Seriously, with all the crappy little mind games that were played on me during my “GATEWAY” years, you would think this Gifted and Talented little mind of mine could solve simple puzzles. After compltely abandoning the riddle debacle finishing only 3 riddles without assistance, I came across this site and can’t even finish the first damn challenge.

Go ahead, Doc. Make me feel dum.

Great interview on NPR yesterday where a lot of terminally caucasian folks talk about RZA’s foray into film soundtrack work.

p.s. Becky and I are catching a premiere of Kill Bill tomorrow night. We get a free t-shirt and Gordon Liu will be there.

Phil Jackson has dropped hints that he may ask MJ(Michael Jordan) to play for LA – Professional if Kobe Bryant can’t make games due to trials/prison/being bitch-slapped by his wife. This is a bad, bad, bad idea.

If I may have a moment’s indulgence:

Michael,

Look, we had some great times. The first three-peat and your extraordinary ability to take up the mantle of both the Basketball Jesus and Magic and extend the Golden Age of the NBA was incredible. We truly felt for you the first time you retired, were disappointed that your time with the Barons didn’t work out better, and honestly were happy when you made your first return to the NBA. Those of us in Texas are especially thrilled that your first sabattical coincided with the Dream and the Admiral’s peaks, and treasured the ’94 and ’95 post-seasons more than you’ll ever know.

I don’t know if I believe this is credible re: Hilary’s running for pres, and I am too lazy to vet it since someone else will eventually.

1. Go to the Federal Election Commission homepage at www.fec.gov
2. On the left of their homepage is a link labeled “Campaign Finance Reports and Data”, click it.
3. Scroll down a ways to Image/Query System, under that choose “View Financial Reports”…
4. Under the intro paragraph choose “Search the Report Image System”
5. In the dialogue box type “Clinton” and click “Get Listing”.
20 entries down you`ll see “CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM”, click on the blue number “P00003392” beside her name.
Guess what? “Presidential Candidate 2004 “.

Hillary Rodham Clinton filed late Friday, Oct 3rd, with the Federal Election Commission to run for President in 2004.

(stolen from linkfilter.net who stole it from rense.com)

For anyone who has some free time this weekend.

How to build a stable plasmoid at one atmosphere

It would be to recommend that y’all read this one. Herb Meyer has done a much better job of explaining why the war in Iraq was a critical step in the War on Terror, and tied it to past events.

When the world becomes unstable, sooner or later a lot of Americans get hurt. So our national objective is the restoration of global stability.

This weekend, you’ll be able to find me in a food coma, and the kiddo hopped up on cotton candy and goofballs riding the insanely expensive rides at the Katy Rice Festival. Past highlights have included fried shrimp on a stick, the ever-present (but unusually good) sausage on a stick, lots and lots of complimentary rice dishes, and a goat stealing my beer in the petting zoo.

It’s election day in Cali and hypocrisy is rampant. The anti-Arnie camp is pointing out the two-faced journalists (and other women) who support Arnie but were out for blood a few years back with our former president. I don’t really care if they think misogyny is ok at governor-level but not president-level, or if they’re just partisan brown-nosers. I just hope the GOP earns the problems they deserve by pushing for Arnie to be gov’ner.

Good luck to the voters of Cali. It’s a tough choice on two categories. I am on the fence about the recall: Davis is sham and deserves to lose the next election, but the way this recall came to be is a sham, too. Then picking a candidate from the remaining pool is not going to be easy. The temptation to throw away your vote on Mary Carrey is awfully hard to pass up.

p.s. The SNL quality satire of Andy Borowitz (of the Jewish World Review) this weekend was quite good. (SNL quality — you know, the joke is spent at the very beginning but you watch the whole thing thinking there must be more.)

In honor of the arrival of Fall, allow me to present my first apple pie, still bubbling from the oven.

Perhaps some other lucky BpBer will get first taste in the morning. I’m off to bed.