grindmonkeh

taken on the riverbank.

Star Wars
labyrinth of evil - james luceno
revenge of the sith - matt stover

admiral thrawn trilogy:
heir to the empire - timothy zahn
dark force rising - timothy zahn
the last command - timothy zahn

Forgotten Realms
dark elf trilogy:
homeland - r.a. salvatore
exile - r.a. salvatore
sojourn - r.a. salvatore

icewind dale trilogy:
the crystal shard - r.a. salvatore
streams of silver - r.a. salvatore
the halfling's gem - r.a. salvatore




geek much?

pumpkin ghoul.


fetch me a Jello brain, Igor.


Darth Ogre.



gourd carvings.


Jack. (i must fix his hands.)

And a cemetery before the storm...






they're coming to get you, barbara.

I bought Bran a TiVo for her birthday and now television is actually watchable. I can see the shows I like that conflict with my schedule...ie. the Spider-Man animated series. 4 8 15 16 23 42 [execute]

Hey dreadlocked girl that I saw yesterday, in what event do you use the goggles that you were wearing on your head? I'm only curious, and if you're in a band then I completely understand and apologize for asking.

Yahoo is offering domain names for $2.99/year now. That's as cheap as I've ever seen the service offered, but I still haven't thought of anything that I'd like to use.

Got Mitch? He was a funny dude.

some photos...


Generic clever photo title.


The original picture is here. I liked the picture but didn't like how the walking lady in the background was spoiling the scenery so I travelled back in time and killed her parents. I know...logic would dictate that the photo that she appears in would cease to exist, but that photo is hosted on a directory stuck in a temporal casuality loop...casuality loop...casuality loop...casuality loop...


I'm getting married in one month and one week. That's one month and one week left to decide if I'd rather get that mail-order Russian girl that I've always wanted.

NASA to unveil plan for moon mission in 2018
White House officials briefed on $100 billion proposal
"...One of NASA’s reasons for going back to the moon is to demonstrate that astronauts can essentially 'live off the land' by using lunar resources to produce potable water, fuel and other valuable commodities."

Maybe they'll rescue the Lonely Astronaut.


...as tagged by brokn2pieces:
Write 20 random facts about yourself then tag the same number of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts. Then, tag your friends...

1. My career is like well paid study hall with interrupted moments of mayhem.
2. I just went to the grocery store and stocked up on graham crackers, cheese nips (reduced fat), spicy cha cha trail mix, and arizona asia plum green tea (which is a discernable color of ungreen) to decimate at-work hunger.
3. I have an unexplainable obsession with artwork of Star Wars and horror.
4. I've had Friend of the Devil stuck in my head for the last three days when I haven't been listening to something else. It's a great song, but I can't really stand much else from the Grateful Dead other than a couple of other songs on American Beauty.
5. I'm always always always thirsty.
6. My favorite snack is an eggroll dipped in grey poupon.
7. I know a girl...who thinks of ghosts. She'll make you breakfast. She'll make you toast. She don't use butter. She don't use cheese. She don't use jelly. ...or any of these.
8. I sell worthless crap I have lying around on Ebay so that I can buy other worthless crap on Ebay.
9. I had a pet rock once. His name was skip. He drowned.
10. I have a bruise on my shoulder from firing my brothers 12 gauge shotty today. We took that, my .22, his 30-30, and his ruger blackhawk revolver down to our cabin and wasted a lot of ammo.
11. You know...I already did something like this shit here.

Do it if you wanta like you wanta fanta. Don't you wanta?

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt."

Hunter S. Thompson's final note before his suicide - titled, "Football Season Is Over."

A Marathon-Ashland oil refinery is the bread and butter of the economy of my hometown...I've been told by a few employees that they profited something like 94 MILLION dollars just last month, so this is no big surprise...

