Idiom analysis

"Like taking candy from a baby." - Well, what's the baby doing with candy, anyway? Someone should be taking it away...

Diaper Points

Is it sad that I look forward to getting the Huggies Reward Codes, entering them in and playing the little instant win games to try to get free diapers?

The itchy and scratchy show

This week, at least, nobody was bleeding.

Hawaiian Punch

Dear "Birthers",
You racist conservative un-American trash, please go away now.
Thank you.

Maturity

We live in a world where movies glorify raucous teenage behavior by 30-somethings (Hangover, Hot Tub Time Machine, the list increases exponentially) yet we are trying kids as young as 11 or 12 as adults for their crimes. Actions have consequences, but it's okay as long as nobody dies, right? Or, as the saying should go, it's all fun and games until someone gets shot and dies.

Bulls

The Bulls ended the season with the league's best record and a shoo-in for MVP. I feel like I'm back in college and someone on the floor should be wearing the number 23. Perhaps not a long drought in professional sports (ahem...Cubs) but it feels like ages since the Bulls were a true title contender. Go Bulls!

suburban pacific

There's a line in the Shawshank Redemption about how the Pacific Ocean "has no memory". So I am wondering if the suburbs are like the Pacific? There is a vastness, a blankness, that makes the landscape interchangeable, to the point where one restaurant can turn into another overnight and you cannot remember what was there the previous day. Where Ventures turn into Circuit City, and soon to something else. I'm not saying that suburbs have zero character, or that the cityscape cannot be wiped clean and rebuilt into something unrecognizable. Just that some of the qualities that may draw us to a suburban environment, the openness, the blank slate quality, can also render it more generic, more transient.

This weekend...

Peoria.
Synphoria.
Pitchfork.

The extinction of the black cow

Old news, probably, but relatively new for someone who rarely frequents fast food joints these days, and hasn't been to an Arby's in almost three years - the news is, no more black cow milkshake. A black cow is basically a root beer float (a proper float, as I envision it, involves ice cream actually floating in the root beer, whereas a black cow is the same ingredients blended together).
Anyway, there's two ways I could look at this. Either "damn you Arby's, now I have no reason to go there", or, I can take personal responsibility for the shake dropping from the menu since I haven't been there in so long to get one. And that might have made the difference.
Sadly, I have yet to see a petition to resurrect the black cow. I guess there may be more important things going on in the world.
Perhaps I should wait for a nice hot day this summer (if summer ever gets here, even spring is currently being chased off by stark winds and an icy snowshower) and have a milkshake party.

Car crash

On the Tribune website right now...I would have to agree with both captions for the pictures.




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Did you miss me?

Hey, world.
I've been gone for a while. Maybe I didn't have much to say? Or maybe I had too much. And this may only be a momentary resurfacing.

We are going to see Kodo this week.

I will be getting two teeth prepped for crowns. I am so excited about that I could just about drink myself into a stupor.

Went to Meson Sabika last night. Very nice, it is a tapas restaurant in a restored large house/mini-mansion. Had a bottle of parellada, which I do not think I have had before; it was quite nice. Sweet but crisp and fruity, not overmuch in any particular direction. By contrast, I like a nice riesling but they can be a little too sweet sometimes.

Cerealicious!

After all these years of Alpha-Bits, why are we not using breakfast to tackle our failures in numeracy? Number Krunchers! Cereal shaped like numbers. And you can even have marshmallows shaped like +, -, x, etc.

Did I ever tell you about the guy who taught his asshole to eat?

University of Chicago Doctors Reverse Flow of Digestive Tract

1974 Recipe Card Quiz

You are Inspiration Soup!! You live to Inspire those around you with your green beany, white chunky, red soupy goodness. Many have come and lit candles in your honor. You've inspired them to become better people. Thank you, Inspiration Soup... thank you.
Take this quiz!

Life During Wartime

And now, a nice little "what the hell have you been up to" post. Two weekends ago was Pitchfork Music Fest, 2007 version. Highlights: Day 1, Sonic Youth playing through the entirety of Daydream Nation. Good sets by Battles and Cat Power on Day 2 (despite Chan Marshall's incessant apologizing for the sound quality, now instead of stage fright she seems to suffer from chronic perfectionism). Dashed expectations on Day 3, as Of Montreal try to be the Flaming Lips with an overwrought stage show rife with senseless drama; on up-side, Jamie Lidell's turntable soul was better than expected while Menomena's set was great and could have been longer.
Overall, at $50 for three days of music, you get a lot more bang for the buck out of Pitchfork than Lollapalooza.
Observed: Guys in super skinny jeans, girls in go-go boots, crazy long port-a-potty lines, a number of infants and young kids, and not as much sunburn this year as last year.

My laundry room is now lilac coloured. Which is a vast improvement over the burnt orange.

I devoured the Harry Potter book this weekend. It was good. Too bad about Ron and Hermione getting killed, though. The obvious parallels between Deathly Hallows and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were a bit much, though; I think Rowling might take some heat for that one. Or perhaps they can get Johnny Depp to play Voldemort for the seventh movie.

The new job is going well. It's good to destroy everything and start over once in a while.

lavendar

No, I don't know what kind of plant this is. I'm not good with foliage specifics.

the last place

A phrase I cannot stand is "It's always in the last place you look." Well, sure it is. If it weren't, you would keep looking. You may as well say, "It's never in the dozens of places you looked before the last place where you actually found whatever it was you were looking for."
I am thinking about this because today I was searching for my social security card. But for a change, I did what you are supposed to do, and started looking in the most unlikely spots. And there it was, in the folder with all of the vet information for my dead cat.
What this says about my filing system I dare not examine.

You say CicAda, I say Cicahda

Check out the cicada emergence map.

Personal DNA

Meet the new boss...

...not the same as the old boss, I hope. After 10 years, I will be leaving District 104. For those of you in the audience thinking: "Finally!", yes, I agree.