It came and it went and I totally missed it.
Without fanfare of any sort, Station in the Metro turned ten a little over a month ago. Well, actually, it’s a tiny bit older than that, but that’s the date of the first column I wrote on what I then thought would be a weekly […]
Yes, the design has changed once again. But more importantly, so has the entire back end, the hosting, and the RSS feed.
Bear with me for a few more days as we make the transition (there will be some broken links and some weird formatting — feel free to alert me), but if you’re used to reading Station in the Metro through your feed reader, you’ll need to update the feed.
As Uli Kusterer was musing aloud on Twitter about how the slime in Ghostbusters II was made, I decided to pull out the ol’ Cinefex collection and look it up. This slime recipe is quoted from issue 40 of Cinefex:
In celebration of finally getting a new working iPhone, and the return of a working external speaker through which to hear ringtones, I though I would share my iPhone ringtone: the Flintphone. This is the ringtone for Derek Flint’s direct line to the President in the 1966 movie Our Man Flint, which was a parody of the James Bond movies of the day. More importantly, the ringtone would also be later used as the sound of the electronic handcuffs in Hudson Hawk. Enjoy!
(This ringtone is provided only as a fan service, and I receive no money whatsoever for its distribution. The sound itself was found anonymously on the internet, but I suspect it is ©1966 20th Century Fox.)
Sunset, 5 Dec 2008, originally uploaded by bobtiki.
The sunset across the street from my house today caught my eye. One small element of beauty in an otherwise depressing day.
I never thought
That you would be so fragile
Your skin, your face,
Unscratchable, they said
I put you to the test.
You survived.
For a while.
Marks appeared.
A few careless drops to the concrete
broke your jaw
Your vibrator
rattling loose inside your chest
I thought I could fix you
But I just […]
The Feeder of Birds, originally uploaded by bobtiki.
Clawed by the more aggressive squirrels at our new house, the bird feeder still stands watch.
