Would you rather give up your refrigerator and freezer OR your stove, microwave and toaster?

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What do you think of claymation?

It was my turn to choose topics so I decided that we’d talk about spirit animals, animal-human hybrids, animal-animal hybrids, guides through the spirit world, King Tut’s D in a jar, my dad’s music career, the ancient Egyptian practice of putting earring on Crocodiles and bringing them to parties, sexy cat girls with and without tails, the Muppets, Prince Rupert’s dog, Tigra, Manimal, Beastmaster, James Earl Jones’ character from Conan the Barbarian, Sobek, Horus & Felicia. We discuss some other things also but you’ll have to listen to find out what they are. If you listen but don’t comment, you’re in the doghouse.

I took the quality down a bit to get the file smaller, let me know how it sounds.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the second-best Tyson to reporter exchange. Enjoy.

I am reading Neuromancer by William Gibson right now, and it occurs to me that it is one of my “go-to” books that I have reread like upwards of 20 times or something. There are a few other ones on the list of comforting books that I have read over and over again.

Question: What is your list of books that you keep re-reading every once in a while?

This is a follow up from a post by eddie k set to music. I find it to be tremendously depressing and quite fitting for this fine Tuesday afternoon.

What piece of advice would you give to others, but rarely or never follow yourself?

About four or five years ago I had this excellent/bogus idea that it would be really funny to have a pair of shoes that had feet painted on them, so that when I was skateboarding around town it would seem as if I was barefoot.  I guess other people thought it would be a good idea also and have gone one step further with zombie feet.

My father called me up while I’m trying to make dinner and says “Son, you gotta read this book How We Decide by some guy.  It’s got ice cream on the cover so you know which one it is, I’ll mail you my copy and you can save the ten bucks.  Do you have a bookstore in San Francisco?  You gotta to read it and tell me what you think.” [Read more →]

A friend of mine is looking for a place in the Bay Area that serves live octopus cause her friend wants to try it.  If you know of someplace like that let me know.  These are squirming not quite dead tentacles on a plate in Korea, I’m warning you.