New Stuff and Snow ...

First a little housekeeping.  If you look over to the right sidebar, which is actually the only sidebar on this blog, so I really didn't need to say "right," you will see a couple of new additions.  First, at the top, is a link to my Skype.  If you have Skype, or want to sign up for free, you can add me and we can chat sometime.  If you don't know what Skype is, then check it out.  Free computer to computer calls are pretty cool.

Next you will see a new link to Formspring.  That's a site where you can ask me anything you want, or tell me anything you want, anonymously.  So, you have your chance to get that burning question you've always wanted answered (well, maybe, I still reserve the right to ignore some questions).  You also finally have that chance to tell me just how much you hate my fucking guts anonymously.  How awesome is that?

And finally, if you look under "For a Good Time" you will see that I have added a link to Vinny Bond's new Blog Talk Radio show "Music on the Couch."

The show will debut on Monday, Feb 8th at 10 pm Eastern, 9 pm Central, 8 pm Mountain and 7 pm Pacific.  There, I did the time zone math for you cause I'm really thoughtful like that.

Also...

Honolulu: 5 pm Monday
Anchorage: 6 pm Monday
Rio de Janeiro: 1 am Tuesday
London:  3 am Tuesday
Madrid:  4 am Tuesday
Paris:  4 am Tuesday
Berlin: 4 am Tuesday
Prague:  4 am Tuesday
Jerusalem:  5 am Tuesday
Cape Town: 5 am Tuesday
Moscow:  6:00 am Tuesday
Baghdad: 6 am Tuesday
Kabul:  7:30 am Tuesday
New Deli:  8:30 am Tuesday
Bangkok:  10 am Tuesday
Tokyo:  12 noon  Tuesday
Sydney: 2 pm Tuesday

And, if you don't catch it live you suck you can always listen to the archives on Vinny's main BTR page at any time.  And, you'll be able to download the show on iTunes. So, you really don't have an excuse not to listen.

But, if you listen live, be sure to sing up for a BTR account (it's free you cheap bastards) so you can join us in the chat room!

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In other news we got crushed with by a massive snowstorm over the weekend.  We got like 20 15 10 8 inches of snow.  Okay, I don't really know how much it was.  But, the radio said it was 10 inches.  And news people on local radio never lie about these things.

The good thing about it is that we didn't get the 2 inches of ice they were originally predicting.  We only got about 1/2 inch.  The rest of it was light, powdery snow.  And the sun came out on Sunday and temps soared to near 40.  So, it's melting fast.

Anyway, it was kinda fun...

Well, my car didn't love it...

And I didn't get to grill up any steaks...

And it got nasty slushy during the afternoon...


The maintenance guys weren't having any fun...

But, some people enjoyed it...

Love, Politics and Dreams ....

Shout Out:

Everybody go over and hop on The Big Leather Couch and congratulate Vinny and his darling Nancy! The Vinster popped the question over New Years and much to everyone’s surprise of course Nancy said YES!

So congrats to Vinny and Nancy! I drank a wee dram of Scotch in your honor tonight!

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Politics:

So the State of Minnesota has declared Al Franken the winner of the U.S. Senate race there. Yes, this would be the election that was held way back in November of 2008. Now, I know that Norm Coleman, who lost (apparently) is going to file lawsuits over the recount. And, he may or may not have a legitimate complaint, I wouldn’t know. But, honestly if he feels that the election wasn’t fair, or the counting of the ballots didn’t follow the law, or if some voters were disenfranchised, then I say file the lawsuits. If I lived in Minnesota I wouldn’t have voted for either of those Lunkheads. I would have voted Libertarian or something like that.

But, assuming Coleman loses his lawsuits, and I’m betting he does, he will now have the distinction of LOSING statewide elections in Minnesota to both …

Jessie Ventura (Governor)


And Al Franken (U.S. Senate)


Dude … time to find a new career.

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Hot Dreams:

So I found out by ready Drowsey Monkey yesterday that she had a dream about me the other night. This isn’t all that surprising. I’m sure babes have dreams about me all the time. Or at least I like to tell myself they do.

But, she said that we were both fully clothed in the dream. I found this to be a little disturbing. I’m not quite sure what we could have been doing. Having a meaningful and intelligent conversation? I’m sure she’s quite capable of that, but it isn’t really my thing.

Drowsey then told us on Twitter that she wasn’t even wearing a Princess Leia outfit! And worse than that I wasn’t waving my light saber around either.

Sorry I provided such a boring dream fro ya Drowsey. I’ll try to do better next time.


Anyway, I admit I have actually had some dreams that included other bloggers too. Drowsey thinks that it’s proof that she’s too obsessed with blogging. That might be true. But you know, now that I think about it, the dreams I’ve had that included other bloggers in them have been clean too. Weird huh?

Actually what happens is that everyone is terribly disappointed when they meet me. I kind of have a negative attitude like that.

So how bout you? Ever dream of your fellow bloggers?