capitalist people from destroying their habitat, and afterwards overthrow congress and eviscerate the proletariat etc
2:40am
Tony
instead of remaking yellow submarine
2:40am
Mazha
That would be a great movie, especially if Matthew Broderick would be the octopus, and Chris Rock would be the wise-talking eel sidekick.
2:40am
Tony
yes
Ringo starring as Ringo
it could be a musical
2:40am
Mazha
Ringo as Himself
KIng RIngo, ruler of the sea
2:40am
Tony
secretary general of the atlantic
Patrick Stewart as the octopus
2:43am
Mazha
Oh... I would hope PAtrick Stewart would be Neptune
2:43am
Tony
"RINGO I THINK WE SHOULD GO AND MAKE THOSE EVIL CAPITALIST PIGS PAY FOR THEIR GREEDY THOUGHTLESSNESS, MAKE IT SO"
2:43am
Mazha
And Ringo would say, "Mistah Wohrf.... FIAH!"
Seeing how that is exactly the way Ringo speaks
2:44am
Tony
"YES I AGREE, LET US GO AND GATHER YOUR WORKER FRIENDS AND TAKE THE BOURGEOISIE DOWN A FEW NOTCHES, NUMBER ONE"
2:45am
Mazha
And then the Octopus would destroy his enemies with his TERRIBLE BEAK MOUTH
dun DUN DUNNNNNN
2:45am
Tony
tentacles wrapping around the hq of walmart
Ringo standing there watching and being Ringo
in the end England is split into west and east
Ringo rules supreme
2:47am
Mazha
Wait which side would he rule?
2:47am
Tony
west
2:47am
Mazha
Ah. And who would rule the East?
2:48am
Tony
Paul McCartney and his gigantic titanium robot velociraptor named Jojo
In the end they have an epic battle and John Lennon comes back from the dead to defeat Ringo's communist dictatorship with the power of love
2:48am
Mazha
Well, write it up and send it to the movie companies. I think it will be a big big hit.
2:49am
Tony
hell yes
hell yes
the Jonas brothers can voice the three Beatles and do all the music
just for the lulz
except for Ringo
who is voiced by himself
okay bad idea
2:50am
Mazha
I hope there will also be sparkly vampires. That will ensure the preteen girl audience
2:50am
Tony
YES
Paul McCartney BECOMES a younger version of himself who also sparkles and is a vampire
and Ringo is Ringo
PS: Croissausage
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Misheard portmanteau
WARNING: This is a dumb journal entry. That is, more dumb than usual.
It's been an exhausting week for a variety of reasons and last night my son Spyton and I decided to relax for a bit by going on our old WoW server and making some low-level humans just to run around and goof off in a quiet and calm fashion... which meant we mostly jumped around for no reason using the /yes /no /hi /bye emotes and danced around in a preschool fashion and then at some point I said to him (out loud) for no particular reason: "You act like a sausage." which for some reason he heard as "You get a croissausage." He was so excited by the concept of a "croissausage" he immediately started running around telling other players about croissausages and tried to sell the croissausage food concept to people for 12 easy payments of 10 gold a piece. One person was so excited about croissausages he said, "I can't feel my feet." (I'm pretty sure that guy was a stoner.) Spyton made a legendary croissausage item over at the WoW item creator:
I'm so glad he spent his time doing that instead of studying for his English final he had this morning.
Today's Vocabulary Words
portmanteau
croissausage
emotes
WARNING: If you click on the YouTube link, I don't want to hear any complaining about how I owe you for the 43 seconds of your life you just wasted. It's really dumb, or as the kids say, "wtf". YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
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HAFT Crisis
OH NOES! Okay I was getting ready to do my next HAFT and I realized OMG... I fixed Rhonda... well... sort of... she still has Wuvvy's lisp... but but.... Now I can't use Wuvvy the tiny wobbly action figure any more!!! And Wuvvy was the cutest little Flood infection form EVER!
