To the person who complained to the police department about getting a call at 12:30 at night, looking for a kid that ran away and had threatened suicide before he left – Tough. I don’t feel bad at all about your inconvenience, if it means that there’s a chance of saving someone’s life. If you don’t want to be called, I recommend you get an unlisted number. (Though, I am going into the database and removing her from the lists.)Incidentally, the child was found, and he’s been baker acted. I hope that he gets the help he needs to work things out.

Quiznos makes a tasty veggie sammich.

Did the FBI ever figure out what the deal was with the poor pizza delivery guy forced to rob a bank with a bomb around his neck which blew his head off?

I think horseshoes is a pretty cool game, actually.

All of my Amazon orders are set to arrive before 12/24… some a week early, but I prefer that to it being late. Now, I have to do some actual shopping in the “real world”. I’m still not sure if I’m going to send out a lot of cards this year… I still haven’t found any that sing to me. Maybe during shopping I’ll spot some that are cool.. or maybe I’ll make my own… but time is getting tight. (I Really liked my Manatee ones a few years back… and the Kitty ones last year.)

Roger Moore is on record as saying he’d never want to play Bond again, but he’d love to be a Bond villain, because they get all the best lines. (I think I read than in an interview he did about being the villain in Spiceworld…)

They should do a “5 Doctors” type of movie where ALL of the living ex-Bonds play Billionaires out to destroy the world. 3/4 of the way through the movie Pierce Brosnan goes “Holy crap, I’m 60!” and then joins them. Then Clive Owen comes in and kills them all.

If I cross over to an alternate universe, I hope there are dinosaurs there.

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Hakarl – How to prepare putrefied shark. (warning, when prepared improperly, it has made members of my family poop like an demon-rhino, complete with bellowing sounds of anguish.)

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Bob Gregory, who wrote and/or drew hundreds of Donald Duck comic books for Western Publishing has died. He was 82 and the official cause of death is listed as pneumonia. Gregory was born in 1921 in Los Angeles, where he eventually attended Otis Art Institute. He did several years as a technical illustrator for an airplane manufacturer but the work did not suit him and he began submitting ideas and sketches to Western Publishing. In 1958, they finally began accepting his work on a steady-enough basis that he could chuck the aircraft job and go full-time. Thereafter, he wrote scripts for others to draw and scripts for himself to draw, and while he worked on most of Western’s “funny animal” comics, his main gig was as writer-artist for Donald and other ducks. In the seventies, he wrote and penciled most issues of Daisy and Donald. He was the guy who drew the ducks with very round heads, which he usually created with a circle template.

His work was quite popular and he obviously had cartooning in his blood. You can tell because he passed it on to his daughter, who is also a cartoonist and a very good one. Roberta Gregory created the popular feminist anti-heroine, Bitchy Bitch, who is not exactly Daisy Duck but does continue the family tradition.

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A year ago – lots of rain, palm pix, and dreams of the desert
two years ago Bear defeats man-armor, evil news, creepy Google title-pic, Cetus the sea monster.
three years ago – hot or not, bullet-proof vest tests, smart dust, KMFDM / Life is a dream