Posted in Culture, tagged born on this day, famous birthdays, november 30 on November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Born On:
1667 – Jonathan Swift
1835 – Mark Twain
1874 – Winston Churchill
1924- Shirley Chisolm
1927 – Robert Guillaume
1929 – Dick Clark
1930 – G. Gordon Liddy
1937 – Ridley Scott
1943 – Terrence Malick
1947 – David Mamet
1952 – Mandy Patinkin
1965 – Ben Stiller
Posted in Culture, tagged Austin, Blogging, Entertainment, Humor, old el paso, tacos, texas on November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today, Tacos. Tomorrow, The World.
You no longer have to load your bountiful taco shells lying down on their sides. They will now stand up to your gluttonous, spiced meat concoction.
But this doesn’t speak to my needs. I will only be satisfied when Old El Paso makes a shell with a reinforced bottom because I am tired [...]
Posted in Television, tagged Entertainment, Holidays, Humor, november, thanksgiving, wkrp on November 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Culture, tagged creativity, Entertainment, free time, Humor, mental health break, mozart on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Apparently I am not creative enough with how I use my free time.
Here’s 40 seconds of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40
I could live a few more lifetimes and not have that thought cross my mind.
Posted in Culture, tagged curly neal, Entertainment, harlem globetrotters, Humor, james lesure, look-a-likes, separated at birth on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We all remember The Harlem Globetrotters, right?
And, of course the most famous, with a 30 year stint (and favorite son of North Carolina) was the aptly named, Curly Neal.
It seems Curly fathered a son years ago that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves: One of the stars of NBC’s “Las Vegas” ( – though he changed his [...]
Posted in Culture, tagged cav puppy, cavalier king charles spaniel, cutest puppy, puppy names, ruby on November 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
How about Rocky or Chief or Brutus or or Ranger or Fozzie or Rudolph or Radish or Pickle or Cheerio or Dasher or Oliver or Caboose or Clay or Duke or Templeton or Scully or Ptolemy or Radcliff or Boo Radley or Boyd or ….
Posted in Caption This!, tagged Blogging, Entertainment, Group photo, Humor, odd pictures, old photos, sound side, weird vacation photo, you caption it on November 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Why is Nona taking the picture? She’s the one who is seasick.”
Posted in Internets, tagged cannibal the musical, Entertainment, Humor, shpedoinkle, trey parker on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
But, seriously, I saw reporters filing their stories from outer space last night. I mean that has to be the reason they were hologrammed into the CNN studio. That, or just huge fear Wolf Blitzer’s beard? Holograms?!? We are now using holograms for no apparent reason? Hmmmm…
Posted in Television, tagged Blogging, Entertainment, history channel, Humor, Reviews, tv on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is with all these programs on yeti and chupacabra and aliens and UFOs?
I think I liked you better when you were just WWII and Nazis and Hitler. Maybe.
I’ll even take the “History’s Mysteries: The Wheel” or “Amazing Discoveries:Water” Just make sure you keep getting Edward Herrmann to narrate everything.
Thank you.
Posted in Culture, tagged birthdays nov 3, famous birthdays, historic events, History, november 3rd, on this day in history on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
1911 – Chevrolet first enters the automobile industry in competition with the Model T
1913 – US introduces the income tax
1957 – USSR launches Sputnik 2 first animal in orbit
1964 – Washington, DC residents able to vote in the presidential election for the first time
1973 – NASA luanches Mariner 10 towards Mercury, becomes first space probe [...]
