my brother and his wife, originally uploaded by verybigjen.

This is my brother FunkyBlue (Chris) and his lovely wife - now expecting a minty fresh fetus sometime in the new year ! I get an IKEA and a niece or nephew in 2008, how cool is that?

Now I get to corrupt a minor! Buy toys at xmas for an *actual* kid! Teach the twerp to spell and curse in the Queen’s Enlish and draw obscene body parts! Babysit - uh… watch other people babysit! Woo!

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Catch all my pics from the fantabulous Dayton Ohio show here.

He came into the audience and I was on the center aisle (our row seven seats were double sold - damn you Ticketron!) I think I’m okay to day with that by some of these pics.

A week ago I started putting my pincushions that I make up on etsy. For those that don't know it's like a online craft fair. You set the price and people pay it or they don't, no bidding and the listing fee is dirt cheap. It's a really inspiring place as a crafter and a web geek as some of the tools are just stunning to use.

Anyway response for my crap was immediate, nine sales the first day, and a few days ago, I got another order for over $65.  I guess all those fans I have on flickr were in a feeding frenzy. Works for me, we gots doggies to feed.

So today, I wanted to add a button to match my Relatively Hip buttons in the sidebar so I made one, and I'm putting them here for anyone else who wants them, or who googles for them. They are based on the buttons I blogged earlier from utombox.com

There wasn't a fanclub she wasn't in it seems, except this one.

If you know my Mom, groupie-ism is a running theme. It's always been about the music, and the fan clubs, and the concerts. She measures monetary worth in CD's (and not the investment kind)

And her legacy to me is more of the same. My Duran Duran passion in the 80's was approved of by mom since they were English. But other music was always okay to, like Weird Al was a family love. We all dug Al.

Tonight that's where I will be - Weird Al in concert, Fraze Pavillion in Dayton, row seven, fairly front and center. (GG 15/16 if you are coming say hi!)

Actual packaging. Very unfortunate warning label., originally uploaded by codder.

Dave didn’t have the nerve to blog this on his own, so I get the privilege.

It's perfectly okay to punch the "youngsters" when they don't know that Hairspray was already a movie… that inspired a musical… that inspired another movie. I checked.

You can't pay me to see it. I try not to pad the pockets of Scientologists. And who ever thought up Travolta in drag needs shot, he is one awful looking broad. I'm so over the men in fat lady suits thing, I blame all those black comedians who seem to be tucking it in pantyhose way too often. It wasn't funny the first time, even less so now.

For the record, it wasn't that Tracy's mom was just a man in drag, it was that Tracy's mom was Divine. Divine even then was a whole level of her/his own. 

Tonight I commented that using a search engine other than Google was "slumming".

Just wanted to put that down in time stamped print should I ever need to prove I started saying it first.

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HA!

Mother in-law is in the hospital after a common procedure that required emegency surgery and now a week of hospitalization, so I haven’t been on the nets much. But I have a few things.

LOW:

Eighteen years after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling on Muslims to kill him, a government minister in Pakistan said yesterday that Rushdie’s recent knighthood justified suicide bombing. Link

HIGH:

Nothing beats a humble and slightly dumpy little cellphone salesman who can sing like this:

He went to the semifinals, and then the finals, then won whole thing and since wowed the entire world as it spread across the intarnets. It’s just fabulous to listen to the crowd just explode each time, and he beat the tar out of the cute as a button 6 year old blonde girl, that would have never happened in this country. Anyway it’s a great story.

Yes, opera makes me cry.

NBC’s Zucker Courts Jon Stewart

NO!!! Jon Would be retarded to take that deal. CC already gives him incredible freedom and the ability to say many naughty words. You can tell he's as happy as a pig in crap. I really can't see him bailing. He'd be so limited, especially seeing how well going 'Network' went for his predesessor Craig Kilborn.

John if you are googling yourself now and reading this - DON'T DO IT!!! 

UtomBox is where I got my chunky block flickr/rss etc buttons down below… just blogging it so I can find it if asked again. I resized them, and made the LJ one, but past that it's all theirs.

