I learned a new word today:

ten·den·tious also ten·den·cious ( P ) Pronunciation Key (tn-dnshs)
adj.
Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan: a tendentious account of the recent elections.
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[From Medieval Latin tendentia, a cause. See tendency.]
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ten·dentious·ly adv.
ten·dentious·ness n.

Been loving this blog btw - The Superficial - Because You're Ugly.

Darnit! I missed posting on 5/5/5. Only one year until we get devils day!

Is it really May already?

So long, and thanks for all the fish! (make sure sound is on!)

Funny tag of the day, on a railing at a nearby apartment complex:

"George W. Bush thinks poo poo is funny"

My parents just got home from dinner, and there was a message waiting for them on the answering machine:

"Um, hi. This is so-and-so down the street. We wanted to let you know that your pet bunny is in our back yard. She's playing with our Golden Retriever and I don't think we've had this much fun in a long time!"

Lilly Belle (or Glen depending on which gender you are these days) you rule!

Need to find Serenity?

Guess who now owns all ten volumes of the Sandman? (Hence I've been reading instead of blogging lately)

Edgar Styles: I have a photographic memory, remember?
Jesse: Yeah well I have a photogenic memory.

Everything Jesse remembers looks perty!

- Have you ever wanted to fight a brontosaurus, or be best friends with a stegosaurus?
Time travel can help you do that.
- Have you ever wished you had been Wal-Mart's 1,000th customer, and received a complimentary bag of shoes?
Time travel can help you do that.
- Have you ever longed to visit ancient eras, to meet Catherine the Great, or Rumplestiltzkin, or even the aliens who lived in the pyramids?
Time travel can help you do that.

Online Time Travel Pharmacy

Too good to be true - but it is true!

Here are some of the eligibility requirements for the new WWE Raw Diva Search:

"ELIGIBILITY. To enter and participate in the Search, applicants must satisfy each of the following eligibility requirements: A. Applicants must have been born female and must be legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii) or the District of Columbia."

That's right you hot little trannys (especially Alaskan and Hawaiian ones) you aren't cut out for being a wwe divas (despite what you might have had cut off) Would they do a quick check for a prostate if they weren't sure? Interesting.

I love the fact that we finally live in a world where 24, alias, and lost are automatic renewals and stale sitcoms liek will and grace might be getting cancelled - what's gonna be back next season ands what might not be.

Bovines Unite - Not sure what to think, except that man, I could eat a hamburg right about now.

Great song lyrics of the day:

"Now I've been lazy most all my life writin' songs and sleepin' late
And any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake
If street sweepers can smile then I've got no right to feel upset
But sometimes I still forget
'Til the lights go on and the stage is set
And the song hits home and you feel that sweat"
- from Mac McAnally's "It's My Job"

HFS may be gone, but HFStival is still going to happen this year (its just moving to Baltimore, away from the trainwreck of a baseball field called RFK Stadium) Here is the main stage lineup:

Billy Idol
Sum 41
Social Distortion
Garbage
Foo Fighters
Good Charlotte
Coldplay
The Bravery
Citizen Cope
Jimmies Chicken Shack
New York Dolls
Unwritten Law
They Might Be Giants
Louis XIV
Echo and the Bunnymen
Interpol
The Stereophonics
Pepper

I'll be there if it was JUST Billy Idol.

Well they made me sweat a little, but my baby blue comes through in the end - congrats to UNC!

Ahhhh the doldrums of post-sweeps programming -
CBS - some movie about locusts? Probably a successful follow up to "Spring Break Shark Attack"
NBC - Mork and Mindy the movie - 'nuf said
ABC - "Eyes" aka "Las Vegas Lite" which is already "Diet:CSI"

UNC up by 15 just after the half - go Tarheels!

Quick 24 blasts
- I don't think stealth bombers can shoot missiles at other planes, the drop things onto the ground, hence the bomber part of the name.
- It really isn't much of a perimeter if the bad guy can walk out onto the street, get in a sketchy looking van and drive away.
- Jack hasn't been burned enough by evil women, to just assume that all women with guns are probably terrorists at worse, evil mercenaries at best?

