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I am happy to announce that I’ve recently become editor in chief for the AlbumArtExchange.com blog. I have been an album art geek for a long time and this project is something that I’m really going to enjoy. I just started publishing today. Check it out.

http://blog.albumartexchange.com

Joe.My.God. posted this photo of the crazy German woman who climbed into the polar bear enclosure at the Berlin Zoo and asked for captions.

My favorite has to be:

This is NOT what you do for a Klondike bar!

Here are some hilarious typos from church bulletins that konagod read about in his local paper. 

Today I had a genuine series of laughs at these grammatical errors and typos found in church bulletins which were featured in the April 8 edition of the paper. I’ll pick just a few of my favorites to share:

This one actually stumped me until I read it twice:

The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.

This one sounds like it was plucked directly from a George Carlin routine:

The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.

And one of my favorites:

Don’t let worry kill you off — let the church help.

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For those of you who may be wondering, I haven’t fallen off the face of the Earth. I’ve been busy working on a new project, Pride of Monterey County Blog.

I have been checking out my favorite blogs. In fact, here’s something that cracked me up at Aberrant Clone.

We take you now to the North Pole, where the misled and ill-informed Santa’s Elves passed Proposition D by the narrowest of margins. The controversial ballot initiative defined the profession of “dentist” as only being performed legally by a human being—not an elf, and outlawed red-nose reindeer from “leaping, jumping, prancing or in any way participating and/or joining in” any reindeer games.

Mean makes misfits. There’s room for everyone in this big ol’ world. Everyone has worth. Everyone has value. That’s the message behind Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer. Didn’t everyone see this claymation classic when they were a kid? I guess not.

I love these “other name” games. This is the first time I’ve seen so many of them listed together.

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME (mother’s & father’s middle names): Fern Charles
2. NASCAR NAME (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad): Ralph “R.J.” Frederick
3. STAR WARS NAME (the first 2 letters of your last name, first 4 letters of your first name): Lifriz
4. DETECTIVE NAME (favorite color, favorite animal): Blue Panda
5. SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you live): John Monterey
6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite alcoholic drink, optionally add “THE” to the beginning): The Green Margarita
7. FLY NAME (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name): Frss
8. GANGSTA NAME (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite cookie): Coffee Toffee
9. ROCK STAR NAME (current pet’s name, current street name): Dante Castanada
10. PORN NAME (1st pet, street you grew up on): Bootsie Canfield

Via konagod

Here are the top searches that bring people to On the Fritz according to Mint:

170 - sarah palin photoshop

128 - Palin Photoshop

20 - sara palin photoshop

17 - sarah palin photo shop

Over 300 people looking for Photoshopped images of Sarah Palin — STILL!

Okay, that’s the last time I do one of these Blogthings quizzes!

Dear Ms. Palin,

Yup, that’s me, Joe Six Pack. I heard you mention my name a few times lately. You seem to think that just because you call me by name and give me that cute little wink that I’ll rush right out and vote Republican on November 4. I guess you don’t know ol’ Joe as well as you think you do—not by a long shot.

First off, although I do enjoy my brewskis, I find it a little condescending of you to keep bringing it up all the time. That’s just not very polite. People are going to think that I have a drinking problem. Plus, there’s so much more to me than this six pack under my arm. I’m a family man, Ms. Palin. I’ve got a whole bunch of people at home who are depending on me to bring home the bacon. Mouths to feed and all that. I work hard for my money. I doubt you ever worked that hard in your whole life, but I won’t make any assumptions. I know as little about you as you do about me.

Here’s one thing you apparently don’t know: it’s getting a whole lot harder to keep putting food on my table. Hell, last month, I couldn’t even afford that six pack, that’s how tough it is. My beer money has turned into gas money, and rent money, and food money. My 401k has taken a serious hit in the last couple of weeks. We’re in the middle of huge economic crisis. I thought I’d better let you know that, too, since I hardly ever hear you mention it. I’ve barely been able to put anything away toward my retirement, what with the high cost of daily living. My nest egg is dwindling away before my eyes and all I hear you yapping about is how Barack Obama “pals around with terrorists”. I guess I’ll be working until the day I die. I hope to God I’ll have a few six packs to comfort me in my old age. It doesn’t look like I’ll have much else.

I’d sure like be able to put my kids through college. They’re awfully smart, and I’m sure they’ll amount to much more than their Joe Six Pack poppa, but the tuition at most colleges is way out of reach for a guy like me. There isn’t much financial assistance for middle class folks, and even the community colleges are getting out of our price range. Since they won’t be getting much higher education, I sure hope there’ll be jobs and affordable housing for my kids and my grandkids. Do you have any ideas about that? I’d sure like to hear them.

I won’t even get into health care expenses. I’ve been needing to go to the doctor for a few things that have been bothering me, but I just can’t afford the high deductable on my lousy medical insurance. My better half and my kids always come first with Joe Six Pack. That’s just the kind of guy I am. It’s too bad I have to make those kinds of choices regarding my health, but what else can I do? I hear you and Mr. McCain want to tax my health benefits, too. I can barely make ends meet now, so I don’t know how that will help me any.

