Former F.B.I. Official Says He Was Watergate’s ‘Deep Throat’ - and a collective wave of “meh, who cares” swept the country at the news it was no one they’d ever heard of.

Konakai.com makes me want to put on a grass skirt - which would be BAD.

We have DirecTv and there is a new commercial for the “unday Ticket” subscription service (basically you get every NFL game) based on the “Golden Ticket” song from Willie Wonka singing how awesome the thing is in HD. (The commercial is actually kinda cute)

I guess I don’t get the appeal of sports, my family never played or watched any, and Mr Man eschews all forms of televised sports, so I’ve largely been spared the task of being forced to watch games.

Big screen I can see maybe, but why HD is so darn desirable for sports? Is someone dying because they have a fuzzy drop of sweat on someone’s brow instead of a sharp one? Do you really need to see the individual blades of grass?

I just don’t get it, someone please explain.

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Judge orders Wiccan couple to expose child to their religion in divorce decree something that was never asked for by the people getting the divorce. Can you see this hitting a supreme court if not tossed out on appeal soon? I can.

Having known a few Wiccans in my time, being there are severally locally in the SCA, I have to say of the “non-traditional religions” Wicca is pretty dang pansy. It’s the pagan eqivilant of Paris Hilton’s dog. Harmless. They believe in fairies for god’s sake.

It’s all about life force, and the power of nature, benovelent spirits yada yada uada. They hug trees, pour rings of salt, light candles, hug a tree - and dance around naked sometimes in the woods. They don’t judge, they stay out of the way.

Seriously folks, Wiccans make the Presbyterians look like Hell’s Angels.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, I’d rather have a Wiccan a nieghbors than Bapitists. Wiccans would have a prettier garden and not get in my business.

It might make you drink too.

Oh where to start… The hot pink roller derby ballerina bridesmaid. The Evil Clown groomsman. The bride’s father looks like he would rather chew his arm off to escape from under a bus accident. Big eyed goth baby dolls. I wonder what they sang in kareoke, no wait, no I don’t.

However, I think it’s a nice continuity touch that the bride and groom’s “wounds” match the ones on the topper for the bleeding cake. And yes, it bleeds. I dont even think it was Halloween as it’s a recent album.

The whole thing though - just “Klassy”. My brain just can’t keep up.

The Wedding from Hell

Bleach and steel wool doesn’t remove the images from your visual coretex by the way… Shudder.

PHALLIC LOGO AWARDS the winner is one I showed here a few weeks back.

I thought I’d blog minute by minute on the Lost season finale (a show that’s had me hooked from the first time I saw it). Please feel free to chime in in the comments:

Starting off… Recapping the season highlights…

Baby crying, bad guys coming, Charlie wants a gun, uh oh.

Let’s play pirates of the south pacific. Oh, it’s a old slave ship in the center of the island. Thats a sign of the apocalypse I think.

New science teacher dude is cranky and wants validation, wah.

What a jackass Mr Teacher is - why can’t he die?

AHHH! Spoke too soon, wish granted! The TNT blew up in Teacher’s hand! Oops. I guess he’s not a reoccurring character after all.

Shut up Shannon, sick of seeing you slobber, whiny biatch. Why can’t SHE die?

Dang, can’t get two in a row I guess.

Poor Hurley the jinxmiester. Come on Jack take your shirt off and make him feel better!

Bzzzt! Not funny Locke! My heart!

NO, Don’t let crazy Danni near the baby! Noooo!!

She left the others to come back for the baby! Nooo! Oh no she was behind kidnapping Claire with Ethan!

Commercial break: Adam Sandler sucks. I bet Danni was behind the whole smoke story to get the baby!

Danni’s got the baby!

They are going the smoke, what a great plan, not.

Commercial break: How long has this guy been doing sprint commercials now? What a gig.

Tsk tsk. trying to pawn off a kid on seniors.

The raft just lost it’s good housekeeping seal of approval! They’re sinking! Ahhh! That’s what Michael gets for using cheap asian labor!

Commercial break: I am Inigo Montoya, you have high bloodpressure, prepare to die - with Crestor!

Ah, shades of purgatory theories entering the scene.

Oh oh. Charlie’s moment of decision… a plane load of H right in front of him.

Is Hurley Lactating?