Among 'big story' deaths this past week like Pope John Paul, Terry Schiavo, hell even Frank Purdue and Jonny Cochran, American lost one of its best comedians:
Mitch Hedberg dead at 37

Some of my favorite Mitchisms:

"I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don't need a receipt for the doughnut - I'll just give you money and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario in which I would need to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend... don’t even act like I didn't buy a doughnut, I've got the documentation right here. Oh wait, it's back home in the file... under "D", for doughnut."

"I rent a lot of cars, y'know, cuz I go on the road. I rent cars. And when I drive a rental car I don't know what's going on with it, right? So a lot of time I drive, like, for 10 miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. It's really not an emergency brake, it's an emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever."

"I don't have a girlfriend. I just know this lady who'd be really mad if she heard me say that."

"You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish; they just want to make it late for something."

"I want to be a race car passenger; just a guy who bugs the driver. "Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide ..."

"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry. And that's extra scary to me, because there's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run. He's fuzzy. Get outta here."

"I played golf. I'm not good at golf, I never got good at it, I never got a hole in one ... but I did hit a guy. And that's way more satisfying.... You're supposed to yell 'fore,' but I was way too busy mumbling, "There ain't no way that's gonna hit him."

"A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer."

"I order a club sandwich all the time. And I'm not even a member, I don't know how I get away with it. I like my sandwiches with three peices of bread. So do I. Lets form a club then. Okay, but we're gonna need more stipulations. Yes we do. Instead of cutting it once, lets cut it again. Yeah, four triangles. And we will position them in a circle. And in the middle we will dump chips. Or potato salad. Let me ask you a question, how do you feel about frilly toothpicks? I'm for em!"

Godspeed, Mitch...

Collision of questionable pop culture - Numa Numa Guy on American Idle

Sin City ruled - more to come.

Crazy Dog!

This is your fault Numa man....
Dustin gets Jiggy wit it
I liked it better when Othello did it in Hamthello...

New Acquisitions:
She Hulk Vol 1: Single Green Female - finally picked this up (been saying I was for months now) Worth the money. Not as laugh at loud funny as Cable/Deadpool or Alpha Flight but really witty, kinda a Wolfram & Hart for the Marvel Universe feel. Without the evilness. maybe.
Jimmy Buffett Live in Hawaii: Great CDS! Crappy CD case fell apart as I opened though. About the only song I wish was included would be Buffett's version of "If I Had a Boat" by Lyle Lovett.

Cute Belle is back! Kirsten Storms is moving to GH to replace Maxie! In news people might care about - Lena Olin will be back on Alias for the season finale! - all from tvguide.com

Lowell is Venom! Mebbe...
From Comics Continuum: "Thomas Haden Church, who was most recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Sideways, has been cast as Spider-Man's new archenemy in Spider-Man 3, it was announced by director Sam Raimi and producers Laura Ziskin and Marvel Studios' Avi Arad...The identity of the new villain is being kept secret and while speculation is rampant about which character is being called into action, the studio will not comment on the casting beyond confirming Church."
The rest here.

C'mon, he could be Eddie Brock...

Man I love these little guys -
Cube Figures

Someone help me out - SoD is 5th in line for presidential succession, right? POTUS, VPOTUS, Speaker, Pres of Senate, him. Hmmmm.
8:12: That isn't naked Mandy is it?
8:19: Chloe can't come back, she's busy doing that sketch show with Frasier...
8:39: In the end in 24, it always comes down to cutting off body parts...
8:43: Is that a Dodge Magnum the terrorists are driving? They have Hemis. Can you say Hemi?
8:45: My guess is that suitcase isn't full of money. Boom?
8:50: BOOM!
8:55: Dinah fell for the oldest trick in the 24 book. For that, she gets the off camera death.
EH - Decent set ep, hopefully some better action next hour.

