it comes in pints?

Happy Halloween

Go and enjoy this nice costume party. Good thing we've got all this candy laying around. I really need to fatten up for those vicious Southern California winters you always read about.

That 70s Show

Ken's old college buddy Julie, in a gesture of cruelty that can only transpire from the truest of friendships, e-mailed me some old pictures of Mr. Summers from their days as co-eds. Posted below the fold for discretion and fear of being raided by the fashion police.

Ken's second from the top right, the fellow who appears to be looking for love in all the wrong places:

In this one, he's the guy who looks like David Koresh, third from the top right. Julie's on the far right, in the blue dress, just below fro-boy in the red shirt:

Second from the top right again:

I'm so glad I can blame dressing bad in the seventies on my parents.

Special thanks to Julie for sending these along.

Hooray!

I don't know how widespread it is or how long it's going to last, but it's raining in L.A.! Goodness gracious, if we ever needed a downpour, it's now (actually, we needed it more last week, but I'll take what I can get). Keep your fingers crossed, say your prayers, or just hope for more.

Outta here

Well, I will be shortly. Unlike original plans, I will check back in probably on Monday. No trivia questions this weekend or next (unless I happen to have some spare time on Monday). May check back before I drive off into the wild blue yonder but if not, have a good week.

And my heart goes out to my lovely and dear friend Julie. I love you, doll, and I'm so terribly sorry about those pictures your family lost. It's not much, but it's all I can offer: all the best, sweetie.

The Friday Fuck Off Thread

Fire can fuck off. I know it's nothing in comparison to people that have lost their homes and precious belongings (our hearts are especially with Julie and her family, who lost all of their photos - take her advice and get your own put on CDs or something easily transportable ASAP), but for the last three days, I've had a headache, my eyes have been burning, I've got the remnants of somebody's fucking couch floating in my air sacs, and I woke up yesterday with a bloody nose.

Again, that's all a cake walk compared to what some people have suffered, but something's got to give here or I'll lose my fucking mind.

And arsonists? Oh, there isn't enough space on the internet to issue the size of FUCK OFF that you deserve.

Please, fuck off away and make 'em good this week. I need it.

ADDED: I also want to give a shout out to people like Ken's little bro, who are busting their asses, defying human endurance, and making enormous sacrifices to get these goddamm things put down. "Thanks" just feels like too little. I wish I could do more to show my appreciation.

Country/Western Trivia (I like beer Edition)

Well, not so much a trivia post as an "I like beer" post.

Okay, so as far as work is concerned I'm officially on vacation as of about 7:15 this evening, roughly 14 hours after I arrived at said work. As far as home is concerned, probably not until Friday evening. That sucks like a bilge pump blows like a Santa Ana.

See, much like my little bro, I was intending to head up country in advance of deer season. Specifically tonight, that I might meet up with a far distant cousin at the ranch tomorrow. Said far distant cousin was heading back up country from the SoCal today and I was hoping to be able to give her and her hubby a tour of the ranch and environs tomorrow.

HOWever. I had some car issues this past weekend. A few things wrong with my chariot that currently only has 170,000 miles on it.

One thing is some smog-thingee sensor. No big deal. Can be fixed in no time.

Another is some axle thing. Big deal, but can be fixed in no time.

Third thing is a brake thing. Big deal, but could be fixed in no time except for the fact that the part required was in New Jersey and could not be in Kalifornia until Saturday.

That sux.

So I missed said rendezvous with said far distant cousin and we hope to reschedule a potential rendezvous for some time near Christmas when she and hubby will once again trek south to visit her FIL.

Meantime, I was fairly resigned to missing at least the first day of deer season but when I learned that the little bro may not make it for Saturday, I realized I should be there. It's not quite right that visitors of the friends and family type should not have hosts out at the ranch when they get there. So the upshot is that I will probably be taking the Sainted Bride's car up for the weekend while mine is in the shop, thence to return Sunday night and retrieve my own righteous Lesbomobile sometime Monday for the return trip north. Meantime, leaving the SB with no means of transport. Well, not quite true: Daughter Number Two is coming down for the weekend to pal around and spend some quality time (and transportation) with her mama. Somebody raised that girl right, I tells ya.

