- Wil Wheaton recalls the day his wife got venereal
- Palmetto Pundit looks at the Danish cartoons
- All Things Beautiful considers the Danish cartoon controversy
- Barking Moonbat Early Warning System has some more cartoons
- Those Bastards! await their death sentence
- Seawitch says time's running out for a new plan
- Texican Tattler says there's another consideration regarding guns
- Maggie Katzen is worried about Norman Bates
- Mr. Right (The Right Place) offers the Democratic family album
- Sean Gleeson looks at worst-case scenarios
- Michael J.W. Stickings looks at Google and the ChiComs
- Steve the Pirate played with the Commies
- Holly Aho (Soldiers' Angel) tells a story
- More interviews information is available here.
Friday, February 3, 2006
Picnic 2006-02-03
Items I found while perusing my blogroll.
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Soaps
I just don't understand soap operas. Now, don't misunderstand me; I've watched soap operas before. Regularly. But that doesn't mean I understand them.
Years ago, when I worked at the radio station, my schedule shifted from a near-midnight bedtime to a sunrise bedtime.
Not all at once, mind you. But a little at a time.
I worked the 7-12 shift at the radio station. That's 7:00 PM. To midnight. So, at midnight, the last record finished, a station ID was given, and ABC news started. At 12:05, I hit the cart with the sign-off. And at 12:06:40, I hit the "off" button on the transmitter.
Yes, it was a little radio station that went off the air at midnight. Unless the Braves were on the west coast.
So, I'd finish things up, verify all the doors were locked, confirm the coffee machine was loaded but turned off, check all the windows, wipe everything down one last time, and around 12:15-12:20, I'd be out the door and heading home.
Being young, single, and stupid, I'd get home and turn on the TV. And that's when channel 11 from Savannah would play their movies. The All-Knight Movie, they called it. And I'd stay up later and later, finally staying up until sunrise.
Of course, going to bed at sunrise meant sleeping till noon. Or later.
And I'd get up and turn the TV on. And one day, flipping through the channels, I ran across some soap opera that had some woman kidnapping some baby. And I watched. And kept watching.
It was One Life To Live. And I kept watching it. But I never knew why. And to this day, I still don't.
I don't watch it anymore. And haven't for over 25 years.
But the Wife watches soaps. She's a fan of As The World Turns and Guiding Light. And she began watching them a while back. But her schedule now is the same as mine, and she's not home to watch them.
But she knows how to program a VCR. Well, mostly. But enough to tape two soap operas.
So, every night, she turns the TV on, rewinds the VCR, and hits play. And I get the pleasure of watching two soaps.
Boy, I'm as happy as a pig in crap. Well, not really. But she is, I guess.
I still don't get it.
Is it that there are people who have it worse than we do and we want to enjoy their misery? That's what I think it is. But I could be wrong.
It certainly isn't the exciting, true-to-life storylines. I mean, how many people do you know that have been married to Billy (big brother), H.B. (daddy), and Josh (little brother) (and haven't been on Jerry Springer)? And have been cloned? And drove off a bridge and became a princess?
I didn't think so. And that's just one character.
So, no, it's not the true-to-life stories. It's got to be the sorry state of things that appeals to the Jerry Springer in all of us.
Maybe I do understand it. And that's what scares me.
Years ago, when I worked at the radio station, my schedule shifted from a near-midnight bedtime to a sunrise bedtime.
Not all at once, mind you. But a little at a time.
I worked the 7-12 shift at the radio station. That's 7:00 PM. To midnight. So, at midnight, the last record finished, a station ID was given, and ABC news started. At 12:05, I hit the cart with the sign-off. And at 12:06:40, I hit the "off" button on the transmitter.
Yes, it was a little radio station that went off the air at midnight. Unless the Braves were on the west coast.
So, I'd finish things up, verify all the doors were locked, confirm the coffee machine was loaded but turned off, check all the windows, wipe everything down one last time, and around 12:15-12:20, I'd be out the door and heading home.
Being young, single, and stupid, I'd get home and turn on the TV. And that's when channel 11 from Savannah would play their movies. The All-Knight Movie, they called it. And I'd stay up later and later, finally staying up until sunrise.
Of course, going to bed at sunrise meant sleeping till noon. Or later.
