July 25, 2010

Busy busy busy. GanseVOORT section continues to develop, with Important Research on the eclectic horse stable architecture of Lambert Lambert, How To Deal With Trolls, and a map of Magical Unicorn Pony Land. More details soon.

June 8, 2010

New section added. Name of GanseVOORT! I also need to add a section on Ed's Pregnant Yak Service, the mail art project I was running back in the early 1990s.

A horrible portent of things to come. Those who look for demons shall surely find the Packing Peanut of the Portly Pink.

Watched Over The Limit on TruTV a while back. Drunk guy falling down, can't even walk. Police ask him his name. "Kevin." "Kevin what?" Closed captioning provided his next response: "Rrruuaaaaagh."

June 1, 2010

Xydexx enjoys playing with his new highway paver. It's good for running over trolls.

April 7, 2010

Rigel and I went to the Building Museum in DC a few weeks ago and saw an exhibit on parking garages. It was really neat, and we saw video of the old ferris wheel for cars that used to exist back in the day. It was interesting to see how parking structures have evolved over the decades. There was also an exhibit on New England Victorian homes and floorplans. One of them had semi-snarky commentary about how the architect at that point in his career had apparently chosen to disregard all previous knowledge of the history of architecture.

Afterward, we walked around DC and saw the big horse statue outside the Federal Trade Commission. Yay for horses! It's supposed to represent man controlling trade, but I think it should be a monument to horse wrestling. (Back when Rigel and I were exploring ghost towns in Nevada, I got locked up in a jail cell for horse wrestling. Hee.)

Statue of a man wrestling a horse outside Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC.
Xydexx was once put in jail for horse wrestling!

On a related note, I bought one of those life-size inflatable horses last year. I had to. Seriously, how cool is it that people have started making inflatables for us? Years ago, I would never have imagined there were enough of us to be considered someone's target demographic.

Xydexx's life-size inflatable horse. Wonderful what we can do nowadays.

I recently bought out an entire stock of inflatable Bambi ride-ons from overseas, but that's already been mentioned elsewhere.

March 2, 2010

Giant kitten attacks quiet suburban town. --- XYDEXX.NET

I found an envelope with a bunch of pictures of Centralia (the town with the mine fire) which include some of the highway before it got all full of graffiti. It even had road signs on the abandoned section of highway! So I think I will be updating my page on Centralia, PA... and the rest of my neglected modern ruins pages. At the very least, making it consistent with the standard template I'm using now.

February 26, 2010

When Good Food Goes Bad! Cake Wrecks!. Hilarious pictures of cakes gone bad... bizarre and creepy and horrible and funny and sometimes looking like squashed hedgehogs. Awww!

It almost makes we want to deliberately order a cake using William S. Burrough's cut-up method or MegaHAL and some random image, just so I can have a purple cake with a penguin on it that says THE RAIN WASHES MEMORIES FROM THE GLANDS OF COWS.

In other news, I found out today that Big Mama's House Of Soul recently moved to the former location of the Steel City Diner. I'm apparently the last one to find out about this, and everyone else knew weeks ago. I'm looking forward to trying them at Anthrocon! (When we went last year, all the hungry furries had eaten all their food and there was nothing left.)

February 12, 2010

Okay, so what's the deal with this site? Is it a joke or not? Or maybe whoever runs it is asleep at the wheel and nobody's watching it anymore except people who want to fool around on the internets?

February 2, 2010

Whew! Long time no update! I've been busy working. I had a brief break to run up to New York and take pictures of Bannerman's Castle, which collapsed some more last month. The remaining walls are perilously unstable, unfortunately. I'm wondering if it will survive until the Spring.

In other news, I updated Cool Furries and Furries Online, which had been neglected and disused since about 2007. Now they have a spiffy new template and design. The content needs to be updated a little, but at least I've got the infrastructure taken care of.

January 18, 2010

I rode my bike today! First ride of the year! It was 55 degrees and chilly. I made it out to Milepost 38 and back. There's a section of the W&OD Trail that's been detoured to make way for the new Dominion Power lines.

January 12, 2010

I hooked up my new cellphone last night. We're part of Verizon's New Every Two plan, which gives us new cellphones every year. This one's an LG eNV3, complete with an actual keyboard. Now it'll be easier for me to send text messages, as long as I can remember that my cellphone flips open and has a keyboard inside.

January 6, 2010

I've added another 20 chapters to the Holey Bubble, and for organizational purposes it's been moved to its own directory so it won't clutter up the main page here. There's still a lot to be added.

January 5, 2010

Xydexx will rule this fandom with a squeaky rubber hoof, and then horse costumes will be MANDATORY.

December 31, 2009

It snowed again last night! Not the blizzard we had a while ago, only one or two inches. I took my Prius in for its 45,000 mile pre-paid scheduled maintenance today. I'll be kicking off the new year with a new gig in Maryland on Monday. An hour's drive, but at least I'll get to take the back roads to get there.

At the closing of the year, we'd like to remind you that finding a unicorn horn is exciting any time of year, because unicorns are awesome. We're off to Chez Turtle tonight to celebrate. Xydexx wishes everyone a happy and safe New Year!

December 28, 2009

I'm back from my holiday break. I drove up to New York with Renfield, saw Dad, MaryAnne, Xakor, and Lisa. Drumwolf was in town, so I got a chance to see him for a bit. I loaded one of Renfield's bookshelves in the back of my Prius to bring down to Virginia, and we stopped by his friend's house in Rockland County on the return trip. Interesting new slang I learned: Renfield gets things "for ham" which apparently means for free or for cheap, as far as I can tell. On the 27th, we went over to Mom's for presents.

I've added the next 30 chapters to the Holey Bubble, wherein you can learn more about squeaking in equine delight, marsupial-filled popcorn machines, and kittens full of beans.