Anyway, this is a longwinded way to post some C/W lyrics, lyrics that mean a lot to me at the moment. Because I'm on "vacation" and all (despite the rather long "honey do" list that I will be working on for the next two days rather than being up country on "vacation"). I think it's Tom T. Hall, not one of my favorite country singers, but this one works for me right now after a beer or five:

I like beer It makes me a jolly good fellow I like beer It helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow

Whiskey's too rough, champagne costs too much
Vodka puts my mouth in gear
This little refrain should help me explain
As a matter of fact, I like beer

And no promises, but I'll see if I can come up with some kind of trivia type thing by the time I leave for those who worry about such things.

Amusement

Couldn't let this go by. Just got a comment spam here that had to be shared. Emily also got one on this post that, amazingly, seems almost to be on topic. I will leave it to her discretion whether to delete or, er, alter as she sees fit.

In any case, I have deleted said comment, but please do read the post in question, then come back here and read the comment that was left:

The new generations starts from 16 to 30 and so I am not sure at your comments and the language you use openly. No. Not that I mind as I have sons who are under thirty and use the same ling. It is just that the music you found was good and tasty to your eras. We find the language fowl, but do not use this in writing. Elvis, Sir. Cliff Richard, Beatles were then the pioneers in 60 in the rolling the music that you listen now. It will not die. I hear re-mixes but the originality is in them the oldies.

[Information redacted because, well, even though the fellow hails from somewhere in the boonies of Africa, I don't want to overly embarrass him overmuch]

Good to know that my music was "good and tasty".

The World Series

The Rockies or the Red Sox? And I don't mean who do you think will win, but who you want to win.

As for me, as far as I'm concerend, both teams might as well be called "Not The Angels." I'll still watch and enjoy the games, but I don't really favor one team or the other.

(And if you don't care about baseball, don't hop to the comments to tell everyone how much you don't care. Just do what normal people who are indifferent to something do - ignore it.)

And so it starts

Oh, for chrissake. Apparently, lefties are now trying to blame the fires on Bush.

California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer complained on Capitol Hill Tuesday that the ability of the state's National Guard to respond to disasters like the fires has been compromised because too much of its equipment and personnel are committed in Iraq.

GARAMENDI: Of course it's public relations. ... okay, President Bush comes out, we'll be polite. But frankly, that's not the solution. How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq? So that we have those people available here to help us?

[...]

MATTHEWS: Do you think the president's arrival will distract from the efforts to fight the fire?

GARAMENDI: Absolutely. No doubt about it.

Rep. Pete "Fortney" Stark said "These houses are being burned up for the President's amusement."

Apparently, though, the Kos Kids are doing some major riffing on the Bush thing, but I won't even go there. Follow the links above for more, I'm out of time on this one.

Oh, except for noting that it's also getting blamed on global warming.

UPDATE: No cannibalism reported yet.

Well that blows like the damned Santa Anas

I was afraid of that.

My little bro the firefighter, who was on shift Saturday and Sunday and was supposed to start vacation yesterday and head up country to the ranch today, never got off shift. Right now he's on one of the fires. Don't know which one, possible Ontario or Arrowhead.

Deer season starts Saturday. I hope to hell he's off shift by then.

UPDATE: Well, I finally got a call back from him this evening. He's taking a break, sitting on the porch of a large house in Running Springs, waiting for the fire to head toward them. More than half his department is either actually deployed on the fires (outside his department's area, BTW) or on active duty.

He had less than four hours sleep since yesterday morning, hasn't had a meal since last night except a sack lunch today ("I'm getting kind of tired of fig newtons and granola bars"). His crew already had the fire "crown" over them while trying to keep it from jumping Highway 330.

