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Archive for May, 2008

a story

Which some of you might have read, which I have to put here to give it a URL in order to submit it to the storyblogging carnival.
Stay Gold
I don’t know how or why the rivalry started. I was born into it. By the time I was eleven or so, I knew that the kids from [...]

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Nassau County instituted a new thing last weekend – the drunk driving Wall of Shame. After cops arrest 109 people over the Memorial Day weekend (81 were actual driving while intoxicated arrests, the others were driving while impaired), those 109 people had their mugshots plastered on a wall, which served as a nice backdrop for [...]

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woof

It occurred to me that most of you have not seen a photo the cutest dog in the world in a while

Ain’t she sweet?

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Update to this article.
CNN is reporting that all the children from the Yearning from Zion ranch should be returned to their parents. ALL of them.
Regardless of what you think of these people and the way they live, regardless of how right or wrong it is, due process is something that should never, ever be [...]

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The Day the Jedi Died (I don’t write the titles, by the way).
This is my third article – got another one I’m working on for next week. I’m a working writer! Getting to rant against my sworn enemy, George Lucas, is just icing on the cake.

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hudson hawk

Ok,so I live nowhere near the Hudson, I just felt like naming the post after a really bad Bruce Willis movie.
Here’s the promised pics. Click to take you to flickr for bigger.

No dead, bloody pigeons were exploited in the taking of these photos.

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bad omens

Do you think it might be some kind of omen if you walk out to the parking lot at lunch time and find a huge hawk eating a pigeon on the roof of your car?
 
It was my sister’s car, not mine, so if it’s a bad omen it’s her problem.
I told her the hawk probably picked her [...]

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music meme

I got this from kali, who is sending me an awesome mix cd she made. In return, I need to complete the meme also and pick five people to send it to, who also should do the same on their blog. Thing is, I am so out of the blogging loop I’m not even sure [...]

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it’s a floor wax, it’s a dessert topping!

There comes a point where you cross the line from consumer whore to consumer weirdo. Todd crossed that line yesterday when he came home with this.
He finds the strangest things in the 7-11 by his office. Some of them (the sunkist cream soda) work out well, some of them, well…. I am starting to [...]

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pork and beans

I was kind of dreading the new Weezer, as I’ve been consistently disappointed by them since the Blue album, but I’m really digging the new song and I am in love with this video.

The video was produced by Mathew Cullen of Motion Theory (Mathew also directed videos for Beck, REM and [...]

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