Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

Occasionally I like to think about what my dream vacation would be, particularly when I spend my weekend doing shit I really don't want to do.  More often when I dream like this I think of going to Vegas and seeing a bunch of shows, or going to New York and seeing the Daily Show.  It's not that I want to go to a place and relax or go to a place just to go to a place, I want to go somewhere and do something.

American IPAs, Ranked

Or I could go to multiple places and get shitfaced.  I guess I'm weird that way.

Things That I Must Buy

There are some things that you find out about and instantly think "I'm going to buy this!"

Fleshlight Finally Made An iPad Case That You Can Have Sex With

Despite what you may think, this product is not one of those things that I have to go out and get.  This just strikes me as an attachment that allows you to use other attachments that cost more money and have to be replaced on a regular basis, resulting in you spending more money on products for this company.  Things like that don't appeal to me at all.

Funny Or Die Presents Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival 2014 at Usana Amphitheater

This, on the other hand, is one of those things I have to go out and buy.  How can I resist seeing Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Whitney Cummings, and Hannibal Buress in a venue that is right up the street from me?  There's just one problem.

Video game concert coming to Salt Lake City

Both of these events take place on September 6th.  Since both take place at the same time, I have to choose one or the other.  Or..........

Because there's an 11 AM performance, I can choose both!  September 6th is going to be a good day.

Mistaken Development

There are sometimes that you come across something that you interpret as something that you want, but when you read further it totally isn't.

Afro Samurai 2 currently in development

THERE'S ANOTHER SEASON OF AFRO SAMURAI IN DEVELOPMENT!?!?!?!?!  Oh wait, it's a video game, not another season of that anime that I love but only got five episodes of plus a movie.  Sigh.

I'm Putting Together A Collection

People are talking about Tom Carson's review for the movie Third Person, starring Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde.  Specifically people are talking about Tom Carson's objections to Olivia Wilde playing the role of a writer.  Quoting from Carson's review:

She's supposed to be a writer too, but your belief in that won't outlast Wilde scampering naked through hotel corridors once Neeson playfully locks her out of his room. With that tush, who'd need to be literate? Who'd want to?

While the debate goes on as to whether or not Olivia Wilde is a smart and articulate person while also being hot as balls, Tom Carson's objections bring up an interesting question in my mind.

What does a writer's butt look like?  While we think of writers as bookish, shy, demure, and generally unattractive people, those are all stereotypes.  Writers run the gamut from confident people with well defined features and long silky hair to trollish imps who people wish would stop dicking around and get the fuck to work.  As near as I can tell there is no good consensus out there as to what a writer's butt looks like that is not reliant on stereotypes.  I am looking to change that.

I am looking to put together a collection of pictures of writer's butts.  I'm not looking for paparazzi shots or the kind of pics that would fill the gossip rags if the gossip rags gave a fuck about writers.  Rather I am looking for writers to document their own posteriors for posterity, as well as to better inform the public about the general form of some of the most deep thinkers of our time.  I'd like to see submissions from some of the greatest writers of our time, specifically I'd like to see derrieres of Neil Gaiman, Nicholson Baker, and Margaret Atwood.  I'm doing my part.  Here's mine: