The Cunning Use Of Flags or Your 2011 Columbus Day Bonus Post

Be careful while you are looking for these hidden objects that you don't accidentally run into some completely different objects altogether and think that they were the objects that you were looking for in the first place even though they are nowhere near where those objects actually are. Or something like that. What did this guy do, again? He found something that he wasn't looking for that other people had already found and that wasn't what he thought it was anyway? Something like that? Or he found someplace that nobody had found before, but thought it was someplace that everybody already knew about? Which one of those was it? Was he a Pilgrim? Was he before the Pilgrims or after the Pilgrims? He was Italian, right? Was he the one who stole noodles from the Chinese and took them back to Italy so that centuries later Americans would think that Italians invented noodles? Noodle stealing bastard!

Happy Columbus Day!

We Interrupt This Hallowe'en Countdown For A Special Columbus Day Bonus Post

Lucky

Face The Nation

Memories... Light The Corners Of My Mind

So... yeah. How you been?

So what's the deal with the no posts since April? What's that and what is up with it? Where is that going and what's it gonna do when it gets there?

Well, first I drop my camera over a waterfall (true story), then I accidently knock an unopened bottle of Coke, and I mean one of those heavy glass mothers, off my desk and onto my scanner which was sitting right below it with the lid up and which made a cracky, tinkly sound when a Coke bottle was dropped on it (true story) and then I made angry, shaky Basil Fawlty fists in God's direction and then tripped over a moose head.

True story.

So without a camera or a scanner and with not enough gumption to just make up my mind which new camera and scanner I want to buy to replace them I haven't had much blog-worthy material to post in the past month. I almost resorted to "What I Had To Eat Today Posts" just to keep things humming along around here. Today I ate Minty Chocolate S'moreo TIE-Fighters. Yummy!

So anyway, it's Memorial Day. And, since I can't let a holiday pass by without a post, here are some pictures of memorials that I took at a local cemetary a few months back...

April Foolery

Happy 2008!

Waaugh Bless America

Plaisteach Puimpcín go Brách

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Things To Make & Match

My bottomless pile of ancient Highights magazines has failed me miserably in the Valentine's Day department. These two and a quarter pages worth of holiday related material wouldn't even have been worth the scanning and posting if not for that scary-ass bleeding-eyed Indian kid in the lower corner of the second craft page. That kid looks like something that would come crawling out of a mirror in a Japanese horror flick.

Freaky.

Meanwhile, Back At The Electric Company...

In Memoriam Meleagris Gallopa

As Black Friday brings with it the official end of Turkey Week, I think that it's only fitting that we should all stop for a moment to honor those brave fowls who gave their lives so that we could give thanks for our blessings and o.d. on tryptophan all in one huge orgy of football, parade floats and food. Ladies and gentlemen, a minute of silence for the turkey...

One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four Mississippi, five Mississippi, six Mississippi, seven Mississippi, eight Mississippi... Mississippi looks really weird when you write it out a whole bunch of times in a row like that... seven Mississippi, eight Mississippi, wait... eight, nine? Ten Mississippi? I've lost count...

Damn.

Whatever. It's the thought that counts.

Speaking of thoughts and the counting there of- if anybody is interested in how my quest for cool Thanksgiving swag went this week, it didn't. There is no cool Thanksgiving swag out there. The closest I got was in one of the local Goodwill stores where I found a plastic kitchen plaque with a bible verse on it that was illustrated with a picture of an overflowing cornucopia. It was 50 cents. I couldn't bring myself to buy it.

There's always next year...

P.S. I Googled the Latin name of the wild turkey. I do not know the Latin name of things just off the top of my head. Please do not think that I am that person.

Bobbing Gobblers

It's Thanksgiving! Have yourself some turkey, play a little football, watch a parade or two and spend your evening quietly digesting as you play with your new 'Bobbing Gobblers' from the pages of this issue of Wow magazine...

Avoid The Buffet...

So, I've had this little Thanksgiving give-away booklet in my collection for some time and... well I just don't know what the heck Shoney's was thinking about when they gave these things out back in the early '80's. Was there not any kind of an editorial process in effect when they green-lighted this particular promotion, because this thing is just... well, I don't want to color your judgement with my own opinions so maybe you'd better read it for yourselves and then let me know what you think. Maybe it's just me...

If you are as offended by this whole thing as I am then please feel free to contact Shoney's and let them know how you feel.

I mean really...

Thanksgiving Highlights