Wafflecone: deadpool

I almost put Tony Bennett and Hugh Hefner on the list, but they both still seem to be pretty active. Jack LaLanne may be on to something with that power juicer though. He's ancient.

Friday, January 01, 2010

You don't start counting at zero

Once again I failed to see the green flash.

Aside from the decade not actually being over yet, I felt I should share an epiphany which was revealed to me last night. We've been pronouncing the year wrong for the past ten years! All other four digit dates have been processed as two separate numbers (eighteen ninety-two) rather than a single numeral (one thousand eight hundred ninety-two). It's a small quibble but twenty o' one feels different than two thousand and one. At least we've mostly stopped calling it "the new millennium," which always makes me think of m&ms and vague messianic prophecies.

I got two out of ten predictions fulfilled on last year's dead pool: Les Paul and Patric Swayze. I will post the my new list after I've finished composing it.

Saturday, January 03, 2009

iDeadpool

This was my birthday breakfast. It was delicious. I'd like to thank Holy Taco for the amazing idea.

I'd like to begin 2009 by asking for a moratorium on using pronouns as prefixes. It's ridiculous and it needs to end. It doesn't making your product seem more hip. Stop it.

I only seem to blog when I'm procrastinating, although I maintain my moblog and twitter accounts fairly consistently. I've been meaning to muse on some things for the past month and I've probably forgotten most of them by now. I'll try to address a few of them.

Wrapping the year up: One person on my 2008 deadpool passed, Gordon Hinkley. I'm really rather disapointed in myself given the impressive number of deaths in the past year. I'm hoping to do better this year, as morbid as that is. Clearly, I don't want any of these people to die, but I also like being right and feeling slightly prophetic. You can play along at home too! Just write down the top ten notable people you feel may expire in the coming year. The person with the most deceased on their list at the end of the year gets the satisfaction of knowing they're responsible for the world being a little less bright. It's fun!

On blogging: I made 264 posts on this blog, passing the 500 and 700 post marks. I also created my moblog, which has over 3,500 posts of useless thoughts, and a comblog(?) which is a bit of both? I'll probably add a twitter widget to that eventually too, likely instead of writing a paper of some sort.

Today's procrastination is buying textbooks. Although I'm excited for the new semester, I don't especially care to get dressed, instead savoring having the apartment to myself. I'm taking one class on television genres, which I've very much looking forward to. Perhaps it will be like this South Park class? Or perhaps we will touch on Buffy Studies. I'm just excited I'll be reading House and Philosophy, although much less to be Reading Sex and the City, but I'm sure it will be interesting.

Finally, here's my 2009 Deadpool:

Deadpool '09

Les Paul

Sasha Grey
Van Morrison
Marian McPartland
James D. Watson
Ursula K. Le Guin
Patrick Swayze
Steve Jobs
Gene Wilder

Jack Kevorkian

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Gifts that Give

You can see how a man like this might be easily fooled.

What makes me sadder than learning of a celebrity death? Knowing that I had not properly anticipated their demise. Honestly, I thought he had died some time ago and feel a little silly for not checking. Besides, I only had room for ten people. I should talk about something more upbeat.

I wrote last week about a simple April Fool's Day prank I had performed. I had let it linger for a bit for realism and to verify that I had caught a fool. I didn't expect to catch another. Lifted from my FaceSpace:

I'm actually curious how you're doing as a whole. I've been somewhat keeping track of your status changes and relationship status and I want to know if you're doing okay.

And after I replied, "I WIN! That was April Fool's. You are number three." He continued:

I figured it was an April Fool's prank, but part of me considered you might actually be dating Rachel, so I withheld complete judgment on it until just now, thus giving you Epic Win. I did ask my girlfriend if she was just working with you to pull off the most eleborate and cruel April Fool's prank ever and had part of myself prepared if on April 1st she just yelled "April Fool's bitch!" and dumped me. Luckily she did not do that. I'm convinced it's coming next year, thus making it 80 times more eleborate and cruel.

He's wrong, of course; It would only be 52 times as cruel.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Wade Wilson is My Hero

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Now playing: Andrew W. K. - Party Hard
via FoxyTunes

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Deadpool +1

I called it. He was 97, so it wasn't a hard one to predict. I believe I am winning now.

Gordon B. Hinckley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Dead pool Regrets

I can't change my dead pool, but I regret that I didn't include three individuals whose death seems increasingly likely upon consideration:

Fidel Castro
Elizabeth Edwards
Nouri Maliki

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

2008 Dead Pool

This is my 2008 Dead pool. Make your own list of notable people to suspect of death in the coming year! The person with the most deaths at the end of the year win!

Top Ten Picks

Don Rickles
Kirk Douglas
Gordon B Hinkley
Stan Lee
Bob Barker
Barbara Bush
Micheal J Fox
Stephen Hawking
Gloria Steinem
Dick Clark

Bonus 5

Sidney Poitier
Jimmy Carter
Margaret Thatcher
Britney Spears
Ted Stevens

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