Archive for March, 2007

Ridin’ Dirty at the Drag Strip

My friend Charlie shared this gem with me:

Weird Al in Kettering

Just got this week’s email from Fraze announcing a couple more shows for this summer. Weird Al on June 29th, awesome…Kenny G on July 20th, not so much.

Lantern’s Unusual Tastes

Beyond the water hose and any sort of paper product he can eat, Lantern has further refined his tastes to now include a spare network cable laying in the office.

Big Butter Jesus, Revisited

One of Laura’s co-workers had this sent to her:

I’m pretty fond of the Big Boy photoshop job.

Pup’s Up, Hose Down

While I worked in the garage this afternoon, and Laura worked in the back yard, Lantern, our now 11-month old mutt pup we adopted in December, elected to slay the vicious water hose snake (of the cheap, easily kinked species) that has laid coiled behind the garage since being replaced by better hoses last fall.
Lantern [...]

I’ve referenced on a couple sites and forums that I live in Monroe, OH, home of “Big Butter Jesus.” That would be the garish statue at a megachurch alongside I-75 immortalized in the Heywood Banks song heard on Bob & Tom and elsewhere.
Before the song, the prevailing name around Cincinnati was “Touchdown Jesus,” which [...]

NAIAS ‘07 Pics

A couple months after the fact, but my pics from the North American International Auto Show have been uploaded.