http://www.spape.org space ape concern Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:25:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can only wish that we had heard about Ric Flair Finance, home of the Figure-4 Process™, before we bought our house - a Nature Boy 30-year Fixed mortgage would have been pretty sweet. And imagine the joy of getting a personalized loan statement from that Limousine ridin', ... http://www.spape.org/2007/09/14/wooooooo/ I think if you listened closely during the excruciatingly long black screen at the end of the Sopranos series finale, you could probably hear neighbors up and down your street saying "What the Fuck?" The final episode pretty much gave me what I've come to expect from this show ... http://www.spape.org/2007/06/11/its-not-tv/ Where has the time gone? I'll tell you where: About a month or so back, we did indeed find a house and went ahead and bought the thing. Our new ranch comes complete with a pedigree. We saw the place, fell in love and made an offer before ... http://www.spape.org/2007/06/03/3446/ Growing up in the rural environs outside of Bad Axe, in Huron County, Michigan, I envisioned my future self moving to a bustling urban center far, far away - somewhere with lots of people, no trees, and where the flattened vowels of the michigan accent (check yours now!) would fade ... http://www.spape.org/2007/02/10/safe-as-houses/ The original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the best horror films ever made, and one of my favorite films of any genre. It has been ripped off, referenced, appreciated or appropriated over 27 times according to it's Wikipedia entry, and has inspired many of the best (and ... http://www.spape.org/2006/10/11/texas-chainsaw-massacre-the-beginning/ In our new location, I have access to some of the cheapest (and highest quality) meats, breads, and vegetables, which can only mean one thing... I am on a sandwich-making TEAR, my friends! Whether you believe that the sandwich was invented by the Earl of Sandwich or Rabbi Hillel, ... http://www.spape.org/2006/08/15/sandwiches/ Hart Plaza was still pretty empty at noon on Sunday - but not as empty as my stomach, which was growling in anticipation of those dee-licious morsels... In the background, I could hear a designated speaker preaching (we missed the festival's biggest name, Ray Parker Jr.), and I have ... http://www.spape.org/2006/08/08/ribs-n-soul-fest-2006/ The first film by director Nimród Antal, Kontroll takes place entirely underground, in the tunnels and flourescent light of the Budapest Metro. Bulcsú, the film's confused hero, works as a ticket inspector (apparently, the Metro works on an honor system - no turnstiles) with his "gang" — narcoleptic Muki, ... http://www.spape.org/2006/06/13/kontroll/ As someone who is pretty intimately acquainted with the inner workings of art school, I loved the original Art School Confidential, a four page story in Daniel Clowes' Eightball #7. It worked because it made fun of the worst of what awaits unsuspecting students - intellectual masturbation disguised as ... http://www.spape.org/2006/05/15/art-school-confidential/ Oh, the things that terrified me in my impressionable youth... such as these bastards, the YEP YEP aliens of Sesame Street. They were visitors from another world who had come to earth to sound out words like "tel-e-phone" and "com-pu-ter" as part of their plan to take over ... http://www.spape.org/2006/04/24/the-horror/