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About raincoaster: the blog, the entity, the delusions of grandeur

The view is more beautiful now that it is mine

Power Rocks

Power Corrupts

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

But It Also Rocks Absolutely

132 Comments

  1. Posted September 12, 2006 at 10:22 am | Permalink

    I find this blog fascinating, entertaining and compelling.

    I thought your comments on the Guido blog have been spot on. Keep it up.

    My two pennyworth: All wars are predicated on lies.

    Sorry about my lousy blog.. it’s my third attempt and I am too scatter brained to have a clear purpose.

    (first attempt…. wrinkledweasel.blogpsot.com

  2. Posted September 12, 2006 at 10:36 pm | Permalink

    Thank you. I enjoy your posts over at Guido’s as well, and generally learn something from them, if only how to spell big words.

    All wars ARE predicated on lies.

    And don’t sweat the blog thing; I steal everything I post here!

  3. Posted September 18, 2006 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    This is a really nice-looking place you have here. Is that Isadora up at the top of the page? I am immigrating from BloggerBeta as soon as I can manage to figure out the intricacies of WP. There are some things to be said for the simplistic approach Blogger used. Sigh.

  4. Posted September 18, 2006 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    Thanks. I prefer WordPress (I’ve got blogs at both places, and believe me, WordPress was easier to figure out and has more options). You do have to be able to survive without Java widgets, though, which some people find really limiting.

    Wait on the migration, though; there are some issues with transferring files from Blogger Beta right now. Give it a couple of weeks and things should be okay.

    It’s Theda Bara at the top of the page. I was looking for an old picture of Ming the Merciless, but saw that and knew I had to have it. Isn’t she cool? There’s nobody like that nowadays; Elizabeth Hurley might want to be like that, but because she doesn’t eat she’s just too frail.

  5. Posted September 22, 2006 at 1:00 pm | Permalink

    As with Fruning, enjoy your contributions on Guido immensely. Good site, too.

    Also thinking of moving to WordPress, if only to build my own Terror Alert Levels - your collection is impressive!

  6. Posted September 22, 2006 at 11:35 pm | Permalink

    Accusing me of looking like a 1980’s hair-and-Izod band reject. God, you are so cold and heartless . . . . hmmmmm >B^D>

  7. Posted September 23, 2006 at 12:38 am | Permalink

    You expect anything else from me? Silly boy. Besides, I didn’t say they rejected you!!!

    Thanks, Juvenal. I appreciate it. WordPress is easy, but Blogger is even easier for terror alert levels and suchlike, because they allow Javascript. Everything you see on this blog could also be hosted on Blogger or many other sites, but not everything you see on Blogger etc could be hosted here. If you want some tips on WordPress, click on the category Professor Raincoaster’s Little Lectures in the sidebar.

  8. Posted September 23, 2006 at 1:20 am | Permalink

    If you weren’t cold and heartless, I wouldn’t keep coming back for more of this ongoing tapdance from hell ;^D

  9. Posted September 23, 2006 at 1:36 am | Permalink

    Oh, and if you haven’t checked Dance Party, I did it all to . . . for you

  10. Posted September 23, 2006 at 1:40 am | Permalink

    Oooooh! I can hardly wait.

  11. moko
    Posted September 25, 2006 at 12:24 am | Permalink

    Nice Blog,love the lady at the top of this page.Always enjoy your insightful comment on Guido,think some of mine are a bit strong for the old duffer,keeps deleting them,so much for radical eh?Best wishes,moko(misunderstood all over the net…………but still bashing away)

  12. Posted September 25, 2006 at 6:13 am | Permalink

    The old duffer is about half my age, from what I can gather, so I have no comment on that.

    Do tell what he keeps deleting, though. For some of us, it was the loss of our comments that got us blogging in the first place. Think about it. Blogging is free (moreso than Comment is Free, which is heavily moderated and devoid of trackbacks, very Web 0.25)

  13. peter hitchens
    Posted September 26, 2006 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

    I find this place full of very sick people and now I am scared.

  14. Posted September 27, 2006 at 5:17 am | Permalink

    “Very full of sick people.”
    You say that as if it’s BAD!

  15. Posted September 27, 2006 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    I am sorry to have found both Peter Hitchens and Fruning Graplecard lurking here. They are murderers:

    http://scottonpinkney.blogspot.com/2006/08/sad-news.html

    They outed Sir Aubrey de Tocquaine on Cranmer’s blog, and have no shame.

