tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212623822011-12-14T20:43:47.307-05:00jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-77742158629347090792011-03-20T19:50:00.003-04:002011-03-20T20:34:48.854-04:00

This year's St. Patrick's Day in Savannah was beautiful, warm and sunny, but not humid. It's not so every year. Some years it is rainy and cold and every one is sort of gritting their teeth and the people marching in the parade look wet and miserable.A cold rain also makes all the drunks mean.But that was not the case this year. Everyone was happy that I could see, drunk or no.Savannah has a very

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-24881864901732060962010-02-04T21:19:00.014-05:002010-02-04T21:29:47.534-05:00

I was perusing the internet a few months ago (as one does) and I came across this video:[Yes, she does look like a young Emma Watson. Look out! It's Hermione Granger with a machine gun!]Now for folks from outside These United States or just uninterested in guns, the weapon being handled here is the civilian, semi-automatic version of the M-16. It can be purchased at pretty much any gun store or

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-937080122565632572010-01-08T13:47:00.010-05:002010-01-08T14:48:03.255-05:00

Over at Sticky Fingers, Tara has started a meme called "What's Your Favorite Photograph and Why?" and since this is actually a pretty easy post to write, why not?The first one that sprang to my mind is this one:This is F, one of the twins, when she was about 3. She had just spent the past couple of minutes chasing her sister around this gallery space and was pretty well hopped up on lemonade and

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-41594459942819252672009-11-23T10:34:00.020-05:002009-11-23T19:57:18.058-05:00

I don't normally do "slice of life" type posts (yes, I know, I hardly do ANY posts, shutthehellup), and I damn sure am trying to resist the ever-increasing urge to do "getoffmydamnlawnyoudamnkidsandwhatthehellisthatyoucallthatmusic" posts, but for some reason this Adventure in Retailing got to me.So the other night I am in the local Big Box, buying a couple of things, including some wine for the

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-67218948440965481662009-10-19T14:18:00.007-04:002009-10-19T15:01:38.903-04:00

The Internet isn't a series of tubes, it's like a really, really big attic, with a giant garage and storage unit thrown in.Just when you think you've found all of your life on the internet, there's some more.A long, long, LONG, time ago (about 1971 or so) my brother and sister and I were going to summer day camp in Manhattan, where we lived. We were about 8, 7 and 6 years old. Since the YMCA was

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-91947670096329092452009-10-05T20:22:00.021-04:002009-10-06T09:32:05.316-04:00

I don't know why I keep posting these pop-up items instead of cleaning up one of the dozens of items I have in my "drafts" folder, but what the hell...From The Savannah News-Press:Primitive weapons deer season opens SaturdayOctober 5, 2009 - 6:16pmSOCIAL CIRCLE - The week-long primitive weapons deer hunting season begins Saturday, Oct. 10. During primitive weapons season, hunters may use archery

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-54723959655749931252009-09-21T13:17:00.003-04:002009-09-21T13:24:55.371-04:00

Granny gets her drink on:Looks like it's Okoberfest time again.I'm not sure how many beers I would get through at $12 a liter, but it looks like it would be fun, especially if you down a few braus und Schweinshaxe and then take all the amusement rides that turn you upside down repeatedly.6 million people in Munich is probably about the same tourist to resident ratio as the crowd we get at St

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-67534811645683350562009-08-10T15:10:00.010-04:002009-08-10T15:43:34.990-04:00

Someday I will get around to posting about my trip to Coachella 2009 (and, er, 2008) but I came across this great time-lapse of the three days of the festival:The camera is set up stage right on the "Outdoor Theater", which is the second biggest venue at the festival. In the background, far right, behind the geodesic dome is where the Main Stage is.Me and GothMom saw Public Enemy, Lykki Li,

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-50623156064273301312009-08-03T18:03:00.010-04:002009-08-03T19:09:59.545-04:00

My Favorite Blog du Jour: Don't Judge My Hair.It's a collection of all those hairdos trolled from the internet that defy belief. There's some stylistic overlap with Look At This Fucking Hipster and SEXY PEOPLE but not We Have Lasers! or Awkward Family Photos.You could think of it as the FAIL Blog of hair.And they do have a picture of my favorite late-night infomercial hairdo of all time:Since I

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-3369683195516588362009-08-03T13:57:00.002-04:002009-08-03T14:03:34.250-04:00

OK, I am not a Coldplay hater, I have a couple of their CDs and while I do have my limits for mopey top 40, hey what would Baskin-Robins be with only one flavor?However, if you asked pretty much anyone on the planet who would be a good group to cover the Beastie Boys "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)", I think Coldplay would be way, way, waaaaay down the list.(as usual, if the lawyers

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-11317039726970680442009-07-14T12:47:00.007-04:002009-07-14T13:00:56.532-04:00

Just had my lunch of my favorite ramen Nong Shim brand Neoguri (don't know if "neoguri" is the flavor in Korean, or what).I have long been a fan of these ever since I found them in my neighborhood corner store in NYC. When we lived in DC, I was buying a couple of them at our local Korean grocery and the guy at the register felt compelled to warn me about them. "You know these are hot, right?" "

