Category: random idiocy
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Bugs, Mr. Rico!
There’s been a lot of publicity lately for a book I just finished reading, “Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo,” and all of it has been along the lines of “From Bras to Space Suits,” or some such nonsense. It’s a much more fascinating book than all the hype makes it out to be, not least because it… Read.
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puzzling memes
According to today’s puzzling meme, I’m supposed to feel secure in the national sense because of deer hunters: A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion: There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .. Allow me to restate… Read.
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puzzling memes
Maybe I’m missing the point of this meme, but to me, your argument is invalid when you start with the premise that North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran are better than the US because they shoot people who cross their borders. Read.
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political Godzilla
Sarah Palin? She just stomps around and makes noise. She’s a political Godzilla. – My Darling B Read.
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Sunday morning brain vomit
I’m pretty sure this is the weirdest thing you’ll see all day. Let me know if I’m wrong. “Provide two (2) forms of identification …” That parenthetical aside has always bugged me. Always. I’ve had a long, weird admiration for legalese since I learned how to write, but the addition of that parenthetical numeral has… Read.
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Kill Me Now
The song stuck in my head this morning is the saccharin-sweet teen ballad Loving You by Debbie Gibson Minnie Riperton. It’s been playing on a loop for hours. I want to die. Next-day edit: I eventually got this song out of my head without killing myself, but it came back the next day. Not only… Read.
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this is your brain on drugs
Baby, The Rain Must Fall, the song in which Glenn Yarbrough uses weather as a metaphor to tell his gal why he wants to boink other women, has been playing on a loop in my head ALL FREAKIN’ DAY! Memory is a cruel thing. In thirty years I probably won’t be able to remember my… Read.
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fiver
At the grocery store the other day, I walked in just as a guy was backing a shopping cart out of the rack and passing it to his daughter, who appeared to be about five years old. “There you go,” he told her, “get all the germs off.” The little girl obliged by taking a… Read.
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how-to
How to make a baby… …the rest of the series at My Modern Met. Read.
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thoughtful chin stroke
With a thoughtful chin stroke, I proclaim the following: All public toilet stalls shall from this day forward be installed with big, red fire bells that shall clang and clang and clang until the users thereof shall flush their dookie, because yuck. War with Syria. What could go wrong? I mean, seriously, what could possibly… Read.
