EDIT: Okay, yes, it is April Fools day. Duh. I don't really "do" April Fools day, can you tell? Didn't even notice it as other than another Wednesday. Glad to know it's a joke.

Is anybody else seeing this when you log in to Gmail?


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This week my life got hijacked by an arthritic goat ( Read more... )

The twentyish cashier boy at Trader Joe's was so obviously stoned out of his gourd that we noticed five minutes before we got to the register, while standing patiently in line waiting as he dragged through the previous lady's shopping, doing a lot of pausing to chat her up in his heavy-lidded, slow as molasses, distracted way. We were giggling with ( Read more... )

You may have thought you'd seen everything. You may have seen almost everything. But you haven't seen everything, until you have looked at this:

Glam GunsHere's a little quote for ya ( Read more... )

 Aw, no. Say it ain't so.

First news reports with info on the possible cause of the Lick Fire. News report says it's believed the fire was started on private land owned by a hunting club, by a remote, small lake near the edge of Henry Coe state park.

They say the fire was started by some people burning trash in a barrel at the hunting club, who let ( Read more... )

Well. Apparently it's National Day of Prayer today. That's apropos of what I was meaning to write about, which is the film Jesus Camp.

If you haven't heard about it, it's a documentary style film about children of Evangelical Christian families, in which we see them being raised Evangelical, going to summer camp to get indoctrinated inspired in ( Read more... )

From the department of stranger than fiction, the report of the 9/11 Commission is being published as a graphic novel. Yes, you read that right, there is now a comic book version of the 9/11 report ( Read more... )