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Sunday Shopping Sights
When we were out shopping yesterday, I came across a couple of things that amused me.
The first was a sign for the Optimist Club Christmas Tree Sale. Although I'm sure it's a wonderful sale full of beautiful trees that would be a nice addition to anyone's home, I couldn't help but imagine a lot full of, well, this:
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A Guy and Two Girls Walk Into a Bar...
We made good time from Evanston to Chicago, and were fortunate enough to find parking within a block of our destination - an important thing on a cold, windy Chicago night. We had gone out to eat with several members of Jen's family, but now it was just the three of us: me, Jen and her cousin Jess, just in town for a few days. Jess is one of our ( Read more... ) -
Maybe I Inspired Him?
A while ago (was it really a year and a half ago? Yikes!), I mused on what would happen if we held a new Constitutional Convention - if we had a gathering that sought to write a new Constitution for America.
Apparently, I wasn't the only one wondering about such a thing. Political analyst Larry Sabato just came out with a book, A More Perfect ( Read more... ) -
Shadow Government
The world is always a little better when there's a new They Might Be Giants video out there.
Check out this one for "The Shadow Government" off their album The Else. It's just as quirky and catchy and fun as you'd expect a TMBG video to be:
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The Trouble With CSI
In the past year or two, we've taken to CSI, to the point where we've gone back and rented the DVD sets of the earlier seasons. This has been, generally speaking, a worthwhile pastime, but it has one very annoying side effect ( Read more... ) -
The Coming of the Ninja
I think it was thirteen, fourteen years ago I first saw Ninja # (yes, that's pronounced "Ninja Number ( Read more... ) -
Funny thought...
Not so much "ha ha" funny, as "ooh, what's that smell?" funny ( Read more... )
