Scotto's Wall Scrawls

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BHK!!

Allison's B'day! I buttered her nose while she was distracted by playing audiosurf. (Got it for $5 this last weekend.) I was a little disappointed that my mp3 of Christopher Walken reciting Poe's "The Raven" was so linear.

As a gift / party-favor to all for BHK's day - A GAZILLION Free to print and play games.

Oh BGG, how I thank the Internets you're there.

If you're not into free games, (or even if you are, dear journal) here's a stop-motion zombie movie called Chainsaw Maid. Best zombie film this year. (from the same people who did Bloody Date )

No Lebanese Taverna Tonight - Falafel time must wait - instead we hit Gallo's Deli - food is still pretty good. Not as superior as Selby, but only a block or two from the house. BHK opened the remainder for her loot tonight.

I got her an assortment of little trinket-treats - My faves were earring-studs in the style of mexican sugar skulls and a bottlecap pin with a pirate inside saying ARG in letter beads.... but I'm partial to things skully. I need to take a picture of BHK's loot pile - other items were a lovey charm, a ouija board pin, and a horde of coupons to do / get things, from getting me in a good mood to a movie night with no snarky comments. (2 nights, if neither are Jane Austen-related).

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1 year ago - BHK Bday, (buttered via nightstand dollop), lots of bayfest food and heat, parade, spidey lunchbox, tarot test

2 years ago - robo-post while I'm on vaykay with BHK, dragonfly-kitty pic

3 years ago - google talk, web-surfing, Katrina, Robertson apologizes, v05-blueberry, medieval career, book meme, palm doodle, weather, power-out phone post

4 years ago - bag lady update, Twilight Zone: Planet of the Apes

5 years ago - got bro a Ganesh, (but I skipped the digeridoo), law and order coloring book, first day at new gig as good server king of the south, gabbed with mi Hala re: jhumkas and moonstones, and happy thoughts of working with her, Shal'weez.

6 years ago - heroclix improvised weapons, deadly toys, poemtag

7 years ago - pirate joke, selectivity, amor, warning label poll

8 years ago - aliens operate on my body, rhymes, colors, stevie

120 years ago - A plant grows in Mexteca, Mexico, which the natives call the "herb of prophecy." A dose of it produces sleep similar in all respects to the hypnotic state. The subject answers with closed eyes all questions that are put to him, and is completely insensible. The pathologic state brings with it a kind of prophetic gift and doublesight. Furthermore he loses his will and is completely under the control of another. On returning to himself he remembers nothing of what he has done. -Excelsior Cottager, August 25, 1888.

Still too hot to do much of anything out and about in the Crisco soup-like atmosphere, so we opted to take in lunch at the Sbarro's in the Annapolis Mall and then hit a movie. Who knows why we woke up at 7:30 on a Sunday, but it gave us a solid head start.

We finally caught the Simpsons Movie on the big screen... I was surprised - it was a lot better than I was expecting... pretty solid TV episode from back when it was funny. We only saw 3 bits that would make it warrant a PG-13 rating - an instance of nudity, a curse word (or two) and some drinking / drug use. I could see them showing all of it after 10pm on network tv unedited, or without those three instances any time at all.

On the way home, we noticed that ATW has changed the sign again, as the search for "the man" continues. (atw is now a tag just for my ease of searching the story thread and pictures, now.)


It was a good thing we caught an early show as the later part of the day was comprised of -


Party at Tina's place... Mexican food! Both Meat and veggie protein varieties - Tina's not a big carnivore, either. Matt (her new boy) seems like a nice enough fellow and I hope they have maximum fun / minimum glum together. He's certainly more social and generally conversational than DR or W. Dessert was yellow birthday cake with chocolate icing, compared favorably to yesterday's lemon cake with lemon icing. Added bonus, BHK's mom didn't absent-mindedly start slurping the frosting off of the removed candles like last night, rather than giving them to the b'day girl to taste.

Aside from Tina and Matt, Adam, Jimmy, Louise, Chris and Larry all made it to celebrate. We fit pretty comfortably at Tina's townhouse... I wasn't sure if we'd all be able to manage, but it worked out quite well.

