Transsexuals That Make Me Jealous
Candis Cayne, who will be playing the part of a rich man’s mistress in the UK TV show, Dirty Sexy Money. Why can’t I have hair like that???
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March 13th, 2008 Transsexuals That Make Me Jealous Candis Cayne, who will be playing the part of a rich man’s mistress in the UK TV show, Dirty Sexy Money. Why can’t I have hair like that???
March 3rd, 2008 Please Fasten Your Seatbelts…No Screaming Allowed During Final Approach… Via Der Spiegel… Some really scary video of a German Lufthansa Passenger jet aircraft attempting a landing at Hamburg International Airport during that violent wind storm last week that killed 13 people….
I’d have to say that was a good decision… Video: SPIEGEL TV
Okay…when I go out to the Open Source Conference in Portland again this year…I am definitely driving. My brother wants to see my new car anyway…
February 27th, 2008 Straight Friendly Now…this is nice…this is really cool…if it’s real…
The reason I prefer to go to gay friendly places while on vacation is because it’s nice to be able to actually relax and let my hair down and enjoy myself and not have to worry that some asswipe is going to bash my skull in to prove how manly he is and/or much he loves god. But what I would really like is to be able to enjoy a mixed and diverse crowd of folks who all get along and just want to have a good time wherever we all happen to be. You have to figure that a heterosexual who goes to a gay friendly resort goes knowing that they’re going to be in the company of gay people and will likely find themselves witnessing PDAs between same sex couples, if not being the recipient of a cruising glance or two themselves. If they’re the sort that doesn’t faze then far as I’m concerned I’d love to share a vacation space with them. Be really nice to, at least for a few brief vacation days, imagine you’re living in a world where being gay (and for that matter, the color of your skin, or the country you’re from or the specifics of your religion) is no more an issue then the color of your eyes or your hair. It’s hard to believe in that world if everyone around you is the same…even if that sameness is something you need to make you more comfortable. Especially if, actually. February 12th, 2008 Yet Another Weather Report, For My Family In California Where They Don’t Have “Weather” As I write this it’s a sheet of ice out on my front porch and sidewalk, and street. We got some sleet that turned into freezing rain here in Baltimore city. And if the city got it for sure the suburbs did too. So when you hear them report that Maryland extended its polling hours this election day because of bad weather, they weren’t kidding. I’d rather have three feet of snow then a eighth of an inch of ice. If it’s like this tomorrow morning I may have to take the day off. You can’t even walk to work when the streets and sidewalks are iced up. February 7th, 2008 There Is No Free Launch So some guy is tinkering with magnetic motor design, when suddenly his magnets go flying everywhere around his workshop. He thereupon concludes that he’s invented a perpetual motion machine. First…let’s review: The three laws of thermodynamics are:
That last one is a little tricky, but visualize it as, the heat has to go somewhere and it can’t go from a colder body to a hotter body. Anyway… No:
Uh, oh…
Ummm, probably…not. At a guess, the current he was trying to overload the rotor with shorted back into the motor causing it to spin faster. The plastic pipe after all, could not conduct electricity either. But I’ll leave it to the engineers to explain some day, if this guy ever tries to sell his idea to investors. Look…the fact is that people have been trying to invent perpetual motion machines for millennia and the reason why they never work is because the very fabric of this universe just doesn’t function that way. There’s another way of expressing the three laws:
I’ve always found it more then a little amusing, that at the heart of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, there is a perpetual motion machine. It’s really amazing how often the pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps free-the-marketplace right tries to get its free lunch. February 1st, 2008 Bringing You The Finest In German Cuisine From the people who gave the world Beethoven, Brahms, Goethe, Nietzsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Nude Air Travel… Yes…that’s right…Cheeseburger In A Can! I’ll bet White Castle never thought of this. Supposedly you warm the can in boiling water and then just pop it open and eat. Here’s some snapshots posted over at Something Awful, taken by a guy in Germany who tried one out…
Note that they sell for a mere Euro 3.95, which currently works out to about $5.87 as I write this. Just the thing for your urban apocalypse survival kit. It comes with the usual mix of condiments apparently. But just in case the tiny little pickles aren’t to your liking, there’s always this…
Yes…what goes better with Cheeseburger-In-A-Can, then Pickle-In-A-Can! Take that McDonalds. Looks like the U.S. is loosing the junk food war. Damn. And that was the one thing I thought the rest of the world could never do better then us.
December 26th, 2007 Key Largo
…taken just a few moments ago while I strolled around the area by my hotel just before dawn. And brought to your computer through the magic of digital photography and the World Wide Web. Seriously…an old friend of mine called me on his cell phone late last night as he was driving south through Wilmington Deleware, and there I was chatting with him on my cell phone while I was strolling around U.S. Route 1 in Key Largo and you have to appreciate that we both grew up in an era when telephones had wires connecting to them to the wall and a long distance call to just the next state over was a lot of money, and there we were chatting to each other with little devices that just fit in our pockets, he in Wilmington and I in Key Largo. And we haven’t really lived all that long.
