Heavy Metal Sunday wants more cake

Way too many birthdays this weekend. Today, for example, we have the amazing chaoswolf celebrating her 23rd! Hippo Birdies, kiddo!

So we here at HMS Command have been partying all weekend. Which requires party music, right?

Def Leppard is known mostly as a pop/rock band. What a lot of people forget is their roots are solidly in the NWOBHM movement of the late 70s and early eighties. Today, we proudly present Pour Some Sugar On Me. This video was the first one made after drummer Rick Allen's car crash in which he lost his left arm. Watching him play his custom kit (most of the work done by his left arm in the past he now does with his feet) is fun.

But wait, this party ain't over yet! Metal is not known for subtlety, but this video? It doesn't even try.

All Powered up.

As I've mentioned in the past, sometimes books just don't work for me. It's not that I don't like them, I just read a few chapters and it fails to engage me at any level. Most times, I can put it aside and come back to it later.

That was the case with Tim Powers' Expiration Date, the follow-on to Last Call (which I loved and read in practically one sitting.) I tried to read it, never got past the first two chapters, and put it aside. Well, after meeting Mr. Powers at Baycon, I resolved to try again, and as motivation, ordered Earthquake Weather, the final book in the series.

This time, the books clicked. I found Expiration Date to be very interesting, but Earthquake Weather? This book rocked. For many reasons.

( Minor spoilers for Earthquake Weather )

Next up... I'm not sure. I have several books to choose from. What Happened by Scott McClellan, River of Gods by Ian McDonald, The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton, or Building Harlequin's Moon by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper.

I'm sure there are others wandering around my reading area, waiting to leap out and nibble my ankles.

Choices, choices, choices...

A meme before the Giants game

ganked from claidheamhmor

( I'm Douglas Berry, and I approve this meme. )