Is it that time? YES! Yes it is...

Howdy ho people of the Earth!

It felt like a proper time to get some things off my mind, so, without further ado...

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WRITING PARTY!

The man with the golden mane, my friend Fionnegan "Justus" Murphy (I have no clue why I put his actual middle name in quotes) hosted a writing party this past weekend and invited me to participate!

I invite, encourage, nay DEMAND (ok, so not demand) you to check out his website HERE to read through the submissions from the participants, leave a comment, and vote for your favorite! The entries are intentionally anonymous so that everybody doesn't just vote for mine to gain favors from me. (HA!) But vote for the one you think is mine anyways, and I'll love you forever. Or vote for your favorite. Or vote for a free and independent Suriname. Or Las Vegas.

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I'm taking a poll to find out what the best "Far Side" comic was. My personal favorite is the "Midvale School for the Gifted" one. Gary Larson captured the spirit of a generation with one simple drawing. He was way ahead of his time as the generation that attends schools these days clearly seems to not be able to read well enough to know how to open a door. I blame Eisenhower.

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I've started really enjoying "Tosh.0" on Comedy Central. The guy makes fun of people who do dumb things and post it (or have it posted on the internet). Which, of course, is something I like to do as well.

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It's SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel. Two things that I'd like to point out. 1) the super-slow-mo cameras for "Ultimate Air Jaws" are unbelievably fantastic. Watching those great whites fully launch their entire bodies out of the water at 1000 frames per second is amazing. 2) The scientists / marine biologists that go into the water with no cage to observe feeding habits and HAND-FEED SHARKS are absolutely insane. More than me. And that's saying something!

I think Shark Week is a worthy follow-up to this past season of Deadliest Catch. Discovery Channel... (with the exception of "The Colony" - I mean, what the..??) Well done!

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What's more entertaining? Watching two people (or groups of people) debate passionately with only a small number of the pertinent facts about the topic, or jell-o wrestling? I think jell-o wrestling loses its charm quicker.

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I'm pretty sure my life is a not-for-profit endeavor. Otherwise someone's cooking my books!! (And I don't mean that as a euphemism for something else. This time.)

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Does anyone think the line from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back:

"When it's all over, I want you to say 'My, what a lovely tea party!'"

Is funnier now than it ever has been?

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Jackie Gleason was really only responding to Kennedy's speech when he told Alice "to the moon!"

Not sure who's speech he was responding to when he said "Pow, right in the kisser!"

...though Mel Gibson may have been responding to Jackie Gleason... not sure...

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How do you trust someone who tells you they would "take a bullet for you" without finding out for sure?

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I think that about covers my lunch break....

Ciao!