All I can say is “Yeah. Right.”:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele. Click to see a larger version.
I find the photo below — in which a cute young woman is about to immanentize the eschaton — far more plausible:
This photo originally appeared in this entry.
Mark Harvey dropped me a line asking if I would announce a Flash video game design contest; I told him I’d by happy to oblige. It’s a chance for you to show off your game development chops and win a cool ten grand. Here are the details:
Calling All Video Game Designers –
Win a $10,000 Scholarship to IADT’s Game Design School!
Want to jumpstart your future in game design? The International Academy of Design & Technology (IADT) and Electric Playground are calling on all video game design wannabees to show off their creativity, originality and Flash skills in IADT’s Flash Game Contest.
Beginning May 1st, Canadian residents 17 years of age and older can enter the contest by registering at www.gamedesigncontest.ca. Registrants must submit a fully functioning version of their Flash game by July 2nd. Games will be judged by a panel of experts on their creativity, technical expertise and originality. The Grand Prize winner will be announced later in July and awarded a $10,000 scholarship to IADT’s Game Design School in Toronto.
If you can sing and there’s a fifteen-year-old inside you touchin’ himself to Boris Vallejo posters [warning: might not be safe for work], you might want to audition for Necromancer, as the poster below indicates.
Nuthin’ says “hardcore” like a cheesy hand-drawn logo and bats.
Go visit their MySpace page, check out the song Raw Meat and enjoy the oh-so-dumb, oh-so-adolescent-sex-fantasy lyrics. That “affection/erection” rhyming couplet: pure gold!
“I have a fever and the only cure is MORE SKULLS!”
I knew we should’ve dropped most of the kitchen stuff from the wedding registry and put the Roland Digital Accordion on it instead*! According to this New York Times article, “$200 can equip a basic kitchen that will be adequate for just about any task, and $300 can equip one quite well.”
* Just kidding, sweetie.
Here’s another dirty little blogger secret — we’ve all had moments like this:
Click the comic to see it on its original page at full size.
Also: on the imaginary Billboard charts, I’ve been the number one rock star for the past 39 years, 6 months and 4 days.
There’s a “sea change” going on at Tucows (where I function as the company’s Technical Evangelist) and Product Manager Grant Spradling has written an article covering some of its aspects in an article titled A New Direction for Enablers: Making our Services Easier to Sell. He talks about “Center of the World” syndrome — something which “caused us to believe it was our responsibility to define the way you would run your business” — and our new approach, where our services fit better with your business.
This Thursday, May 10th at 7:00 p.m., my friends from Crazy Go Nuts University David W. Scott and Andrea Medovarski will have a screening of their new film, The Behaviour of Houses at the Brunswick Theatre (296 Brunswick Avenue).
Here’s a synopsis:
Melinda, an aspiring artist with a dead-end job, lives in the city with Colum, who is pursuing his PhD. Escaping her privileged upbringing, Melinda is deeply critical of her family’s business “building suburban bungalows for the moral majority.” When Melinda’s brother, Jeremy, comes to the city for the Home Builders’ convention, he brings shocking news that will change all three of their lives.
As they all try to cope with unfinished family business, Melinda must make the most dramatic choices of all. Caught between her artistic dreams and her family’s demands to take over the business, she must now find her own place in the world.
The Behaviour of Houses is a story about finding your voice. It deals with that period in your mid twenties when you have to face up to where you come from – and decide where you’re really heading. It explores the awkward space between what someone says and what they really do.
Melinda is the daughter of a real estate developer who is running from her past. Colum is a PhD student trying to make his own place in the world and create the family life he never had. Jeremy is Melinda’s younger brother. His wild side hides how much he wants to protect those he cares about.
After the movie (it runs 98 minutes), there’ll be an after-party at Boom Shiva (1180 Queen Street West, halfway between the Gladstone and the Drake). One of the lead actors is also a singer so she will be singing there that night. It’s pretty casual, and anyone with musical ability is invited to attend and participate; I’ve been invited to kick out some accordion jams.
Come and support indie film and rockin’ accordion!
