So one night I was at a bar with my wife (willagurl) and some friends and the topic of pigs and barbecue came up. I have been smoking tasty meats on a Weber Smokey Mountain for a few years now and really enjoy it. I started slow with spare ribs, moved up to the pork shoulder, knocked out the occasional Turkey and chicken and took on a big assed brisket. ( Read more... )

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Okay, I need some help people. I have decided that in order to do my part for this election I am going to concentrate my efforts not on the democratic state of California where I live, but on voters in my home state of Missouri where it can do some good. Specifically, I am going to harass everyone in my family who traditionally vote Republican, yet ( Read more... )

Just watched this flash cartoon with Bush and Kerry and about died. Extra funny. I think it's the expressions on their faces that does it.

I heard on the Writer's Almanac this morning that today is the 50th anniversary of the publishing of The Fellowship of the Ring. I haven't heard about this anywhere else, but then again how big of a deal is it to most people? I don't know. But I'm marking the occasion by posting in my livejournal (after four months of nothing) and by saying: Lord ( Read more... )

We are doing names? I was just thinking about how many names I have been acquiring.

Here are ones I can remember.

If you call me...

Mr. willa I know you through the whole Buffy fandom and/or popgurls articles.

Brad you are calling me what 99.9% of the people I know call me. (FYI: I was named after WW II General Omar Bradley, who my grandpa ( Read more... )

So here I am at Travis Air Force Base covering the Guantanamo interpreter arraignment for my paper. It's not so often that I'm driving to work and hearing about what I'm going to cover on NPR. Very exciting. Except that it isn't. There are a dozen or more reporters, photographers and TV folk here being herded around by the Air Force like the ( Read more... )

So I haven't updated in some time. Hmmm ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream that lawgeekgurl wasn't a lawyer, but a doctor. And that not only did she practice medicine, but also ran a daycare that myself and some other friends helped out at. Now this is where it gets weird. In my dream lawgeekgurl had the day care so she could use the children as lab rats for a new rabies cure she was working on. ( Read more... )

Curses! CURSES!!!!!!!

My second favorite radio station has changed formats!! Bastards! 99.3 KVYN "The Vine" out of Napa went from a pretty kick ass alt-rock station with unpolished, slackerly DJs to the stinky pile of shit known as "adult contemporary". Their web site hasn't changed yet, so I have hope that the lame, middle aged guy that was on ( Read more... )