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Cap's definitely got superhuman strength, and had it at that time.

Nerd hat on: Captain America's whole deal is that the Super-Soldier Serum elevated his physique to the peak of human potential: he's as strong as the strongest non-super person, as fast as the fastest non-super person, as agile as the agile-est non-super person, etc. So he's canonically not supposed to have superhuman strength, just, like, as much strength as you can have before you cross that line.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:13 AM on July 9, 2016

For some strange wizard reason Plants Vs. Zombies - Heroes launched in New Zealand and Canada two weeks before anywhere else, so that's where all my bandwidth is right now. But now I'm reconsidering.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:21 PM on July 7, 2016

The YouTube description:

For the first time the complete version performed in tact from beginning to end.

I'd like to believe that there are no typos in this sentence and Diamond Dave is receiving transmissions from a higher plane where 'tact' is defined... differently.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:01 AM on July 6, 2016

this is just to say

i have eaten
that spread
that was in
the icebox

and which
you probably
thought
was butter

Forgive me
it was not butter
it gave me intestinal parasites
i'm so cold
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:54 PM on June 29, 2016

The AskMe practically writes itself.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:24 PM on June 27, 2016

I sometimes wonder what weird genetic lottery toss left me feeling that Mac & Cheeze in almost all shapes, styles and flavors is not just unpalatable but downright repellent.

Clearly, somebody in your family tree, at some point in the past, did something to deeply offend a wizard.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:11 PM on June 23, 2016

I CAN HEIS ENBERGER?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:14 AM on June 15, 2016

heiz enburger dammit
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:20 AM on June 15, 2016

Meanwhile, across the pond, we're experiencing a household avocado drought because we're refusing to buy Mexican avocados for drug-cartel-related reasons. Every once in a while a store will get Chilean avocados and we just go crazy.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 6:16 AM on June 15, 2016

"With only one sniper we'd have a better rendement."

I love it when Francophone creators let French in, especially in contexts where (a) it's super clear what the intent of the word is; and (b) when the French word is not quite translatable into an English word that captures the full meaning of the French. "Rendement" is result, but it also pulls in a kind of efficiency concept, so "result as compared to effort expended"… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:05 PM on June 1, 2016

Side Hustler!

Kitteh and I went to TCAF a few weeks ago, and as somebody who used to be really into making comics -- and walked away after serial disappointments, largely due to co-creators not fulfilling their end of things -- I suffered a full-blown anxiety attack after we left, having spent four hours looking at people who were literally my peers a decade ago, and who have all gone on to fulfilling full-time creative careers while I work a desk… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:29 PM on May 30, 2016

I played Tom Tom on my radio show this morning! Great album.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:11 AM on May 28, 2016

We went from a super firm mattress -- it still shocks me for a few seconds when I lie down on it in the guest room -- to a Casper. My wife definitely prefers the Casper, I'm meh on it -- if we ever have substantial money to burn I think a split mattress, or having two singles smushed together in a custom frame, would really be best for us.

Casper:
- Is soft. Not gooshy crazy soft, but if you like a firm mattress, this ain't it.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 11:22 AM on May 19, 2016

Stray Toasters was the first comic I ever truly loved.

My gateway to Stray Toasters was the Helfer/Sienkiewicz run on the DC Mature Readers Shadow back in the late '80s, which I honestly think is his best work. I mean, come on. (hat tip to an excellent Mindless Ones article on the series). And he was followed by Kyle Baker! Doing the some of the best work of his career! God damn, I love… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:30 AM on May 4, 2016

holy shit I resisted the hannibal auction but i think i am going to have to be locked in a basement with no internet access until this fever passes
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:36 AM on May 4, 2016

Downloaded, installed, and set. Turns out I get up earlier than The Rock, which is only one of many dozens of ways in which I differ significantly from The Rock.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:03 AM on May 3, 2016

I remember what my feelings about Ant-Man were after the first trailer, and how the Ant-Man movie wound up being close to sheer delight, so I'm cautiously optimistic, still.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:53 AM on April 13, 2016

val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer val kilmer
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:52 PM on April 12, 2016

