Donate your taco!!

Arriba! The crunchy seasoned beef tacos are on Jacoby Ellsbury! Taco Bell ran a World Series promo, "Steal a base, steal a taco" and Jacoby came through, so today 2pm-5pm it's one free taco for todo el mundo (everyone!!) (Boston Herald story here.)

If you're not into tacos, some folks have setup a website where you can request that the financial equivalent of your taco can be donated to the American Red Cross. Go here to do that: www.donateyourtaco.com

And pass it on!!

PS I was going to say something about how Jacoby is so much hotter than a taco, but I can't make it come out right.

Can we get this girl a sandwich or something?

News is that Tom Brady and Gisele Bunchabones are all about the fighting right now. You know, ordinarily it would be natural to take her side--Sisterhood!-- but with everyone gunning for the undefeated Pats, and the Superbowl looking thisclose... Can't we find something else for her to do for a little while? I dunno, like, eat something?
According to the story, she quit her multi-million dollar Victoria's Secret gig to spend more time with him, and all he can think about is football and the Baybeee (his two month old son John with ex Bridget Moynahan.) So the guy's trying to work it out with his ex so he can see little Johnny, he's trying to take the Pats to The Bowl, and he's trying to keep his supermodel girlfriend from getting like so bored. DON'T GET ME WRONG! On another day, I will rant about how he made this bed (knocking up a beautiful actress and taking up with a supermodel in the space of a pregnancy seems, uh, perhaps a teeny bit self-centered.) But THIS IS FOOTBALL SEASON! And maybe I don't know a tight end from a loose end, but I am just getting to know the joy of an undefeated season, a fairy land which makes every Sunday feel like a playoff game. So I've gotta say to you Gisele: Leave Tom Alone!

Stop nagging him, pestering him, and stop sapping his man strength. WE need him. You can have him back for Valentine's Day.

Dwight Schrute will be so shocked and disappointed.

Dumbledore is gay!

The coolest thing ever

The Right Brain vs Left Brain Test. If you see dancer rotating clockwise, you are right-brained (creative), counter-clockwise, left-brained (logical).

Click on the picture to start the dancer spinning.

Which way does she turn for you?

For me she started by going counter-clockwise, but now I can see clockwise. I have achieved enlightenment! Unga la gunga.

PS I stole this from Charles' blog. I can't find the original website, but some have attributed it here.

Truthiness in the NYTimes

The cutest button of them all-- (cuter than Anderson Cooper and Shep Smith put together), Stephen Colbert.

Note: if the Times asks you to sign in, and you don't want to put in your info, go to bugmenot.com

Meet Darth Vader's brother Chad

Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (Episode I)

GetOverItAndMoveOnAlready.org

Gore for Prez!

Testosterone Injection

Down in the "Cute Awww for Daddies" posting, I took a bunch of guff in the comments for not posting content for suitable for the menfolk.

So I am pleased to give this to all you manly men out there. Thank you for visiting my blog. I give you RiceGirl-- a naked, Asian, possibly drunk, California-girl who likes to talk about the Patriots! (Sounds like Christmas mornin', don't it?) Enjoy, boys:

Something made me embed this video.. as if I were in a magical trance...

More rice girl... you might want to wait til the coast is clear before clicking.

Simon's cartoon = nerdy; This one = good

Let's have a cute "Awww" for Daddies everywhere...

Did I marry a nerd?

Simon thinks this is hysterical.

It's Happy Fun Ball!

The recent flap about BayerCropScience infecting the US rice crop (Washington Post article, Greenpeace article) with their mutant, I mean genetically engineered rice made me look up this Gulf War I, SNL classic. (Note: click here for the Bayer CropScience press release stating that the US Dept of Agriculture completed its investigation "without concluding that Bayer CropScience violated any legal requirement with respect to low-level presence of genetically engineered rice in commercial rice." So we're aaaaaallll goood. But don't taunt that Budweiser!)

And now, your moment of Zen...

Over at the Bird Lovers Only Rescue site, they've got a cockatoo named Snowball who loves the Backstreet Boys. No kidding! Click here. Really! Trust me!

The finest hops, barley and genetically engineered rice! Yum!

A nod to this post on Charles' blog (Contains links to interesting articles.)

Hail to the Hill?

A few of the political blogs (even national "Wonkette") have picked up on the obituary of Athanasia 'Ethel' Eliopoulos, of Lowell, MA who died October 5 at the age of 94. Her obit reports:

"With her passing, Ethel's final wish was ultimately granted when she did not have to see Hillary Clinton become president."

Herald columnist Margery Eagan laments, "But the rest of us Hillary loathers may not be so lucky. Few of us are 94. And mass suicide, while tempting, is not, really, an option."

Margery's column, "Dark clouds from Iowa presage Hillary victory"

Thoughts on Columbus Day

From Wonkette.com:

One thousand years ago today — or Friday, the 12th — a terrible slave-trading murderer/imbecile who did not even know how to spell his own name, which is Latin for “asshole,” landed at the “Sandals” resort in Puerto Rico or some such Caribbean island and thought he was in Bangalore. What an idiot!

There is no political news today and the Capitol is vacant and even The Capitolist is quiet all because Cristóbal Colón basically did not know math and mistakenly went to the Bahamas because the Islamofascists had cut off the road to India, where Europe outsourced all the white people’s jobs. (Previously, Genghis Khan was a NAFTA signatory so it was all fine, until the Muslims!)

