Dusty Chalk

And again, I learn something -- thanks!

I just wanted to thank you for posting this -- it actually makes a lot of sense, not just with mead, but with any supposedly "sweet" beer, and explains why chocolate beers are usually in the dark chocolate variety rather than milk chocolate end of the spectrum. The ones that are sweet, are usually sweet with malts (scotch ales, barleywines, sweet stouts, etc.), not sugar or honey necessarily, which is an entirely different kind of sweet, and one I don't mind so much at all. I mean, yeah, there is a lot of residual flavor from honey or milk, in ones that are made out of those, but...less so than drinking, say, milk, or tea with a lot of honey. I.E., not so much. Between this and ...I forget who, but someone explained why ommegang's chocolate indulgence was sour tasting to me in the early days of my trying beers...it's been very helpful understanding why beers taste the way they do, and helps me appreciate them more.

I meant that it did not make the cut for whatever year that it came out. I think Bolt was 2009 as well.

No, that wasn't my point, I just can't imagine you would consider selling your Apogees.

I think if you modified the shark costume to make it look like the shark was eating the dog would be awesome. Or similar. Or sprouting an alien. EDIT: Someone needs to come up with a My Little Pony doggy costume. EDIT: Someone with multiple dogs should put together the Village People. EDIT: Or you could just shave your dog in a Brazilian and say it was a bikini model.

That may be the best dog evar.

I have this set, for which I paid substantially more, so you win. Also, I still don't 'get' Mahler. Time to revisit.

I think since it's Smeggy-approved, I'm going to have to disagree with you on that.

Muppetphiles.

That's what I'm saying -- to me, the best picture should go to the best picture, and there is no such thing as "best picture" on any kind of absolute scale, there is only "my favorite", and "most popularly voted for as 'my favourite' by everyone else". I think Hurt Locker got best picture because it was so fucking intense. And it really is a really great picture -- after watching it again when it came out on disk, I decided it did make my final "favorite movies of 2008" (was it really 2008?) list. And Up did not. Bolt did. No, wait, Up may have been right on the line. Now I don't remember.

Ah, so you're an art snob. I'm totally selfish in my gauging of movies -- my only criteria is whether or not I like it. Art, gratuitous explosions, or dramatic resonance, doesn't matter, it's what I like that matters.

No, it wasn't that. Believe it or not (and yes, this is coming from me), Up was a little too down. I mean, did you see Bolt? I actually liked that better. Completely under-rated movie. Not really comparable, in terms of stories (there's no fantastical set piece on a blimp), but just a really great movie. And can you imagine Terms of Endearment with explosions? Terms of Endearment 2: The Revenge -- now that's a movie I would probably see.

Yup, Up had a powerful opening. I'm not recalling Monsters, Inc., but that's just an excuse to see it again, so...win.

Well, if one got Smeggy to do it, then one didn't do it one's self...

Do the whut now?

He may mean it in the colloquial sense.

I don't recognize that cover -- which Bernstein/Mahler is that?

I know of no movie that cannot be improved with explosions.

That last one speaks to me.

So..."redundant pleonasm" would be a redundant pleonasm?

Didn't someone tell me there was an acoustic bandpass filter -- meaning changing the shape of it would change the filter? That cavity, at least, needs to be rigid. (If I understand that correctly.)

Was: Kelley Armstrong, Personal Demon Is: Kelley Armstrong, Living with the Dead

You did the entire team? Offense, defense, or both?

I'm thinking he says it smells like incense. (And, having been raised Orthodox, I know exactly which smell of which he speaks, and even though I currently disapprove of church, I by no means disapprove of olfactory nostalgia.)

I <3 my pinnas. Anyone want to see my pinnas?