les misérables

“This is its own city. Within every city there are people who freeload, who make people’s lives miserable. We just deal with it. We can’t kick them out.” 

- Michael Glaser, a 26-year-old Occupier of Wall Street

I feel ya, buddy. I really, really do. 

doesn't go both ways.

The sexy librarian fetish, that is.

Oh, honey. Honey, no. (And here's the gallery so you can ogle along with the month-by-month.)

hat tip

At the very end of NCII, while we were cleaning up the destruction, THOTpd found a perfect (and hilarious) photo op.

A blogshoot referencing another blogshoot. I love the internet.

BTDT

A rehash from SayUncle. (The comments are the best part)

an apple a day

But TWO apples?? zOMG!!

culture clash

Tonight is the first night of the Oktoberfest in July festival! The Catholic church has games, rides, a little biergarten and plenty of German food - all in the hopes of raising money for the upcoming year. It's a popular event in Willoughby and since it's about a block from our house, we walk down in the evenings for supper. (which sometimes consists solely of the best onion rings in the known universe)

Anyway, I was describing this to a certain Texan recently and discovered that certain foods, well...they don't really translate.

Me: "Mike and I always go to the festival for the schnitzel, but we try to get there early because the line for it is usually so long."

Alan: "What's schnitzel?"

I describe schnitzel.

Alan: "So it's like chicken fried steak?"

Me: "Uhm. Not exactly, but sure...we'll go with that."

(Ask my mother about the time she got Alan to eat his first potato pancake. With applesauce. I have never seen a man look more skeptical in my life.)

what gun for banana?

Large tropical fruit at large after fight with embarrassed gorilla.

(No word on the whereabouts of a certain law enforcement officer.)

of breastaurants bullets & boobs

An explanation of T&A advertising for men:

"These concepts are growing by offering a different level of service and attentiveness. They provide a service to men who may not have a person at home to take care of them in the same way. That's important to a number of people, and it drives them back."

Aww...you poor guys. I'm so sorry. Suddenly gunbunnies make perfect sense now.

postscript: I've decided that I must dine at a Twin Peaks restaurant. Absolutely must. It's imperative. My life will simply not be complete until some waitress asks me, "Do you want the man size or the girl size?" when I order a beer.

sweet dreams

There's a reason housecats aren't as big as German shepherds.

Katie Couric, still unemployed

The media is throwing temper tantrums because Sarah Palin dares to go wherever she wants without notifying them in advance.

But, hey, at least she's not having journalists locked in closets, right?

Rapture

random fear

A home invasion while my nail polish is still wet -  totally ruined manicure AND I'd have to mop the floor!

...thought while painting my nails a light cerulean blue*, hoping the sky takes a hint.


*zOMG, yes! A woman straps a pistol on her hip and paints her fingernails! (& I did the dishes earlier and STILL nothing. No wild west shootouts, no blood in the kitchen, nada. I'm considering baking a banana bread while armed. We'll see how it goes.)

Mr. Crabbypants

Newbius recounts the tale of our run-in with one of Pittsburgh's least friendly denizens.

I had to share the link because I am LOLing now almost as hard as I did that night (at least I believe I was laughing then - it was so loud in that bar I could hardly hear myself think) and because, well, my tshirt is awesome and Iain Harrison - TopShot winner and Crimson Trace rep (thank you for the super awesome Bersa lasergrips!) totally deserves an "eye candy" tag.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Seems Althouse has gone kerflooey due to the Great Blogger Blargle of 2011 (more commonly known as Breda's Mini Vacation) and things being what they are on the internet, some of her fans are convinced that the powers-that-be at Google have some sort of vendetta against her because she is such a powerful conservative blogger.

But...Ann Althouse voted for Obama.

You'd think they'd have had her blog enshrined with its own personal server by now.

gimps with guns...

Don't mess with us because we're more likely to shoot than try to run away.

 (aren't we tough?)

Me & my buddy MikeW from Another Gunblog, who is awesome.

Guest Article Rejection

I had the funniest email exchange just now and I thought I'd share:

Dear Breda,

I am writing to you with a great interest in composing a guest blog for your website. I am a health, safety, and political advocate with a passion for economics and our nation's fiscal responsibility. I believe that under our current administration, budgets have become lopsided in favor of trendy "green" environmental policies. In light of the recent push by the House GOP to curb some of the overzealous EPA regulations, I feel that I could write a compelling article that would be of great interest to the readers of (http://www.thebredafallacy.com/).

Please feel free to email me back if this interests you.

Best Regards,

Scott

NScott.QA@gmail.com

Has this guy even read my blog? I don't understand these emails at ALL. What, exactly, are they trying to accomplish? Are they looking for advertising? I don't get it.

Anyway, I responded with a single word:

No.

And figured that'd be the end of it. I was wrong. 2 minutes later, Scott emails me back with:

You're hot.

Huh. I guess he clicked my link after all. After a momentary WTF, I decided Scott deserved some sort of response. After all, it's not every day that a small town librarian receives such a lovely, well considered compliment from a complete stranger on the internet. (right?) So I wrote back to my new-found penpal/weirdo stalker. I thanked him for the potential blogfodder, saying:

Okay, now THIS I may blog.

I still haven't heard back. Phooey.

the end is...

...not here.

Find out what experts believed would cause TEOTWAWKI on the year you were born.

hide your daughters

Libertarians gone wild!

advice best avoided

via wrongcards, which are somehow oh-so right.

so wrong.

(but I laughed anyway.)

Read this little news item to Mike this morning over bacon:

John Joe Thomas, 28, of the first block of Sunshine Road in Upper Darby, allegedly told police he killed Murray Joseph Seidman, 70, because the older man had made sexual advances and that the Old Testament spelled out stoning as the punishment for homosexuality.

"I stoned Murray with a rock in a sock," Thomas said to police, according to court documents.

His reply:

"In a box? With a fox?"