Pretty sure Gnomedex 6 is sold out. This year I'm taking the Kolchak : The Night Strangler underground Seattle tour. To walk in the footsteps of TSC's favorite actor Darren McGavin ( not to mention, Jo Ann Pflug - woooba wooooo!).
posted by Tom Novak, who is leaving on a jet plane and don't know when he'll be back again ...
Being that I live in the Midwest the only spider I have to watch out for is the Brown Recluse. No Black Widders, fortunately.
It's fairly hard to get bitten by one, although the wound is pretty hideous. Just type "Brown Recluse" into Google Images and you'll see what I mean.
They're pretty hard to find, since they are well, reclusive. They don't build webs, they don't jump, and they aren't hairy. Mostly they just chomp on you.
They're also called the Fiddler Spider, because of the little fiddle on their back. It's so little, though, you really don't want to get that close.
I identify them because they have long skinny legs and that huge abdomen. Then I stomp them.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who wrestles in his dreams with "A Fighting Spider of Mars."
Dang, can't find a picture of the real Injun Joe anywhere.
While She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed and I were on the tour through the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Missouri, the guide told everyone the real story of the villainous Injun Joe, who in Twain's fiction was accidentally sealed in the cave until he starved to death.
Turns out Injun Joe was based on a real live human being, Joe Douglas. Joe was a half-breed and actually one of the good guys. Unfortunately he was hideous looking from a bad case of small pox, plus he had been scalped and covered it up with a red horse-hair wig.
One day Injun Joe asked Twain why he made him the villain, and Twain admitted Joe used to scare the daylights out of all the kids because of the way he looked.
Joe got his revenge, though -- sort of. He lived to be 102 years old, and the only reason he died is because he keeled over from food poisoning after eating a bad lot of his favorite food -- pickled pig's feet.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who felt really, really ill the first time I saw pickled pig's feet.
Heck, after a tough week of fighting government conspiracies, black-oil alien entities, fluke men, and her bosses in Washington, Agent Dana Scully deserves a moment or two of relaxation with a smoke, doncha think?
Posted by Wally Conger, who wonders if Dana picked up the habit from Cigarette Smoking Man.
Who says real friends don't let "Friends" smoke?
Posted by Wally Conger, who cried during the movie The Break-Up. Eight bucks gone forever!
For stogie smokers like myself, this photo, which first appeared in Cigar Aficionado, is iconic.
Posted by Wally Conger, who holds a grudge against Demi for dumping Mr. Willis but still thinks she ROCKS.
SWMBO (She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed) and I went to the IMAX theater and saw Adrenaline Rush: the Science of Risk. It was about parachutists.
Those guys are nuts. The guys jumping out of airplanes were bad enough, but the truly crazy ones were the base jumpers.
Base jumpers jumped from the tops of cliffs, especially fjords in Norway, some of which are over 4000 feet tall.
In one scene five guys just casually walked over the top of the cliff and starting falling. They had big grins on their faces, as if it was the most fun thing in the world.
The film suggested guys who do things like this have a shortage of brain chemicals, so about the only way they can feel good is to do stuff like this. One guy said he jumped seven or eight times a day.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, no thanks, I'm just a great big wuss.
YOU are a comment spammer. Whoopie, we are ALL comment spammers now!
Yes, yes, I know that if you try to leave a comment on this here blogzine, TypeWad, I mean, TypePad will accuse you of being the lowest form of scum-sucking, net-pirating, troll on the web and tell you to contact the "minister of fear" or someone for approval. Well, guess what? I can't comment either. I don't think that anyone can. And for once, I even have SixApart's double-secret, rocket-science, decodeing wave-machine set properly according to their own tutorial. Harumph!
posted by Tom ( scum-sucking, net-pirating troll ) Novak, who says since it broke itself it can darnwell fix itself too. Harumph, Harumph!
Very hot. And very scary.
Posted by Wally Conger, who NEVER uses wire hangers.
posted by Tom Novak, who doesn't know anything about Sam Noir - but guesses he'd fit in around here ... it's new from Image Comics
Does anyone else still remember when Drew Barrymore was the little girl from Spielberg's E.T.? Sheesh!
Posted by Wally Conger, who feels older and older every single day.
This is what Injun Joe looked like after Warner Bros. resurrected him out of the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Mo.
posted by Tom Novak who says, "Omigosh, it's Injun Joe, the Superchief, wooo woooooooooo!"
She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed and I went to Hannibal, Missouri over the weekend. It's Mark Twain's birthplace, for those who don't know.
We did the tour of his house, went on the riverboat, peeked out over Lover's Leap, and did the cave tour.
This is the cave in which Tom and Becky got lost for three days, and it's the one in which Injun Joe got trapped and starved to death.
I liked the cave, but then I like all caves. SWMBO always has a little bit of claustrophobia but she made it through like a trooper.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who found it was the coldest cave in Missouri -- 52 degrees all year round.
Women don't have Adam's apples. Only men do. What does this mean? Nothing good, I'm sure.
There have been rumors Coulter is a hermaphrodite. Could they be true? What else would explain this bump?
Heck, the thing doesn't even look like a woman. Look at that face!
Posted by Bob Wallace, who can only go, ARRRGGGHHH!!!
Va-va-vooooom!
Posted by Wally Conger, who thinks that if Hollywood royalty ever really existed, Audrey Hepburn was its queen.
Here's another alleged "Hollywood loon" for our Smokin' Babes gallery: actress Frances Farmer. Her erratic behavior and alcoholism lost her jobs during the 1940s, and she was at one time institutionalized and treated with insulin shock therapy at a San Fernando Valley (CA) sanitarium for her "paranoid scizophrenia." There are even reports that she was lobotomized. Tragically, Frances' smoking led to esophageal cancer, which killed her in 1970 at the age of 56.
But boy, was she ever yummy!
Posted by Wally Conger, who may like his women dangerous, but c'mon!
Posted by Wally Conger, who understands that Rita was crazy as a loon...but he's always LOVED those crazy ladies!
Sadly, some smokin' babes give smokin' babes a bad name.
Posted by Wally Conger, who's read and enjoyed Atlas Shrugged several times but usually skips over John Galt's 60-page speech.
You've probably heard for years about "smokers' cough" and how smoking cigarettes will give you a raspy (i.e., sexy) voice. Heck, it can kill a singing career, right?
Well, tell that to smoker Celene Dion! This babe smokes! But then, everybody smokes in Las Vegas, and that's where Celene hangs out most of the year, singing exclusively at Caesar's. I was at Caesar's just a couple of weeks ago, in fact, during a trip to visit friends in the area, and Celene has her own gift shop, right alongside the Casino's Coliseum, where she performs. I almost bought a $500 leather jacket with her name on it. Almost.
Posted by Wally Conger, who's not a fan but thinks Celene Dion looks pretty hot when she poses with a Benson & Hedges.
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