HUMOR: Dads are the original hipsters!

Meant to put this link up for Father's day. A fun and funny site for people who have or had cool and happening dads...

http://dadsaretheoriginalhipster.tumblr.com/

My Big Brudder Now Has A Blog - Go Check It Out!

Like me, my older brother has finally got tired of boring people around him with his endless talk of pop culture, and now has the chance to bore all of you on the internet!

Seriously though, if you're into music, movies, tv and/or sports, give his blog a look.

You can even read how he fell off a ladder and discusses our family history of falling off ladders with the nurse!

So go check it out!

If you didn't catch all the other links, here's a link to his blog!

HUMOR and POLITICS: Backwards Bush Countdown Clock!

I found this through Wyldraven of Xanadu's Live Journal blog. Just thought I'd share. - OlderMusicGeek


Home page for the Backwards Bush Countdown Clock!
The page that shows you how to put the Backwards Bush Countdown Clock! on your websites

CULTURE/SOCIETY and ENTERTAINMENT: The Extras In Your Life Movie

I got this from a blog by a writer of the weekly supplement for our local newspaper. Clear? - OlderMusicGeek

Extras in your life movie by Brianne Sanchez
June 20th, 2008 9:49 am

Do you ever feel like there are people around town who star as “extras” in your life, if it was a movie? After being here a year, there are certain people who I see ALL THE TIME, but have no idea who they are. Sometimes, I will see the same guy wearing the same plaid shorts five times in one day, and then — still wearing the shorts — again the next. There are other people who I recognize, but can’t quite place. So, I do the socially awkward thing and stare at them for awhile.

I wish I knew their names and stories, but for now I’ll just credit them as “guy with plastic bag,” “Old lady with gray cornrows who rides her bike with a giant basket all over the place and is always wearing spandex shorts.”

Makes it feel like Stars Hollow.

One Response to “Extras in your life movie”
On June 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pm OlderMusicGeek said:

I know exactly what you’re talking about. I always called the no-name people, just because I didn’t know their names. But I’d give names like the side characters on "The Simpsons" have. So instead “squeaky voiced teen”, there’s “guy with the big bag”, “our dustbin digger”, “square dancing neighbor” who became “old lady next door” or when my daughter or I are mad at her, “rude old lady next door”. And there was “neighbor who calls me by my first name”. I go by my middle name and he got some mail with my first name on it, and I never bothered to correct him. - Yeah, I don’t know my neighbors name, it’s sad.

And when I didn’t have a car, there was of course the bus regulars, “lady always in a skirt” - even in the freezing cold, “lady who always complaining about something”, “kid playing his ipod too loud”, “sharp-dressed business man”, “substitute bus lady” - she drove the route one day a week and when our regular driver was gone for who knows what.

Maybe you should do a column or something and see what kind of extras other people have!

A link to the original piece
A link to Brianne Sanchez's blog
A link to the weekly newspaper supplement

CULTURE/SOCIETY: My Father's Day Blog

I don't really have anything deep and personal to say for Dad's Day, so here's a link to all the posts I've done about my daughter.

A link to all the posts I've written about my daughter

CULTURE/SOCIETY: A List of Blogs From Peace Corps Volunteers In The Country Where I Was

Just in case you're interested, an old Peace Corps buddy sent me a link to this page that has links to blogs from Peace Corps volunteers who are now serving in the African country where I lived for a few years. - OlderMusicGeek

Another link to the same page

CULTURE/SOCIETY: Latest "Tweets" From Twitter

figured out how twitter works. last "tweet" pointless cus juice_brianne is not reading/following my tweets! i feel so rejected! :)

stuck using the library computers - and the work computer during break and lunch - to keep up on reading emails and blogs! ugh!

A link to my Twitter page

CULTURE/SOCIETY: My New "Tweets" from Twitter and More Excuses For Not Blogging

Well, I'm still not blogging as my latest tweet from my Twitter account shows...

stupid stomach bug and computer! was sick this weekend so i couldn't take my computer to a friend to fix the slow as molasses internet! 08:56 AM May 12, 2008 from web

If my computer gets fixed this weekend or runs okay for a while, I'll post my Mother's Day blogs. But don't hold your breath waiting!


Oh, here's another "tweet" I put up today...

Well, I guess I should put the "tweet" from juice_brianne that I was responding to...

waiting for my brother to come back because he insists on hooking my TV up for the first time all year. 02:12 PM May 10, 2008

My smartalecky response... - Yes, can you believe it! I gave a smartalecky response! -

@juice_brianne - i thought girls got boyfriends to hook up tv's! why'd you wait all year? 10:04 AM May 12, 2008 from web in reply to juice_brianne

She was smart enough not to reply to it!

A link to my Twitter page

CULTURE/SOCIETY: Why I Haven't Written For So Long And Why Zuhn Thinks Other Bloggers Write

Okay, I know it's been over a month! What can i say? I'm sure my four regular readers are suffering from severe withdraw!

*I stare into the auditorium and wave at The Computer/Music Nerd, Tudor Rose, The "Jamaican" and some guy from Ireland.*

I could give lots of excuses - for instance.. I just went off a medication that I had been taking for 6 months and one of the withdraw symptoms was insomnia, so I was too dead tired to sleep. And my computer is acting up, making my internet connection re-e-e-e-e-eal slow sometimes. Also, I had been working lots of extra hours. Plus, it's finally warm and I got spring fever! - If my slowing down of postings from the blogs I read is any indication, it seems a lot of people have something better to do than sit in front of a computer, now that it is FINALLY warm again!

