This is a good year old by now, but I’m not really sure how wide it’s circulated around the ‘net as I just got wind of it yesterday (I’m sure this is old news to Prolly) and thought it was pretty awesome. Avid Dungeons & Dragons gamers and siblings from from Indianapolis spent a good 2 years creating the most amazing lair of gaming your eye will ever see!

I have been working on and off for about 2 years building our “D&D ROOM” to hold most of our collection and give us a cool place to play. I did 99.9% of the work myself with just a bit of help in the attic from my brother Shawn. All lighting is controlled by the DM via a dimmer/control box mounted under the table. When you walk in the lights automatically come on via a contactor mounted in the closet. There is also hidden strobe and fog machine for effects. I also mounted speakers in the beams and have a sound system in the closet.

Head over to this thread on The Acaeum, a Dungeons & Dragons collecting forum for the fulls coop and more pictures of this impressive game room. The only places I ever got to play D&D at were the school auditorium after hours and the now closed, Neutral Ground in Manhattan. I’m so jealous of anyone who gets to spend a campaign in this room…A man can do some serious Orc slaying in a room like that.

Bear witness: an irony-portal so dense, so graphic, and so utterly and completely obvious that you as a viewer are powerless to look away. It’s so good, so true, and so clever that you may not even think it’s very cool. So I’ll explain: The Bloglin reader can be counted on to very likely hold these two things dearly—very dearly—to their bosom, and here they are. Together at last.

Oh. Wait. You’re seeing this in your feed reader and don’t quite know whether it’s worth the click or not? Well, let me spell it out:

Beastie Boys. Sabotage. Music Videos. THE Early 90s music video. Remixed and re-imagined by way of Battlestar Galactica. Click away.

This Kotaku writeup rightly marvels at just how spot-on this video is…it’s uncanny. They even provide a link for using some sort of experimental youtube dualscreen site (which my computer HATES, btw. My ears are not happy either) which will SHOW you how spot-on they are. I, on the other hand, am choosing to be most impressed by just how deep this rabbit-hole goes. To wit:

The Beastie Boys start their career in 1979 as a punk group. They hit big in the 80s with frat-rap, and it’s not until 1993’s ‘Sabotage’ that most of their adoring fans realize that the Beasties can play ‘rock’ music as well. The X-Factor of ‘Sabotage’ had more than a little bit to do with it’s epic video that portrayed the band members as undercover detectives in the ‘Starsky and Hutch’ and ‘Streets of San Francisco’ vein. It was a perfect 4-minute parody of an entire decade’s worth of TV crime dramas.

Battlestar Galactica debuts on Television in 1978 and is to space drama what Starsky and Hutch is to crime drama. It is terrible, and dies a very quick and very painful death by 1979 and by then, Star Wars has officially happenned. In 2004, some dudes who worked on The Next Generation picked up the license and re-imagined the BSG lore as super dark, super violent, and super controversial…only after this was anybody alerted to it’s inherent coolness.

So obviously, someone would take the two and mix them. The result is like tie-dyeing a tie-dyed hypercolor shirt. It is a mix of mixes that have been mixed from mixes. And it is awesome. And it is—in my humble opinion—what places like the Bloglin are all about.

I don’t really fully fathom how the Toilet Cobra convinced Ryan Keely to let him film her while she burned comics, but he did and here it is for you to enjoy. I hope for Ryan’s sake there was no Creepy Touching involved… you never know where he’s been.

So as it turns out, you are quite possibly a very blurry projection of the ‘real’ version of you.

Let me back up a bit.

Crook sent me a one-line email this past week that said:

This seemed like your type of article to post about.

I looked at the permalink and saw the words ‘our world may be a giant hologram’ and quickly surmised that he was right. It did seem like something I’d post about. I promptly flagged and forgot.

Later that evening—or maybe even the next day—I got around to reading the thing, and, well, I have been living in a fog ever since. As a matter of fact, the article, it’s subject matter, and the way in which it attempted to frame the core idea: that we live in a world that is merely a fuzzed-out shadow of something else.

This something else, without quoting huge excerpts of the article itself, is quite simply the realer, sharper version of all information—all energy—contained within the Universe as we know it. Because that real information—that real energy—exists beyond the event-horizon of our ever-expanding Universe, and as such, is necessarily something that we can never know.

In other words, we’re the footprint, not the foot.

Granted…this is all theory. Theory that in many ways is being anecdotally substantiated by the findings of a German experiment designed to detect the gravitational signature of ’super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes.’ But Jesus. What a mindfuck.

For me, this kind of stuff is so much fun because half the challenge—you know, aside from actually understanding half of the nuance of what’s going on—is figuring out how to talk about it like a normal person. This one has me stumped.

Fast-Forward/Rewind to the day I read the article…the day my life changed forever. We are all—truly—nobody, floating through the universe together.

I did a little digging into the good ol’ video vault and found this great interview with Megadeth on Much Music from 1987.

This was taken while the guys were supporting Ronnie James Dio and some highlights include: Megadeth chilling in there tour bus watching Annie Hall, Dave Mustaine talking about challenging peoples minds with his metal and lyrics, why Megadeth ownz over all other Thrash bands and just general shreddin’ shop talk! FUCK YEAH!

Dave please come back to Satan, Ok bud? Pretty please? Megadeth > Metallica 4 Life!

