Being A Grownup Sucks

Was Buffy good last night?? I had to stay late at work and I didn't get home until 10:00; I missed Buffy and 24. Man!

In the immortal words of that great social commentator Butthead, what a dumbass.

Norwegian teens celebrate graduation and "come to grips with taboos like sex and intoxication" by getting a vagrant drunk, vomiting on the person next to you, and having sex with 17 people. That oughta do the trick.

Actress Lyric Benson, daughter of Robby Benson, was shot in the face yesterday, by her ex-boyfriend. Yikes.

Yahoo! Photos is crawling with cute animal pictures today.

See Dick not swim.

Baby cats from a species I've never heard of.

HRH, Oliver.

The best for last.

American Airlines has the best current airfare to Vancouver right now, but I've been holding off on purchasing the ticket because of the very real possibility of a bankruptcy filing by the airline. This may be good news. Now if the fare would only drop just a liiiiittle bit more...

It's such a beautiful afternoon. Clear, sunny, in the 60s. I really want to get out of here. Of course, I have to be here tomorrow, but it's going to rain tomorrow and I don't care if I'm in here and it's raining. I'm pouting, if you can't tell.

NYTimes Op-Ed called "A Woman's Place". In it, Nicholas Kristof lays out the reasons he thinks women should be allowed on the front lines. Convincing stuff.

"He has just the right amount of tenderness with a bunch of testosterone."

Amen.

Oh my Lord, will you look at this.

I sliced my finger pretty good while cutting the roast on Sunday and now I have to wear a tiny finger condom when I take a shower or do the dishes. How embarrassing.

While the story of Laci and Baby Peterson's murder is certainly compelling stuff, it's sometimes hard to remember that this kind of stuff happens to people every day. For a little perspective on the situation, read this article, about a young, pregnant, missing woman whose torso was found in the Bay Area last year.

(thanks, popculturejunkmail.com)

Buffy has wrapped for good, and slayage has the wrap party photos. (watch out for the pop-ups)

So, notice anyone missing? Or were you too busy drooling over the guys to notice right away? (like me)

Good morning, and Happy Easter! I'm looking forward to a nice day - my father and stepmother are coming over for a prime rib dinner and maybe some game-playing and/or movie-watching. Have a wonderful holiday, everyone!

Well, it's 2 hours gone by now, and I'm done with the XF egg hunt. I was the 312th person to finish! LOL I'm proud to say I didn't cheat. It was great fun and I found some new XF sites to add to my favorites.

This is a little late, but The 3rd Annual X-Files Easter Egg Hunt started today.

Good luck!

The Perfect Bean



Easter is here, and once again I find myself in search of the perfect jelly bean brand. Jelly Bellys are a common favorite, but there are only about 3 of the flavors that I like; the rest of the gourmet flavors kind of gross me out. There used to be a brand sold around here, I think they were called Teeny Beanies, that I swore by (no link for Teeny Beanies - Googling only gets me beanie baby pages). I like my jelly beans small and strongly fruity - lime, lemon, orange, grape, etc. Absolutely, under no circumstances, will I eat a black jelly bean. And I generally don't like the pink or white ones, especially the big, spiced beans. Blecch. I bought a bag of Starburst jelly beans this week, and they're pretty good, but not as good as Teeny Beanies. And so the search continues.

What kind of jelly beans are you favorites?

Leave it to the Irish to open the first bar in post-Taliban Afghanistan.

Body found in bay area is most likely Laci Peterson, according to prosecutor. Interesting that a woman's badly decomposed (and from what I hear, legless and headless) body and the body of a full term baby boy both washed up on shore only 1-2 miles from where Scott Peterson had been fishing the day Laci disappeared.

It's a beautiful day and my state tax refund has been deposited into my bank account. I'm going to the mall.

It's SpikeTV, ladies. And no, it's not what you think.

While we're on the subject...Xander's eye!! Auuuuggh!!

Keith Hernandez's secret life.

If you said 4 days, you're a winner!!

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OK, riddle me this: What's the difference?

Knock a little louder, sugar!

Chimp who played Cheetah is 71, retired and living in Palm Springs. That's funny.

How long, do you think, before these make it to ebay?

Oh, great.

Good people, Good food.

Here's one more nice picture, and the soldier is from the town right next to mine.

I wish all of the images from the war could be this nice. But then it wouldn't be a war, would it?

Speaking of images, if you have the time, please go to NPR's "All Songs Considered" web page and watch/listen to their war photo essay. They've combined some striking images from the war with music that has been accompanying their radio coverage. It's a long slideshow (23 minutes), but it's definitely worth it. Both beautiful and frightening.

Those cheeky Brits.

How do you foil a bank robber? Make fun of him, I guess.

Birdwatching

A pheasant was wandering around in our yard this morning. He looked just like this guy. It was cool.

Someone put their Sharpie to good use.

*%^@@!$%*^$%!!!

Cake or Death?

Cake please!!

It's been a very sad week here. Last Sunday, the mother of a friend of ours passed away after a long illness, and the wake was on Tuesday night. On Monday afternoon, the senior partner of my firm passed away, also after a long illness. His wake was Friday night and his funeral service was on Saturday afternoon. Although we did not know him personally, the passing of NBC's David Bloom on Sunday plunged our family back into mourning; he was a favorite of my mother's, and his death seems to have affected most viewers the same way - as if you lost someone you knew.

And as if all of that wasn't enough, what do I spot lying just behind my mother's rear right tire this morning? An intact, very dead squirrel. I had to move it - I was just imagining backing over the thing and having it pop or something...So I went and got a rake and as his beady little dead black eye stared up at me I flipped him a couple of times until he finally landed square in the middle of the flat part of the rake, muttering "I'm sorry!...I'm sorry!...I'm sorry!" the entire time. Not knowing what to do with him, I walked to the back field and pitched his little body into the bracken at the edge.

Cake, please.

How about a nice story on this gloomy Friday morning?

Busloads of Iraqis are fleeing Baghdad. I can't help but wonder if there is more to this than meets the eye, that maybe they know something we don't. I've been worried for some time now that Saddam Hussein has his (or one of his ministers') finger on a self-destruct button, and is just waiting for coalition forces to fill the streets of Baghdad before he pushes that button, releasing some sort of biological terror or even a nuclear weapon.

I watch way too much television.

Oo, this is pretty amazin', too.

It's this kind of stuff in the midst of war that amazes me.

The NYTimes recognizes the beauty of City Confidential. (I'm watching the "Big Mac" McKenna episode as I type)

Hunkalicious

It was March 15 at my house for a long time. Click on the image below to see why.

%@^$&%

I just came back from the bank where I made a deposit for the office. While there, I hand my deposit to the teller and I swear I hear the word "f*ck" uttered repeatedly, from somewhere off to my right. I look over (discreetly, of couse), and can just about make out a male customer standing behind a large palm, counting his money at one of those tables with the deposit slips and pens. The profanity stream is continuous, until he shouts, "Shove it up your ass!!" Which must have settled whatever argument he had going on his head, since he was quiet as a mouse after that.

Dur

Like a dum-dum, I just realized that the ABC web page that was 'hacked' onto teevee.org is also a joke - "The Reality Network". LOL. Looks like I will have something to read at lunch (if they don't remove it first).

The children of war.

And ABC has taken over the vidiots!

What the hell am I supposed to read at lunch?? I suppose I could always get back to work. Ha.

Oh my garsh, Fark's been hacked. By guinea pigs!! LOL

Happy April Fools.