Happy 75th Birthday

Opening Day May 27, 1937

The "Truth" about Easter Eggs

Forty years of research which took renowned Creation Scientist, Dr. Daniel Cameroon, to 2 continents, 4 countries, and 3 states to gather the empirical, bible-based facts needed to reveal the truth about easter eggs to christian parents who can not afford his seminars!  


"To think this all started when I was 4-years old, painting easter eggs with my little sister (god rest her soul) in our kitchen," says Dr. Cameroon.  "And my grandpa came in, saw what we were doing, vomited instinctively onto both of us, kicked little Macel in the head (and sent her straight home to jesus) and beat the sweet and merciful love of the lord jesus christ into my wretched soul right there on the kitchen floor.  I dedicate this book to you, Grandpa Duncan, and to the lord jesus christ, through whom all things crazy are possible!"

I can't even attempt to parse that introduction for you but if you want to pick up a copy of the book - well you can't get it on Amazon but this website where you can get it is even more entertaining than a coliseum full of christians.

'Easter' Island Mysteries Revealed

Bay Bridge Closure

SUNDAY EVENING 8 PM - The Bay Bridge has reopened 34 hrs ahead of schedule.


Guess I'll be spending the weekend in the East Bay.

Three Score and Four Years Ago

a perfect photo for today

and a perfect song as well

go ahead click on it

if you haven't got the answer yet

For any comments, please
 indicate precisely what you mean to say.

Here There Be Dragons

Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations continue this week, in honor of the year of the dragon I offer several Chinese images along with a Welsh great lizard, only a single breastplate fantasy image and one film dragon.

Draco, voiced by Sean Connery, in Dragonheart.

Kung Hii Fatt Choi

The Chinese Lunar New Year marks the beginning of the Year of the Dragon.

Happy New Blog Year

I apologize to those who miss the old light-hearted posts, I liked them too. I really don't want to do a Lenny Bruce and become mired in the endless crap of American politics but... this is going to be an interesting even a historic year in the U.S. Should that not turn out to be true I will get off the political sinking ship as fast as a congressman talking to broke lobbyist. Until then...

Good news for those who are not so fond of all the political commentary, the italicized opening above represented my thoughts early in December when I was planning my year end blog break. Since then I have been thinking about this here blog and I can honestly say I haven't come to any striking conclusions. So for now, I will continue with whatever wanders across my consciousness. I am giving myself another month to ponder what's it all about going forward.

Several major anticipated shifts in my personal life have been sidetracked, put on the back burner or discarded completely. So life that was planned to be in flux is more likely to be in stasis. 

Wait! I'm sure I can be more convoluted than that...

The more things change the more they stay the same

Is it just me or does everybody see

The new improved tomorrow isn't what it used to be

                                                              Bon Jovi

2012

Best wishes for the New Year to all of my readers. Thank you for taking time from your life to stop by and share in a few of my thoughts, babbles and meanderings. I will be back come Monday with an reimagined version of Keeping Your Head in (All) the Game(s).

May Your Day Be Merry and Bright

In the Meadow We Can Build a Snowman

Winter Solstice

A Joyous New Year to All

December 21st 9:30 PM PST

December 22nd 12:30 AM EST

5:30 AM GMT

Tryptophan Hangover

Holiday High Hopes

Yesterday I took down the Halloween cartoon I had in the blog queue, it just didn't seem like the time for frivolity; then I found this.

Happy 4th of July

Should there be a law against furring the flag?

July Weekends

This month has five full weekends; meaning five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays. Contrary to internet gibberish this does not happen only once every 823 years. In fact, on average it occurs once every 7 years, because of leap year it can happen a bit more or less frequently in a particular short term timeframe. The actual repeating pattern for any 31 day month to have five weekends is: 6 years, 5 years, 6 years, 11 years.

But back to the point, there are definitely five full weekends this month, which means precisely and exactly nothing since nearly no one plans their weekends based on whether the weekend includes only one month or is split between two.

Now there are certain OCD humanoids who have certain calendaric idiosyncrasies but I don't know of any that require weekends to fall within the same month. I am open to hearing about any phobia or compulsion around months and/or calendars in general. But specifically - July has five full weekends this year - make the most or the least of them, your choice.

I did attempt to find if there are any phenomenon that cycle every 823 years. Unfortunately the net search was clogged with all of the websites reporting this hoax about the five weekends. I myself will be doing the barbeque thing up in Sonoma for the first (American & Canadian holiday) weekend and perhaps taking to the highway during the final July weekend, more on that later.

Finally a July Blog Promise - based on feedback from the readers of this here blog. I promise, at least for one month, to have one serious and one not-so-serious post each and every week. I know the light-hearted faire troubles some of my long-time friends; just as the dense academic fodder turns off my more casual readers. In an attempt to satisfy all at least some of the time - one of each, every week this month because I have five full weekends to pull it off.

Memorial Day 2011

Private Horace J. Keller 

was killed in action 

on November 16, 1944.

Easter

The egg is the pagan symbol of rebirth and often used in Spring rituals to signify the renewal of the seasons and of the earth.

OK this one is a Faberge Egg.
Symbol of elegant greed.

and this one is a chocolate egg
a sugar delivery vehicle

but the rest of these are actually dyed chicken eggs

These, of course, being tie dyed.

Intricacy sometimes make me cross-eyed.

You know this took hours and hours to look that simple

use a laser on an eggshell 

to get a very mixed holiday message

Something Peculiar Day

Something familiar, 
Something peculiar, 
Something for everyone:

A comedy tonight!

Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns;

Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns!

Old situations,

New complications,

Nothing portentous or polite;

Tragedy tomorrow,

Comedy tonight!

-from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Some things just defy comment.

I have wanted to use this picture for so long; it just never seemed appropriate, it still isn't I suppose.

There exists a fine line between social commentary and outright ridicule.

I imagine some will think this crosses that fine line.

Now wasn't that better than some tired, long-winded joke about me getting engaged, moving to Mississippi or supporting Sarah Palin? The date Emily, look at the date.

Happy St. Padraig's Day

We all choose what to celebrate,

. . . how to celebrate

. . . and with whom to celebrate,

choose wisely.