The Brothers Chaps have done it again - check out their new classic video game parody on Homestarrunner.com - here! 20x6!

From the LA Comicon: "Joe Quesada started the panel by confessing that Marvel kicks so much ass cause he is on steroids and he shoots Bendis and Millar in the ass with them."

There's more Comicon info I wanna talk about, but I'm going to wait until after the Marvel panels today.

Happy St. Patty's Day!
A Very Irish Jibidy

Happy Birthday Webble!
Exactly one year ago today I started blogging, and I'm totally amazed I haven't become bored of it all yet! Here's a look back at the first year of Dwain's Wonderful World of Webble:

March 2004: Webbling begins. I review Cable/Deadpool 1, from which I pull this lovely quote:
"Voice: Have you ever heard of the One World Church?
DP: Nope.
Voice: It's in France.
DP: I'll pass.
Voice: It pays a lot.
DP: Good sir, you can't pay me enough to go to France while our countries are at war!
Voice: Uhm, we're not at war.
DP: We're not?
Voice: No.
DP: Oh. So... how much money? ... Well that sure is a lot..."
April 2004: I sketched out my needs and wants:
Things I Need
Man I need a haircut. - got one!
And a desk. - and that too!
And motivation to do more than just post here. - not so much...
Better typing skills too. (See how I didn't make it all ironic by putting a typo in here) - still to be decided.
Things I Want
$50 Million Dollars (I'd spend it well, trust me)- I'm about a millionth of the way there.
An awesome job - potentially, helluva lot better than the last.
The new Kylie Mingoue album - not yet. but soon my sweet sweet Street Fighter.
May 2004: Angel went bye-byes, TechTV gotten eaten by Comcast, and I killed a bunch of Cicadas. So. so. month.
June 2004: I posted once. It was boring.
July 2004: I got old. Friend's got married, friends got divorced, friends almost got into fist fight at high school reunion. And I finally changed my mario ringtone on my cell phone for something more mature - the legend of zelda (mario's back, btw)
August 2004: Live on Penn died, Peasant's Quest lived, and ahoy-matey.com starts its long slow slog towards web-behemothdom.
September 2004: I got a year old and Pirate Night 2k4 went down in history.
October 2004: Stewartgate: we try to crash Crossfire and end up breaking the biggest fake vs real news story of the week!
November 2004: Kerry lost. Vows revenge. I lose to Platts in PA congressional race. Also vow revenge. Neither Bush nor Platts seem to notice.
December 2004: two words: Numa Numa
January 2005: 24 blog! DC loses what's left of musical coolness when HFS changes formats to modern spanish hits.
February 2005: Everyone I know remembers how cool I am and starts a blog.
March 2005: I'm still here people!!!!!!

Movies that didn't need remade but are being anyways:
The Love Bug - Trailer
The Bad News Bears - Trailer
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Trailer
House of Wax - Trailer

Haven't seen last episode yet (taped it and left it in PA, I'll see it around easter time)
7:05 - Michelle is looking hot as ever!
7:10 - Did Jack just kill some rent-a-cops?
7:22 - see 24 doesn't hate Arabs! At elast not until those dumb kids get killed in the firefight vs Lockheed Martin (I mean McClennan Forestor)'s personal army.
Commercial Break - Sin City commercial *drools*
7:27 - Audrey can't handle Jack's badassitude - bring back Sarah Wynter!
7:30 - I think Tony was playing Solitaire in the back. Meanwhile, the body count is about to go waaaay up...
7:45 - "Some people are more comfortable in hell"
7:55 - Ooooh, Tony and Michelle still looove each other.
Meanwhile: Marty Jannety is wrestling on RAW? Is it 1995?

More Rocco analysis on 24's CTU:
"Rocco: also heller directly appointed tony CTU director, so that whole theory that i had went out the window. now in my head CTU is a seperate agency that is overseen (obviously not as hands-on as heller has been, but still overseen) by the national security council. of which heller is a part
Me: that actually makes more sense
Rocco: so, based on that, heller, keeler, the vp, or the secretary of state have direct power to do that. i guess. tv show, tv show."

