ebay bet II has begun. Matt Maldre and I have decided to sequelize the storied ebay bet. Laura Kesselring has a link to it. And Matt has a link to it. If you do a search on Google for “erik maldre”, those blasted links show up as #4 and #8. Laura and Matt destroyed me. …
In the art section of ebay they have a “Top Ten List”:1. Modern Drawings 2. Modern American Paintings 3. Botanical Prints 4. Antique Drawings 5. Natural History Prints 6. Folk Art 7. Self-Representing Artists 8. Modern Limited Edition Prints 9. Antique European Paintings 10. Modern Sculpture, Carvings Botantical Prints is number 3? Really? Actually botantical …
Sure you have to go back 10+ generations (16th century!), but George W and John Kerry are related. Check it out.
Samurai Jack is the best animated show ever. It is a visual treat that never lessens in quality for a second. The minimalist styling of all the characters are brilliant. The backgrounds complement the style of the characters yet introduce nice textures to help add mood. The animation itself is so fluid and smooth. Every …
GROUNDHOG WATCH edition4Actually, I skipped edition 2 and 3. Edition 2: About two weeks ago Andrea and I saw a small groundhog, much smaller than the groundhog mentioned before in this blog. I made the assumption that there is a mother groundhog and at least 1 baby groundhog. Edition 3 involves the mother groundhog seeing …
Moose like parades. Two Moose Crash July 4th Parade in Utah Sun Jul 4, 1:47 PM ET BRIGHTON, Utah – Everybody, and apparently every thing, loves a parade. Two young bull moose, each more than 6-feet tall and weighing hundreds of pounds, crashed Brighton’s Fourth of July celebration. The moose trotted up to Saturday’s festivities, …
If the groundhog that is living under my deck was a baseball player. He would be Scott Rolen. Just look at Rolen. He looks like a groundhog. I have a HUGE update to the groundhog news. More to come later.
The Mini Cooper is incredible on so many different levels. I’ll share one. Go to mini.com. You can download a pdf of a giant Mini robot. Very Transformer-esque. Some might fault Mini for stealing a page out of Transformer’s book. I say it’s absolutely brilliant. Robots are cool. I have plans of making my own …
Someone should get transcripts of the Cubs radio broadcasts and have kids read them in a play. There’s nothing quite like a Cubs radio broadcast. Pat and Ron rock. Ron is so gung-ho crazy about the Cubs, but not in a cocky-Hawk-Harrelson way. And Pat knows how to play off of Ron’s crazy antics. He’s …
i think Jeff Kent is saying, “I can’t believe Biggio dropped the ball!” The Cubs were losing 5-4 last night when Biggio dropped a routine fly ball in the 7th inning which allowed two runs to score making it Cubs 6 Astros 5. Andrea and I were listening to the game on the radio. Plays …