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Not to interrupt this surprisingly fighty thread about the creators' claim that chip trucks are an Ontario thing, but when I created it there was a paste error and I inadvertently dropped "and Joel Kimmel" after the name Chantal Bennett… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Thanks for sharing that Umbrella Man link, Kattullus, it's a great mini-doc and I loved watching it. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I want to do more Bandcamping, but at least here in Canada it's hard when I look at apples-to-apples pricing to buy albums digitally. I've looked at several albums recently; including Blanck Mass' World Eater, which is $9 USD or $12.50 CAD at… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

... there's a certain kind of person who is willing to treat their social network like it's Linux, spending hours reading long technical write-ups on how to fine-tune their experiences that have been written by people who don't think that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I can't be the first person who thought immediately of Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, which was a show so radical, so dangerous, so risky, so god-damned crazy that it was immediately shelved, never to see the light of day, until the courageous author… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Jazz!
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Projects post - 7 months ago

The first concert I ever went to, I was about 17 (small town kid, not a lot of money to get to the Big City) and I went to see Skinny Puppy on their Too Dark Park tour, and honestly it ruined concerts for me pretty much forever. Skinny Puppy… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

What's a cost-effective projector for across the street?
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Ask MeFi post - 7 months ago

This is great! It's amazing how much the music overlaps with Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This, which I never realized until I heard the synth lead-in to this track for some reason... and then they loop it in, which is unexpected and perfect, just… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I did once walk into a hanging rig to which six hundred pounds of stage lighting was attached, contacting it at forehead level. I have experienced vasovagal reflux twice (made famous by the George W. Bush "choking on a pretzel"… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

I work at an engineering faculty and am trying to rapidly convince the Engineering Chemistry folks to do something with "Seemingly ENCH," wish me luck [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I sent around a bunch of emails last year trying to get friends to help me start a podcast called The Night Where I Am -- the premise is that people turn on the Voice Memo or other similar recording function on their phones and put them outside / on… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Psi Cops: Psi Cops
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FanFare post - 8 months ago

I unreservedly love Gavin Bryars. I was working as the entertainment editor for the Ryerson (now TMU) student newspaper, The Eyeopener, when Metallica's Live Shit - Binge and Purge came out, and was covering a signing event at… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

So is touching dead birds just like okay in Germany? Because my mother had VERY STRONG FEELINGS on that subject and it seems like this is set in a town where fondling dead birds is like a pastime or something. [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

I am not a fan of downtown driving in Toronto, or parking fees. You mentioned train -- there is a Government of Ontario rail service called GO Transit that runs a fair ways out of the city, and they have free parking in their commuter lots. When… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

The more I think about the whole premise of the series... Fury has space friends. He has tons of space friends! He has entire categories of space friends! Can't he just say "hey, space friends, seen any planets capable of supporting an… [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Even with all of the above, what bothers me the most is the idea that Gravik shot G'aia, and -- brilliant tactician and military strategist that he is -- just kind of left, with her body and motorcycle there. In what seems to be the only… [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Why do you **love** your job?
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Ask MeFi post - 8 months ago

I am going to cook these, working my way down, and slowly Best Answer the ones I like. Tomorrow: Mujadarah, as recommended by warriorqueen! [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I'm also not being deliberately obstinate in not saying why I don't like lentils. I just... don't think of them very often, and when I do, I don't want to use them. For some reason. I don't actively dislike them that I know of. My sister… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Solid B for warriorqueen's Mujadara recommendation! We did the first of the "three ways" recipes; I could have used even more caramelized onion, and I'm glad we chose puis lentils because it might have gotten reeeeal mushy if we'd gone with… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Of Jeanne's recipes we tried the Misir Wot (I didn't have the ingredients for the soup), and it was sadly a C -- we followed the recipe as closely as possible (we have a well stocked spice drawer) and unfortunately we both agreed that it tasted like… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I really wanted to like this going in, but in the end it just felt like listening to a band that I know I should really enjoy; my friends seem to like this band, they get good reviews, and the bands I do like say this band is really… [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

A highly specific shopping list for a booking calendar
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Ask MeFi post - 9 months ago

