Author: Eric Brooks
Grraagh! Hulk laugh at Ken Doll!!!
Kinda gives “HULK SMASH!” a whole new meaning don’t it?
Rumor has it that body builders all over the U.K. are throwing away their anabolic steroids and will now switch to gamma radiation… hopefully before they suffer any more, uhm, damage to their bodies. Yeah that’s it.
(via .:Chapel Perilous:.)
What’s in a birthday?
So I punch my birthday in this Press any key thingy (Stolen FROM Batgrl)…
Of rare beauty – If “walking death” is considered rare, true.
knows how to adapt – I am a chameleon. Actually, I think I’m invisible.
likes luxury – If I had a clue what “luxury” was…
of good health not in the least shy – Not true. I am very shy.
tends to look down on others – MOI????
self-confident – Damn skippy.
determined – mmmmm…yeah, I can see that one.
impatient – Ridiculous! It’s not my fault everything takes too damn long!
wants to impress others – Doesn’t everybody?
many talents -(OH SHUT UP! All of you!!!) Jack of all trades maybe. Definitely not muti-talented. I haven’t mastered Japanese yet.
industrious – I have to be. Every system I’m asked to use SUCKS!
healthy optimism – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! (btw, you DIE at the end of the story.)
waiting for the one true love – Not true. I see him in the mirror every morning. Otherwise, I gave up on that “love” crap a long time ago.
able to make quick decisions – Uhhhhhh….
cocky, overconfident, ÜberJerk. – okay, okay… I made that one up.
Some light reading on a Sunday morning
End the Liberal Voluntary Extinction Movement:
“I have a degree in philosophy, so I get increasingly tired of some self-consciously Liberal snot-wad who has memorized a list of logical fallacies lecturing me about going ad hominem. Sorry, but in politics the fact that someone is a scumbag isn’t ad hominem, it’s relevant. That’s not to say that their claim that, say, Madison is the capital of Wisconsin is untrue because they are a proven lying and dishonest scumbag. However, when they claim an abstract such as their HAVING the moral authority to lead this nation, the fact that they are a lying and dishonest scumbag counts.Conservatives have one thing going for them: Conviction. This is not to say they are in the right, but that they have the drive and attention to detail of the organized serial rapist. As wrong as it may be, they are sadists dedicated to their craft.”
Blast FROM the past
Wow… how cool is this?
While searching for, *ahem*, me, on the web (oh shut up! You do it too, ok?), I stumbled on someone who saved “Casualties of the Browser Wars“… which I wrote in 1999 for the now-defunct Internet Day news site.
I also scored a lot of design gigs over that article too. And, Oh… the death threats I got FROM Netscape fan(atic)s all over the world was awesome. They were coming in for weeks!!! :0)
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Tribute to Barry White (1944-2003)
He was a beautiful man, with a beautiful voice. When it came to “setting the mood” (*nudge, nudge*)… nobody did it like Barry White. Just the sound of his deep baritone voice had women leaving puddles everywhere.
Mr. White passed away this morning at the age of 58. But his music is forever.
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Happy Birthday America!!!
Vacation
(No not “hiatus”. The old crew knows what “hiatus” means. This is a good thing we’re talking about here.)
As of 5:01PM EST… I have officially gone on vacation.
Unless you count occasional bouts of unemployment, and the times I’ve been locked up and/or institutionalized… this is my first REAL vacation FROM work since 1988.
I love you all, but the web is the LAST place I want to spend my time.
If you lived in a resort community with two pools, a golf course, recreational staff and a nightly Hawaiian show… well, you would feel the same way too.
I’ll probably be hanging around behind the scenes tweaking things, and catching up on other projects. The kiddies are already waaaay ahead of me in the sunburn department, and I feel I need to catch up with them.
Maybe I’ll watch some TV too…
…who knows I may come back as one of those moronic warblogging nitwits? (Banner shamelessly swiped FROM Beastie.)
There’s plenty of coke in the fridge, and some great sites to surf on my links page.
And go give Chey and Todd-n-Robyn some love, k?
I’m outta here…
So long, suckers,
-e-
// Updated 10:48 PM: Comical Ali is back. Unconfirmed rumors say he’ll be replacing Letterman this summer. (via Fancy Robot)
Ding Dong, the bigot’s dead!* Strom Thurmond dead at 100. (via me and AP)
I’m off to watch Stripperella. Don’t let me catch none of you wimmen watching the network-not-allowed-to-be-called-SpikeTV, the ONLY network for men™!!!
(You know, it’s only a cartoon version of her movie Barb Wire… what, were they afraid of getting sued by Jane Fonda for naming it “Barbarella” next?)
* // UPDATE 6/28: Probably the smartest thing I’ve read all weekend:
“He was a stupid old man. Let him be. And if you do rejoice, don’t complain about people thanking Jesus for Paul Wellstone’s aircraft maintenance.”
–Reverend Mykeru –
Considering we met as we were both appalled at the fiendish glee that some people shared over a girl being ripped in half by a bulldozer, this is some very sage advice. I think it’s time I started thinking before pressing “submit” on a kneejerk reaction.
(Of course the tickets for my OWN funeral are still selling like hotcakes among all my hataz. Hey, what are ya gonna do?)
Fight the power!
C&Y critic Bayer takes his campaign to voters
(This post is also running at the American Family Rights Association forum)
Bruce Bayer, “A vocal critic of a county child protection agency, is mounting a write-in campaign for Monroe County commissioner. ”
Basically the readers digest version of the story was that Bayer thought C&Y (Pennsylvania’s CPS) would help, instead they took his stepsons away.
“We will be working now to tell other parents in Monroe County about Children and Youth and to warn them never to look to Children and Youth for help.”, says Mrs. Bayer.
While there was no abuse found, there was still a delay in returning the children. The outrage FROM the public, as the newspaper ran the stories on this case, helped speed up the process, forced several foster parents to return the kids back to the agency because “they couldn’t take the public outcry”, and the county commissioner (who is assigned to oversee C&Y) has offered no comment on the situation.
Now Mr. Bayer is after her job in the hopes to make a difference.
- Related Links:
- Parents fume while county holds kids
- Parents pinning hopes on court to return children
- Child agency finally releases kids
It’s days like these that I just love my job. :0)
EricBrooks.Com® – If you’re not making enemies, you’re not making a difference.
Hoo boy… I’ve done it now!
- Author/Blogger Paul Bauch paid me a visit (he’s got this cool tracking script), and gave me a piece of his mind in my comments.
Just kidding there. He was a perfect gentleman, and wanted to clarify that his book about blogging is more of a technical/informational nature, and the only rule is to have fun. He has several books on Amazon, and I would encourage you to buy them all.Nay! Buy SEVERAL copies! And I’m not saying that because I fear Matt and the MetaFilter Mob™, or getting beaten up and crying like a bitch, or nothin’ like that.
- The Whacky Iraqi – Awards the “Finger of the week” to… (drumroll)
