Take that Nation’s Capitol – SONIC is coming to the Bay Area!
http://bayareasonic.org/

P.S. I just ate at a Sonic in New Mexico recently. No gravy, but everything could be ordered with green chiles in it. I love me a fast food restaurant with regional cuisine… (Oh, and my Sonic host was a 60+ year old man on roller skates.)

Chimpanzee that…my monkey baby news

It seems that the movies aren’t the only media taking their cues from the man-whose-head-is-shaped-like-a-f#%king-orange. A new TV show has to be seen to be believed. According to the website:

“With her pink bedroom, a designer wardrobe, the latest toys, games and makeup, Jessica Marie is like any spoiled little girl… Except that she’s a monkey. Just what makes a couple take on a 40-year commitment to an eternal toddler? How strong is the parent/monkey bond? And can a monkey really become a child substitute? It’s an extraordinary look into the real lives of people parenting monkeys in America.”

tlc.com

Really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH1jhhpQ_bo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP4k1imPy54

http://www.tv.com/my-monkey-baby/show/77343/summary.html

Karl is a genius.

from pilikipedia.co.uk

I was re-listening to some Ricky Gervais the other day. As usual, Ricky and Steve were making fun or Karl (aka the bald headed manc). Karl was going on about an idea he had whereby you could take a old lady (78) and inject her with something and she would get younger and younger til she died at nine months as a baby. The point being that you (and your family) wouldn’t be scared of death. Of course, this “idea” was disregarded as completely mental, ridiculous idea, etc. And, who wouldn’t agree?

Well, as I was listening and agreeing to myself that this was a stupid idea, I realized that it is also the plot of one of the worst movies to ever get nominated for an Oscar – Benjamin Buttons. Karl was channelling F. Scott Fitzgerald and an critically-acclaimed movie. So, it seems that Karl was on to something.

Maybe he has the solution to the impacts of climate change: “They keep saying that sea levels are rising an all this. It’s nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it’s because there’s too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”

Dumb Idea Of the Day

The Snuggie Sauna. I can’t find a picture to put on here, but you can read about it here.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112995970&ft=1&f=100

http://pacer.mad.uscourts.gov/dc/cgi-bin/recentops.pl?filename=collings/pdf/09-0476rbcsullivan.pdf

Move over Louis..

I may have a new favorite comedian – Kevin Brennan. I watched this guy’s old HBO special last night (One Night Stand #58) and was laughing hysterically. Maybe other factors were involved, but still…

Puppy Blues

Poor puppy can’t get up.

I hadn’t seen this: http://peopleofwalmart.com/. I’m very disappointed in Trickle’s failure to point this out to me first.

Georgia on my mind…

Only a matter of time til this happens on an airplane.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/02/georgia.tot.slapped/index.html

It’s alive

IE7 is here.

Closing a METRO Station from Friday to Monday? That’s nothing. Try closing the Bay Bridge from Thursday to Tuesday.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Bridge-closure-to-affect-traffic-55207872.html

VICTORY! I’m told that I’ve been “selected” for an early upgrade to IE7. They are touting this “amazing new feature – tabbed browsing.” Wow. The future is here and it looks like 2006.

I’ve begun the campaign of IT harassment for an IE upgrade. I’ll keep you posted.

California it is not…

According to Talking Points Memo, Arkansans are a little nuts:

[O]nly 45% [of Arkansans] say Obama was born in the United States, with a strong 31% saying he was not, and 24% unsure.

That is unbelievable - less than half of a State believes that the President was born in the United States!