For Meredith

For anyone who has ever played a cello, or knows someone who does. A rant against Pachelbel’s Canon by Rob Paravonian. Even if you never watch these things, check out this one. Awesome.

Paperback Believer

I’m feeling irreverent today. Here’s a mash-up for the Beatles’ Paperback Writer and The Monkeys’ Daydream I’m A Believer. Oh my …. I think it’s getting heavy play today because I had some streaming problems the first time through. If it stutters too much, try again later.

Passing judgment

While I generally avoid Digg, I do read the headlines via RSS. One came across this morning with this title: Stunning size 12 model branded “too fat” for TV, so I clicked through to see what the story was. It was a link to this Daily Mail (UK) piece about the “Make Me A Supermodel” [...]

Honor among thieves

Let’s hear it for criminals to the north. RED DEER, Alta. (CP) — A Red Deer man has been jailed after an outraged burglar spotted massive amounts of child pornography on his computer and called police. The burglar used a video camera he’d stolen from the residence to record the computer images, called police to [...]

Random bullets ala Parts-n-Pieces

Happy thing: leftover turkey and stuffing – and not having to cook today Happy thing: cranberry juice and 7-Up punch Happy thing: not having to leave the house on Black Friday Happy thing: my maroon Powell’s Books t-shirt Happy thing: snow on the mountains but not down here in the valley Happy thing: Gonzaga beat [...]

Happiness is ….

Flamingo socks.

Please, demean me some more

(This item for those who don’t read much in the feminist blogs. Better late than never.) Bush has given us a new asshat, and put him in charge of $283 million in annual family-planning grants which, according to HHS, are “designed to provide access to contraceptive supplies and information to all who want and need [...]

WWJD?

The Rev. Joel Hunter was recently elected president of the Christian Coalition of America, an organization founded in 1989 by Pat Robertson, but won’t be taking the helm as planned. From the Southwest Florida Herald Tribune: Hunter, who was scheduled to take over the socially conservative political group Jan. 1, said he had hoped to [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

The ultimate classic Thanksgiving Day tv episode. “With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!” from WKRP In Cincinnati.

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