Online Entertainment

Clearly if you're actually reading this, you're far beyond bored; so here are some better things to do, they're all worth checking out if you get in a weird enough state of mind.

This music video is strangely mesmerizing, it's a crazy animation of a pig-man hitler set to Russian pop music.

http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/
A dear friend sent me this link day or so ago; it's a very odd webcomic about a White Ninja, no real way of describing it, you'll have to read a few comics to understand what I mean by "odd".

The same dear friend also sent me to the Cat and Girl webcomic; it's a bit less random than White Ninja but still quite funny.

Whoa, C64 games galore, if you're jonesing for some nostalgia check these out.

In case your morals were starting to falter; these are some old fashioned reminders about the dangers of homosexuals and general perversion. Remember "moral decay weakens our resistance to the onslaught of the communist masters of deceit"

To go back in time even farther, you can always browse some victorian magazine comics.

Why do we say a "pair of pants" when there's only one of them? Why do hot dogs come 10 to a pack while buns are 8 to a pack? The answers to these and many more of life's essential questions are at The Straight Dope.




Additionally...Here's the links for some webcomics that I posted about a year back.

I fixed the link from earlier about "Pandora" the music program, go ahead and play, you have my permission.

I also fixed the link for the Reiko comic - go play




Cheers,

Two Canadian Artists

Two great Canadian musicians are Leonard Cohen and Sarah Slean; I highly recommend music made by either of them despite their oddities. But in this picture Leonard Cohen looks just plain creepy; he looks like he's about to do something highly immoral to poor Sarah.


Cheers

Oh......dear.......god......

The Happy Hippie Message Board? What has the world come to????

Cheers,

Valentine's Day

It's February 14th, commonly known as Valentine's Day in honour of St Valentine who got killed by the Romans for getting them severely annoyed (as most Christians tended to do at the time).

Anyways; this calls for some Addams Family Quotes.


Debbie: [meeting Gomez] Well, isn't he a lady killer!
Gomez: Acquitted.

Debbie: These Addams men, where do you find them?
Morticia: It has to be damp.

Pugsley: We don't hug.
Gary: Oh, you're just shy.
Wednesday: We're not shy, we're contagious.

Gomez: [to Fester] You'll meet someone. Someone very special. Someone who won't press charges.

Morticia: Wednesday's at that age when a young girl has only one thing on her mind.
Ellen Buckman: Boys?
Wednesday: Homicide.

Joel Glicker: How do I look?
Wednesday: Disturbing

Joel Glicker: I'll never forget you.
Wednesday: You won't?
Joel Glicker: No, you're too weird.




Cheers,

My Cabinet

Since I've become of legal drinking age I've experimented with various liqeuers and alchoholic drinks, he's some reviews for those interested. Note: the little stars mean that the producer has a royal warrant. Secondly, most of these drinks are "moderately priced" meaning a small bottle (750ML for fortified wines, 375ML for other drinks) costs between $12 and $20, except for the beers which are of various prices.


Liquers

Disaronno Amaretto- I fell for the ads and bought a bottle of this Italian liqueur. I was surprised to find that it's not bad at all. It's a thick, sweet liqeuer with a number of subtle flavours but at first taste you can't help but taste black-cherry as a major component. It's moderately priced and quite a good drink to have on your shelf.


Gins

Beefeater's Gin - Not a very good gin, tastes too strongly of juniper for my taste

***Gordon's Dry Gin - An alright Gin in, you can still taste the juniper but it's not quite as overwhelming as in Beefeater.

***Tangernay Gin - The best gin of the moderate price range, unlike Beefeater's or Gordon's Dry it has a bit of a fruit taste to it without so much juniper.

Hendrick's Gin - Costs about $45 per bottle for an improvement in flavour that's noticeable but not so good that I'll be buying much of it. It has a much more complex flavour than the other gins with strange flavours like rose petals and cucumber which sounds horrendous but works out rather well.

Nota bene: if you are mixing a gin martini, don't try to be James Bond and ask for it "Shaken not stirred", James Bond drank Vodka Martinis which benefit from the shaking as opposed to Gin Martinis which are 'bruised' by shaking. If you do want to be more 'James Bond' when you're drinking, go to http://home.earthlink.net/~atomic_rom/007/index.html for a quick lesson.


Fortified Wines

***Sandeman Ruby Port - I've had a few ports, and while most were intolerable this one is quite good. It's a ruby port (made from red wine, unlike it's white-wine cousing "tawny" port) so it has a very warm and round taste.

Casa Dos Vinhos Madiera - The only Madiera I've tried, its very similar to port except with a much lighter flavour and tastes slightly more sour as if it were made from cheap wine. Not exceptionally good but worth a try if there is a bottle of it being poured. It's probably better if you drink it as a punch with ice and lots of citrus fruit, but that's far too much work for me.

***Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry - Not bad; very smooth and creamy. Much more distant from the traditional wine flavour than Port or Madiera, this drink goes much more deeply into the realm of liquer than it holds onto its roots as a wine.

Tequila

Tequila is a disgusting drink consumed mainly by people more interested in getting disgustingly drunk than having one or two pleasant social drinks; it was once very accurately described not as a drink but as "Man's foolishness in liquid form". I also have the feeling that anyone who actually drinks tequila voluntarily is so unconcerned with flavour that they haven't even considered reading this far into the reviews.



Cheers,

English Project

I've got a project due sometime in the future for my English class; I have to compare the story of "Paul's Case" and the poem of "Richard Cory". "Paul's Case" is too long to copy out but here's "Richard Cory"



Whenever Richard Cory went downtown
we people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favoured and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed
and he was always human when he talked;
But he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good Morning," and he glittered when he walked

And he was rich - yes, richer than a king
And admirably schooled in every grace
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited fot the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.


- Edwin Arlington Robinson





Cheers,