    Otherwise I just popped in to say “hullo”.

  16. Posted September 27, 2006 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    Shocking, shocking. Murderers, you say? They’ll fit right in with my friends.

    Welcome.

  17. Chan
    Posted September 28, 2006 at 3:21 am | Permalink

    raincoaster, I DO hope you are being sarcastic about the “Murderers, you say? They’ll fit right in with my friends.” comment. P-u-leassse … be ethical, blog-master.

  18. Posted September 28, 2006 at 3:26 am | Permalink

    Come on; it’s possible to be both ethical and sarcastic. These guys are all pretty much all from the rough-and-tumble Guido Fawkes political site; they’re Brits, probably never heard of Kimveer Gill.

  19. Posted September 28, 2006 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

    Just give me Chan’s address, $200, and the deed is done. No more wussy comments on your blog.

  20. Posted September 28, 2006 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

    Chan’s all right, no worries. Besides, I live in the Downtown EastSide. I can get somebody whacked for fifty! You’re rolling way too high for me!

  21. Posted October 13, 2006 at 11:03 pm | Permalink

    God - where do you live raincoaster!

    Maybe we are neighbors….

    nu-ne-nu nu
    nu-ne-nu nu
    Nice place you got here! Cheers!

  22. Posted October 13, 2006 at 11:26 pm | Permalink

    Thanks!

    I live very near Main & Hastings, which upsets my sister no end. I think we probably are neighbors, as well as both Searchgrads, yes? I’m relatively sure we’ve met face to face at least once. Are you on the next Culture Crawl? That should be coming up soon, shouldn’t it?

  23. Posted October 16, 2006 at 10:19 pm | Permalink

    I live very near Nanaimo and Hastings. We are but a five minute busride away. :)

    I am not, sadly on the next culture crawl. Dammit! *shrugs* During the summer thought about the culture crawl but did not act upon it. And only now through your response to my comment have remembered it.

    I will however being attending the crawl on foot.

    And delusions of Grandeur… my boyfriend mentioned that to me last night. I had to laugh. We are all delusional. I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s akin to dreaming. Except now our dreams have a place to be shared on a much grander scale than that of our own minds; through blogging.

    Cheers dude!

  24. Posted November 4, 2006 at 8:38 pm | Permalink

    Sarcasm and Ethics…a heady mix.
    Good blog. Keep it up…you provide me with amusement…and that makes you one of the most important people in the world.
    Hmm

  25. Posted November 13, 2006 at 5:41 pm | Permalink

    i’ve come to appreciate your blog. one of the few commenters to, how we say, “do more than comment?” whats the deal though, no email contact? i’ve got all this juicy gawker gossip for you and nowhere to send it…

  26. Posted November 13, 2006 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    Dayum! Can’t have that. Try downtowneastsidereporter@hotmail.com. And thanks for the compliments; will you be my reference the next time I bug Denton for a job?

  27. Posted November 18, 2006 at 7:37 am | Permalink

    raincoaster, remember me???? it’s Daring Denis…from the D. I. days. Forgive me, but I’m a little drunk, but I do recall seeing you and your friend Ferko? I think, at the racetrack, you had a coffee and Ferko had that knit cap?? Must confess, my name is not Daring Denis, but who cares? so have you been watching Intelligence? Not too shabby, altho looks like Chris is trying to save on lighting costs, either that or my TV needs a new picture tube….Mr. Campbell can still be seen at the track, as well as moi, getting a little soggy out there these days, how the heck are you woman? Still on the downtown eastside beat I see……how bout Ferko and Dangergirl? from the OLD days of DI. Say something….

  28. Posted November 18, 2006 at 7:54 am | Permalink

    Good god, haven’t heard from you in a few years. Haven’t heard from Ferko and DG in at least that long, unfortunately, and haven’t hooked the rabbit ears up to watch Intelligence, although I hear, of course, many great things about it.

    Email me and we’ll hit the track again sometime. And maybe the Ovaltine as well.

  29. Posted November 18, 2006 at 7:59 am | Permalink

    …..but I now remember that your TV was on the fritz and your roomie was getting weird and you were living in the cellar and you were about to be evicted….hope all is still going well……Mo

  30. Posted November 18, 2006 at 8:05 am | Permalink

    that’s a date!

