The Game Dame

I stole it from Kestrel. Who took it from Softthistle. And I love the idea, so I’m doing it even though I wasn’t tagged!

Here are the “rules”:

1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More” 
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random 
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 
2 – Go to “Random quotations” 
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 
3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” 
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days 
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 
4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

Here’s mine — I think it came out so cool! — with Flickr photo credit to Che-burashka:

I hereby tag:

• Ess at Outland Bound (if she’s still out there somewhere!)
• Sylus at In the Mind of Sylus (if he has time between homework assignments)
• Ratshag at Need More Rage (before anyone else can get him!)

Wow, it didn’t take long for the Bush shoe-dodging incident to turn into a raging net meme. And a dang funny one, at that. I first saw this linked via Gaming Massively, but the original versions are on Boing Boing. (Or at least as “original” as I care to trace back to.)

The idea was to take another cultural reference and apply it to the footage of Bush dodging the shoe. I couldn’t get all the references, but the first WoW one is extremely funny (especially the “AFK Maliki”). There are also tributes to Pokemon, Monty Python, the Three Stooges, and a very amusing version of The Matrix. Here’s the WoW one, but do go check out the other ones, too.

I discovered this meme via one of those random Wordpress links on my own blog post. Forgive me, Labour Party bloggers from whence this came, but in fine American tradition, I’ve de-Brit-ified the list.

September 11 attacks
This is, of course, the big one for our generation — so far. (I wasn’t alive when JFK, RFK, and King were assassinated.) I live on the West Coast so I was sleeping. When the phone rang, I heard my Dad, who lives on the East Coast, talking on the answering machine telling me to call him. Since my Dad always calls at “oh-dark-thirty” to make sure he catches me at home, I rolled over and went back to sleep. (He was calling after the first plane hit.) Fifteen minutes later, he called again. (Second plane.) I couldn’t hear what he’d said so I just rolled my eyes at his determination. Five more minutes and I heard another friend’s voice talking into the answering machine and I thought, “WTF?” When I answered it, my friend said, simply, “Turn on the television. Turn it on right now.” If he elaborated I was too sleepy to understand the magnitude of what he was saying, so I turned on the TV. I had only just gotten my head around what had happened, what I was seeing, while my friend was telling me what he knew, when I interrupted him to say, “One of the buildings is collapsing. One of the towers is completely falling down.” Now it was my friend’s turn to disbelieve.
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