Cut and run this guy out of town

During an election debate last weekend near Chicago, Peter Roskam, the Republican candidate for Illinois's sixth district, said that his Democratic opponent wanted America to "cut and run" from Iraq.

His opponent, Tammy Duckworth, is a former National Guard pilot who lost both her legs in Iraq last year when her helicopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade. SOURCE: MSNBC

I evil

Have new neighbor.
Not friendly.
Bought new riding mower.
Hit AC unit first time out.
Knocked it off concrete pad.
I smiled.

is it just me?????

or is Blogger being a piece of junk today?????

As if the first version was not boring enough, nor the second...

The rumor is that Director Oliver Stone is planning to release a third version of his less than successful Alexander the Great, first released in theaters in 2004. The DVD was later released in two versions, both pretty much the same.

Now comes word that Stone is working on a three hour and 40 minute version that will add back in all of the gay content that studio executives made him cut from previous versions -- taking the movie from 168 minutes to a mind-bending 220.

I assume the 14-minute Colin Farrell sex tape, leaked to the Internet the last time the "Is Colin gay?" questions became a media feeding frenzy, will be released in a new 15-minute version explaining who was holding the camera.

Some of you will have no idea what I'm talking about...

The PBS station in St. Louis is in the middle of yet more fund-raising programming. To bring in the cash, they are featuring old Doo-Wop performers:

the Del Vikings -- Come Go with Me
the Penguins -- Earth Ange
the Chiffons -- One Fine Day
Jay Black & the Americans -- Cara Mia
Fred Paris & the Five Stations -- In the Still of the Night
the Edsels -- Rama Lama Ding Dong
Mel Carter --Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me

Great music, but it took me awhile to figure out why it doesn't sound quite right: when we originally heard this music it was on AM radio or old 45 records. AM radio has a tin-ny sound -- also called AM hum or hiss. 45 RPM's were non-stereo, non-hifi, and always scratchy. Doo-wop on stereo TV just sounds too good, like something new, not like something nostalgic.

Fellow blogger Graham had too much class to discuss this in his blog...

not a problem that I have:

Graham reports that a man in Serbia had sex with a hedgehog.

The hedgehog was unharmed, but probably very confused, and undoubtedly very busy telling Tootsie Roll jokes to the other hedgehogs.

The guy, well, ended up with a severely lacerated penis. Seems that hedgehogs have needles or spines much like a porcupine has quills.

It could have been much worse, of course, if the guy had played for a different team -- the needles would have been up his, well you get the general idea.

For his pain and suffering, we're going to give the guy three Crying David Beckhams:For being immensely stupid, we're giving him a full five Guy Who Thought He Could Fly:

We haven't been able to catch Osama ...

... but we did managed to bust Willie Nelson for possession of marijuana!

Officers on the scene caught a whiff of something suspicious emanating from the vehicle as soon as the driver opened the door reported Willie Williams of the Louisiana Highway Patrol.

Wouldn't the big news have been if troopers found no pot on Willie Nelson's bus?

I should have been a jeweler!

I never wear any jewelry, no rings, no watch, no gaudy gold necklace. I still should have been a jeweler. I really, really like shiny things.

I have no idea!!!!

This was new.
We could not find him.
He was asleep in the bathtub.
He clearly did not like being disturbed.

[He had his haircut today, that's why he looks so un-fuzzy.]

Moved furniture all day yesterday...

just realized that I'm walking like Ozzie Osbourne today (and I have an odd graving to eat nothing but burritos)