Some Serious Badassery

Over the past few weeks I've been discovering High on Fire. Good fucking god, what a genius body of heavy metal. Its as if they've taken the hardest, most seriously bad ass parts of the hard rock and metal cannons, cut away any of the frivolous shit associated with any of those elements, and distilled it into a nearly perfect heavy metal band.

I cannot fucking believe it's taken me this long to catch on to these guys. Wow.

Check out this live clip of to "Cross the Bridge," live in San Francisco, 2005.

Or

Their video for "Rumors of War."

Bill Maher "outs" Tom Brokaw

Is it just me, or did Bill Maher just tell Tom Brokaw that he dresses like a elderly gay man?

Showtime's "The Tudors" Inspires History Jones: Thoughts, observastions, and things i oughtta study up on about 16th Century England

What were the immediately preceding tensions between France and England?

What were the prevailing art and music trends at the court of Henry VIII?

How quickly does the Catholic Church fall into chaos?

How does protestantism gain hold in England?

What are the subsequent steps that occur in order for the new order be spread and consolidated?

Yes, 'tis baked...A yummy sandwich to enjoy.

Ingredients

• Four forkfuls of good, crunchy saurkraut
• One spoonful of horseradish
• Three spoonfuls of dijon mustard
• Chopped chunks of leftover chicken, turkey, or ham
• English Muffin, Bagel, or some other yummy bread item
• Good hunka cheese - either American, Cheddar, or Swiss

Steps

• Mix all ingredients in bowl
• Place equal scoops of the mixture on opposite halves of the bread
• Top each half with generous portion of american, swiss, or cheddar cheese.
• Bake in a toaster oven or under a broiler for 3-4 minutes .

Dude, don't zone out while the heat is on your sandwich...

Remove from heat and enjoy.

like a spike-adorned pendulum between dark blasts of light-speed death metal...

As someone who appreciates excellent writing, not to mention someone who loves me some death metal, I was truly impressed by a two-and-a-half-year-old review I recently read in Decibel. Check out this sentence by Kevin Stewart-Panko in a review of The Red Chord's "Clients" album:

Clients swings like a spike-adorned pendulum between dark blasts of light-speed death metal (artificial harmonics included!) to infectious and effective basic power chord progressions and back to violent expressions of technicality all played with the fervor of a starving pit bull gnashing on the flesh of a mail carrier, and the screams of your postie are what vocalist Guy Kozowyk appears to be interpreting with his dexterous vocal battering.

By the way, I have this album, and his description couldn't be any more right on.