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Highgaters in the News

For my first installment of “Highgater’s in the News” Meet Kyle Berthiaume, a 16 year old from my home town. He just got arrested for raping a little girl, repeatedly, at his mother’s daycare. Also for molesting another girl at the local Highschool MVU.
When asked to make a statement Kyle replied, “I’m not saying nothing,”.
This leads me to wonder, what happened to the good ol’ days of Highgate? Days when the biggest headline was catching one of the Rainville boys humpin on one of their cows, or a simple redneck beatdown on a minority, or maybe some local drunks running down a pedestrian. Those halcyon days are gone, for good it would seem.

You can read more about Kyle over at WCAX.com (link)

Isn’t it Beautiful?

OSX + WinXP = Geek pr0n.
engadget has the money shot

Anyone wanna go in on a Castle?

only 26,000,000 Euro

This exceptional and one of a kind Castle has participated in French history, will offer you a medieval atmosphere ( woodwork, stones…) with every modern convenience ( central heating system in each rooms, video room, hidden lifts…). 6 second stone houses, 5 barns and many other outbuidings complete this wonderful property. The 200 ha are composed by parks, woods, grasslands, ponds and river. Located in the South of France.

Check out other castles for sale around the world (link)
Courtesy of boingboing

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On another note, I had a chance to sit down this weekend and read the entirety of Allison Bechdel’s new graphic novel “Fun House”. I’ve always been a mild fan of her “Dykes to Watchout for” Comic, though often times it gets a little thick with uber-liberal rhetoric. Luckily for me this book avoids all that and focuses on something much more interesting, self discovery, childhood and family trauma. I won’t get into an indepth review, since Margot just did one, (that would put mine to shame.) but I will say that I didn’t put it down once, read it straight through in one 4 1/2 hour sitting.

By the end of it I was quite touched; that Allison was able to find understanding and some closure to the events of her childhood, events that most people might have chosen to simplify and villainize, or worse still, forget. Further still that she was able to acknowledge her father’s wonderful talent and gifts along with his terrible truths, and to see their inseparable connection to her own, was enlightening.

• Margot Harrison’s Sevendays cover story (link)
• Allison Bechdel’s Blog (link)
• AfterEllen review (link)
• DTWOF strip archive (link)

Portrait of a record store shitter

The Pure Pop bathroom is probably the oldest john in Burlington, possibly the united states. Our toilet is off limits to customers for there own safety, when you sit down on the seat, it makes a subtle “squishing ” sound from somewhere around the base. If you notice, from the pictures and flyers hanging up, some from the 90′s, we don’t clean the bathroom very ofter, re: Ever. Enjoy.

I should be sleeping right now

Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
- The rest over @ structuredprocrastination.com

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Farewell Michelle, we’ll all miss you – you’re one of the sweetest, kindest, smartistest, people I’ve ever known. There will always be a home for you here in Vermont!

Happy Memorial Day

It’s on this day that we commemorate those who fought and died in WW3, and celebrate our freedom, wretched from the cold lifeless hand of those Red Devils, no not those Red Devils… the communist ones. If it wasn’t for the Wolverines and other brave souls like them around the country, Our Homeland would be the Motherland, we’d be speaking goblty-gook instead of good ol’merkin inglish, squating down and kicking our legs out like morons instead of dry humping and doing the shopping cart, drinking cheap vodka instead of Ol’ grandad, and teaching our kids about how we were liberated by the kind freedom loving ruskies, instead of how we, in all our omnipotence and goodness, liberated Iraq.

Go out and rent the 1984 re-enactment of the events that took place in Calumet Colorado, watch it with your loved ones, and by God, you will weap. Especially when those bastards kill the Eckert brother, bastards.

Swayze? Sheen? Jennifer Grey? Powers Booth? Marty McFly’s girlfriend (and mom) can someone please say Greatest movie ever?

IMDB (link)
Wikipedia (link)
bonus link (Wilhelm Scream)

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Deadbeat featurette

Juzz Gays

The rest of the pics are in my flickr, check em out.

Indiana Jones in…

That’s right. Check it out… (link)

More importantly though, is this… a bunch of what i can only guess are barnett college students have taken it upon themselves to make a new Indy Jones game in the vein of the old Lucas Arts classic “The Fate of Atlantis”. Check out these screens!
this game rocked my small world years ago; it was one of the first computer games i spent anytime playing, this and Police Quest, which was fun cause you’d type your commands like “Pick up newspaper” but mostly i spent my time with my friend Josh trying to get the little pixelated cop to do things like “Touch girl’s boobs.” and “Touch other girl’s boobs” which never worked, maybe if i had actually known the proper word for boobs it would have worked…

Indiana Jones and The Fountain of Youth (link) (demo)