Absinthe & Flamethrowers

How cool is a book that gives you detailed instructions on how to make gunpowder?  Pretty damned cool. Turns out there is more to making black powder-as author William Gurstelle prefers to call his gun powder-than Captain Kirk made it look when was kicking Gorn ass with a bamboo cannon. For one thing, you need pure ingredients. William advices that you make you own charcoal, since the stuff you use in a barbeque is full of all kinds of impurities. He recommends buying the sulfur and saltpeter. Once you have made the black powder you can go on to make…

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Paul-An Alien Road Picture

A man in black shoots a radio and says-It was a boring conversation anyway.  Just one of the many inside sci fi, super nerd jokes in the silly sci-fi flick Paul.  Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who everyone seems to think are gay, find themselves in nerd heaven-Comicon in San Diego.  As a nice follow up they decide to hit all the famous UFO sites in the western USA.  They visit the the Little A’Le’Inn and The Black Mailbox and Vasquez Rocks where the reenact the battle between Captain Kirk and The Gorn. While at the Black Mailbox they see…

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