• Clan: McTiVo

    Ride On, Ride On, Ride On

    Amazing Race stuff! Yeah! Okay, the recap for last week’s episode brought back searing memories of far too much fly-blown, seared meat, organs and glands. Gah. But it was funny, so go read it. I just can’t quote it here, or I’ll have to go find a charming Argentinian bucket. This week: another very, very short leg. One internal flight, with – AGAIN! – spoon-fed air schedules. There’s never been a season of TAR where the teams didn’t start to do their own airport “work” so late, as far as I know. What’s the dealio? Half the comedy and drama…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Living Will

    Inspired by satirist Adam Felber’s Living Will, my husband David posted the following: Adam has the right idea here, although he puts a distinctly humorous slant on it. I’m going to be a bit more serious about it. Let’s make it perfectly clear here … I David Michael Gibbs, being of sound mind and body (more or less), do hear-by state the following for the official record: Should I ever be incapacitated, through injury or illness, to such an extent that I am unable to communicate at any level and the quality of my life is such that I am…

  • Funnies

    Nominating Hogzilla

    AKMA wonders: If there ever was a story destined to ornament the weekend NPR news quiz, this must be it. Margaret has been sending me snippets (“ ‘Our insides were just bubbling,’ said Darlene Turner”) and updates all morning. She wonders, does Accordion Guy have a line on this one? More to the point, is humorist, WWDTM panelist and blogger Adam Felber even now working on making this story just ridiculous enough to fool a contestant into thinking it’s a ringer during the “fake news” segment? I’m just bubbling inside thinking about it.