Todd Nauck does THOR!

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Feb 222012


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Awesome Thor from artist Todd Nauck!


week four

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Feb 212012

well, i found a local MC here in portland.. and that's super cool, but i only found one.. and in the meantime, i made a few more beats. i think these are 'technically' a bit better than my first round, but they also might be a little less experimental.. they're all in a pretty narrow range of tempo, and i didn't include a lot of the failed attempts..

in fact, you might notice many of them use the same drumbeat (and tempo, more or less..). 'cause i'm such a geek for hiphop right now, i wanted to play around with a few classic break beats, and i think this list of hip hop songs using melvin bliss' synthetic substitution is pretty crazy.. and i know & love quite a few of those on the list.. so i did a few beats using that as a starting point. kinda dorky exercise, huh? oh well.

anyhow, here we go:

checkers
braeburn
harder target
candy apples
colorwheel
daisy
fuji
magic spells
sticky spree
granny smith
mountain size
gala
rose
sour apples





From Iotacons by Andy Rash. Love.
Guys, today is President's Day. However, my university clearly hates both Washington and Lincoln and most especially Chester A. Arthur, so I do not have the day off. However, I do have pages of notes on a couple of presidents still floating around, awaiting my attention during another bout of procrastination, so I do mean to finish up my posts about all of them in the near future. In the meantime, I thought I'd gather them all up for your browsing pleasure so you can remember all that awesome stuff I used to write before grad school broke my soul (and some I've written in the midst of the breaking process):

0. The Articles of Confederation: America's first, failed government and pre-Washington presidency (7.10.08)
1. George Washington: Father of Functional Drug Addiction as Well as His Country (8.15.09)
2 and 3. Jefferson and Adams: America's First Frenemies? (4.24.08)
4. Madison research IN PROCESS
5. James Monroe: College drop-out with impressive resume (3.11.09)
6. John Quincy Adams: More accomplished than George W. Bush, less successful? (10.9.09)
7. Andrew Jackson: Old Dick-ery, if you know what I mean (7.19.09)
8. Martin Van Buren: He had a lot more nicknames than terms of office (4.17.08)
9. William Henry Harrison: He didn't die of hypothermia, people (5.26.10)
10. The ascendancy of John Tyler: Possible unconstitutional coup! (11.6.08)
11. James K. Polk: America's first (and greatest) mulleted president (3.27.08)
12. Zachary Taylor: Army guy, probably not assassinated (6.17.10)
13. Millard Fillmore: Lucky(?) President Number 13 (7.19.10)
14. Drunk Franklin "Baby" Pierce, helping sectional divides right along (11.20.08)
15. James "Doughface" Buchanan: Crappy president (7.24.08)
16. Do you know him, the Abraham Lincoln? (2.12.09)
17. Andrew Johnson: Impeachably lame (5.16.09)
18. Ulysses S. Grant: America's Greekest General-President (6.12.08)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes: Uncontroversial man elected controversially (1.8.09)
      Special presidential double feature: I go to the Hayes Presidential Center
20. James A. Garfield Extravaganza Part 1 and Part 2 (06.2009)
21. Chester A. Arthur: Possibly Secretly Canadian-Born President of Civil Service Reform (09.25.08)
22 and 24. Grover Cleveland: That mustache is hiding more than a tumor! (7.28.11)
23. Benjamin Harrison: Kind like Jenna Bush (5.22.08)
25. McKinley: America's most spineless veteran president (9.18.08)
26. Teddy Roosevelt: America's Most Cartoonish President to Date (4.3.08)
27. "Big Lub" Taft: "Presidency? Meh." (3.26.09)
28. Woodrow Wilson: I think I might've dated that guy in college (4.24.10)
29. Warren G. Harding: Tragically being stripped of his "Worst President Ever" title by the current administration (4.10.08)
      Warren G. Harding: Kind of unimpressive house, in all honesty (8.24.09)
30. Calvin Coolidge: Coolly avoiding blame for the Great Depression (6.26.08)
31. Herbert Hoover: Not actually a fake name (9.16.09)
32. FDR: You think you know, and you probably do know some of it (10.9.08)
34. DDE: Looks like a Roman numeral, but is actually a U.S. president! (3.5.09)
35. JFK: Sickly, and not in the sweet way (1.23.09)
36. Landslide Lyndon Johnson: Fraudiest president ever? (5.1.10)
37. Richard Nixon: I think we all know too much already (9.29.11)
38. Gerald Ford: Unelected jock president (5.8.08)
39. Jimmy Carter will beat us all to peanut heaven (5.17.11)
40. Ronald Reagan was a fat child (11.10.09)
41. Read my lips: No second term for you, buster. (George H. W. Bush) (10.23.08)
42. Clinton research IN PROCESS
43. GWB research TOO DEPRESSING TO START
44. I refuse to write an Obama post while he is still in office. I can't wait to write up a Future President Romney post, though!

Enjoy my friends, this long journey will end one day and I will write up VPs or states or something (didn't I start that once?). Or I'll just keep live-blogging Lifetime movies. Either way.

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From the Late Night Cable Movie Files: A Trusted Man

He’s not a stalker, but your real stalker will make you think he’s the one stalking you. So awkward.
My thirteen year-old self would be so pumped about this glorious union of Buffy and X-Files alums. Ladies an gentlemen, A Trusted Man on Lifetime.

Childhood

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Feb 202012
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Childhood

BASHCon Aftermath: Taking it Easy…

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Feb 192012
BASHCon Aftermath: Taking it Easy...

Today in The Cube:
Basically super-tired and all gamed out. More on BASHCon tomorrow after I recover…
In the meantime, here are some photos!

favorite animal?

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Feb 192012

Hippopotamus!

BASHCon: Day 1 Wrap-Up

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Feb 182012
BASHCon: Day 1 Wrap-Up

Today in The Cube:
With Day 1 of BASHCon in the books, I’d say it’s a rousing success so far.
I was among the first to get their badges at 4 p.m., and the registration issues that were present last year were a thing of the past. Seems like a good tur…

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