Anyone else notice that you seem to need a PhD in mathematics to buy toilet paper anymore? And I  just can't recall a time in my nearly 38 years when the TP took up so much store shelf space. My Krogers has over 40 foot of multilevel shelving for it alone.

Single, double, triple, mega, ultra rolls, even special rod extenders. You have to stand there and seriously calclate which combination of sale price and roll size will fit your wallet and the small space under your sink… this pack is equal to 16 rolls, this one 36… that pack the size of a VW bug will have you wiping till your retirement party but where do you keep it? I'm not even getting into ripples and ply and all that. I'm losing brain cells  as it is.

And, thank god that colored tissue has not been brought back from the dead - the stores would have to put on a second floor.

When I was sixteen dreaming about my life as a big grown up art person, I never saw myself considering the varietal nuances of toilet paper logistics. Ah, life in America.

Only seems to appear at the tail end of the embedded videos to let you scan related clips…

YouTube is obviously moving in a new interface - nice theft of the OSX dock eh?

This Daily Kos report is about a new and fairly local attraction Fun at the Creation Museum!!!! (my field trip to CrazyLand). I like the dictate given to visitors - “Don’t think, just listen and believe”. God forbid you have intelligent thought.

I don’t think I could go, I’d get arrested in the first half.

Pretty damn fast I’m guessing.

Has anyone else noticed the (primarily British) European words slipping in the conversations here in the US recently? I know the net has to be responsible, but it’s just weird to see such a fast turn to mainstream.

Ten years ago no one knew what a CV was, now I see the term everywhere even on Primetime TV. Same with que aka “queing up in line”. Duvets are everywhere now (IKEA is responsible on that one I think).

There are others that are escaping me right now, but it’s just strange. It makes me a complete geezer to notice doesn’t it?

I need a favor… I must have that Archie Mcphee dome and the indian… and the great wall… and.. well just call me from the store.

Well, that was interesting. Kinda wish I’d seen Shrek 3 or Knocked Up (which I hear is great) instead this week.

Not that it wasn’t okay, but I should have watched the second movie again first. A large portion of the film I was absolutely clueless what they were going on about.

Not the Matrix 3 clueless suckfest, just “Uh Elizabeth killed Jack? Uh how now? I don’t remember that.” And I do remember that two was a mite more confusing that one was. The first was just plain fun, but I could at least keep up with it. Of course I watched the first one a number of times before seeing the second. It’s one of my favorite DVDs.

One thing that did annoy me in the new one was Jack’s whacked out other invisible selves. Okay, Jack is crazy, fine. That was established long ago, we didn’t need to see him hanging off his own giant dreadlocks did we? Or squabbling with many hims on the Black Pearl in Limbo. Jack was never right in the head, but his own company in there just seemed silly and unnecessary.

Also in watching 3 yesterday I’m like wondering about the heart, Will’s taking over the Dutchman and and all that. Turns out I found something online that told me more than the movie did.

‘At World’s End’ had the real resolution of Will’s curse left out of it. The two writers, Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot, had intended to explain it like this:

If Will returned home after ten years and found his true love waiting, he would no longer be bound to the Flying Dutchman, and his obligations as the farrier of souls lost at sea would be broken.

The reason Davy Jones cut out his heart was because after ten years, he came home and Calypso was not waiting for him, thus dooming him to be the Captain of the Flying Dutchman forever.

However, in Will’s case, Elizabeth was waiting, so he is free.

Which makes the last snippet after the credits (which I missed) make sense. Ish. Wether they make that clear in a fourth movie, if the same cast does it, is to be seen later.

Anyway I think they just tried to cram too much in, and went off on too many sight gags, but meh, it was better than Sunday night summer tv. Nothing on.

Oh and despite what some sites have said, Keith Richards is in it.

They definitely left it open for a fourth, and we’ll see if that happens, but they need to go back to the original formula and not put so much into it. Simple is better. Because effects wise they will be hard pressed to beat this one.