Thursday, October 30, 2003

Cheer up!
It's a great day in Chicago. It's sunny and warm here, but everyone seems to be in some kind of funk. What's going on? I, for one, am inspired. why? I'm sitting here looking at one of those upside down fishbowl things sitting on my desk, the kind that you shake and it snows inside. This one has a picture swimming in it of Dick Nixon shaking hands with Elvis Presley. Whoa! And, they're both smiling. I got it in Memphis, like that's a surprise. Anyway, do you think that was easy for either one of them? Smiling and being buddies like that? I'm guessing they did it for the sake of America and maybe the rest of the free world. Those were tough times too, ya know. Inspired yet? Click more.. below.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Get It Here
It's fantasy rotation day! Halloween special: Life is like a box of chocolates...

Don't miss "This Week's Fantasy." Tell your friends! Link opens in a new window.
posted @ 06:23 PM CST [link]

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Halloween
I've always been very into Halloween; maybe it's a Scorpio thing, fall power mixed with spooky. Anyway, I love it. I put together a really killer costume once for a party, and on the way I stopped for cigarettes at a White Hen Pantry. The guy behind the counter was Pakistani and barely spoke English. He had no idea what Halloween was all about. Click more.. below.
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Sunday, October 26, 2003

Alien Returns
Alien, as you probably know by now, is scheduled for rerelease as a director's cut (Ridley Scot) this coming Halloween. The Alien series has been major bread and butter for Sigourney Weaver, who has starred in all four of the films. Alien, the first of the series, also stars Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, and Yaphet Kotto (TV's Homicide) with Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) as Ash, the backstabbing, "synthetic" science officer. Click more.. below.
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Saturday, October 25, 2003

Caught Up?
Vacation is tough on your schedule, but somebody's gotta do it or the economy would suffer irreparable harm. Anyway, I've been back a little more than a week now, and I think I'm finally caught up. I'm not without emotional scars, mind you, from the process of catching up. I made a "quick like a bunny" blog entry, for example, about the time change scheduled for 0200 Sunday morning and I had the whole "spring forward fall back" vs. gain an hour/lose an hour reversed. What an idiot. Click more.. below.
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Thursday, October 23, 2003

One Day Late
New "This Week's Fantasy." Posted only one day late, don't miss it.
posted @ 03:02 PM CST [link]

Butch Up
Cute, heterosexual, SWF, and longtime bud proves that life today in these United States can tend to tighten your wrapping a bit when she writes:
"...when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. But, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch slap that motherf---er upside the head!"
posted @ 12:42 PM CST [link]

Monday, October 20, 2003

Two Days Late
New "This Week's Skin," don't miss it.
posted @ 11:59 PM CST [link]

Sunday, October 19, 2003

May I Digress?
Lest you believe that my purpose here is to blow sunshine up your skirt rather than provide you with the Cliff's Notes to Life, which we know isn't always pretty, I'm going to step back for the last time to Columbus Day weekend. Yeah, we had the weather, the fall colors, and we had a great time, but we also had to come home. And that was a little more complicated than it sounds. Click more.. below.
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Friday, October 17, 2003

Damn Yankees
I won't waste a lot of time lamenting the Cubs. The Cubs are just, well, the Cubs. And the Marlins; who the hell are they?

Now, getting down to business, we have the Yankees. Winners, steeped in dynastic tradition and pumped from just having kicked the asses of a real baseball team called the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees will meet the Fish in Yankee Stadium and teach them what the pinstripe is all about. My prediction is the Yankees will sweep the series. Case closed.

"This Week's Fantasy" has been updated. Check it out for Columbus Day weekend pictures. More on that tomorrow.
posted @ 09:18 PM CST [link]

Saturday, October 11, 2003

Still Stoked
Thursday night went as expected. We're here in Michigan doing the big fall colors and "close for the summer" Columbus Day weekend. Everyone had arrived by 9 PM, and we were all busy helping the late arrivals to "come down" with copious quantities of beer and whiskey. Taking our cue from the Eskimos (fat is good against the cold), we had popped a ham in the oven for dinner along with baked butternut squash and some green vegetables. During the period of food coma following dinner, we sat around the fireplace checking out and sampling everyone's choice of CDs and specialty beers. Click more.. below.
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Thursday, October 9, 2003

A Little Dazed
We're here in Michigan doing the big "fall colors" and close for the summer Columbus Day weekend. We drove up last night, and though it's after lunchtime here, I still feel a little dazed, maybe because of the drive or the arrival celebration afterward. But, it's warm. Radio from Traverse City calls the high-temperature pushing 80 degrees for the high with tonights low in the '50s. Not bad. This could be one of those really great weekends I was telling you about. Click more.. below.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Favorable Stats
Weather on Columbus Day weekend in northern Michigan is always risky at best, but this year has really been twitchy. How do you mean? Well, I've been watching from Chicago, where September temperatures have been much like October would normally be. Which, the way I look at it, could've caused October to break one of two ways. October might have continued the butt-assed cold weather we had in September, giving us something like November, or might have reversed the trend to give us the September we never had. Better late the never. Click more.. below.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Road Warrior
I've been hiding from the bad news about my car all summer long (click to read about it), and as is usually the case, when you finally get around turning the light on in the closet, there is no bogeyman hiding in the dark after all. Good, it's my bad ass road machine, and holder of the land speed record from Chicago to the Grand Traverse Bay region of Michigan. And as it turns out, it will ride again. Click more.. below.
posted by @ 09:24 PM CST [more..]

Saturday, October 4, 2003

Blogarama
Blogarama has a new look and a new review: All New Blogarama? Link opens in a new window.
Blogarama is a blog directory. There are lots of blog directories, but Blogarama is the best. Who cares? Well, you do if you like to read blogs. Also, if you have a blog or are thinking about becoming a blogger, then you need to know where to list that blog, or you might just as well do your writing in a diary and keep it in your sock drawer because no one will know you're there. OK, what's so hot about Blogarama? Click more.. below.
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Friday, October 3, 2003

Corinth
On this day, October 3, in 1862, an American Civil War battle,"The Battle of Corinth," was fought, ending in a decisive victory of Union over Confederate forces in northeastern Mississippi. Click more.. below.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Forty, Soon!
Happy Birthday to my ex-wife, who is thirty-nine today. May you have ten more years just like the last ten; nobody deserves it more.

Speaking of fantasies, Wednesday is the new "This Weeks Fantasy" day! Don't miss it. Click the link on the right panel.
posted @ 07:36 PM CST [link]

September's Ten
Last month I took some flack from the whiners because I buried the August top 10 entries in something called "Tasty Burger," and then had the guts to say,"that's why you want the Cliff's Notes in the first place, to cut to the chase. Right? Right, I understand, so I'm going to provide you with the optimized time management for dummies reading list entitled, "What Did Everyone Else Read?", at least during the month of August."

OK, with your time management problems in mind, I have optimized by calling September's top ten entries, "September's Ten," and have gone the extra mile by reprinting August's top ten again. Happy? Click more.. below for links to September's top 10 entries.
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