"Caviar with my sister and the Cadillac Man"?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:13 PM on April 12, 2016

I saw BabyMetal at HEAVY MTL a few years ago, and when they hit the stage -- following something like, I don't remember, but fairly "metal metal", there was an awesome wash of confusion through the thousands of people in the crowd, then a small outflux of some metalheads who clearly realized that this was not for them, and then a MASSIVE surge of energy as all the remaining metalheads thought "fuck it" and started to rock the fuck out to BabyMetal.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:20 AM on April 6, 2016

What's the counterspell for a ceasieum et desistium ordera?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 6:41 AM on April 4, 2016

My husband's great garlic disaster was the time he juiced some garlic for shits'n'giggles and was left with only shits (and massive oh-god-am-i-dying heartburn).

Okay, so what happened was we had a whole massive skein of garlic -- like, twelve heads of garlic, woven -- and one of them had was growing shoots and somebody thought that meant we had to throw the whole thing out.

So I thought maybe we could… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:51 PM on March 30, 2016

My best friend in high school swore by smooth peanut butter + Miracle Whip sandwiches and I thought he was insane until one day I tried it and OH MY GOD.

I've never done it again because I am scared
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:46 PM on March 31, 2016

I thought discovering the Kleptones had uploaded a new Hectic City was my musical highlight of the week. Little did I know!
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 6:11 PM on March 29, 2016

I'm stunned that he was only 46. I'd always assumed 50s, possibly due to the hard living. This means Ford was younger than I am right now when he took office.

I don't think I'm nearly half wise enough, thoughtful enough, or knowledgeable enough to be the mayor of my mid-sized city, let alone Toronto.

I literally can't imagine what that would be like.

Maybe this speaks more to Ford's failings and hubris than anything,… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:16 AM on March 22, 2016

Read the whole Keenan piece, folks -- the excerpt is great but the whole thing is just outstanding.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:37 AM on March 22, 2016

MAZOGS

MAZOGS

MAZOGS

MAZOGS
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:35 PM on March 16, 2016

"You like it, huh? Do you reeeeeaaaaalllly like it?" sees almost daily use in our household.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:11 PM on March 9, 2016

Aw, thanks, everybody!

Yes, it's padlocked -- mainly because people are entrusting me with their work, and my chance of collaboration is higher if the artists involved don't feel like their work might get picked up in a few seconds. My friend James Duncan has been doing a project called "Left Art" for quite a while in Montreal, though, where he drops 4"x4" watercolours at random locations around the city for people to pick up.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 6:53 AM on February 15, 2016

New up: "Nope!" by pop artist Chesty Wilson.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:09 AM on February 27, 2016

I'm curious as to how many people in this thread agree with Chu's assertion that the only thing journalists care about are "clicks" and money.

I have been a journalist.

I know many journalists.

It is not a profession one gets into for money.

Or "clicks."
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 11:46 AM on February 26, 2016

It's inarguable that Kirby never needed Lee creatively as he had many productive years at DC (Darkseid is his, for example).

I'd accept an argument that Lee without Kirby or Ditko wouldn't have gotten anywhere, but I also think the whole of those partnerships was greater than the sum of their parts.

I have the hardcovers of the Fourth World collections, and OMAC, and I think DC-era Kirby was super groovy and doing all… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:40 AM on February 25, 2016

Is college radio still any weird?

Kitteh and I will answer that question for you,* every Saturday at 8 a.m. (ET) streaming live on http://cfrc.ca. Is it as weird as college radio can get? No. Is it really flamin' weird for 8 a.m. on a Saturday? Find out for yourself*!

the answer is yes
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:43 PM on February 14, 2016

I could have gone a while longer without seeing a photo captioned "A dead calf being thrown through the air." In pretty much any context, really.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:28 PM on February 12, 2016

I shut it off when he said "Reaction jiyfe." IT'S PRONOUNCED GIF IS MY REACTION, CAPTAIN BADSUIT
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 2:20 PM on February 3, 2016

As a former agency/marketing guy, I'd be very surprised if the Toyota marketing department would authorize even a viral campaign that makes multiple jokes about backing over human beings with a Prius. It's not impossible, but deeply unlikely.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:03 AM on January 29, 2016

I was chatting with the head librarian of the library in the faculty where I work at a mid-sized Canadian university, and her take on it was that the CLA had made some mis-steps several years ago, and took a huge reputation hit where they were kind of seen as glad-handers and yes-men, not people taking a serious and principled stand to make noise on behalf of librarians and libraries.

