Cabin

We're actually thinking about renting a cabin somewhere near Portland, most likely the coast to stay at sometime in October. If anyone thinks they'll be here then, tell me and we can do it that weekend.

Ben, call me, 720-635-1032. I will see you ASAP.

ERAS!!!

Whoa. I'm guessing you just ran into that tag coincidentally, but that only makes it minutely less cool. Congrats. Bonnie and I might come visit the Portland area to scout it as a new place to live for Bonnie grad school. We will see. Welcome back Ben.

More politics!

Since we've been on the topic of McCain's VP pick for a few days, I thought I'd share this Maureen Dowd opinion piece from several years ago when Harriett Miers was up for a Supreme Court position. I think it kind of rings true with the VP pick as well. In an obvious move to garner support from female voters, they pick someone actually unqualified for the position.

About the personhood amendment, it's on the ballot this year in Colorado. Here's an article about the unexpected support it garnered while petitioning for signatures. I think the most dangerous thing is that it's such a small sentence that the voters won't think through the implications of it when they're at the polls.

And, let me just say, that Kim and I were absolutely thrilled to see that Ben is back, and now we want to take a trip to NW US under the pretense of seeing my mom, when we actually just want to see Benhameen.

BEN BEN BEN BEN BEN BEN

Doesn't have to do with the election...

Ya'll...

So, as I now have the internet after a month or so of trooping around Japan, I have an announcement.


I am...

home.

In America, for the next one or two years at least. Right now the Seattle-Portland area is looking likely. So you cats chillin' in the Rose City, pick your weekend, and I'll see you there. If you head up to me, it will be, ahem... ON.

This being said, and not wanting to do a big "what Japan all meant" post, I'll just put up my tag that I left for us in Tokyo... The "mark" has been made. Should be new stuff up on my flickr soon as well...

Hope ya'll are doing well.

B

So

This amendment is for this election or last election? Definitely a bullshit amendment.

So Sarah Palin.....wtf....could McCain be any more desperate? I was celebrating today until I started to read people's reactions . Oh shit....are people really that dense?

I'm waiting to see the polls, but if this gives McCain a big boost, I'm terrified.

Also, I liked Obama's speech last night...but after re-reading it today (in a more sober state) I've realized it was brilliant. Wow.

Hmm

Lindy's article was pretty well written, but just a random question that has nothing to do with abortion...wasn't proposed amendment 48 a big-tyme topic in the last election for Colorado? Was it the same-sex marriage thing or was it marijuana?

I am pushing an agenda!

A clever little opinion piece about the personhood amendment can be found here.

Whoa!

Mikey was in that big protest march, and I was waiting for him at the end with all those crazy swat team cops. It was nuts.

Your tax dollars at work

I took this just now -- it is 1 block from my work right now

This was 10 mintues prior

This was yesterday:



WAIT, FUNNEL CAKES?!

Most random unexciting celeb possible!?!

So I skipped out of work early today because everyone else already had. I'm walking by the Brown Palace (the side no one was hanging around because no one uses those exits) when a bald dude wearing a suit coat with jeans pops out the side exit and starts walking in front of me. He stops, looks around a bit, whips out a DNC hat, puts it on, and then starts walking toward me. His change of direction revels glasses that look very much like my own. Right after he passes me, I think "...could that ACTUALLY be MOBY??? Could there possibly BE a more random celebrity to run into?"

A quick search reveals it was probably him. Its just funny to me because there is honestly no other celeb I can think of to recognize that is more random...NONE. Anywho, Denver is literally made of stars right now.

Funny add on: Moby's blog reveals the last time he was in Denver he wound up snorting PCP in a random guy's basement...his next post goes on to describe the DNC as spring break for young Dems. Ironic.

FINALLY

I finally got to see a celebrity. Saw Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman at the MSNBC reporting center near Central Station...pretty boring actually.

EDIT: Reports had Oprah and Susan Surrandon eating at Earl's as we walked by.

These protesters down here are distracting me, but I guess that's the point

AND, Joe Biden was eating lunch yesterday next to my office

AND, Al Gore is at Maggiano's right now

AND, I am blacker than this guy

Still no sign of Anderson Cooper

Puppy Games!

