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Dude trolls a city council meeting about permitting yet another mosque by promising the mosque will destroy America
"All women who are overweight or obese will have to wear burka. 10,000 steps per day, low carb."

Podcast: Will Cuba fall without a fight? More Iran confusion, gun rights for felons isn't a crazy idea, wetbacks are voting! And are data centers of the devil? Nope!

Google finally gets one right

Months ago, I reported that the final Zodiac cypher had been cracked and the name of the killer revealed. And the name of the killer turned out to be someone suspected in the unsolved Black Dahlia murder. The general tone of my mention of this was "serious you guys, this is real."
Well, it's not real. It's total bullshit.
Sorry about that. I did two things: 1, I bought into something, a conspiracy theory really, because it was new and exciting. And 2, I allowed a self-declared "expert" to snow me over with his "expert" claims about solving ciphers, an alleged expertise I could not challenge because I know practically nothing about codebreaking. I remember being similarly swindled by self-declared "experts" babbling about "chromatic aberrations." (Although I didn't really buy into that, but I found it "interesting" and I wasn't strongly skeptical about it. Hey they said they're "experts," they must know that they're talking about, right?)
I screwed up. It won't be the last time, I'm sure.

TJM definitively ranks the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and explains the joys of discovering older movies over anticipating new ones.

Podcast: In Wisconsin, the Dems steal an election from themselves, abortion is cheered in Massachusetts, Spain gets what it voted for, the economy is humming, and more!

Subway rider belts out Nessun Dorma (which you may recognize from Trump's rallies and from my favorite Mission Impossible movie, Rogue Nation)

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Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter

Chocolate Cherry Cordial
You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon's true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.

Caramel Chew
There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.

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Forgotten 80s Mystery Click
I haven't forgotten this one. I play it a couple of times a month. But I bet a lot of you forgot it:
Athletic (boogie down)
Hustle (turn back)
Feel pathetic (sugar town)
No muscle (soul hack)
I'm jumping (you move)
No dancer (beside me)
I'm thumping (you prove)
Don't get no answer

TJM dives into the thrill a minute cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky

Building collapses during 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Colombia

On "Professor" Arday:

He was their living lawn jockey, period. They won't say that 'cause they're sensitive and down with his struggle and all. He was there to appease and flatter their sense of being uplifters of the oppressed. In truth, he served as their living lawn jockey -- no more, no less, and unworthy of even a second thought on their part. Tokenism, pure and simple.

-- Krebs v Carnot

TJM definitively ranks the films of Sergio Leone. You won't believe #6. Real hot take there.

Bro spent four years/4000 hours painting an eleven-foot long cutaway-view layout of the USS Enterprise

Ireland's 'Air Force One' lacks a key safety system for fog -- thanks to country's ban on Israeli products
Ireland's best emigrated 150 years ago. The current Ireland is a sad joke. [CBD]

Podcast: More Iran bluster from Trump? Enough! Deportations hit a record, and that is a good thing for all, Todd Blanche's nomination is out of committee, the DSA is on the march, and more!

TJM struggles with Sergio Leone's legacy

The Short Unhappy Life of a Russian Soldier: Why recruits die in 20-30 minutes
Interesting video. Some key parts: drones were responsible for 70-80% of all battlefield deaths in mid-2025, and I bet it's higher now. The Russian army is incredibly corrupt. Men get assigned to the most dangerous frontline units, the "Storm" units, unless they pay a superior $2,000 to be assigned to a different unit. Furthermore, there is often no real training for recruits -- commanders pocket the money that would have gone towards fuel and ammo costs incurred during training. Much "training" consists just of taking a single picture of soldiers doing something soldier-y, like fording a river, and publishing that as proof that the training was done. Even when it is done, training is only two weeks long.

