My brother explaining to my shy 2 year old nephew:
-"That's uncle Mike. Don't worry, he doesn't bite"

Me to my shy two year old nephew:
- "Yes I do, NOM-NOM-NOM-NOM!!"

He's been attached to my side for 18 hours non-stop.

Well thanks to missy_carter I seem to be back on track with Cold Muthah Jones but. as is usually the case when one project is going along, something shiny has reared itself on the horizon and thus sprung into my head today, Crazy Scheme #438. I can't go into detail about it but suffice it to say, were I to pitch this show idea to Dad's Garage, and were they ( Read more... )

Hope is damned inconvenient. The election of Barack Obama and the departure of Cheney/Bush give many of us a feeling of new found optimism. The crash of the economy has pointed out much of the folly of the greed of the so called middle-class and those who once felt themselves blissfully secure in their place in the universe are no longer so ( Read more... )

The South Park guys worked quickly yesterday. I'm sure they produced two versions of the episode but they dubbed it in with verbatim quotes from the speeches and replicated the podium well. Watch the whole episode though, it's oddly comforting, considering how bitter and divisive the campaign has been

It took less time to change the world than it did to get the free cup of coffee it earned me.

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With apologies to all, I think I'm abstaining from Halloween this year. Not in the spirit what with many of my cohorts being flung so far this year. I think eric and I are gonna go catch RockandRolla and then I may swing by Dad's, but probably sans costume. I'll make it up next year. I promise. And to all of you who are in the spirit. Have a ( Read more... )

Here's why I'm excited about voting on election day. Hokey as it sounds, it's the one day where I actually feel a connection with every inbred redneck, wine-sipping elitist, joeplumbersixpack, spoiled celebutante, dumb as a box of rocks moron, genius ivory-tower dweller, saint and reprobate, southern baptist, black muslim, fellow kike, and every ( Read more... )

As I just noted to fierce_rabbit, a co-worker of mine who is a staunch member of the GOP and supporter of McCain (Ansley Golf Club member, fortune 500 VP husband) came in this morning and said, " I can't pretend to think otherwise anymore. Obama would do a better job." She's planning on staying home election day rather than incur the wrath of her father's ghost ( Read more... )

There's two responses I would have given Senator McCain tonight were I in Obama's place ( Read more... )

She did well and I kind of expected her too. I think Biden did much better than I expected. Biden showed humanity and intelligence, not just the expected competence ( Read more... )