And the week they normally have as a maximum deployment time? The clock started ticking Monday morning at current deployment, not during the weekend shift he already worked. That blows like a Santa Ana

California Fires

I hope everyone's okay (I don't want to speak for Ken, but I'm pretty sure he hopes the same) and that none of our friends here are being threatened by the fires in Southern California. I'm not all that close to the danger areas, but I can still see ash trickling down outside and if I stay outdoors for too long, my eyes and throat start burning.

Be safe, everyone. And when they tell you to get the hell out, listen.

Apologies to anyone who cares

No C/W trivia this week. I wanted to take something new and interesting on my ride today but I ultimately decided to take along the Goddess Patsy Cline. And since I've already done an edition in her honor, I got nuthin'.

But there's still lots of good old Loggins and Messina just waiting to be answered. So have at it, kids.

Rock 'n' Roll Trivia (Loggins and Messina edition edition)

Okay, this is a bit of a cop out but I'm tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk work week, and I'm using up the tiny little bit of free time I have trying to copy my home movie DVDs for family. I've successfully copied them as is, though I would like to be able to rearrange one of them into something resembling a coherent order. Thanks again to the folks who gave me pointers to Ulead. I think I'll try it soon but time's running short before I meet up with family so I'm going to just give it to them as is and make it better after deer season.

Meantime, I took Merle with me again on my ride so not too much new on the trivia front. Hence, ergo, and therefore, I will fall back on one of my favorite groups from high school. I love these guys. I know that Kenny Loggins went on to do some material after they parted ways, though "Footloose" is really the only song he did afterward that I liked much. Anybody know what Jimmy Messina did after? I totally lost track of him. Perhaps he retired. No idea.

Anyway, here's an even dozen questions about my homies L&M:

1) You're just about to move in and you're thinking it's a breeze. But what happens and why? [Christina: There's a light in your eye and then a guy says "Out of the car, long hair!" And it's all because your Mama don't dance and your Daddy don't rock and roll]

2) I've got backstage passes to the big show in town. What do I love? [Julie: I love my music]

3) We ain't got money, but everything will bring what? [Christina: Everything will bring a chain of love]

4) So help me if you can, I've got to get back to where? [Christina: Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one]

5) What a shot you could be, if what? [Christina: If you could shoot at me with those angry eyes. And I bet you wish you could cut me down with them]

6) I want to get away and live my life where? [Julie: In the rivers and trees]

7) Whenever you're near me, what do you have me doing? [Julie: Thinking of you]

8) It goes further and further from things that we've done. What are we doing? [Julie: Watching the river run]

9) If there's summer thunder on moon-bright days, what do I want to sing? [Julie: I want to sing you a love song]

10) Every day seems a little brighter and every load feels a little lighter. Why? [Julie: Because I'm coming to you]

11) It's a big, big world and you're a big, big girl. But all you've got to do is phone if you ever get what? [Julie: The travelin' blues]

12) I was sitting at a table in an open café waiting for a drink of rum. When I asked my waiter for the time of day, what did he say? [Julie: He said, "Look out, there's a centipede coming your way"]

Wha f**k

I took off from work early today to try to finish the DVDs I picked up yesterday. The title of this post comes from some of the jars to my old synapses.

Oh. My. Gawd.

Too cool.

People I haven't thought of in years. Some I obviously know then but can't now remember their names. Others it took me a few moments to recognize. Gawd. This is too cool.

It's also a bit sad because many of these people are no longer around. And I really, really, REALLY wish I had pushed this "convert to DVD" thing while my Mom was still around.

And one image that will amuse people, because it seems so incongruous, but which I remember more than once:

Snow falling on a palm tree.

Wow

Just wow.

The Friday Fuck Off Thread

Jury duty. Ugh.

That's all I've got time for. Take it away.

Stark Raving Mad

Our old pal Pete "Fortney" Stark is once again shooting his mouth off.

Gawd, what a tool. The people of Fremont should be ashamed.

I want my MTV DVD!

I've been waiting more than two weeks for that second home movie DVD to come in.

And now it's in! Picking it up tomorrow.

Can't wait. I'm like a little kid.

