1. I am back from my friend’s wedding in St. John and it was beautiful. It was my first real 100% Jewish wedding and it came with iguanas. Honest. Of course none of them offered to help lift the bride and groom in the chair dance thingy. I sang and danced til I incurred a slight injury. Just a scrape. And some skeeter bites.
2. I posted a little Minnesota recount opinion piece over on The Notorious MySpace Blog. It only has one mild swear, but I try to keep this place clean and WPS. (The swear is @$$, used as part of a hyphenate if that helps any.)
3. Ashleee Simpson’s baby is a boy she’s named “Bronx Mowgli Wentz.” My first reaction, like yours, was “someone should call Child Protective Services.” Then I thought about it and figured if you smell like a steaming diaper filled with urine and feces then “Bronx” kind of works. And being raised by simple, thick-browed animals gets you “Mowgli” fair and square. And I think “Wentz” is the daddy’s name, but I’m going to pronounce it “Wince” for what the whole story makes me do.
4. Did another MySpacer about Sarah Palin’s adventures in Turkey-Slaughterland. No swears at all. Should have posted it here. Emo Phillips calls the video “the perfection of dada in our lifetime.” I don’t argue with Emo about such stuff.
5. The BBC reports that scientists have discovered the remains of the great Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in a cathedral were he worked as a canon. I’ll refrain from the cheap joke about where does a Polish Astronomer work, but I do take a certain glee in imagining this cathedral turning into a Graceland for Science Nerds.
6. There’s now a site out there that will analyze a blog in seconds and tell you about its author. It’s called Typealizer and it says of this site:
“The analysis indicates that the author of http://www.johnjudy.net/ is of the type:
ESTP – The Doers
The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.
The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.”
It also analyzes the parts of the brain at work when The Author blogs. Interestingly when I entered the MySpace Blog the program detected no trace of Idealism or Spirituality at all.
It works!
7. A Burmese comic named Zarganar has been sentenced to 45 years in jail for criticizing the country’s ruling junta. Tough crowd.
8. Finally I learned today that Alan Keyes is suing President-Elect Obama to provide proof that he was born in the US and thus is eligible be President. “Alan Keyes: The Dark Shadow on America’s Skull X-Ray.”
I want him to make babies with Sarah Palin because Homo Sapiens should have a sister species.
I love Alan Keyes and all Republicans.
They’ll keep us funny these next four years!
