Things Bouncing Around This Head of Mine - July 10, 2008

- I downloaded the new Mötley Crüe album, The Saints of Los Angeles. They are back from the dead in a big way. It is their first album in eight years and the first with the original lineup of Vince, Tommy, Mick and Nikki since their Dr. Feelgood album was released 19 years ago! This new album is awesome! It might be their best album ever. No ballads, just 13 hard rocking tracks. I highly recommend that you buy this record. I have to see them live when they go on tour this summer. ***Click here to view The Saints of Los Angeles official music video***

- I also recommend that you read their autobiography The Dirt. A very entertaining read. In fact, Their Saints of Los Angeles album is based on this book. It is sort of a concept album. With all the decadent things these guys did, it is a surprise that they are still alive! But the book is also about karma and redemption. It is a lot deeper than just sex, drugs and rock n’ roll.

- I recently re-joined Netflix. I started with 1970s high octane muscle car cult films. First off was Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry starring Peter Fonda and Susan George. I think I need to buy a Susan George poster and hang it on my wall. Man oh man she was such an underrated sex symbol in the 1970s! I found this fellow blogger's page who did a nice homage to Susan George. My next muscle car flick from Netflix is Vanishing Point from 1971.

- OK now for the humor portion of this program:

- Doc, I bet I can make you cringe. I started watching South Park now. Hee hee.

- Yesterday I heard my cubical buddy Leap O' Faith say: 'Oh my God, he is going to shit a pickle.' I don't know who she was referring to but it made me chuckle.

- Whitey Houston was wrong! I DO NOT believe the children are our future. Have you been in a grammar school recently? Jeez. We need to start to find an alternative source for our future other than our children.

- I saw this vanity license plate that said HJQ- 752. I wonder what it means? LOL

- If money is the root of all evil, then what is the tree of all evil?

- Who do The Joneses keep up with? And by the way, who the hell are The Joneses? I'd like to meet them.

- I really love Tabasco Pepper Sauce now. I used to hate hot foods. I guess I have developed a tolerance. But it does not go well on oatmeal in case you were wondering.

- "Man the soccer game was awesome!! There was a riot in the crowd and I stepped on somebody’s head! It was wild!....Hmm? ...Oh the final score was zero to zero.”

- Doc, Will Angelina Jolie name her twins Castor and Pullox? (Please read Doc’s previous blog within this link about these Gemini Twins).

- I am going to mass produce a line of hand lotion for Spanish matadors and call it Oil of Olé!

- If ‘socks’ can also be spelled ‘sox’, why can’t ‘sex’ also be spelled ‘secks’? But there is also a word spelled 'sects'. Hmm, bizarre.

- And finally, please vote for Jason Giambi to make the 2008 All Star Game. In fact, the American Mustache Institute is pulling for him. Yes apparently this is a real organization. Click here to view their site and vote for Giambi. In fact a lot of Yankee fans - men, women and children - are wearing fake thick mustaches in homage for Mr. Giambi.

- I won’t be going to the All Star Game at Yankee Stadium, but I will be going to the DHL FanFest at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in Manhattan. Click here to view the festivities.

- The Mountain Cat

Word Game Winner

Thanks to each of you who played Word Game this week. We had a little fun at those Russian police who cannot take a joke. I looked back over all the comments and figured there was one clear cut winner. This weeks winner is Jay the Cynical Bastard himself for this particularly intricate method of dealing with those Russian police:

"Instead we suggest that the Russian police should be duct taped to a chair and have 1,000 paper cuts inflicted up on them all over their bodies. The, have someone take an eyedropper filled with salt water and acid drop little drops of the concoction on each of the paper cuts. Then they should have each of their nose hairs pulled out using tweezers. Finally we will take some jumper cables and run them from a battery to their nipples. The battery will be powered by a hamster in one of those wheels that hamsters run in all the time. This hamster has been trained to fun as fast as he can every time he hears the word "fuck." Then, we will show "Pulp Fiction" and "Glen Gary Glen Ross" on a continuous loop for at least 24 hours."

Ummm Yep Jay I am pretty sure that will get the job done! Not only was that the entry that made me laugh but it also made me worry about ever getting Jay mad at me so in the spirit of both here is your Peach Jay:

Congrats again to a 2 time Peach winner. We will play Word game again next Tuesday so I hope everyone can come out to play!