I'm back biotches!
I've been gonna for a little while, but now I'm back! Here's a gift for you:

As if the original numa numa song wasn't gay enough.

Cute animated bunnies singing about sex.

Rocco on 24: "According to the book, CTU is a branch of the CIA. as such it is an independent agency. heller is not in charge of CTU; his only involvement with them is his direct involvement in the days events. he's just staging his operations from CTU, and the two happen to conincide. the whole CIA connection is never really hinted at during the tv show, though, so who knows if the book is considered canon or not. it is an official book, though, so that's good enough for me. the other issue that arises, then, is the fact that the CIA can't collect information on american citizens in the US. the answer to that quandry would be 'it's a tv show. dammit'."

24 blog - Post Game
Anyone notice that just a few hours ago, Tony was a drunk, cradle-robbing, ex-con traitor to the nation. Now he's back to killing terrorists, working in CTU, and did you see the previews for next week? They're putting him in charge? At least give him a breathalizer test people.

In related news, Rocco maybe you can answer this to me. Doesn't CTU theoretically come under the Justice Dept and not DOD? Why is Hellar in charge? There should be a really ticked off Attorney General somewhere.

My attempt to liveblog the Oscars (and do laundry)
8:29: I've seen two of the five best pic nominees this year which is about one more than usual. I'm rooting for Million Dollar Baby, but who knows. As Dr Thiel says "They are bought and paid for boys and girls, bought and paid for."
8:40: "Say your working at the GAP, and you close out your register and your $70 trillion short. You'd get in trouble. Not Bush."
8:43: Halle Berry: Hotttttttt.
8:50: Some jerks butted in front of me to get a dryer only to lose their money in it because it is broken! HA!
8:57: Incredibles gets a statue. Not that there was any competition.
9:20: Second attempt to get laundry into dryer.
9:35: Jesse: the lead singer of the Counting Crowes looks like Sideshow Bob. Me: Is that James Carville playing bass?
9:56: That whole wonderful montage to Sydney Lumet and all I can say is: Vin Diesal with hair?
10:23: The next presenters: Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, and Salma Hayek's breasts. (Hey I'm not complaining!)
10:28: I guess Beyonce can't sing in Spanish. I looooove Santana's guitar (though it's a little cheesy that he's wearing a Che tee)
10:47: Annette Bening looks more sedated than Maureen Dowd!
10:57: Beyonce is looking better with every performance! Aker is right, Josh Groban sings like a 40 year old man...
11:16: Laundry done! Only 8 hours later!
11:17: Charlie Kaufman wins! Woohoo for wierd scriptwriters everywhere!
11:26: Holy Cow Jamie Foxx won! What a freakin (boring) surprise!!!! Gotta admit, great speech from the guy. Who would have thought five years ago that he'd turn out to be such a classy guy?
11:34: Johnny Depp looks like a young Colonel Sanders.
11:42: And mercifully it ends.

Josh found this amazing group of people - I've already started saving money!

CastleMagic Castle Builders!!!!!

The guy who got Paris Hilton's sidekick has struck again - this time he got Fred Durst!

T-MOBILE TERRORIST STRIKES AGAIN: HARDCORE PHONE VIDEO OF ROCKER FRED DURST

Am I a bad person for thinking this is funny stuff?

I don't really have a lot to say tonight. I did post chapter 6 of my serial adventure story "Dayspring" over at www.ahoy-matey.com . You should go check that out. Captain Jibidy #28 will be online tommorrow night, continuing the mysterious tale of Scurvy Steve. Speaking of which, I should go work on future issues. Peace, I'm out.

(Time to pretend I'm on livejournal)
Mood: helium induced elation mixed with too much water drank bloatation and dash of ennui
Music: We Don't Care - Kanye West

Holy crap it's a flying lawnmower! I'm never going outside again.

