‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Creator Finally ‘Speaks’ — in Book Intro The Complete Calvin and HobbesBy: Bill Watterson A new Calvin and Hobbes book? I’d better let AKMA know about this. But, oh my GOD, it’s almost $95 dollars. Yes, it’s all the strips and Sunday panels and everything. But that’s a lot… yet we’re talking about Calvin and Hobbes here. Damn. I already own 3 Calvin and Hobbes paperbacks that I occasionally crack open. I loves me some C&H (if you recall, an early graphic I used here was of Hobbes “blogging.” Well, damn. It’s kind of hard to justify…
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I think we should all invest in hand sterilizer gel this year. And I think that if our Duh President is actually thinking ahead about a health threat, it’s a pretty damn scary one. He actually read a book recently about the great influenza pandemic of 1918 – the one my mom barely managed to survive when she was 3. She’s been telling me about that one all my life; there’s a china chocolate cup that she keeps in a special place on the hutch in the dining room. Apparently when she was so sick, she was given hot chocolate…
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I’ve been noticing for a while that various incarnations of Amazing Race drive readers to this blog – they search on team names, catch phrases, and occasionally on very odd but unique characteristics. Some of which are a little obscure, unless you’re as obsessed with this show as I am. Lori and Bolo TAR6: bolo s height 2 0.4 % Pink Ladies TAR8: godlewski sisters 2 0.4 % Brian and Greg TAR7: ugly hats 2 0.4 % Linzes TAR8: linz shirtless amazing race 1 0.2 % Linzes TAR8: linz shirtless 1 0.2 % Brian and Greg TAR7: it is a…
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Well, crap. I screwed up the priority on TiVo and Amazing Race: The Lame Edition didn’t record. On the other hand, we get to see Commander in Chief before Saturday, when it repeats. So every cloud has its silver lining. Last season, and every season before that, this would have been a catastrophe on an epic scale, but this season? Meh. So I’ll just make a note of who left first, and who arrived last and got eliminated. Godlewskis – Departed Philadelphia: First. Arrived Middleburg, VA: Third Gaghan – Departed: Second. Arrived: Seventh (ooooh! Burn!) Weaver – Departed: Second. Arrived:…
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Okay, usually I’m not one for seeing a lot of humor in blasphemy. But then I don’t see a lot of humor in intolerance from a son, when a famous father is known for… these types of things. CNN.com – Franklin Graham sees?’revival’ for New Orleans – Oct 4, 2005 Graham, the son and designated successor of the Rev. Billy Graham, said he doesn’t believe the devastating storm was a punishment from God for what he sees as the city’s ties to satanic worship and sexual perversion. “I’m not saying that God used this storm as a judgment,” Graham said.…
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Either way, I’m PSYCHIC. Okay, the Chicago White Sox are playing the Boston Red Sox today, first game of the AL division championships. Several of my cow-orkers are very excited and nervous just now. Actually, the White Sox were doing alright until just now when I walked into the break room to watch a couple of minutes with a rabid Sox fan. During the time it took to eat 1 (one) candy bar, 2 errors were committed and the Bosox scored 2 runs (with 2 outs and a man on). Gee, it was 6-0 Chisox when I unwrapped the candy…
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A tanker truck exploded in flames in the Bronx a short time ago – I was watching live TV via CNN at lunch. They don’t know much about it and were carefully not saying “terrorism” or anything, but it’s totally disrupted traffic and rail in the Hunts Point area, near a bridge. Apparently Amtrak runs some trains near there and the power is out along the line. There may have been a second truck and it was probably just a collision, but still. Smoke over New York? Not happy news at all.
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I was accosted just now in the cafeteria here at work; a rather odd young woman came up to me while I was looking at some new brand of energy drink called “lost.” I wondered aloud if the world really needed a beverage for fans of a TV show about people and polar bears stuck on a tropical island, and this woman decided I was her new bestest buddy. She started asking me all kinds of nutritional and relationship questions and wondered what she should drink if she was too nervous to eat and feeling all quivery from adrenaline. “Um,…
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Television Without Pity | The Amazing Race Season 8 Episode 1. Yep, it’s Miss Alli’s recap. I’m not done reading it. At least there’s plenty of raw material for her to snark with.
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Chicago Tribune | Cage names kid after Superman Nicolas Cage, who was once set to star in Tim Burton’s doomed Superman project, hasn’t let go of the Man of Steel. The Oscar winner and his wife, Alice Kim Cage, became the proud new parents of Kal-el Coppola Cage on Monday morning, Zap2it.com reports AAAAAAAAAA! I thought from the headline teaser that they’d named the baby after Chrisopher Reeve! AAAAAAAAAAA! I officially feel sorry for this kid. No word on any superpowers as yet; those apparently develop at the time of puberty.