Jul 17, 2009

Divers Attacked by Jumbo Flying Squid

Flying quid? For real?





And apparently the maw isn't the only thing you have to beware of with these evil suckers. They even have teeth in their tentacles.

The squids have been spotted near the beaches of San Diego.

Jul 7, 2009

I Hate the Bizarre Media Circus Surrounding the Sad Creepy Man who Cut Up His Own Face

This has to stop. The man was sad, creepy and weird, and that he cut up his own face.

I liked the guy. He was a talented performer, a great dancer, and a consumate entertainer. I hope he's in a better place now.

But why did he do that to his own face?

Here is the BEFORE photo, what he USED to look like:


He was a good looking guy. A normal, average-looking dude with some sex appeal and a wicked-awesome afro that white guys like me can only envy.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the face in the above photo. MJ looks great. He could go his whole life looking like that and everyone would love him.

Instead, he chose to become this AFTER photo:


He was hideous. I cannot look at his mutilated face without wanting to vomit. It is utterly horrific, what he did to his face.

And he did it on purpose.

The man cut up his face.

I don't care what excuses anyone serves up to explain this away. "He never had a normal childhood." Waa. "He had 'Daddy issues.'" Boo hoo.

It does not change the horrific fact that he

Cut.

Up.

His.

Face.

Let's not kid ourselves. He is not an "icon." He is sad, creepy and weird.

The fact that Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton are boostering a man who so obviously wanted to disown his Black heritage is beyond parody. Everything about MJ's funeral is beyond parody. You couldn't make fun of it if you tried.

And, believe me, I've tried.

But Michael Jackson is dead now, and he should be left to lie in peace. Remember him, if you will, as he was before he lost control. Or else, remember him as a cautionary tale of what you do not want to become when fame threatens to eat your soul alive. But do not remember him as an icon. He certainly was not that.

If you absolutely need a fallen hero to worship, there are plenty of normal ones to go around.

Jul 4, 2009

Patriotic Post

Jun 4, 2009

People Born on June 4th in History

Angelina Jolie - American actress (1975)
Noah Wyle - actor, Dr. Carter on the show ER (1971)
Cecilia Bartoli - Italian Musician (1966)
Andrea Jaeger - tennis player, retired as a teenager (1965)
Freddie Fender - country singer (1937)
Mort Zuckerman - Canadian-born American magazine editor, publisher, and real-estate billionaire, US News and World Report, New York Daily News (1937)
Ruth Westheimer - “Dr. Ruth” (1928)
Priscilla Morrill - actress, played Edie Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1927)
Robert Earl Hughes - heaviest known human at 1,070 lb (1926)
Dennis Weaver - actor, Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama, McCloud (1924)
Nina Vyroubova - Russian/French ballerina (1921)
Howard Metzenbaum - United States Ohio Senator between 1976–1995 (1917)
Christopher Cockerell - inventor of the Hovercraft (1910)
George III - King of England during the American Revolution (1738)
Francois Quesnay - French personal physician of Louis XIV (1694)


Happy birthday, Mom.

May 22, 2009

People Born on May 22 in History

Here's a list of people in history who were born on May 22:

Greg Jones - linebacker for the Washington Redskins ( 1974)
Aaron Graham - corner for the Arizona Cardinals (1973)
Alison Eastwood - daughter of actor Clint Eastwood (1972)
Naomi Campbell - actress, appeared in Cool as Ice (1970)
Morrissey - British songwriter; the more you ignore him, the closer he gets (1959)
Lisa Murkowski - Alaskan Politician (1957)
Theodore Kaczynski - the Unibomber (1942)
Bernard Shaw - CNN news correspondant (1940)
Harvey Milk - that gay guy Sean Penn played in that one movie (1930)
T. Boone Pickens - that guy in the "Pickens Plan" commercial (1928)
Arthur Conan Doyle - author, Sherlock Holmes (1859)
Albrecht Grafe - pioneer of eye surgery; founder of modern ophthalmology (1828)
Richard Wagner - German composer, the Ring cycle, Flying Dutchman, other songs you've probably heard on Disney's Fantasia (1813)

Happy Birthday, Pat and Mike!

May 19, 2009

INCREDIBLE OFFER!

"ROOM" FOR RENT! (Really just the corner of my garage.) "Fully" "furnished"; has couch that turns into bed (if you lie down on it).



Pleasant view of circuit breaker box (NOT allowed to touch). Easy access to lawn mower if you should happen to want to mow my lawn for me (HINT! HINT! HINT! **wink wink wink!!!** ;D <----(winking open-mouth smiley face is not-too-subtle hint that you really ought to volunteer to mow my lawn seeing as I'm letting you sleep on a couch in the corner of my garage!)) Rent starts at $1,450 for the first month and we'll see how it goes from there! BID WITH CONFIDENCE!

May 7, 2009

Movie Review: Ladder 49

Starring Joachim Phoenix, John Travolta and Robert Patrick.

Every single person in this movie is a fireman, but none of them have mustache. Who are you trying to fool, guys?

Even Joachim Phoenix, who has that weird upper lip thing. You'd think if anyone was going to grow a mustache, it would be the guy with a weird upper lip thing who was also a fireman. This makes it difficult to believe his character.

One star out of twenty.