How did this happen?

Sometime today or tomorrow, this site will reach 20,000 hits. This is based on the "hit counter" just to the right.

Of course the little "Feedjit" widget shows an average of @ 5-10 a day, which would allow us to reach 20,000 in about February, 2046. These visitors seem to stay between 6 and 19 seconds.

Whatever. I guess if you post wildly random stuff, you'll come up on a lot of searches.

Anyway, thanks to all of you who made this milestone possible.

Lowering the bar...

Due to a profound lack of inspiration, imagination, and originality, I'm reduced to posting funny newspaper clippings.

I'm now the Jay Leno of bloggery.

I think chick was askin' for it...

Bumper Sticker of the day

Back to School, kids!

Come to think of it, my kid has a birthday coming up

Positively 4th Street-Bob Dylan

The master take of "Positively 4th Street" was recorded on July 29, 1965, during the mid-June to early August recording sessions that produced all of the material that appeared on Dylan's 1965 album, Highway 61 Revisited.[8] The song was the last to be attempted that day, with Dylan and a variety of session musicians having successfully recorded master takes of "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" and "Tombstone Blues" earlier.[1][9] The studio band on "Positively 4th Street" featured Robert Gregg (drums), Russ Savakus (bass), Frank Owens (piano), Al Kooper (organ) and Mike Bloomfield (guitar),[10] with the song initially being logged on the studio's official recording session documentation under the working title of "Black Dalli Rue".

This is a cool video.

Also, there WAS a really cool image generator where you could script the cue cards in Bob Dylan's iconic "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video. It was on the Sony/BMG UK website. Sadly it's now disappeaered so I've edited and removed the link.

More Fun With Image Generators

The street where I (should) live.

Jackalope Rider

The legend of the jackalope has bred the rise of many outlandish (and largely tongue-in-cheek) claims as to the creature's habits. For example, it is said to be a hybrid of the pygmy-deer and a species of "killer rabbit". Reportedly, jackalopes are extremely shy unless approached. Legend also has it that female jackalopes can be milked as they sleep belly up and that the milk can be used for a variety of medicinal purposes. It has also been said that the jackalope can convincingly imitate any sound, including the human voice. It uses this ability to elude pursuers, chiefly by using phrases such as "There he goes! That way!" It is said that a jackalope may be caught by putting a flask of whiskey out at night. The jackalope will drink its fill of whiskey and its intoxication will make it easier to hunt. In some parts of the United States it is said that jackalope meat has a taste similar to lobster. However, legend has it that they are dangerous if approached. It has also been said that jackalopes will only breed during electrical storms including hail, explaining its rarity.

Jackalopes are legendary in the U.S. -- attributed to by the New York Times in 1932 to Douglas Herrick (1920–2003) of Douglas, Wyoming, and thus the town was named the "Home of the Jackalope" by the state of Wyoming in 1985. The state of Wyoming trademarked the name in 1965. According to the Douglas Chamber of Commerce, a 1930s hunting trip for jackrabbits led to the idea of a Jackalope. Herrick and his brother had studied taxidermy by mail order as teenagers. When the brothers returned from a hunting trip, Herrick tossed a jackrabbit carcass into the taxidermy shop, which rested beside a pair of deer antlers. The accidental combination of animal forms sparked Douglas Herrick's idea for a jackalope.[2] The first jackalope the brothers put together was sold for $10 to Roy Ball, who displayed it in Douglas' La Bonte Hotel. The mounted head was stolen in 1977.[3] The Douglas Chamber of Commerce has issued thousands of Jackalope Hunting Licenses to tourists. The tags are good for hunting only during official Jackalope season, which occurs for only one day: June 31 (a nonexistent date as June has 30 days), from midnight to 2 AM. The hunter may not have an IQ greater than 72.[4] In 2005, the House of the Wyoming state legislature passed a bill to declare the jackalope the "official mythological creature" of Wyoming, by a vote of 45-12 and referred it to the state Senate, where the bill was indefinitely postponed on 2 March 2005.


http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm

Another Cool Image Generator

This site apparently puts you in an Andy Warhol-type image and makes you look like Hitler.

Click Here

Nashville (Over)Saturated!

 

 

 

I've taken some photos from around Broadway in Nashville and fooled around with oversaturating the colors on Picasa.

 

 

 

This is Minnie Pearl's hat (and Roy Acuff's Suit)in a display case in the Ryman Auditorium.

 

Why didn't I think of that?

Oh,wait...

I'm going to be staying away from Tiki Bob's for a while.

I'm not a tourist, I'm a traveller!

Gone shopping.

You've been warned!

Obamicon of the day: BIKE

Another creation from the obamicon.me website. You can make even the sketchiest characters look iconic. (see image)

"Bring Out Your Dead"

A classic moment from "Monty Python And The Holy Grail".

Beer Poster Generator

Another fun image generator site..

http://www.remixito.com

They have a few fun items. I'm think of a clever "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" question for another of their tools.

Warhol Image Generator

Another image generator I found on the web, It automatically transforms any photo into an Andy Warhol screenprint-type image.

http://www.shadowfire.de/warholizer

The site is German, so you have to be (very slightly) intuitive to use it. The key word is "hochladen"-upload, (or more correctly, highload?)