September 23, 2008
Enough Is Enough
I took about 250 records (you know, vinyl LPs) to Joe’s, hoping he’d buy ’em all. I managed to get a decent check from him, but he only took 50 of ’em! I had to lug all the damn leftovers back to my apartment.
I can’t blame him for not wanting a double-LP Maynard
I am surprised by what Joe’s did buy. He passed on what I thought were some choice Oscar Peterson sides, but he took The New World Money System?
I don’t even know what that record is. Maybe it holds the answer to solving the world’s current economic woes. If so, I mos def shoulda got more for it than what Joe’s gave me. But, really, I love Joe’s.
Anyway. Got about 200 records that I don’t want anymore. Any takers? No?
I’m gonna die under a pile of this stuff. I know it.
Got You Covered
Didn't even know these awards exist, but I'm not surprised: Magazine Publishers of America announced the finalists of their best magazine cover awards for 2008. This one should win, cuz the competition is none too stiff (har har):
Lamest College Ever
Here's a kinda neat site that tracks the electoral vote on a daily basis, based on polls and whatnot. They have some news/analysis, too, which, in my opinion, skews slightly left--just like the country, apparently.
September 17, 2008
Do you guys like scrambled eggs?
I like scrambled eggs. I eat a lot of scrambled eggs these days on account of my ulcer(s?). The eggs provide good, cheap, bland protein for a growing boy like me. At the Wash. Post site there is a slideshow that tells you how to scramble your eggs to perfection using indirect heat.
My friend Hambone taught me to remove my frying pan from heat just before the eggs look done, and that keeps ’em fluffier and better. I’ve done that for years, but now I’m gonna try to cook my eggs double-boiler style and see if I don’t like that better.
Always,
Heloise
I like scrambled eggs. I eat a lot of scrambled eggs these days on account of my ulcer(s?). The eggs provide good, cheap, bland protein for a growing boy like me. At the Wash. Post site there is a slideshow that tells you how to scramble your eggs to perfection using indirect heat.
My friend Hambone taught me to remove my frying pan from heat just before the eggs look done, and that keeps ’em fluffier and better. I’ve done that for years, but now I’m gonna try to cook my eggs double-boiler style and see if I don’t like that better.
Always,
Heloise
August 25, 2008
The Most Adorable Poo-Poo Sucker in the Whole Wide World
The sole toilet plunger they have in stock at my local Target is ridiculous. It has a "stylish" clear plastic handle. It is like the one pictured above. A toilet plunger does not need to be gussied up. One shouldn't display a toilet plunger. One shouldn't try to show off for friends and guests using a toilet plunger. When it comes to a toilet plunger you want something that doesn't draw attention to itself. A wooden handle and red rubber plunger is all that is needed. Thank you.
The sole toilet plunger they have in stock at my local Target is ridiculous. It has a "stylish" clear plastic handle. It is like the one pictured above. A toilet plunger does not need to be gussied up. One shouldn't display a toilet plunger. One shouldn't try to show off for friends and guests using a toilet plunger. When it comes to a toilet plunger you want something that doesn't draw attention to itself. A wooden handle and red rubber plunger is all that is needed. Thank you.
July 20, 2008
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da – Batmang!
I saw the Batman movie today in Bethesda. The popcorn made me feel sick but the movie was good. There was some douchebaggery there at the very end, but the movie was good. The chap they have playing Batman these days makes me wonder how anybody accepted Val Kilmer and George Clooney in those Joel Poomacher Batman flicks from the 90s. I guess those were simpler, more carefree times. You know, pre 9/11 and whatnot.
But doesn’t this picture just make you want to barf?
For real.
Heath Ledger as the Joker was fine. I don’t know what an Oscar is really worth anymore, but if Reese Witherspoon took one home for that time she played June Carter Cash, Heathcliff Ledger could have one, too. Poor bastard.
Heathcliff, Heathcliff, no one should / terrify their neighborhood / but Heathcliff just won’t be outdone / playing pranks on everyone / whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh etc…
I heard some classic Johnny Cash and June Carter on the radio last night. Hell and damn if that sound don’t just make a person want to slap Reese Witherspoon and Wha-Keen Fee-Nix across dey moufs for the imitation.
Reese Witherspoon looks pretty good here:
I would like to have my hair done like that someday.
Reese Witherspoon dates Jake Jill-in-Hall who is brother to Maggie Jill-in-Hall, who was in the Batman movie I just saw, along with poor Heathcliff, who made out with Jake Jill-in-Hall in that gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain. I’m almost certain that somewhere in that mess of incestuous Hollywood action, two people became half-cousins (at least)---but I don’t know who.
That Brokeback to the Future video from a couple years back sure was funny.
Damn it all to hell—there was something else I wanted to say about Batman. I forget.
I saw the Batman movie today in Bethesda. The popcorn made me feel sick but the movie was good. There was some douchebaggery there at the very end, but the movie was good. The chap they have playing Batman these days makes me wonder how anybody accepted Val Kilmer and George Clooney in those Joel Poomacher Batman flicks from the 90s. I guess those were simpler, more carefree times. You know, pre 9/11 and whatnot.
