California Firestorm
Southern California remains ablaze and at least 300,000 people have evacuated. Several have gone to QualComm Park to seek sanctuary from the firestorm. The Santa Ana winds are predicted to die down later in the week, but until then, it looks like armegeddon. The fire has destroyed at least 1500 structures and many more are in serious jeopardy.
October 22, 2007
Weekend Rewind
Friday night: Band Boosters duty for Marching band at the High School football game. It was the cross-town rivalry, Oswego East vs. Oswego HS. We beat East handily, 30 to 6. Five hours it took from carrying equipment from the band room until the game was over and we picked up garbage from the stands. The team has made the playoffs, but the band will only be doing “pep”; no more half-time shows, thankfully.
Saturday: Slept very late, then spent the day chain-sawing trees that feel during a recent storm. All went up in flames in a big fire, except for some bigger logs that will help warm the house this winter. Lot’s of fun, but there were no Pope shaped flames. Watched nearly nothing sports related and crashed on my chair early. Bama gave Tennessee a serious whuppin. We have a bye this week, then meet LSU in a nationally televised game on Nov. 3. Roll Tide.
Sunday: Early morning chores and breakfast, then golf in the high winds at Springbrook. I had my worst round of the year, but still had fun. BigHook and I got to see the last few minutes of the Bears victory over the Eagles in the clubhouse. They pulled that one out at the very last second. Griese went 7-of-9 for 97 yards on the final drive. We were impressed and surprised. And how about those RedSox? Also impressive and surprising!
All in all, not a bad weekend. How was YOUR weekend?
October 19, 2007
From my e-mail
Find your candidate by taking this questionnaire that was sent to me by Weirdsin. I scored a 36 with Rudy Guiliani and a 34 with Joe Biden, so I question the accuracy, but it was interesting.
Week in Review
File under: Week 40 of 2007
This week saw Steven Colbert announcing his candidacy for the Presidency and Algore declining once again. It also saw shame ladled upon the Democrats in that we learned that they are accepting contributions from the bastard lawyers at Milberg Weiss, the class action law firm. This may haunt them for a while…
We have two supreme fucktards who got busted this week after massive manhunts, however, my predictions about not ever taking Stiles alive were not to come to pass. Too bad for both him and Swirlyface (who will likely not do well in a Thai prison whilst awaiting extradition to Canada). Patrick Waweru from Boston gets a Fucktard of the Week nomination for stabbing his estranged wife to death in front of their children. May they all get a wicked staph infection and die slow, miserable deaths.
I can’t decide who the fucktard may be in the Ellen DeGeneres puppy dust up over an adopted dog and I do not care even a little.
Boston tied up their series with the Tribe last night under the arm of Josh Beckett.
The former Pope was apparently working on his miracles and manifested himself in a bonfire that was lit in his honor. What a guy.
In our “Whaddya Think” question this week, school officials in a Portland, ME JHS are now going to be giving out birth control pills to students as young as eleven. They have already been handing out condoms for the last couple of years. The question is: Do you think 10 year olds are feeling left out?
I found this to be a compelling headline, even though it turns out to be about a TV show. Here is a headline that is just scary. Shouldn’t some of that data be withheld from the public so as not to be used against us by the terrorists? And here is another headline that is quite gruesome, but I was compelled to read the story any way. Here is yet another headline I hope to never see again.
I truly enjoyed this story about an Alabama couple who caught the man who was robbing their home, only to make him clean-up his mess at gunpoint before calling the cops. Well done.
While I am nearly certain that none of the readers of this blog need this advice, just in case, here is some on how to best enjoy beer. I violate most of those suggestions.
This weeks pic is a new kind of jellyfish found off the coast of the Phillipines. Pretty keen, huh? At first, I thought it might be the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I hope the Yarbz’s are enjoying their time in Spain. I know he would enjoy this photo gallery of some of Bob Rosato’s (from Sports Illustrated) favorite shots. Some of them are amazing. If you have some time to kill, I highly recommend it.