  31. Posted November 18, 2006 at 8:32 am | Permalink

    The roomie ended up trying to throw me downstairs; the police arrested him but couldn’t make charges stick because my friends were all cowering in the living room rather than coming to my aid, thus preventing them from being witnesses to the event…I did lose the house but got an apartment…the co-op president gave the roomie a 2-bedroom apartment in the same building…

    But if the ex-roomie says two words to me now I can get a restraining order against him at least, as everything was documented at the time, including the bruises he left me with.

  32. Posted November 19, 2006 at 1:50 pm | Permalink

    Aha - I see you were the first beneficiary of the Trick or Treat Domain thingy. Cool!

    I also see that you’re Canadian - should have guessed by your nickname. I’m originally from Winterpeg but then moved to Toronto, then England and I’m now living in Spain. Anyhow, just popping in to say ‘hola’ as I keep seeing you over on Archie’s blog.

    Nice blog, by the way!

  33. Posted November 19, 2006 at 8:11 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! Way to escape Winterpeg; how is Spain in January?

  34. Posted November 20, 2006 at 11:53 am | Permalink

    Well, in southern Spain (where I am) it’s probably similar to Vancouver except not so much rain and it doesn’t snow (except in the mountains). Of course no central heating and old balcony doors that don’t close properly means that it’s usually as cold inside as outside … actually often warmer outside at midday. But way better than -40º.

  35. Posted November 20, 2006 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

    ps
    have just added you to my ‘amigos’ list … hope that’s okay with you.

  36. northwetcoaster
    Posted November 24, 2006 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

    Hi, dropped in because of the similarity in our nicks. I am indeed just a little north and west of you on the far side of Molly’s Reach.

    I think between us, we account for a lot of diversity and that’s what I like most about where you and I live.

  37. Posted November 25, 2006 at 12:58 am | Permalink

    Thanks, I like that, too. Welcome to the blog, northwetcoaster. Az, thanks for the add. I appreciate it.

  38. Posted December 15, 2006 at 6:45 am | Permalink

    Hi it’s just Mo (formerly Daring Denis), and just so you know, the Penthouse is used in
    Intelligence as home base for Ian Tracey but it’s called the Chick-a-Dee Club (they put a faux sign for outshots), guest shots by Stuart Margolin, Charles Martin Smith, and a regular spot by Matt Frewer (Max Headroom), who was raised in Victoria did you know?
    A few weeks ago I saw Camille Sullivan in LQ store lower Davie, very petite. Shes one of the carry-overs from DaVinci. (Sushi? the undercover detect.). You simply must get those rabbit ears dusted off and catch some epi’s. Speaking of Mr. D, caught part of “A Bridge Too Far” couple weeks back, featuring amongst a cast of thousands (the end credits found it easier to list who WASN’T in the movie rather than who was) a 25 yr old Nicholas Campbell being rescued by James Caan in a jeep deep in enemy territory. Now hows that for some dedicated reporting not from the east side but the west. Mo

  39. Posted December 30, 2006 at 1:48 am | Permalink

    well talk about a lively comment box. i do hope to have at least half of your blog hits and misses before my first year :)
    yup, wordpress is better than blogger but i still can’t figure out how to install the script on the server. aargh.
    *patience dear apprentice*

  40. Posted December 30, 2006 at 1:53 am | Permalink

    You can’t install scripts. Period. Welcome to WordPress.

    It’s still better than blogger, but if you HAVE to run scripts and/or ads, this isn’t for you. Go to WordPress.org and download their free software, then install it in your own webspace. Then there are no restrictions.

    And thanks for the compliments. Gratefully accepted at all times.

  41. Posted January 3, 2007 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

    Question … how did you transfer the first 16 comments from Saddam’s Last Words to the Would You Watch Saddam Die post? I’ve been trying to start a new post using some comments from a previous one and can’t figure it out at all. Help?

  42. Posted January 3, 2007 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    Never mind, I seem to have more or less figured it out. Except I lost all the paragraphing in the copied comments. Ah well, could’ve been much worse.

  43. Posted January 3, 2007 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

    I tried to answer, but the WordPress gremlins ate it. I just copied and pasted, and it kept all the formatting including the links.

  44. Posted January 4, 2007 at 9:19 am | Permalink

    Oh, no worries but next time I’ll just copy and paste (duh)! I can’t even remember what I did now but it was a bit more complicated and the result wasn’t as good.

  45. Posted January 4, 2007 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    47 comments on your shortest entry? Huh.

