5.9 earthquake rocked this house!!!

Looks like I picked the wrong day to start blogging again...The 5.9 magnitude earthquake epicentered near Richmond, Virginia shook my house west of Reidsville, North Carolina for... darn nearly 30 seconds! Okay, probably not that long but it sure as hell felt long enough. I was working on some stuff on my iPad while sitting up on my bed when I felt the bed shake and heard...

Read More

"WILMAAAAA!" Driver tries to brake truck... with his feet

"This guy ain't no rocket scientist", said a deputy police chief about a dude in Michigan who tried to pull a Fred Flintstone... by attempting to stop his pickup truck with his feet! He caused two collisions before he was finally stopped (turns out the brakes on the truck weren't working).Story and video he...

Read More

Paul Jr. Designs rolls out a GEARS OF WAR 3 chopper

It ain't hard envisioning Marcus Fenix riding this lil' baby around while blasting grubs (hey CliffyB, is it too late to put that into the game?)...Paul Jr. from the hit show American Chopper created this custom trike inspired by Gears of War 3 (coming out next month). Looks gnarly! Dad loves to watch American Chopper whenever it's on so I'll be looking forward to watching it with him when we see how Paul Jr. and his crew assembled this one ...

Read More

Look! It's a new blog post!

So this past week didn't go as planned. I blame that pesky thing called "real life" (as reliable an excuse as anything :-P)And last night my girlfriend said that she's missed me posting anything this past week. I told her before I left that I'd be sure to put up something for her to read. Maybe even quite a few things today.Awright then... Hey Kristen! Hope you're having a great morning honey! I'll do my best to keep you at least moderately...

Read More

Take the weekend off!

For y'all who have e-mailed wondering where I've been: just been busy with stuff on this end.Come back Monday. There'll start to be plenty more bloggin' then, including (at last) pics and video of the Popcorn Sutton Acoustic Jam last week.Until then, it's a nice weekend. Go out and play ...

Read More

Gary Ceres: Tellin' it like it is about thinking for ourselves!

Gary Ceres is one of the coolest most awesomest cats that I've ever known. He and I met during our very first week at Elon (when it was still Elon College) and... well I can put it no plainer than this: I've learned lots of good stuff from him about making mischief for the publick good! Like that poster of Hillary Clinton that we put up all over campus on the night before the 1996 election, but I digress...Anyhoo, Gary has written an excellent...

Read More

Chris declares RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is THE best movie of Summer 2011!

So after a generally satisfying summer of comic book heroes and villains, transmorphing mechanical organisms, horrible bosses, aliens and then cowboys and aliens at the box office, was this blogger ready to go ape?Let's put it this way: I left the theater thinking that Rise of the Planet of the Apes was the biggest and most pleasant surprise of a movie that I had seen this...

Read More

I know how to fix the American economy

It's all really quite simple.Eliminate the personal income tax.Slash corporate taxes.Implement the national retail sales tax.Give corporate tax cuts for each time a company hires a certain number of employees domestically (to encourage the trend away from outsourcing).Impose higher trade tariffs.No more "most favored nation" trade status for anyone.Eliminate a lot of burdensome regulation that stifles businesses.Cut government spending!Do those things,...

Read More

One hundred years ago today...

...the First Lady of Television was born.Six decades later, and we are still cracking up with laughter over Lucy's crazy shenanigans! Happy One Hundredth Birthday to Lucille Ball. Gone from us, but never forgotten ...

Read More

My girlfriend dances a wicked Mambo!

Let's finish this day's blogging with a little culture, shall we?Kristen, my girlfriend, is an absolute fiend for ballroom dancing. That is something that I've known since the very beginning of our relationship. She's already begun teaching me a few things like Rumba, Waltz etc. though it's gonna be awhile before I'm anywhere close to how good she is :-)But this past weekend was the first time that I really got to see her practice her chosen art......

Read More

First pic of Henry Cavill as Superman!

Now this is what the Man of Steel should look like!Click the above image to embiggenize our first look at Henry Cavill as Superman in the Zack Snyder-directed Man of Steel (now due out for 2013). Check out Supes' getup! Now that is a Superman that I would believe can not only fly but also kick the tails of Darkseid and Brainiac.I am beginning to have a positive vibe about...

Read More

Dow Jones drops 513 points today

Read all about it here.As for my comment about it, well...

Read More

Raoul Wallenberg and Dan Cooper: New clues in two massive mysteries

Sixty-six years after he disappeared into the prisons of the Soviet Union, new information has been discovered about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who became one of the most revered heroes of World War II. At the height of the Holocaust, Wallenberg was able to rescue and shelter tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews who would have otherwise...

Read More

Swedish dude gets arrested for attempting nuclear reactions... in his apartment kitchen!

There's a chap named Richard Handl in southern Sweden who is right curious about things like physics and nuclear chemistry. So he, ummmm... attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in his flat's kitchen.But it can't honestly be said that he had any nefarious motives, because Richard has a blog set up chronicling all the steps that he's taken on his lil' adventure into...

Read More

Bane and the bridesmaids

Photographer Jason Wickerham took some terrific photos over the weekend of filming of The Dark Knight Rises currently taking place in Pittsburgh. Near the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute Building, there was a wedding going on at a church across the street and Jason caught this image of Tom Hardy, in full costume as mega-villain Bane, waving to the...

Read More

The 2nd Annual Popcorn Sutton Acoustic Jam is getting BIGGER!

There have been some developments (to put it mildly) since I first posted two weeks ago about the 2nd Annual Popcorn Sutton Acoustic Jam happening August 6th. I've been in regular contact with the event organizers and folks, this lil' celebration of the life and legend of Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton is literally seeing good stuff happen with each passing day!First thing that...

Read More

"...and a cat was thrown in the minister's face."

Yet another classic illustration from the archives of the National Police Gazette...That's from the February 8th, 1889 issue of the magazine. That's still not as wild as some revival meetings that I've witnessed...Props again to William A. Mays, the proprietor of The National Police Gazette, for keeping alive the spirit of this historic American publicati...

Read More