Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Monday, November 12, 2007

Huckabee dosen't have a chance



I can guarantee that anyone who votes also has to consider who will be the first lady of our nation. There are alot of front runners for this coveted spot. This job typically consists of the First Lady coming up with some program or charity to help kids learn to read or "Just say No."
I would sure like to know what these two would come up with as thier soapbox.
The first is Fred Thompsons wife. He went to Hollywood, got an acting job, and picked this one up.
The second pic is one of Dennis Kucinich's wife. She must have come down out of that UFO that he claims he saw. He must have told her that the alpha males on this planet had enormous ears and stood around 5'4".
...and you always thought the Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman relationship was fake/strange.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Gimme something to break

Why is it that most things that I own that are mechanical or electronic tend to fail when they are not in use. Case in point...we finally turned on our heat last Wednesday. Well, it wouldn't come on upstairs. A service call and $300 later, we find that we need a new circuit board for the furnace.
What I'm saying is that this is the first time we turned it on since last winter. When we turned it off last spring it was working fine.
Same thing happened to my home stereo a couple of years ago. I hadn't used it in a few months since I had been using the comcast music choice channel instead. Then one day I put in a cd...i think it was the latest Wilco (this was back when Being There came out.) Nothing. Nada. Nil. the stereo just wouldn't work. I took it to some place over in NLR. They needed sixty bucks just to analyze it and find the problem. I gave them the money and two days later they called me and said it would cost too much to fix it.
People, we now live in a world where everything we buy is disposable. No item you buy that is electronic or mechanical will last beyond 10 years. Well, except for my mini-ipod that is now obsolete.

Words.

"The question is not 'Can they reason?' nor 'Can they talk?' but 'Can they suffer?'
Jeremy Bentham The Principles of Morals and Legislation

Friday, November 09, 2007

ExtrovertedIntrovert Theme Song


I actually had the floaty moniker for quite some time before anyone else used it. I also was using it well before this song came out. However, when I heard this tune, I thought it was one of the best I had heard in a long, long time. Gravitys Gone by Drive By Truckers.

Travelin'



Floatydevice's alter ego, Bluechip Johnson, has been a busy business traveler the past few days. Beginning on Tuesday he headed up hwy 65 into Missouri. Then he worked his way west into Oklahoma. Even though there was grave concern for a meeting he had to attend, all ended up ok. As usual, Bluechip was worked up more than he needed to be.
This morning he worked his way back through Oklahoma via Indian territory tollroads enjoying the warm fall colors of Arkansas as he entered Siloam Springs. Currently he is residing in his recliner back in LR AR.
Oh yeah, this pic is of the Cherokee Indian Casino in Catoosa, Oklahoma. Go play some bingo.

Monday, November 05, 2007

This time change has got us all out of sorts

Cash, Helm, Twitty, Denny. Arkansas bred.


You can say you knew him when. Christopher Denny.

Making memories...uh...yeah...





"30 Reasons Girls Should Call It a Night"

What Facebook group boasts nearly 150,000 members and a collection of nearly 5,000 photos of young women passed out on the pavement, collapsed in shrubbery, peeing in bushes and vomiting in toilets (or on themselves)? "30 Reasons Girls Should Call It a Night."

Don't be fooled by the name -- the group heralds out-of-control drunkenness as a badge of cool. We're not just talking about slurred declarations of love, getting loose on the dance floor or vomiting in public, but, in some cases, a-couple-of-drinks-away-from-dead incapacitation. For instance, under the group's discussion of "worst place you ever woke up," one woman writes: "the hospital ... nouf said." The group also celebrates the, oh, minor embarrassments of drinking too much -- like having a photo of yourself taking a squat on someone's lawn published for the entire Facebook community to see.

Or, you know, having that photo republished in the Daily Mail. That's right: Along with an article about "ladettes who glorify their shameful drunken antics on Facebook," the paper published a handful of photos posted in the group's photo album (often by the subjects themselves). In one photo, a young woman is shown passed out in a bathtub, her miniskirt falling aside to reveal her underwear. Today she posted to the group's message board, "haha ... never expected to be in a UK newspaper when i posted pics here" and then a few minutes later, "almost famous I guess." She has a point -- when an up-the-skirt photo of you surfaces on the Internet you're in famous company.

The Daily Mail article is a public shaming piece, of course, despite being thinly disguised as compassionate concern about women's drinking habits. But it does bring up an obvious question: Why are young women posting blackout photos and drunken crotch-shots on Facebook for the world, including their friends, classmates and co-workers, to see?

-- Tracy Clark-Flory


SO...WHERE IS THE WORST PLACE YOU EVER WOKE UP?

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Live to Ride. Ride to Live.


Saw this dude cruising up the interstate over in North Little Rock yesterday. From a distance it looked like he was riding with his hands off the handlebars and up in the air. It was only when we got closer that we realized he was on his handlebars. How can that be comfortable?

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Happy BD to TB

Not to mince words.


I really enjoyed Letterman back in his heyday, even after he moved over to CBS. He's stil got chops...especially when it comes to Bush or Paris Hilton.