Here's a muppet news flash

Well, it's not usually my style to announce this kind of thing... but I seem to be dating someone.  Her name is Audrey, she has anime hair, and I am quite smitten... what can I say.  I guess I could simply quote Prince and say,

"Let's go crazy
Let's get nuts
Look 4 the purple banana
'Till they put us in the truck, let's go! "

I will now open the floor for questions, comments, or complaints.

Canadians are so droll.

Got this in my email today:

"A concerned Canadian has invited you to join the georgebush.ca petition and stand side by side with other Canadians that believe George W. Bush and his administration need to be voted out of power. As Canadians, we have a special opportunity to help inform our American friends exactly how Canada feels about the current US government headed by George Bush. This November 2nd, we can't vote but we certainly can make our voices heard. Join the growing list of Canadians that are against the re-election of George W. Bush! http://www.georgebush.ca/  "

 Now, I certainly have my feelings about Dubya, but who the hell are these Canadians to have a say in this sort of thing?  I'd be willing to grant them a say in this IF I could get a say in, and open up a dialogue about the global embarrassment that is Quebec.  If your own country had it's crap together enough that an entire province wasn't regularly trying to secede from it, I MIGHT listen.  Don't do this to me Canada, I loved you so much.  Now you make me want to treat you like the Fredo to my Michael, and have you garroted.

I have nothing to say.

Still working,
still graveyards,
still not so witty at this hour of the night.

Really, it's almost 2:30 am here, and I'm just drawing a blank.  I got nothing.  I'm trying to think of the most interesting thing to me in the world right now... but... I'm pulling an Admiral Stockdale here.

This comes highly recommended.

I was introduced to www.explodingdog.com last night by my friend Audrey (who has the same name as the plant in "Little Shop of Horrors".  She's not a horror though, she's delightful.  At explodingdog.com, visitors are encouraged to leave titles to non-existent drawings, from which the site's owner, Sam Brown, draws something based on some of the suggested titles.   Some are funny, some are sad, some are actually even touching.  It's a very simplistic kind of art, and Sam himself is incredibly unassuming.  Some of my favorites are:

The Salad of the Future
thank god I saved you from those evil men
I promised myself i wouldn't do this again 
i really need to learn how to draw, i am the worst ever
maybe she'll call back
i never expected THIS! 
 
I always feel a little apprehensive sharing something that's way cool to me in a quirky way, because I worry that other people won't "get it", or think it's as neato as I do.  Still, I guess someone had to share it with me, and who knows, maybe explodingdog will be as big with my friends as Strongbad became (and you all know I introduced you to it).

 

About working graveyards

The change in normal work shift for me has been an interesting experience. It's not as hard as I thought it would be, and the late hour also means I get to work in relative peace and quiet. This is nice. I also have relative freedom to do pretty much what I like, as long as the work gets done. So far, for the most part, I read. I think I may buy one of those portable DVD players so I can watch movies. That would be pretty cool. The one cool part about working graves is that I can sleep till two in the afternoon, wake up and be lazy, and still have a completely productive (and profitable) day.

News

I'm working graveyards at the moment. It seems to be cutting into my wit a bit.

Local news, you suck too (except yours, Tamara dear)

Sometimes I forget sometimes that my major source of news is the internet. I made the mistake of watching the local Fox affiliate's news tonight. Good grief, when did the quality of news drop so steeply that even the most simple of events are teased to be major disasters. "It might be the most DANGEROUS THING IN THE WORLD, AND IT MIGHT BE IN YOUR HOUSE!!!" So you sit there, thinking "Is it peanut butter?" They think that only things are happening right now, as if for the first time to "make" the news. Like when these idiots go out on a live remote at an expressway in Portland when it's snowing and say something like "What IS this white stuff falling from the sky?!?! Are the gods angry with us!?!?!". Gee, it's only been snowing in Portland in the winter for what...10,000 years or so?

Blogger, you suck

Well, this site has been pretty much unreachable for days, I don't know... maybe blogger hosts this thing on a bloody Commodore 64. No point in updating if no one is going to read it.

Somewhere, Jon Stewart is rubbing his hands together gleefully.

US Secretary of State Colin Powel performs a version of the Village People hit disco song 'YMCA' at the conclusion of Asia's largest security meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday July 2, 2004. Powell took to the stage, dressed as a construction worker Friday, with other unidentified US diplomats to deliver their rendition of the 1970's hit song to an audience of Asia Security meeting delegates.

Yeah... I'm proud to be an American. At least when I was in Asia, I stuck to Sinatra.