Run away!
Were you about to call me an Elder God!!???!!
Yes boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, Montagues and Capulets, Pattons and Rommels, Republicans and Asshats, and – last but not least – McCoys and Hatfields, I’ve got nothin’!
Soooo…let’s see what’s in the “writing” folder – shall we? I haven’t looked in there in a long time. A really loooooonnnnnnnnggggg time.
*time passes, a light and frugal lunch is eaten, a nap is briefly considered and then rejected, consideration is given to shooting the squirrel in the back yard that might be the one that plays on the roof at fucking 2:00AM! when I can’t sleep anyway – and promptly declined. McGoo does not draw blood this day.*
Hey! I remember these. I wrote this list out after I saw one or two similar items in a mag somewhere years and years ago. I emailed it to a friend and he died a week later – that’s no shit. Haven’t looked at them since.
Merged Book Titles
1. Lord of the Ringworld, by J.R.R Niven
The adventures of Frodo, Spam (the Net Script Kiddie) and the aliens “Speaker to Idiots” and Necessitus (The “Hindmost with the Most” of the Fairy race”) as they search for the mythical infinite-bandwidth WAN portal.
2. I will Fear no Dunwich Horror, by Robert A. Lovecraft
A man’s brain is transplanted into a bowl of Jello and the resulting creature proceeds to seduce everyone involved.
3. The Origin of Aliens, by Charles Darwin Gottesman
A controversial work on the ancient crossbreeding of Piltdown Man and crab lice. Condemned by the Rosecrucians and dermatologists as blasphemy.
4. Something Wicked Against the Fall of Nighttime in the City by Ray Trevanian Clarke
Young Alvin of Despair (a seventh-generation Basque) struggles against poverty and stupidity in 1960’s Madrid, finally escaping the car bombs and terrorist acts to a job in an evil circus outside town.
5. Stranger in a Strange Way Station, by Clifford Heinlein
Valentine Enoch Smith – an illegitimate child and citizen of Mars – gets lost in the Intergalactic Subway by following the direction of the Hazer Gang and cryptic graffiti on gravestones. He meets a dumb blonde who likes to de-wing butterflies and a mailman who carves everyone’s’ mail into vulgar silhouettes.
6. Dracula: The modern Prometheus, by Brahm Shelley
A scientist builds a half-man half-leech from spare parts bought from Edmund Scientific. The resulting creature demands that the scientist build him a blood bank far from all churches.
7. Foundation and a Space Odessey, by Arthur C. Asimov
A psycho foundation repairman discovers that the galaxy’s slab is cracked and will result in 1000 years of shoddy warranty work if not repaired with the enigmatic “Black Piling” of space.
8. Jurassic Childhood’s End, by Michael Clarke
Aliens come to Earth to stop mankind’s slaughter of the dinosaurs and to introduce the concepts of Political Correctness to the population.
9. The Weapon Shop of Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Van Vogt
A semi-mad gunsmith insists on palming off weapons made from WW II surplus hardware and hospital medical detritus to an unsuspecting public, claiming that his right to “tweek, and share arms” – even human ones – shall not be infringed.
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McGoo looks up and examines his work critically – and decides that there are not enough stolen photos up there, and not a single link:
Ah! Jessica Simpsons snooch! What more can one ask? I stole it from Skippy’s place last week – I think. Yep. I did.
More Global Warming stuff over at Last of the Few.
January 11, 2009 at 3:13 pm
If all libtards, socialists and envirotards would off themselves think of the carbon savings!!!!
As for the young lady walking down the street, odd are it’ll cost you at least $100!
January 11, 2009 at 4:05 pm
$100 !
Is that US or Canadian?
If all the folks you mention would have the decency to die in writhing agony for the Greater Good, we could feed the remains to all the endangered species and win, win, win! I bet we could make the deserts bloom.
January 11, 2009 at 6:15 pm
bet we could make the deserts bloom.
Navel oranges for EVERYBODY!!!!
