The Stuff

My friends and I made it out to Grounds for Sculpture again this year. View a slide show of many of the wonderful sculpture on the grounds. I recommend a visit if you’re in the Hamilton, NJ area.

This poor rat with glandular issues isn’t on the grounds, but in the bathroom of the Rats’ restaurant next to the Grounds.

I do have a lot to be Thankful for. A job (as dreadful as it can be at times), my fish, my keyboards, the people with the noisy dog are moving, and of course great friends and family.

I can’t believe these are the only wacky Thanksgiving images I could find on my hard drives…

And, here’s some corny jokes:

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
- Erma Bombeck

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.
- Johnny Carson

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

The first few episodes of Rock of Love Charm School were kind of weak, but the past few have been fantastic. Here’s today’s drunken scream fest.

Sneak peek at this years Doctor Who Christmas special.

So is it who they say it is “or are they fooling us?”

Update: TODAY IS THE DAY! And I actually got through!

http://www.drpepper.com/freeDrPepper/ seems to be a side hatch of sorts.

So the Guns n’ Roses album is coming out in November, and Dr. Pepper is holding to their promise to give everyone a free Dr. Pepper soda to commemorate this event.

PLANO, Texas, Oct 22, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Don’t cry, Guns N’ Roses fans. The agonizing wait for the 17 years-in-the-making masterpiece Chinese Democracy will finally be over (fingers crossed) on Nov. 23, 2008. Sure, there have been more rumored release dates than the 23 flavors of Dr Pepper, but if Chinese Democracy hits stores as announced today, it’s going to be so easy, easy for every American to get a free Dr Pepper as promised.

“We never thought this day would come,” said Tony Jacobs, vice president of marketing for Dr Pepper. “But now that it’s here all we can say is: The Dr Pepper’s on us.”

Dr Pepper is ready to give out free soda coupons to every American when the album releases on Nov. 23, 2008. If you’re out to get a free Dr Pepper just follow these simple steps:

HOW TO GET YOUR FREE DR PEPPER

1. On the Nov. 23, 2008 release date, go to www.drpepper.com
2. Register your information to receive a coupon for one free 20-oz. Dr Pepper.
3. When your coupon arrives, redeem it wherever Dr Pepper is sold.
4. Drink your Dr Pepper slowly to experience all 23 flavors. Dr’s orders.

Coupons will be available for 24 hours, starting at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 23, 2008. Allow 4-6 weeks for coupon to arrive. Coupons will expire on Feb. 28, 2009. Limit one coupon per person. Full terms and conditions available at www.drpepper.com .

This dog is pretty strange.

I love gift cards — to me they say “I cared enough to not waste your time at the return counter of Macy’s”. The economy is less than healthy and many businesses are going out of business, SO make sure you use your gift cards up while they still got juice on them. Know what I’m sayin’?

Here’s a list of troubled businesses having issues:

Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide closing
Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine’s to close 150 stores
nationwide
Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January
Cache will close all stores
Talbots closing down specialty stores
J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots)
Pacific Sunwear (also owned by Talbots)
GAP closing 85 stores
Footlocker closing 140 stores mo re to close after January
Wickes Furniture closing down
Levitz closing down remaining stores
Bombay closing remaining stores
Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January
Whitehall closing all stores
Piercing Pagoda closing all stores
Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )
Macys to close 9 stores after January
Linens and Things closing all stores
Movie Galley Closing all stores
Pep Boys Closing 33 stores
Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores
JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
Wilson Leather closing down all stores
Sharper Image closing down all stor~s
K B Toys closing 356 stores
Loews to close down some stores
Dillard’s to close some stores

Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?… An obvious satire of the $quad-trillion bailout currently going on. The Onion: still funny in the 21st century.

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

“I love the money fires”!

Who can drink this much alcohol? Not me. That’s a German Shepard sized bottle of booze!

For the first time in my life I wish I was both obese and bald. [adult swim] is holding a Carl casting call; you can audition to play Carl in a live action episode of of the Aquateen Hunger Force show. Apparently Dennis Franz is not available to play the role.

Here’s another British show that you’ll see in America soon enough: James May’s Big Ideas.

James May is one of the three presenters of the hit British car show Top Gear. Top Gear is an amazing show. Top Gear manages to celebrate the most amazing fuel-devouring muscle, exotic, and super cars in an entertaining and often comedic way — all in defiance of high gas and oil prices and “global warming” . It is excess; it is automotive bacchanalia; it is pornography. Co-host Jeremy Clarkson is, after all, the devil himself.

Big Ideas is James May’s penance for the sins of Top Gear. On Big Ideas James explores alternative energy, vehicles and other 21st century ideas, and manages to make them a bit more interesting then they actually are.

Big Ideas will probably come to America to TLC or the Discovery channel. Shaggy, well-fed and middle aged James May will be replaced by 20-something air-heads (alternative skull filling), the screen will be filled with all sorts of pop-up messages, and there will be loads of editing thanks to fear of corporate sponsor reprisals. I hope not, but this is how it usually goes.

In the mean time there are plenty of Big Ideas clips on YouTube. If you’re interested check it out:

James May Interview:

Kite powered energy (really)