What's all this, then?

Technology? Whiskey? Sexy?

It’s not much, but then they tried to pass Iowa off as heaven in that movie with that guy and Darth Vader.

Hey, you told me to get a hobby. Said that I should get out of my parents’ basement and try to make something of myself. That I should learn to live before all I would learn about was dying.

Remember?

And then I said “fuck off” and did a podcast instead, with the lovely Jon Deal. Remember that?

Yeah, you’re damn right you do. That’ll learn ya to stick your nose where it’s not wanted.

Say what you want, at least it’s shorter than all the other podcasts.

110 thoughts on “What's all this, then?”

  6. I totally got N! I called it. Don’t say I didn’t call it.

    I don’t know about this new layout. Can we still go outside the margins? Let’s find out:

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  7. Apple Lopsider, please keep your inconsiderate experiments inside the margins at all times.

  13. The podcast has way too much fertile material to comment on, thus I have nothing to say.

  16. What the hell? GREY?? GREY??? What happened to my mustard? My greatest experience with CARS was commenting on the then-new mustard-colored background, and now… now it’s gone forever….

    dammit, dammit, dammit.

    How can you do this? It’s one thing to stop posting, it’s another to wipe out history….

    of course, I guess wiping out history started with Albert. Oh well.

  19. Whats this at the bottom: mature audiences. We are mature because we read this?

    This is escape, nothing mature about it. Or was that supposed to be manure.

  20. They are carrying out restoration of Shakespeare’s grave and now we hear from John.
    The World’s two greatest authors in one day.
    *Faints clean away*

  21. It’s about damn time you updated The Entity’s bio and photo. You and Howard are both slackers.

  24. any chance you can introduce a little “background-attachment: fixed” goodness into your CSS to stop the headache-inducing flicker when scrolling…?

  25. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again…

    This site needs more fuschia!

    And now top of Recent Comments is mine. MINE!

    Mwoohaahamhwo…har,

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  27. Silly Sue! Don’t you see? Moltzy simply took a hiatus from his hiatus! In fact, you could even say that he pulled this post out of his hiatus. But that’s only if you were a silly rabbit like me.

    And by the way… That whole thing about Trix being for kids? Not true.

  29. I bet you’ve been wearing the same bathrobe, going who-knows-how-many-days without shaving or, well, TMI, ya know. Seek help, please. They have drugs to treat the heartbreak of hiatus these days. PBR alone isn’t going to do it. Maybe a shiny thing or two to brighten up the old basement a bit?

  33. Good heavens, we get the Moltz back and the best your retreads can do is FIRST!! This is monumental. This is epic. This is… it isn’t going to last is it?

    The new lay out sucks. The pod cast sucks. The comments suck. You’re going to leave us again and so I hate you…

  34. Don’t worry I brought a giant roach motel. Once Moltz walked in to make his post he won’t ever walk out.

    Wait.. Where did I put the giant roach motel?

    Ummm…. If someone finds a sticky motel (does that even narrow it down?) can you please let me know so I can finish my trap.

  35. How do we know it’s Moltz? How do we know Moltz hasn’t sold CARS on the sub-prime site market, bundling it up with Catholic Shopper and The Darling Furball and offloading it to some unsuspecting Uncle Fester freak-a-like with a big tongue who’s just been rebuffed in his increasingly desperate attempts to ‘get in on that whole new interweb thing’?

    Developers! . . . Developers!! . . . DEVELOPERS!!!!…

    I think we should be told.

  39. Nice to hear from you again John, how many days (weeks, months) til the next post?
    PS, that podcast thing will never catch on.

  40. Great, Sue and Silly Rabbit are going to duke it out! My money is on the rabbit.

    I would like to point out that iMoo has not posted yet.
    *sticks tongue out in general direction of East Coast*

    Welcome back, John.(at least for the day)
    We’ll just have to see how long the hiatus of the hiatus lasts…

    Could someone tell me why this room is all sticky, and I can’t get out?

