My mom just sent me these pictures from Bussey. This is right outside our house! An old man somehow lost control and drove right into the telephone pole and now the only thing holding the pole up are all the wires that run to the nearby houses! My mom was told to either leave her [...]

Random things that made me happy so far today: More live Bonerama recordings. Bonus happy points for ‘Lost My House’, ‘Hard Times’, and ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ Best Game Ever: Fun and heart-warming. Iowa is thisclose to having a smoking ban! Woo! [Though I honestly wonder what will become of The Deadwood.] Spending time online with [...]

but this news bite from the IMDB today made me smile: Theaters Begin Barring Children Some theater chains have begun barring children from theaters after 8:30 p.m. if they are not accompanied by their parents — in hopes of attracting more adults who are put off by the disruptive behavior of some kids, according to [...]

From the Colbert Report last night: I had a doctor’s appointment this morning and I saw a chick carrying the book in the waiting room and she looked like she was only 1/4 of the way through. Seriously? Didn’t everyone finish it this weekend? I was done at 1:30pm on Sunday and that was only [...]

As many people have been doing, I’ve been following the news of the unbelievable tragedy at Virginia Tech. What can one say about it? What has hit home most for me was something I saw just today. One of the victims, Ryan Clark, was a senior member of the Virginia Tech marching band, the Marching [...]

Apparently very little… I just read this article: Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week – washingtonpost.com I honestly had no idea that the members of Congress didn’t move to Washington DC while they served. Most fly back and forth to their homes in whatever state they are from every [...]

After three weeks of endless pre-recorded phone calls (I got at least one per day), the election is finally over. All the negative ads will cease and my tv watching can be returned to normal. Except apparently not. I turned on the TV at the all to early hour of 6:45am to see the final [...]

This seems like it would appeal to Utech most, but who knows who else might find it fascinating: Fantasy Sports? Child’s Play. Here, Politics Is the Game. – New York Times or if you want to skip the NYTimes rigamarole all together: Fantasy Congress

I was trying to think of a better title for this post, but everytime I saw the news scroll on KWWL the past two days about this topics, that’s all I could think. From KWWL regarding the Pierre Pierce case, who is being sentenced today for third-degree burglary, assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, [...]

A commercial for the local fox news at nine said: Tonight in weather, we’re looking at six days in a row. and that was it. I couldn’t stop laughing. Six days straight! WOOHOO!! And here I was dreading that 36 hours or so of an alternate universe come Wednesday.