*droops*
I mean I considered the problem a while ago and then just decided not to think about it until later and now it's later. So... how can I wrangle it so I can still have Wuvvy make a cameo or two? I mean... hrm... Maybe Wuvvy could become the Blue Lady's pet in the Astral Plane? Or... could Rhonda be haunted by Wuvvy nightmares or... no that wouldn't be cute. or... uh... hrm.
Yeah I can't think of a way to do it. I mean, HAFT may make no sense to any of you, but to me it all has internal logic and meaning and I can't just plop Wuvvy back in... can I? I've written myself into a corner.
Also... I bought something completely stupid at 3 am a few nights ago and it came in the mail and it is huge. Never buy stuff at 3 am online, especially on a website that already knows your credit card so you can purchase expensive things by clicking one button. OMG. It seemed like a GREAT idea at the time, and yes, I bought the last one Amazon had. But yeah, it is life size. Master Chief life-sized hand and giant Cortana sitting on my desk. It's like... I mean it's very nice but... I had to send matching funds to the American Red Cross to assuage the guilt over spending so much on something so totally dumb. I'm 45 years old for crying out loud. 3 am. THREE A.M.
*cry*
Vocabulary Words
wobbly
internal
assuage
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I am also a Nigerian ambassador
I had this in my inbox today. Please note the To and From lines:
When I did Ben Browder's Fan book for like 5 years, I managed to get e-mails from all over the world, which means I got on the e-mail address books of people all over the world, which means I got stupid junk mail in all different languages from all over the world. I could read the French mail and I could figure out if it was soliciting money to go to Nigerian diplomats or just linking me to websites to increase my penis size, but it got harder if the text was in Russian or Japanese. But seriously, do they really think I'll be tricked into thinking I might have spoken to a hot leggy Russian babe that was, in fact, all this time... me?!
(Actually, it would make all the time I've spent with myself seem like less of a waste, and more of a relationship-building exercise.)
*rolls eyes*
Okay, actually, I do have a serious question. My Rock Band Drum controller suddenly won't work. I plug it in to the USB hub or directly into the Xbox 360 and it lights but just doesn't do anything. Ominously, when it lights up, it doesn't light up in one quadrant, but lights up like this:
I've gone to all sorts of support sites and I can't find anything about a light error message for controllers. I've tried all the suggested unplugging/plugging/restarting protocols.
Any suggestions or ideas, or do I need to buy a new drum controller... possibly the Ringo drum controller...?
Halo Action Figure Theater
The Steve n' Lois Chronicles
presents
Issue #197 SNAFU (Le dinosaur sait)
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When Doves Cry goes with strained peas
So in two weeks my guitar ensemble has one of our usual "gigs" at a nursing home where we play an hour or so for free for the residents for the heck of it. This one coming up we're playing Chopin for about half an hour and we're finishing with "old time favorites" targeted to the age-demographic of the nursing home. The line-up includes "Sweet Sue", "I Feel Happy", "Collegiate" and "Tea for Two". During rehearsal today I had the terrible realization that should I survive into my 90s (as my great grandmother did (died at 104), and as some science is predicting women of my generation might do) then there is a good chance that small music ensembles might be visiting me in MY nursing home and "entertaining" me with arrangements of age-appropriate hits.
So... I suppose that would be small singing groups, or maybe trios or quartets of young people in gold lamé jumpsuits playing their synth-iPhone band renditions of "Take On Me", "Hungry Like the Wolf" or "Every Breath You Take."
Fortunately, given my family history, my brain is likely to be shrivelled up to the size of a prune by then with Alzheimer's disease. I mean, rotting away in a nursing home is one thing. But having to face cheery teens singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is too much for me to even contemplate.
Halo Action Figure Theater
The Steve n' Lois Chronicles
presents
#196 The New Girl (Ooh! Une Couverture!)
Today's Vocabulary Words
collegiate
prune
iPhone band
life expectancy calculator
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