Like I was in those movies.

Ghoul

It's Celebrity Death Week at Joel's Place!

And it's only Wednesday Third Monday.

Minor bleg

Anybody have a recommendation for some decent DVD burning software? My needs are neither expansive nor elaborate, but I want the capability to chop up and rearrange movies and burn them to DVD, preferably with chapters and menu. Also to export clips that I can upload. I'm trying to put all of the home movies I have on disc into some kind of sensible organization so I can burn copies for family.

I tried the Nero v.7 demo that came with the DVD burner. It seems to do what I want but it's very cumbersome and not user-friendly. Also, I think it may no longer be available after the recent release of v.8, whose system requirements look like they may overwhelm my three-year-old computer (and I don't want to replace the computer until the kid$ are out of college). And v.8 has a whole lot of bells and whistles I don't care about but that will probably take up valuable disk space and memory.

Yesterday, I picked up Fireman 3.0, based on recommendations I found on the Innernets (and the low, low price). It looks like it will be good and fast for the actual burning but as far as I can tell, it doesn't allow for ripping and rearranging clips and won't export clips. At least, I can't find any way to do it and there doesn't seem to be anything in the manual about it. It's supposed to be able to do chaptering and such too, but I haven't figured that part out yet.

So anybody have any recommendations?

Another pogostick moment

You know, it's a wonder that The Onion can remain in business when the mainstream press keeps digging up and buggering the corpse of satire. Via Hoodlumman comes this amazing example of digging deeply enough into a good news story to find bad news:

As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch

By Jay Price and Qasim Zein, McClatchy Newspapers
Tue Oct 16, 2:40 PM ET

NAJAF, Iraq — At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.

A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq.

On the upside, it gives me another chance to resurrect this picture:

And now, I'm going to go throw up...

Andrea wants one

Your math lesson for today:

Via Andrea, who wants one.

Testing 1-2-3

And 1-2-3 seconds is about how long this clip is. Hey, I'm still learning to do this here modern teknolojee stuff.

Here is my Dad, in a rodeo parade in Halfway about 1956 or 1957.

What hath Congress wrought?

Okay, now this is funny. Via KSFO.

Damn

Damn. Damn. Damn.

Thoughts and prayers from this motley crew, Chris.

Country/Western Trivia (Buck Owens Edition)

Grrr. So I'm trying to install a DVD burner on the old computer. Things are not going well. I seem to be able to have either the DVD burner or the CD burner working, but not both. Grrr. I'm at my wit's end on this issue. I want the DVD burner active because I'm expecting Costco to call soon with my new DVD of family home movies. I'm looking to integrate that one with the one I got before, of which I've already made copies. I can use the DVD writer to copy them, but I want the capability to do more – menus, chapters, and such, which I can't seem to do with the writers themselves – but I'm getting horribly frustrated.

So anyway, being horribly frustrated by this candy-ass nonsense, I took Merle on my weekly ride just to cheer myself up. Of course, since I've already done Merle, I can't very well do it again, but Merle's from Bakersfield and that gave my the idea of making a quiz from another Bakersfield fella, Buck Owens.

Now as some of you may know, The Buckster is linked inextricably with the Royster. And with Bakersfield. And so the circle is complete.

I know it's weak but I've had a bad day. Work with me here.

ANYhoo, today's quiz is on Buck Owens. But being so frustrated and short on time, it will likely be a short one:

1) I'm losing weight and turning mighty pale, and there won't be much when you get through with me. What have I got? [Lisa: I've got a tiger by the tail]

2) They're gonna make a big star out of me. What do I have to do? [Angie: All I have to do is act naturally]

3) When you're blue and all alone, when their glamour starts to bore you, what should you do?

4) She used to carry my books to school and help me with my homework because I was a fool. Who was a good old girl? [JohnW: Sally was a good old girl]

5) You're gonna leave, I can see that faraway look in your eyes. What time is it? [Angie: It's cryin' time again]

6) The sun's gonna shine, in my life once more and things are gonna be the way they, were before. What's gonna live here? [Mike: Love's gonna live here again]

Rock 'n' Roll Trivia (Bland, inoffensive pop songs [II] edition)

[UPDATE: Excellent! The entire list nailed in less than 12 hours!]

