Over the past week I have been trying to get this damn song out of my head. I figured the best way to do it was to just blow it out of my shallow waters once and for all with a 1979 performance on Late Night with Johnny Carson by Herbert Buckingham Khaury. It's truly a religious experience.
In my continued effort to read the entire Internets, I came across Alnie's MySpace account and have been watching his videos all day long. I've become an instant fan. I hope he accepts my friend request. I mean, I added his weirdo electronical music to my MySpace. Check it out. If you are on myspace, send me a friend request.
Anywho, I don't know why Alnie doesn't have a huge following. Maybe this post will help. This video is one of a couple of videos that teaches valuable moral lessons. This one is on friendship and jealously. Don't steal, and don't be jealous.
I've always wanted my shirts to have that perfect store folded look, but all I could manage to do was make a mess. Try it. It's like a freakin' magic trick. In no time, you'll have your friends folding your laundry.
Although I'm sure I complained constantly about the injustice of it all, I loved helping with the laundry. Hanging up and then taking the clothes down at the end of the day was rhythmic and created the feeling of a job well done. I compulsively would smell each freshly dried item before dropping it in the basket, a habit that continues to this day as I pull things out of the dryer. Some of my favorite days of summer were these laundry days, time spent in the house with the drapes drawn against the summer sun, watching Days of Our Liveswith my mom and folding laundry into piles. [Technology takes the thrill out of laundry - Times Herald - 07-13-06]
Uh, I was trying to find the video of Katie Couric's colonoscopy that she warned us through our elected representatives in Washington would air on NBC's Today Show in 2000, and somehow this video came up.
And to prove to people just how easy and important it is to get screened, tomorrow on the program I will give them the true "inside story" - sharing exclusive video of my very own colon, shot during my first colonoscopy. This is just the beginning. [Katie Couric - Senate Select Committee on Aging - 03-09-00]
TN Gov. Phil Bredesen's Toilet Auction Ends in 5 Hours!
May 05, 2006
In 5 more hours, TN Governor Phil Bredesen's Online Toilet Auction ends! The bid has gone up to $80 (cOwbOy). WKRN News Channel 2 did a great story last night promoting the first lady's $10,000,000 effort to clean up the Governor's mansion. Anyone need a toilet from the Governor's master bathroom? Bueller?
UPDATE 9:39am - 4 hours to go and yobm bid it up to $90. Do I have $100?
UPDATE 10:42am - 2 hours and 57 minutes to go, and I found the Tom Cruise appearance on Oprah in the TIVO.
UPDATE 10:44am - 2 hours and 55 minutes to go - false alarm. The TIVO snuck in a commercial for the Cruise interview. If I didn't know better, I would guess the TIVO was trying to promote his new movie all by itself. Speaking of toilets...
UPDATE 11:01am - 2 hours and 38 minutes to go - If Christopher Lowell can turn a shitty situation into a reason to live, imagine the things you can do with the Governor's throne. It's a steal for $100. Bueller?
UPDATE 11:22am - OMG! 2 hours and 18 minutes to go, and bcastro541 has bid $95! Something sounds soooo familiar about that name. I can't put my finger on it, and I'm not sure I want to. Can I get a Benjamin? Bueller? Anyone?
UPDATE 11:28am - 2 hours and 11 minutes to go - WE GOT A BENNY! tompettis has bid $100. Yo, Mrs Conte... Mad Money. Mad Money!
UPDATE 12:39pm- 59 minutes to go, and News Channel 4 has me completely captivated right now with a spot on how to make a spectatular cheese fountain for Cinco de Mayo! Pam Hogancamp of Ribbons of Chocolate says you need to call her at least two months in advance if you want her to show up at your event with this amazing cheese fountain. Speaking of cheese and limited time... GET TO BIDDING!
UPDATE 1:00pm- 39 Minutes and 26 seconds - Cinco de Mayo hot tamales!
UPDATE 1:32pm- 9 Minutes 11 Seconds - There is a full fledged bidding war for the Governor's toilet! Was it the picture of Ponch? tompettis has bid $145 to retain the throne. Can I get $150? Will this shirtless picture of Ponch from C.H.I.P.S. help?
UPDATE 1:34pm- 5 Minutes 8 Seconds - $170!!
UPDATE 1:36pm- 3 Minutes 55 Seconds - $175 !!!! Where is my pic of a pantless Ponch?
Help write the top ten reasons why Tennesseans should buy TN Governor Phil Bredesen's master bathroom toilet:
10. "I hope Tennesseans will take advantage of this unique opportunity to purchase a piece of history from The Tennessee Residence."
