Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

I don’t remember the last time I had one, but it had been a while (2-4 months?). I was doing a very unscientific experiment to see if there was any link between my migraines and the intake of aspartame. I was completely off of the “NutraSweet” for some time. The only diet drinks I could have were Nestea Zero, and Diet Crush grape, orange and cream soda (my fave). But I finally had another migraine this month, so apparently denying myself aspartame is not the solution. Welcome back to my belly, Coke Zero and diet root beer!

Don’t you hate it when cool publishers lose thousands and thousands of dollars because their distributors go belly up? It happened to Green Ronin (publisher of our Spaceship Zero game book), and now it’s happened to McSweeney’s. The latter is having a big sale, and they have lots of excellent products, including these two squid shirts:

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get it [here]

Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine featuring short films, documen- taries, animation, and instructional videos that have not, for whatever reason, found wide release. Recent issues of Wholphin have included films by Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Miranda July, Miguel Arteta, Errol Morris, and Steven Soderbergh, and per- formances from John C. Reilly, Selma Blair, Patton Oswalt, Andy Richter, a monkey-faced eel, and many others.