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Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
How is it possible that my special little guy is 4 years old already I remember when he used to fit in the crook of my arm, like a football.
Other notable birthdays today: Muddy Waters, Maya Angelou, Bart Giamatti, Craig T. Nelson and Tommy Herr.
Hopefu...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
Welcome, everyone to The Girl’s Birthday/Falklands War Lidlifter edition of the Cool Band Names list. As always, submissions are welcome, as are fictional bios.
Beef Turkey
California Mountain Snake
Dead Tongues
Endangered Aliens
The Gay Conspiracy
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Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
How is it possible that my beloved firstborn is 7 years old already I remember when she used to fit in the crook of my arm, like a football.
Other notable birthdays today: Mrs. Shoo, Charlemagne (or Chuck the Great, if you will), Sir Alec Guinness, Serg...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
Basie oversees the eviction of squatters.
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
At long last, baseball season is here again. Opening Day ought to be a national holiday. No work, no school… just baseball all day and all night long (all night). A day on which fans of differing stripes can put their differences aside and exult sid...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
OK… maybe it’s not that bad, but I’m not enjoying my first ear infection. It’s like the right side of my head is encased in granite, and all I can hear on that side is the tinnitus.
I also have to take these enormous pills:ThatR...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
It went entirely too fast, but it was relaxing for the most part. We didn’t go anywhere; just chilling out at home without having to deal with the stresses of work and school is my favorite kind of vacation.
Took some unintentional time away from t...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
Heh… looks like I neglected to post the latest edition of the Cool Band Names list in a timely fashion. The badness is all mine.
An A.C. reader has suggested that I possibly make the Cool Band Names list a weekly feature. So I put it to the infinite...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
Another gem from the brilliant Strange Maps blog:(click map for full size)
A geography major with a sense of humor submitted this awesomely-titled cartogram to Strange Maps based on the Ludacris song “Area Codes”:
In this song, Ludacris brags ...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
This is wrong on several levels, the least of which being the Budweiser. But Clamato Why on Earth would anyone drink Clamato straight up It’s a cocktail of tomato juice and clam drippings, for the love of Pete! But mixing it with beer Just think...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
Bashing Wal-Mart is a beloved pastime for many. There are numerous reasons for doing so:Using predatory pricing tactics to undercut other retailers;
Selling poorly made and dangerous merchandise from China for that low price;
Forcing employees to work ove...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
One of the stops on our weekend jaunt to St. Louis was the City Museum, which in the last post I described as “unspeakably awesome.” Words really can’t adequately describe just how much fun the place is. If you go, I do have one piece of...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
This past weekend, we took the kids to St. Louis, a trip that included a trip to the top of the Gateway Arch. I had to put on a brave face for the kids because my heart was about to beat out of my chest going up in that tiny tram.
Sunday’s beautifu...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
I have become what I loathe.
I’m one of those music curmudgeons who complain that Music Was Better Back Then. For me, music (meaning alt-rock and hip-hop) reached its zenith in 1992, slowly declining before falling off a cliff in the late 1990s.
For...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
It’s time for another installment of the Cool Band Names list, this time the middle-finger-to-February edition. The current list is getting ever smaller, but fear not, because the working list is bursting at the seams, ready for use.
Back-to-Back Sp...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
I’ve heard that when you crave certain foods, it’s your body’s way of telling you that you need a certain nutrient. Like if you have a craving for carrots, you might be low on vitamin A. Or if you’ve got a hankering for a pint of o...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
When you don’t have anything remotely interesting to write about, just post a picture of your dog.
Posted by Anonymous Communist 4 years ago.
It’s snowing again. What a surprise.
Each snowflake that falls is a unique, beautiful and bone-chilling reminder that spring, like so many galaxies, is far, far away. Which is why seeing the following selections in Cub Foods’ County MarketR...
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