January 11, 2009 at 6:54 pm
MCPO – I want one of those Taurus Judges – here:
http://www.theospark.net/2009/01/re-judge-taurus.html
I figure it’ll make a nice backup for my T/C .45-70 pop-gun.
Thoughts?
January 11, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Maybe you know, McGoo… Is it okay to wish upon a planet, or is it only real stars that do ya any good?
I mean planets look a lot like stars when ya just look up there, and so maybe a lot of wishes have been misdirected through the ages. That’d be a shame.
January 11, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Meanwhile, here’s some eloquence. Maybe blogroll fodder for ya… Wish I could figure out how he really feels.
January 11, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Wishing on a planet? Gee, I have to think about that, and consult with the Muse.
But if I were to venture a guess – just spitballing it, mind you – I would have to say that it’s ok to do so, but you have to, like, do a makeup thing when the next star is available. Nod to it, or sumpin. Or take your cap off.
And – yes – it’s a shame that a certain percentage of W’s on S’s go astray.
But you know what they say: every man smokes his own cigar.
January 11, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Oh, Gnus. I’m gonna have to read some more of that guy, and then maybe I’ll figure out what he thinks of liberals.
His prose is so gentle and kitten-like: ya kinda wonder if he’s a poof…
January 11, 2009 at 9:20 pm
But, but, but, “Gunny” IS an elder god!
January 11, 2009 at 10:19 pm
McGoo, your “Dracula: The Modern Prometheus” was sort-of done in that horridly incoherent “Van Helsing” movie. The only good thing in it was the tits on the vampire wenches.
January 12, 2009 at 5:11 am
Ah! But that flick came out in Spring of 2004. My list was generated in Fall of 2000!
Hey! I was robbed. I should get some of the movies
billionsmillionsthousandshundreds of dollars in royalties!Ya know – I think I watched about a third of that flick. I remember
the attack of the village by the tit-vampireshow bad it was.January 12, 2009 at 9:46 am
McGoo – As to the Judge, are you planning on ridding the woods of Bigfoot? Alternating the .410 with the .45 will certainly give you the “stand ‘em up, knock ‘em down” capability that many desire in a close-range self-defense situation.
Personally, I prefer a .40 semi with a snub-nosed .38 revolver as a back-up.
January 12, 2009 at 10:03 am
I already own a Sig P226 in .40 and a Charter Arms .38 spc. snub. But they only go with my summer wardrobe.
For winter I was thinking a Taurus Judge in mat SS loaded with three shotshells and alternating with two .45 colt powdered heavy, and for backup, my American Derringer SS M-1 in .357mag, loaded with two factory self-defense loads.
January 12, 2009 at 1:15 pm
So, you do have Bigfoot on your property. Is it just one, or a whole herd of them?
January 12, 2009 at 1:17 pm
BTW – have you shot this? http://tiny.pl/vxk5
January 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I can’t tell for sure how many of ‘em there are, MC. Every time I’m in the woods and hear them, I both shit AND go blind.
And then – suddenly! – I’m home again and out of breath, and with an elevated heartrate.
Magical, I say.
I haven’t even heard of the .327 before this day, MC. It looks like one of those imaginary “gap” guns – those products that sit uncomfortably between two traditional calibers/horsepowers, and (usually) have performance inferior to both. The reviews in your link are not what I call promising.
January 12, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Speaking of .327, it’s a “hopped up small block Chevy”. Everything points to it being a very good idea. It may not be a supercharged big block, but it’ll get you around town really well. In an envelope designed for 5 .38s, it’ll hold 6 of those sweet hot rod .327s. Ballistically it looks VERY good.
January 12, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I’m thinking the theory relates. A hot rod 327 will outrun a stock 454. Same theory in calibers, and hp/fpe comparison.
January 12, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Where is load & ballistic data on this cartridge online, cmblake? Do you know?
Wait! I’m gonna go out in the garage and find my reloading books. Yeah – they probably won’t have this caliber in ‘em, but I can compare to the calibers around it more easily with the data in front of me.
Having a sixth round coming up is kinda reassuring. I have never liked 5-shot crunchentickers except the .454 Casull and that newish 500 S&W. Heh. It’s like I’ve been robbed, somehow.