Some students from Carnagie Melon University devised a way to play Dungeon’s & Dragons on the Microsoft Surface. Yeah I don’t know what the hell a Microsoft Surface is either but this looked pretty effin’ cool and efficient way to gather your friends and slaughter some Orcs.

However at around the 2 minute mark in this demo I realized that they totally digitized the dice. You can’t digitize the Dice!!!! We all have our rituals and methods for rolling that you can’t just transfer over into the digital world. Oh well, this is pretty cool regardless. And yes Prolly I saw you retweeted this, congrats. We have a medal waiting for you upstairs in the office.

Back in 1988 a 15 year old girl arrived at a hospital in Lesotho, South Africa with all of the symptoms of being pregnant. The only problem was she was born without a vagina. Just recently doctors began speculating further about this brain tickler by examining the girls full medical records.

It seems she was admitted to the hospital some 278 days previous to the supposed ‘pregnancy’ for knife wounds she received from an ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend became enraged when he found the girl practicing oral sex on her new boyfriend and the situation escalated to knife play. Some believe the girl may have become pregnant because the spermatozoa (load) gained access to the reproductive organs via the injured gastrointestinal tract. This is only the speculation of some but still worth a mention in my book. The full story is here.

Do not have any kind of sex while you are in Africa…ever.

Wait, did Hitler quote me at the 1:44 mark? Did the Nazi’s just get Prolly’d?

I ran out of free time so now I only blog about things that don’t involve me leaving my house. I wrote about favorite my records yesterday and I wrote about my Star Wars shit last week. Now I’m going writing about my favorite T-shirts.

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10) Megadeth “I Kill… For Thrills” Hooded T-Shirt

This is one of the most amazing metal tees I’ve ever seen. Not only does it feature Vic Rattlehead as a scuba-diver on the front with the slogan “I Kill… For Thrills”, there’s a photograph of him on the back with an audacious claim as to the technical superiority of the band.

Dave Mustaine’s a humorless asshole and that’s why I like him. I like the band because they’re like a meaner Metallica with only one member that anyone knows by name. Best of all is that this shirt has a hood. How many hooded t-shirts have you seen in your life? This is probably the only one. I want to design a hooded T-shirt.

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9) Cambodian Tin Tin shirt

The Vidiot went to Cambodia for a month and he brought me back this amazing T-shirt. Tintin is a much bigger deal in Europe and Asia than he ever was in America and bootleg Tintin merchandise abounds in both continents.

Here is a close-up pf the chest hit. “Danger! Mines!” Some weird characters, Cambodia. Hmmm, I wonder how successful that Spielberg Tin Tin movie’s going to be?

That’s Tin Tin and Captain Haddock on the back of he shirt. They’re in the forests of Cambodia finding piles of human skulls and looking horrified, a warning sign about landmines is nearby. I love Tin Tin and wish this comic adventure through Cambodia actually existed.

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8) Handmade Devo T-shirt

I got this for five dollars off of eBay. It was made by some guy when he was still a teenager back in the eighties. He used the heat press equipment at his dad’s sporting goods store and cut and applied all of the decals himself. Originally the Devo face on the front had a forked tongue but I wore it once and the tongue came off so I will never make the mistake of actually wearing this tee ever again!

The sleeves were cut into a jagged zig zag and he also did something really cool with the collar that involved splitting it down the seem and applying stars to the inner part. This is one of my favorite and most awesome eBay finds ever. I still can’t believe that the tongue fell off.

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7) Sample For Unproduced Мишка Sweater

I know this isn’t a T-shirt but I love it nonetheless and I drew the illustrations for it. It breaks my heart that this is the only one of these sweaters in existence. This is based on the first drawing I ever did for Мишка and Mikhail & Brian assembled the elements into this awesome sweater.

The drawing was overly complicated and even after being simplified some on the computer it still got way distorted from my original illustration. But you know what? I like this distorted version on the sweater better. The reason that this never came out was because My Pal The Crook is a cheapskate. Please write letters and comments until this sweater gets made. Until then I am the owner of the only one that exists.

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6) Michael Barron’s Mom’s Sweatshirt

Michael Barron was my best friend when I was a little kid. He was the only kid who was skinnier, paler and nerdier than I was. When I was in high school I stole this out of his mother’s car and wore it around school a lot. We didn’t speak too much after high school but I did leave bizarre comments on his livejournal until he finally banned me.

After that I left bizarre comments on his girlfriend’s livejournal. Then I sent him an email telling him I was gay and that I considered him my true love and wanted him to come spend the weekend with me. He responded by telling me that he was certain I was lying but that everyone had always suspected I was gay. That was a few years ago. I still have this sweatshirt anyway.

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…you snap out of it and realize that this is—in fact!—a reputable source.

From the team that is still trying to bring you a bona fide Higgs particle comes the new and unproved (yes! pun!) Unhiggs, which is both ‘theoretically consistent’ and

…can do many things that the Higgs does. For example, both the particle and the continuum possess a non-zero vacuum expectation value, which can “break electroweak symmetry” and “unitarize WW scattering” – abilities that are important for giving other particles mass, which is a fundamental role of the Higgs. In addition, the scientists found that the Unhiggs can do something that the Higgs cannot: provide a solution to the so-called little hierarchy problem.

Now that that’s settled. Sit back and bask in the fact that you are nothing, we are nobody, and we’re hurtling through nothing at the speed of everything.

Thanks to Galactic Drifter for the tweet.