Each year a mechanical horror claws its way to the surface from the swampy bottoms of the mass graves of dead Union soldiers. With cranks for arms, chain rings for eyes, and teeth made of spokes, the SLAUGHTERAMA comes to terrorize y’all’s neighborhood. Waves of silent deadly terror will crash over the innocent as the [...]
An aide to our very own Jim Webb was arrested the other day for trying to carry a loaded pistol along with 2 loaded ammo clips into the US Senate office building. Maybe someone should let the Capitol Police know that in Virginia, this is perfectly normal, accepted practice.
The penitent man GOES UNDER HIS HOUSE ALL BY HIMSELF!?! This weekend the wife and I decided to start a square foot garden — well it is actually four square feet, but you get the idea. As you may know, plants necessitate water. To get them their needed water someone had to go under the [...]
Today is the anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech down there at St. John’s Church in Richmond, VA. You know the one, about the liberty and such. If I had to guess, I might predict that there may be a reenactment or something going on there, although that may simply come from spending too much [...]
The guy that invented FORTRAN died this month, John Backus. For those of you without the wonderful sublime pleasure of knowing FORTRAN, it was the first high-level programming language ever invented. This means that it was the first one to sort of kind of look like English. If you have actually used it before, you [...]
Now, I don’t normally type headers in all-caps. The woman I’m married to can’t stand it. But if ever a time came when an all-caps title was needed … that time was now (WTF tenses). Seriously, Slaughterama Four. Saturday March 31 on Belle Isle. Slaughterama is the sweetest darn bike festival on the eastern seaboard [...]
We’ve been having an interesting discussion here about Richmond City’s (possibly) unreasonable minimum monthly water bill. To summarize where we are so far: Richmond City residents pay a minimum monthly water bill of 43.55$ regardless of how much water they actually use. The average American uses around 400 cubic feet of water a month (supposedly). [...]
Punchline archives available for the perusing. HEAD FORTH! PERUSE! John, you are the best.
If you missed the show last Wednesday you need to atone, ATONE HARD. While you are thinking of ways to make amends for missing the coolest thing to happen in Richmond this year check out the mp3′s and video: Say it Ain’t So Undone – The Sweater Song
Turns out. If someone is going to mistake me, over here in my Haduken capacities, as a source of press and send me a press release, well, I am going to have to post it. Apparently, and I expect someone more intelligent than I to read the press release and tell me if this is [...]
Saturday, before VT’s disappointing free throw performance, Justin and I met up with some bloggers at the Baja. Good news: none of the bloggers were old skeezy men pretending to be hot young ladies on the internet! I finally met people face-to-face that I had only known on the ol’ intertron — Jon, and Jorge. [...]
My good friend the bearded MattWhite, of various fames, is hosting — what some are calling — the bestest event ever to happen ever. Tonight at The Cous his “amalgamation of saxophones, trombones, trumpet, guitar, bass, and drums” called Fight the Big Bull will cover Weezer’s Blue Album from top to bottom. It should be [...]
VCU wins the CAA tourney advancing to what some may call the big dance. There will be dancing, and it will be big — there may be parachute pants. In the mean time check out this sweet picture of the students on the court:
Last night James Cameron’s The Lost Tomb of Jesus aired on the Discovery Channel. It was followed by a “debate” of sorts hosted by Ted Koppel. In the film Simcha Jacobovici, the director, purports to have found the familial tomb of Jesus — replete with the ossuaries (ie. coffins) of Joseph, Mary, Jesus, and Mary [...]
Recently a release from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research scooped Al Gore on his giant Tennessee mansion that is basically made from the burning carcasses of dinosaurs. In 2k6 he ran up an average monthly electricity bill of 1,200$ and an average monthly gas bill of 1,080$ (so says the i-nets, ymmv). The inventor [...]