They lost a lot of members over this, and corrective measures over the last few years… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 6:48 AM on January 28, 2016

I required support from AskMe to make it through 2666. Glad I read it, but five years on I have absolutely no recollection of what 80% of the book was about.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:43 AM on January 28, 2016

Punisher: War Zone is a completely separate movie from both the Dolph Lundgren and Thomas Jane movies.

Punisher: War Zone is a completely separate movie from any common-sense notions of decency or restraint and is the best movie ever.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:27 PM on January 21, 2016

Is that "Spider Shepherd" webpage seriously not a parody site?

I spent much of my high school years from '89-'91 working in a used book store with a special Men's Adventure* section, and this makes Mack "The Executioner" Bolan look like Hemingway.

*which gave me access for a time to a nearly complete set of Destroyer paperbacks, praise Shiva and the prophecies of Sinanju.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:11 PM on January 13, 2016

I think you got your sock-puppet accounts mixed up there, Steve Mosby and/or Jeremy Duns.

Aha! I am actually Scott Ad--oh, it's been done. I'll get me coat.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:38 PM on January 13, 2016

I saw a stellar interview with Ozzy on I think MuchMusic at the tail end of the '80s; he was obviously addled, and the interviewer asked him about Satanism and satanic lyrics and hidden messages.

Ozzy was bemused, baffled, and stoned off his gourd; his response was essentially "If I could record secret messages on my albums, to make people do whatever I want, I would record the message buy ten more of this album. What good does it do me to tell… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:50 AM on January 13, 2016

It profoundly bothers me that they're using a single-digit entry for the month placeholder of his incept date in his identification code; this means either the identification code in the format N6MAA10816 doesn't work for the months of October through December, or the code has an additional digit inserted in it for three months of the year, which gives me the procedural willies. NO WONDER YOUR SOCIETY IS CRUMBLING FUTURE BLADE RUNNER WORLD
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:51 PM on January 8, 2016

I guess I'm churlish, but I would have a lot more respect and enthusiasm for a new James Murphy project -- and be 1000% on board and enthusiastic about it -- than I am about an LCD "reunion" with nothing in the interim.

I didn't shell out for the huge farewell concert or the deluxe vinyl box set or anything like that -- bought the "farewell concert" on iTunes and that's about it -- and even without any financial investment, the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:55 AM on January 7, 2016

I still haven't read or listened to any Harris Wittels stories.

That one hit me particularly hard, for reasons I still can't put my finger on. I'd pretty much settled everything mentally, but was absentmindedly listening to the Comedy Bang! Bang! "Best Of" countdown today and Harris' final appearance was in the #2 spot. The host (Scott Aukerman) and co-host (Paul F. Tompkins) were great, but it still gutted me for a few minutes.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:56 PM on January 3, 2016

None of those guys looked anything like a hedge.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 7:57 AM on December 23, 2015

I will take any and every opportunity to plug Rare Exports, and this is another such opportunity. Rare Exports!
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 7:44 AM on December 21, 2015

WHERE WE'RE GOING WE WON'T NEED REINDEER
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:47 AM on December 21, 2015

Also WHAT KIND OF SALAD IS THAT

it's a bowl with some whole tomatoes and two unchopped leaves of kale or something sitting on top

that is not a salad
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:52 AM on December 19, 2015

Naju, I don't think this is about your real, horrible, personal stuff in any way.

Y'know, I kind of felt this way, but then I thought about for a while when I was walking around, and realized that given the preposterously huge mountain of absolutely heinous shit that people with mental disabilities go through -- especially people who don't present in the same way as most people in public -- having jackholes call you "stoner sloth" is not… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:35 AM on December 19, 2015