Say what you want, but I think Brian Wilson is a friggin’ genius. Listen to a live performance of his newly finished magnum opus, Smile.

Brian, you’re my fav-o-rite veg-e-ta-ble.

Okay, here’s what’s going on today.
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A rich man asked Sengai to write something for the continued prosperity of his family so that it might be treasured from generation to generation.

"No joke is intended," explained Sengai. "If before you yourself die you son should die, this would grieve you greatly. If your grandson should pass away before your son, both of you would be broken-hearted. If your family, generation after generation, passes away in the order I have named, it will be the natural course of life. I call this real prosperity."

Make Love not Spam is a screensaver which sends requests to known spam servers. The notion is that with enough participants, the servers will become overtaxed to the point that the high bandwidth usage makes it no longer financially viable to keep the site up. In that way it is not a ddos.
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Can’t go to Maconboy Rob’s Turkey Feast due to gig. Must find way to make up for it…

Where the hell did I put my hat?! (pt. 2)

I’ve seen this phenomenon like five or seven times today alone, and so I better nip it in the bud before this becomes a pandemic problem. So, fellas. You know how that slick black winter hat you bought this autumn has that tag on it that says “Thinsulate”? Well, that’s the back of the hat. Wearing the tag on the front is like walking around with your underwear outside your pants. Sheesh.

Because you always wanted to learn how…

Coming back to the real reason I put the Choppin’ Blog together in the first place,
Here is a fine example of the kind of text you L1 monkeys might encounter as a selected text for the end of semester test. Software Used to Spot Phoney Art or the like.

Today’s word is boondocks, meaning backwoods, dense brush, BF-Egypt, the sticks. Comes from the Tagalog name for a mountain in Luzon.

Aaron Macgruder’s The Boondocks is a comic strip featuring an intellectual black kid from the city, Huey, who goes to live with his Grandfather in a more affluent suburb.

In the film Boondock Saints, there are 246 F-bombs.