Fellow former school board candidate and all-around great guy Eric Smith is making good on a vow he made during the campaign: that when all of this had ended, that he was going to start building a boat. I can't wait to see the finished product: for the life of me, I can't remember seeing up-close a boat that I knew was hand-built.But there's another reason why I'm eager to see the O.S.S. Rebel Runner come to life...A promise I made to myself was...
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
"I have a penis."
It took 25 years but real-life soap operas have finally caught up with Tootsie...Egads, what else has been going on with All My Children all these years that we didn't know about?!(Thanks, I think, to Shane Thacker at The Phantom City for this... thin...
Wow, Jim Webb's response to Bush's State of the Union speech tonight...
...was one of the best speeches by an elected official I've heard in a real long time.Colorful, articulate, spoke on the level of everyday people... as opposed to Bush's speech which tonight - as it does all too often - was in a dreary monotone that sounded too much like an illiterate speaking.I don't necessarily agree with Webb on everything (he' supports No Child Left Behind apparently) but listening to him was quite refreshing.Plus, I just found...
Atlanta suburbs mulls seccession: Maybe America should consider it too
Part of Fulton County, a suburb of Atlanta, is threatening to split off and form its own county. Charges of racial motivations are flying because the possibly-future Milton County would be white-majority and more economically affluent than what would be left of Fulton County.Reading this and doing a little more research into the situation, I can't really see where race is a factor here. It seems more like one part of the population is tired of...
Tom Cruise is "the Christ" of Scientology
So say leaders of the bizarre cult.So does this mean Tom is going to be Cruise-ified for the sins of the wor...
Monday, January 22, 2007
If Chris Knight came to South Park...
...I would probably look like this:Turn yourself into a South Park character! Thanks to Shane Thacker for the fi...
Our first look at the Thestrals!
Darth Larry found some great new pics at The Leaky Cauldron of new Harry Potter merchandise. Look at this one: to the best of my knowledge, this is the very first good look at what the Thestrals look like:What are Thestrals? Well, if you only know Harry Potter from the movies and haven't read the books, you have seen these creatures already... kinda. Harry doesn't actually...
Once more, pro-lifers played for chumps on ROE anniversary
Today is the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Which does not mean that abortion was something morally justified 34 years ago today. It merely means that it was allowed by law.Given enough time for the timbers to rot in a culture, and anything can become allowed by law. Still doesn't mean that it's right though.As they do every year on this day, thousands of pro-life supporters had a rally in Washington D.C....
Were a plucky Droid and a scruffy Wookiee the REAL heroes of Star Wars?
I found this through Shane Thacker (who found it on Diane Duane's blog). A fellow named Keith Martin has written one of the most original and well-written essays about Star Wars that I've ever read.In "A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope", Martin lays out the case for how the true heroes of the Star Wars saga were Artoo-Detoo and Chewbacca. You have to wonder: how, in a galaxy so big, do all of these characters keep running into each other? Well,...
Over 130 and rising fast
And in the last little while the rate has jumped: I'm now getting about 2 or 3 new ones every fifteen minutes. And that might be accelerating too. I might have over 300 by midnight tonight.This is going to take awhile to go through.What is it? I'll be tipping my hand to what that is within the next month or so. But I thought it was something significant enough to "memorialize" here on the blog while it's happening all the sa...
Sunday, January 21, 2007
I'm a candidate for President... in 2016!
My fellow Americans,After a great deal of prayer and contemplation and consulting with those closest to me, it is with great excitement and joy that I officially announce that I am now a candidate for President of the United States... in 2016.Why am I announcing my candidacy for that far-off race instead of for one much sooner? There are several reasons. The most obvious...
Another Bert and Ernie classic
Yet another big of comedy gold from the good old days on Sesame Street. This is the Bert and Ernie "dripping water" sketch..."G'NIGHT!...
A question for every pro-life Bush supporter
I'm working on something for the blog right now and just had a thought while working on it:If President George W. Bush has no problem with violating the United States Constitution......and if he is supposed to be against abortion......then why hasn't Bush brazenly violated Roe v. Wade and ended abortion in this country once and for all?Well, why hasn't "the Decider" chosen to do that? He's definitely shown that he has no problem with abusing power...
Saturday, January 20, 2007
A pizza made with love
Lisa had a very special dinner ready for me when I got home from my shift at the station tonight...Can you see what it is? It's a pizza... with the pepperonis arranged to look like a heart!I did this for her about six years ago when we were dating: at the time I was terrified about doing real cooking (long story about how that came to be) but I overcame my fear and made pizza...
Dipping some more from A BUCKET OF BLOOD
Earlier this afternoon here at the station we aired Roger Corman's 1959 movie A Bucket of Blood.Well, I've got it playing off the Tivo right now... for the second time since it first ran today.This movie has already gained a hideous hold on me. I can't believe I've never seen or heard about this before (especially since it stars Dick Miller). This is the kind of weird/funny that's sooo up my alley!I might have to add A Bucket of Blood to my DVD...
Playing right this minute on WGSR Star 39...
...is Roger Corman's 1959 classic A Bucket of Blood, which is something about death and Beatniks.This should be running around midnight instead of the middle of Saturday afternoon, because this movie is coming courtesy of Cinema Insomnia "with your horror host Mr. Lobo". I'll forgive that though 'cuz this movie features Dick Miller: character actor extraordinaire! There's already been one pretty cool scene where Miller accidentally stabs his cat...
A heavy example of pro-government press bias
A few days ago I wrote about Ed Brown, a New Hampshire man who is defying the federal government on the isuse of income taxes. A jury just found Brown guilty in absentia, and he's currently barricaded himself at his home. I wrote at the time that this probably won't end good for Ed Brown, because the government doesn't like independent-minded folks and it's stacked the deck against them by employing more than enough "ninja-suited" SWAT types: the...
