I’m watching the tube for a bit. My DirecTV HD is being piped into my television through satellite. The screen blips for a few seconds as the signal goes awry, and the screen is briefly pixellated.
Then it dawned on me — we’ve all gone digital.
Yeah, I know it’s been that way since June 12th.
What dawned [...]
If you don’t know who Andrew Zimmern is, he’s the guy on the Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods. This man eats anything that can possibly be served, so the idea of eating spiders is probably like a mid-morning snack for Andrew.
Emily Skye is my four year old daughter.
Now, honestly, Mr. Zimmern has nothing to [...]
Perhaps you could join the Sourtoe Cocktail Club
The rules for joining the Sourtoe Cocktail Club are simple. Go to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon. While there consume any drink that has floating in it a severed human toe that has been dehydrated and preserved in salt. The bar conveniently keeps a supply of [...]
OK, you just gotta see this:
Uncle Jay Explains The News
So funny. So true.
Peace.
I want to believe…
The Sun (UK): UFO hits wind turbine
(whistle X-files theme now)
I marched baritone with Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps in 1990. This was an experience unlike anything I have done before or since. It was a brotherhood (and sisterhood) on levels I haven’t enjoyed since.
The corps has since left the field and morphed into Brass Theatre, Blast!, CyberJam, Mix, Star United, and various [...]
… and I’m thinking that’s a bad situation for all of us.
http://zod2008.com/
I can recall my mother telling me this when she turned 40 (over 28 years ago, by the way… I was 12). I teased her a bit about her age, and she looked at me with a grin and preceeded her bit of wisdom with “You know what they say…”
And then she stared at me [...]
Just fascinating.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/06/24/albania_sworn_virgins.html
Wow. Neat.
And here we go:
The Presidential Election
This has gotten wicked weird. I have no idea who will be president, but oddly enough a Republican wins (this isn’t me being wishful as much as a calculated prediction). Americans will be accused of being either racist/sexist, depending. “Americans are just not ready for a black/woman [...]