But doesn’t this picture just make you want to barf?
For real.
Heath Ledger as the Joker was fine. I don’t know what an Oscar is really worth anymore, but if Reese Witherspoon took one home for that time she played June Carter Cash, Heathcliff Ledger could have one, too. Poor bastard.
Heathcliff, Heathcliff, no one should / terrify their neighborhood / but Heathcliff just won’t be outdone / playing pranks on everyone / whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh etc…
I heard some classic Johnny Cash and June Carter on the radio last night. Hell and damn if that sound don’t just make a person want to slap Reese Witherspoon and Wha-Keen Fee-Nix across dey moufs for the imitation.
Reese Witherspoon looks pretty good here:
I would like to have my hair done like that someday.
Reese Witherspoon dates Jake Jill-in-Hall who is brother to Maggie Jill-in-Hall, who was in the Batman movie I just saw, along with poor Heathcliff, who made out with Jake Jill-in-Hall in that gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain. I’m almost certain that somewhere in that mess of incestuous Hollywood action, two people became half-cousins (at least)---but I don’t know who.
That Brokeback to the Future video from a couple years back sure was funny.
Damn it all to hell—there was something else I wanted to say about Batman. I forget.
August 31, 2007
I am shopping for a Mac. It's because I enjoy overpaying for things. (I will purchase your Redskins and also Van Halen tickets.) In all the research surprisingly required to buy product from a company that offers, like, 4 computer choices, I stumbled upon all this stuff about how Apple might soon announce that iTunes will carry the Beatles catalog.
It's cute to see people getting excited to pay 99 cents for a bunch of old songs that have been available (illegally) online since even before Shawn Fanning could (legally) buy beer.
But then there is this rumored "Yellow Submarine iPod" that is supposedly designed to look like that place Ringo claimed we all live in. (And maybe we do all live in a yellow submarine, but somehow I think Ringo's assigned quarters are a bit more posh than mine, and Paul's more than Ringo's.) I'm down for an iPod that looks like the Yellow Submarine because I will buy almost anything with a Beatles tie-in (I hope my Maxwell's Silver Colostomy Bags don't expire before I get to use them in old age). So sign me up for a Yella Sub iPod.
According to your Wikipedia, the song "Yellow Submarine" was released just when the brouhaha over John Lennon's "We're bigger than Jesus" remark was coming to a full, vinyl-melting boil.
Still no ChristPod on the horizon. And, yeah, still no Yellow SubPod. But I'll be here to chalk the scoreboard (or not) after Steve Jobs underdresses for another round of meet the press on Sept. 5.
July 27, 2007
Fleharty says: Freedom means you learn to say “NO” when you can say “YES”
For over a year now I have owned one of those space pens that Seinfeld made famous. The kind the astronauts use to write in zero gravity, it’s supposed to allow you to write upside down. And it does, quite well. To boot, it’s a very nice ball-point with smooth writing action and a compact design. Thing is, you just don’t have a need to write upside down in day-to-day life. I don’t, anyway. Seems like that would make my neck hurt. My wrist, too.
The side of the pen is emblazoned with gold-colored lettering spelling out FLEHARTY IN 08, and then the web address for the obscure presidential candidate Rick Fleharty. He is a man who takes great pride in being American but who is not without his criticisms of the way things have been going in the USA--not for just the last eight years but the last 48. He also sports a mustache and a long, golden Foghat hairdo. He won’t be my choice in the 2008 election, but he’s my kind of American.
Thanks for the pen, Rick.
flehartyusa.com
For over a year now I have owned one of those space pens that Seinfeld made famous. The kind the astronauts use to write in zero gravity, it’s supposed to allow you to write upside down. And it does, quite well. To boot, it’s a very nice ball-point with smooth writing action and a compact design. Thing is, you just don’t have a need to write upside down in day-to-day life. I don’t, anyway. Seems like that would make my neck hurt. My wrist, too.
The side of the pen is emblazoned with gold-colored lettering spelling out FLEHARTY IN 08, and then the web address for the obscure presidential candidate Rick Fleharty. He is a man who takes great pride in being American but who is not without his criticisms of the way things have been going in the USA--not for just the last eight years but the last 48. He also sports a mustache and a long, golden Foghat hairdo. He won’t be my choice in the 2008 election, but he’s my kind of American.
Thanks for the pen, Rick.
flehartyusa.com
May 17, 2007
"Maybe is the Kitty ain't dead?"
(I'm going to go to New York City to say Happy Birthday to a typeface at the Museum of Monstrous Art.)
But mostly I write the words here to put up that I didn't think Spider-Man 3 was very bad at all and I never really liked the first one all that much.
(I'm going to go to New York City to say Happy Birthday to a typeface at the Museum of Monstrous Art.)
But mostly I write the words here to put up that I didn't think Spider-Man 3 was very bad at all and I never really liked the first one all that much.
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