I could say those things, but I won't!

I am going to try to get back to the grindstone again. I make no promises though. It depends, in part, how my sleep goes - and how busy I am this summer!

But I have started Twitter, so you can keep up with me there. Though I'll probably add my "tweets" here anyway.

In fact, here's my first one - well, i'm finally starting twitter after a couple of years. i broke down because i wanted to respond to my friend's tweets! 12:31 PM May 10, 2008 from web

Funny thing is - I'm having trouble figuring out how to respond to people's tweets!

But in the meantime, here's an old piece by one of the bloggers I read regularly, Zuhn...

oh boy!
Posted on Monday 4 April 2005

Well, in full procrastination mode, I have been scanning through some random blogs. I have discovered three trends. One, blogs written by funny, insightful people usually in the freelance writing/editing business. Two, blogs written by religious freaks out to spread their love for Jesus just in case God got bored and decided to google “God” and happened onto their inane-youth-league touting blog and then God said “Well, obviously a devoted soul, let me put his name down on the guest list to heaven”. And three, blogs written by boring people who tell us about their boring little lives like someone will actually read it, all the while dreaming of their immanent popularity. I think I’m quickly falling into that third category. I hope not.

A link to Zuhn's "oh boy!" post
A link to Zuhn's Vanity Run Amok blog
A link to my Twitter page

HUMOR: The Results of The Name That Tiolet Contest Are In

The results of The Sneeze's Name That Toilet Contest are in. Here's a link. - OlderMusicGeek

best comments -

What a crock of Shatner.
This opens up a realm of possibilities for new Priceline dot com advertisements.
Posted by: FTN at March 3, 2008 01:18 PM

Congrats on the new toilet and its name (I voted for Shatner but preferred the ineligible "iPood"). Still, though, you should have bought this: http://www.airpoo.com/
Posted by: JMK at March 3, 2008 01:14 PM

I really liked The Event Horizon also, but that name is probably more appropriate for a state-of-the-art stainless steel toilet at a science centre. When you sit down it projects stars on the toilet stall walls and tells the story of the origins of the universe, featuring the voice of Morgan Freeman.
Posted by: maija at March 3, 2008 03:12 PM

I have a suggestion to display THE BEST NAME FOR A TOILET EVER.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c36/porcupine_/williamshatner.jpg
Frame it. It's pretty classy.
Posted by: Jenna at March 3, 2008 06:40 PM
I suggest you have the name with Shatner's face etched on the inside of the bowl so you have something to aim at
Posted by: joebuck at March 3, 2008 08:12 PM

If you got this into a shirt.... I would love you more. How about
"I rode the Shatner!"
Posted by: Miggy at March 3, 2008 08:50 PM

a link to the results and all the comments

ENTERTAINMENT: An NPR Interview with One of My Favorite TV Stars

Well, I got this off the NPR blog, In Character, which I strongly recommend that you check out. And it showed up on my NetVibes home page. - OlderMusicGeek

On Air: Cookie Monster

» Hear the 'All Things Considered' radio commentary

Elizabeth Blair led off this blog with a post that confessed her fondness for Cookie Monster. Now her magnificent obsession has made it to the radio -- and to the video.

As part of our In Character explorations, we convinced Cookie Monster to come to NPR's New York studios, where Elizabeth talked to him about the boundaries of his appetites -- and got him to answer a version of the Proust Questionnaire. The video is below, as well as on the story page.

Oh, and you'll definitely want to watch through to the end. Check the expression on Blair's face when Cookie pulls that [spoiler deleted] off the desk to eat it. If you're wondering what she's so alarmed about, I'm guessing it's whether she's going to have to pay for the replacement: Those things run thousands of dollars apiece.

--Trey Graham


A link to the original post

HUMOR: Feeling Lucky?

I got this from Tudor Rose's blog, Tales of a Librarian. Found it funny enough to pass on! - OlderMusicGeek

1. Go to google.com

2. Type in "Find Chuck Norris" into the search bar.

3. Click the "I'm feeling lucky" button.

4. Laugh

5. Rinse.

6. Repeat if necessary.

CULTURE/SOCIETY: A New Study on Blogs and Sex

My girlfriend, The Sassy Witch, sent me this. - OlderMusicGeek.

A South American scientist from Argentina, after a lengthy study, has
discovered that people with insufficient brain and sexual activity read
their blogs with their hand on the mouse.

Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late.

CULTURE/SOCIETY: Searches That Bring Up My Blogs

These are what I considered the 20 strangest entries that brought up my web sites on any search engines. - OlderMusicGeek

20. preschoolers and respecting authority
19. steffen bakery indiana state line
18. Old Fella Branson Missouri
17. Humorous Pictures of Differences in the male and female brains
16. "hindu music" "Indiana Jones"
15. I love you older brother
14. "favorite song" "swallowed a fly" famous person
13. mpeg for servant leadership
12. farting christmas songs
11. clip of the jessie spano freakout
10. mpeg fat hutt
9. urban lore: president bush to bomb canary islands
8. Calphalon pots are they harmful to your health
7. S W FLIGHT ATTENDANT SAYS KENNY CHESNEY NOT GAY
6. "I have bad news" "President" "cherry" "tomato"
5. in the dance off episode zack and jessie "legs" spano were a team. the team name was what?
4. What happens when u pray for a person then that person nose starts to bleed?
3. poem someone wrote conversation "Franklin Roosevelt" Devil written thirties
3. couple seks photo and seks children boys with older women
2. more tickle his pickle
1. lesbian kicked me in the crotch