Entries from October 2006

October 31, 2006

Carving Contest

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYONE!!!!!!

Don’t try this at home. Keep all power tools out of reach of pets.

October 30, 2006

A Corny Post

When most people think of Southern California, they think of palm trees, sand, ocean, succulents, and perhaps tall grasses.
So when I saw that my neighbor had corn planted in his front yard, I had to capture it for the rest of the world to see. It is, or course, unusual to see corn in California, [...]

October 28, 2006

My Rubber Ducky

Moira J. Kelly takes the cutest photos of her bird Brody. Here he is again sharing his bath with his rubber ducky. He seems quite content at first, but then seems to have a change of heart about his rubbery friend! I love the eye contact between Brody and the duck on the first photo. [...]

October 27, 2006

Bird’s Eye View of the Bird

Love, love, LOVE this shot of Tim, son of my friends Mark and Svetlana. He and his family were enroute to Russia for a family vacation via JFK airport.
Little contemplates big…

October 26, 2006

If Humans Disappeared Today…

They forgot to mention that cockroaches and Cher would still live on…
Drawing borrowed from Casual Slack.

October 25, 2006

Cross Your Legs and Hope to Die

Have you ever felt like this? All filled up and nowhere to go?

Thanks to Shaymus O’Flatulence for the use of this photo. He runs the funniest blog I have ever seen!

October 24, 2006

Answer to Yesterday’s Quiz

Yesterday’s quiz photo is the underside of a Plecostamus (algae eating fish). It resides in my 70 gallon home aquarium and keeps the tank nice and tidy. Here’s a more global shot of it.
His/her name is Sweet Lou Fischer – (s)he was given to me by my neighbor B. Fischer, Jr. and co-named after Fischer [...]

October 23, 2006

What the ^%&$ is this?

Can anyone tell what this is?
Submit your answers. I will post the correct answer tomorrow.

October 22, 2006

All You Need is Love, Paul

The Heather and Paul McCartney divorce is getting ugly.
She claims he has beaten her in the past and that he would not let her breastfeed their baby because they are “my breasts” (his words).
I don’t know about you, but I have always had an intuitive dislike of his soon-to-be-rich ex-wife. It’s not nice to judge, [...]

October 21, 2006

My Amazing Friend

A few weeks ago, my friend Shirley was sideswiped by a truck driven by illegal aliens from Mexico (no, this will not be a rant about immigration). They hit her car at an intersection and took off (hit and run). Luckily Shirley was not injured, but her new Toyota Matrix was damaged in the right [...]