Happy healthy weekends to all.
October 17, 2007
The Rain in Spain
I heard on the news that there is terrible flooding in Spain. I guess the rain is not staying on the plain. I am hopeful that it did not interfere with the travel plans of the Yarbz’s.
October 12, 2007
Week in Review
File under: Week 39 of 2007
It got so hot in Chicago last weekend that they had to shut down the Marathon at the halfway mark for fear of killing more people. In other local news last week, the Bears actually played pretty well and beat Green Bay at Lambeau and the Illini shocked the Badgers. The Cubs went down in flames. It was a good weekend to have the pool still open, but we are closing it this weekend.
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Tyler Peterson leads us off this week in our list for nominees for Fucktard of the Week. A cop, only 20 years old, wasted 6 people. Just wow. Also, just exactly how did Mr. Peterson manage to shoot himself in the head three times? I smell a conspiracy. If you need additional proof, here is Ricky Young, another 20 year old (submitted by Sloel) who clubbed a deaf guy with a crowbar for being “rude” and not talking. Fucktardiscus maximus. I neglected to mention her last week, but Marion Jones is a very large caliber Fucktard. Her lamentations fell on deaf ears (conspiracy!!!) and she is a cheating scumbag. I used to think she was a man baby and that wasn’t too far from the truth. We had another Fucktard in Pittsburgh try to pay for his groceries with a one million dollar bill. I think Michael Devlin gets a Fucktard of the Decade award and he should die a slow horrific death at the hands of some sick sociopath. Why should he be allowed to live? Is there a good reason to keep him alive? I say not. Need more evidence of a conspiracy? We also have 43 year old Rae Funston from Great Falls, MT who helped her son make pipe bombs. Our final nominee this week is 14-year-old gunman Asa Coon who shot up his Cleveland High School, then offed himself in order to avoid testifying about the extent of the conspiracy..
I thought this was a pretty good headline. Can you imagine that in your rear view mirror? This one was kind of a bummer. This headline made me think that Trench might have been immortalized in a sculpture, but it was not to be. Yet. Unless there is something we don’t know, which is most likely. Not to start any rumors, but I also enjoyed this headline about Mitt Romney and Alberto Gonzales. Then there was this headline: Stripper gets workman’s comp for pole injury, which, of course, I had to click.
Yesterday, Algore won the Nobel peace prize. This may push him into the run for the Presidency and really screw with the Democrats. We shall see.
Uncle Fred is getting his collective shit in one sock and has tapped a Cheney to help in his bid for the presidency. Good luck Fred! He did pretty well in the debate this week too.
Happy healthy weekends to all.
October 11, 2007
You decide…
Kadijah Farmer and her girlfriend were asked to leave a NY eatery becuase Ms. Farmer used the women’s restroom, but she looks like a man. You tell me, should this person use the women’s restroom? Should she prevail in her quest for big money? If you are on the jury, what say ye?
October 10, 2007
Allah hum ding
Last week I got a call from my old boss who said he was going to be in Chicago for business yesterday and today. I had a trial to attend downtown, so afterwards, I walked to the Four Seasons and met him for a beer. Illinois Govenor Rod Blogyoyovich walked in to the bar and said hello to us. He looks like a little kid. We then went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. This is the man who hired me back in 1986 and we went thru much together. We had a great time last night reminiscing about people we have not seen in 15 years or more. He has managed to put his three sons thru college and now has two grandsons and his wife is a breast cancer survivor. He is a remarkable guy who taught me a lot. It was a very pleasant visit and I appreciated seeing him again. I took the above pic with the cell-cam, so forgive the quality.
October 9, 2007
Buh-Bye Yanquis
The Cleveland Indians have taken the NY Yankees out of post season play in Major League Baseball. Way to go Tribe! Buh-bye Mr. Torre.
The pic below is Yankee first baseman, Doug Mientkiewicz. The picture says it all.





















