Don't Go Back Out There Without Me. I Can Still Do My Job.

"When it rains it pours," or "when it pains it roars," which one?

The sound you hear - the one that's similar to a big-rig downshifting as it pulls off the interstate - yeah, that's Thursday winding down to a close.

It was a Work at Home day today - worked on formatting a couple 4-page worksheets for a marketing client of mine that recently resurfaced. Nice to have work from him again. He was very happy with the results - so much so that he'll be adding more of them for me to do, which is nice.

Also, the new version of Rug Care Central is up and running now, in case anyone wants to check it out. Here's the link. It's about rugs... you know, in case you couldn't tell that from the name of the site... not wall-to-wall, mind you... Persian rugs, etc., that sorta thing...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I now give you one of the coolest video clips I've ever seen...

I don't know why they loop it twice, but I don't mind, since it's so flippin' cool, I can't just watch it once in any case. I can't imagine how much time and paint it took to make that clip. Crazy imagination and dedication... style always wins out in the end.

Old, abandoned buildings fascinate me, really. I've had a link to a site called Opacity in my link sidebar since I first made a list back in January, but I don't think I ever talked about it here before. And no one has ever mentioned it, so I figure no one has ever checked it out before.


Anyway, this guy travels the globe, sneaking into abandoned, condemned building complexes, like hospitals and asylums, and takes a bunch of fascinating pictures of the crumbling edifices. I hesitate to go to the site too often, since I can blow hours there, browsing the galleries. "Creepy cool" is how I'd describe it.

Here's a few pics from a series he took at an abandoned WW2 air raid shelter in West Germany.

Stories don't always end where their authors intend...

The life you thought you had... it never happened.

I'm going there to end this war. Wait for me until I return...

Surprise ending. Wouldn't want to ruin it for you...

If this is a dream, the whole world is inside it...

Dangit, now I'm going to have to browse around for a while tonight. He's added a bunch of new galleries since last I checked. And apparently, he's just left on a road trip to Berlin and Rome... can't wait to see what he posts from those two locales...

Reminds me of a History Channel TV series I love called Cities of the Underworld. If you haven't seen it before, there's a couple guys who take turns hosting, and they travel around to cities and examine the often-ancient underground tunnels and complexes that stretch out beneath the streets, usually that the residents don't even know about. Each episode is a whirlwind history/geography lesson. It's wildly entertaining... fast-paced TV for those with ADD. Highly recommended.

Today's Gutbuster of the Day, from This Is Why You're Fat...


The Double-Stuffed Pizza Fatty: Sausage stuffed with pepperoni, cheese and veggies, stuffed inside more sausage with a second layer of toppings, all smoked and then topped with more pepperoni. What sort of mad mind came up with that monstrosity, I wonder? It's intimacy without intricacy...

The other night, I linked to a trailer for a film called The Dresser. A cool thing happened tonight as I followed it to watch the trailer again. I nosed around on the site a bit more and discovered that, not only do they have a nice industry-related blog, but they offer whole movies to watch on the site, for free, like hulu! It's always nice to find sites like that, since often, a movie I'd love to watch streamed is not offered on NetFlix Watch Instantly, but shows up to watch elsewhere. The site is called Crackle, and they have original programming, standard television programming and movies. Not a huge selection of each, but enough to make them interesting. They have some awesome movies available... Adaptation, A Few Good Men, House of Flying Daggers, The Fifth Element... and a cool movie that Netflix doesn't offer that some of you might have seen before...



I saw Big Fish a few years back, and loved it. I remember at the time marveling at how much I thought the young blond actress that plays Ewan MacGregor's love interest looked like Rebekeh M. ... her brother Joseph thought I was crazy. I would tell him, "That's so cool that your sister was in a movie!" and he'd roll his life at me. Watch Big Fish here.

Anyway, if you're bored and don't belong to Netflix, grab some popcorn and check out the movie galleries at both Crackle and Hulu. You'll have to deal with occasional commercials, but it's well worth it, I think.

That reminds me... that friend I mentioned a week ago, Nathan, the one that was competing in Next Broadway Sensation... he did well in round 2, but didn't make it as one of the two performers that went to the finals. BUT... they opened a third slot for the finals, and then let people vote on all the people that had been eliminated, to select the third competitor, and Nathan was voted in! So he's one of three performers in the final round. Here's his round 2 performance, in case you wanted to see it.

I hope that's enough random, interesting fodder for you today. I never really know what my mood is going to be day to day, as I sit to write this. I am a consummate winger. In any case, I'll have more tomorrow, God willing. Until tomorrow, remember, earth is still my favorite planet.

PS Paula and Dave-O both updated their blogs! w00t! Gotta respect the classics...