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A new movie comes out November 6th starring George Clooney (also Kevin Spacey, Ewan MacGregor and Jeff Bridges) called The Men Who Stare at Goats. It is based on a 2005 nonfiction book by UK journalist Jon Ronson. From the book’s dustjacket: “In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within […]

You know those self-serve yogurt places like Big Spoon Yogurt? Those places that look like this?   …where you grab your own size cup, be it Piggy, Extra Piggy, or the Super Oinker. Then you pick a flavor of yogurt and yank down the dispenser that poops out chocolate or vanilla and because you are […]

If you fall down the stairs on a Sunday and snap your hootenanny, do you go to the hospital emergency room right away, or do you wait until Monday morning to call your doctor, thinking that if you can get a same day appointment, at least you won’t have to sit in the ER waiting […]

To what extreme do you bloggers go to get that photo into your story? Will you drive by a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not-type scene and think, “Wow, that woulda made a good visual aid to put on my blog”, but you don’t actually stop and take that picture? Or are you some stalking paparazzi […]

In celebration of International Respect For Chickens Day, I have transcribed a little ditty. It’s a song about a little chicken named Aretha (for lack of imagination on my part), who belongs to a Farmer named Bob (see previous lack of imagination reference). Farmer Bob is a friend of mine and while I was visiting […]