Maybe Martians Could Do Better Than We've Done?

Last week there was a news story about an image taken on Mars that looks like a ‘humanoid figure’ (story). Some scientists say it is just an odd rock formation. However many others do not believe that theory. Here are some of the other theories:


The ever ellusive Bigfoot?













Does it look similiar to a Danish mermaid statue?

Maybe Ray Walston really could be ‘My Favorite Martian’?

Does Marvin really exist?

Maybe it's 'The Rock’ ?

Did we finally find Jimmy Hoffa?

Or maybe its just an illegal alien?

Come to think of it,

where has Michael Jackson been lately?

Oh well, it is a mystery. But then again, some mysteries can never be solved I guess?

(P.S.: I stole the title of this blog from a song lyric. Who can guess the song and artist? WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP!)

- The Mountain Cat

Things bouncing around this head of mine. 1/25

- HAMAS’ SPECIAL WEEKEND DISPENSATION! This weekend and this weekend only all suicide bombers will get 96 virgins instead of the usually 72 virgins when they go to see Allah. But you better act now before the Shams sets over Gush Katif!

- A son tells his parents ‘For my birthday I wanna watch.’ So they let him.

- I couldn’t find my wallet yesterday. So I went to Wikipedia.com which told me to check under my bed. Sure enough there it was.

- Am I the only one who preferred Shemp over Curley?

- I decided to finally make a decision where my deciding point of view determines the decisions of the decided few I care to decide about.

- The official theme song of stem cell research should be: ‘I’m Just an Embryo/I Ain’t Got No Body’.

- CDs are soooooo 20th century.

- “Our father, who art in heaven. Howard be thy name.”

- I am going to make a concerted effort to use the word ‘stalwart’ more in my daily conversations.

- I’m sorry but two ones SHOULD equal eleven!

- I wrote a country song! It’s called ‘Fuck It’s Only Tuesday’.

- Is Beef Jerky really that popular? I’ve never met anyone that eats it.

- My dad and I don’t get along. So when he needed a heart transplant, I made the doctor hook it up to The Clapper.

- I suffer from Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. But only on Fridays.

- There just aren’t enough movies about Bob Dylan lately.

- I think Gallagher and The Smashing Pumpkins should tour together. Wouldn’t that be great!?

- Mickey Mouse is such an asshole. I never cared much for his attitude.

- Contrary to popular belief, the opposite is true when the court of public opinion is against the feelings of the majority who vote for a change in the prescribed point of views. But only on Fridays.

- ‘We’ll be right back to the Lifetime original movie ‘The Vulva Diaries’ after these important commercial messages’.

- ‘Wow what great movie! The special effects were awesome!! The best scene is when that fat guy exploded!! I am going to see again this weekend on the IMAX!!’

The Mountain Cat

Can someone explain to me

How Jim Brown or anyone else for that matter can tell Tiger Woods how he should have reacted to recent comments by golf channel announcer Kelly Tilghman? People (and the media) keep trying to perpetuate this very minor story and create something that is just not there. Why can't anyone just accept what Tiger is saying that he knows Kelly and he did not take offense to her comments because he knows that she is not racist and didn't mean him any harm? Good grief people. In my opinion America needs to grow a little thicker skin about some things. Sometimes people just say dumb things and that doesn't make them racist. How can we be the country who is so willing to forgive and forget cheating politicians, drug addict musicians, and athletes who abuse women but we are so offended by a silly remark said in jest by a golf TV announcer who obviously had no racist intent? Let's save our outrage at racism over real racism and stop trying to tell others when they ought to be offended or dig up racism when it's not there. I think Tiger is more qualified than the media or Jim Brown to know when he himself should be offended.

Just something for ya'll to think about.

-Doc

Brooklyn

I was born in Brooklyn. Then I moved to North Carolina 20 years ago. I moved back to the New York City area 10 years ago and now live in New Jersey. But for the better part of the last 20 years I have had this disdain for the city of Brooklyn. I always felt there were too many ghosts there for me. Ghosts of being a young dumb kid that I don't like to associate myself with. I am a far better refined person than that little kid now. But maybe a lot of us feel that way about the place we grew up in.

But recently I have visited some places in Brooklyn and felt an exhilaration for some reason. I've noticed there have been big changes to the city. Especially as the real estate market grows, some of the Brooklyn neighborhoods have improved drastically. With all these changes, I finally realized that it is not 1988 anymore. For me Brooklyn had become a metaphor of what I did not want to be. This is no longer the Brooklyn I remembered.

Also as we mourn the tragic death of Heath Ledger, I see that he previously lived in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn. Which has become a very clean and decorous neighborhood. It reminds me that if Brooklyn was such a terrible place, then why do so many celebrities live there? (Ledger, Michelle Williams, John Turturro, Tony 'Paulie Walnuts' Sirico to name a few).

