Thursday, July 31, 2008
snaaaaake, it's a snaaaaake
My mother, who was raised in Virginia in the 40's & 50's, would tell the story of the day that her sister went missing. The family searched and searched for her, calling her name and frantically trying to find out where the little rag-a-muffin had gotten to, all to no avail.
Eventually, the little scamp turned up, unaware that anything was going on or that she was the source of all the commotion. After what I'm sure was much screaming and yelling and probably a smack or two, she informed the gathered family that she had spent the day under the house, playing in the crawlspace with "all the little worms".
My grandfather went under the house and found a nest of copperhead that had taken up residence. These of course are rattlesnakes, but you get the idea.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
And about damn time
 | Wednesday, 40 years after limping home from Vietnam, Rudy Thomas, 64, a Trinidadian immigrant, took the Oath of Citizenship in the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Now he is an official American hero. From cellar.org |
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
From the Monica Memorial File
Drone #1: You really gotta just close your eyes and gulp it down, I find it spicy, although my daughter says it's bitter.
Drone #2: Yeah, I like it though, just don't get any on your dress, it's a bear to get out of clothes.
Cindel Drive
Delran, New Jersey
Drone #2: Yeah, I like it though, just don't get any on your dress, it's a bear to get out of clothes.
Cindel Drive
Delran, New Jersey
It's 5 months til Christmas...
Woman #1: What's wrong with Eddie*?
Woman #2: Oh, Eddie* gets claustrophobic in the city.
Little boy: That means he's afraid of Santa Claus!
--39th St & 6th Ave
Woman #2: Oh, Eddie* gets claustrophobic in the city.
Little boy: That means he's afraid of Santa Claus!
--39th St & 6th Ave
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
What are you looking at, Buster?
I love that the accordion player looks more involved than Mr. Keaton does.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause
Returning from a vacation to Germany in February, freelance journalist Bill Hogan was selected for additional screening by customs officials at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. Agents searched his luggage, he said, "then they told me that they were impounding my laptop."
Shaken by the encounter, Hogan examined his bags and found the agents had also inspected the memory card from his camera. "It was fortunate that I didn't use [the laptop] for work," he said, "or I would have had to call up all my sources and tell them that the government had just seized their information." When customs offered to return the computer nearly two weeks later, Hogan had it shipped to his lawyer.
From USNews.com
Shaken by the encounter, Hogan examined his bags and found the agents had also inspected the memory card from his camera. "It was fortunate that I didn't use [the laptop] for work," he said, "or I would have had to call up all my sources and tell them that the government had just seized their information." When customs offered to return the computer nearly two weeks later, Hogan had it shipped to his lawyer.
From USNews.com
Quote:
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
- Shirley Temple
While surfing the net on 'Stumble', I came across an interview with President Bush on Irish television that caused a bit of a storm in 2004. The interview conducted by the tenacious Carol Coleman of Radio Television Ireland was not aired on American television, and Bush's press officers apparently complained vociferously about the rigorous questioning.
The video shows Bush at the absolute peak of his arrogance -- convinced of his own rhetoric about Iraq, flooded with confidence from international subservience to American power, and high off a crushing military victory that reinforced his childish fantasies of American power and preeminence.
The problem was, Coleman was having none of it, and what transpired was a unique insight into the warped brain of the least respected and most hated president in the history of the United States.
The rest of the story, and the video at The Huffington Post
The video shows Bush at the absolute peak of his arrogance -- convinced of his own rhetoric about Iraq, flooded with confidence from international subservience to American power, and high off a crushing military victory that reinforced his childish fantasies of American power and preeminence.
The problem was, Coleman was having none of it, and what transpired was a unique insight into the warped brain of the least respected and most hated president in the history of the United States.
The rest of the story, and the video at The Huffington Post
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Mexican police probe "hitmen" Web site adverts
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City police are investigating classified advertisements posted on the Internet by people offering their services as hired killers for as little as $6,000, police said on Friday.
One post on the Web site, which hosts free ads for people selling old home appliances or renting apartments, advertises the services of an "ex-military hitman, professional and discrete."
The man promises a "job guaranteed in 10 days or less" and adds "I have worked in Spain, only serious offers, $6,000."
A police spokeswoman said authorities were taking the ads seriously, at a time when Mexican drug cartels and organized crime gangs are going ever more public with their tit-for-tat murders and leaving bodies and severed heads in streets.
Some 1,700 people have been killed so far this year in attacks between rival cartels and the thousands of soldiers and federal police sent out to crack down on them. Gangs often use paid assassins using high-caliber weapons for their hits.
More from Reuters
One post on the Web site, which hosts free ads for people selling old home appliances or renting apartments, advertises the services of an "ex-military hitman, professional and discrete."
The man promises a "job guaranteed in 10 days or less" and adds "I have worked in Spain, only serious offers, $6,000."
A police spokeswoman said authorities were taking the ads seriously, at a time when Mexican drug cartels and organized crime gangs are going ever more public with their tit-for-tat murders and leaving bodies and severed heads in streets.
Some 1,700 people have been killed so far this year in attacks between rival cartels and the thousands of soldiers and federal police sent out to crack down on them. Gangs often use paid assassins using high-caliber weapons for their hits.
More from Reuters
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
That's the way it's done.
Tourist: Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to MoMA from here?
Suit: Fuck you, what do I look...
Tourist, indignantly interrupting: No, fuck you, you motherfucking piece of shit. You don't want to answer, you say "I don't know". All you New Yorkers are a bunch of cock-sucking assholes.
[Suit, stunned, gives directions.]
Bystander to tourist: Where did you learn to do that?
Tourist: The Midwest.
--Outside the Guggenheim
Suit: Fuck you, what do I look...
Tourist, indignantly interrupting: No, fuck you, you motherfucking piece of shit. You don't want to answer, you say "I don't know". All you New Yorkers are a bunch of cock-sucking assholes.
[Suit, stunned, gives directions.]
Bystander to tourist: Where did you learn to do that?
Tourist: The Midwest.
--Outside the Guggenheim
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
well, actually...
Chick eating a Boston Kreme: Mmm, I love this shit.
Dude: Yeah, enjoy your pastry filled with cum.
Chick: If cum ever tasted this good, I'd never get off my knees.
--Bloomingdale's, Lexington
Dude: Yeah, enjoy your pastry filled with cum.
Chick: If cum ever tasted this good, I'd never get off my knees.
--Bloomingdale's, Lexington
Monday, July 7, 2008
No Child Left Behind
Middle school kid #1: Why do they call it "PMS"?
Middle school kid #2: I dunno.
Middle school kid #1: Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.
(hilarious laughter ensues)
Middle school kid #2: That's so funny. (pause) What's "PMS"?
Middle school kid #1: I think it's "Post Mental Syndrome" You know, when you dry up and can't have babies.
--R Train
Sunday, July 6, 2008
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