THE TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE BEAST YOU’VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH – 666 – HAS BEEN CHANGED...

ITEM [via Telecom TV]: The town of Reeves, LA has been allowed to change its telephone prefix to 749.

The old prefix?

666

Which everyone objected to because it was, of course, EVIL.

The interesting question for me is: why now? Reeves has had that prefix for 40 years, and hasn’t suffered a disproportionate level of Satanic activity that I’m aware of.

I’m sure the apparent rising wave of fear and Christian fundamentalism sweeping the nation since 9/11 is a complete coincidence. They probably just got tired of all the jokes or something. Yes. That must be it.

FUN FACT #1: The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

FUN FACT #2: The fear of telephones is known as Telephonophobia.

I’ve got yr number,

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WELCOME TO MY BREAKDOWN (SLIGHT RETURN)

After almost three years of bloggery, I’m chuffed that I’ve managed to build up quite a cult following. Granted, it’s small enough that you could fit all of us in a mini-van quite comfortably, but as Yoda once said, “Size matters not.” And with 90 billion blogs on the Interwub to choose from, I couldn’t give anyone a specific reason to add this one to their busy reading schedule. So it’s gratifying to see anyone take the trouble to bookmark me or add me to their Friends list.

Which means I need to polish my social skills a bit.

So first off, welcome to dydan, who’s here via some deucedly clever popfiend promotion voodoo. Always nice to have someone onboard with a monkey jones (which should take some of the pressure off lorilori).

And while we’re at it, official belated cheers to relatively recent adds popfiend, puffdoggydaddy and drhoz, who I’d have officially acknowledged earlier if I had any manners. (Which I don’t. Did I mention I’m working on this?)

And of course, props to the rest of you who’ve put up with my crap this far.

I’ll do my best to keep yr Friends page reasonably entertaining in 2008 (though be advised, it'll probably be a lot of this and this). And remember: here  at Team Def, we don’t give refunds, but we do accept apologies.

Okay. Now get back to work.

Ice cream anti-social,

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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #39: FRANK MILLER NEVER DID THIS

ITEM [via my new favorite blog, io9]: Best Dark Knight preview EVER.

You know, Heath Ledger looks a lot more like Cesar Romero than I thought he would.

See, this is why Al Gore invented the Internets. So we could do stuff like this with other people’s content.

In seriousness, you know full well I’m going to go and see this. And not just because they filmed, like, three minutes of it here.

Still, I have to give credit where it’s due: it was the TV show that got me started on the Bat. And I don’t care what kind of whiz-bang DARPA-grade CGI hardware you have, there has never been, nor will there ever be, a Batmobile as awesome as the George Barris model.



I have spoken.

No capes,

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