And I'd get up and turn the TV on. And one day, flipping through the channels, I ran across some soap opera that had some woman kidnapping some baby. And I watched. And kept watching.
It was One Life To Live. And I kept watching it. But I never knew why. And to this day, I still don't.
I don't watch it anymore. And haven't for over 25 years.
But the Wife watches soaps. She's a fan of As The World Turns and Guiding Light. And she began watching them a while back. But her schedule now is the same as mine, and she's not home to watch them.
But she knows how to program a VCR. Well, mostly. But enough to tape two soap operas.
So, every night, she turns the TV on, rewinds the VCR, and hits play. And I get the pleasure of watching two soaps.
Boy, I'm as happy as a pig in crap. Well, not really. But she is, I guess.
I still don't get it.
Is it that there are people who have it worse than we do and we want to enjoy their misery? That's what I think it is. But I could be wrong.
It certainly isn't the exciting, true-to-life storylines. I mean, how many people do you know that have been married to Billy (big brother), H.B. (daddy), and Josh (little brother) (and haven't been on Jerry Springer)? And have been cloned? And drove off a bridge and became a princess?
I didn't think so. And that's just one character.
So, no, it's not the true-to-life stories. It's got to be the sorry state of things that appeals to the Jerry Springer in all of us.
Maybe I do understand it. And that's what scares me.
Headline News 2006-02-02
From CNN:
Possible tornado slams New Orleans airport
Bush blamed
From CNN:
Paul Clinton, CNN.com film critic, dead
Gets 10 toes up
Fom ABC News:
Women Sue Wal-Mart for Not Stocking Morning-After Pill
Low morals woman sues low price leader
From ABC News:
Students in Tutus Saved From Mountain Road
Mountain men said mouths "sure looked purty"
From AFP/Yahoo:
Jack the Ripper Britain's Top Villain
Edges Tony Blair, George Bush
From ABC News:
Google Defends Censorship of Web Sites
Statement: "We made axxxxxx decision to xxxxx certain blogs because xxxxx issues were raised by xxxxxx."
From Washington Post:
King Won't Lie at Capitol
Senators and Congressmen do all the time
From CBC News:
Cartoon Inflames Muslim World
Crucifix in urine still okay
Possible tornado slams New Orleans airport
Bush blamed
From CNN:
Paul Clinton, CNN.com film critic, dead
Gets 10 toes up
Fom ABC News:
Women Sue Wal-Mart for Not Stocking Morning-After Pill
Low morals woman sues low price leader
From ABC News:
Students in Tutus Saved From Mountain Road
Mountain men said mouths "sure looked purty"
From AFP/Yahoo:
Jack the Ripper Britain's Top Villain
Edges Tony Blair, George Bush
From ABC News:
Google Defends Censorship of Web Sites
Statement: "We made a
From Washington Post:
King Won't Lie at Capitol
Senators and Congressmen do all the time
From CBC News:
Cartoon Inflames Muslim World
Crucifix in urine still okay
Picnic 2006-02-02
Items I found while perusing my blogroll.
- Feisty Republican Whore thinks like Tom Clancy does
- Julie with a B says being a liberal and all, she just has to
- Bloggin' Outloud is continuing the voting for the Best So Far
- NoisyRoom.net finds the Nevada ticket scandal goes from rock-and-roll to redneck racin'
- Jeff H. (Think Sink) looks at Donkey Math
- The Median Sib loves a loser
- The Wide Awake Cafe loves a goat
- third world county cuts loose on the ACLU
- Mensa Barbie looks at illegal immigration
- Mark Noonan (Blogs for Bush) looks at Alito's first case
- Random Yak looks at where the power on the Court now lies
- Everyman Chronicles returns!
- GOP and College looks at Cindy's shirt
- Confederate Yankee gets Iranian trolls
- Steve the Pirate asked "Where to next?"
- Holly Aho (Soldiers' Angel) muses on Saddam's attendance record at the trial [Firefox display alert]
- More interviews information is available here.
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
I Want to Join the Bad Example Clan Because
UPDATE: I made it! Thanks!
This little blog started in December 2004. Just because I wanted to see if having a blog was as much fun as reading blogs.
The first blog I visited with any regularity was Little Green Footballs. It was fun to read. And sometimes painful to read. I got to see lots of idiots on all sides of the political spectrum, but overall, the leanings of Charles Johnson and many of his readers were in line with mine.
