Weblog Sin Pies

By Charley Daniels

I realize that because of NaBloPoMo (motto: “Sounds like a disease!”) this has sort of turned into a mini diary, but that’s fine. Why fight it? One of the things Sin Pies has always lacked is focus. Even the name is just some stupid thing I came up with one day while daydreaming in a college Spanish class. It’s two words with many meanings in different languages, but when I put them on the site header, they instantly say nothing. Why should the content below the header be any different?

Jaxon’s birthday was fun, but you know what they say: What happens in West Hollywood (or wherever the hell) stays there, as well as in our minds and hearts and bank records too. The important thing is we helped Jaxon turn 29 successfully.

I love movies about killer insects. Preferably normal insects, rather than giant insects.

Speaking of movies, here’s a retroview for you: Spider-Man 3 is a waste of time. My first thought was: “So sad how the mighty fell.” Then, after some consideration, I realized that none of the Spider-Man movies was truly great. The first one was decent and the second forgettable, but the third was laughable. Not good. Oh Spider-Man 3, how thou art terrible, let me count the ways. About 19. That’s just off the top of my head. There could easily be many more ways thou art terrible.

Anyway, light posts for the next three days while I toil at the slag pit. After that, I’d like to finish the month strong, but I’m not really sure what that means.

By Charley Daniels

Feeling better today than I did yesterday. That’s mostly because today’s a new day, and it will be free from workplace injustice and/or shenanigans. First question I’ll ask future potential employers: “At what level of shenanigans does your business operate in a typical week? Mmm hm. And around the holidays?”

I don’t generally like button-fly pants, but there are definitely some pluses.

Today is Jaxon’s birthday; we’re going to feed him some booze and make him tap dance. He probably won’t, though. Some birthday.

At the publication where I work, I think we use too many semicolons. Someone smart once said that people overuse the word “irony,” which is definitely true. That person said that usually what people mean is “coincidence” or “unlucky” and that real irony is harder to come by. I’m paraphrasing and maybe even embellishing, but I think I’ve pretty accurately represented what was said.

Anyway, semicolons are the same way: Where they’re actually needed, I think, is harder to come by than you would guess based on our usage. Will I say or do anything? No, because there are so many things that are more important. But I’ll still think about it, and I’ll notice it; I just won’t care. I used two semicolons in this blog post. I used them properly, though neither was necessary, and I’m not sure either did much for the meaning, readability, or quality of the post. See what I mean?

By Mike Bijon

It looks a lot like BuzzDash Central around here. We may as well have some fun with it:

By Charley Daniels

What a busy month it’s going to be! I don’t know where I’ll find the time, frankly, what with holiday parties, deciding what the future holds (New Year’s resolution side bets, anyone?), and heading north for the winter. I’ll be in Oregon Dec. 21-26, so don’t come steal my things. Ah hell, I better just bring everything with me.

Hey, I meant to post something about this sooner, but I forgot, I think. Or maybe I just wanted to wait for the right moment. Now I can’t remember why I didn’t post, so chances are good that it’s because I forgot. What the hell am I saying? The folks who brought us Mystery Science Theater 3000 have a website where you can download hilarious audio tracks to play along with movies. It’s the same movie-mocking awesomeness (ostensibly) with a whole new library of films. Did you ever wish that MST3K could rip on newer movies? I know I did. Wish granted! Check out Rifftrax if you’re about to watch Fellowship of the Ring alone on a Friday night for the third weekend in a row. You know, change it up. Oh yeah, it’s not just bad movies that they’re mocking now. Awesome!

You know what’s not awesome? Some genius invented casino-based online poker. Huh? Head down to the casino and play online against a bunch of people sitting across the table from you. Come on! If I go to a casino for poker, I want to feel chips and cards in my hand. And how the hell am I going to tip the cocktail waitress without some chips? Transfer funds to her bank account? I don’t like it.

Returning to things that are awesome: I went and saw Pleaseeasaur again. The last was in September. Does that make me a groupie, or something?

And, to sum up, some things that are maybe awesome, maybe not. Depends. With 2006 drawing to a close, I thought it might be a good time to begin looking back at some of the random keywords that brought people to Weblog Sin Pies this year. It’s Keyword Roundup: The Year in Review, Part 1.

I think I posted this one before, but I can’t just suddenly stop appreciating it. Notice the search string — yes, that’s a minus sign at the end. Searcher wanted to exclude the term “boobs,” which makes sense since it would have cleary messed with his results.

Boy, people really are looking for very specific things on the Internet. Just for fun I put this one into Google to see if anything stood out. You know, maybe to shed some light on whatever this person was trying to find. I got nothing. It’s probably some YouTube thing, right?

No doubt someone was directed to WSP during a drunken argument over whether that over-hyped dud of a film Snakes on a Plane could have actually happened. Is it based in reality? Is it not? This is exactly what we’re here for. Maybe not this specifically, because hell if I know, but I’m sure content on this site has solved at least as many drunken arguments as it has started.

This could be the search string of a curious country western fan (who doesn’t know how Charlie Daniels spells his name), or my grandfather trying to decide whether to include me in his will.

Why search? Everyone knows the definitive source is HumansHumpingGorillas.com.

That’s all for tonight, but I promise there will be more where this came from as Weblog Sin Pies looks at its top keyword referrals for 2006!