~~ First Lady of TN Andrea Conte
Uhhh, do I have to remind you that this toilet, THE very throne from Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's master bathroom, is very similar to a $900 toilet? I know it has a chip on its base (don't ask) and has literally been crapped upon by the gubna, but don't flush this opportunity. You have 12 days left, and here is a little piece of code you can place on your site to remind you each and every day:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Utility workers trying to blast out a grease clog from a sewer line forced 3,000 gallons of raw sewage into a couple's home, forcing them to abandon their house while hoping that the city makes good on a promise to clean up and repair the damage. [House Blasted by 3,000 Gallons of Sewage - Wyoming Tribune-Eagle - 04-21-06]
"I hope Tennesseans will take advantage of this unique opportunity to purchase a piece of history from The Tennessee Residence." ~~ First Lady of TN Andrea Conte
14 days to go! Copy and paste the following code onto your website for a countdown to the end of TN Gov. Phil Bredesen's toilet auction. You can see this on the right ad panel here. Proceeds go toward needed renovations of the Governor's mansion.
UPDATE 12:30PM:OUCH - After returning from the Supercuts to get my hair did for tomorrow's Middle Tennessee Bloggers and Podcasters Meet-Up in Smyrna, I got an email from an angry reader about Bredesen's Toilet Auction Countdown.
This is nothing more than a distasteful stunt. What is your point tying the governor to a toilet auction countdown? Aren't you a Democrat? I wish you would take it down and stop embarrassing our governor.
Democrats believe in a "pay as you go" approach to getting the people's business done. The First Lady of TN could have taken the "borrow and spend into record deficits" approach by giving our property to a charity of her choice and using our tax money to buy a new toilet.
Even after the Tennessean's story about this auction, the toilet remained at a measly 6 bids, up to $55. I personally want to see this toilet turn into a $500 throne over the next 14 days. I bet the First Lady of TN does, too. It's a $900 toilet, setting aside a chip on its base and its private moments with the Governor.
It looks like Italy's best hope "at a time of difficult economic conditions" is that an insatiable appetite for porn sweeps the countryside.
The tax is expected to raise about euro220 million (US$260 million) to help reduce the national deficit and to help fund government tax breaks to families.
"I believe the porn tax is important not for moralistic reasons, which don't concern me, but because I think that at a time of difficult economic conditions for families it is right to tax products that are not essential," lawmaker Daniela Santache was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency. [Italian Lawmakers to Consider Porn Tax - AP - 12-08-05]
Typically, anything I read that I spend some time researching I try to share. As the Internet goes these days, you can bet you haven't seen too much of that "research."
The case of 19th century journalist Victor Noir is an exception today, I guess. Cruising by Drudge this morning, I came across this sad story from over a year ago about the French shutting down public access to the tomb of Victor Noir due to inappropriate rubbing of the statue's large penis.
Officials concerned about damage to the icon's groin area have erected a fence around the grave, and a sign prohibiting indecent rubbing.
Noir - whose real name was Yvan Salman - was killed by Pierre Bonaparte, a great-nephew of the Emperor Napoleon, after bearing him a challenge to a duel.
According to the story, he was due to get married the day after he was killed.
The statue shows Noir in a frock coat and trousers lying flat on his back, with a distinct enlargement in the groin. ['Lewd rubbing' shuts Paris statue - BBC - 11-02-04]
Incase you come away from Drudge's link believing this tragedy continues, Wikipedia reports that the fence was torn down due to an outcry by angry, horny women.
So, I'm on my way to the vet this morning to get our kitties ready for a very long trip (more on that later), but when Vince and I bought a couple of cat carriers at Wal-Mart I noticed something very disturbing. Garth Brooks was everywhere wishing everyone a "HAPPY HOLIDAYS" from Wal-Mart. Doesn't he mean "Merry Christmas" and "get down on your knees and thank Jesus for being born?"
A chunk of the U.S. Supreme Court's pediment fell on the fifth anniversary of this filing with the Second Judicial Circuit Court in the case Gore v. Harris et. al. The filing sought "to commence counting votes in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties" following efforts by Republicans to stop the recount in the 2000 Presidential elections.
Spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said a piece marble about one-foot square, from what was thought to be dentil molding at the top of the building, fell about 9:30 a.m. (1430 GMT). There was no one on the stairs at the time, a half hour before the opening of the court's session.
The marble was above the inscription near the top of the building saying, "Equal Justice Under Law" and above the allegorical figure representing "Order," one of nine sculptured figures on the pediment. [Marble chunk falls from top of Supreme Court - Reuters - 11-28-05]
Weirdness
UPDATE 9:39am - 4 hours to go and yobm bid it up to $90. Do I have $100?
UPDATE 11:28am - 2 hours and 11 minutes to go - WE GOT A BENNY! tompettis has bid $100. Yo, Mrs Conte... Mad Money. Mad Money!
Christian Grantham is an internet and television producer living in Murfreesboro, TN. Grantham has produced liberal and conservative talk radio, was a consultant to the Clinton-Gore White House on domestic policy forums and worked as a blogger for a political campaign for state office.
