Forget everything I said about Merlin Mann’s signal/noise ratio.

After reading this, I hereby issue a full retraction and would like to tell you all that kung fu grippe is my favoritest blog in the world right now.

When I emerged, my hands still gripping the wheel, I was perplexed but thrilled — happy to be alive, but also to be surrounded by the parties of this case, as well as the train’s lucky passengers. We were all in miraculously hale condition, considering the ordeal we’d just endured. We laughed openly.

But, even in the channel’s cool waters — and newly stricken with the permanent nerve damage that has frozen my face in a ghastly and stupefied stare — I could feel my blood begin to boil. My boat. My beautiful yellow boat. What had he done to her?

Merlin Mann is my goddamned hero.

Happy now?

Case in point:

Now that I’ve had it both ways, I can highly recommend choosing to make things you like with people you think are awesome. By comparison, the private consolations of doing otherwise turn out to be surprisingly modest.

Yes. Yes, indeed.

(I’m still not going to follow the guy on Twitter, though. The last time I tried it was like drinking from a fire hose.)

More to the point, get your over-broadcast friends to get on FriendFeed and save you some clicking.

It’s a one-stop feed shop!

My favorite part is the little bio line: “Rod Hilton is a writer and, in his spare time, he enjoys tearing Hollywood a new asshole over at The Editing Room.” What’s the matter Rod? Don’t want the masses to know you’re a computer programmer for a living? I see how it is…

The site is very young at this point, so it’s been kind of fun so far. The biggest thing working for the site so far has been the participation of Marisa from Needled. She’s the coolest.

PSA over, I’ll just mention that I’ve started blogging about my next tattoo there.

The Next One
A week from today I have a consultation with my artist, Fish at Th’Ink Tank Tattoos in Denver, about my next tattoo. So, what am I going to get? Well, it kind of depends…

I’ll keep cross-posting links here, so no worries.

A reply to Merlin.

I loves me some Superchunk.

Nothing feeds into this obsession more than this Mainstream-o-meter, which compares your top 30 artists with everyone else. My results are skewed due to a couple audiobooks and a few artists that really shouldn’t be ranked as high on my list as they actually are currently.

Interesting observations that illustrate an obvious “last.fm users vs. the rest of the real world” bias:

• Elliot Smith and Sufjan Stevens are more “mainstream” than The Beach Boys.
• The Beatles and Radiohead are both above 100%, they are so mainstream.
• Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Tori Amos all seem surprisingly low.

(via Brandon‘s del.icio.us)

Then I read their “start your own” page and actually started to consider it. Of course, the truth is I would have ended up buying the coloring book and that would have been that.
Lucky for me and everyone else of my ilk in and around Denver, someone beat me to it. It should be no surprise that RMRG‘s scariest roller girl, Pinky 500, is involved.

Fantastic, I say.

So, Matty… You free on the 3rd Monday next month?

Check it, yo.

My first post covers the baseball bat attack on three BU hockey players.