Seriously, Columbus was retarded. To his death, he was convinced the mountains of Cuba were the fucking Himalayas. George W. Bush is smart compared to Christopher Columbus, that’s how stupid Columbus was.

So on his third journey to the “Wrong India” he set up a death camp for all the “Indians” who were actually Carib tribespeople known for their colorful reggae hats and “ganja.” He killed all of those people and also many Spaniards, who finally overthrew his cruel regime and sent his ass back to Spain, where he became a total Jesus Freak and spent the rest of his life bumming people out, the end.

To this day, hippies have protests against “Killumbus” landing in the Bahamas 515 years ago, because marching around with signs is a very effective form of going back in time and killing Columbus.

Ron Paul- a pizza in every microwave

Don't Tase Me, Bro!

From Wired.com:

"Just two days after it was yelled out in a University of Florida lecture hall, "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" has become the newest cultural touchstone of our pop-cultural lexicon."

The video is still jaw-dropping to me. It is awesome (in the most literal sense of that word) that the video has made the rounds of the internet the way it has. If you're interested, follow the links from the wired story to some of the response videos. "Little bitches like that need to get tasered a lot more often" from a soldier in Iraq. Or this one, which, well, I'll just let you go see it.

Find yourself in the cartoon below. (Click on the image to enlarge.) The most horrifying thing about this whole event-- I think I'm the one who forgot the Sun Chips!:

Don't Nuke Me, Bro!

Diplomacy! Thank goodness!

CEOs want emissions cuts more than Prez does?

It's no surprise that the White House is bringing up the rear on climate change. What does surprise me (that I learned in this article) is that a bunch of big companies have formed a group called the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), that backs a drastic 80% cut in emissions by 2050. (Our Republican President is lagging behind big business???)

Why does big business want this, you ask?

From the article:

Why? Because many CEOs are now convinced that curbs on emissions of fossil fuels and other greenhouse gases are inevitable. What they need more than anything is long-term certainty about the price that will be put on carbon emissions, so they can start planning now. If the cost of carbon will be high, for instance, it makes no sense to build new coal plants. Instead, it would be better for utilities to put their investment into wind, solar, and other non-fossil fuel sources. Once those policy signals about the price of carbon are in place, the needed technology will be developed quickly.

Indeed, the European Union and other parts of the world have already committed to reducing emissions by signing on to the Kyoto Protocol. That, in turn, has created a market for carbon emissions and emissions-reductions technology that the U.S. is largely missing out on. Former President Bill Clinton said on Monday that the U.S. has missed the biggest job-creation engine in years by ignoring the need to combat climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "It's economic folly for the U.S. not to be participating in the carbon markets," says Kate Hampton, head of policy at Climate Change Capital, an investment banking group in Britain. Investors have poured $5 billion into cleaner projects around the world, in order to get credit for the resulting emissions reductions, she says. While the U.S. twiddles its thumbs, "others are out there hoovering up the cheap carbon credits," she says. And if the world now backs away from mandatory rules, "it would put those billions of capital at risk," she says.

Is anyone else really nervous?

Maybe as a nation, we should all kick the Paxil for a few days and get in touch with our inner anxiety. I know I know. I shouldn't be flip about medications. But this Iran stuff... I dunno. I've had to stick my fingers in my ears and visit my happy place a little to often lately...

I laughed coming back from the mailbox yesterday

They do good covers.

MBS Bailey

As I was searching for a lost earring behind the fireplace mantle in my bedroom with some really long computer-fixing-type tweezers, I retrieved a letter dated Nov. 6, 1943 on the letterhead of Miss Mary Belle S. Bailey Lancaster, Massachusetts. She was writing to "Billy," and with the letter I found correspondence from Billy written on the back of a Chapel Bulletin from the Army Air Base in McCook, Nebraska. So I'm thinking maybe Miss Mary Belle S. Baily lived in my house. I googled and found out that her family was prominent in town, that she became a music teacher, and that she was 72 when she wrote to Billy. Sometimes the Internet is SO cool.


Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of ... By Ellery Bicknell Crane


Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of ... By Ellery Bicknell Crane


Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of ... By Ellery Bicknell Crane


Patterson's College and School Directory of the United States and Canada By Homer L. Patterson


Patterson's College and School Directory of the United States and Canada By Homer L. Patterson

Hillary's Cleavage???

Apparently the good folks at Google keep track of the type of searches we make, and therefore have a pretty interesting picture of the political Zeitgeist...

The Mom Overture

Two of the GFs have sent this to me-- the Mom Overture-- everything a Mom says in 24 hours condensed to under 3 minutes. It's pretty good, but I'm only a little skeptical because these aren't the things *I* say every day. For example, she doesn't say,"Are you pooping in your pants?" or "Please don't bite your sister!" or "Chew slowly! Are-you-choking-are-you-CHOKING
-ARE-YOU-CHOKING?!" and I especially can't believe that she didn't include "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! I'm getting a migraine!!"

But other than that, I guess it's okay.

:) Thanks, Nanc and Ali.

For your coffee drinking pleasure, two minutes of funny commercials.

I like the second one best.

Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro!

Muchas Gracias, Nancita for giving us this!