I was doing a search in the library’s database, and I came across the title Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. Further investigation showed it to be a science fiction book about Walt Disney World in the future. Not usually my type of novel (and I strongly prefer to read non-fiction anyway), but since […]
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On another tangents.org blog, justj has been talking about cheeseburgers, namely White Castles and Burger Buddies (aka Burger Bundles), an ’80’s Burger King product. I found an old Burger Bundles commercial on youtube and posted the link on his blog in the comments section of the cheeseburger post. While I was looking around on youtube,
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We’re all adults here, right? Then you’d think the following sign spotted in the band room at a local high school would be less amusing: Rectal Gas Policy – Any student who releases audible rectal gas will receive one after school detention. – Any student who “reacts” to audible or inaudible rectal gas will also receive
It began yesterday – my daily newspaper arrived on my doorstep by 3:30 pm. Were the kids off school today? That was my first thought since our paper is never at our house before 4:30, even when the paper boy doesn’t have school. But I’ve talked to some friends, and whenever their paper kids are
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I’d think these are the same person: The Cowardly Lion, fictional movie character, 1939 Drew Peterson, suspected wife murderer, 2008 I got an email a few months ago comparing a bunch of people’s faces to other pictures. It was funny to see the resemblance between people you wouldn’t have otherwise thought about – like the
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Wow. What a great film… and I don’t think I’ve been able to say that since I saw The Orphanage months ago. We ventured over to the Toledo suburbs yesterday for date night to see Changeling at the nice theater since we still had a free pass leftover from a movie where they had technical
In the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to get involved in a role playing game – sort of like Dungeons and Dragons, I’m told. This one was called “Call of Cthulu”, and we played it on two separate Saturdays for about 5 hours each. We began by choosing a character, and then we
Sunday is usually my favorite day of the week, but our last one ranks low on a list of my favorites. First, the kids started out the day by being terrible. Our 4-year-old Sammie was excited to see the snow – all 20 flakes of it that fell that morning – and she asked her still-half-asleep parents
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Unlike previous posts of mine, this one is being written to compliment the status of gas prices these days. Here in NW Ohio, we ‘re paying $1.99 for gas – it was actually weird looking to see a 1 up there on the price board at the gas station. But I’m really happy about it,
“Windy City White House” is more of a reference to our visit to the Windy City rather than a blog post about the recent election – it’s over and done with, and although I won’t talk much about the outcome, I am happy to not have to hear about it on the news anymore. While in
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