Monday Funnies

Dilbert

10 January 2009

Jensen Ackles and “Eye of the Tiger”

Supernatural is one of my favorite sci-fi television shows, and one of the lead actors, Jensen Ackles, shows a lighter side to his stage performance, here:

Too cute not to share

Bird song

I was awakened this morning by a most-spirited bird song outside my bedroom window; there were two swallows, and if I didn’t know better I’d think they were having an argument! It made me think of “The Littlest Birds” by The Be Good Tanyas, which I’ve added to my Songspot play list. Happy Saturday!

Keeping busy.

A bit of frivolous, middle-of-the-work-week fun…

Which Super Villain are you?

Kim’s results:

You are Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix 85% Apocalypse 80% Poison Ivy 75% Venom 75% Catwoman 73% Mystique 71% Dr. Doom 70% The Joker 67% Two-Face 67% Magneto 66% Juggernaut 63% Riddler 57% Mr. Freeze 54% Lex Luthor 54% Green Goblin 51% Kingpin 40%

A prime example of emotional extremes: Passion and fury incarnate.

Thanks, Sonofroman, for helping me understand why, when I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be a superhero…who ruled the universe…mwahahahaha!

When the Buffalonians think you’re in trouble…

I’m from Buffalo, NY, which is, admittedly, one of the snowiest places in this country. Whenever the issue of being “snow-savvy” came up amongst my Colorado peers, I’d always test their mettle with stories that began with sentances like, “When I was a young girl I had to walk through 6 feet of snow, and uphill no less, to get to school”, or “Eh, I took my driver’s license test in weather worse than this”…and I’d be telling the truth. I’ve lived through the Blizzards of ’77, ’79, ’85, ’92 and ’01, with wonderful, tall tales to tell about each of one (even if , technically, I was too young to remember any of it).

Well, today, Coloradoans have proven themselves to be made of tougher stuff than I thought, the kind us Buffalonians won’t easily scoff at: I awoke this morning to find that a large, heavy and THICK blanket of snow had landed outside my front door! Reports are rolling in claiming that, in the last 36 hours, over 5 feet fell in various, southern parts of the state, with 2-3 feet falling in much of the remaining Denver metro areas. I could easily see that about three feet had accumulated in my neighborhood alone.

I stayed bunkered in the house for most of the time, only coming out late this afternoon after the snowfall had broken. Through it all I received phone calls of support and emails of concern from family and friends back east–most to express their best wishes, a few to have a good laugh–and I am very grateful for all of it, thank you! But the one I’ll remember the most came from my mom, who called and said:

“I thought you’d like to know, a friend of mine just called to say,

‘Those of us in Buffalo should thank our lucky stars we don’t live in Colorado.’ “

Okay Colorado, this time, you take the prize

The Pawn’s Revenge

While web surfing this evening, I found this really cute comic by artist Tarol Hunt, creator of the Goblins comic series:

I’m getting work done.  Honest.