This is the scary walk… kind when Frodo and Sam climbed that hill in the last movie.

Monster! ahhhh!!! Are we gonna see it???

DAMN it commercial!!!!

Mr Man and I think the monster is a evil robot right now.

It’s got Locke! What’s that noise???? It’s underground!

WTF WAS THAT? DID YOU SEE THAT SMOKE!??? It was Senescent! (MY star trek word of the day) Unholy demons of the downunder!

My faddah in law is Korean Mafia leader, he will kill you for that watch, enjoy it black man.

I bet Charlie wishes he took some heroin from the plane now… and never asks Said to help him again. Buh.

Commerical break: Dark Water - Evil slumlord movie.

More numbers making sense…

Holy shit a signal… they are only 15 miles away! Sawyer take off your shirt so they can find you!

Commerical break: Batman looks boring.

I can’t believe they are waving torches near backpacks loaded with all these sticks of dangerously unstable, drippy, leaking, 200 year old TNT.

Hurley saw the numbers!!!!! “The numbers are bad! The numbers are bad!” I was wondering when someone would see them!

Flare away! And the boat is coming back, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH A boat!!!!!!!!

The Others! They came for WALT! Not the baby! Gun fire! The shot Sawyer, those bastards! Our guys are now Shark breakfast!

The raft is burning, they are all in the drink! Walts’ being stolen, damn writers are gonna leave it there!

Commerical break: This Dancing with the Stars thing - yawn. I miss Battle of the Network Stars, nothing beats Adrain Barbeau in a tube top and spandex shortshorts.

Baby comes home… Said looks hot in that waterfall, Shannon’s gonna strip him with her tongue, watch. Oh oh Charlie brought a Virgin of the the Heroin with him.

And the hatch is damaged… and…. and… a ladder to… DAMN IT!

I think I might have to write some haiku for this one… my DVD-+RW burner just arrived. I can burn 4.5 Gig in 3 minutes.

I haven’t tried a Dual Layer disk yet, mainly becasue they were godawful ’spensive since I had to buy regular DVD’s anyway. Next time I hit Microcenter I’ll pick a couple up.

An entertainment watchdog group is asking Burger King to pull its “tar Wars”-themed children’s meals because the latest movie is rated PG-13

I’d like to mention that I have some of the toys, and they are clearly being marketed to adults. The sign at my store was the price to get two toys with an ADULT combo meal. They know who buy the toys, it’s adults half the time. And Adult Star Wars buy the the toys more than kids, because we were the kids buying the toys when the first movie came out.

I have a large happy meal toy collection from various chains. I am set if some kid comes over, if I dared to share them.

I have to say the toys are cool, BK always does such a nice job with thier promotions, the first LOTR one was amazing.

This toy set is pretty cute too, with kinda midegetized Star Wars characters from all six movies. The millenium flacon is one I got and it’s just cool, it actually has two speeds, it takes off slow then whips into “hyperspeed”. Very appropriate. And it can move, my hallway wasn’t long enough.

I guess these folks also assume all animated movies and tv shows are for kids as well.

Just when I say i need to delete some songs… Ikea by Jonathan Coulton who has many other cute little songs on his site , like A Laptop Like You which is a love ode to a powerbook. Sniff. So beautiful, sniff.

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Maybe I’m a super taster, who knows!

Today was my first day of a four day testing session at a local product testing firm in Cinci. $125 for one hour a day for four days to eat hotdogs.

Kid you not. Four hours work. I thought what the hell, sounded fun. And anyway, I have dvds to buy for the new burner I just ordered and it’s something I’ve always wanted to try after seeing it on tv. I just never knew there was a place locally that did it till someone pointed it out to us on a mailing list.

They do other testing as an be imagined with some major companies in-town like P&G and Khans. One other tests going on that I didn’t qualify for was facial moisturizer, since mainly I just don’t care about that stuff.

You file into a white room lined little walled mini-cubicles, each little cubicle has a computer, flat screen monitor and a chair. On the desk is napkins, a bottle of water, a little cup of crackers, cup of forks and a tray.

