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[Righ]

Manly cupcakes from Butch Bakery.



Comment on manly cupcakes:

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Why stop here? They aren't even making the shift from red velvet to black leather cupcakes! These aren't nearly butch enough! What about shaving stubble cream filling? Pigskin, jockstrap, cigar butt cupcakes. At the very least, there should be a Guinness option, a beer belly cupcake. Wasabi might be too dainty, but kimchee and a hot chili icing option would be on the money.

Camo? How totally pussy! What about game cupcakes? A cake with venison filling and a big rack on top. What about bass-fishin', Nascar racing, Hummer drivin' cupcakes? What about poker chip cupcakes? Leavin' the seat up cupcakes? Male-pattern baldness cupcakes? And these should be big, compared to girly cupcakes, so let's get with the trends and make some bringing-home-the-bacon cupcakes that are at least 25% bigger than the chick cakes, and let's have 'em with real bacon.

We need to see some action hero cupcakes, some car-chase cupcakes, complete with crashes, flames, smoke, EXPLOSIONS! We need FUCKING EXPLODING CUPCAKES. We need go-to-war cupcakes. We need weight-lifting, bench-pressing cupcakes.

We need some offensive humor cupcakes, Andrew Dice Clay cupcakes, redneck joke cupcakes. Some Hooter gals cupcakes, some Fox News cupcakes, some automatic weapon cupcakes.

Let's get real with some jock itch cupcakes sprinkled with Gold Bond powder and filled with Cruex creme. How about some hangover cupcakes, some what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas cupcakes.

And seriously, these cupcakes should not be sweet unless they've got some meat in them. Chocolate comes from a plant. Good god, vanilla comes from a flower, from a fuckin' orchid. We can't be having that! We need pork cupcakes, beef cupcakes, tripe and sausage cupcakes, head cheese and liverwurst and scrapple cupcakes, all garnished with hot wings.

Hell yeah.

[Oban]

They do not look very appetizing to me.

[Lantyssa]

Appetizing?  Who cares!?  Eating one is supposed to prove you're a man.

They need to make the Lumberjack.  Sawdust filling with a red plaid cookie top.

[Selby]

Sorry, that just looks disgusting.

[Signe]

You're all a bunch of pussy men!  Except for Lantyssa, obviously.  She's lovely.

[Ironwood]

Sure, I can find an ST emulator, but can I find the game I want ?

Can I buggery.

[Righ]

Most of the Atari ST exclusive games that I can recall were (sometimes good) knockoffs of better known titles on other platforms... such as Super Stario Brothers. What's the game?

[Ironwood]

Captive.

[Yegolev]

Hey, so, my wife pulls some art class duty at my son's school today and she talks to one of the other moms who has an older son.  She went to eat lunch with him and Alton Brown was there eating lunch with his daughter.  The funny part, though, is the lunchroom woman saying "He just had to come on grilled cheese day!"

Well, it made me laugh, but I am very tired.  Plus I am suspicious of Mr. Brown.

Also, I am putting a new PSU in my wife's computer and I find that the EATX plug on the PSU is eight-prong and the mobo has four of its slots capped... so I am going to get some pliers and pull the cap.  That's probably safe, right?

Speaking of old-ass games, I started playing Gabriel Knight and I feel like I am going blind.

[Signe]

I'm sure anything with pliers is safe.  It's when you use hammers that things get out of hand.  Srsly.  I know because I nearly always go for the hammer first and by the time I figure out I should be using pliers it's too late.   

[Yegolev]

That's some good wisdom.  So far the computer has not caught fire.  Also I have a joystick.  Too bad I am exhausted and have to sleep.

[Sky]

I dunno, I've got that pair of pliers I blew up with lectricity. I also have more hammers than I can count. I love hammers. They're a holy symbol and whatnot. 5lb sledge ftw, but you always need the right hammer for the job: masonry hammer, framing hammer, finish hammer, small sledge, large sledge, rubber sledge, and a couple general purpose hammers. But the 5lb sledge and a flat bar is a fun day.

Maybe not for pc repair. But maybe.

Anyway. Keep a fire extinguisher handy and everything should be ok.

[Yegolev]

Hammers have their place in PC repair, but it requires Xtreme Judgement.

[NowhereMan]

Little known fact: Thor was also the Norse God of PC repair.

[Merusk]

Yes, but Loki did tech support.

[Der Helm]

He still does.

[Sky]

Really, what's this past-tense shit with the Norse beliefs?

The tree I decided to take down this spring decided to start early last night. Dropped it's healthiest branch in the snowstorm.

[Sir T]

I believe Hel runs the customer complaints dept.

[Sir T]

In an amusing Side note at work during the week. I had a girl come up to me at work and ask me "do you have a coffee machine?" and I looked at her and said "uh... we have a Kettle"

I then had to explain to her that the kettle was in another room to the Kitchen as the fuses had been blown in the Kitchen and we hadn't gotten the money freed up from petty cash to replace them. I finished this up with "welcome to the world of Community Radio"

[rattran]

It's awfully cold, rainy and muddy here in the desert. Kinda sucks.

[Rasix]

Yah, it's been weird.  But it is saving me on my water bill. Having two directions from your house impassable due to flooding washes is a bit of a pain, however.