Remember the Puppy Bowl? Well, now they have the Puppy Games. I just watched gymnastics where the puppies just stand there really confused on the balance beam, then the other puppies knock him off the beam! ALSO! Goldfish are the judges! GOLDFISH!

Puppies!

Biden

Some clips from the debates:



Overall, I think he's a good choice.

So

what do people think about the VP choice?

eating fur.

At any minute the lasers and music will stop. The lights will come up and people will get to their feet. They'll slip into their hats and gloves. And the stranger beside me will find a drooly mess where her coat sleeve used to be. I'll be sitting here with wet fur all around my mouth. Strands of fur still stuck between my teeth. Coughing up a mink hairball.

Another great video to watch

Also,
A cat with four ears!:

Another great election-watch page

If you REALLY want to know the score in the current Presidential election, this site is where to go. It takes a MUCH for statistically vigorous effort than what electoral-vote.com does...and that is because the site is run by baseball prospectus's liberal Cub fan wunderkind Nate Silver, who INVENTED "P.E.C.O.T.A.". (I doubt any of you know what PECOTA is, but rest assured it is the bomb) Take note of which state is now THE most important to deciding who the President will be...

Our modern times

There was a new Achewood today and I decided to browse through the reader-comments...and what did someone post but a .jpeg of Doug and Skeeter double teaming Patty Mayonnaise. My brain promptly exploded. That is all.

Hello?

Is something happening Thursday with Glosh?

And a grammar course.

Woooowwwwww....

Someone missed a science class!

The Clone Wars

Anyone down for the midnight showing? Should be better than the prequels...

woooot

Are there any plans yet? I would like to see people. I have dinner plans tomorrow and Shakespeare Friday night, but other than that, I'm open. What plans will occur?

We made it

We made it to Colorado!! If anyone is free during the week and wants to do something I would love to. We are in Estes Park but the serious plans are rafting on Tuesday. Give me a call, if not you'll hear from me Thursday!!

Josh and Gloria...need a real bed?

Hi Guys,
I will be in Santa Fe while you are in CO but Drew has nicely offered our bed to you guys while you are here. You could have some real privacy if you would like.
Let us know!

Food baby Vegas is over!

Cassie, please send photos. Kim loves you.

719

I'm going to get my 719 tattoo sometime over the next week before heading out to the wild north west. Anyone care to join?

Matt

Are you getting another car while you're out here? I was hoping to toss some crap in Josh and Gloria's car because I'm driving back with them, and apparently with you. We're going to have a grand caravan.

Matt News

Hello people, long time no speak. I got a place in Portland that I like very much but it is drastically underfurnished at present. My desk is made out of comic boxes and my bed deflates at night, so I will be coming back with J-Murder and G-Lo to Colorado to pick up the rest of my stuff. I'll be spending the majority of my time with my parents, but perhaps we can meet up at a point and have fun? I guess that's about it. One love.

Folding Bills into the Twin Towers

Now that achewood has brought it up, I checked it out. I was actually kind of surprised by the conincidences brought up by this site:

http://cantontruth.blogspot.com/2007/12/four-bank-notes-that-show-in.html

Big Picture - LHC

Big Picture - LHC

Tonight is

First Friday and we are going and so should everyone else!

Ancient Jokes

Academics have compiled a list of the most ancient gags and the oldest, harking back to 1900BC, is a Sumerian proverb from what is now southern Iraq.

"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap," goes the joke.
Randy pharaohs, thirsty ox-drivers and barbers also feature in the list.

The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century, and uses the traditional question and answer format to suggestively poke fun at Anglo-Saxon men.

"What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? A key."

As today, world leaders make good foils for ancient humour, particularly Egyptian pharaohs, as shown by this 1600BC joke:

"How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? Sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile - and urge the pharaoh to go fishing."

One Roman jape dating back to the 1st Century BC details the Emperor Augustus touring his realm and coming across a man who bears a striking resemblance to himself.

Intrigued, he asks the man: "Was your mother at one time in service at the palace?"

The man replies: "No your highness, but my father was."