Painting

We've been painting like fiends at the new house...The Bride on the power roller and me on details and trim (heh). Normally with enforced tasks such as this I fall quickly into such a pit of apathy that I will run and lie in the middle of the road in hopes of the crushing death-strike of, say, a Schwan's truck. But, corny though it may be, when it's one's own place, one feels differently. Playing music and painting not the end of the world.

Plus I dress up like this for paint clothes*:

* and, yes, you are correct that Paintshirt would make a good twee-pop band name

And I just may at that...

Name redacted and all that, but just now, driving home, I saw, stuck high up by a highway overpass, the following sign, about the size of a realtor's, done with press-on letters:

PRAY FOR

M___ D_____

OAKWOOD ADULTERER

So there's that for tonight's to-do list!

Amazing!

You can't make it up...you know my stupid hypothesis that 1 in 4 deaths in the United States are caused by cars falling off of those trucks that carry cars? Well, just as far out:

New data has revealed that the chances of someone who has lived their entire
life believing that someone else (a parent, close relative or friend) is dead in
turn dying on the day that the thought-dead person is discovered to be alive
stand at nearly 90%. Conversely, chances of the person who had been thought dead
dying on the very day they are discovered to be alive reach as high as 96% and
these two types of deaths account for 80% of all deaths in North America per
annum.

I mean, huh? You can't make that sort of thing up.

Or can you????

Rockdiculous!

Highlights:


* eight zillion people turned out, mostly for Shrug's live album recording, but no matter!


* telling Dan that the Bride and I want to kill him and move to Italy ("that Amanda Knox can party," etc)


* threatening the Bride that "later tonight we will celebrate my body." [sic/sick!]


* having a rock show! Must start doing this all the time! I'm only 50!

Festive, all in all!

Overheard 2

"You know where Tom Cruise slides across the floor in his shirt? - I've been trying to get that song."

Overheard 1

"Now there's a guy I'd like to get in my sights right there..."

[this vis a vis Bin Laden]

Shitty Christopher Guest