For about—let's see, 2009-1990, carry the 1, uh—almost twenty years I've been a fan of Primus and of their moderately mad, frenetic, fantastically talented bassist/lead singer, Les Claypool. I'd always lamented the fact that anytime Primus or Les toured North America, the closest they got was either Toronto or Vancouver, both of which were [...]
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My new obsession
Ladies and Gentlemans,
O'death.
They opened for Les Claypool (concert review still coming, honest). They're fantastic.
Standing on guard
W00t! It's back!
Canadian World Domination has returned! Here I thought I was going to have to go trawl the wayback machine's Internet archives, but someone's resurrected the site for me.
Some gems:
The redrawn world map, in the Cartography section
The little pull-quotes at the bottoms of all the pages, like:
The Generals. Which one is [...]
Nage-no-kata
…or "What I had to do for a silver medal".
I'm the one being thrown.
Enjoy!
The throws are, in order:
Uki-otoshi ("floating drop")
Seoi-nage ("shoulder throw")
Kata-guruma ("shoulder wheel")*
Uki-goshi ("floating hip throw")
Harai-goshi ("sweeping hip throw")
Tsurikomi-goshi ("lifting-pulling hip throw")
Okuri-ashi-harai ("sideways foot sweep")
Sasae-tsurikomi-ashi ("blocking lifting-pulling foot throw")
Uchi-mata ("inner thigh throw")
Each one is performed right-handed and left-handed.
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* Which impresses everyone, but really isn't [...]
Trifle
My first stop-motion video:
Mmmm, trifle…
Update!
Because Doug demanded it, here's the recipe.
You'll want to do this in a trifle bowl, a tall, wide, cylindrical bowl, usually on a stand. I found mine at Wal-Mart for about $8.
Bottom layer: Take an angel food cake and tear it into bits. Put it into the trifle [...]
A blast from the past
Man, I haven't heard this song in years. It's called "Don't Call Me Dude", and it's by the now-defunct Scatterbrain.