I heard you saying some pretty nasty things about Barack Obama on the TV. Folks at your rallies were shouting “off with his head” and “traitor” and other things that just aren’t appropriate to say in public about a man running for President. Your running-mate, Mr. McCain, he tried to shut them up and he got booed by the crowd. Booed. That’s just wrong. I may be Joe Six Pack, but my momma taught me that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Sure, not many men can best me in a bar fight, but that’s where I leave my potty mouth—in the bar. You should teach your supporters to do the same thing because I won’t have any of that.

Do you know what me and my friends talk about when were sitting out on the back porch with our six packs? Lately, we’ve been talking about the economy. Some of us are afraid we won’t be able to keep our houses. Some of us are worried about losing our jobs. We’re pissed off that fuel prices are so high that we can’t drive our cars or heat our homes. I never thought we’d be scared that the money we’ve saved might just disappear overnight. We sure would appreciate it if you and Mr. McCain would stop the name calling and let us know your plan for fixing this mess.

P.S. It’s the economy, stupid. Even an ignorant, beer drinking bumpkin like me knows that one.

Via Aberrant Clone.

Coming out to family, friends, and coworkers is never easy. I was lucky. I never really had to come out. My biggest problem was accepting my own sexual orientation. My family and friends have always been supportive. My twin brother has been a blessing. My mom was always there for me, too.

Unfortunately, that’s often not the case. Many people live their entire lives in the closet. Some go to extreme measures to hide who they really are.

All I have to say is, “Thanks, brother, for loving me just the way God made me.” 

It is time for this Bunnytude’s RCFMHD Monday. This is where you post a series of random images from your hard drive and link back to Bunnytude. It is kind of like a virtual show-and-tell.

This vintage schoolroom photo cracks me up. Notice the kid in the center who is staring at the camera? He looks like someone who grew up to be a serial killer. He totally ruined a staged candid shot.

Remember Divine? I’m saving this one to make a custom Christmas card one of these years. I’m not sure when this was taken — sometime in the mid-1980s I suppose.

Here’s a funny photo of Robert Conrad with George Takei standing behind him. I’d give $20 to know what Takei was thinking.

Here’s another shot of Takei getting married in California this June (okay, not a random image, but I couldn’t resist). Don’t they look happy?

There a lots of Sarah Palin images on my hard drive right now. This one just cracks me up. It is some kind of Viking fur festival. White people scare me!

I don’t pretend to be up on the latest slang. So, forgive me if this term has been around for awhile. I just came across it on gossip blog DListed. If it is new, I hope it doesn’t catch on. What is wrong with simply saying Jennifer Hudson is in LOVE. Dickmatized? Give me a break!

dickmatized

verb, To describe when your female friend has disappeared from most social events due to the man in her life or makes decisions based on/around the man.

Jennifer Hudson Must Be Dickmatized

Jennifer Hudson is engaged to Punk from “I Love New York.” The girl is an Oscar winner and she’s going to marry a dude who probably had a couple of sword fights with New York. I mean, the dude most likely tossed New York’s salad and licked on her nuts! NO!

JHud’s rep told People: “I can confirm that Jennifer got engaged to her boyfriend David on Friday night in L.A.”

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JHud is either knocked up or she’s extremely dickmatized. I don’t care how good the dick is. He’s had his tongue down New York’s masculine throat! That’s a deal breaker.

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Radical Russ over at Pam’s House Blend has written about John McCain’s new theme song Raisin’ McCain:

Raisin McCain
by: RadicalRuss
Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 14:48:00 PM EDT

I watched the Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin speeches last night, but before I get to it, I just have to laugh at the feeble country-rock song penned by John Rich entitled “Raisin’ McCain”. He performed it last night after all the speechifying:

Well he got shot down in a Vietnam town
Fighting for the red, white and blue
And they locked him up in the Hanoi Hilton
Thinking they could break him in two
He stayed strong, stayed extra long
‘Til they let all the other boys out
Now we’ve got a real man with an American plan
We’re going to put him in the big White House

Well we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain

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Well, I just had to do the obvious P’shop. Right?

Engadget is giving away a Lexmark wireless printer! All you have to do is leave a comment on their blog.

Here’s the scoop:

Win a Lexmark X7675 wireless printer and two cartridges
by Joshua Topolsky, posted Aug 26th 2008 at 8:30PM

 

Love getting things for free? Prefer to do it without robbing your elderly neighbors at gunpoint? Hey, us too. Thankfully, Lexmark is hoping to encourage less robbery — armed or otherwise — by offering up one of their succulent, creative-activity-inspiring X7675 wireless printers. In addition to the color printer / scanner / fax machine / copier / personal shopper, the company is throwing in two XL high-yield ink cartridges, which means two less trips to your local office supply supermart. Interested in taking this handsome fellow home? Read the details below!

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