…from the folks watching at my house:

• “Look kids. Sea Biscuit, Big Ben, Parlaiment…” -Rod
• “New Zealand’s empty! Let’s invade!” -Zack

p.s Most Robbed (Although They Lost To Films Just As Good): “Lost In Translation” and “Triplettes of Bellville”

The designer of this game equips you with a Warthog (the military vehicle with a gun on top) and a passle of grenades. A group of giant mutant fleas appear and to fight them off…you do what? That’s right. Place the grenades under your vehicle so you can launch it at them.

I’m stuck on Level 30.

Read this article in Salon (Darn them, why do they have to inject actual quality from time to time?), and was left with the following question:

“When someone mentions Led Zepplin to you, what song immediately springs to mind?”

I was right! Dirty Dancing IS one of the best movies ever!

This is a conspiracy theory I could get behind and one the Bushies should secretly promote while publicly denying it. Bush was a spook and that’s why he can’t account for his time served in Alabama or even specify his real-world job during that time frame.

“George’s job was to travel around the United States and to countries in Central America looking for plant nurseries his company might want to acquire,” read one account.

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Bush’s plant-nursin’ jet-flyin’ story was the future Presidents “cover” for the unit to which the young second lieutenant was actually detached—officially or otherwise—a massive clandestine U.S. government operation that was going on just then called Operation Condor.

Four years ago local radio personality (don’t call him a DJ!) Dale Dudley of the Dudley and Bob Show was all about the Bush. He was sure that W was the savior of the U.S. Lately, though, he’s been making it clear that he won’t be backing that horse this season. If can’t be easy for a public figure to decry a former governer and the most powerful resident of Texas but he’s making a clear stand.

Howard Stern is doing the same kind of about-face. Some conspiracy nuts and Stern fans (which I am neither) relate Stern’s Clear Channel fallout to these statements, but I think Clear Channel is simply tired of paying his FCC fines and recognize that he’ll be generating tons more fines under new FCC enforcement.

[ Stern discussing LatLLWTT(Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them):AFaBLATR(A Fair and Balanced Look At The Right) ] “If you read this book, you will never vote for George W. Bush. … I think this guy is a religious fanatic and a Jesus freak, and he is just hell bent on getting some sort of bizzaro agenda through—like a country-club agenda—so that his father will finally be proud of him. … I don’t know much about Kerry, but I think I’m one of those ‘Anybody but Bush’ guys now. I don’t think G.W. is going to win. What do you think about that?”

Can’t wait to hit Houston to see him, but here’s pictures in the mean time.

Major Applewhite called me at work today. Sadly, it was not to profess his undying love, but to endorse John Kelley (R) for Congress.

Good thing I’ve got another QB to fixate on.

…and I mean that literally. There are people who profess to be Christians who are unquestionably damned, and I’m tired of being associated with them. A “minister” in Colorado put up a billboard proclaiming “Jews Killed The Lord Jesus”. The a—hole was nice enough to remove part of the billboard that said “Settled!” but refused to pull down the whole thing.

“If I can get people to rediscover their bible…if I can get people to go back and look…what does it actually say?” asked Gordon [, the pastor responsible ].

Well, gee, Gordon you moron. My bible makes it pretty clear that the Romans are the ones who beat the ever-living crap out of Jesus and then cross-marched him up Golgotha so they could nail him to the cross and stick a sword through his innards.

Maybe Gordon is just afraid that his Roman heritage will be revealed and he will have to answer for killing Jesus. He’s just trying to draw attention away from himself while he comes up with a good excuse.

It’s may just be groundless conspiracy fuel, but “US senators’ personal stock portfolios outperformed the market by an average of 12 per cent a year in the five years to 1998, according to a new study.“ The numbers actually would be interesting when viewed by Senator since over time it might indicate Senators who should answer questions to the SEC, but this is worth looking into.

Here’s a couple twitch games (my favorite kind!) to waste your time. Shuriken places your ninja in a canyon throwing stars at bad ninjas and dodging a hovering fireball. (Were you looking for some kind of realism? Build a bridge…) Pongling is a cross between Pong© and bowling. Score a strike or spare in the 10th ‘frame’ and 11 will open, etc.

To Nathan Joseph, born today. 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Mother and child are resting, father is moving into a new house, but catching a plane early, early Saturday morning. Big brother Jake is sleeping.

There’s tons of reasons to love the windy city – the Cubbies and The Blues Brothers are those that pop to mind immediately, without even a moment’s thought.

Chief reason this evening is beer in plastic cups. As befits a city of meatpackers, the neighbor to the south of the place the native americans called Mil-le-walk-ee, O’Hare has an enlightened view of the proper place of booze in an airport – namely, everywhere.

My wife is brian-washing me and I have to fight back. My name is John and I like comfortable food. I am not ashamed that this looks yummy.

(this picture stolen from the most recent update at brian battjer, jr.‘s ikeepadiary.com which you should check out because his trip to europe is a pretty fun photoblog.)

I have had a few conversations with folks regarding the new Quizno’s add. Today, it was a topic on MSN.

I know that the add gets the name out there, but geez. Everytime I see one of those singing spongmonkeys, I lose my appetite.