But then I discovered humor blogs. Specifically, IMAO. And from there, I discovered Right Wing Duck. And those two blogs inspired me to start this little blog. So blame them.
But since starting this little blog, I've discovered many, many others that have become favorites. Including the blogger who has become my mentor (whether he likes it or not): Harvey from Bad Example.
I never really thought about what I liked about Bad Example ... or Harvey. I just knew I liked what I liked.
But this week, Harvey listed some things that he thinks might explain things:
This little blog started in December 2004. Just because I wanted to see if having a blog was as much fun as reading blogs.
The first blog I visited with any regularity was Little Green Footballs. It was fun to read. And sometimes painful to read. I got to see lots of idiots on all sides of the political spectrum, but overall, the leanings of Charles Johnson and many of his readers were in line with mine.
But then I discovered humor blogs. Specifically, IMAO. And from there, I discovered Right Wing Duck. And those two blogs inspired me to start this little blog. So blame them.
But since starting this little blog, I've discovered many, many others that have become favorites. Including the blogger who has become my mentor (whether he likes it or not): Harvey from Bad Example.
I never really thought about what I liked about Bad Example ... or Harvey. I just knew I liked what I liked.
But this week, Harvey listed some things that he thinks might explain things:
Headline News 2006-02-01
From ABC News:
Couple's Basement Is Flooded With Oil
Clampetts expect to move to Beverly, Hills that is
From ABC News:
Deaths in Calif. Shootings Rise to Seven
Murtha, Dean call for U.S. to pull out of California
From ABC News:
Bush sets terms for US to engage Hamas
Terms included: "When hell freezes over" and "Over my dead body"
From ABC News:
Europeans React to Bush's Speech
Germans, French upset speech was delivered in English
From ABC News:
Mexico's cowboy president guns for place in history
Was inspiration for "Brokeback Mountain"
From ABC News:
Why Is a Dog Attending the State of the Union Address?
She was elected as senator from New York
From CNN:
Alito's dance card as justice already full
Ginsberg first in line, Souter asks to be next
From CNN:
Bin Laden aide taunts Bush
Howard Dean appears on new tape
From CNN:
The things Jill Hennessy loves
Benjamin Bratt's thing, Chris Noth's thing, Sam Waterston's thing
Couple's Basement Is Flooded With Oil
Clampetts expect to move to Beverly, Hills that is
From ABC News:
Deaths in Calif. Shootings Rise to Seven
Murtha, Dean call for U.S. to pull out of California
From ABC News:
Bush sets terms for US to engage Hamas
Terms included: "When hell freezes over" and "Over my dead body"
From ABC News:
Europeans React to Bush's Speech
Germans, French upset speech was delivered in English
From ABC News:
Mexico's cowboy president guns for place in history
Was inspiration for "Brokeback Mountain"
From ABC News:
Why Is a Dog Attending the State of the Union Address?
She was elected as senator from New York
From CNN:
Alito's dance card as justice already full
Ginsberg first in line, Souter asks to be next
From CNN:
Bin Laden aide taunts Bush
Howard Dean appears on new tape
From CNN:
The things Jill Hennessy loves
Benjamin Bratt's thing, Chris Noth's thing, Sam Waterston's thing
Picnic 2006-02-01
Items I found while perusing my blogroll.
- The Steel Deal finds why some British ham tastes like crap
- Michael Bates (BatesLine) says the south Tulsa bridge issue is taking its toll
- Brian Skinn (A Short Course in Chaos) finds another reason to buy used
- Kim (Ramblestrip) finds the cloning procedure almost worked
- Generation Why? recycles an oldie but goodie
- Cry Freedom gets a new look
- Moe (Moe's Woes) finds animals can act human
- BurgandySkies (Pererro) looks at the nominations of awards for movies no one has seen
- Confederate Yankee takes issue with Dubya on the borders
- The Commissar (The Politburo Diktat) draws three of a kind
- Jo's Cafe has word on a recall of blood sugar meters
- AmyEAllen (Obiter Dictum) looks at Chafee's vote on Alito
- Iowa Voice is encountering difficulties ... and is asking for your help
- Steve the Pirate is taking the week off
- Holly Aho (Soldiers' Angel) offers a little about herself
- More interviews information is available here.
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