Yes – I do have a thing about horsepower. I likes it, yes I do.
January 12, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Steamboat, I have my own Squirrel in the AM problem up here in the Great White North. Can you send me one of your Yankee weapons of death so I can solve my four-legged problem?
January 13, 2009 at 12:03 am
No prob’, Reg. How ’bout a phased plasma rifle in the 40 kilo-Watt range?
It is kinda rough on the roof, though. And the neighbors’ roofs, too.
January 13, 2009 at 11:14 am
I was thinking a .50 cal Desert Eagle, but sure.
January 13, 2009 at 11:59 am
Welllll…OK,…
But a A Desert Eagle in .50 AE might possibly, maybe, perhaps be just a smidgeon too much club for tree rats.
Unless you want to kill them and clean them all in one shot. Then it’s perfectly acceptable.
I owned a .44Mag Desert Eagle ~15 years ago. God, I loved that thing. Stunningly accurate, and louder’n Hell – with a really deeeeeep-throated boom! that shook walls! Plus I’d reload using W296 powder, so I would get these 6-foot white flames out the barrel that were really impressive and totally eff’ed up your vision in subdued lighting.
But I hated how the DE would bulge out the brass at the base of the casing.
The good ol’ days…
January 13, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Loved the Terminator reference McGoo. Best gun shop scene in cinema.
January 13, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Thanks, cbullitt. I had to fudge on the “4 kilowatt” phrase because the retired engineer in me just couldn’t stand to say the original flick line: “forty watts”.
Forty watt-seconds (forty joules) is less than half the energy in a typical camera flash storage capacitor – or about the wattage of a typical refrigerator lightbulb.
Puny.
Good for a hefty shock (been there, done that) and a serious desire to not touch it again (yep), and that’s about all.
Yeah, though, I like that scene!
Another good one is from “Dogma”, when Ben Afleck and the Matt Damon are picking up a weapon to kill sinners.
Clerk: *Matt picks up Desert Eagle hand-cannon* “Sir, we call that one ‘The Fecalator’….”
January 13, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I have to admit – I loved Van Helsing. It was so over the top that by the end the top was a tiny speck in the movie’s rear view mirror. Hell, even the scenery was chewing the scenery!
January 13, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Loved it?
OK. Now I have to dig it up out of the (still packed) dvd boxes and watch the whole thing.
But Enas, I distinctly remember stopping it with a sneer, and a disgusted snort of derision!
Or was that League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen? That one sucked significantly, didn’t it? Damned think-noodle.
No – LoEG didn’t have flying tit-babes in it, did it? And Van Helsing is young and looks like Conan, The Winter Warrior or sumpin. And there was a hot-lookin’ babe on his side, too.
January 13, 2009 at 8:20 pm
But Enas, I distinctly remember stopping it with a sneer, and a disgusted snort of derision!
Yes! Exactly the kind of response most sensible, adult people give to such a thing. Same with LoEG, maybe even doubly so for that one. By any of the usual standards people use to measure such things Van Helsing is a Bad Movie. Unless…
Unless you completely toss such standards away and give them all the finger while you do so. VH is not a serious movie in any way. It revels in its unseriousness. It splashes around in ridiculousness with the same complete abandon little kids do in puddles after a big rain (and Mom is not around to yell at them to not get their boots muddy).
There is so much to love about this movie if you just watch it in the right frame of mind McGoo. Not the least of which is getting to watch Kate Beckensale’s magnificent butt squeezed into those delightfully tight pants. Oh, there’s too much to get into in a comment McGoo. I’ll put up a post about it sometime later and you’ll get a better idea of where I’m coming from.
January 13, 2009 at 8:33 pm
That’s the reason I got that dumb flick! Now I remember!
Kate Beckensdale (of Underworld fame) and her outstanding wet-leather body!
She can suck my veins any time she wants.She’s a fine actress, too.Ok. I’ll watch it again – in it’s entirety, this time. I mean *ahem* – if it means that much to you, Enas.
