St. Louis. What do you say ( Read more... )

Well, the lady and I are in the midst of another one of our "Head-First" mini-vacations, this time to Ye Olde Rivere Towne of St. Louis. It's her last full weekend off for almost two months, and with July Shutdown coming up, Brahman knows I'm going to be busy in the next few weeks - so we thought a little trip was in order ( Read more... )

Heard at a nearby department store:

"Look, Mommy! That woman looking at the scarves has a dog in the store! Is she blind?"
"Honey, from those scarves, you could tell she was blind long before we saw the dog ( Read more... )

I must have quite a reputation ( Read more... )

And the bizarreness continues. Damn - this is becoming a series ( Read more... )

Another twist on the bizarre karma of late:

A particularly violent storm hit Indiana on Sunday, spawning several tornados and stopping The Race short. My parent's house was in the path of one touch-down (although my parents didn't take the storm seriously until The Weather Channel said, "Tornados have been spotted here!" while the map zoomed in on ( Read more... )

I was going to post a cute little something to celebrate my 100th post, but life has a tendency to get in the way of plans ( Read more... )

"I think I've found the problem ( Read more... )

A few of you have posted previously, looking for good albums to get. And, every time, I keep forgetting a big one: Peter Gabriel's US. An absolutely fabulous album - great songs, high replay value. If one ever needed an excuse to get a good sound system, this would be it.

Seduced by the noise and bright things that glisten ( Read more... )

Janeane Garofalo nailed it on the head recently on the Daily Show: "The country is so divided right now, I'm beginning to think that voting Republican is a character flaw."

In related political news - in this time of war on both moral and political fronts, a new special interest group is lobbying to get more Americans outdoorsOn the normal side of ( Read more... )