Every ten minutes or so they bring out a half hot dog on a numbered styrofoam plate, you eat it and answer the questions on the monitor as you go. Taste, flavor, saltiness, firmness, appearance - the basics. (I dunno who made #2 but it was nasty, greasy, kinda bitter, and had WAY too much pepper)

I was the last one out as I apparently actually seemed to be seriously answering the questions, I was really taking it seriously I guess. I had my ipod on to kinda drown out the clickity click and the chatter, I looked up and everyone was gone. Oops. Still it only took 50 minutes. Ching!

I think everyone else was in for the $125 because I dunno how they could answer ten questions that fast and actually consider answers.

What the next three days are gonna entail? More of the same? Do we get condiments or buns? Will it spin up to more roundtable Q&A session? I’ll let ya know. I know, it’s so exciting.

Anyhow, it was kinda interesting, and it broke up the daily grind with something new. I am gonna keep looking for more studies, I could use some mad money. Ain’t much, but works been slow and what the hell, it gives me an excuse to get out of the house and hit Microcenter or the big craft store on the way as I have to go right by them to go home.

Gotta make money to spend it right? Muhahahah!

Any article t hat mentioend people being named Ikea and Jeneral (one of my categorynames) had to be shared.

STOP BAD NAMING! See a someone considering naming kid being named stupidly? It’s your job as a human to tell the expectant parents they are being cruel morons. Slap sense into them if you have to.

I saw Revenge of the Sith today - wow. Dark as dark can be. Really good. I’ll get to some thoughts at the end here.

I got to yell as a family of handicapped hillbillies for talking through the ENTIRE movie in full voice to each other about plot points or dialog “Hrmm!”, “he told him”, ” Oh man, did you see that?”. I couldn’t have cared less these folks were handicapped, your legs being somehow incapable does not get you a free pass on your manners.

They were also clue impaired. I’d look over tat them, and they’d see me, but kept doing it. SHHH didn’t work. Everytime I’d turn ans glare at them Mr Man would remind me in unspoken words with tickle to my side that was the effect of “Jenny, no… settle down” and”I won’t bail your ass out of jail” Damn him.

The popcorn was a little over buttered and soggy I almost wanted to heave it at them - I’ve done it before. Instead, I waited till the movie was over and said “You people need to shut the fuck up when you go to a gaddamn movie”, they all gaped at me like fish, then the teenage son went to open his mouth I stomped away before Lil’Cletus could voice a half assed comeback. I heard a few people talk about the “damn talkers” as as I left. They annoyed the entire theater. I want a call button on the exit wall in the theatre, to call an user so you don’t have to leave the movie for someone else being rude and ruining it for 100 other people.

I was once again shocked how many freaking morons brought babies and children under 10 to this. For godssake did they not read a review? ANAKIN KILLS A ROOM OF 4-10 YEAR OLDS! HE BURNS TO A CINDER ON A LAVA RIVER SHORE! Willie Wonks ooged me out so bad I was screaming to go home at 7 years old, this movie would have given me nightmares and sent me to a shrink. I hate people.

Revenge of the Sith movie review/thoughts time:
Since Dave already did a big review, I won’t go indepth, but as I haven’t seen some of this mentioned elsewhere I thought I’d do it here.

Stop reading now if you hate spoilers. I MEAN IT.
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I just pulled not one, but two, white hairs out of the front crown on my head. I think I saw another too.

Having red hair makes it harder to see and mine being curly just happend to be standing up and waving, but dang.

Also have to go to a funeral today for a SCA pal who has been sick of various things that could have killed him, but just one finally did. Congestive Heart Failure which his Doctors said would kill him “in a year” six years ago.

He was just 43 and while not the most easy man to know as he was stubborn and opinionated as all get out but it doens’t mean he wasn’t worth knowing. I always found him quite intelligent, amusing and kind - but it always seemed as if there was a huge scar on his soul. He never married and never seemed to get a break in life and died alone. No one deserves that.

So I saw this article about something called Su Doku sweeping Britian on my new spiffy keen Google Homepage (Have you tried it? Drag and drop! Woah.)

Anyway, reading the article I wasn’t getting the whole “u Doku” thing so I went up and found a Su Doku Puzzle Maker, I get now, it’s hard but fun, yow.

Dave asked so here you go.

I’m sorry mine isn’t as exciting and earthy as yours, but I’m in a reto kick as of late and my favorite songs and musical tastes change every year or so. Two years ago I was majorly into old 50’s tunes, but recently I’m more flashing back to the 80’s - but I will try to be resonably eclectic.