Thanks, everyone! Super helpful in inspiring ways, and also in a "what is missing from my current job" set of ways. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Setting up a discrete social media persona from my work persona
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Ask MeFi post - 9 months ago

Best! Vegan! Lentil! Recipes!
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Ask MeFi post - 9 months ago

Some great answers and/or thought-starters here, thanks everybody! This has set me off on a path of other new thoughts that include the various Sefirot of the Kabbalah (Netzach - "Victory"!), words on esoteric fringes, and other things. The… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

What makes a large employer good at internal comms?
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Ask MeFi post - 10 months ago

Help me name a cursed sword!
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Ask MeFi post - 10 months ago

I wouldn't call myself an Art of Noise superfan but pretty well-versed in them and their work... but it was via the first linked mix, at the ~45-minute mark, that I learned that they were behind another one of my desert island selections in pop music,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Another recent listener to You're Wrong About -- thanks to an AskMe about intelligent podcasts, actually -- and listened to that episode specifically because I always thought she got a raw deal and we should all collectively apologize and feel bad… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Yahoo boys also have a word for their victims: maga, which means foolish, senseless, or gullible. One of the most popular hip-hop songs about scammers is “Maga Don Pay.” Brian, who as my trip wore on I came no closer to finding, probably used the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Also surprised that DoT hasn't seen this one yet! I double-featured it a while back with Ice Cream Man to get the full gamut of Clint Howard classic horror goodness. [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

Paul F. Thompkins weighs in on the subject That whole PFT album is gold, including the ultimate resolution of the perennial cake v. pie debate. The title of the album -- from GAA -- is appropriately Freak Wharf. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

If he takes requests, my wife (Kitteh, here) and I have fantasized about a Primus cover of "Get Low" by Flo Rida for years now. Apple-bottom-jeans-and-the-boots-with-the-furrrrrr... [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Kinda tough room! I thought it was perfectly serviceable, mind you, I went in with less-than-zero expectations so mere competency was enough to impress me. Way way better than Black Adam and about on par with Bullet Train IMO. Random… [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

Please spare a moment for the modern country stylings of Harlan and Brantley, Memphis Kansas Breeze. Pickup Truck Birthday Party Truck School Dance Human Skin Truck Baby All parts of the new country canon. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Service/people to help plan garage reno
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Ask MeFi post - 10 months ago

Not to threadsit, and I'm very appreciative of the advice so far, but just to clarify the "below grade" thing, it's like 16 inches on one side where the garage abuts the side yard and the wooden wall is clearly rotting. I guess I've… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

But Trader Ohhhhhs, surely. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Really enjoying this -- is this his normal sound or is this adapted to the Tiny Desk confines? Poking around on my own, I like the Tiny Desk sound and mood a lot more than the studio/video versions of Back That Thang Up, Set It Off or Slow Motion… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Just watched it with my wife (Kitteh, here), neither of us knowing anything about it except she really likes Del Toro and I'm hit-or-miss. About 10 minutes in, I said "I hope there's more to this than just two and a half hours of Sad… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

Things that have resulted in my cat deciding he is Just Not Having It: • Talking like Billy Bob Thornton in "Sling Blade" • Jazz hands • Frankenstein walk • The Hand Jive, accompanied by "Born to Hand Jive" from… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Way late to the party and this may never get updated again because the finale's aired, but I'm catching up, and one thing I can't figure out is why Kim was needed for this portion of the scam at all. She crouched across a park and yelled… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

I just saw this with my wife and we both loved it -- I don't know what relative darkness the director intended, but my only complaint was that about 80% of the movie was "so dark you have to squint" dark. While I understand it's largely… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

Well, I liked the hat. [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

They never released it. It is not available commercially, or through ICP, nor has it ever been. Pivoting back to Team Violent J, and it feels good to feel good about people, even briefly. Thanks for the clarification on that. [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Just got out of the theatre 30 minutes ago, loved it, thought there was a perfect amount of Spider-Man, but I was trying to puzzle out Zemo's actual plot on the bus ride home, and here's how it works, I think. [MAJOR SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY,… [more]
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