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2009’s Top Ten Videos: 10. “Shofar Demonstration”

December 13, 2009 | Comment

I’ll be darned if it isn’t End-of-the-Year Recap List Season again. Sounds like a good opportunity to rest, reflect, and scheme to drive some traffic to my blog. Like everyone else on the web, I like both top ten lists and funny video clips—so I think we all know what needs to happen: a countdown of my ten favorite web videos of the year, one each day for ten days, with a recap of the entire list at the end. Let’s do this thing.

Kicking it off at number 10 is this little clip I’m calling “Shofar Demonstration.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Yet Another Reason I’m a Dog Person

August 26, 2009 | 4 comments

Found Cat flyerDue credit: Soup, via dminkin

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Happy Bella Day

August 3, 2009 | 5 comments

126013372_bd0d81ba17_oIt was on August 3, 2000 that my (then) wife spotted Bella trotting into an intersection.  As the stoplight turned green, signaling the waiting traffic to proceed forward toward the hapless little stray, my ex rushed out into the open space and waved her arms at the cars to urge them to wait.  The stack of cars balked, grudgingly — this being Los Angeles, where even momentary impediments to traffic are greeted with disproportionate ire, and more specifically East L.A., where stray dogs are a dime a dozen.

“C’m'ere, doggie! C’m'ere!” she urged.

The skinny little pup turned and trotted straight toward the invitation, tail wagging. She clearly lacked the skittish trepidation of the average street cur. She reached my ex, who had retreated to the sidewalk and crouched down to receive her. Just as she still does today, the dog we would call Bella took immediate advantage of this access to a human lap and commenced giving dog kisses.

Loaded into the back seat of her rescuer’s ‘88 VW Fox, the gray mongrel lay down as though she’d just run a marathon. Read the rest of this entry »

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Facebook Meme: 25 Things About Me

January 28, 2009 | 11 comments

This little Facebook meme has found its way to me. OK, what am I supposed to do?

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

I’ll do it, and I’ll send it to the friends who tagged me in theirs, but no way am I going to require 25 of my Facebook friends to write lists too. My friends have more important things to do… well, most of them, anyway.

25 Random Things About Me

  1. I am a compulsive copy editor and a remorseless grammar nazi (in case you hadn’t noticed).
  2. I am geeky enough to use HTML markup when posting things on community web sites. In case you still hadn’t noticed.
  3. I’m seriously considering getting a bicycle to use for getting around town, in order to both save money on gas and get more exercise. The only drawback I foresee is the increased chance of severe injury due to LA’s shortage of bike lanes and surplus of reckless drivers.

    4. Read the rest of this entry »

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Palin, Pigs and Pit Bulls

September 11, 2008 | 2 comments

You know what?  After the election, I think I’m actually going to miss Sarah Palin and John McCain.  Or rather, my blog will – with the way that campaign is representing her in the press, the jokes just write themselves.  By the tens.

So Obama remarked that McCain’s platform does not represent a proposal for change, as advertised, but rather is like putting lipstick on a pig.  The McCain camp seized upon this remark and expressed its absurd faux-outrage that the unbelievably, horribly, unforgivably sexist Democrat candidate had called Gov. Palin a pig.

Hurh?  Exactly.  Apparently, in the McCain worldview Sarah Palin owns the copyright on the concept of lipstick.  She laid claim to it at the recent GOP convention, where she attempted a curious combination of self-promotion and comedy by declaring that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull was, in a word, “lipstick.”

Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin (photo: Ryan McFarland)

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A pit bull (photo: Flickr – audreyjm529)

Aside from being something less than a knee-slapper, this statement (like so many things Gov. Palin says) demonstrably inaccurate.  First off, she’s not interested in selling us on hockey moms as a group, she’s interested in selling us on herself.  With the pit bull thing, she’s trying to suggest that she’s tough, a badass.  But it doesn’t wash – there plenty of differences between her and a pit bull.

Top Ten Other Differences Between Sarah Palin and a Pit Bull

  1. Pit bulls don’t lie about their ear markings
  2. Palin: wants to be your V.P.  Pit bull: wants your B.L.T.
  3. Takes longer to train a pit bull to roll over for special treats
  4. One is often used as an attack dog by crooked scumbags… and the other is a pit bull
  5. Pit bulls generally produce a litter of five to seven pups… OK, bad example
  6. Palin: saw Juneau in person, decided to move there.  Pit bull: saw Juno on DVD, decided to nap
  7. Pit bulls produce pit bull shit; Palin leaves out the “pit”
  8. A pit bull doesn’t need a gun to take down a moose
  9. A pit bull would never hide its desire to receive a big barrel of pork
  10. You can spay a pit bull

That’s not all, either – not if you folks out there have any more to add.  Let’s hear ‘em!

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