Crazy But Able

My daughter, age 2 1/2:
“Kitty is broken. I fix kitty with hammer!” *whack whack whack*
Note: hammer was percussion instrument. No kitties were, um, permanently harmed by the unlicensed veterinarian we have in our house.

Sidewalk to nowhere. Typical bureaucratic stupidity.

I took this photo and immediately knew it was a good one1 (I recommend you click to embiggen):

“What a great illustration of how I need a wide angle lens!” I thought to myself.
It wasn’t until I posted it that I became enlightened. The picture that I chose as proof that [...]

What the Pope really said about AIDS and condoms “If the soul is lacking, if Africans do not help one another, the scourge cannot be resolved by distributing condoms; quite the contrary, we risk worsening the problem.”

My take in a nutshell: when we (or, more accurately, our elected representatives) decided to purchase a majority stake in AIG, we were taking on all of the contracts that AIG signed. Which includes all of the employment contracts which paid out bonuses to AIG staff. On top of this, our elected [...]

… do I have to even finish the story? You know this isn’t going to turn out well. (Don’t click on that link if you can’t stand the sight of blood…)
So she picks it up and starts munching on it. Why? Because she thinks the piece of glass is a piece of [...]

The show must go on! (I bet most working musicians have stories like this. I saw a drummer break a stick in the middle of doing Wipeout valiantly try to finish with one stick; some stage disasters are too hard to fix mid-song)

I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head for a while: little boxes in the sidebar that are links for “things I’m thinking about” and “things I’m watching on the youtubes”.
I tried to implement it using wordpress links and I already don’t like it: it orders everything alphabetically, and it takes [...]

I had one of these today:
The McGangBang has to be one of the more American things I’ve ever seen. It’s a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger with a McChicken sandwich crammed into it.
It was FABULOUS. Here’s why.
Recently (within the past year or so) I started noticing what my brain tells me when I’m eating [...]

1 part Krakow Nights
1 part Bouquet Garni
Mix. Use 1/2 – 1 tsp. of the mixture per pound of ground beef for hamburgers. Want breakfast sausage? Add a dash of cayenne pepper to the spice mixture, fire up the meat grinder (you do have a meat grinder, right?) and use 2 tsp. per [...]