BHK's Loot received:

from Louise : Necklace and bracelet of multi-colored pearls.
from Tina : A pair of Peridot Earrings / Hello Kitty purse (which looks like ms. kitty is making a gesture I'm sure wasn't intentional)
from Larry & Chris - Red Coral necklace and Earrings / and some lovely crockery
from Danny - A swell looking green-stoned ring in gold. (and he got Tina some yellow-stoned earrings, too!)
from my Mom and Wilt - Turquoise and silver necklace, Halloween Snow globe, a little cornucopia and a really lovely card.
from me - a lot of knickknacks - Grease & Grease 2, a pair of pink pseudo-crocks, some stripy socks that mismatch/match, a pink headband with little jolly rogers, bath scrubbie, black cat bowl, a green wire basket, some fuzzy slippers and a gift cert to scalped.

I'm the only person that didn't get her any jewelry... she told me specifically *not* to get her any. Now, I understand why.

May've recruited Adam and Jimmy into a parlor game night. Who knows, maybe they'll lure Kendall and Amanda into it, too, and we'll have a big night of it sometime!

I don't know if Matt is into parlor games... I do know he digs the Redskins and is willing to put up with chick flicks. come to think of it, I don't know for sure if Tina is interested in boardgames or not... I suspect that she, like the in-laws aren't really into abstract games. Louise is a good candidate, but is harder to reel in to a date or time than the teens. The last time we saw her was her birthday, about 6 weeks ago.

Poor Danny has students in his classes now - he's back to running the Sci-fi club, and is incorporating Pirates into the after school program. I should send him a bucket of heroclix or mage knight commons/doubles as a donation. He really liked the Superhero stamps and Lord of the Rings Risk game we shot off to him a little while back.

1 year ago - back from an all too brief visit, nose buttering, bunny suicides, events of the day, liberty city psp homebrew hack, jojo the cannibal kid, maple cookies, folks, met Adam / Future In-laws

2 years ago - power out phone post, hurricane katrina aftermath pictures (and Newt), Bro out, Techs unavailable

3 years ago - BK heads north, random visit to a 2001 entry, behavior variances, quiet-please

4 years ago - sleep schedule, zombie game (poor thing aborted), monkey helpers, first lost child.

5 years ago - Deer Hunter, Apache, Equality/freedom Poll, Emerson, flying saucer, heroclix 200 point armies, McD hot dogs, wpoison

6 years ago - that piercing woman , lj vibe change, many links (not all work anymore)

7 years ago - Godzilla, quizzes, leftyrok added me, IMT threatens to move all operations north to Tampa, dean martin

Pirate Husband
Originally uploaded by blackhellkat.

arr, avast ye hearties!

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1 year ago - red lobster, class struggle, black friday, chubby checker

2 years ago - pirates, giraffes, incredibles, bro,

3 years ago - Marvel Family, Countdown meme, garden pictures

4 years ago - Free audio books, hubcap monsters, discover empanadas nearby, GIMP

5 years ago - cloture, pocketlj, single card tarot spreads, meeting lj folks confirmed

6 years ago - air cools, Young Frankenstein poetry, sleepyhead, country bear jamboree

7 years ago - very basic Newt stats

I have a vox account, interesting, but I won't be leaving lj just yet. I don't much like the ads at the base, nor the fact tha tI can't do any but the most basic raw html. Could be a good dump zone for mp3/pics/video, though.

More construction happening at the former mall of the dead. ( just some girder-photos here )

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Danny and I hung out yesterday.. my giant squid, pirate ship and Golden-sailed galley from Constantinople (not to mention a few very fortunate rolls of the dice) was more than a match for his Scandinavian sea serpent, French and American ships. The ability to create fog banks and a cursed conch shell horn is what really cinched it for me. Note to self, look into how to drag enemies across jagged reefs. I'm just glad I didn't get the Monkey's paw.

Nothing says victory like six giant tentacles dragging a four-masted ship into the deep, never to be seen again.. the screams of French sailors echoing across a Sargasso sea. (Ramming a sea serpent in the head with a team of sailors at top speed is a ton of fun, too.)

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1 year ago - bro hospital, mp, rubber johnny, tweaked embedded lj, ladies room cam in *$, mindmap

2 years ago - Hot palm doodle, recent comments, KoL, optical almonds, bandages and carcasses, enjoying Zim!

3 years ago - Bastille Day, Lilo/The Ring Connection, Bro work, Vampire game, JavaAquarius, modem goes poop, Linda tells CEJ her secret, black and whitecookies, mush, toy swarm, work comp-mri info

4 years ago - Newt's Tarot Reading, worked out Dan-route, How close are you to a nuclear waste hauling route?, wackies, big little books

5 years ago - juxtaposition , news, audio mystery, assorted video tapes.

