Friday, October 10, 2008

Fuck the Mortgage Companies


Here's the situation: The mortgage companies gave loans to people who couldn't necessarily pay them back, then sold the loans to other companies packaged with some other loans that would be paid back. This happens a couple of different times and then the last company tries to collect and there isn't any money. The government has decided to bail these companies out with our money. Fuck that. That isn't capitalism. Anyone who makes poor business choices should not get bailed out. Small businesses don't get bailed out if they don't succeed. Many Americans have failed at their dreams and don't expect someone to just hand them cash and make it all better. Well, one sheriff in Illinois is letting the mortgage companies that don't have correct information on their paperwork do their own dirty work. Here is the story: Link

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Tabletop Video Games: Not a thing of the past


My favorite pizza place in my hometown, "The Other Place", had flat top video arcade games. My friend, Tex, and I are supposed to build one eventually. Here's some inspiration for us to get going and get 'ur done!

Monday, October 6, 2008

SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT'S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN'S SAMPLER COPYWRITER.


This is my favorite:

Peanut Butter Cup

In 1856, a fisherman from a tiny hamlet on the New England coast made a terrible pact with serpentine beasts from beneath the sea, that he might create the most delicious sweet seen upon the Earth since the days of the great Elder Race. Thus was forged the satanic pact between peanut butter and chocolate that resulted in the mutant offspring you see before you! Link

thanks J!