Shut up. I happen to like a lot of bland, inoffensive pop songs. Don't mock me. It hurts my feelings.

Anyway, I've leaned heavily on country music recently so today I took a 60s collection on my ride. Some good stuff on that CD, but since I don't have a lot of time to formulate questions this may be short, perhaps even sweet.

1) What will she do after singing in the sunshine? [Angie: Then she'll be on her way]

2) Who builds me up, just to let me down? [Ricki: Buttercup (why does she build me up?)]

3) You can make mountains ring or make angels cry. C'mon now, do what? [CG: Smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now]

4) I heard you're getting married. Maybe that's the best thing for you, but what is it for me? [Angie and CG: The worst that could happen to me]

5) You'll know her if you see her. Her cheeks are rosey and she looks a little nosey. When we go for a ride, I feel funny inside. Yeah, she's fine. Who is she? [CG: Sweet little Sheila]

6) Despite the fact that several things don't realize it (singing birds, beating hearts, non-crying eyes, among others) it's the end of the world. When did it end? Multiple answers entertained for this one. [Angie: It ended when you said goodbye]

7) There isn't an ocean too deep or a mountain so high it can keep me away. So what will I do? [CG: I will follow him, wherever he may go]

8) And a toughie, I think: What does "La la la la la la la la la" mean? [Ricki: It means "I love you"; and no, it's not the Chi-lites, but the Delfonics (though, truth be told, I probably wouldn't have remembered that if I didn't have the CD.]

Okay, about what I'd have expected

Big on math, science, and history (though so much on the literature).
Interested in technology (but not orgasmically so, and not impressed just because it's new).
Not much for Sci-Fi and Comics (I liked the Marvel Comics back in the 60s but they went downhill quickly and I haven't been back)
And yeah, pretty low on the "Dumb/Dork" (though, if "Awkward" were a separate category, I'd probably have scored highly as a teen)

Via Andrea.

The Friday Fuck Off Thread

To the "gentlemen" who decided to race each other down the boulevard this morning and thus very nearly killed me: listen, I don't care what the guy at the dealership told you when you kicked down extra for the asshole option, nothing about your car - including the interior, the fancy and loud stereo, the leather seats, or the hyper-fast speeds at which you can blitz down public streets endangering the lives of innocent citizens - is going to make your prick grow. I'm afraid the only thing that will help you in that department is surgery.

Also - please, stop thinking that just because you have a fancy car, every woman in the world is dying to rip off her clothes and spread 'em for you. Not all of us are impressed by glitz and bling. In fact, the only ones who will be are shallow bitches. Come to think of it, the likes of you deserve each other. Have a nice life together.

And FUCK OFF.

Jeez

And the Nobel descent into the ludicrous continues.

Al Gore, UN panel share Nobel for Peace

OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change jointly won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for fighting it.

That mnemon finally kicked in

Since I read these, one of my hidden mnemons from many years ago kept trying to kick in and finally did.

When people work together, he said, there is "nothing that can stop us because that's God's intention."

"We're going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth."

Barack Obama is Reverend Ike!

Are we talking about the same guy?

So Bill's comment made me actually take the time to post something I've been wondering about for a while. Are we talking about the same James Dobson? The one who thinks Fred Thompson may not [gasp!] be a Christian? Who sounds like Cotton Mather's reactionary little brother?

Reason I ask is because I'm personally offended, or would be if I gave them any actual thought or heed or even the left half of a rat's patoot, about some of the stupid things he says. Particularly, his ridiculous comments about gays and other "social conservative" hot button issues just irritate the snot out of me, almost as much as Pat Robertson does.