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-83107163461274740912009-07-13T19:23:00.005-04:002009-07-13T19:33:12.076-04:00

Man, I love this video.Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) directed it and I love the way it uses old-school depth perception tricks instead of CGI to fool your eye and put you off balance. I can't even imagine how this got story boarded and figured out in advance.It's also a song that I would not have guessed was the Chemical Brothers, based on other stuff of theirs that I have

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-68451382429918788222009-06-28T19:31:00.008-04:002009-07-07T21:48:45.398-04:00

I am a fan of The Roots, although I have not seen them live (yet). Since they appear to tour all the time, I am hoping to remedy that soon.They performed a new song, "How I Got Over", on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a week or two ago, and it is excellent. It does not break new ground, being a mash up of James Brown call and band response mixed with Curtis Mayfield percussion and horn heavy funk,

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-44337250819857700852009-01-09T12:29:00.003-05:002009-01-09T12:34:56.518-05:00

An interesting article, although I don't usually post this kind of stuff (yeah, I don't post much at all, I know).Excellent quote: "“In a world without AIDS,” says Bernard Lejeune of the Edith Cavell Clinic in Brussels, “women would probably go to Club Med and get laid, and the problem would be solved.”"It will be interesting to see how the Dems and Prez O handle all things reproductive in the

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-9596006222788940192008-11-25T10:27:00.004-05:002008-11-25T10:37:28.850-05:00

OK, I had a fun time explaining the band name "Butthole Surfers" to my 8-year old last night. See what happens when they learn to read album covers?

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-87190166925060791282008-10-24T20:46:00.003-04:002008-10-25T16:55:04.085-04:00

Every so often (or maybe more often than every so often) I have my doubts about my parenting skills. Like, maybe I am giving the kids a bad example by playing video war games or not taking them on some new educational jaunt each weekend or maybe, even, raising my voice a little when they ask me for the fifth time in 48 seconds if they can watch Thomas the Tank Engine now.Then I see something like

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-36902295082181539982008-10-04T23:48:00.000-04:002008-10-04T19:11:08.917-04:00

So one of the songs that has been on repeat lately is "The Rip" by Portishead off their latest (and 10 years in the waiting) album "3".I hate to use the word "haunting" when describing music or movies or any other artistic endeavor, because that word is used to death, but there it is- ghostly Theremin in the background, emotional vocals by Beth Gibbons, mid-song tempo change, it all works.I saw

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-22279333449407167532008-09-06T10:13:00.004-04:002008-09-16T10:02:19.157-04:00

The time waster of the day isPhotoshop Disasters.Yes, folks, with great processing and manipulating power comes great responsibility.20 years ago it took a Scitex that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to move the Pyramids around, these days, any fool with a PC and some free software can give someone the Cats-with-Big-Eyes look.Advertising and the female form seem to provide the most

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-11563806183330306522008-07-30T14:45:00.003-04:002008-09-16T10:02:35.432-04:00

Don't know where I stumbled across this song. I don't remember hearing about the group Datarock anyplace in particular, I think it may have been a random YouTube link or something. In any case, this song Amazon.com Widgetswas released in 2005, so I am not exactly on the musical bleeding edge with this one.In any case, once I heard this song, I couldn't get the little electric piano riff out of

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-143557306406035752008-06-21T12:12:00.008-04:002008-09-16T10:02:35.433-04:00

Evidently Gnarls Barkley and The Violent Femmes are big fans of each other, as heard on Gnarls Barkley's version of Gone Daddy Gone previously.Now the Femmes, one of my favorite bands from my college years, has returned the favor with their version of GB's "Crazy". For now it can only be listened to on their mySpace page (does anyone still go there?) but will be available on iTunes on 6/24. You

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-17311037557653693922008-05-29T11:46:00.002-04:002008-09-16T10:03:21.261-04:00

If I wasn't already going to vote for the guy, I would be voting for him now.(wow, three politcal posts in a row.)

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-4201452964658269492008-05-23T23:52:00.003-04:002008-05-24T00:02:02.030-04:00

What does it say about this country or the state of political discourse when an EX-PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER is the sanest person in the room on this issue? And I don't just mean saner than Pat Buchanan- there's no trick to that.

