Dare to be stupid

No, not Weird Al, who actually is quite a smart and talented man. No, this Nate Dogg (who apparently panders to the poor spelling urbanites) isn't clear whether he signed contracts or not, but is suing anyway+++. So, um ... what would you say you do here, exactly.

Well, I'm never here on time. I'd say in a week I do about 15 mintues of actual work.

Oh, you mean like sing.

I don't sing.

Oh, then you play an intrument.

I don't play instruments.

So ... what ... do, skip it!

+++ "Then there was this (sung 'total eclipse of the sun') and I saw a plant that I could swear wasn't there a minute ago, but the old man sold it to me anyway for a $1.25" Little Shop of Horrors

cartoon dieting

From now on, Bobbalou , I'll be doin' the thinin' around here!
"Kabong!"
"Hi-ya!"

I don't think I'll stick with it, but I hope to drop some weight with regular moving. Winter hasn't given me the hours of sheer joy with shoveling out the plowed in ice-drives of mine and neighbors. Four years ago --- hours upon hours upon hours. That was a workout! I used the snowblower, but the plows would encase the end of the drives in packed ice. Great!

I'll just consult the Hong Kong book of weight loss...
Thanks Scatman!

sign of dweebishness

Monkeyjack had a formula ("I've got an angle, Charlie")+ for calculating after sale costs on eBay auctions. He didn't use excel, but the google spreadsheet app showed the formula. I use excel and tested it to its limits, never having a fast enough machine to get it to do the heinous calculations of 3 years. I later saved results rather than calcluations. Anyway, I looked at the 22 character formula and said, "just like PASCAL". Wow! That's a dead language. I thought COBOL was too, until I saw job postings for it. My brother-in-law understood, from his brother that banks still use it.

Yikes! That's like using druidic code or Latin. That langauge is not developing. COBOL ++ or .COBOL, I don't think so.

+ one of the two funny skits of Heavy Metal, 1976

Hours spent

So, Monkeyjack mentioned EM and his "turn taking" lasting an hour in 'planning' before doin' jack-diddly-squat.

"I remember going to [unsavory locale] Taco Hades, getting back, eating, watching MTV and still -- he had not moved." Ah, Axis & Allies, the takes-forever game. It's more strategy than chess, with that disastrous loki known as lucky dice. You rolled thirty friggin' ones! You blankity blank blank (goes on) cheater! How the! And the game is won by the US that is mostly just a buffer who sends bombers to the UK ... much like the real WWII.

Monkeyjack also reminded me that one evening, leaving the board with all the pieces placed (marking locations, units and their numbers, cash, etc.) Walker had nicely cleaned up the game so that the boys could eat breakfast. Hours -- lost. That was a game I remember playing until 5 am, seeing Goldie in the morning, offering toast, pancakes and cereal. Top it off with some Hi-C, please! Poor John, still in HS, playing until 5, 30 minute trip home, then off to boring senior year. We weren't too kind to him on his last year.

If memory serves me well, Jeff tended not to do the marathon nights like John on school nights.

My father and I used to play the game, 3-5 hours, split over two days. There was a spare room, unused otherwise that was a nice place for the board -- a game in progress.

Haven't written 'bout her in a while

Kari Byron, not just a pretty face ... artistry is her passion. I examined her work. The pictures hint that the work is small and detailed. I found the flash animation belittled her work, but someone opted for the display tool. As a consesuer of art, I think I'm just about as picky with it as I am food and movies.

Sorry Kari, you're sweet, but I don't think I'm gifted enough to understand your work. Mixed media and sculpture -- I think are better received by art buffs. I'm too classical or untrained, as it were, to appreciate the finer works. Unlike art that I would normally trash -- meaning throw into dumpster for geological recyclilng, I can see effort and though processes behind the work. I still do not understand it.

Personally, I like growling

Kittie. "You got a woman to meow?" +

+ Billy Crystal movie, likely City Slickers or When Harry Met Sally

I just don't remember.

I close my eyes, and dream of home

Wasted Years, Die With Your Boots On

Iron Maiden. "Do not doubt the Bruce Dickenson", as said by Christopher Walken on SNL's Blue Oyster Cult skit, "More Cowbell".

iRobot

nope, not an apple product ... a movie supplement. I've already reviewed it. I watched it last night hoping that I would fall asleep, but no luck.

"I don't work for Robots!"

"What's his problem?"

"A robot killed his brother."
(crowd, "huh?")
"Dropped a piano on his head."

You Tube fun-loving Criminals

It isn't the first time the criminals who video taped their crimes will have that used against them. Some years ago, guys driving through town shooting people with pellet guns saw court too. The latest, duh is a case of three teens taping a beating of another teen girl. If you see any of the video, you will please note that they aren't the gansta wannabes or the outlet of urban violence that tends not to be taped. They are indeed, typical suburbanites who filmed the beating of an unliked girl in their school.

Crime has no face, color ... it lurks around. I guess the two things that will make the media drool on this is: young teen girls, white, on internet. Boy -- now that gives the media crap to write, eh?

panicked

"We are doing as much as we can."
Commander Gates does not share your optomistica appraisal of the situation.
I need more men.
Perhaps you can tell that to Gates when he arrives.
Gates, is coming here? We shall double our efforts.

Chimp has surprise for keepers

Yes, despite vascectomies, a female still got pregnanat. Worker Joel Horneytoad specualted that "so cute Teresa" the chimp obviously enticed and teased the male chimps and so much so that the vas deferons reunited. The curator instructed the staff to take samples. She didn't see Joel sweating bullets during her statement. He relaxed when she qualified that the sampels were to come from male chimpanzees. Joel volunteered to take the samples and to label them himself to root out the incompletely neutered male.

