Monday, January 31, 2005

love is...

upon learning that you can use google as a dictionary by entering a search for the word you need defined preceded by “define:” i decided to see what i would get if i asked google to define love. my favorite definition was:

"...a feeling of intense affection, given freely and without restriction. The best way you can show your love is to wag your tail.


Sunday, January 30, 2005

further wanderings...

this weekend i walked around and saw some people...


















some dawgs,




two things that shouldn't really be around during the winter:

a robin,


and a douchebag in shorts (despite near-freezing temperatures)


and finally, a sight that would become the most awesome picture i've ever taken...
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Friday, January 28, 2005

the first rule of purring is...

Obviously Davis's challenge was taken up or the contest would not have made the newspaper. Thomas Proudfit, another English miner, put up a $10 forfeit and each man eventually fought for $50 a side, a respectable enough sum for the day. The fancy rented out a bar-room where they wedged themselves into corners and on top of the bar so all could see. The two men stripped to their breeches, Proudfit slipping the new brogans over his woolen stockings, Davis the same over his cotton stockings. The men shook hands (an old Cornish wrestling tradition) and indicated they were ready to begin under the straightforward rules:

- nothing to cover the legs but breeches;
- no kicking a downed man;
- no kicks above the knee (an automatic forfeiture):
- no grappling; and
- the first to surrender loses.
Davis was the larger and more experienced of the two, but also less agile. Initially, the match was all feinting and dodging until the first kicks began to score in a furious flurry lasting about one minute. When time for the first round was called, both men had whiskey while their bruised and bleeding shins were examined by their seconds. As the fight wore on for eleven more rounds, the men limped on cut and bleeding legs trying to dodge the kicks, their corduroy breeches torn to ribbons below the knees. Finally, Davis refused to toe the mark for the thirteenth round. He was ready to give it up in the tenth, but the spectators jeered him and he kept on for the last two rounds, where Proudfit scored at will with Davis unable to return the favor.

After the match, Davis slumped in a chair while Proudfit danced a jig with a glass of water on his head, then both fighters had their shins attended. Their seconds first washed the fighters' legs, then applied poultices of rotten apples to reduce the inflammation and pain. Davis had to be carried home and Proudfit was said to be not much better off.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

the calm after the storm

a few shots taken on sunday morning, after the big, bad blizzard:











know your audience!

wizard magazine for nerdy boys is a magazine dedicated to comic books, action figures, and related everything in between. it comes wrapped in plastic, which contains the magazine and usually some kind of insert like an advertisement, AOL disk (3 billion hours free!) or promotional trading card. i just picked up this month’s issue and had to chuckle over one of the inserts included therein. between an ad for classic monster figures, and a Moon Knight trading card was an ad selling Proactiv Solution for acne.

Saturday, January 22, 2005

oh, the weather outside is... and so forth.

yorkville, 2 p.m.:










yorkville, 4 p.m.:






yorkville, 10:30 p.m.:







Thursday, January 20, 2005

Happy Inauguration Week!

"HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- High school students heard about "intelligent design" for the first time Tuesday in the Pennsylvania school district that attracted national attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative to the theory of evolution..."

---thanks, dom!

Monday, January 17, 2005

the city of big windy shoulders

hope y'all bear (bare? behr?) with me while i continue playing catch-up. this oughtta be the last post regarding the year that was.

last november, dw and i went to chicago to join the rest of the jsr in celebrating the weddening of

empandadom (aka 'chicagodom' aka 'empandaguanodom')--- who, despite the suspenders, is not a big city lawyer--- to the lovely and talented miss sue... who, uhm, i apparently didn't manage to take a decent picture of all night. heh heh... sorry sue.

while in chi-town, we crashed at dw's sister's friend's digs. which was real close to the jetsons building


and had a view so sweet it made me want to smack my mama


while there, i checked out some public art close to the aquarium,






in millennium park,






and on the roof of some dude's car


i didn't get to see miss ross while she was in town, as i'm sure it would have been quite a show


but in retrospect, it wouldn't have held a candle to the wedding. er, unless miss ross was wearing a t-shirt with two unicorns going at it like slick rick was


and finally, there's no funny caption for this picture of tell tale mike applying chapstick to his girlfriend dawnatella, but i thought it was cute and am including it here for posterity.


Monday, January 10, 2005

it's evolution, baby!

my coworkers and i were having an e-discussion about evolution vs. creationism, when freelancermike made the following quip that i felt was too amusing not to note for posterity:

"it's always the people who seem the least removed from apes that take the greatest exception to the fact that we descended from them."


Friday, January 07, 2005

eat 'em up, yum!

Aitken's handwritten lawsuit contends the rat-eating made his blood pressure rise, resulting in being dizzy and lightheaded -- and vomiting. Because he was disoriented he ran into a doorway, "causing suffering, injury and great pain."

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