Saint Nickanuck of the Tundra

image by misterbisson on Flickr

• ammunition
• dead animals
• engine blocks (over 2′)
• explosives
• hot ashes
• infectious waste
• pathological waste
• radioactive waste
• radiological waste
• septage waste
• surgical hospital waste

These people are clearly mad. I never let perfectly good ammo or explosives go to waste, and engine blocks are critical to the construction of my many infernal devices, so I don’t have to worry about the first three. As to the rest, well, that’s a bloody damn inconvenient policy. I guess it’s back to my neighbor’s basement with a shovel…

• What was set to be an epic return to post-blizzard life after Farpoint ended up becoming a week-long boss battle with a stealthy fever plague-demon. While some point and invoke the word “irony” when I become ill, remember that my job is killing diseases for a living, and given that they take a dim view of this, means that they send assassins after me on occasion. I take these bullets for you, people.

• When not exchanging pyretic-fueled blows with my adversary, I found many profound words in a recent piece in Esquire profiling Roger Ebert, and his own thoughts on said piece. I’ve always known Ebert to have a thoughtful and intelligent voice, but I’m particularly taken by how his recent scarring complications with metastatic thyroid cancer have led to him finding a new freedom, and opportunity, in his written online work. I’ve added his blog to my reader, and I recommend his post about how he believes in god as an excellent starting point for newcomers.

• Laura went to an event at Studio Inspire today, and among other things, came home with this, which makes me happy:

rocket ship henna tattoo, image by Laura Burns

“When you are playing a character of solid blackness, that in itself is very interesting, in the sense that you have no other motivation other than the accumulation of power…  It’s not so much about not having a moral center, it’s just that the only thing that mattered is increasing power.”

“I’ve been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I’ve got so far is that he’s clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.”

-Ian McDiarmid on Palpatine, from Homing Beacon #137