Happy Leap Year

A dense deposit of snow shrouds Steubenville this evening. Our temperatures fluctuate; our snow becomes rain then freezes back into snow. I can’t think of a more delightful way to spend a leap year day.Somewhere beyond the boundary of our yard is a frozen strip of asphalt. I have contemplated searching for an old cardboard box; sliding down our street would be thrilling.The snow...

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Britney Spears' Guide to Publicity

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Hillarity Clinton

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An Early Spring Clean

We are experiencing the deepest (and best) snow that we’ve had all season yet I find myself irked at Nature. Why snow now? Why not at Christmas or in January. It is almost March and I simply do not approve of the timing.I think that my mind and body are craving spring. It is not enough to change my blog around. I must now make subtle changes in the house as well. We can not afford...

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Ahhh Almost Done!

Fatigue has set in. I have spent most of the evening adding all the bells and whistles back into the template. My hands ache, my back throbs and my eyes can no longer stand to look at anything with a white background. Enjoy! If your blog or website does not have a link on my page, chew on me in the comments section and I will get you squared away here....

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Passion Renewed: The New Anniversary Template

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ~Francis Bacon In honor of yet another blogging anniversary, I have altered my format once again. Change can be a welcomed phenomenon. The completed project can aspire one to greater achievement. The fires of my passion begin to burn again and thus change is indicated.My office is one such...

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Clinton Interrupted: the Steubenville Rally Scandal

There are days when I wonder why I bother to get out of bed. Today is one such day:My cousin called because her boyfriend managed to get himself “escorted out with style” from a rally by the Secret Service…HELLO?????? Did you pay attention? No. You didn’t. You simply MUST take this seriously! Once more now, with zeal: My cousin called because her boyfriend managed to get himself REMOVED from a rally by the SECRET SERVICE. Never assume that my family is even remotely close to blasé. YES, dear readers, WE KNOW THAT MAN AND HE IS TIED TO OUR FAMILY (in the second video clip, he...

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Lunar Eclipse

When Better Half and I were younger and bolder, we would load up the dogs into our old Jeep Grand Wagoneer and drive out to the far eastern areas of Colorado Springs (as in the boonies or open high prairie.) We’d bring our telescope and perhaps some beer and a lawn chair and we would relax under the starry sky. I recall a Perseid meteor shower spent on some unsuspecting farmer’s...

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Ren and Stimpy "Stimpy's Invention"

Ren and Stimpy Scripts by Mike Bunker Stimpy's Invention Ren on couch reading newspaper, Stimpy walks in with box.Stimpy: "Hey, Re-en!"Ren: "What?"Stimpy: "Will you help me try out my new inventions?"Ren: "Go away, I'm busy!"Stimpy: "Come on, Ren! I need your help! Oh PLEASE!"Ren: "Huh? Uh, all right, all right, sure."Stimpy perks up. Shot of Ren's face.Ren: "All right, Stimpy. I'm losing my patience! Let's get this over with!"Stimpy: "Ahem. Ladies and gents, I give you... the Cheese-O-Phone! Now we can talk to cheese, anywhere in the world, regardless of their foreign tongues!...

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A Friday Night Out

(Doesn’t he look wonderful without those repugnantly tinted glasses?)Tonight was “Mambo Italiano”, a sampling of Italian wines at our favorite Friday night haunt. I have never met Chianti that I could have confidence in, however I did offer a polite nod of approval to the 2000 Colle Lungo Chianti Classico. Billed as “a modern style Chianti Classico sith spicy cedar nose and palate”...

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