6 years ago - imood, zircon added, hours change

Cruise ship 'used sonic weapon'

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Happy birthday, eryx_uk!

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Accuracy regarding Pirate-Scotto:( Just a clarification regarding the last song. )

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What's your dominant chakra? AKA - Where's your head?

[Poll #596468]

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Another rainy day, getting ready for Wilma. I'm just hoping that the power stays on, and that nobody is hurt.

Uncle Doug just called to say Terry was taken to a local shelter (She was chilling out in Cancun) to wait out the storm. She was due to return home Saturday and the airport is closed.

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Moment of Lyric - mp3

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's
Going to get a big dish of beef chow mien
Werewolves of London

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"Little old lady got mutilated late last night" Nice alliteration.

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John Barrowman is getting his own Captain Jack Doctor Who spin-off series called Torchwood?'

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www.flickr.com More of scottobear's photos

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1 year ago - Newt entry, voted, bittorrent, 33 questions, randomness

2 years ago - German Dukes of Hazzard, the finger, vanishing penises, prepping for the doctor, spidey-doodle, SA.com gets PMing!

3 years ago - Paper Airplane sim, freebie movies, Dave got a hill giant, Newt head-waggy, Where's George bill comes back, belarc

4 years ago- Walkin' Pneumonia, chat proggies poopin out, 5 hours in ER/pharmacy.. waiting, mostly. palm-stream post

5 years ago - First use of GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING as a joke, Summertime, heavy work day

lostscreen
Originally uploaded by cromulent.

Hm, you can buy episodes of lost for $1.99 on Itunes.

I wonder if this'll make it easier or harder to torrent from other sources?

Installed new Nvidia drivers (9/2/05 ones) and my system is looking *great*. Second life at a higher resolution and less crash issues. I'm going to reinstall farcry, and see how that does, next.

The higher res desktop frees a lot of real estate up, too. I'm impressed.. it's like I've got a new system. 1280 x 1024 x 2 monitors (so it's actually 1280 x 2048, if you want to get technical) it makes it pretty hard to revert to the 1024 x 768 single screen at work.

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Big boss in Maryland today, opening the state with a press conference... If things were different with cej, I'd probably be going along as well. Oh well, it was a good run, for the most part.

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This is the case peer-to-peer file sharers have been waiting for. Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has counter sued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of "outrage", and deceptive business practices.

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If you can only watch one Kafkaesque Flash animation about the ennui of being a giant fat chicken-juggling bear on a unicycle in a German circus with dreams of freedom, make it this one.

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( Evil dictator meme )

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For more info about what I'm listening to, check out the bottom of this page. I actually had the original from a copy of Dynamite magazine back in 1975. More nostalgia, rather than actual entertainment. It was one of the first periodicals I read regularly as my own. (Boy's Life supplanted it shortly afterward, once I entered the scouts.

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Switched over to my Halloween backdrop for the website and the lj... minor cosmetic touches for the holidays.

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The Food Network has posted a page of Halloween recipes, activities and a special kid's page.

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1 year ago - I prefer Orks to Eldar, corn craving, Tentacle-boy loves laundry

2 years ago - famous funerals, locusts good to eat - pelicans bad, Tickle me Elmo fur coat, mind flayers

3 years ago - Bad dog dreams, 2250 on vanity search (now about 12,000), shoes

4 years ago - magic toenails, submarines, posting politeness, big brain fixmeup, lovely chat about goetta, eyes

5 years ago - Naughty Newt, Tight funds, DT rumor almost gets started again, Newt's b-day minus 1.

The only accessory you need for Talk Like A Pirate Day, September 19. The site's creator, Grant Henninger, says: "Let me present t' you t' iPatch! It really has no purpose, but it was a fun site t' build. Hope people get a good harty-har-har out o' it."

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Well, Re: Ghost in the Shell... I liked the Basset. both styles of animation were good, but the CGI and cel-stuff didn't mesh well.. rather distracting, actually. Sammy really dug it, so I imagine it's just a question of personal tastes.

Danny and I had a nice time at riverwalk, had lunch at einsteins, a beer at the ugly toona saloona, and talked about this that and the other as we walked around... they're relaying the brickwork on Tavern row. I wonder if doing that on a Saturday is the worst possible time for business?

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With all the hurricanes and tropical storms lately, I'm surprised more people aren't trying to find that dang butterfly.

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Camanche road sprouts Ronald McDonald dolls

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