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 7/8/2008

It's Tuesday and time for Word Game here at YJKOBT. I was looking for good articles and came across one about a Russian blogger who was arrested, convicted and almost sent to prison for what he wrote on his blog. Sounds like the suppression of free speech is alive and well in good old Russia these days. Now I am not saying that he should be advocating burning police officers but I think that he should be able to express his opinion without being arrested.
So in the spirit of free speech in blogging I suggest that we dedicate today's word game to the Russian Police and our fellow blogger Savva Terentiev. Since they can't arrest us Complete the following news article with something funny that should be done to the Russian police since they obviously don't like Savva's ideas: (Let's try and keep them funny)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian man who described local police as "scum" in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online.
Savva Terentiev, a 28-year-old musician from Syktyvkar, north of Moscow, wrote in a blog last year that the police force should be cleaned up by ceremonially burning officers twice a day in a town square.
Convicted on charges of "inciting hatred or enmity", Terentiev was given a one-year suspended term on Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
Free speech campaigners said the ruling could create a dangerous precedent for free speech on the Internet, a vibrant forum for political debate in a country where the mainstream traditional media is deferential to authority.
"This was an absolutely unjustified verdict," Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA centre in Moscow, a non-governmental group that monitors extremism, told Reuters. "Savva for sure wrote a rude comment ... but this verdict means it will be impossible to make rude comments about anybody."

Instead we suggest that the Russian police should be _________________.

Answer as often as you like in the form of a comment and the one that makes me laugh the most wins a peach tomorrow morning.

-Doc

Pictures from the 4th of July

As promised here are the pictures from the 4th of July where Patrick got to be in his first parade!! He thought that he was the mayor of Concord and waved his flag at everyone. Then at the end of the parade he wanted to check out the firetruck that was shooting water up in the air. He loved it... and Mom and I got to play the proud parents.

-Doc

I'm confused?

Heather Mills is divorcing former Monkee Sir Guy Ritchie because he had an affair with Alex Rodriguez and they studied Kaballagabbagabba? Is that right? Madonna’s has syphilis and said no no no to rehab? Lenny Kravitz did a sex tape with Verne Troyer? Then why did Dane Cook cheat on his supermodel wife Wilford Brimley at the Hampton Inn? That’s just plain weird. Channing Tatum did crack cocaine with Shaquille O’Neal? But I can’t understand why Elliot Spitzer is dating Paul Hogan’s 19 year old daughter? Then why did Jamie Lynn Spears take a half nude photo in Vanity Fair with her dad? And Lindsay Lohan is back with Tommy Lee? Mark Anthony is the father of Angelina Jolie’s twins? And it does sadden me to see Paula Ahmadinejad lose it on American Idol. HMMM? I can’t keep up. Please correct me where I am wrong.

- The Mountain Cat

Weekly Poll 7/7/2008

After this past weeks 4th of July holiday with all the cookouts, the Nathan's hot dog eating contest and the other celebrations I got to thinking about hot dogs. I think they are an All American kind of food. It seems that there is as much diversity in how we top our dogs as America itself. Just doing some quick research I found over 10 separate "types" of dogs including Chicago-style dog, Coney Island dog, Fenway Frank, Southern style dog, and Kansas City dog. All of these topped with a different array of yummy garnishes.
This week's poll asks what you top your dog with? I tried to include as many as possible but I am sure there are others. Feel free to tell me if I missed what you like on your hot dog.

-Doc

Who is 'Jeb' Obama ?

I found this picture and caption on CNN Thursday July 3, at 11:41 AM:

Jeb Obama campaigned in Colorado Thursday.

Here is the link to CNN's political ticker article and picture where I found this. I am wondering who the heck Jeb Obama is? At best its a Freudian slip but if someone was a conspiracy theorist they may want to think that CNN was trying to tie Barack Obama to George Bush's younger brother Jeb subliminally. Well hopefully it's just a mistake but how on earth do you confuse Jeb for Barack?

They will probably have fixed it before anyone else notices and before this gets posted on Sunday but I wanted to share this with you guys. And I have witnesses that it was there as 'Jeb'. I am not making it up.

-Doc

In Loving Memory

Josette Aquafina

2003 - 2008

I Just wanted to update everyone. I found Josette this morning when I was checking up on the hill to see if the grass was dry enough to mow. I found her underneath a tree and sadly found that she was not coming home. It appears that she may have been in a fight with something that injured her however I could not tell because she had been there awhile. I buried her on that hill this morning. I always said that she wasn't a bad cat, she was just misunderstood. I understood her and I will miss her.

-Doc

I hope you will allow me a quick dedication. I will always think of Josette when I hear the song Scarlet Begonias:

As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square

Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air,

From the other direction, she was calling my eye,

It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try.

She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes.

And I knew without askin' she was into the blues.

She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,

I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.

In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough,

She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff.

As I picked up my matches and was closing the door,

I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, been there before.

Well, I ain't always right but I've never been wrong.

Seldom turns out the way it does in a song.

Once in a while you get shown the light

In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves,

Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues.

And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes,

Had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by