threepunchstuff was kind enough to link me to a Salon.com article on the subprime mortgage mess, which quotes my old blog at length. Neato.
The usual furries/cadillac/hip-hop crossover video.
In which my cat goes into the light and gains alien powers
We had two BEAR on a POLE stories last week.
Journalism Notes From All Over
Oh, Orange County Register… …I can’t stay mad at you.

Repeat after me: typos always happen in headlines and captions.
Roger Corman Presents: PINK GUNS!
springheel_jack pointed me to this: Bill O’Reilly, who has been sailing further and further from the shore, reports that gangs of armed lesbians are running amok. Apparently they force homosexuality on hapless victims, some as young as 10 years old! Best quote:
“It’s all over the country,” Wheeler replied. “I mean, you go from New York to California to wherever you want to name, you can see these organizations.” Next came the pink guns. “Now, the other thing, too, that our viewers are going to find very, very interesting, is the fact that they actually carry—some of these groups carry pink pistols,” Wheeler said. “They call themselves the pink-pistol-packing group. And these are lesbians that actually carry pistols. That’s 9-millimeter Glocks. They use these. They commit crimes, and they cause a lot of hurt to a lot of people.”
. And, terror of terrors, THEY’RE RIGHT!
I just bought

One of these: http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-base-00-stdkit.html
I hope it isn’t a dumb idea. I’m fascinated, though.
It was an awfully strange day at Ace Hardware.
Millions Now Living Will Never Sneeze
I saw Ten Commandments Car Sign Lady but didn’t get a very good picture. The guy in front of me at the market was buying two canteloupes and two 12 packs of Dr. Pepper.
Seeing assorted Ruba Rats at Kean Coffee and then Clayton at Alta Coffee, now that’s weird. Ruba has gone goodbye, to be replaced by some combination of nothing at all, a kebab house, and/or a Kwik E Mart.
The orange cat who guards my street zipped past me as I entered the house tonight, saying “EEEERRRP!” I hope there isn’t some Catland Security emergency.
I should do all kinds of stuff early tomorrow. Bet you a dime I won’t.
6.1 in Chiapas?
That can’t be good news.


