been awhile since I’ve had a music post, so here’s one for ya! think I’m going to be concentrating on posting more Cab Calloway soon.

Over on my PixelDécor site I have just released a Halloween-themed October calendar desktop pic. I’m really proud of this one, even though it’s not particularily retro. Feel free to mosie on over if you are bored.

Melly has written Sex with Dr Phil.

Blame her not me, it was *SO* funny though I HAD to post it.

Not work safe kiddies, because once you read it you’ll laugh so hard your coworkers will wonder why, then be appalled at your choice of reading materials.

A funny Article on how Sar Trek would deal with Saddam, be sure to read the enterprise one at the end. heheheh. (We all know how I feel about that icky show’s theme song already, ewwww)

Your friends will stop making fun of Steve Jobs when they see this. MS makes it so easy sometimes.

Link Via Dynagirl

I have an idea thanks to my current musical malaise.

Abast ye sailors! Trading is fun!

What we’ll do it make 1 or 2 cd’s of your favorite tuneage from your massive collections (MP3’s - pack them on there folks! No skimpy 10 track audio format discs, just the full data baby!) and then send them address you will be given given.

Show off your good taste, so like no Ricky Martin or the like unless you really think we haven’t hd it, or it’s worth hing. Make it eclectic and wild if you want. Just show share what music YOU like, or the bands you are currently into or just discovered. Then if you hae a blog, post your reviews of as little or much as you want.

If everyone likes the trade game, we can trade those same discs to the other people on the list, so now one gets the same one twice until we’re done. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Comment if you want in, and make sure you leave your email and website inthe boxes - we like to know who’se who after all!

Argh Maties!

ADDITION: Due to the eager response I’m getting I think we’ll set some ground rules.

1: You must have a blog when you sign on, the idea is we can talk about the music across a number of sites. I’ll link everyone in a box on the side so others can go and read too when it’s all done.

2: Deadline for entering is October 5th, 2002. So, start making those disks now. I will compile names at random and get everyone an address by the 7th so you can mail them ASAP. Please have them out in the mail by the 9th please.

3: Mark the discs with your name, email and URL so folks will who made it.

4: Please feel free to link this blog, I have a link over there for later vistors.

5: Ok, no Ricky Martin under ANY circumstances.

He got her at a very low point of his life and I brought them together.

It was on of those typical below-zero Ohio winter nights and I stopped to pick up a friend. I dashed inside her apartment, we dashed out, at the parking lot we hd the faintest “mew!”. There was the tiniest kitten you ever saw dashing out from under the protective heat of my car to us. I immediately scooped her up and put her in my coat. I couldn’t keep her but I’d keep her long enough to find her a home.

(Mr Man and I take in a lot of strays and have a killer record for finding homes in like almost no time. I think we have a invisible sucker marked on our foreheads only animals can read we think. A stray dog once even knocked on our door! Not kidding!)

We were on the way to Broom’s, and she rode in my coat the entire time purring like a steam engine. Arriving I pulled the tiny kitten from my coat, “Look what I found, want it?!” I asked cheerfully knowing he has allergies.

“Yes.” he gritted out brusquely, staring at her. It surprised us all. We thought he was joking.

He took her into his arms, marched up stairs and promptly gave her warm bath. In shock, my frined and I who had just arrived, went right back out and bought him a kitty care kit at the grocery store to get him by a few days. When we got home we found out she was a white cat, with tortoise patches. Not tan with black ones. And very very hungry.

After being so cold and the warm water and attention, she was immediately HIS girl. I can’t explain it other than Fain’che (It’s gaelic; and pronounced “fin-hay” LOVED Broom with every morsel of her being from that second on. A more devoted pet you wouldn’t see. This is what eventually caused the problems.

She just couldn’t stand to be separated from him, and after 3-4 years she began lashing out by peeing on his things when he went away for the weekend, or even spending too long at work. He’s tried for a year and just couldn’t b it anymore despite really loving the hell out of the cat, and hearing all he tried and went through and tested I can say positively he did everything he possibly could and put up with it far longer than I would have. He tried confining her, punishing her, getting her looked at a vet several times, changed litter types more time than he could count. Nothing worked, she continually was making statements at his weekends and long nights at the office and made sure he knew it by peeing only and often on his belongings, clothes but more usually the bed. He just replaced the mattress due to this and she did it again. He just couldn’t take it anymore after a y.

Being she’s not an outdoor cat, so the option of turning her out when he went away wasn’t really an option since he lives off a busy road and there is really no place for her to explore safely - he took her to the no-kill shelter hoping she’ll find the owner who fits her needs better.

Long story short; the cat is gorgeous long haired, knows basic dog commands and obeys them, spayed, de-clawed and very affectionate. Likes baths, riding in the car, and being petted with feet. Just missed her daddy way the hell too much when he left and showed her dissatisfaction. Needs a nice person/couple/family who is a homebody or someone is usually home most fo the time and wants a sweet kitty who doesn’t like to be alone. She lived with one of his girlfriend’s dogs for awhile - didn’t like it much but she was better with it as time went on.

