January 24, 2007
Numa Numa
I got some very strange looks for watching this video yesterday at work. Well ok, it was probably after the fourth or fifth time I watched it that the looks really started. For reasons that I am still at a loss to explain I find this video fantasitcally entertaining. Perhaps its the fact that he is so into the song. Or wondering what would possess someone to make a video like that. Or that the first time I saw it I thougth someone had CGI'ed his mouth. Whatever it is it ranks right up there with the Where the Hell is Matt video for something that I can watch over and over and over again.
Added Jan 25th:
For anyone interested here is the actual music video.
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January 23, 2007
Driveway
I had long believed that a driveway was a rectangle of cement that sat off to the side of the front yard and more or less connected the garage to the road. A car would occasionally zip across it, kids would play basketball on it, and every once in a while the annoying little boy next door would fall on one and spend 30 minutes crying loudly for the benefit of the neighborhood while his parents concentrate on ignoring him. I have been disabused of these fanciful notions. What I was familiar with as a driveway was basically an overgrown patio.
I have now encountered a man among driveways. A paragon. A champion of drivewayhood. A feral beast not to be tamed by civilized man, free to connect the garage to the road in its own natural savagery. Circumstances wholly beyond my ability to predict or comprehend have lead me to work in a garage converted to an office at the top of a damn mountain. To reach my place of employment I'm forced to traverse a path from the dark imaginings of the Brothers Grimm. It winds its way torturously up the mountain through hairpin turns perpetually covered in ice. Through a unique combination of freak atmospheric phenomenon and spite whenever I approach this drive way clouds gather and lightning begins to spit from the heavens. Normal neighborhood things don't happen on this driveway. No car zips up to the garage. Some four-wheel drive vehicles can manage to tenuously creep along the path. Some are never seen again. My own car needs to be left behind at the Park n Ride. I'm forced to scale this hellish gap into madness on foot each day. No children play basketball here. The yawning gaps on either side swallow hoops, balls, and children. The driveway brooks no frolic or play within its sight.
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January 17, 2007
The female Bailey??
I know its a scary thought, but try to supress the terror long enough to view the video.
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January 16, 2007
“Gift”
Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving and good cheer, however that lesson seems to have been lost on DjDuk and Ripley. Both of these men conspired to give me a “gift”, this “gift” is an unholy affront to God and blight on face of mankind. Words can not describe my hatred and disgust of this item. Of all the evils of man, of all the brightly colored sugar coated poisons, of all the darkness that infects men’s harts and minds, this “gift” is among the most outrages, the most outlandish, and the most evil of things I know to exist. When my eyes fell upon this “gift” my hart sank, when my hands touched it I felt a part of my soul flee as it could no longer dwell in my tainted body, the air around it seemed to reek of an unpleasant order and my ears are hunted by the tormented whispers of all the people who’s soul it consumed.
This “gift” is a hollow box of lies. It clams to be entertainment, it clams to be funny, but it is nothing more than thinly veiled excuse to nourish the greed of the people who summed up this demonic peace of work.
With every fiber of my being, with every breath I take, and with every peace of soul I have left. I will resist, I will fight, and I will rebuke this art forum from my life. I will keep this item locked away, in a vat of holly water. Just for fear that if daemon shows up, I have a weapon to fight fire with fire.
The “Gift”: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby “Special” Edition DVD
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January 12, 2007
The danger of, "And then there were goats."
Watch out for the goat - video powered by Metacafe
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January 11, 2007
North of the 40th parallel
Subject: Colorado
Weather Bulletin - Colorado
Denver News
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of Jefferson County after a snowstorm.
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:
George Bush did not come.
FEMA did nothing.
No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm.
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.
Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 40 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
It does seem that way, at least to me.
Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living.
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January 05, 2007
Bruce Lee to fight Terrorists
Israel is trying to develop a nanotech robot that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets. They have nicknamed these flying creatures "bionic hornets". This can only mean that a Bionic Kato is not far behind.
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January 04, 2007
Another reason
As if you needed another reason to attend the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.
From their website it appears that you can rent a Flame Thrower of your very own! WE BURN!!
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