Exxon's $10B fill-up: Cashing in on crunch
By Brett Arends
Wednesday, September 7, 2005 - Updated: 04:27 PM EST

Oil companies came under new fire yesterday when it emerged that ExxonMobil's profits are likely to soar above $10 billion this quarter on the back of the fuel crisis.

That's $110 million a day, and more net income than any company has ever made in a quarter. It's also a stunning 69 percent increase over the same period a year ago and a 34 percent jump from the $7.6 billion Exxon made just last quarter.

``Do you realize President Bush has just given a tax break to ExxonMobil?'' thundered Rep. Ed Markey (D-Malden). ``Of all the companies in the history of the world that needed a tax break, this month, ExxonMobil should be at the bottom of the list.''

The law gives incentives to producers such as Exxon to expand production, such as for drilling for new wells in deeper waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

``It makes me angry,'' agreed Rep. Marty Meehan (D- Lowell), noting rising fuel prices ``are going to have a negative ripple effect throughout the economy.''

Meehan yesterday sponsored legislation on Capitol Hill to penalize price ``gouging,'' assuming it can be agreed what that is. Markey is preparing for Energy Committee hearings on the fuel crisis.

Even oil company shareholders were critical. Hub fund manager Lee Forker, the head of New England Research & Management, said the profits reflected a failure of oil companies' leadership to invest in future production. ``They're maximizing present cashflows and ignoring the future,'' he said.

ExxonMobil is spending about $5 billion a quarter buying back its own shares.

Forker says the oil companies bear responsibility for recent shortages, because they have held back on investment in new production for years due to a fear of a price collapse. ``It could just be a big scam – `Let's just restrict the supply along with the OPEC countries and we'll all get rich together' '' he said.

Crude oil prices fell yesterday by $1.61 to $65.85 a barrel. Gasoline prices also eased slightly from late last week's panic.

But Lehman Brothers yesterday became the first Wall Street investment bank to issue a new profits forecast for Exxon following the week of post-Katrina turmoil, when gasoline prices surged as high as $3.59 a gallon in the Bay State and crude oil prices briefly topped $70.

The new forecast: $1.62 a share, or $10.2 billion in total. Other analysts are likely to follow suit.

Jacques Rousseau, energy analyst at investment bank FBR, yesterday explained that most of the extra money that consumers are paying for gasoline is going straight through to the big companies' bottom line.

The reason? Prices are soaring because of perceived shortages while the cost of producing the gasoline is little changed.

( Dick Cheney says... )

Go to http://www.musicoutfitters.com
In the search box in the upper right hand corner, enter the year you graduated from high school. The first item returned should be the top 100 songs from that year. Cut and paste them into your journal.

Bold the ones you like.
Underline your favorite.
Strike through the songs you loathe.

( 1994... )

Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen;
We dare not go a-hunting, for fear of little men.

updated project list:
Book Vegas trip.
Rewire guitar hardware.
Set up Bran's computer.
Build deck-rail around patio.
Pour sidewalk through butterfly garden.
Build a railroad that runs the perimeter of the porch near the ceiling.
Plant Orange Jasmine and Chinese Juniper seeds.

From the LJ of someone whose name I won't mention: "You ever get caught jerking off by your wife? Really, its just embarassing."

My sister arrived home (unexpectedly) to find my brother-in-law sitting naked in front of the computer surfing porn sites with one hand and well..doing OTHER stuff with his OTHER hand. When she walked through the door and saw him he sprinted into the bathroom and caught his foot on the doorjamb...almost ripping his little toe off. He had to get dressed and go to the hospital to get stitches. Up until that point she had no idea that he masturbated or looked at porn.

He's a great guy though. On another occasion he bought her a card for Valentine's day with a dozen roses. The card read something to the effect of "Baby you're like smooth hot chocolate...etc. etc. etc....you're my ebony love." He had somehow missed key words like "chocolate" and "ebony" and unwittingly bought her a romantic ethnic card of the African-American variety. By the way...we're white.