One of the great toys of recent invention have to be the Hulk Hands with Electronic Sounds available at toy stores across America. Basically, they’re giant oversized hulk gloves that you wear and they make noises when you hit stuff with them. Think about that. Drunken fun for hours, yah?

I’ve been tempted by these for many months, and it seems they’ve become quite popular. Kelly Sue has a collection of pictures of people with Hulk Hands. Hulk Hand porn is certainly right around the corner.

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OK, you know what the worst thing about this war is so far? (Obviously, other than the dying and the poor international diplomacy and the general ruination of the world)…

OK, the worst thing about this war is the local news coverage. I just watched Chuck Henry, who normally does goofy travelogue shows like they show on E!, on the news, and he used a telestrator to illustrate our simultaneous attack on Afghanistan. Right after that, I watched the local weatherdude explain the weather in Iraq. Hello?!?!? Am I going to work in Iraq tomorrow? Why do I need to know if I should be carrying my parka?

I’ve been long resigned to the whole idea of this thing, but man, there’s no need to torture me with news coverage that borders on Saturday Night Live outtakes. I guess I’ll just have to watch Blind Date or some other crappy show instead.

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Somehow I was convinced that this shirt was a good idea:

This shirt and other goods available for purchase here.

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So I’ve been walking around with one of these for the past couple of weeks.

I’m not sure it’s the life changing experience that Apple would claim, but it is really, really cool. It’s incredibly well designed in terms of its aesthetics and interface. In fact, it’s easier to get to the songs I want on my IPod than through any of the PC mp3 players I use (Musicmatch, Winamp, etc). Having 20gb of music instantly at your disposal is a bit frightening at first, but soon you get so used to it that you feel lost when you have it put away.

One thing that was difficult to get used to was walking around with headphones, which was something I never did (I never had a discman, MD, walkman, etc). I have to remind myself to keep the volume levels low enough so that I don’t lose awareness of my surroundings. The last thing I need is to get run over because I’m too busy bobbing my head to Ted Leo or something.

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A couple of tiny website adjustment thingies. I upgraded to Movable Type v 2.6.2 today, and as always, there were a few moments where it felt like I had hosed my entire website, but it ended up being easily fixed moments later. Movable Type’s gotta smooth that stuff out a little better, or else they’re going to give me a heart attack.

With the MT upgrade, I finally decided to look at the built-in search features and figured out how it worked. It’s actually really easy to implement, but because of the way I have the website setup with all the PHP and includes and what not, there were a few little things I had to tweak and figure out it actually linked to the proper pages. Turns out I got it up and running in about 15 minutes, so that was pretty cool. So now there’s a search feature, it’s on the sidebar.

Also, I did a quick redesign of the http://www.grumblemutterspit.org frontpage. In case you didn’t know, grumblemutterspit.org actually hosts a few different websites. I share it with my friend Linus, and I also run a Sleater-Kinney Concert Review Archive on it. The old page looked like this, and it was basically just a placeholder bit that Linus dropped on there the day after we got the space available.

I didn’t spend a terrible amount of time revamping it but I did like the way it turned out. I think I made Linus look like a White dude, he thinks I look like a White dude too, and a serial killer no less. He also thinks Carrie Brownstein’s head is way too big in comparison to ours.

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… so I turned it down.

The colors were actually hurting my eyes, so I just toned everything down a notch.

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I’m in the grocery store last week, buying some random junk in the Express Lane. The guy bagging my groceries is kind of eyeing me, and he’s kinda weirding me out. This guy’s got mullettesque hair and this frightening moustache that bordered between cop and pornstar. I’d dismiss him as creepy bagboy except the tie and the nametag indicate he’s clearly a manager up in this place.

Whatever. I pay and as I start to take my groceries, he pipes up “Hey, is that a Fossil watch?” “Um, yeah, I guess.” “Cool. I have one too.”

So what’s the scary part? No, it’s not the fact that I have the same taste in timepieces as Herr PornStache. The scary part is that as I was walking away, I realized that if I had any ability to grow facial hair whatsoever:

I WOULD TOTALLY GROW A PORN MOUSTACHE.

I hated myself for a good day and a half after that.

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I got bored and decided the header graphic should be more metal.

It’s completely out of place and stupid, but so’s most heavy metal, right? Right.

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So I tried to upgrade to Movable Type 2.5 (from 2.1) and accidently hosed everything. Ahem. That was a mistake.

Of course, while I’m trying to get everything working, I get Fraction laughing at me and my broken blog.

Well… I fixed it, so up yours, Fraction.

Random Celeb Story from the rainy last Friday night:

Standing in the lobby of the movie theater, waiting for 8-Mile I see a guy with a leather jacket and a baseball cap with his kid, walking back and forth on his cel phone.

“Oh shit, I think that’s Dennis Quaid.”

“Where?”

I motion in his direction, and I see Dennis Quaid immediately step into a wet spot on the linoleum and fall flat on his face, while a lobby full of people all watch.

“Oh shit, I just saw Dennis Quaid bite it, hardcore.”

And then I just laughed and laughed. I guess I should’ve helped him up, but I thought Dragonheart was a real piece of crap.

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Today is the birthday for both Carrie Brownstein AND Google. Carrie turns 28, Google turns 4. Shouldn’t this be some kind of Riot Nrrd National Holiday? Yes, I know I’m stretching, but I want as many days off as possible. I’m currently contemplating conversion to Judaism for the bonus holidays. That and I wanted to use Riot Nrrrd in a sentence.

At least it’s the weekend. Wheeeeeeeeeee!

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