  46. Posted January 4, 2007 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

    My people are very long-winded.

  47. Hazel8500
    Posted February 10, 2007 at 12:13 am | Permalink

    I Love Theda! She’s been a big inspiration for one particular series of art of fiction I’ve been (Slooowwwwly) working on.

    Great photo of her btw.

  48. Posted February 10, 2007 at 6:52 am | Permalink

    Glad you like her. The image and the life story are inspirational!

  49. Joe
    Posted February 25, 2007 at 1:00 pm | Permalink

    What a fruitcake. You sure look 100% idiot ,and i should also mention moron too.

  50. Posted February 25, 2007 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

    Yes, and you should keep it to short words so that you can spell them all. Welcome to comment #51 on one post of my blog…did you read any of the others? Or perhaps I should ask can you read any of the others?

  51. i mean what i
    Posted February 28, 2007 at 12:19 am | Permalink

    I’m sorry but comment#51 didn’t need to read any of your other posts to immediately appreciate the absolute shite presented on this site. I’ve had a look at the nature of blogging for the first time today and I must say it is a complete waste of time, the only people who read them must be socially and creatively inept. Thats perfect, yes lets all turn the internet into a monster mass of ripped off shit.
    And before you feebly attempt to comment of the irony of me posting this on a blog, stop and re-examine your over-inflated ego, think of me laughing my ass off, and no I’m not lmao because I can spell.

    Your right… “Power Corrupts

    Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

    But It Also Rocks Absolutely”

    Please reply, I’ll never read it!

    Yours sincerely… an experiment more powerful than you…

    edited by raincoaster to add IP: 82.152.203.161

  52. Posted February 28, 2007 at 12:27 am | Permalink

    Sweetheart, therapy is often discounted in cases like yours. The mentally deficient deserve our pity. You can’t even get your own email address, and if you think the blogosphere is nothing but ripped-off content, you’ve obviously got impaired vision, probably due to the fact that your head is so far up your ass.

    Welcome! Also, dialup? Can’t they afford anything better at the institution?

  53. Posted February 28, 2007 at 12:54 am | Permalink

    Now, now. Don’t tease da widdlle twoll. It’s so cuuuute, twyin’ to tawk wike da big peopwe …

    And dial-up is probably the best it could manage. You need a brain size or two larger to use cable properly.

  54. Posted February 28, 2007 at 1:08 am | Permalink

    I’m not even sure cable internet is available in the St Louis area.

    Honestly, don’t people know how stupid they look when they talk bullshit like this? Yeah, I am the high priestess of Cthulhu, and I look just like that photo, which was taken last week by my good friend Karl Lagerfeld. TOTALLY.

    Ask Metro.

  55. Posted February 28, 2007 at 5:46 am | Permalink

    You’ll get no argument here. Although I notice the picture has been digitized to emphasize your eyes. Well, two of them, at least.

  56. Posted February 28, 2007 at 6:01 am | Permalink

    The others were Photoshopped out, same as the tentacles.

    Do you know, I actually think I may have tracked down this gibbernaut.

    Holy shit, if that’s the case Gawker is getting seriously desperate about ramping up the hits and the heat in the commentisphere. Mohney? Oddjack-dude? I know it’s great for their hits, but wow. He’s not exactly a character out of Saki.

  57. Posted March 7, 2007 at 1:17 pm | Permalink

    No, I will not send you a comment to your bolg following your entirely injustifiable description of me as a dyslexic.

    Jules Dirles

    PS: I trust you have taken note of the fact that above comment is spelt perfectly, giving you no opportunity whatsoever to make cheap gags at my exponse.

  58. Posted March 7, 2007 at 6:32 pm | Permalink

    Sorry to say, I only abuse the abusive, Julio. Better luck next time.

  59. Posted March 7, 2007 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

    As you have “no opportunity whatsoever to make cheap gags at [his] expense”, will you please allow me to make cheap gags at his expense?

    Julio Dirles, or “Irles” (the spelling seems to be optional) is absolutely right, following your characterisation of him as dyslexic, not to comment on your “bolg”.

    But he might do well to run the above comment through a spell check or similar crude tool before pronouncing it “spelt perfectly”, no?

    And grammar check might pevent him from making “injustifiable” errors, though I would tend to be forgiving as English seems to be his second language.

  60. Posted March 8, 2007 at 5:59 am | Permalink

    Hook. Line. Sinker.

    You’re so predictable, Metro.

