Saturday, May 14, 2011

Don't Get A Fox Network Lobotomy — Just Turn The Volume To Zero

Wow, i could not have underestimated how monumentally bad the Fox Network coverage would be of tonight's Red Sox at Yankees game.  The announcers are two duds whose names don't even appear on the Fox website (which is too bad, because i gladly would have named them).  They just go on and on about nothing; it's like they forget that there's actually a game going on.  And then to make matters worse, they have Sarah Silverman make a cameo as a supposedly famous Red Sox fan; only she has even less to say about the Red Sox than the dud announcers (and apparently knows nothing about anything, except how to appear mentally deficient; maybe they drugged her).

And since the Fox Network headquarters is in New York City, it's no surprise that their coverage of the game would be pro-Yankees.  But what makes their announcers seem so severely obtunded?  Perhaps it's the continuous low grade gamma radiation present in the city combined with the repeated inbreeding of Fox employees that leads to neural degradation.  Or perhaps it's that their health insurance offers radical frontal lobotomies with a zero co-pay — New Yorkers are loathe to pass up a bargain.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Do Your Bit for the US Postal Service!

We all get junk mail, right?  Of course.  But instead of tossing it in the trash (or recycling it), take out those postage-paid return envelopes and send them back — the Post Office will appreciate the business!

Either send them back empty (boring) or enclose some interesting paper tidbit of your own.  After all, the junk mail company went to the trouble of providing you with a little surprise in the mail; why not surprise them back?

Keep the Post Office in business.  If junk mailers want to pay for prepaid return envelopes, they must want you to send them back no matter what the contents; let them sponsor some re-investment in our Postal Services.

Ciao!

Friday, May 6, 2011

happy birthday to me!

C2H5OH at Not Your Average Joe's — Blue Moon (Belgian-style) weiss beer — plus Rosemary Skewered Scallops:  happy birthday to me!  whoo!

(plus plus peanut butter thing joe’s claim to fame – peanut butter and chocolate chunks folded into vanilla ice cream and rolled in oreo cookie crumbs, topped with fresh whipped cream and drizzled with hot chocolate and caramel sauces tableside — YUM!)


now the Sox game; Minnesota at Boston.  very mellow.

35 (base 12) years old.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Donald Trump is Democratic Party's Best Friend

heh, what an interview the Donald had with ABC's George Stephanopoulos!

when George continued to question the foolishness of the Birther issue, Donald (Duck) Trump accused George of having been "co-opted" by "Obama and his minions" — co-opted by Obama and his minions!

LOL!

i think that the Donald is secretly trying to derail the Republican cause; first the hilarious comb-over, and now this!  Go, Donald — bring down the Republicans!  hahahaha!
------------------[Caption:  Republicans, you're FIRED!]

Friday, April 15, 2011

lyrics revelation

A cooling system
Burns out in the Ukraine
Trees and umbrellas
Protect us from the new rain
Armies of engineers
To analyze the soil
The food we contemplate
The water that we boil
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i just had a lyrics revelation.  (or at least my guess at it.)  Paul Simon's song "Can't Run, But" from his 1990 RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS album refers (in part) to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.  i just got it.

heh, i've got to pay better attention and not let this stuff slip by!
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[Rhythm of the Saints, "Can't Run But" © 1990, Paul Simon]

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Hello, Summer!

OK, so it's not really summer; but after that winter, it is to me.  Opening the windows, prepping the fans, bicycling to the store with ease, and — most of all — being able to wear shorts again.  (Although maybe i should wear shorts year round, just with tights during the winter.  Hmmmm....)

And . . . the DSM32 Ultimate VA Collection is up and running; it's like having my own personal radio station with all of my favorite songs and a very generous sprinkling of pop stuff from the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, & '00s:

Billy Joel - New York State of Mind; Led Zeppelin - All My Love; Gordon Lightfoot - For Lovin' Me; The Cranberries - Pretty; John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads; Bill Haley And His Comets - See You Later Alligator; Little Richard - Jenny Jenny; Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive; Santana - Evil Ways; . . . (to name a few that just played).

Well, at least i'm ready for summer, if a little early.  :-D

Enjoy!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Bye-Bye "Tea Party"

All right, newly elected "Tea Party" Congresspeople, U.S. citizens can now see what you really stand for:  inflexible "morality" and unwillingness to participate in politics (otherwise known as the art of compromise).  You're not actually interested in fiscal policy.  Instead, all you want to do is jam your sadly out-moded values down the throats of U.S. Americans; but we're not swallowing.

At least you won't have to worry about getting re-elected; everyone is seeing what a farce you're making of budgetary issues.  Rinse and spit.  And thank you for helping insure a second term for Barack Obama.

Bye-Bye!