Monthly Archives: October 2007

A Near-Vomit Experience

By terje | Published: October 29, 2007
The maggot cheese and the boiled duck fetuses nearly caused my supper to exit my body via the nose. Oh, and check out the mock lutefisk ad.
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2007-10-28 — Quote of the Day

By terje | Published: October 28, 2007
three is the magic number yes it is its a magic number Somewhere in this ancient mystic trinity you got 3 as a magic number the past and the present and the future Faith and hope and charity The heart and the brain and the body give you three as a magic number Takes three legs to make a tripod and to make [...]
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Inspired by the blogger formerly known as Lotta…

By terje | Published: October 28, 2007
I decided to change my on-screen handle again: Dread Pirate Terje. Now, I’m not one of those people who think pirates are cool (quite the contrary, in fact, bloody murderous pigs as they were), but what I think is cool, is (a) cheesy fantasy movies from the 80s (well, some of them, anyway), and (b) turn-based strategy [...]
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Ninja Scroll

By terje | Published: October 28, 2007
My Exalted GM is always complaining that I don’t get into the spirit of the game enough (a spirit which can be summed up as “there is no such thing as over the top!”, and yes, they use that exclamation mark), so I thought I’d check out one of the movies that are recommended in [...]
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The Princess Bride

By terje | Published: October 28, 2007
In the latest issue of SFX (that I’ve got my hands on, at any rate), Neil Gaiman said something along the lines of, “Stardust will fall into that same genre in which The Princess Bride has been hanging around in all by itself for the past 20 years.” That’s the gist of it. And seeing [...]
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Norske språklyder

By terje | Published: October 26, 2007
Jeg kan hverken fatte eller begripe at Gudene har sett med slik velvilje på meg, og latt noen skape dette fantastiske programmet, utelukkende for min convenience. Jeg føler meg som universets navle. Eller, navler er egentlig ikke så jævla tøffe. La oss gå for øyesten. Ja, øyesten høres bedre ut. (Ikke dermed sagt at det er [...]
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By terje | Published: October 24, 2007
A Midsummer Night’s Dream seemed like a really boring play, at least when compared to the splendid Othello (Iago for teh win! ), so I decided to skip reading it, and just go to the showing of the 1999 movie that was arranged as part of this course I’m taking. The movie didn’t exactly [...]
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X-Men: The Last Stand

By terje | Published: October 24, 2007
I hadn’t watched this one since it was in theaters, so it was about bloody time I got around to it again. I guess I might have been postponing it for the last year or so because I wasn’t too impressed with the movie the first time I watched it. I thought they’d crammed too [...]
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Männer wie wir

By terje | Published: October 24, 2007
For some reason, I started watching this German flick about a gay football team on television last week. It wasn’t a particularly good movie — in fact, it was one of the most predictable movies I’ve ever seen — but it was great fun. Sure, they’d gone for all the gay stereotypes, but who cares about [...]
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2007-10-22 — Quote of the Day

By terje | Published: October 22, 2007
You would not believe the trouble I went through to get this crown in the first place. I went to steal it from this librarian in Cliffport, and it turned out oops! He was also an archmage! Needless to say, hilarity ensued. — Xykon the Lich, The Order of the Stick, strip 434.
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