Under a Gibbous Moon

That is clearly what we have here. They are out there putting their lives on the line to keep the streets safe from the likes of me.

“What now?” You may ask yourself. I got stopped again last night/this morning. This is number 86. “What did you do?” would probably be the next question. I would call you a jackass for assuming I did anything.

Officer Pollitt stopped me and ticketed me for $120 for my front license plate not being mounted on my front bumper. It’s not missing. It’s just not on the bumper

I have a picture of it, but everytime I try to upload it, I am getting an IO error.

It’s mounted on the front dash held flat against the windshield and plainly visible from the front. I believed these were all the requirements needed.

Well after climbing the chain of command a bit the next morning, apparently I hurt his feelings because he got the impression that I was being bothered by his traffic stop. Pure silliness! Who the hell doesn’t want to spend 20 minutes at the side of the road because their license plate might be off-center. Apparently not yelling or shouting or arguing the point with him was not enough. Now I have to be happy to be there.

At any rate, he was incorrect and the license plate does not have to be attached to the bumper but has to be clearly visible and obstruction free. What ground are they standing on now so that they aren’t wrong? Illinois apparently outlawed license plate covers last year and now my windshield is one big-ass license plate cover. So now it’s $120 for a license plate cover. On the front. The one that doesn’t have a registration sticker and right now there is legislation passing to do away with front license plates. You’re all fucking saved now.

I’ve been meaning to do this one for a while but I haven’t gotten around to it because it involved a trip to the Outland and I hate the Outland.

The Burning Crusade is the first expansion for World of Warcraft and was released back in 2007, several years before the train wreck of a movie, Avatar, was released (yes, it had special effects but they were just lipstick on a bloated three hour pig of a movie).

After having seen the movie and playing through the Outland, I have noticed some interesting similarities.

Remember the otherwordly blue jungle of Pandora?

In World of Warcraft, it’s called Zangarmarsh.

And the climatic battle among the floating rocks?

It’s a lot like Nagrand.

And finally, the blue cat people with tentacle hair? (By the way, a google image search comes up with way too much cat people porn, shame on you.)

Meet the Draenei, blue goat people with tentacle hair.

Neat, huh?

Filed in the category of bad ideas.

It’s not as apparent from the picture because of the flash but the stream is quite yellow.

From least to most dangerous.

And from his eons slumber, Cthulhu rises from the depths of R’lyeh.

Roll a SAN check.