Of course not everyone in Brooklyn lives like The Huxtables from the Cosby Show. But I've started to become more curious about the city of my birth. Why hate it? I am better off embracing it. To make peace with my past helps ensures peace for my future.

- The Mountain Cat

Thursday Random Thoughts 1/24

Stuff I have been thinking about:

- I found out on Sunday that one of our friends from church as found our blog and reads it so she told my wife. (Hi Doris !!) That's great I love it...however the funny part was when she asked my wife, now your husband is Doc right? For some reason that question struck me as funny and I just died laughing.

-A friend of mine is flying from Georgia to Los Angeles this week to see a concert or should I say concerts. Nothing really out of the ordinary about that you say? Check this out. He is flying out to LA to see Garth Brooks in concert at the Staples center FIVE TIMES... Yes apparently Garth is doing benefit shows for the victims of the wildfires and my buddy is going to all 5 shows in one weekend. That is dedication ladies and gentleman.

-I usually eat a few gummy bears after lunch each day for desert. My two favorite flavors are red and clear.

-I heard on the radio the other day that there is apparently a nasty rivalry in the Northeast between Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts coffee. Like there is serious bad blood between the fans of each coffee. Maybe I should make a poll about it... I am kidding however I wonder if the Dunkin donut fans realize that their coffee is actually manufactured by S&D coffee right here in Concord NC?

-Am I the only one who actually tried to look up "Bagwine, Ohio" on a map ?

-When Vince suggested that we put up Travelin' Band as the theme music for our blog (an old reference to a conversation the two of had probably 10 years ago) I loved the idea. While searching youtube for the right video I actually paused for a minute and thought about trying to convince him that Tarzan boy by Baltimora would be a better choice. But I thought better of it.

-Pop Tarts taste sooooo good when you toast them until they are almost burnt.

-First John McCain's campaign almost went bankrupt this past summer. Then Rudy Guliani's staffers and advisers started to work for free when funds started running short. Now I read this week that Mike Huckabee's campaign advisers are doing the same thing and not accepting paychecks. Hmmmm I thought that the Republicans were the rich peoples party? Sounds like they can hardly afford to run. Take that a step further and it seems like they aren't even able to manage their own campaign finances very well, why should we trust them to manage our tax money?

-Why do crooks do really dumb stuff like trying to steal an alligator named Mr. Cranky Pants ?

-I went back and forth several times this week on which TV to buy but I think I have settled on the Samsung 42" Plasma HD instead of the LG.

-I had a Hardee's loaded omelet biscuit the other day and it was awesome. Hardee's (Carl's Jr. out west) stuff is underrated.

-Media reports say that Eminem has gained a lot of weight by sitting around the house and playing video games and drinking all day. His mother even says that he has really ballooned up. My thought is that Slim Fast needs to contact him about doing a weight loss campaign. That way he can start to call himself Slim-Fast Shady. I can hear it now, "Two Slim-Fast girls go round the outside, round the outside!"

-Doc

Gisele Bundchen .....

Is going to ruin Tom Brady just like Jessica Simpson did to Tony Romo!
She took Tom Brady to a club where her ex boyfriend Leo DiCaprio just HAPPENED to be there as well!
click to read article: http://www.pr-inside.com/bundchen-amp-dicaprio-avoid-each-other-r398510.htm

Tom Brady is frazzled already!!!

Go Giants!! Superbowl XLII champions!!

- The Mountain Raisin

Our blog on AOL News website

I was looking through some of our blog trafficking reports this morning and noticed we were getting a lot of referrals from AOL News. So I checked out THIS PAGE and sure enough under the article listed Related Blog Posts is Vince's post It's Raining Giants Pretty cool that our little blog was scanned by AOL news... You never know who is out there reading.

Keep reading AOL... We'll write more !

-Doc

(I wonder how AOL voted on the global warming poll?? )

Conspiracy Uncovered

Earlier this week then I saw Vince's post about the Giants going to the Super Bowl something stuck in my mind. It was that little Football in the Super Bowl Logo. This one Here:

I thought it looked familiar and then I uncovered something truly shocking. It seems that there has been a conspiracy and the football is actually one of the California Raisins who were known to many in the 80s as musicians and pitchmen for the rasin industry. This particular rasin (we'll call him Jasin) must not have invested his earnings well because an investigation revealed that he has taken this gig because he is out of work due to the writers strike in Hollywood. When reached for comment one of his fellow raisins who wished to remain annomyous insisted that Jasin is a scab and that crossing the picket line was unacceptable even for promoting the NFL. "It's just a disgrace that a fine dried fruit like Jasin would pimp himself out as a piece of pigskin for a few bucks." Here on this blog for the first time we are unmasking the culprit who has crossed the picket line and is masquerading as a football and not staying true to his raisin roots. Here is Jasin the resemblance is uncanny don't you think?

-Doc