http://ping.fm/p/hDzIv – oh Kansas City, how I do not miss you in the slightest. See what you could be enjoying if you were me right now?

you will never know the joy of watching your husband run around in a t-shirt and some Depends (sans pants) chasing your father around the living room, begging for a hug. Or at least I hope you don’t. Because it’s pretty hilarifying (“hilarifying” courtesy of Grae Drake)

Just saw The Room, and it is every bit the delight everyone says it is. Fun for the whole family, Liiiisssaaaaa.

Next year, everybody is coming to me.

I can haz sip? http://ping.fm/UXKji

Emmy eats a tortilla chip

Emmy has a tortilla chip. Or she is a Spanish dancing bird

Grae shows Baywatch her bikini

“Yes Coast Guard, it IS a new bikini! AND a swim skirt!”

The New Toy

A vintage Pachislo machine (like a slot machine but some element of skill involved, courtesy of Kirk & Selena

Joel Tenenbaum Fights Back.

He's apparently mad as hell. And he's not going to take it anymore.

JoelFightsBack.com tells the tale of Mr. Joel Tenenbaum who is taking on the recording industry. With everything he’s got and then some. Check him out. Just goes to show that if the recording industry pokes at enough people, eventually, it’s going to get poked back. I’ve long said that what major companies fail to understand is that if someone wants something badly enough, they’re going to get it. You can put all the DRM and anti-piracy encoding into the product as you want.  Sooner or later, someone who doesn’t have a lot of money but has a lot of time will figure out how to outsmart your system. It’s the glory of capitalism. And, perhaps more importantly the circumnavigation of  it. As Joel’s brother, Mark, writes on Joel’s blog,

“Gene Simmons of KISS was on a show mentioning how rock and roll has gone down the tubes because of the internet and the music sharing that goes on. Well blame the music industry. Blame the recording companies who charge $30 for a cd and give the artists $2 of it. Joel, you have my support, and the legal team, you definitely have mine as well.”

You have mine as well, Joel.

SEVEN YEAR OLD DENIED Use of Local Library

Dominick Philip denied the right to use the Nazareth Library.

As featured on The Colbert Report: Library DENIES SEVEN YEAR OLD the right to use their library. Are you freaking KIDDING me??? As this article reports, the library has since reinstated Dominick’s ability to use the library through the end of the year. But after Dec. 31, 2009, they will spank him and take away his birthday. Honestly… I suppose I understand the need to relegate people to their own district’s library, but in this case, enforcement of the policy seems pretty disproportionately harsh.