Then I catch his little snippets that come on at various times during the morning show on the local VRWC radio show, where he comes across sounding like one of those mealy-mouthed, whiny-assed, uber-liberal, child-spoiling, new age, psychobabble-spouting "child experts" like you see in that section of your local newspaper you never read. You know the kind, the ones that think Dr. Spock was too much of a hardass and may have harbored fascist tendencies.

Seriously, what gives?

Oh dear

Good thoughts and wishes, Chris.

As I suspected

I'm a Thompson supporter. Cullen linked to this interesting and amusing Candidate Calculator. A little surprising on a few items:

Your Top Match
You planned to vote for Fred Thompson. Based on your responses, your top candidate for 2008 is below.

Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson (R)
91.18% match

Cool.

The unpleasant stuff was partly this:

Your Other Top Matches
You will want to pay close attention to these candidates through election day.

Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 80.39%
California Representative Duncan Hunter (R) - 77.45%
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 77.45%

Ick. Don't much like any of them.

Middle of the Pack
If your top choices aren't in the running, keep an eye on these candidates in 2008.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 72.55%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 71.57%
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) - 66.67%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 64.71%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 63.73%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 54.90%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 41.18%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 33.33%
New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 29.41%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 28.43%

Hmm. Would have hoped that all of these, at least the ones I've ever heard of, were in the bottom tier.

Bottom of the Barrel
You won't be getting on the campaign trail with these candidates anytime soon.

Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 27.45%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 24.51%
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 23.53%
Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) - 15.69%

Okay, I'm at a loss to figure out what 15% of the issues I could possibly agree with Kucinich on. Unless it's that part about "should be convicted before being sent to prison".

Country/Western Trivia (Jerry Jeff Walker Edition)

UPDATE: Wow. This one was a toughie, though I suspect a few of you will kick yourselves over some of the answers (which have been added, BTW)

For our buddy KG, just because he asked so nicely.

I'll have to confess right here that I really don't know all that much of his stuff, but had planned to supplement my meager knowledge with my new CD. It helps. Probably not as much as being a longtime fan but there you have it. Not to say I'm not a fan, I just haven't heard all that much but I know some of the stuff he wrote that was covered by other folks. And because I'm not familiar with a lot of his stuff, I'm going to cheat and pack in some stuff I don't know, at least enough to flesh it out to 15 questions.

Why 15? Well, why not? It's a nice number. It also happens to be the age I act sometimes. In months. It also happens to be an age in years I was, um, forty-some-odd (some were very odd - don't ask) years ago. And it just happens to be the number of questions I happened to end up with. Isn't that amazing?

Give me a break. Been a long week. Anyway, here we go:

1) Who had silver hair and a ragged shirt and baggy pants? [KG: Mr. Bojangles]

2) Sonsabitches always bore me. What sonsabitches? [Answer: Landlords. Say goodbye to 'em, the sonsabitches always bore me]

3) If you can't feel nothing but your life flyin' by, what do you have on your hands and your mind? [Answer: You got trouble on your hands and trouble on your mind]

4) He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells, and he'd wink and give me money for the girls. How do we live our lives? [Answer: Like desperadoes waitin' on a train]

5) Don't be concerned if the song sounds familiar and don't be concerned if it all seems the same. Just be concerned that your policies will kill you. Why? [Answer: Because it's all just Public Domain]

6) We're bettin' on a losing friend, makin' the same mistakes we swore we'd never make again. What else are we doing? [Answer: We're just pissin' in the wind]

7) It gets harder with time to separate the facts from the lies. If he thinks it's gonna be easy, he oughta think twice because he's leading a dangerous life. Who? [KG: The other Jerry Jeff]

8) Who chases Falstaff beer with Wild Turkey? [Answer: The son of that Redneck Mother, who's up against the wall...]