[Signe]

Neil Peart has more Facebook fans than Geddy Lee, George Harrison has more than Paul McCartney who has more than John Lennon, the All Blacks have more fans than England Union.  Not that I disagree with any of this, it's just surprised me.  I can't imagine why I needed to know this. 

[NowhereMan]

Paul McCartney has more facebook friends than John Lennon. Colour me shocked

[Cyrrex]

That's because John's status is always listed as "still dead".  I think I'll invite him to play Mafia Wars with me, or possibly challenge him to a Tom Hanks quiz.

[Sky]

Neil Peart has more Facebook fans than Geddy Lee 

While they're both very talented, drummers are weird. I was trying to get a jam going with my band's first drummer, who was in a Rush side band with our second bassist. Turns out he /only/ plays Rush songs now. I remember seeing him at a party once in a den with three other drummers watching Rush videos and rewinding the Neil parts. Then they put in some video with Cozy Powell and did the same.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Speaking of music (sorta), I just love DirecTV, especially late at night when I'm wandering the guide and come across channel 101 showing an Iron Maiden concert thing (only an hour long though).   

[Nebu]

Speaking of music (sorta), I just love DirecTV, especially late at night when I'm wandering the guide and come across channel 101 showing an Iron Maiden concert thing (only an hour long though).   

I am VH1-Classic's bitch for just this reason. 

[RhyssaFireheart]

Speaking of music (sorta), I just love DirecTV, especially late at night when I'm wandering the guide and come across channel 101 showing an Iron Maiden concert thing (only an hour long though).   

I am VH1-Classic's bitch for just this reason. 

Yep, I love VH1-Classic.  Although I can't stand to watch Metal Mania all that often any more.  Besides the almost constant commercial breaks (seriously, it seems like every other sing they are going to break), they play some songs far too often for my tastes.  Yeah, I love the 80s hair metal band days.. it was my HS years after all, but sheesh, isn't there any newer metal bands out there that are worth listening to?  And I'm sorry, but I've really come to loathe "Holy Diver" after seeing that video too many times.  Dio's a great singer and all, but damn is he oogly.

[Sky]

Paladium has been playing Flight 666 for a while now. I wish we had VH1 Classic in HD.

My favorite is the Classic Albums, when they have someone involved in the original recording, musicians or engineers/producers, sit at the control desk and explain recording the tracks, pulling up faders to highlight different performances. Fucking amazing to hear some of those parts isolated. Best one of course is Keith Moon isolated :)

I just set another album show to record (Metallica, I think Def Leppard is the other one) that I'm hoping is the same format.

Rhyssa, try the new Mastodon disc, Crack the Skye. The vocals aren't Dickinson/Dio worthy, but what is anymore? The music is amazing, though they do have an evil grover guest appearance on one track and their older stuff isn't quite as good (imo). Vocals and repetitiveness have killed most modern metal for me. Mars Volta is the only other metal-ish band I listen to regularly. Mastodon is always in the CD changer in the truck, though.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Yeah, that Classic Album show is amazing to watch, especially when they explain how some songs were put together.  I've seen the Metallica show a few times, one about Queen (Night at the Opera, IIRC) and a few others.

Sky, I'll check out that CD then.  That's the other problem with metal IMO - grover singers.  I guess I got too spoiled listening to Dickenson that hearing what other singers trying to pass off as "singing" just turns me off.  There have been a few songs that I've heard the music, thought "this is awesome!" and then the singer started up and I had to turn it off.

Oh, and since you play guitar, have a question.. how do guitarists play just on the neck?  Gah!  Can't think of the song off the top of my head, I want to say it was Paschendale (checked, yeah, start of this song), but Smith plays this section all on the neck and it sounds cool but I can't figure out how it would be done normally.

[HaemishM]

Mastodon has continually turned me off because of the grover vocals on their earlier albums. Musically, they are incredible and Crack the Skye is a good album, but I hate hearing that raspy mumblypie garbage.

[Bunk]

Neil Peart has more Facebook fans than Geddy Lee 

While they're both very talented, drummers are weird. I was trying to get a jam going with my band's first drummer, who was in a Rush side band with our second bassist. Turns out he /only/ plays Rush songs now. I remember seeing him at a party once in a den with three other drummers watching Rush videos and rewinding the Neil parts. Then they put in some video with Cozy Powell and did the same.

New version of the Hockey Night song being used on TSN now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCBV6h7gf9k

[Sky]

Oh, and since you play guitar, have a question.. how do guitarists play just on the neck?

It's called tapping or two-handed tapping. When you hit the string with your right hand finger, the initial note sounds. Then you pull that finger off the string, kinda plucking it as you do so with a little sideways movement. This sounds the next note, fretted by the left hand which you then pull off to sound the next note fretted by the left hand. Often (as in that Maiden tune) played against another note, the open string as a pedal tone.

The master of two handed fretboard technique is (imo) Stanley Jordan.

[RhyssaFireheart]

That's pretty cool actually.  It produces a different sound than normal playing does, but I couldn't explain to you why I think that.  *shrug*

And maybe I'm weird, but I find guitarists hands beautiful and love watching then play.  I think I'd watch an entire video just focusing on their hands.

[Pennilenko]

Turn signals are not optional. A big hearty screw you if you think you don't need to use them.

Sorry I had to get that off my chest.