Daily Archives: June 10, 2011

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Friday Evening Open Thread

Happy weekend, my friends. It’s time to get it started. Now, I know many of you will be drinking this weekend, but let’s try to behave out there. The Grand Inquisitor does not have bail money, so watch out for The Man. 

WAIT IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! So today Sethmad’s article about lightsabres was picked up by slashdot.com. We are experiencing severe traffic spikes so we are going to keep the Open Threads closed for a while so the site does not crash and burn. However, we can all still hang out. On facebook you can find everyone at the Crasstalk Group or you can chat on the IRC. Just enter IRCHiWay in the connect box and enter #crasstalk as the channel. We hope to have this thread open very soon. Thanks for your patience.
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The Twister

The gravestones can be seen now, from the far side of Meadow Lake. They rise, chunks of slate embedded into a green hill, into a blue sky, looking like a skyline for a town of the dead. Massive oak and weeping willows once gave the dead privacy, but those trees are no more. Continue reading

Sarah Palin Thinks You Have $11.00 You’d Love to Shove in her Pocket

The queen of all media and synergistic brain vomit, Sarah Palin, would like you to come see her at the movies! Yes, I can’t think of a better way to lobotomize myself, so sure, let’s all go to the movies and watch Sarah Palin dance around with a crown of doughnuts on her head while she winks and garbles human language and just basically runs around in a movie about lies and magic hair bumpits. Fantastic!

On with the show!

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Detroit Still Black, City Expects Power Later Today

The City of Detroit suffered massive power outages yesterday as three of the five lines at the ailing Mistersky Power Plant that receive power from DTE Energy failed causing traffic issues downtown. Mayoral spokesman Karen Dumas issued a statement saying that the city believed the outages were due to additional strain on the system in the wake of the recent heat wave. Continue reading

Coming Attractions: Knocked Up Part Two, Starring that Shruggy Girl, Kristen Stewart

As a vampire lore purist, I could sooo discuss the improbability of vampire-to-human impregnation, but that’s beside the point. Some of you will be squeeing all over yourselves with joy when this latest Stephenie Meyer Scooby-Doo Vampire Movie is released with all its yearning and angst-ridden stares.

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Tracy Morgan’s Homophobic Tirade

During a stand-up routine in Nashville on June 3rd, Tracy Morgan went off on a homophobic tirade, much to the chagrin of pro-LGBT 30 Rock fans around the world. (Basically all of the smart, beautiful, and awesome people.) Damn Tracy, damn. Couldn’t you just flirt and send pictures of your junk to random ladies on Twitter? That I could forgive. Homophobia in this day and age is just plain ol’ stupid. Everyone who’s anyone knows that. Continue reading

QOTD: The Fridge Is Empty

You need dinner and the only things in the refrigerator are a jar of pickles the neighbor made, a range of completely inoffensive condiments, and something that might have been protein once and now can only be described as chickenporkfish. Today’s QOTD:

What is your emergency supper plan?

Do you go out? Order in? Cook the three-year-old box of Rice-a-Roni in the back of the pantry?
Just drink?

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