"You're a BALL BUSTER!"
Kyped from vintage_ads:It's a 1970s commercial for a game called "Ball Buster."I don't know what made me laugh hardest:- "fun for children...and for adults, it's EXCITING"- the completely inappropriate...
View ArticleTravel hell: TEN hours on the tarmac
I hadn't heard about this story. Seems that an American Airlines flight in Austin was stuck on the tarmac for TEN HOURS while AA diddleshitted around, and now the angry passengers are petitioning...
View ArticleLiz Renay: 1926-2007
Damn.(Liz Renay, age 50, 'streaking' on Hollywood Boulevard)I met her once, years ago, at a party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. She was sweet. Self-possessed. A little loony, but...
View ArticleJobs to Which I Won't Be Applying, Part 1,259,683
Time to Get CRUNK!What is entertainment without the ability to be yourself, show yourself, or prove yourself? Any of these abilities can be proven at any given time, by any individual. With the amount...
View ArticleSymbolic...of something, or Lack Thereof
So this afternoon I get a call from crankycatlady and yum_cimil. They're both stuck at PDX. By coincidence, they're flying out the same day to the same place. He missed his morning flight and got...
View Article"10 Things I Hate About Commandments"
I'm probably the last to hear about/see this, but I don't care. 78 seconds that made me laugh myself stupid(er)...the trailer for 10 Things I Hate About Commandments:
View ArticleWell, that was quick
This is not from the Onion.Haggard Now "Completely Heterosexual"One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged...
View ArticleWell, NOW I'm interested in the Anna Nicole story
Brilliant.Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband: I might be father of Smith's babyThe husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said today that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant...
View ArticlePatti Smith sings "You Light Up My Life"
Given all the horrible news this week, what with Anna Nicole Smith and the gal-stronaut with the diapers and such (oh, and the people in Iraq dying...that's pretty horrible, too!), I thought we could...
View ArticleWitch hunt
Nothing scares me more than a witch hunt. Seriously. Particularly when the witch hunt involves kids and purported sex. I'm old enough to remember the McMartin trial, and the following story is the same...
View ArticleWhat in the hell???
Something's screwy with Flickr. I use a saved wallpaper on Flickr as my background image on this page, and right now it resolves at the wrong destination - an image of a high school graduation (???).I...
View ArticleWhy I drink at home
I suppose, in this tricky-martini town, it was inevitable...Actually, no. No, it wasn't. It could have been avoided. But it wasn't.Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you:The Pad Thai Martini.
View ArticleAre You There, God? It's Me, The Virgin Mary of the Cookie Sheet
Now that Mardi Gras, the Oscars, and the Anna Nicole hullabaloo are over, the Virgin Mary is back posing for the paparazzi and making a personal appearance on a cookie sheet in Texas:A Houston, Texas...
View ArticleWow. Just...wow.
Those of you who know me know I've got nearly zero fondness for presidential candidate John Edwards, nor am I surprised by just about anything in what passes for public discourse these days, but this...
View ArticleWing LIVE!
I'm not shy about my fondness for the international chanteuse Wing. (And I would kill anyone who hurt her feelings. She's a treasure.)At last, someone has made public a video of one of her performance....
View ArticleFreaky Styley: PHIL SPECTOR
Lovable nutball/alleged murderer Phil Spector is working overtime to come up with striking new looks for his date with Dame Justice. Remember this fashion statement from his arraignment?Today he...
View ArticleToday in the New York Times
Caption:"Work continued last week on homes in Washington Town Center, where planners have taken their cue from early 20th-century homes."
View ArticleMac help needed (iMac G5)
My iMac G5 (with the six-month-old hard drive) went into screensaver mode this afternoon, and then froze, making beeping sounds. Of course, when I tried to restart, all I got was the blinking question...
View ArticleMac help received!
Well, flamingatheist came over this afternoon with a USB DVD drive. Before attempting that, he took off the back cover, fiddled with a few connections, twiddled this and diddled that...And the thing...
View ArticleSaving money by spending money
Two big sales for those who like music and magazines...- The iTunes store is currently offering 101 "great" albums, each for $7.99. They're the ones who call them great, but they're all pretty damn...
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