December 21st, 2007 Road Trip! I’m taking a holiday break with my new car, and we’re driving south, hopefully to enjoy a warm beach somewhere before winter really sets in here in Baltimore. So posting will be lite and random, but may include some photos. Enjoy your holidays. Have fun…eat recklessly…make the ones you love smile… December 20th, 2007 The End Of The World Via Slog… Geeze…if you want to see what the end of the world would look like…the island of “Gunkanjima” is probably the place to go…
Wow. Check out the photos. Man…my cameras and I could have a grand old time there… December 13th, 2007 Weather Report, For My Family In California Where They Don’t Have “Weather” Yes, yes…it looks like New England is getting clobbered right now. Yesterday NOAA was calling for freezing rain this morning here in Baltimore, but the freeze line had apparently moved north by late last night and right now we’re only getting our usual miserable cold wet drizzle. Good thing it’s not cold enough for snow though, or we’d be getting socked in too. P.S.: I hear you had a very severe cold snap out there recently. Temperatures plummeted all the way down to…thirty-eight, was it? It must have been awful having to…you know…put on a jacket or something… Not Sure Exactly Why…But This Made Me Smile…
Visualizing this made me smile. It gave me the warm fuzzies somehow. The creator of All That Is embodies one day as a refrigerator and washes ashore on some lost and out of the way island, where it’s venerated by the natives there…and by them alone. What a completely goofy…and yet evocative image that is… December 11th, 2007 Now Where The Hell Did I Put Plan ‘B’…? Well I reckon Disney World’s out. Thanks for the warning about the crowds during Christmas week guy. And here I was wondering if they were even open then… December 8th, 2007 White And Delightsome After Mitt’s wee tirade on religion the other day I found myself presented with a torrent of LDS history crossing my screen, some of which I’d never heard of before. A hat? I’m sorry…a hat? And this man is bellyaching about secularism being an invented religion??? Anyway…reading the LDS story of Elohim and his spirit children who live on a planet circling the star Kolob, it crossed my mind that you can tell which religions were founded after the invention of the telescope because they always read like bad science-fiction novels (praise Xenu), whereas the ones founded before the telescope read like planet earth is at the center of the universe, with a somewhat ambiguous heaven floating above it. I think at the moment that Huckabee has it cinched in the heartland, and if he doesn’t get the nomination the base is going to be very, very upset. December 5th, 2007 A Few Fundraising Ideas Peterson Toscano is in town today, to do a performance of his Doin’ Time In The Homo No-Mo Halfway House at Goucher College, and I had a chance to hang out with him for a bit this morning. One of the things we discussed over lunch was fund raising ideas for Morgan Jon Fox’s documentary on the Memphis Love In Action protests, This Is What Love In Action Looks Like. I’m already in it for several grand, helping out in a way I’m not completely free to discuss, so between that and my new car I don’t have a lot of money to spare for a while and I explained this to Peterson and I guess his imagination is much better then mine because he suggested something that never occurred to me, but which should have because it’s obvious. I can help raise money for the documentary, by auctioning some of my artwork on eBay. Not that I’m a world renown cartoonist or anything, but some of you may appreciate owning the original artwork to some of my political cartoons, and in particular the cartoons I’ve done about Love In Action. I’m also considering selling some of the original artwork to my cartoon series, A Coming Out Story, but there’s a catch to that. The political cartoons really do look pretty much as you see them on the cartoon page. But all I can sell of the work I’ve done for A Coming Out Story is the final inks on Strathmore board. which look somewhat unfinished. All the cross-hatching and the word balloons for that one are done in Photoshop, after I’ve scanned in the inks. The exception to this are the first four or five episodes, plus My First X-Rated Movie which I did with my old dip pens. They’re almost completely finished cartoons, including the word balloons (which are empty because I just cannot hand letter anything). The Mark and Josh originals are the same, except I do the coloring in Photoshop. What I can do with those is sell the original, along with a high-quality print of the final cartoon, printed to the same size as the original artwork so they can be framed side-by-side. 100 percent of the proceeds would go to Morgan to finish the documentary. One other thing I could do, is auction off an original political cartoon, on any topic the successful bidder chooses. I’m just in the thinking stages of this, so don’t send me any requests or bids on artwork just yet. But I wanted to float this out there to see how much interest there might be in this. When I get the next episode of A Coming Out Story posted, I’ll ask the folks on my mailing list how interested they might be in owning some of the original artwork for the series. November 28th, 2007 Coming Soon To America…Bernd das Brot Via Spiegel Online… You know the Germans have become pessimistic about America, when they start making cracks about us like this…
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