As you may know, I have been accused of being obsessed with pirates. Well, the new Ben Folds video proves that I’m not the only one!
My favorite part is when he plays the piano with his hook. 🙂
On a completely unrelated note, you’ve enjoyed fantasy football, now how about fantasy congress?
Okay, well first off Sara and I changed our phone numbers, so if you don’t have my new one give me an email and I’ll give it to you.
Second off, I know I’m pretty late on this one, but Neil Patrick Harris came out last week. There must be a lot of upset ladies out there! I don’t know if you’re watching How I Met Your Mother or not, but the show is fantastic and NPH’s character Barney makes the show. If you don’t watch it you should really check it out.
So where to start? How about with this:
Tell me that is not a fantastic costume! I crack up every time I look at that. Even now I’m laughing! Oh man.
Now that the humor is out of the way, let’s get serious for a second…robots think people taste like bacon!!! This is the begining of the end for us folks. I like the comment below the article, “Well at least we don’t taste like chicken.” Sara pointed out that we’re too fat as a species to be anything so lean as chicken.
Speaking of eating the flesh of the living, it looks like I missed The Monroeville Mall World Record Attempt Zombie Walk in Pittsburgh. It’s billed as a world record attempt for “The Most People Participating in a Zombie Walk.” Basically you show up at the mall where they filmed the original Dawn of the Dead (one of my all time favs) in makeup and shuffle around for a few hours. Sara’s favorite part was the zombie food drive. “All zombies are urged to bring donations of non-perishable food items.” Like brains-in-a-can? Do zombies eat anything that is non-perishable? Also enjoyable is the advice to “Stay on the sidewalk unless crossing the street. When crossing, it’s OK to “break character” and cross quickly. Think fast “New Dawn of the Dead” zombies verses the slower “Old Dawn of the Dead” zombies when crossing the street.”
In other record-breaking zombie news, someone is attempting to break the world record for number of people reproducing the zombie dance from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. 150 in case you were wondering. I guess the previous record of 3 people at our wedding reception isn’t going to hold. 😦
That is all.
This is required reading for all of you out there in Internet land.
Pirate Laws – The ancient laws of the pirate as written by Blackbeard himself
Some of my favorites:
23. A pirate does not “go shopping”. Unless by “shopping”, you mean “killing”.
25. Real pirates have chest hair. If you cannot grow chest hair, you may be a cabin boy.
27. No pirate may ever change his shirt because it is “wrinkled”. A pirate may only change his shirt if it is completely soaked in blood.
29. No pirate shall ever drive a minivan, unless he drives the minivan into a tavern, for the purposes of looting barrels of rum from said tavern. Upon completion of this task, the minivan is to be burned. No exceptions.
And remember, #44, When swimming, pirates do not dive. They cannonball.
Okay, kind of a lot happened so I need to throw down a quick update here.
First off, Tuesday was
I didn’t miss it, but I forgot to blog about it. So, let’s see. Really the big thing was that we went to Janesville over the weekend. My uncle was visiting from Colorado so there was a big thing at my Grandma’s house and she called us to invite us to come! I just think that was really nice of her. I definitely got the feeling that she was excited that we lived so close so we could come to something like that. So anyway we went on Saturday and ate like maniacs! Grandma made a turkey and her famous homemade buns and a pan of apple crisp (I had 3 slices)…to say nothing of the full jar of her homemade pickles!! Oh man…heaven. I’ve decided that if I was trapped on a desert island and I could only pick 1 food to have, I would pick Grandma D’s homemade pickles.
Anyway, we played 1 game of acquire and several games of Apples to Apples and much fun was had by all. 2 people immediately put the game on their Christmas lists! Then Sunday we went over to my Aunt Lois’ house and watched the Packer’s game with some good ole Packer’s fans. And they even won!! My Grandma came with so that her and Sara could play Scrabble instead of watching the game. Oh also, everybody has gardens and stuff, so we got some fresh pears from Uncle Lenny and fresh raspberries from my Uncle Roger. Uncle Lenny has a pseudo-farm that my dad would *love*. He grows pears, apples, cherries, all manner of vegetables and has chickens and turkeys. Finally, Grandma gave me 3 jars of pickels to take home!! But she made me promise not to tell anybody, so it’s a good thing this isn’t public or anything.
Quote of the weekend:
Len: “The cat had a hernia so I just pushed it back in there.”
Pat: “How did you keep it in? Did you stitch it up?”
Len: “No…I just wrapped some duct tape around it. By the time the cat got it off, it was healed.”
Uncle Len, Veteranarian. What is it with my family and cats?
Shane Halbach 