From the Chicago Tribune published on 10/10/05 (hat tip: AmericaBlog): Theodore Roosevelt Heller, 88, loving father of Charles (Joann) Heller; dear brother of the late Sonya (the late Jack) Steinberg. Ted was discharged from the U.S. Army during WWII due to service related injuries, and then forced his way back into the Illinois National Guard insisting no one tells him … Read More
Question Of The Day
Shakespeare’s Sister is shooting off this blog question: What movie scenes always make you cry? There are a couple, but the only one that comes to mind is a bit of an embarassment: The hospital scene at the end of She’s Having A Baby where Kevin Bacon is waiting for his wife Elizabeth McGovern to, you know, have a baby, … Read More
Rapture Checklist
Tsunami? Check. Hurricane? Check. Flood? Check. Global Warming? Check. Earthquake? Check. Landslide? Check. Plague? Check. Volcano? Volcano? Volcano? Ah, there you are.
Just Wondering…
Why is it that whenever I see a picture of Bill Gates speaking at some press conference or symposium, he always looks like he’s singing a ballad in a Broadway musical? "Rivers belong where they can ramble…." Bill Gates wonders if he will ever find his "Corner Of The Sky"
Stories We Stopped Reading After The First Paragraph
Cambodian Couple Suck Daughter’s Blood: PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Black magic may have driven a Cambodian couple to bite off their daughter’s thumb nails and suck her blood, officials said Sunday….
Short Bites
Jimmy Carter has a son? What Matt says Ever said "There oughta be a law…."? Here’s your chance… Um, why? With this avian flu thing hanging over us, is it really a good idea to intentionally reconstruct a 1918 flu virus that killed 50 million people?
The Dysons
Geeks are very excited about this lecture — now sold out — in which three members of Freeman Dyson’s family (including Freeman himself) are giving a joint lecture. I have a special connection to this event — I dated one of Professor Dyson’s daughters many years ago, and met him briefly a few times. I consider myself a reasonably smarty … Read More
Friday’s Random “Titles I Made Up For The Paintings They Just Hung On My Floor At Work”
"A House, And It’s Snowing" "Autumn" "Country Boy Standing In A Swamp For Some Reason" "A Bunch Of Seashells In Front Of A Couple Of Windows" "Strange Lady (Badly In Need Of A Hairdresser) On Her Porch" "Another House – Gee, That’s Original" "Abandoned Boats" "A French Fop, A Lady From the Folies Bergere, And Spilled Paint" "Poster From What … Read More
Friday Random Vogon Poetry
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits On a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon See if I don’t. – Vogon Captain [For those of you who don’t know…. Vogon poetry is of course, the … Read More
Close Shaves
About thirty years ago, there was a very popular commercial for a double-track razor — a disposable razor with two blades. Demonstrated through a fake-y cartoon close-up of a man’s cheek, gullible consumers were informed that the double razor was better. Why? Because the first blade pushes the whisker forward, priming it for the death hack from the second razor … Read More
The Apocalypse
Well, let’s see. The death toll from Katrina is rising. Snakes, gators and corpses are floating around in New Orleans, making the second evacuation difficult. Attempts to fix the breaks in the New Orleans levees have failed. There are whitecaps on Canal Street. Prisoners stranded in a New Orleans prison have rioted, taking a deputy, his wife and their four … Read More
The “You Graduated In A Crappy Year For Music” Meme
From Doghouse Riley, it goes something like this: you "list Top 100 Pop Hits for your graduating year; hilarity results". Doghouse struck out the songs he hated, bolded the songs he approved of, and added comments. Me, too. 1. Call Me – Blondie Not her best… 2. Another Brick In The Wall – Pink Floyd A … Read More