"For all of Thompson's theatrics and self-abuse, he could write like a demon. His prose accelerated across the page like a sportscar with the top down. He kept himself squarely in the picture, to great comic effect. We understood that he needed drugs the way other people needed oxygen, that he had an odd fondness for guns and violence, and that he loathed Richard Nixon and most authoritarian institutions. Otherwise, he wasn't very complicated. He didn't gum up his narrative with soul-searching. He really served as a big eyeball, if perhaps a rather glazed one." - from Joel Achenbach's Hunter S. Thompson tribute. Read the rest here.

I found a local comic creator scene!
Caption Box

In an astonishing turn of events, Joss Whedon and Jon Cassaday are staying on for another year of Astonishing X-Men! Look for a break after issue 12 (and Giant Size X-men 3) then another 12 issues plus the return of the comics annual!

Perry Bible Fellowship - I came across this site awhile ago, and Rocco reminded me tonight what it was - hilarious webcomic!

To quote George W. Bush: "The question we need to ask ourselves, is our children learning?" From this video, it is obvious they is not:

Numa Numa for the Middle School Kids

President Bush nominated former UN Ambass. and current Iraqi Ambass. John Negroponte to Director of National Intelligence position. His reasoning: with Powell gone, the cabinet needed to look a little blacker...

In unrelated news it was a great week for comics as there were new issues of Cable/Deadpool, New Mutants, Astonishing X-Men, and Runaways (s2) #1!!!! Four fo the best creative teams in comics! They didn't do the finale of the unintellible X-Force LS any favors by coming out the same week. Can Liefield even put sentences together? I can't but I'm not paid to. I'd like to see how FabNic handled this being as it sooooo different from what he's doing over in C/D... enough said.

Constantine comes out tommorrow and I will be seeing it. Hopefully Keanu will not make it suck.

Quick Post, Get Fuzzy Style:

- Pretty mediocre hour of 24, hence the lack of live blogging.
- I've become a 10 year old girl overnight it seems, apparently I'm into Kelly Clarkson now.
- I bought the Grammy performance of Stevie Wonder, Bono, Alicia Keyes, Steven Tyler, Brian Wilson, Billy Joe Armstrong, Allison Kraus, and Velvet Revolver off iTunes today. It's only a dollar, a fun version of "Across the Universe", and supports Tsunami victims.

Pirate Mr. Potato Head
From Brit, too cute not to post:

Top 5 Television shows I'd like to see on DVD:

5. "Unhappily Ever After" - Think "Married With Children" for absurdists. It featured a hot young Nikki Cox plus Bobcat Goldthwait as a stuffed bunny living in the basement.
4. "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" - While Christopher Reeves WAS Superman, Teri Hatcher WAS Lois Lane. This was a fun show, that eventually jumped the shark after Loi discovered Clarks identity, but had a great Lois, a great Clark, a good Lex, and an amazing Perry White in the form of Lane Smith.
3. "Thundercats" - This, along with "Transformers" and "GI Joe" were my favorite childhood shows. It had a recent comeback with a comic series like the other two franchises (both of which are on DVD) so hopefully we will see this soon.
2. "Mind of the Married Man" - the show isn't on DVD because I think I am the only fan of the show. I thought it complemented Curb Your Enthusiasm well on HBO's schedule, and was a fun little comedy.
1. "Scrubs" - the ONLY funny sitcom on the air right now, and has been for sometime. Why why why why? Possibly the most underappreciated show on TV not called Arrested Development.

Feel free to comment on what you'd like to see on DVD!

Copycats:
Here's an updated list of friends of mine who've recently started blogs trying to be as cool as me (trust me kids, you don't want to be as cool as me):
Jesse: Everybody Loves a Masshole
Erin: Erin's Thoughts on Many Things
Aker: Mike Uncensored
Josh: my weblog

On a related note, this webble will be a year old in about a month. That's wierd, huh?

Strange little things - I just looked at the box for my bar soap. Amongst the ingredients there is an "and/or". Shouldn't they know exactly what is in there?