January 13, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Underworld! YES! I just netflixed that one again too in preparation for the new one coming out.
It’s up to you McGoo. Just remember if you’re not laughing a lot of the time you’re not watching it right.
January 13, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I’d read that the next one – which was not supposed to have Kate in it – does indeed have her in it.
January 13, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Well McGoo, you certainly got a shit load of play from the “I have nothing” thread. Yes, Kate Beckinsale is eminently munchable in Underworld. She is not in the third one–coming to a theatre near you. BUT Rhona Mitra is, and if you saw “Doomsday,” you know she also does leather-and-less very well.
January 13, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I just read that Kate really IS in this one coming out. Here:
http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=9115
Technically, what is in the new one is a bunch of film shot of her in previous Underworld movies, but never seen or used before. So she really is “in” the flick. Kinda…
I have another post ready, but I’m looking for fresh teeth. And not having any luck. Don’t women smile anymore?
January 14, 2009 at 3:59 am
http://www.speer-ammo.com/ballistics/detail.aspx?loadNo=23914
http://www.ammo-one.com/327Federal.html
http://www.gunreports.com/news/handguns/Rugar-Magnum-Ammo_274-1.html
Try these for a start. Looks good!
January 14, 2009 at 4:02 am
Up early, are we? Or insomnia? I’ll check out those links now…
January 14, 2009 at 5:08 am
cmblake – I read the links, and found one or two more on reloading the cartridge.
I need to think about this some more.
Note that I have absolutely NO qualms or biases one way or another about the round. The more rounds the merrier, I say.
But there is something – I honestly don’t know quite what it is – that is distinctly bugging me about this .327 cartridge. I keep getting my ol’ “this does not compute” engineering alarm going off. That alarm is usually quite reliable. I trust it.
So something in the published data is either ‘off’, or left out or missing, or misleading, or I mis-read it.
It’ll come to me in time….
January 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Know what you mean. No, I was simply keeping my circadian rythm intact as I work grave shift security. So I was up surfing. The reasoning behind the .327 would be the kinetic energy calculation. You know the “only substitute for cubic inches is cubic money” thing. Mass times velocity squared, blah, blah. It computes. Mind you, 200gr @ 1100fps feels better, but 115@1400 works too.
January 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm
And yes, google is our friend.
January 14, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Yep. I already cranked the energy calcs in Excel for all the loads I could find. I have firmed up what I think is bothering me:
1) The claim that the round delivers near-357 performance with 20% less recoil is advertising disingenuity. At best, it delivers 20% less energy at 20% less recoil. Newton is still firmly in the drivers seat for firearms external ballistics , and always will be.
2) While one or two loads have near 500 ft-lbs of energy (90% of the 357 energy) most are significantly less. Closer to a hefty .38 spcl.
3) I need more V-versus-powder weight data to be sure, but I think the round is creeping up into the serious overpressure region when “near-357 performance” loads are used. The quoted 45K PSI (mistakenly called ft-lb in the ad) is waaay out in the sphincter-clinching region for a small frame revolver.
4) I don’t equate equal-energy .32 rounds with .357 rounds. Their penetration and energy-transfer (the killing blow) behavior differs more than a little bit – favoring the .357.
I’d be afraid the full load .327 would poke right through a torso, carrying off some of that energy and wasting it. I want the target to keep the round, absorbing all the energy.
In one of the articles I found online (or was it one of yours?) the reviewer (who had a definite bias FOR the caliber) bought a big-assed pork shoulder and shot it. The round pierced 16″ of cold pig and kept going. It did leave a nice 7″ Temporary Wound Cavity in the pork, though.
So I will grant that the round “can” do the job.
January 14, 2009 at 2:31 pm
BTW: another step forward!
I have the earth-mover guy here today adding 7 loads of dirt around the garage foundation to taper it nicely into the existing landscape and make it all spiffy – and I talked him and his buddy into carrying my RELOADING BENCH! downstairs to the room where it is to be SET UP.
Yay! Now I can start putting the reloading room together. After over 14 years, I may finally do some reloading again.