the woodshed

Happy feet Nero just had to fiddle, George's gotta dance!

Maintenance time Go here to have your screen cleaned. No, really --trust me, I'm a blogger.

"We are the weird, so hide your children" Sometime around here, beers are not enough...

Out of hit points and missed the saving throw The man who co-created Dungeons and Dragons and sparked the rise of role-playing games and gam...

Granny get your gun This silly little story on CNN the other night can be spun this way- America is gun crazy - and that-This brave pistol-p...

Death don't have no mercy in this land It has not been a good few weeks for Canadian music RIP Jeff Healy  RIP Willie P. Bennet t or for...

" Every picture tells a story, don't it ?" And some of the stories told by these are ones I'm not sure I want to hear . Es...

Doughy E. Pantload, Super Genius A "long-time reader" fluffs the Pantload in such a way that I can only assume the letter is a jok...

Other uses for those ribbon stickers You've seen the Asylum Street Spankers' take on the ribbons, here's another.

"My name is SUE, How do you do?"  The other other videos I posted earlier are the reasons everyone loves Johnny Cash, and they are...

Denied! A little music for our special friend His Lordship Conrad, Baron Black of Crossharbour I love the smell of justice in the morning, ...

Our spiritual leader of the moment is the Man in Black "Hi there, I'm Johnny Cash " History always repeats itself, first as tr...

A nice round number What a long strange trip it's been and continues to be. 1,000 flips and 40,000 clicks ago, I laid down this riff - ...

Post 999.9 Genties and ladlemen, we have a winner!  Referred by the Gazetter, someone clicked through from Cranbrook, British Columbia at 9:...

Post 999 There will be no post 1,000 until the counter clicks over 40,000 visits. At which point the planets will align in harmonic converg...

Well, someone likes it I'd like to thank the members of the Academy , my parents, my director, the guys twiddling the dials in the soun...

How it is and how it should be A few posts ago, commenter RossK aka the Gazeteer asked how good journalists stop the swiftboating of candida...

the other F word a hat tip to Cowboys for Social Responsibility

Swiftboating Obama And so, predictably, it begins . Oddly enough, in a British newspaper, but this is the template you're going to see t...

Happy "Make-the-unattached-even-more-miserable" Day pardon the cheesy cellphone datestamp, but here's a photo recipe for a go...