  61. Posted March 13, 2007 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

    Dear Blogger
    We read often and with interest your posts. It is important that people like you try and protect our animals. Sad to know that we lose so many rare species every day.
    But unfortunately I must report that with all your research you have missed one animal.
    This little critter from the Northern Territory, Australia is almost gone.
    Today we ask you for your support to save it; please read our article:
    http://www.darwinnewsblog.com/?page_id=95

  62. Posted March 14, 2007 at 1:30 am | Permalink

    Yeah. I know. I wrote it, published it, and felt the little tug in my lower lip. Then I said “screw this” and went off to play poker. With little more success.

  63. Posted March 14, 2007 at 2:46 am | Permalink

    Is there good eatin’ on a hairy-nosed wombat?

  64. Posted March 15, 2007 at 4:57 am | Permalink

    And you rule man, a great blog

  65. Posted March 15, 2007 at 6:59 am | Permalink

    Thanks, glad you enjoy it. More coming up daily, although I may train my faithful blog readers to lower their expectations on the weekends to one or two posts a day. Feeling lazy lately.

  66. Posted March 15, 2007 at 9:47 pm | Permalink

    Trust me. Anyone reading this blog has already lowered their expectations about as far as possible.

    And based on what I saw of the critter while I was there, there may be good eatin’ by a hairy-nosed wombat. I always thought they were gopher-sized, but they’re actually about the size of a pitbull and up. Only with massive great claws.

    As usual in Oz, said claws are mounted on a cute, cuddly-looking furry mammal.

    In fact it reminded me of you in other ways too …

  67. Posted March 15, 2007 at 10:16 pm | Permalink

    Why, do they reproduce by meiosis and fart musical butterflies, too? But that’s MY trademark!

  68. Posted March 20, 2007 at 10:56 pm | Permalink

    Hey, I saw your post on a forum somewhere about trying to put your pic permanent on your side bar, Its pretty easy, I can walk you through it if you would like, BTW nice looking blog, and great content, Im going to go back and take a look around, Bob

  69. Posted March 21, 2007 at 5:27 am | Permalink

    Thanks, but I got it. Dunno why I’d want MY pic up there; maybe it was the Evilness ranking I wanted up there.

  70. Posted April 20, 2007 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

    I enjoy looking around inside your blog. I put you in my blogroll. Hope you don’t mind.
    Cheers!

  71. Posted April 20, 2007 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! Mo links mo betta! I’ll take a look at yours as well. I appreciate your comments in the Bath Disaster thread.

    Update: I took a look around and u b blogrolled, yo.

  72. Posted April 20, 2007 at 5:46 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the hook-up.

  73. dubesor
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 9:40 am | Permalink

    hey, seen you around on wordpress.com forums (i’m “dubesor” on there) and now stumbled on your blog when looking for other vancouver bloggers online. nice site! i like your content like the story about pivot. blogrolled you :)

  74. Posted June 6, 2007 at 10:49 am | Permalink

    Howdy, and thanks for the blogroll. I’ll check out your blog (note: you’d make it easier on people if you linked your name to your blog; you can do that in your profile). See, I’m lazy: a true Vancouverite!

  75. Posted June 8, 2007 at 5:57 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    I like your blog and I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. I was just wondering how you get all of the little buttons at the bottom of your posts to del.icio.us, blinklist, digg, etc. Not the images of the buttons, but how you actually do that for each post. Do you just have to go through and manually insert each button or is there some sort of script that does it for you? I assume that you are still hosted here on wordpress.com at this point instead of hosting on your own?

    Thanks for your time,
    Chris

  76. Posted June 8, 2007 at 8:24 am | Permalink

    I’m hosted at WordPress.com, and there’s no script to input those buttons. I do it by hand, in Word or Notepad every time. If you click on the sidebar category: Professor Raincoaster’s Little Lectures you’ll find a couple of posts on social bookmarking that will give you what you need to get started. It’s not difficult, actually. The instructions are also in the forum if you search for Social Bookmarking, or “Add This” which is one button that lists many more services than I’ve got buttons for, and it works for all of them.

    There, now that I’ve told you the secret, can you go vote up my “My blog is covered with porn and so is yours” post at reddit and/or digg? :D

  77. Posted June 8, 2007 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! Consider it done.

  78. Posted July 21, 2007 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

    Oh Theda My Heart Be Still!