A bunch of quick hits:
- Spent a Tower gift card today and finally picked up the Scissor Sisters' album. My fresh opinion on it - this stuff is pure rock. These people are channeling a host of artists from Elton John to Sly and the Family Stone to the Chemical Brothers. Great stuff.
- Pushing my way through Volumes 3-5 of the Sandman by Gaiman. Amazing stuff. The Season of Mists storyline has been the best I've read, and the Midsummer's Night Dream issue might be the best comic I've ever read.
- Just checked my fantasy golf team today. It's actually pretty fun. I'm currently ranked 77,518th. Out of how many I don't know. I doing well this week though, as I've jumped 20,673 places today. That seems like a lot.
- Hoping to check out Finding Neverland or Ray this weekend. This is the first year in awhile that I'm interested in more than one or two of the Oscar pics. I've already seen Sideways and Million Dollar Baby. I can't see myself going to the Aviator though. Leo (actor I dont care about) playing Howard Hughes (historical figure I don't care about) doesn't add up to a movie I need to see. I may be wonderful
- Sin City is on the cover of this week's EW. Next movie I'm really looking foward, especially 'cus Elektra was less than good and I have more than my doubts about Constantine. Sin City looks like it could be the best comic movie this year (barring FF later this year rocking)

Holy Cow! Sara Foster, the super hot hottie from "The Big Bounce" is on CSI tonight!

Great story from dreary London:

"Chaos at Ikea opening -
Hundreds of people were crushed as the opening of the biggest Ikea store in England descended into chaos." The rest here.

Ikea rules!

24 blog

2:06PM :"Tony there could be someone following us"
"No Jack, my soul patch would have detected it."
2:11PM :Why is the SoD doing this stuff? Isn't this the job of the NSA or something? because he's Bill Devane that's why.
- Public Service Announcement: Jack Bauer stop pretending to be Kiefer Sutherland - message: Jack Bauer loves Muslims. Riiiight.
2:18PM :"I'm sure your boss will understand, and if he doesn't, I can have him killed."
2:22PM :Tony's home PC rules!
- Ahhhhh Super Bowl Commercial Reruns... cus I loved PDiddy and Co so much the first time around.
2:30PM :Torture rules in the 24 world... you don't think they would be suspicious of people who just started six hours ago!!!
2:45PM :Tony's half drunk and looking to kill terrorists! Woohoo!
3:00PM :Mebbe 2 CTU guards dead in a car explosion, white collar baddie shot too.
Body Counts:
Jack: 17 and a knee Baddies: 50 SoD: 4 Tony: 4

Toys of the Trade

Many of you probably know this but I'll be moving on from GW at the end of this week to bigger and better things. In the meantime, I'm taking full advantage of the GW perks, which include a data projector for the Super Bowl and bringing my work laptop home for the weekend. Needless to say the 24 blog tonight will be great, b/c I'll have both things with me! Tune in later for the weekly Jack Bauer Power Hour!

Wow

Just saw the Super Bowl Halftime Update over at Homestarrunner.com. Check it out! Its a long load, but worth it.

Super Bowl Aftermath

Congrats on the Patriots new "dynasty". Decent round of commercials this year. Nothing too amazing (was hoping to see the Gene Kelly VW one) but I particularly enjoyed the Burt Reynolds Fedex one and the PDiddy Diet Pepsi ones

Big Boys has all the ads online here.

Big Game Minus One Day

Spent the day getting ready for the 5th annual Super Bowl Bash! (Sponsered by Ahoy-matey.com of course.) As for the actual game, I'm picking a close game, Patriots over Eagle 27-24. More later if life gets interesting.

BTW, Captain Jibidy #23: "E.V.I.L. Strategery" is now online.

Special Captain Jibidy surprise coming tommorrow!

Interesting little piece of propaganda (It's a hoax but a really interesting read):

Presidential IQ's

Of the Presidents over the last 50 years here's the highest and lowest IQ (supposedly):
Highest: Clinton (182)
Lowest: W Bush (91)

Great little site from LC: www.humanforsale.com/

I of course did it - I'm worth $2,104,630.00

Take the test and comment below with your black market value.

