X-FILES 2

Coolness! And just less than four months to go.

POPE, BEHIND YOU!

And look, he's just casually waving, with that ginormous Jesus Attacks sculpture behind him. So badass.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008)

Rest in peace, Arthur C. Clarke.

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

Born in Somerset, he came to fame in 1968 when a short story The Sentinel was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by director Stanley Kubrick.

Once called "the first dweller in the electronic cottage," his vision of future space travel and computing captured the popular imagination.

BONO, YA EVIL BASTARD

Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, is famous throughout the entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous.

At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, he asked the audience for total quiet.

Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet ...

"Well, fuckin stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!"

Found this floating around the Net. Apparently it didn't really happen, but I still think it makes for a good joke.

FINGER FRIDAYS

Neal Saveron:

PATRICK STEWART: "I'VE SEEN EVERYTHING."

Excerpt from that hilarious comedy Extras.

GARY GYGAX

I was a thousand kilometers or so from Manila when Dong texted me: "Gary's rolling dice with God and Buddha now." At first it didn't connect. The guy's practically a brand name among gamers, and used to be said in the same breath as D&D, one might think that he never actually existed in the real world. In a way, he did live several planes above us, and created some new ones as well.

It's no mean feat getting other people to live in your imagination, but in Gary's case, thousands live in his every day, and in my case, I'm there once a week. Cheers, Mr. Gygax. If it weren't for you, I would probably be playing badminton or poker or some other dumb thing, instead of a game that is so complex and rich and social, one lifetime spent isn't enough to get tired of it.

And so the dice rolleth.



From Order of the Stick.

EYEBALL TATTOO, ANYONE?

A Canadian named Pauly Unstoppable recently volunteered to have ink injected into his cornea until his eye appeared completely blue. Apparently, the process took 40 injections before the eye totally filled with the ink.