Wow! That was a close one!

The Jersey Shore gang almost didn't sign for a second season!

But they did.

Pity if all that talent had gone to waste!

What are they famous far again?

Here's the odd twist: Jersey Shore's second season will be filmed in Miami.

I guess so no one would have to a buy shirt.

"15 Worst TV Spin-offs Ever"

Kind of fun, from EW online. Click HERE.

Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

It's difficult now to remember how controversial this book was when it was published. The big issue was whether high school students should be allowed to read it. Holden Caulfield was seen as an anti-hero, a rebel by teenagers. To adults, he was just plain nuts.

I read it as a kid, eight grade maybe, but then I read almost everything as a kid -- even the books the city's Liberian kept under her desk. This always included the books on the New York Times Best Sellers List (me reading and her hiding). In the 1950's, where I grew up, this was somewhat dangerous for both of us.

Scary that the U.S. government banned books into the 1960's, they're only words.

It's a website that reports crimes involving meat!

Yep, click HERE. Crimes involving meat.

Need a date for Saturday night?

Looking for the ladies, go to cities with the blueish dots.

Looking for dudes, go to the cities with the brownish dots.

The larger the dot, the better your chances.

Click HERE for the full article.

Do this to Ozzie and you'd have no fingers!

Click HERE for more doggie dress-up pixs.

Higher education is a wonderful things!

Here, waste some of your Monday work day looking for unusual scholarships!

NOTE: I have sat on scholarship committees. Many scholarships receive only a handful of applications, even the non-wacky ones.

Note 2: No, I don't know who the dude in the tree is, or how they got him up there.

This is not a fake!

The Republican senator-elect from Massachusetts posed nude for Cosmo. It was for a good cause. He did it for the money.

Another right of Winter

I went to the eye doctor (Optometrist) today. I have insurance, so I needed my lenses changed. Could see that one coming!

Need salt?

The salt is on the floor of my garage. You can see the bumper of my car in the lower left.

IDOT does a great job in the winter. Before it begins to snow, trucks are sent to wait on the shoulders of the roads, all night if necessary. I had a friend who did this in the winter, until his IDOT truck caught fire and burned to toast (he's okay). IDOT dumps tons of salt, and then keeps plowing and salting until the roads are clear. Oddly, the roads often look snow covered but they are just stained white from all that salt.

On the way into town, there is an S-curve on the north side of a hill. IDOT strays liquid salt on that stretch of highway almost every night in the winter, just in case!