the politics of dancing

if you love our democracy, you must watch this video.  [sorry, can't embed.]
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[headline reference; watching that, I don't blame the Russians for wanting to bomb us back to the stone age back in the 80's.]

how will we explain to our children…

that once apon a time, this was cool; and that 18 years later nostalgia might get the better of us and we might link to the video and reminisce about simpler times:

it’s amazing to think that this was before all that Austin Powers psuedo-psychedlic 60’s stuff.  maybe in explaining it to [...]

best. wife. ever.

Happy Birthday to Me!  (Thanks K)

hey Kobe, show me how you Gas Face

in Shaq’s defense, do you realize how difficult it is to rhyme something with “last place”?  I mean, that’s almost as impossible as rhyming with “orange”.
what amazes me the most about this is what TMZ has bleeped from the video…  apparently you can string together several words into an offensive sentence, and there’s no need [...]

alarming

One GOP strategist took Paul’s level of support in Pennsylvania as a cautionary sign, calling it “alarming.”
Yeah, I’d say.
I’ve followed Paul pretty closely, and to hear he took 16% in PA, after the Paul campaign had basically halted and where McCain was the only legitimate candidate… well, what do you think that says?
[OK, not such [...]

simple joys of Christmas

December 18th.  I call my sister to confirm some Christmas plans and ask what my nephews might want under the tree.  “Wait a sec, I’ll put him on…”
“I want two boxes of cereal.”
I hardly had a chance to ask him what he meant, and he put his mom back on the phone.  Was he serious?  [...]

my treo is my hot hot sex

This stupid song has been stuck in my head since that iPod Touch commercial came out. No, it didn’t prompt me to go out and buy one, I still like my Treo (yes, it plays MP3s).Cansei de Ser Sexy (literally “tired of being sexy” in Portuguese; better known as CSS) may not have a [...]

signs, signs, everywhere there’r signs…

fortune cookie today:

“:) Your talents will be recognized and suitabily rewarded.  “
Yipp-ee-eeeiaaa-ai.

and other good stuff.

the kids are all-right

so my Wife relays to me the following story (November 1st or 2nd):
You know how when you pull into our cul-du-sac you turn head-on to number [xx]?  Well I turn the corner today, and there are the neighborhood kids with a sign in the driveway: “Candy 25 cents”.  I stopped beside the driveway and asked [...]

funniest thing on television?

I know this is a stretch, and I love NBC’s Thursday night above all other television, but pound-for-pound I think this guy is the funniest thing on TV right now:

don’t ask me why, but I’ve watched “How I Met Your Mother” since it started — I really like the premise, it has such promise, but [...]