Yeah, I know it's baseball, not football. Sue me!
Thursday, June 29, 2006
More Ren Fest
Pooker and his band of merry men.
Pooker meets the King and Queen.(Erm, that's elephant poop on the right. Yeah.)
Pooker and his new dragon baby, who has been dubbedMost Powerful Dragon.
Ren Fest 2006
So it's that time of year again -- summer, and therefore, the Renaissance Festival.
Here's Daniel with the Captain Jack Sparrow pirate guy.
Here's me feeding a llama, just to piss Ashley off. Word up, Ashley! Plus, it bit me. So that's what I get.
He's lucky the pics still turn out well when he won't sweetly smile at the camera, or I'd find a way to MAKE him smile, dagnabbit!
My valiant son in shining armor.
Evil Rob
I have no idea why he calls himself Evil Rob. Does he look evil? I don't think so.But whatever. I like him, despite the goofy nickname. Anyway, isn't that what
guys live for? Giving one another goofy nicknames? So there you go.
Clark Kent? Hello!!!!!
Monday, June 05, 2006
"There's really no good reason for a dead body to be there."
Ahh, there's really nothing like a massive understatement to get a police investigation off to a good start.
So, imagine you're hiking in Boulder Canyon, making your way along the river up there, and you stumble upon... a decomposing dead body. That's apparently what happened today to some hikers. So this was on the news, naturally, and when they interviewed the sheriff in charge, he says, "We suspect foul play, obviously. There's really no good reason for a dead body to be there."
Really! No good reason! That's what he said.
And if you know me, you know my mind immediately takes that statement, and attempts to refute it. I mean, I can think of loads of reasons why a dead body might be there, in that particular area. Mountain lions abound! And during the news footage, there was this massive brown bear on patrol just across the river from where this operation was taking place -- on the same side of the river where the body was found. Hmm, is it not possible that this same bear got pissed off at this human and fought it to the death? I mean, these things do happen. I think they just don't want to scare people, so they're downplaying the possibility that a demonic bear might have offed a hiker.
No, really, I know and you know that there is very probably no good reason for a dead body to be where this one was found. I just find it interesting that this sheriff felt a need to point that out to us. On further reflection, one assumes he was pressed by the interviewing reporters at the scene and taken in context, in response to a stupid question like, "Do you suspect foul play?" from some idiot with a microphone, he probably got all sarcastic and said, "Obviously we suspect foul play. There's really no good reason for a dead body to be there." And left the "you halfwit" unspoken, because the viewing public pays his salary out of their taxpayer dollars and in some jurisdictions might even vote him into his job, and you can't be calling a reporter a halfwit on television, even if the reporter is a halfwit.
Which, let's face it, he or she probably is.
That is all.
So, imagine you're hiking in Boulder Canyon, making your way along the river up there, and you stumble upon... a decomposing dead body. That's apparently what happened today to some hikers. So this was on the news, naturally, and when they interviewed the sheriff in charge, he says, "We suspect foul play, obviously. There's really no good reason for a dead body to be there."
Really! No good reason! That's what he said.
And if you know me, you know my mind immediately takes that statement, and attempts to refute it. I mean, I can think of loads of reasons why a dead body might be there, in that particular area. Mountain lions abound! And during the news footage, there was this massive brown bear on patrol just across the river from where this operation was taking place -- on the same side of the river where the body was found. Hmm, is it not possible that this same bear got pissed off at this human and fought it to the death? I mean, these things do happen. I think they just don't want to scare people, so they're downplaying the possibility that a demonic bear might have offed a hiker.
No, really, I know and you know that there is very probably no good reason for a dead body to be where this one was found. I just find it interesting that this sheriff felt a need to point that out to us. On further reflection, one assumes he was pressed by the interviewing reporters at the scene and taken in context, in response to a stupid question like, "Do you suspect foul play?" from some idiot with a microphone, he probably got all sarcastic and said, "Obviously we suspect foul play. There's really no good reason for a dead body to be there." And left the "you halfwit" unspoken, because the viewing public pays his salary out of their taxpayer dollars and in some jurisdictions might even vote him into his job, and you can't be calling a reporter a halfwit on television, even if the reporter is a halfwit.
Which, let's face it, he or she probably is.
That is all.
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