  79. Posted July 21, 2007 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

    Oh PS Hope you don’t mind, I got you a little something…
    http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/schmoozies/

  80. Posted July 21, 2007 at 9:14 pm | Permalink

    I don’t mind, but I totally suck at memes. I simply never pass them on and hardly ever respond to them, however flattering they may be, and I am flattered. You can ask envelope filter: he tagged me before Christmas for the eatery meme and is still waiting.

  81. Posted July 21, 2007 at 9:58 pm | Permalink

    Ehhh no worries, as long as you get the point- you’re admired. :)

  82. Posted July 21, 2007 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

    Thanks!

  83. Posted July 28, 2007 at 4:57 am | Permalink

    Heya Raincoaster! *wave*

    I thought I’d let you know that I’m having trouble viewing your blog unless I turn off Javascript. My browser (Firefox 2.0.0.5) just keeps reloading the page, without actually displaying it. Looking through the source of your front page, it seems that the problem may be the JS function to do with onload() stuff. If others have the same problem you might want to look into fixing or removing that bit.

    That’s all for now. Let’s go see what this blog is about..

  84. wordguru
    Posted July 28, 2007 at 7:02 am | Permalink

    How very weird. That’s a WordPress.com backend function that I have no control over. I’ll send an email to staff, thanks for the update.

  85. Posted July 31, 2007 at 5:08 am | Permalink

    Howdy from a fellow Defamer commenter and DTES neighbour (you can probably see me waving from Victory Square, beside the Woodwards’ pit!)… I bid you welcome to my blogroll.

  86. Posted July 31, 2007 at 5:13 am | Permalink

    Greetings, Defamerite. Y’all in the Dominion Building with Haddock and Co? Gorgeous place.

    Your name is totally familiar to me. Do you know somebody called Lorraine Murphy? That would be me. I’m 90% sure we’ve met somewhere. Vancouver’s a small town.

  87. Posted August 18, 2007 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

    I see that you write a lot about books. If you want to save money on any books including textbooks, visit http://www.valorebooks.com and use the coupon code: cheap100
    You can also sell books once you are done with them. They give you the cheapest books and the coupon will give you extra 5% discount.

  88. Posted August 22, 2007 at 8:13 am | Permalink

    And if you need a book to completely shatter your sanity, call on me. I’ve got something here that says it’s called the Necronomicon.

  89. Posted August 22, 2007 at 8:22 am | Permalink

    Ya, ya. Which edition? I don’t read those crappy Sumerian/English versions. It’s Wormius all the way, bay-bee!

    PS what the hell is that Chalmers expedition thing? Looks intriguing but there’s nothing to link it directly to Lovecraft.

  90. Posted August 22, 2007 at 2:27 pm | Permalink

    It’s a CoC campaign, from what I picked up - and it refers to Nyarlathotep, which is -

    a) a shape-shifting entity from the stars.
    b) an endearing little short story by HPL, which I’ve just recently milked, strangled, and wrangled in my diss, for all it’s worth in its 3-page-glory.

    The edition of the unnamable book is a re-print of the 197-something edition by George Hay, with contributory material by Dr Stanislaus Hinterstoisser (who, I think, is not a real person - at least, Google doesn’t deliver any hits on him outside the George Hay-Necronomicon-context). I sometimes whisper some of the incantations when I’m queuing somewhere, but to no effect so far - “Mr. Cashier, may I introduce a friend? One of his tentacles holds a wallet, another one - damnation, and yet another one - a culinary experience for…with you!” - never works, though. I’ve even tried taking the thing to church once, & hoped to see some immediate results, some interaction between Judaeo-Christian and Lovecraftian theology, but no, nothing happened.

  91. Posted August 23, 2007 at 8:48 am | Permalink

    You need to have a seance and call up Derleth. He was the only guy who could mash those two up and make it work.

  92. Posted October 30, 2007 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    hi, great blog… I’m curious how you managed to show the post count in your Tags list… have never seen that on a wp.com blog… I like the way you sidebar looks…

  93. Posted November 5, 2007 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

    very interesting, very entertaining. gives me hope.

  94. Posted November 6, 2007 at 9:21 pm | Permalink

    walkingbetween, I didn’t design that. In fact, I want to tweak it a little and then when it’s just the way I want I’ll make the CSS available. Devblog at Coderlabs designed the CSS for me.

    Jolie, Glad you like it. There’s a lot to see; hit the raincoaster randomizer to get a random post from the past.

