THE DIGITAL VIKING: EDSBS'S GUIDE TO SPICY LIVING.

I’m spiking my martini with Tang, THE DRINK OF ASTRONAUTS.

Not to harsh the post-nationalist mellow over at EDSBS, but I thought I’d point out that the Su-34, being a Russian fighter and all — well, they ARE The Bad Guys.

A hundred cocktails to them anyway for post-sortie waffles. Belgian, I hope.

A billion cocktails to Ufford for recomending the M1. The thing is powered by a fucking jet turbine engine!!! And has a cannon!! By God my commute would be fucking awesome if I had one. Lashing a 50cal to the roof of my car just won’t suffice.

First tank to cross the Diyala? I was the gunner in the third Amtrac to cross the Diyala River, right before you guys. That shit was scary. At least you guys had armor. Our armor consisted of something that wouldn’t withstand a .50cal round.

It sounds like someone used to be called Private Swindle/Hall. Is Orson perhaps a veteran of Gulf War part Uno?

Also, I absolutely can not say how much I love these spicy living guides. They are by far my most anticipated internet updates. Imagechan aint got shit on EDSBS.

Jean Short: That’s Ufford, and the closest we’ve ever come to gunfire is at a high school football game in Murfreesboro in 1991.

And, Holly, your “Bull Gator”, when served in an old fashioned glass instead of the marketing favored inverted can/pint glass presentation, is called a “Speed Ball”…reminiscent of the more potent and illicit elixir of high test depressant and stimulant enjoyed to the bitter end by John Belushi…salut…

Buzz Aldrin is smokin’ hot. As soon as I get home I am going to do the following in his honor: put ice in shaker, add Grey Goose in whatever amount feels right, one scoop of Tang (shit – will have to run by Publix…), splash of Triple Sec, and splash of grenadine (because I am a girl), then shake and pour. The Buzz Aldrin Punch-a-Bitch Screwdriver. Cheers Buzz!

Voodoo Doughnuts up here in Portland makes a very tasty variant of that maple bacon donut — it’s in bar form. Nothing like having that within walking distance of one’s apartment.

@ Adam — There were two crossing points over the Diyala. I was at the northern crossing with 1st Tanks/RCT-7. And ain’t no one cross the bridge before me. Respectfully.

According to the latest issue of GQ, Buzz Aldrin, “…drank wine on the moon and, after returning to earth, used his NASA-issue T-38 supersonic jet to fly from Houston to New York and cheat on his wife. Aldrin’s NASA nickname: Dr. Rendezvous. The wine: for Communion.”

It gets no spicier than that, my friends.

HE DRANK WINE ON THE MOON. Top that, universe.

Tanker < 03s

Alan Shepard hit two balls at the Fra Mauro driving range during the Apollo 14 mission, and then lied about his distance. (A six-iron “miles and miles and miles”? In-freakin’-deed!)

No word as to whether he labeled the LM Antares “the 19th hole” or not, but golf on the moon beats wine-sippin’ on the moon any day.

I prefer ’tang, myself.

Supplant the vodka for some shine, you’ll be running through walls giving your best kool-aid man impersonation in no time. “Oh Yeah!”

I just googled the Sibrel dolt.

Moon hoaxers. Yeah, those guys are THIS bad: There is not a college football analogy for such stupidty.

@ Harris:

Last time I checked they don’t have any of that on the moon.

did someone just call aldrin a “coward”?

sheesh, ya think traveling to the moon on the technology of the lowest bidder would earn you some street cred.

And I think it’s safe to say Ufford just ruined the combustibles category for every guest host ever. ‘Cause ain’t nothing gonna top that unless it involves Osama bin Laden’s junk and the most ironically placed improvised explosive device ever.

#9

Damn that sounds good. May have to have 1 or 10 of those tonight!

@ 10 Signal: or on your way out of Dante’s Karaoke from Hell.

@Displaced Gator — I just crossed the Tennessee line for the first time in six months, so that’s entirely possible.

@ holly and other patrons of ingested rocket fuel, I always take it to the games. Two kinds though, one for sippin (for the first timers) and another that i am quite sure was used as the fuel that took buzz aldrin to the moon.

ufford was in the military? i had no idea

Comic books aren’t a genre, they’re a medium, and you’re probably insulting Alan Moore more than you know comparing him to Bryan K Vaughan, who is basically a high functioning pulp writer. And the art in Y is terrible.

Oooh! Comics snobbery! I love the combination of incorrect statements and opinions as if they’re facts.

For the record: “genre (n.) a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like.” But medium is an acceptable synonym, I think.

Everything else in your comment is your opinion, to which you’re entitled. I stand by the fact that I really enjoyed Y.

A number of moon hoaxers at one of their gatherings in ‘07 admitted to believing in the existence of bigfoots, sasquatches, and cryptozoology in general! So the moon trips aren’t possible but creatures that go bump in the night are? I don’t know what to make of these people.

Is there room on this flat-geocentric earth for the rest of us?

Dear lord…my 65 yr old mother is now all about the hypnotic. I’m scared.

Captain EO…Shittiest thing at Disney…ever

“For the record: "genre (n.) a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like." But medium is an acceptable synonym, I think.”

Common usage, foo’. Fall back on dictionary definitions if you like, but in actual conversation genre refers to the content being delivered, not the manner in which it is delivered which is what you were referring to to begin with. If someone asked what genre/genres Y: The Last Man occupied, you probably wouldn’t answer with “comic books” because that’s probably not what you’re really being asked.

And I didn’t say Y wasn’t a kick, but it’s not even the best thing to come out of Marvel or DC in the last decade, let alone the other 90% of the comics world.

Love the food and drink components. But the whole blowin’ things up component that has devolved into “bet I can dig around on the net and find a more lethal war machine than you, and then write like a badass” part?

Not so much.

I have to agree with Matt on this, actually, and not because he’s Visiting Spicy Livin’ Artist, but because Y! rocked my face off.

@pic6bamr

Blasphemy!

I think NRBQ wants a picture of a pony and I agree. I love ponies.

1. One in the 7 years since I first saw it, that video of watching Buzz Aldrin punch that fat moron in the face has never gotten old.

2. I don’t know for whatever reason Y just couldn’t hold my interest like Fables, Transmetropolitan, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or many of the other non-superhero comics in the genre/medium/pastiche.

Every work day I get to drive past Buzz Aldrin Elementary in Reston VA. I will do it know with more respect than I have before. Keep punching Buzz.

Tanks? What about submarine-launched missles (SSBN as opposed to SSN}? Why take out one T-72 when you can get them all?

@AERose — Fair enough. But understand that snobbery of any kind just turns off more people to the medium (or genre). I happen to think Y’s the best thing since Watchmen, so that’s what I said. DMZ was badass but had some holes in the story; Sandman melted my brain but the art didn’t suit my fickle eyes; Transmetropolitan never quite felt real the way other fictional worlds do. For me, it’s Y. You don’t agree with my taste — that’s fine. But my opinion’s not invalid, and you with your highfalutin comics expertise has yet to recommend something better. Or anything at all, for that matter.

@NRBQ “bet I can dig around on the net and find a more lethal war machine than you” — Actually, I got mine off an MPF ship.

@Sundawg — Because from a tank, you actually get to SEE the explosion. And that’s what really matters.

Yes, except you didn’t “get one” and you don’t “have one.”