Dead In The Water

This blog is so dead it's not even funny. I'm not sure if I want to revive it or just start over with something new. Given the nature of life these last couple of months (new job, new house, new town, etc etc etc) I think the second option is favorable. If I go that direction, I'll link it up here.

See ya soon (or not.)

Shawn

P.S. I am a new uncle of two baby girls as of about an hour ago. That's pretty cool. My sister is awesome and got through her first pregnancy like a champ! Good job, sis!

OMG! YOU WON!?!

Definitely one of my favorite comments on yesterday's midterm election results. Courtesy of Metafilter user "wfrgms", an imaginary chat conversation between President George W. Bush and new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:

GWB72: OMG! YOU WON!?!
pelosi69: YEH! U SUX!
GWB72: SUX IT BIOTCH!
pelosi69: whatever, ur so inpeachd! LOL!

posted by wfrgms at 2:30 AM PST on November 8

Apparently, the real conversation this morning was anticlimactic in comparison.

In other election-related blogging, Dave's Long Box examines the political orientations of yr fave superheroes:

WONDER WOMAN – SOCIALIST

Wonder Woman was raised in an all-female society, a monarchist utopia with strong socialist overtones and plenty of hot girl-on-girl action. Wonder Woman came to “Patriarch’s World” with a clear liberal agenda but a willingness to crack skulls if need be. She’s heavily into social justice, environmental issues, and sisterhood. Wonder Woman is not beyond sticking a high-heeled red boot up your ass if you get in the way of her Sapphic Socialism.

The Incredible Hulk is characterized as a Libertarian, and apparently visited a polling place in Allentown, PA:

A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said.

Yeah. Metal cat paperweight, my ass. HULK USE FIST TO SMASH THE STATE!! HULK SMASH POSSIBILITY OF VOTER FRAUD AND HACKING INHERENT IN DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE!! HULK MAKE HIS VOICE HEARD!!

Perhaps the Hulk is really a Burning Man Generation techno-anarchist with strong "Green" Party leanings. Get it? "Green" Party?

OMG Shawn made a funny!!111!!!!ROTFLOL!!

Hmmm, maybe we shouldn't have invited the "Pun"isher to our little election-oriented blogpost!

Perfectly Aligned

I know I haven't been posting much lately, and nearly everything I've posted has been a YouTube video, but this short vid is too perfectly awesome to ignore. Featuring comics from the Upright Citizens Brigade. Hilarious.

WTF?

WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF???????????????????????LOL

BINGO!

So true, so true.

This one goes out to Skiv, Whitey, and Hawk. I miss you guys.

(via ldopa.net)

How to Review a Bad Movie

Roger Ebert says it better than I ever could. I wish every bad movie review was like this. Especially the last two paragraphs.

Ebert Reviews The Village

(via Ack Ack Ack)

The real deal!

January 31, 1970. The Oakland Arena. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Booker T and the MGs. A preshow jam session. You have to see these YouTube videos!

After a hilarious intro, John Fogerty trades licks with Steve Cropper before the show:



The MGs lay down a solid groove on "Time Is Tight":



But the highlight is Creedence totally wailing on "Fortunate Son" and then a segue straight into "Commotion." One of the greatest American rock bands of all time. No question about it.

New Flickr Photos!

Tenzin's Toy
Originally uploaded by Shawn Econo.

I recently posted a ton of new-ish photos to Flickr. Many were taken during the period of my computer problems in April, so they just sort of hung out on memory cards until I could download them to my new hard drive. I'm still tagging and adding captions to them, but feel free to drop by and check them out. Thanks!

The King Of New Jersey

Party Portrait
Originally uploaded by Shawn Econo.

The boisterous keg party continued to escalate and young Tenzin could be found in the calm but intense eye-of-the-hurricane center of the burgeoning madness. Out-of-control doesn't quite begin to describe his self-assured but foolhardy antics; he promptly dismissed the donning of lampshade hats as bourgeois, and instead slapped a Japanese basket on his head as an impromptu fez.

He then demanded documentation of his all-out party domination by the most skilled of his fellow celebrators: "Dude, take my picture! I'm the freaking King Of The World! Or at least the King Of New Jersey!"

At last report, Tenzin was unable to feel his legs but assured all present that he would steadfastly pursue the duties and obligations of the office of King Of New Jersey by continuing to, in his words, "party in a hearty manner."

Absence makes the heart grow...fonder?

Hello all. I'd like to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly apologize for my lengthy haitus from updating the Completely Spectacular Thirty Spokes Megablog. A busy Easter week, coupled with the tragic crash of my main hard drive and the resultant cursing and wringing of hands, started the non-blogging ball rolling. Since getting my computer back from the Best Buy service department, I've discovered that a rich, untapped multitude of lame excuses for not posting could be easily unearthed from the murky depths of my lazy slacker heart. Allergies, housework, spending time with baby Tenzin, work barbecues, helping dad-in-law Sal with re-roofing, etc etc etc blah blah blah. Of course, nobody cares. Because we all live busy lives, right?

So a month of not blogging comes and goes without a fancy monument or even the slightest concern of the blogosphere-at-large. C'mon, does anyone even know this thing exists? Outside of the handful of my brave best friends and patient family members, who log in once a week to see if Shawn has finally conquered his lifelong procrastination? Of course not.

But tonight I decided to call bullshit on myself. I was able to work all day, come home, eat dinner, and then mow the 75 shaggy and homely acres of our front yard (and not with any of these fancy riding mowers that all of my neighbors use, mind you) and I decided that a day filled with such triumphs could only be capped by adding tags and descriptions to a hundred new Flickr photos and then a short but thoroughly awesome and relevant blogpost. I got about halfway through the phototagging but I still made it here. Why? Because I care. That, and my ego absolutely requires its narcissistic expression on a regular basis or it will shrivel and die like the neglected spider plant on my bookshelf.

So welcome back, I guess, and thanks for dropping by. I will surely try to make it worth your while to stop by Thirty Spokes occasionally in your restless search for geek-sustenance. How? I'm not sure, but I have a feeling that gushing posts about the unbearable cuteness of my kitty cats are as good a place to start as any. Feel free to leave comments here or drop me a line at dharmapunk 71 at hotmail dot com. Rock on, kids. It can only get better from here.