  95. Posted November 20, 2007 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

    Hey there, just wanted to say that for some reason I thought you were a boy up to now. I only realized you were a girl when you mentioned that thing about being sold to a Saudi prince! I guess in my world, boys are not sold to Saudi princes. And girls are not named “raincoaster.” I’m not sure if that means I have entrenched sexist tendencies or what.

  96. Posted November 20, 2007 at 10:45 pm | Permalink

    I myself thought rain was pretty genderless, but your experience is virtually universal. EVERYBODY thinks I’m a dude for the longest time; you’d think they’d have noticed my magnificent tits!

  97. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

    What is media domination project all about?

  98. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

    What is media domination project all about?

  99. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

    Operation Global Media Domination is simply my famequest. So far I’ve broken online and print journalism and television. Radio is next on the hit list. Soon all global media shall be nothing more than the tool of raincoaster, mwahahahahahahaha!

  100. Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    That would be so good, I guess you can give a little space to Kashmir :) then! But, why should I donate for your famequest?

  101. Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

    Because I am so charming, and I have marvelous tits!

  102. Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

    How does that help me!? And you did not reply to my first question!

  103. Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:36 pm | Permalink

    You only asked one question. How does it help you? I have no idea, but experiment is always the best way to find out. Donate and see what happens!

  104. Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:52 pm | Permalink

    Oh, It should have been a ? instead of !
    btw, don’t mind, was just kidding! Will donate when I earn.

  105. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:02 pm | Permalink

    This is an admirable approach.

  106. kanadianbakin
    Posted March 30, 2008 at 7:33 am | Permalink

    What’s this BS.
    You should be rated as one of the top Canadian Blogs or am I missing something. You’re not even in the top ten.I’m looking at 2007 blog awards.Sorry to be a pain, but right is might.
    BAKIN

  107. Posted April 18, 2008 at 3:39 am | Permalink

    I just want you to know I have included you in the list of top women bloggers - http://baikong.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/series-2-another-top-women-bloggers-invasion-of-the-interactive-communications/

  108. Posted April 18, 2008 at 9:53 am | Permalink

    Thanks! I’m honoured!

  109. Posted April 18, 2008 at 9:58 am | Permalink

    Bakin: last year I cared about blog awards. This year, although nominated for a few, I’ve done nothing to pursue them. I won a couple last year, and the big prize was…a free ticket to an awards dinner where I’d have to pay for my own food. Fughedaboudid.

  110. corphacks
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:53 pm | Permalink

    How’s it goin? I’m not sure if you remember me, you had commented on one of my tutorials a while back, for corphacks.com just wanted to let you know me and my friend are starting up a funny blog based on Man Law. If you or anyone you know might be interested here’s the link http://themanlaw.wordpress.com/

  111. Posted April 25, 2008 at 9:11 pm | Permalink

    Man Law? There are special laws for men???? Oh, this just confirms what I’ve always suspected!

  112. Posted April 30, 2008 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

    Hi… for whatever it’s worth my post about the links feature is up. It was for the best that I waited until this morning to finish it, the first draft was just variations on the words “fuck”, “this” and “shit”.

  113. Posted May 1, 2008 at 5:48 am | Permalink

    Thanks, I’ll take a look but it’ll have to wait till tomorrow, I think. I’m emailing back and forth with Matt and I do not know whether or not he understands what I’m saying about this. I do know that the “closing of the threads” phase has begun; this could simmer down, or it could escalate to the “inactive status” suspension. From there, the “temporarily locked out of blog” and the “identity locked” phases are the traditional path. We shall see which way it goes.

  114. Posted May 1, 2008 at 6:28 am | Permalink

    If I can offer some advice, the issue of communication between WordPress and us content providers is probably the centrepiece right now. I think it comes down to:

    If we had been told in advance what was happening, we could’ve had the time to make our really personal posts totally ‘Private’ so they wouldn’t be picked up by Sphere. We were told we could opt out, but we weren’t told it could take days for our blogs to be removed from the system, so again we weren’t given the opportunity to make our private work private.

    Don’t blow up too hard at Matt, and don’t bang your head against this wall for too long. There’s no point in getting yourself banned from anywhere. It’s a state of mind, a way of doing business that’s been around for a long time. I really believe that we, as content providers, have been extraordinarily naive when it comes to our part in this process.

