We've all been burned before

But here are various and sundry rock stars have actually caught fire on stage. They all survived. With the exceptions of the heretics and witch. And that f(&*^* ass-hot who turned me into a newt.

On to Pluto

NASA's New Horizons has swung by Jupiter on it's way to Pluto. No word on whether or not it'll swing by Uranus or not, but it might still be prudent to keep your pants up until the.



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MC Hawking to go weightless

MC Hawking is to experience zero gravity this April. Here is a recent music video (Sorry YouTube doesn't have 'All My Shootings Be Drive-bys'):





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A Real Class Act

Craig Ferguson on Britney Spears:



He speaks of his own problems with alcoholism, his sobering up, and why he won't make fun of Britney Spears.  It's nice to see that there are still class acts on TV.

MacBook 1, Cat 0

See the cat vs. Macbook. Not surprisingly, the cat loses....





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ANother good use for duct tape....

You can use it to tie up astronauts who flip it. Or you can simply promise them a 900 mile drive in a diaper when they land.





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The Britney Spears rehab count is now at

Three. As much as I (like nearly everybody else) likes to follow the celebrities and make fun of there hi-jinks, she really does need some help.

Happy Chinese New Year

Now begins the Year Of The Pig (or to be more precise, the Year Of The Boar). For Christmas this year, my brother-in-law did a wee bit of Chinese astrology and got us all presents based on the year we were born. I was born in the Year Of The Cow, and so I got a couple of ceramic cows (well one of them's a wind chime, but I don't want to push my luck w/ the neighbors).

On the frailties of life....

It wasn't until I was in the eighth grade that I really took an interest in the newspaper. Of course there were the headline, the top stories, and comics, etc. But there was one column I always looked forward to reading. L. M. Boyd's trivia column. Some of you may know him as Mike Mailway. Throughout the years, the service of the local newspapers left me disgusted (multiple billings, failed deliveries), but his column was still the only reason why I still read the paper each day (that and a little bit of Garfield, too). And then one day in December of 2000, he announced his retirement. I canceled my News Tribune subscription a few months later.



Human life can be so fleeting. People you see here today can be gone tomorrow in a flash. This Christmas Eve, I was overnighting at my Grandmother's house. When I went to bed that night, the thoughts were of joy and happiness. When I got up the next morning, the first headline I see was James Brown passing away. Then Gerald Ford went the same way, too. A couple of weeks later Saddam Hussein snuffed it. And then last week, Anna Nicole Smith passed on.



Why am I saying this? Because I just found about L. M. Boyd's passing (obit here). Forget Ann Landers, or Dear Abbey. He was my favorite. Now that he's gone, I have no other reason to read newspapers (there are a whole bunch of other ways to get the news, like google, for instance).

Anna Nicole Smith is dead

Anna Nicole Smith has died. She was only a few years older than I am. Make one want to ponder the frailties of life.....

Hey, Igwanarob

Enjoy your new pipe. Although I shouldn't say that, given my personal view on smoking. At one time or another, we've all been burned on the Internet. I have it happen to me a couple of times. The first time was when I decided to buy a model of the USS Voyager (from Star Trek Voyager), and someble took my credit card and decided to buy $600.00 dollars of viagra. A phone call to police, and another to the credit card comany to dispute the charge took care of that. Then there was time I decided I had to have Encarta 2002 (this was before I discovered Wikipedia - for better or for worse, at least it's not published by The Anti-Christ). Ordered it online from The Anti-Christ, and they shipped by DHL. Who promptly decided to leave it at my door-stop without bothering to take to the apartment manager's (who btw, will receive packages) office, like brown or fed-ex do. So, guess who's three figure software shipment was stolen? And then when I called to complain, I was simply told to pound sand. A few expletive filled phone calls to both microsoft and dhl got it straightened out, and I ended up getting what I wanted at Officemax, who btw really kick ass when it comes to getting what I need, and then taking it back when I realize I got the wrong part to begin with.





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If you though your job paid well

Rod Stewart is getting offered cool mil for a one-hour gig. And I thought the ¢50 raise I got was good....







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