7402 – So much for me being a mystery man!

Man Arrested for Wearing Grinch Mask

City and county attorneys are defending Wheeling police who arrested a man for wearing a Grinch mask while walking along a city street.

Norman Eugene Gray, 42, was arrested Tuesday. He was arraigned and released on a personal recognizance bond.

Officers saw Gray about 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, told him to take the mask off and not put it on again. Gray removed it and asked why he could not wear it, according to Wheeling police reports. Officers told him wearing masks in public is illegal. Continue reading 7402 – So much for me being a mystery man!

7400 – Fannie Flagg says *PATOOTIE* (and other quotes)

Wicked amounts of rain are coming and going lately. It killed power to my apartment last night for about 15 minutes, and was roaring in the late afternoon.

Incense smells better during a rainstorm. I’m more sleepy. Newt is more lovey, too. Everyone wins!


Haven’t shaved this week. I may go for full-beard mojo again.


How to grow your own armchair.


It took a woodchuck to remind me how hot Audrey Landers was, back in the day. Thanks, Gene Rayburn!

Speaking of Match Game, I always preferred the red circle to the green triangle player logo. I’d have been happiest with a green circle.

Apparently I like shapes more than colors.


Things I shouldn’t have to yell at Newt at 6am – “DON’T STEP IN THE CAKE!”


My current desktop wallpaper: SWAT MONKEY


Em has “WHT” tattooed on one hand’s finger-joints, and “EVER” on the other. I thought it was “WHT / POWER”(only saw the VER) for a minute. I wonder if her southern accent colored my guess? till sort of a silly thing to have written on your mitts.

She’s also got her tongue and lower lip pierced.

I’ve mentioned this before, but it seems like I now know more women with ink than without it… maybe by a ration of 3:1 or so. It seems like tattoos are more a girl thing now than a boy thing.


Quote of the Day:

“Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.” – S.J. Perelman


Via Patton Oswalt –

I walked down to the gas station to buy a bar of soap earlier, and the girl at the counter said all the soap had been shoplifted that day.

“For real?” I asked.

“Oh, they do it all the time. They cut it up into little chunks, and sell it as counterfeit meth.”

I said, “Doesn’t that get them killed?”

“Yeah, lots. There’s stories about it on the news all the time.”

Hoo boy.


Moment of Lyric:

I see a bad moon rising,
I see trouble on the way,
I see earthquakes and lightnin’
I see bad times today

So don’t come ’round tonight
It’s bound to take your life
There’s a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a-blowin’
I fear the end is comin’ soon
I fear river’s over flowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

So don’t come ’round tonight
It’s bound to take your life
There’s a bad moon on the rise

Hope you have got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we’re in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye


1 year ago – animated newt pic, open courseware, a lovely phone call, athenos reply, name meme,

2 years ago– Cross-sections, candy bars and otherwise, panoramas, hut-building, surreal candy, there b3 features, wvum, world as blog

3 years ago – Memorial Day, documentation, Jakushitsu, Animal crackers, flash & the elongated man, sleeping late with a cat, what’s better. (First appearance for the Newton-yawn icon)

4 years ago – nice dreams, four legs good, two legs bad, saw Shrek, first mobile entry from the laptop

5 years ago – I’d not yet committed to daily entries.