Jesse sent me this over a week ago and I never got around to posting it, which is from the Hotline:

"VENTURA: Yarr, I Be The Dread Pirate Jesse!
Jesse Ventura "looked more like a pirate than a retired governor" in a speech at the Contra Costa Council USA conference. "Sporting a black head scarf, braided beard, suit jacket, blue jeans and tennis shoes," Ventura "declared": "I am the most dangerous man in America!" His "huge" ego "burst through like a pounding fist" in a "rambling" 90-minute speech. And he "managed to insult just about everybody." He "slammed Republicans and Democrats": "I want to just puke when I look at politics today." He "mocked people that oppose same-sex marriage": "If gay people decided to be gay, when did you decide to be a hetero?" He "castigated the media as a pawn of the establishment." And "he wielded a heavy arm of sarcasm" on the jailing of Martha Stewart: "I can sleep better at night! Can't you? When the people lie to the government, they go to prison. What happens when the government lies to the people? Nothing" (Vorderbrueggen, Contra Costa Times, 1/28)."

Man do i want to work for this man when he runs for president in '08...

I was gonna live-blog the State of the Union last night. I was busy drinking heavily and throwing things at the television. Usually nto what I was drinking. Anyways I also remembered that no one who cares about my opinion on the speech really felt that differently than me so I'll let it lie.

Yahoo Fantasy Golf begins this weekend! I'm excited - my team "ernie the pirate" will be rocking the league. That's right kids, fantasy golf. Not excited enough by watching golf? Play online with the stats! I hear its thoroughly invigorating, or incredibly boring. It was free so i kinda just signed up (I'm a sucker for stupid stuff like this)

24 blog - hella late

Just a quick update - Jack racked up another 4 kills this week bringing the totals up to:
Baddies: 47 SoD: 4 Jack: 17 (and the blown knee)

I wasn't counting Tony's kills but it was also 3 or 4 for the week. Someone let me know if they have a more accurate account.

My roommate tries to copy everythign I do and has decided to start a blog. It looks pretty good so far, and by pretty good I mean vastly inferior to this webble's storied history. He'll probably soon be a blogging genius, however.

Everybody Loves a Masshole

Andrew Sullivan is retiring/taking a blog break/etc. I don't knwo which as I got it all second-hand, his site has apparently gone down. Maybe he just didn't pay his isp bills...

This was the stupid quote of the day on my desk calendar: Jim Trafficant on getting out of prison - "And then when I get out, I will grab a sword like Maximus Meridius Demidius and as a gladiator I will stab people in the crotch."

Gotta new message board for ahoy-matey.com. It's called Ye Olde Pirate Pub. You don't have to register to post, but feel free to register and become a member of the ahoy-matey.com community! Here the linkage:

Ye Olde Pirate Pub

The link below for the Gene Kelly commercial has gone dead - here's another:

"Blingin' in the Rain"

My hands hurt bunches after a looooong trip to IKEA which ended up with Jesse buying a queen size bed and me holding the mattress down as we drove back from College Park (btw twine rules)

Another funny one from LC:
Apple Iproduct

Gene Kelly going nuts!

Sent in by Jesse:

http://www.pumpupthemovie.com/toss.html

Crazy, mebbe fake? AMC theater goers may recognize where this is from.

Apparently Smackdown! isn't going anywhere. Not sure what Moonves meant in his comments then. More to come I'm sure.

Smackdown smacked down!

'with the news that UPN is going for respectability in the future, and in that future there's no room for senseless degrading of the Amish or for smackdowns.

That's right. There's only one year left on the contract for World Wrestling Federation's "Smackdown!" and the network has decided to let it go.' Rest of the story here.

Interesting news indeed, hopefully this will teach Vinnie Mac a lesson about quality programming and more importantly hopefully a lot of wrestlers won't get cut loose if the show doesn't get picked up elsewhere.

