Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
I Don't Think the Smith Brothers Will Stand for This
Video: Man Caught Peeing on Cough Drops in Drug Store: "Investigators say the man went to the aisle where the cough drops are kept, looked around, unzipped his pants, and urinated on about 110 packages of cough drops."
At Least He Wasn't Eating Her Thin Mints
Paint-huffing husband hauled to jail: "A Fort Wayne man was charged with inhaling toxic vapors for the 48th time after his wife called police and told them he was huffing paint in their apartment last Thursday."
Classic mugshot at the link.
Hat tip to Toby O'Brien.
Sounds More Like East Texas than Australia
News.com.au: "A WOMAN caught drink-driving has told Melbourne police she was on her way to try her new teeth on fried chicken."
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Fashion Update
KCRA Sacramento: "Police said that Batie was wearing an Oakland Raiders jacket, a g-string and a hair scrunchie around his genitals. He was also wearing socks."
Bass Reeves
Lessons in Manliness from Bass Reeves: "Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was arguably the greatest lawman and gunfighter of the West, a man who served as a marshal for 32 years in the most dangerous district in the country, captured 3,000 felons, (once bringing in 17 men at one time), and shot 14 men in the line of duty, all without ever being shot himself."
Family Reunion Update
We've returned from the family reunion, where I had one horrible realization: Only one other person there was older than I am.
Sunday morning, I walked out of the garage of Judy's house in Thornton, Texas, and was greeted by a genuine cottontail. He ran away when he saw me, but he stopped in the neighbor's back yard long enough for me to point him out to Judy. We looked around but couldn't find any eggs.
On the way home, we stopped to have a look at the bison, which is always fun for me.
Uh-Oh
Scientists ask: Is the kilo losing weight?: "Ensuring a pound of butter is indeed a pound, or a gallon of milk a full gallon, has long been the province of government agencies that deal with weights and measures. But now it seems scientists are having a little trouble with the golf-ball-size piece of metal that is used to set the standard weight for a kilogram, or kilo."
The Really Smart Phone
The Really Smart Phone - WSJ.com: "'For us, people look like little particles that move in space and that occasionally communicate with each other,' said Northeastern physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, who led the experiment. 'We have turned society into a laboratory where behavior can be objectively followed.'"
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Kevin Jarre, R. I. P.
Digital Spy: "Famed screenwriter Kevin Jarre has died at the age of 56.
The scribe behind Tombstone and installments of the Rambo and Mummy franchises passed away unexpectedly after suffering heart failure on April 3, his family told The Los Angeles Times.
The self-confessed 'Civil War freak' also wrote the critically-acclaimed Glory, a drama about the historic conflict's first all-black volunteer company, which collected three Oscars in 1989 - including a 'Best Actor' award for Denzel Washington."
The scribe behind Tombstone and installments of the Rambo and Mummy franchises passed away unexpectedly after suffering heart failure on April 3, his family told The Los Angeles Times.
The self-confessed 'Civil War freak' also wrote the critically-acclaimed Glory, a drama about the historic conflict's first all-black volunteer company, which collected three Oscars in 1989 - including a 'Best Actor' award for Denzel Washington."
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