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Since you asked nicely

Yes, you kan haz cheezburger. HT: The Lumberjack bookmark to:

Merry Christmas from The Sly One

Yeah, I got out finally.  So, the Reverend Mother is making this bacon thingy and she sends the new guy out for barbecue sauce which she conveniently forgot to buy. Sounds like a fool’s errand to me. Where’s he gonna get barbecue sauce on Christmas day. Yeah, cause everyone celebrates their savior’s birth by barbecuing [...]

Many are Called, Few are Chosen

Sly the rat Listen up, you humans. I don’t have much time because when they find me up here they’re gonna put me back in that cage. I doooooooooon’t wanna go!  Yeah, that’s right, it’s Sly. Yes, rats know how to type and use the intertube, but most of us can’t get access. Anyway, the [...]

They reportedly like Obama, too…

The new fashion statement from Europe is… Men In Skirts (story and photos)… How do you know men’s lib is in full swing? When men start wearing skirts. On the street. In everyday life. The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman, snapped two men wearing skirts on the streets of Europe, and it caught us off guard — [...]

Ere the “surly bonds” were slipped…

From today’s Writer’s Almanac: Today is the birthday of the man who wrote the most famous inspirational poem about aviation — a sonnet about aviation — John Gillespie Magee Jr., born in Shanghai, China, in 1922, the son of missionaries. He was an American, but like thousands of other young Americans he served with the [...]

Dad to the Bone, redux

So many thoughts this week leading up to Father’s Day. It was Father’s Day last year when we first faced the possibility of cancer coming back into my father’s life. This morning I spoke for awhile with a father of two young girls who is struggling with their discipline, taking me back to the early [...]

Brothers in Arms

“Brothers in Arms” by Dire Straits is one of the most haunting songs I’ve ever know. I bought the album because of the “Money for Nothing” song when it came out back in, what, 1985? I really liked the song, but it was cemented for me when it was used in a memorable episode of [...]

There must have been something in the airwaves

There’s a site called Grab.it TV that has collected the top 20 music videos from every week starting when MTV debuted all the way through Napster. If you go to the site you can check out what the most popular videos were for any week of significance to you in this time period and click [...]

St. Sabine, St. Adalbert and St. Paul

One day last week I was driving home from work listening to Hugh Hewitt and he introduced an audio clip from a guest speaker at Obama’s church. Unbidden, my mind pictured a black guy. Then Hugh said the speaker was Father Michael Pfleger; my mind then pictured “Catholic” and “white guy.” Then the cut played [...]

…Annnnd, we’re back

What was shaping up as a pretty strong weekend of blog traffic here, thanks to Manival #5, disappeared, literally, in a puff of smoke. My web host service suffered a fire in their facility, damaging its infrastructure but not the servers. This took all the served blogs off-line for (at least in my case) about [...]

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