This was the very next story on the local6 webpage -

Budweiser Adds Herbs, Caffeine To Beer

ST. LOUIS -- Anheuser-Busch is adding a little jolt to its new beer brand. B-to-the-E is being rolled out nationwide, after being test marketed in 55 cities.

The "E" stands for extra, in this case caffeine and herbs, including ginseng.

The world's largest brewer is going after the 20-something market with the fruity brewski.

But some beer-lovers might have a hard time downing the stuff. Anheuser-Busch even suggests that B-to-the-E be served over ice.

This is crazy -
"Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
Pictures Show Classmate Being Stabbed, Hung

OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures."

The rest of the story here.

Argghhh!!!

24 blog - hour 6!
1:12 PM - Big Shootout - terrorists got their arses kicked! 11 for jack and two for the SoD!
Body Count: Baddies 47, SoD 4, Jack 13 (and a knee)

Well, it isn't looking good for the Steelers either - but I got a great deal on The Sandman vols 3-5! Less than half price! That should count for something, eh?

And I'm 0 for 1.... Let's go Steelers!!!

Last minute football picks: Falcons over Eagles, Steelers over Patriots - I may go 0-2 but it'll be down in a flame of moral righteousness (whatever that means)

More food should come in string form - string cheese and twizzler pull-and-peels are two of ym favorite foods, plus they share the delicious clsoe relative of slim jims... im salivating now, better go eat something....

There's a new jibjab! It's called "Second Term" Check it out. www.jibjab.com!

Didn't watch a lot of the Inaugural coverage today. Saw the speech - thought it was interesting and probably the best he's ever given. My fave part of the coverage I saw was probably Chris Matthews commenting on how attractive the Bush daughters looked - especially since one of the girls he was talking about wasn't Barbara but some cousin. (He of course got corrected by some equally dirty old man on MSNBC)

Here's some good news for fans of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. We already know that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are attached to it. But who you ask has been cast as French investigator Bezu Fache? None other than Jean Reno, of Leon fame. The whole story at the Hollywood Reporter.

Website is back. Big collective sigh of relief here!

Nobody panic - but I think www.ahoy-matey.com is down. Looks like something went funky with the servers, and the techs are working to get it back asap.

Neil Gaiman just posted on his Journal that he's working on another project with Marvel! If anyone hasn't read his first work 1602 - check it out! And if you've never heard of Gaiman before, he's one of my fave writers, author of The Sandman and American Gods. Check him out!

Farewell HFS (From Mediaweek, whole story here): "Infinity Broadcasting announced today it had flipped WHFS-FM, a long-time Rock brand in Washington, D.C., to a Spanish-language format called "El Zol." At noon Wednesday, the station dropped its young-skewing Modern Rock programming for a blend of Caribbean and Central American dance music targeting adults 25-54."

I'll miss HFS, I didn't listen much, b/c we could never get a good signal on my side of DC, but I enjoyed the several HFStivals I attended - there rarely is a chance to get to see 10+ good bands for under $30. No HFStival anymore, no Live on Penn anymore... DC better get its outdoor music act together!

Not something to be proud of - i got a score of 35290 on Zookeeper today. It's my personal best on my post-Snood fave timesuck game. Wanna play?

Zookeeper

No posts yesterday as I was laid up from my recent injuries. I did manage to catch up on some of my DVD backlog - I saw Spellbound (pretty good) and Underworld (pretty ok, a lot of potential for a fictional world, never really realized)

Here's a great link for writers looking for ideas (you may remember some if you've ever read Evil Overlord's Guidelines.
"Random Plot Generator"

24 blog - roundup - so after 4 hours of seaosn 4 the body count has begun to rise already, look for Jack to get more bad guys once he tracks them to hellers lair. Seeya next week!

24 Blog - 10:48 AM - Terrorkid can't do it, but terrormom can - 1 girlfriend down.
Baddies - 47 SoD - 2 Jack - 2 and a kneecap