tv

Greta: Mommy, my brain feels mushy, do you want to feel it? Mommy: Why? Greta: I've been watching too much tv.

alcohol

Greta to Mommy: Mommy can I have a sip of that? (mommy's margarita). Mommy to Greta: No, this is a big people drink, like wine. Greta to Mommy: Why is it a big people drink, what does it have in it? Mommy to Greta: Alcohol. It makes little people crazy. Greta to Mommy: But I'm already crazy. Can I have some?

almost a year on blogger.com

and I've already run out of things to say. hmmmph. I need some juicy scandal to get me going again. Volunteers?

Marvin Gaye's national anthem

Brings me to tears every time I play this video. Here's the back story, which makes the performance seem all the more remarkable.

Temper. Tantrum. Aftermath.

bail me out too, Henry

Hilarious website noted in the October 4 Economist -- buymyshitpile.com "We figured that instead of protesting this plan, we'd give regular Americans the same opportunity to sell their bad assets to the government."

This has to be my favorite listing: $100 of pre-1980 pennies for $165!

Mavericks, part 2

Great article in the New York Times the other day about the origin of the loaded word "maverick." It derives from a Texas cattle rancher named Samuel Maverick who didn't brand his cattle. Unbranded cattle, then, were called “Maverick’s.” The name came to mean anyone who didn’t bear another’s brand. I guess Sam Maverick's descendants are less than pleased that McCain/Palin have co-opted the term. I would be too.