In an unrelated event, Joel checked himself into the hospital for a "routine mole removal" and was to be off work for the rest of the week.

Young Franken-tician

But weren't you one of those who voted yes on the war on Iraq? The same war that you are protesting now? The war were we (legislative branch) are arguing over the re-animation of our army?

Yes! Yes! Yes! We all know what I did! I'd rather be remembered for my small and dynamic bitching than my accidental relationship to a famous cuckoo idea.

"... switching from plus to minus and minus to plus . Nay, I alone could be capable of bestowing life" upon this hulk of an Iraqi democracy. "It has rotten brain I tell you." "Ixnay on the ottenray"

So, you put an abnormal brain in a 27 million tall, fundamentalist high, highly aggressive and armed gorilla?
Yeah, that's about it.

"Give him a sedagive"

well dressed to impress

pinot grigio.II
Originally uploaded by jenny06.

Wow! She's drinkin', sylin', foxy. Too bad she;s there and I;m here. Only one thing to take me away from electric sex, real sex. So, you'll notice that I'm still watching.

Jenny06 on flickr.

I don't know her, but her pictures draw a crowd.

When I was a kid

Not Necessarily the News
NNTN
not the best skits, sadly.

picking

Man song
Doors ... and they stank live!
They Might Be For Kids Particle Man. At one point in time TMBG had radio airplay, now ... kid music bins. Who knew they knew where the market was?
Muppets Steve Martin Rambling Guy (notice, no white suit)
Please be Patient while I'm working. Thank you!

For the last one, wet your lips, whistle and flick your bic.

Today's program is brought to you by webcam and bad thinking

Wow! I'd be such a proud father if these were my kids.

"Todays's word is ...."
"I am really ..... up, big bird."

Big Bird and Kermit stoned skit, as done by kids. Charming ... Yo Go Tube!

Lumpy (AMVs)

if you don't like AMV, don't bother clicking

Azumanga Daioh, Fooley Cooley

Mamma said video out!
Drink with Me

round world

Central and South America are a myth, right?
Dallas, TX and Dallas, MI are practically the same thing. I mean, they can't too far apart.

Derhhhhhhhuh!

Bushwackers

So, Bush declines in the polls some more. The Democrats now have to prove they are positively different than the Republicans. So they whip up a proposal and Bush says, "It stinks!"+ and follows that with, "I'll veto it". The democrats are in the same boat as before, package manure, but don't call it manure. I don't know, call it "bio-recylced organic growth stimulator"

The old game of pin the tail on the donkey won't be played for a while, as the Republicans aren't in a position to do a successful blame game. I see the war in Iraq a good way for the democrats, as though they were different than republicans (only on paper) to be so-called heroes. Bush, Iraq being his albatross, can only hope that his policies turn and churn out in the end. There weren't dominoes set up, but he's hoping it tips one thing, then another.

The sad news for America is that the new house, the new senate isn't likely to be the New Deal of the new millenium. I see strife, hiccups, burps, and stalls. I see a car that doesn't move. If things remain unchanged, I'm afraid my dreams of change will die. Some flighty whinees in whitey tighties pushing a gay marriage propsoal (ha ha) through, won't make for good government either.

Let's see. America needs to be free of its independance on foreign oil, foreign manufacturing, and safeguarding its borders. It doesn't need any chewing dolls or federal laws on gay marriage. I doubt the house and senate will pull through and do something rational like, say ... make America the number one exporter of every blnakity-blank-blank blank there is! I'll also rather have America do something noble and serious about health and crime. Now there would be a government!

Bush has taken this war and made it his own. For his fellow Repbulicans, he has but two terms to serve to his country. He alone will take responsiblity for the war, either his epitaph or accolade. The social security, health and gay marriage issues -- now that's pin the tail on the donkey! Aw-hee-haw!

+ "The Critic"

Steamboat Wile E. Coyote (redone)

From "Talkies" to "flunkies" to "Genius, sheer genius", cartoons have shaped the minds of the dimwitted and dull to the creative. I think few people my age have not watched, enjoyed and been enriched (like uranium) with their being.

Of course I jumped carrying an umbrella hoping to float down gently. Of course I walked off a ladder trying to both walk forward defying gravity and also tried to walk normally while falling. Of course I dreamt of explosive devices that I could put on wings. I also drew, imitated sound effects, vocal folley artistry, and found humor in what was supposed to be funny, lampooning and not-to-be attempted at home.

Those cartoons, like many childhood memories both stick out and are hidden. They are part of my life. I never had to see cartoons in the theater, save for a Disney full-length feature, but it was great to see Wonderful World of Disney on Sundays and Cartoon Saturdays with 90 mintues of Warner Brothers. "Better give me a whole lotta [cartoons], eei-eeeeee-eeeee-eeee-eee-eee, hee!"+

I watch today with karate, as though everyone and his/her neighbor had a sensai for twelve years with a mastery of Shaolin monks of thirty generations, packing training into a compact and successful 8 years. I also see Fairly Odd 'parents, where an unrepentant fool is rewarded handsomely. Honestly, I can't think that ten or twenty years down the road kids will want to revisit these genius works.

I can expect Poke'mon, for 100-200 episodes can't be wrong, and a few others.

I think I liked the underdogs in "my generation" of rerun cartoons (WB especially), favoring Daffy over Bugs, Goofy over Mickey, and Donald over Mickey. I liked Yosemite Sam, his Darren McGavin talent for near-swearing and the vaudville slapstick (displaced in the 70s/80s) of the Three Bears with Bugs Bunny.

Wile E. was a stand alone, the Roadrunner, his Moby Dick, bringing peril to himself despite his opportunties for other food.

+ Leo Lion of Warner Brothers with a very memorable laugh