Archive for March, 2009

One Giant Step For WO-man Kind

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Oh, man. Sometimes I have to really scratch for a topic, but today one just jumped off the CNN headlines at me. Are you ready for this? Read on: “Empowered Rihanna Gets Gun Tattoo” Now I realize this is the second time in a very short period that her name has been mentioned on this [...]

Posts That Never Were

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

A while back my brother-in-law Sam listed a bunch of never-released blog drafts.  I too have quite a collection of drafts that have never (and probably will never) see the light of day. So here are a few for your parusal: Conspiracy Theory Chicken Soup for the Sadist’s Soul Oh, Sulu! What Happened? Harry Potter [...]

In Memorandum: A Great Dog

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Dan asked me tonight if we were “dog people”. I think the fact that we’ve lived with a furry friend (or fiend) now for a year classifies us as such. Our dog is good. She’ll be great at some future point. But for now I’d like to pause and remember a dog that reached that [...]

Bailouts? Here Are a Few More

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

We’ve all seen the news. Lots of people getting lots o’ dough from their old Unkey-Sam. Bailouts, earmarks, pork barreling, pork rinds, Rihanna, gonorrhea, goats. It all comes back to goats. So here are a few more bailouts I think are in order: 1-Lady with tonz of kids. Yep. She had 8. At once. Now [...]

Watchmen:A Mixed Bag

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Hmmmm…..I’ve dileberated for a while now on what to say about Watchmen. We went and saw it last week and to be honest all I really wanted to say about it when we left the theater was UGH. With a capital U.  Now, after a few days of careful thought, I still say ugh, but [...]