And Boy Are My Arms Tired

My shoes and I are off to Bouchercon.

Packing for this trip has made me grateful for:

• iPods
• very large suitcases
• The internet
• wine
• vitamins
• alarm clocks
  

Getting to Baltimore means seeing people I care for dearly and becoming, quickly, so over stimulated that I will be like the Energizer Bunny on crack when I make it back here.


Be safe, everyone. That is a bipartisan 'be safe.'

Behind the Scenes

"Well, the front fell off!"

An oil tanker looses it's front off the coast of Australia and dumped 20,000 tons of crude oil into the ocean.

Senator Collins , a member of the Australian Parliament, appeared on a TV news program to reassure the Australian public. And it, in his own special way, entertain the pants off of viewers. This is pure Monty Python sans the need for writers and pure fakery via John Clarke and Brian Dawe.



Hilariousness via Bits & Pieces

I Am Iron Man!

Tuesday Evenings Sucked Into a Void

Sexy Bitch Mullet

Never Obsolete

A Level of Chaos I Have Not Reached

Roads and Cars

World Rabbit

From Marc Johns.

If you enjoy rabbits, perhaps you will enjoy the Book of Bunny Suicides as well.

Those Were the Days

I so wanted these when I was a whippersnapper...

Now that I look at it, oddness abounds. He can see his hand bones, thus the odd, lip-less grin.
Why is the buxom blond all jazz hands?

UPDATE: Maybe she's just happy for him.
"Oh, look, you lip-less bastard! You can finally get that job as a radiologist that you've always wanted. Joy!"

Hope

Opps.

And He is Missing

Heads

Last Days of Summer Mullet

People, Let Me Tell Ya 'Bout My Best Friend

Kera, a new lowland gorilla who has arrived at the Bristol Zoo, has taken to her new surroundings and keepers with aplomb.


The cuteness factor is tremendous. Check out the original story for more wonderful photos.

One Enemy

Never Know Enough

Did you know that Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots?


Find out other odd, somewhat useless information at Unnecessary Knowledge.

Alone, Again

(photo of Fellini)

The reader, the thinker, the flaneur, are types of illuminati just as much as the opium eater, the dreamer, the ecstatic. … Not to mention that most terrible drug - ourselves - which we take in solitude.
— Walter Benjamin

Orange You Glad

That you don't have to do this to prove your devotion?