9) She's just a little bit shady and she's a semi good-looker. But the fast rails took her and now she's just trying to get home again. Who is she? [KG: The Railroad Lady]

10) He's a skinny Alvin boy and they say he's a wild man that might be the fastest in the West. Also, he works for Gene Autry. Who is he? [Answer: He's Nolan Ryan]

11) Well, tonight a bottle stands alone waitin' on me for company. Where? [Answer: In the Dear John Letter Lounge]

12) We laughed and cried and we carried on, everybody sang a sing-along and had a hell of a time. But what is it time to do now? [Answer: Time to be movin' on (and to take this Gonzo show down the road)]

13) I work all week just to make a draw, and I'm hooked in and I got to ride that train. What is my profession? [Answer: A rodeo cowboy]

14) I wouldn't dare and try to tell you on the telephone what shape I'm in. I been gone so long this song seems to be fallin' apart at the seams. So what am I doing? [Answer: I'm wingin' it home to Texas]

15) You're behind the wheel with your arm around your sweet one, barreling down the boulevard. What are you looking for? [Answer: You're looking for the heart of Saturday night]

The Friday Fuck Off Thread

To Ken and Val - I didn't get back to you because I took last Thursday and Friday off and then hit the ground running on Monday because of it. When I finally caught my breath, the first word that came to my mind was "beer." So I had one or six. Sorry 'bout that.

This Friday Fuck Off is for our friend Joel, who wrote sending this link.

I don't even know what to say. I don't have kids and, as of this post, don't want them, but that lady takes the cake.

"I really regret it. I really regret having children."*

She's like the antidote to those mothers who think that bearing and raising children makes them eligible for sainthood. Compared to this selfish woman, it does. "Like, ohmygosh, I had to give stuff up when I had kids! It never occured to me! The horror!" Her arguments become especially obnoxious when they resort to things like "it is conformist" and "you will be an ally to capitalism." It practically makes me want to go out and procreate right now.

*by the way, lady...I hope your kids remember this little book of yours when you're old and infirmed and need someone to change your dirty nappies. They just might find themselves conveniently regretting having parents.

Chuckle

Chuckle (via Joel)

Fifty years ago today

It's an Anniversary Day. Fifty years ago today was the first broadcast of "Leave it to Beaver". (Via KSFO)

Given the title of the show, and our somewhat unseemly discussion yesterday, I sense opportunity...

This is old...

...but I just saw it today.

Brady Bunch Star Reveals All About Lesbian Fling With TV Sister

Wholesome former THE BRADY BUNCH star MAUREEN MCCORMICK is set to reveal the beloved 70s TV series' most shocking secret in a new book - she and her on-screen sister had a lesbian fling.

And I don't get the squirrel part. Must be a gay thing.

Via Zendo Deb.

Oops

I guess it didn't take.

Supernanny kids set fire to own house after visit from TV expert

By ANDREW LEVY - More by this author »

A mother who enlisted the services of TV's Supernanny to control her unruly sons was left homeless yesterday after one of them apparently set the house ablaze.

Channel 4 childcare guru Jo Frost spent two weeks with the Young family, advising them to use rewards to encourage good behaviour and make the five boys sit on 'naughty stools' when they misbehaved.

However her strict influence failed to last long enough to prevent the youngest, three-year-old Joel, being blamed for starting a blaze in the living room, apparently with a kitchen cooker lighter.

Random "Married with Children" quote strangely applicable to stories ripped from today's headlines

"Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod"

Sweet Irony

Hmm. I missed this story last week, just heard a mention of it on the radio this morning.

Minneapolis Airport Gets New Stall Dividers in Restroom of Sen. Larry Craig's Arrest

Friday, September 28, 2007
Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — The infamous airport men's room where Sen. Larry Craig was arrested is getting new stall dividers that drop nearly to the floor to make it a less inviting spot for sexual liaisons.

The funds are from a federal airport bill sponsored by, among others, Larry Craig.

I'm booked solid

Anybody out there have time to mock up a picture of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fellating Pat Robertson? They seem like a match made in... well... I suppose Heaven isn't the right word.

Brighten someone's day

My buddy Julie sent this along.

Read the whole thing.

Watch "Tango Mike".

Then go to anysoldier.com and send a letter or gift to one or more of our people in harm's way.

Note to Julie: Yeah, we differ on some of the politics but you're a doll. Thanks.