41st

Birthday:

Nice presents including a small friendly wide angle lens for my camera and a good book. Really good dinner at Onotria, a newish high class italian restaurant. The pasta sauce had WILD BOAR in it. I somehow imagined the chef taking the boat over to Catalina and chasing one around with a spear, then bringing it back in a suspiciously lumpy duffel bag and scaring the other customers.

The cannoli was good but not quite as good as the home made stuff redmaenad fed me once. The owner was wandering about and occasionally singing. There were lots of people there having wine events of some kind where they had those balloon glasses the size of their heads, which was comic.

My brother gave me a Skype phone but it's windows only, so back to Amazon it goes.

Today, I got the spam below, which pleased me to no end:

From: Bugger C. Displeasing (Williams@vflock.com)
Subject: popular programs for everyday use.

www.2qqn89qipp86lkkx722xp2kk.catodonnf.com

second spam du jour: CLEAR YOUR SPACE

These people seem like Scientology Junior combined with TM and Faux Feng Shui.

Clear your space - Clear your life!
Can thoughts and feelings affect our environment? According to this new best-selling book, the Do It Yourself Space Clearing Kit, author Christan Hummel says yes! ( but why does he say that? )

POLICE WHACK GIANT SNOW PENIS

I SAID, POLICE WHACK GIANT SNOW PENIS!!!!

and that waiter! JEAN-LUC!

Thanks to hydrozoa for pointing me to slit's spot on smackdown of Sex and the City.

I knew I couldn't stand that show but I didn't yet know exactly why. Now I do! Thanks, slit!

kristmas kaos at the koffee house

Everyone around here should go see changeng perform at D's tonight with a Kristmas Kaos Show including bruisedhips, godforesaken, genericus, and I think hersheyjumper also.

crossposted to diedrich

Look out mama there's a white boat comin' up the river

1. We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oil! Dear God this is worse than that Aphex Twin video or the dubbya girls site.
   
   
2. "A woman heard about the rabid raccoon in her Dickeyville neighborhood soon
   after the animal attacked and bit a friend, on 2 Dec 2005. Even so, she was
   surprised when, a few hours later, a raccoon appeared out of nowhere as she
   walked her mixed spaniel. The crazed animal charged her and clamped its
   jaws on the leg of her corduroy pants." Via ProMed.
   
   
3. Anyone local know a Sean Pierce or Randy Spizer? They got busted for fraud hijinks with the new XBOX 360.
   
   
4. Robot Wisdom links us to a neato, not expensive Muppet Chess Set.
   
   
5. Reason has a good follow-up on that guy who got capped by marshals in Miami. Poor bastard didn't have a chance, Nor do we, in a police state.
   
   
6. Make your own Chinese Restaurant Sign. (Thanks, 'Vark!)