  115. Posted May 1, 2008 at 7:08 am | Permalink

    Profound thoughts, and I appreciate them. I don’t think anyone at Automattic is an ogre, but I do think there’s self-interest at play here on both sides, and that those two things will only align in the absence of ethics in this particular case. I’ll elaborate on that some day when I haven’t had five glasses of wine. Or perhaps some day when I have had ten. Saturday night is looking good, it’s Derby Day and I’ve got my hat, just need my bourbon.

    Matt and I are emailing and I would far rather have the discussion in public. After all, it’s a community trying to work things out, it’s not just “keep raincoaster happy and for god’s sake, was that video supposed to be about US?” Doing things behind the curtain like that, while the default communication mode at WP.com, isn’t helpful. What you have is an open-source product with a top-down management, at least from the blogger’s point of view. Naturally, this pre-selects for conflict.

    I’ve seen it SO. Many. Times.

    God, I’m old.

  116. Posted May 1, 2008 at 10:23 am | Permalink

    Hi Raincoaster,

    Just a quick ‘thank you’ for being one of those magical people who always try to help.

    I really appreciate your help through the forums!

    Jim Connolly
    theideasblog.com

  117. Posted May 1, 2008 at 11:15 am | Permalink

    Thanks, Jim. Best of luck with your blog, and I hope when your stats come back they’re impressive!

  118. Posted July 10, 2008 at 6:35 am | Permalink

    Hmm … nice personality
    wrapped up beautifully
    in a perfect entity — anarchy

  119. Posted August 28, 2008 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

    Hi there! Do you accept advertisers? I’m interested in your site. Please email me to discuss further.

    Thanks!

    Cassie

  120. Posted August 28, 2008 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

    No.

  121. Posted August 31, 2008 at 9:29 am | Permalink

    Wow, there’s a lot to take in here on your blog! It looks worthwhile to me. I must explore it more…

  122. Posted August 31, 2008 at 9:58 am | Permalink

    Thanks, happy hunting! I’ll probably steal that Simon Says post of yours… have a huge crush on Simon Cowell. What can I say? I love the arrogant ones: Steve Jobs, Simon Cowell, and anyone played by Jeremy Piven.

  123. Posted August 31, 2008 at 10:06 am | Permalink

    Hey, no one’s ever mentioned stealing one of my blog posts before, lol. Hmm, maybe I’ll steal one of your posts ;-) We’ll call it an even trade: Barter blogging!

  124. Posted August 31, 2008 at 10:20 am | Permalink

    Sure thing! Just make with the linkie luv and you can have anything you want!

    (that line is surprisingly unsuccessful at bars)

  125. Posted August 31, 2008 at 10:38 am | Permalink

    Linkie luv, eh? I haven’t mastered that on my blog :-( I have to figure it out. I wouldn’t really steal unless I know how to properly do it (properly link, that is — not steal ;-) As for you, my friend, you are both funny and smart…

  126. Posted August 31, 2008 at 9:14 pm | Permalink

    Thanks. Alas, being both funny and smart are also shockingly unsuccessful at bars unless you REALLY work the “kinky librarian” look.

  127. Posted September 1, 2008 at 1:59 am | Permalink

    In lieu of writing on my own blog, I’m now reading your blog, you sabotaged me, wtf! Well, there’s only like 5 people that have looked at my stuff. You are now in the company of this elite crowd. I enjoy your work and comment, you can invest in my Baby Rental/Daycare business as a venture capitalist by directly depositing your life savings into my Swiss bank account, by the way this will automatically qualify you as a member of my cult as an added bonus.
    andre

  128. Posted September 1, 2008 at 5:22 am | Permalink

    Sounds fantastic! Let the enriching begin!

  129. Posted November 21, 2008 at 11:30 am | Permalink

    Hello rain. I’ve seen much from you over the forums, and broke down and had to throw a comment your way. Quite a comfortable-looking and experienced blog here I must say. I’m still pretty young to WordPress, but not young to blogging.

    Stop by anytime.

  130. Posted November 21, 2008 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the welcome! I’ll check your site out once I have a minute. Things are pretty pressed for time around here lately.

  131. thenakedlistener
    Posted December 2, 2008 at 11:40 pm | Permalink

    Many thanks for adding The Naked Listener’s Weblog to your blogroll. I have enjoyed your blog and have added it to my blogroll. Cheers from Hong Kong, Robert.

  132. Posted December 4, 2008 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

    Hi, I ll have to learn a lot from you on ‘how to blog’. Thanks

    Freddie

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