Worf hoodie lets you pull Klingon ridges over your forehead
Worf hoodie lets you pull Klingon ridges over your forehead.
No – it makes you look like an easily beat-upable DORK.
Diary of a Mad Man
Everything under the sun…
Category: People
November 23, 2012
Amazing strength!
There’s literally NO part of what she is doing that I am capable of. Hell, I don’t think I could even get up ON a Balance Beam.
November 11, 2012
What Remembrance Day means to Canadians
CBC News:
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Canadians are asked to pause in memory of the thousands of men and women who sacrificed their lives in military service.
Remembrance Day is a solemn occasion in Canada and something I, as the son and grandson of members of Canada’s Armed Forces, have great reverence for. A few years ago, I recorded the famous poem, “In Flanders Fields”. You can listen to it here.
October 29, 2012
Further proof I’m getting old…
I saw this picture and my *first* thought was, “You’re not going to be able to shift very well in those heels!”
sigh….
October 21, 2012
How desperate are NHL Hockey Fans?
First of all was this tweet from my friend Sly:
Watching the Canucks/Flames Game 7 from 94 playoffs & I cheered when Bure scored the winning goal. This is what the lockout has done 2 me
— SlyM (@SlyM) October 21, 2012
I’ve knows Sly for more than 20 years – SHE’S NOT KIDDING about cheering a 15+ year old goal. 
Then I read this story.
Deadspin:
Columbus Blue Jackets fans gathered at a bar for a Xbox simulation and the Blue Jackets’ radio announcers showed up to call it.
I shit you not. They even have video….
But, as Deadspin says, ” Lest you think that it’s weird or crazy to spend your Friday watching simulation video game hockey, consider your plan of action if your favorite sport was locked out, and your team’s announcers showed up at your local bar to call a simulation of one of their games. You’d probably stick around, no?”
Yeah…that would be all kinds of cool…
October 21, 2012
How spoiled is this German Shepherd!?
This is Major, the sweetest German Shepherd in the world, being fed. And not just being fed – being fed FROM A FORK!
He owns Michel and Hannamari and he has trained Hannamari to feed him like this. He’s an awfully smart dog.
October 15, 2012
‘Firefly’: First look at Science Channel’s reunion special
EW:
The Firefly 10th anniversary special is inching closer to air and EW.com has the exclusive first clip from the Science Channel program’s roundtable discussion.The Science Channel’s Browncoats Unite special airs Nov. 11 at 10 p.m. The one-hour program taped this summer in a hotel in San Diego when the cast was on hand for SDCC.
Well, I know where I’ll be on November 11th at 10pm…
October 11, 2012
‘Made in Jersey’ is First Casualty of TV Season
The New York Observer reports that CBS is canceling this show after only two episodes. I find this very surprising. Don’t get me wrong – it wasn’t a very good show. But it wasn’t so bad, IMO that it couldn’t survive in the TV dead zone that is Friday nights.
The funniest part is one of the comments on the above site:
This absurd show was yet another part of the media’s campaign to smear Italian-Americans.
Dude…you give the show *way* too much credit. It certainly wasn’t good enough to smear anyone…
October 10, 2012
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
I watched the documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” over the weekend. It’s available via Netflix. It’s a very interesting (if slowly paced) movie about one man, 86 year old Sushi Master Jiro Ono, and his driving passion to create the world’s greatest sushi.
The care Jiro takes in preparation of his sushi is remarkable. The presentation to the customer is simplicity itself. The family dynamic of the restaurant is very interesting.
I applaud him for his remarkable life and effort but I’m never going to eat at his restaurant.
Don’t get me wrong – I LOVE sushi. I can eat a LOT of sushi. But Ono’s Michelin three star rated restaurant is in the basement of a building in the Ginza section of Tokyo – I’m unlikely to ever get back to Tokyo as much as I would love to.
Sukiyabashi Jiro also requires reservations be made three months in advance (that may partly be because the restaurant only seats 10 people at the sushi bar). And, as many people point out, the cost of the meal starts at $300 per person and rapidly goes up from there.
I’m not a chepskate but I find it hard to believe that even the greatest sushi in the world is worth that kind of money.
But what makes it worse is the speed at which you are expected to eat your meal. Every article I’ve seen on the restuarant always remarks on the 15-20 minutes you are “allowed” to eat your meal before you are moved on for the next customers.
SCREW THAT.
I will take my own damn sweet time eating bad steak at a Chili’s – and I have. I will take my own damn sweet time eating shepherd’s pie at my local pub – and I have. I will take my own damn sweet time eating a 10 course meal at one of the most expensive restaurants in Las Vegas – and I have.
I sure as hell won’t be made to rush and eat faster by an 86 year old Japanese man who just took $300+ dollars from me and each of my friends for a 20 minute meal.
If I want “fast” food, Tokyo has all kinds of MacDonalds.
October 9, 2012
Christina Hendricks: Don’t Call Me “Full-Figured”
iVillage:
During an interview Down Under, the Mad Men star shuts down a reporter who used a poor choice of words to describe the star’s famous curves
See if you can spot the moment in the video where Christina Hendricks thinks to herself, “Why, you skinny little bitch….”