Total Volume Of Music Files On My Computer:
17.83 GB. I need to go on a killing spree, I could trash several gigs and not even notice, but knowing me I’ll just leave them be. I come from a family of musical packrats, I get it legal. Right, FB?

The Last CD I Bought Was:
Not music, but it was “15-Minute German” I’m trying to learn to ‘prechen sie Deutsch’ for a hopeful trip there late this year or next. Musically though it was Arrogant Worms at the concert in Cinci last winter. Ripped it to iTunes, haven’t seen it since.

Online I most recently cashed in the rest of my caps to fill in my Cure collection with stuff I THOUGHT I had and then relized that I had lost it all when my CDs were ripped off several years ago. It’s all still so fresh in my mind I had a heck of time checking my library agains the ITMS… I wish they had some two pane screen or a color coded thing to tell you what you already have. On to the quiz…

Song Playing Right Now:
When I started I was watching Conan. Listened most of today to new music hotness on the most excellent woxy.com to get my modern rock groove on, but in the many minutes picking out, uploading and coding in my songs I now have itunes up and listening to Mint Car by The Cure.

Five Songs That I Listen To A Lot (Or That Mean A Lot To Me): Looking at iTunes it shows my five most played as…

Prayers for Rain - The Cure
Saturday Night - Ozomatli
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Last Train to Trancentral - Blue Man Group

(Most of those are on a playlist I like for the car, so I think my iPod play is influencing it)

The new U2 and Duran Duran Albums make an appearance on the list next… so my status as 80’s child is firmly established. Good thing the albums are really good, or else I’d be really lame.

I’ll tell 5 of my favorites that I can actually share.

Tramp the Dirt Down - Elvis Costello
Written while Margaret Thatcher was still in office in the UK, there is so much blind rage here. You could get someone else to cover it, change the name to George and sell it at Democratic fundraisers. It makes me cry nearly every time. Some indie band is missing thier big break song.

Dear God - XTC
Ditto, just ditto. I love the Brits for having the balls to such anger on vinyl (Music came on grooved vinyl discs that looked like CDs back then younguns).

When I Fall - Barenaked Ladies
Just a beautiful song - about a window washer. “frightened of jumping, in case they survive” is just a great line.

Damaged Goods - Christine Lavin
I’ve been a fan of Christine’s for years, she has the power to have you sobbing and laughing so hard you hurt in five minutes time. This song reminds me of two of my very closest friends so much it’s almost as if they were who she was thinking of as she wrote it. It’s sometimes a little painful to hear again because they deserve much better of a life than they have ben dealt.

Since they have had a few mentions thus far, it’s obvious it’s a big part of my collection. This was a tough since I limited myself to one track, but I finally chose:

Lovesong - The Cure
I think this is THE essential Cure song and wins my “only one Cure song on a desert island” spot on my one cd for all time. So many people have misundertsood The Cure, they tag it as moody, spooky and depressing - but if you actually listen to the Cure it’s anything but. Most of their music in fact, as this one is, upbeat, and wholly about love. The Cure is my rainy/any day and sunny day driving music. It’s what I blare in the house when I need to get something done. If Mr man and I had a song, buy we don’t, I’d choose this one (he’d probably choose something lame like Pink Floyd, bleh!).

Since Dave gave 5 names he wanted to hear do this thing, I’ll do five who I know read this joint.

1: Sledge
2: DaveZilla
3: Steve
4: VBB 150K winner Robin
5: Shannon

Anyone else is welcome to join in the comments too!

150,000 has been attained, after a by-a-nose race. Even the names were close with Rob and Robin in a heated browser deathmatch for truth and justice and blog geek pride.

The win was in contention for many minutes until the various video angles could be reviewed, judges assembled, competitors carefully adminsitered steroid and urine tests and checks cashed. Finally, it was determined that Robin won by a nose in a ultra close photo finish (even thier screen shots arrived in the same minute).

Being I just happen to know Robin (I used to work with her) and she’s conviniently local I can promise delivery of some properly kitschy prize on or before the evening of the Duran Duran concert in Dayton on July 26 which we just both happen to be attending.

Congrats to all who played, and stay tuned for the big 200k race!

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Nice halo. Look who thinks he’s the second coming of St Dickweed.