TJM wonders what the most Scorsese movie that Scorsese ever Scorsesed was

TJM definitively ranks the films of Fritz Lang

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Granted, there were many holidays over that period, and holidays and weekends really bring one's traffic down, but still, that was quite a fall. But lately my traffic has crawled back upwards to about the level I was at before the Big September (Rathergate) and Big October (Election) months. I'm back up around 6,000 visits per day -- maybe 7,000 or 7,500 on a couple of weekdays, if I'm lucky, and half that on weekends. Is this another local spike, caused by interest in the tsunami disaster and now the Rathergate report? I hope not. Blogging is a bit like relationships, as described by Woody Allen: blogging and blog-traffic are like a shark, and always has to be moving forward, or else it dies. And what we had there for a while was a dead shark. I hope the shark's both alive and unjumped. posted by Ace at 02:08 PM Comments I'm losing hope and interest. Something has to give. I AM A CITIZEN JOURNALIST! Posted by: Jeff G on January 11, 2005 02:19 PM I was mulling-over this very topic yesterday and, I think, even if the numbers stay kind of low, a pretty great thing has been achieved. All of those people who were checking blogs in September and October now know about the existence of them, which means that they will be back any time something happens where they feel compelled to double-check the media, or at least get more information than they're getting from the papers and TV. So maybe they aren't all news-junkies who will be checking blogs daily, but they'll be back whenever something big or of particular interest to them happens. Of course, as someone who gets almost no traffic, I can afford to be blase about this... Posted by: Deus ex Macrame on January 11, 2005 02:44 PM You want to keep the traffic flowing, keep the cheesecake comin'! Politics 'N' Porn baby. Its a winner. Posted by: Iblis on January 11, 2005 02:47 PM Maybe the reduction in traffic is due to the fact that all you have been doing is wah wah wahing about CBS and Rathergate, or Memogate, or TheConservativesAreBeingHeldDownByTheLiberalMediaGate. Posted by: Ryan on January 11, 2005 03:33 PM It's a good theory, Ryan. I'll look right into it. Meanwhile, you post here all the time, and I don't think I've ever sent you an email or replied to you before. Posted by: ace on January 11, 2005 03:35 PM Who loves ya, baby? Posted by: CraigC on January 11, 2005 08:47 PM Geez Ace. You're talking about traffic slowdowns. . . when you get ten times my hits each day. And let's be honest, I look better in pleather. Be happy. It'll pick up. CBS is bound to do something stupid again eventually. Cheers, Dave at Garfield Ridge Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on January 11, 2005 10:40 PM I can't imagine how you can possibly do more than you do to draw hits. 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The general tone of my mention of this was "serious you guys, this is real." Well, it's not real. It's total bullshit. Sorry about that. I did two things: 1, I bought into something, a conspiracy theory really, because it was new and exciting. And 2, I allowed a self-declared "expert" to snow me over with his "expert" claims about solving ciphers, an alleged expertise I could not challenge because I know practically nothing about codebreaking. I remember being similarly swindled by self-declared "experts" babbling about "chromatic aberrations." (Although I didn't really buy into that, but I found it "interesting" and I wasn't strongly skeptical about it. Hey they said they're "experts," they must know that they're talking about, right?) I screwed up. It won't be the last time, I'm sure. TJM definitively ranks the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and explains the joys of discovering older movies over anticipating new ones. Podcast: In Wisconsin, the Dems steal an election from themselves, abortion is cheered in Massachusetts, Spain gets what it voted for, the economy is humming, and more! Subway rider belts out Nessun Dorma (which you may recognize from Trump's rallies and from my favorite Mission Impossible movie, Rogue Nation) Via Archimedes: *Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter* Chocolate Cherry Cordial You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon's true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate. Caramel Chew There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal. More at this ineffable link Forgotten 80s Mystery Click I haven't forgotten this one. I play it a couple of times a month. But I bet a lot of you forgot it: Athletic (boogie down) Hustle (turn back) Feel pathetic (sugar town) No muscle (soul hack) I'm jumping (you move) No dancer (beside me) I'm thumping (you prove) Don't get no answer TJM dives into the thrill a minute cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky Building collapses during 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Colombia On "Professor" Arday: He was their living lawn jockey, period. They won't say that 'cause they're sensitive and down with his struggle and all. He was there to appease and flatter their sense of being uplifters of the oppressed. In truth, he served as their living lawn jockey -- no more, no less, and unworthy of even a second thought on their part. 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Men get assigned to the most dangerous frontline units, the "Storm" units, unless they pay a superior $2,000 to be assigned to a different unit. Furthermore, there is often no real training for recruits -- commanders pocket the money that would have gone towards fuel and ammo costs incurred during training. Much "training" consists just of taking a single picture of soldiers doing something soldier-y, like fording a river, and publishing that as proof that the training was done. Even when it is done, training is only two weeks long. TJM wonders what the most Scorsese movie that Scorsese ever Scorsesed was TJM definitively ranks the films of Fritz Lang Recent Comments L - No nic, another fine day: "Fabulous Café, lovely photograph, and so enjo ..." Mr Aspirin Factory: "He is a worthless waste of skin. Posted by: tcn i ..." NemoMeImpuneLacessit[/i][/b][/u][/s]: "[i]Assistant U.S. Attorney, Andrew Haden, was foun ..." mindful webworker - wick it which: "All in due time, my dear. 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