October 29th, 2007
Groonkly Bit: The Quote that Brightened My Night
“All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
October 27th, 2007
Groonkly Bit
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”
— Mohandas Gandhi
This quote is everywhere I turn. It’s unavoidable. It’s haunting me.
October 1st, 2007
Groonkly Bit
Finally getting back around to finishing CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. Holy fucking shit, this book disgusts me, makes me laugh, and terrifies me every other sentence.
It’s that good.
If I took to quoting my favorite lines from the book, I’d end up copying the entire thing onto the internet. I don’t want to walk a long, treacherous road with Warren Ellis‘ lawyers sticking hot pokers up my ass every third step. I’ll stick to this short, and most recent, line that grabbed my interest and held it fast.
I don’t care if you’re shaking over a contract, shaking with a bar drunk, or shaking hands with your grandpa – you never, ever let someone know how strong you are.
–Michael McGill in CROOKED LITTLE VEIN
September 23rd, 2007
Groonkly Bit
That’s the kind of hypocrisy that a lot of us adapt. We can remember what filthy little beasts we were when we were younger and we prefer to suppress that.
—LOST GIRLS Alan Moore on parents wanting to “protect” their children from their own sexual thoughts
September 10th, 2007
Groonkly Bit
“A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this. He had nothing to do with this. Suck it, Jesus. This award is my God now.“
–Kathy Griffin
By the by, there’s a video of her on Larry King and they play the speech.
Wonderful.
September 4th, 2007
Groonkly Bit: Dragon Con 2007 Where the Jayne Hats roam
“The best thing about Dragon Con is you can like Buffy or alcohol…I like alcohol myself.”
–Average Drunk Smelly Geek who’s Name I didn’t bother to get
Dragon Con 2007 is over. I had to return to the real world and I’m still a bit pissed about that. There are things I forgot to set up before I left for Geek Homecoming this year. The main forget is I decided to call Dragon Con “Geek Homecoming” in honor of the oft quoted(by me and random professional geeks) Nerd Prom aka San Diego Comic Con.
The other forget was I had plans on integrating my twitter with the Groonkly Bits blog and the splash page. It was to be a live when I think on it micro blog of my experience. I’m quickly becoming an old bastard. Having words and/or pictures around to remind me of things is becoming more and more neccessary. That bit of noise did not happen but I did Twitter. Goddamn, did I Twitter. Start here and work your way backwards through the timestream if it suits you.
Do people still come here? Am I talking to myself? Those questions I’ll answer another day with Google Analytics. For now I’ll have an imaginary audience in my mind. And in my mind you all look like [insert hot talented female actress here*].
Flickr was doing, odd things or so I thought, so I didn’t bother to futurephone much of anything. I *did* manage to take enough photos with the good camera to satisfy my attacks of senility. Those will find a home here as soon as work and studies are caught up.
These things failed because the fire under my ass wasn’t much more than a pilot light for the last, oh we’ll just say, 6 months of my life. Doing something new, seeing new people, or having my mind challenged by other thoughts usually re-ignites the old energy. This year’s Geek Homecoming did not fail me. My mind burns with so much passion that it could cook a pizza in under a minute. We’re talking exothermic combustion here; not that 21st century crutch known as The Microwave.
I must strike the new things while my energy rides high. If you come here on purpose you must continue to be patient. Check here once a week at least. Send me all your spare mojo. Keep my creatice juices boiling.
Maybe this will be the time I remember that “The future (really is) now.”
(*Today’s actress in question is: Martha Jones aka Freema Agyeman.)
August 12th, 2007
Groonkly Bit
“In the end, utopia has got to be a verb rather than a noun. It’s got to be the journey rather than the arrival.”
–Alan Moore
August 1st, 2007
Groonkly Bit
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
–Plutarch
July 28th, 2007
Groonkly Bit: Nothing Good ever comes Easy
It’s been months since I dropped a Groonkly Bit into This Ocean internet. Months or weeks. I have a small problem with time.
Anyway, I saw the “Q Who?” episode of Star Trek The Next Generation a day ago and remembered how well they could get across a story once upon a time. Seeing the news report about the Virgin Galactic accident made the quote resonate with even more real world truth.
Q: You had to be taught a lesson, Jean-Luc.
Capt. Picard: I could have learned that lesson without the loss of eighteen members of my crew.
Q: If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.
John de Lancie‘s delivery was spot on. Then again, it was rarely off the mark.
July 5th, 2007
You're a Geek Warrior! Be Proud of Who you are.
Ugh. Web Hosts are expensive. Domain moving frightens me. I want a Web Elf, a Red Bull and a foot massage. A Robot French Maid with exclusive super resilient biotech vagina technology would be nice. Especially if she cooks and cleans.
Have you heard of this Patton Oswalt fellow? He says things that are quite funny.
Observe:
“I speak Klingon — who am I fooling? You win! I’m just gonna openly like what I like.” Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.
My wife is probably hoping, “Maybe tonight he’ll just go to a strip club…” Instead, I’m out rolling dice and saying things like, “I don’t know if a Wall of Fog spell lasts that long!”
Wired: You also say that if you had a time machine, you’d go back and kill George Lucas with a shovel before he could make the Star Wars prequels. Ouch!
Oswalt: The prequels are like offering someone ice cream, then giving them a bag of rock salt and saying, “Eventually, you can turn this into ice cream.” Star Wars is ice cream. Don’t give us rock salt.
That was Patton Oswalt at Wired Magazine on mid-life D&D gaming, accepting your geekness, and telling truths about Star Wars prequles. He’s a hilarious, genius of a man.