  42. ***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE •••••

    MAY 30, 2008

    (AP) MINNEAPOLIS, MN

    An American cultural icon today made it clear to the world that he’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore. Silly Rabbit, well-known character of television commercials and beloved by kids of all ages, let it be known that it’s high time he’s gotten that bowl of cereal he has sought for nearly half a century.

    On the steps of the offices of the Minnesota State Corporation Commission, Mr. Robert “Bugs” Coniglietto, an attorney with Lapin, Bonney & Haere of Jackalope, Texas, announced that his firm will represent Mr. Rabbit in filing suit against the maker of the popular cereal (which is a part of this complete breakfast). In this action, Mr. Rabbit is seeking compensation of 5,000,000 bowls. Of cereal. Yes… that cereal. Also named as defendants are every last kid who ever said in public, “Silly Rabbit! Trix® are for kids!”

    When asked why Mr. Rabbit hadn’t taken legal action before this, Mr. Coniglietto explained that there were two reasons. “He’s a rabbit with a lot of faith in himself and mankind. He has always believed that if he kept trying, kept employing that good old-fashioned American ingenuity, that someday, somewhere, someone would have compassion for his quest and reward him with just one little bowl. Unfortunately, his devotion and dedication never came to real fruit-ion, so he as decided to pursue satisfaction in the courts.” As to the second reason, Mr. Coniglietto said that his law firm was “… frankly the only firm [Mr. Rabbit] could find who would take their fee in bowls of cereal. The fact that it would be Trix®… well, what can I say? I mean, Lucky Charms® are great and all, but Trix®! We at Lapin, Bonney & Haere, we all love it! And we can certainly understand — as well as anyone — just how terrible the suffering would be if any one of us were denied our right to enjoy a delicious bowl every morning. So we were happy to take on his case.” At this point in the announcement there was a brief hiatus* to allow Messieurs Coniglietto and Rabbit to commiserate and then regain their composure.

    When questioning resumed, Mr. Coniglietto continued to reply to most of the inquiries on behalf of Mr. Rabbit, but there was one question that Mr. Rabbit stepped in to answer himself. When asked what finally inspired him to take this course of action, Silly Rabbit said, “Actually, it was just recently that I was on-line and exchanging friendly conversation with a young lady named ‘Sue.’ When the conversation turned to a topic related to breakfast, I innocently suggested to her that Trix really aren’t just for kids… meaning, of course, that adults like them, too. When I once again was made to endure yet another rendering of that awful, incessant condemnation, well, I knew I just had to do something. And then I remembered her name… Sue! And I thought… ‘Sue. Sue! That’s what I’ll do!’ And then I thought ‘Wow, I sound like Dr. Seuss. Doctor Sues! Well, if a doctor sues, then so can a rabbit!’ And then… well, here I am! So thank you, Sue, wherever you are. Thank you for inspiring me to stand up and fight for the rights and privileges that have been denied to me all these years.”

    Mr. Coniglietto concluded the announcement by handing out key fobs to the Press, stating that any puns had not been intended, and paying the rim-shot drummer for all the hard work he’d done during the briefing.

    * The term “hiatus” is a registered trademark of Giant Squid Production, LLC. Or at least John would like it to be, given the way he bandies it about.

  44. Whoops! I’m sorry, Sue. No offense intended. In the spirit of some of the other things posted on CARS, I just thought I’d use the brief exchange about Trix as a jumping off point to poke some fun at our sometimes over-litigious society. I apologize for getting carried away.

  45. Sorry, no offense was taken. I was just trying to be silly too.

    Keep the comments coming. I can take it.

    You silly Silly Rabbit……..

  46. Oh! Phew! You had me going there! Glad to know we’re all having fun! Thanks!

    And, um, uh…

    Does that mean you’ll share some of your Trix now?

    () ()
    (9.9)

  47. No Trix for you!

    You just never learn. Let me know how the lawsuit works out for you.
    Meanwhile, I’m looking for a life. Anybody got a pony I can borrow?

  48. See! I told ya’ll this would be good…

    I’m not sure you deserve a pony, Sue. Finish off the rabbit and we’ll talk.

  50. We don’t have Trix over here. We do have rabbits, those bloody Romans brought them in.

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