Anyone in the Pittsburgh area, or someone you know who is maybe, is looking for a sweet cat that needs a lot of face time should contact me, I’ll get you details.

A flash funny - Make Your Own Bush Speech.

I need to discover some new music.

Who wants to send me discs of mp3’s? Or tell me some bands to look for on.. uhm… my sources? I’m very eclectic, so I’m pretty much open to anything.

Found a big, huge, honking dead crow in the back yard out by the utility pole. First thought: West Nile? Second thought: Thats a transformer up on that pole, did it get a shock?

Called the cops, they are no longer testing for West nile since it’s the end of the season, so they told us to double bag it with gloves and pitch it in the trash.

If it was one of the dogs’ occasional and much smaller avian victims we would have been lucky to find a wing. Granted this is a BIG bird, but if Mags had killed or just found it she WOULD have been carrying it around like a proud huntress,and it looks untouched so I think they are safe. But I’ll call the vet just in case.

Yep, Mac OSX Pop-Up Zapper really does. I watched it kill, and count, over 40 evil pop-ups alone from ONE randomly guessed porno url (hornywives.com) I visited just to test it. I had no idea that site was so evil but it was. Wow was it ever. I watched it count down in the dock. 21… 22….23…24…. just that fast.

Worth the $10. Do you own tests, passed mine with flying colors.

I hate when the fashion pundits say: “the new black is…” if the answer is anything other than black - it’s bull.

As some of you know, one of my other sites is about Snowdomes.

I just got an email from a LA Times Travel writer who wants to interview me about snowdomes and other tacky tourist items. IS that cool or what?

Now why can’t the site that I use to try to make MONEY get that attention?

Pixeldecor gets more traffic, attention and linky love than should be allowed by law. Domeorma, is almost an after thoguth site now since I moved the backgrounds of on it’s own, and haven’t updated it forever. But yet in August it was picked as a pick of the week at Yahoo.

I’m semi-famous in the medieval history reenactor (SCA) circles just about for my Beading site.

This little verybigdesign.com site seems like my underachiever.

Talos at the Iconfactory told me about these in an AIM sessiona few weeks ago, and I looked them up on eBay.

Bit Char RC cars are the hottest thing in Japan, and I just happened to find a bunch at Walgreens tonight for $12.

They charge on the remotein a few seconds for 3 or so minutes of cat-scaring fun. They are matchbox sized, or smaller and just awesome. WAY too much fun. Trust me, go get one. Especially if you have pets.

Damn dogs took out my largest pair of mystery during a wrestle-fest after I put them out, sob, sob. JUST those two! The biggest one was 14″ and as big as a large grapefruit today! Oh the humanity.

Well they aren’t actually a mystery, they are some species of “Lepiota”, and are most likely poisionous, of course.

Jenny can have nothing nice. Pout.

The fact this fascinated me this long proves I need to either get out of the house more, get a part-time job, or get some work flowing in. Anyone want to hire me?

Someone said they wanted more dog shots… here’s some pics I took yesterday

I lucked out inthe jungle, getting two Pictures of the spunky and camera shy Gary.

Over on the gravel under the tree is where Maggie likes to chill out.

Damned gravel, the backyard is littered with it along one side, from a previous owner who let his niehgbor put in a gravel drive back to this guy’s second garage where he did auto work. it’s 3-6″ deep in spots and we’d have to have a back hoe to get it all out, and fill back in with topsoil, not gonna happen soon.

Author Loses Potter Plagiarism Suit

NEW YORK –– A federal judge has rejected a writer’s claims that she was plagiarized by “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling and in turn fined her $50,000, saying she “perpetuated a fraud.”

In addition, Schwartz found that Stouffer had produced invoices for sales that never took place and submitted an advertisement from the 1980s that was later altered to include the word “Muggles.”

So, a few minutes ago, I go to let the dog’s out for last time of the night and I see these mu.

They weren’t there at 8pm. They weren’t there Mr Man said at 10pm. But at Midnight, there they are, and they are already 8″ tall (the biggest ones anyway).

We had some of these a few months back that when I looked out in the morning to let the dogs out, and I’m not kidding, they were TWICE the size of these so far. The heads were like larger than tennis balls. One was graprefuit sized. Imagine a BIG carrot, that was about the size of the STEMS. Massive, inasane, COOL! I should have shot pictures of those. These new ones are small in comparision.

No wonder medieval peoples thought rings were magical. Of course they’re not - but it’s still cool.

If these new ones are any bigger in the morning I’ll update this and put up new pics.

(BTW, I love my sony camcorder with mega pixel, steadycam, and most importantly night vision. First real use I’ve had for *that* feature.)

UPDATE: I added daytime shots.

describing all the neat, cool and wow elements of the Monsters, Inc. DVD and a breakdown of what’s what and where it’s at. 2 pages.