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-23231304343775559422008-05-08T15:25:00.002-04:002008-10-04T19:11:24.303-04:00

I know, I know, it's like giving out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500, to quote Apocalypse Now, but even though there is such an abundance, a surfeit, a cornucopia (pick your favorite) of dumbasses working for Bush and the Repubs, this guy tops the list in my book.If there were any justice Douglas Feith would be flipping burgers at McDonald's for the rest of his days.No, on second thought

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-3641673453521157352008-05-04T07:34:00.004-04:002008-05-04T08:02:32.104-04:00

I was cruising Tower.com today adding tons of CDs to my wish list, as usual, when I came across this.No clips posted on Tower, so I bop on over to Amazon, where they have them. Unfortunately, meh.Also unfortunately, it is accompanied by barf-inducing cutesy copy like this:"Rockabye Baby! transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. The soothing sounds of the glockenspiel

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-14202283268577582902008-03-16T11:10:00.009-04:002008-09-16T10:03:05.319-04:00

So I sent Greg at Daddytypes some shots of a Porsche 928 wagon (or "4 door sedan" as they prefer) that I saw at the Amelia Island Concours last week.I was curious to see if anyone else had attempted this "dogs and cats sleeping together" project before and found some other Porsche wagons. The first one I found is a 911 shooting brake by ProtosCar (a Swiss design company that works frequently

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-7871151347063712542008-03-03T18:33:00.003-05:002008-03-03T18:43:56.228-05:00

A: When your 4-year old asks you "Daddy, how do you spell "rock and roll"?YEAH!This reminds me of when the first kid was about three and we're cruising around in the car with The Beastie Boys "Sabotage" on the stereo and she says "Daddy, turn it up louder!"YEAH!

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-5031602466934592162008-02-20T12:59:00.004-05:002008-09-16T10:03:29.073-04:00

Roy Scheider died a few days ago, and he was the star of, among other things, the movie All That Jazz, which is what they call a "semi-autobiography" of Bob Fosse, (I think so Fosse could include unpleasant traits of the character representing him but still have deniability that they were his own faults or actual deeds) which made me think of of this Fosse quote which I had written down a while

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-2171576639340429082008-02-03T10:44:00.000-05:002008-02-06T11:11:12.830-05:00

You know how you sometimes see the same word or phrase crop up in multiple, disparate places in the same day or two? That's what this is about. In my younger days, I would have called this "plate o' shrimp", but these damn kids today, they would look at me like I was quoting Al Jolson or something.Word o' the day (or: Fun with the Dictionary)In fact, it's not just a word, it's a concept:Boyzilian

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-14207149843064500192007-12-03T13:05:00.001-05:002008-03-03T18:38:45.106-05:00

They say married people do live longer....But this guy probably is not what the statisticians had in mind [note, sorry about the dead link, I should have cut and pasted the article]His next stop after getting out of the hospital will probably be at the jewelry store to get a "gold medallion so big it keeps the bullets off your back" as the saying goes.

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-50560836938035541232007-12-02T14:00:00.002-05:002008-03-03T18:41:55.817-05:00

What Big Boi of Outkast is doing these days."An adventuresome, exhilarating evening featuring the world-renowned musical artistry of Grammy Award-winning Antwan 'Big Boi', Patton as well as artists of Purple Ribbon Entertainment. Daring, progressive, and soulful, these very talented artists perform a stunning collaborative piece, LIVE on stage with Atlanta Ballet's exquisite dancers. Pure

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-52757977118548280822007-08-14T19:31:00.000-04:002007-08-16T19:47:23.746-04:00

So, goofing around the other day and stumbled over these guys on the internets. Don't know why two guys from Brooklyn would call their band "Project Jenny, Project Jan", but you have to figure we have to be getting close to running out of new band names at this point, kind of like .com domains. Very funny electro dance stuff, sort of like Devo meets Junior Senior meets Justin Timberlake for

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-82587464134913383822007-08-13T20:06:00.000-04:002007-08-14T23:51:52.812-04:00

Yeah, yeah, just another ghost blog, started in haste and ignored at leisure.I swear by Grabthar's Hammer, that I will post more regularly...not that i have set the bar too high, so far.

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-62193312844781368282007-03-13T08:54:00.000-04:002007-03-13T09:57:46.246-04:00

This story about some guy in Germany wrapping his Audi RS6 Avant (station wagon) around a tree has been making the rounds lately. It's one of those "I can't believe the guy walked away from that" things. Driver doesn't know how fast he was going, but said he'd gone faster on that piece of road before. Evidently he walked away from the wreck and called emergency services himself.The other crazy

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-61740558492418260162007-03-04T15:18:00.000-05:002007-03-04T15:34:16.719-05:00

One of my "hobbies", I suppose you could say, is cars. I don't own anything exotic or work on them in my spare time, but I do spend a lot of time reading about them. I also listen to some podcasts like Vinny's Garage.Vinny has a segment of the show called "Take it or Leave it" where he discusses various cars or trucks with people (usually his friends or relatives) and they decide whether they

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-68876433820128905112007-02-21T10:58:00.002-05:002007-03-04T15:22:22.795-05:00

If you have been looking at this blog- and I know there's at least 3 of you, you're probably wondering: when is this slacker going to get around to adding any real posts instead of just relying on widgets and lists?I guess I have put it off long enough, so here is my first real post:.....well, sort of, it will be a kind of a meta-post, since I am mostly thinking about blogging and posting and...

jjdaddyonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262382.post-67748701212462130262007-02-01T15:06:00.000-05:002007-12-02T15:05:50.295-05:00

Hey, folks! I am trying to get my blog up and running, but in the meantime, you can take a look at my links over on the right. Actual posts coming soon!

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