Maybe I'm detecting a theme early on this summer. The last two evenings I've seen McCain ads while watching baseball (tonight during a Twins/Indians game, last night during ESPN's Baseball Tonight.) I think its a good place to buy ad time. Baseball viewership tends to skew older, and I have to think McCain is going to do well with older folks in general.
During the summer I watch a lot of baseball, so it should be like having a front row seat for Message McCain.
Hello to all the Crabbers out there.
My name is Rich Horton and I have been asked to lend a hand here at the BCB while the fearless leader is away for a couple days. I thought it sounded like too much fun, so here I am. Some of you might know me from my own blog The Iconic Midwest or from my blogging at The Van Der Galiën Gazette. I promise to be as thoughtless and irresponsible here as I am on my other blogging duties. (Hey, it has gotten me this far.) But I will certainly try to keep everyone entertained.
To that end, I would like to thank the good folks at the HuffPo for providing such idiotic drivel for my very first post here. Aw, guy…you shouldn't have.
Really, you shouldn't have.
Will author J. K. Rowling whack Harry Potter in the final book in the series?
"I wrote the final chapter in something like 1990, so I've known exactly how the series is going to end," she told a chat show on Channel 4 television.
"The final chapter is hidden away although it's now changed very slightly. One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die," Rowling said.
"A price has to be paid, we are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras, do they? They go for the main characters — well, I do."
Asked whether one of the casualties would be Potter himself, Rowling said she had never been tempted to kill off the magician before the finale.
At the same time, she added: "I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, 'Well I'm gonna kill them off because that means there can be no non-author written sequels. So it will end with me and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character'."
The author said she did not want to commit herself either way on Potter's fate, telling interviewers Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan: "I don't want the hate mail, apart from anything else."
One has to wonder which group would send the most hate mail? Those that want Potter to live or those who wish he was dead already!
UPDATE: Exclusive to Blue Crab Boulevard! Our operative from the Magic 8-Ball Photography and Driveway Sealing, Inc. managed to get a day pass from the ward and secured this un-retouched photograph of author J. K. Rowling. I think we can all see where this is leading, can't we?
Today, of course, was Mother's Day. I have been remiss not to have mentioned it before. Happy Mother's Day to any moms who read this blog. All the best from the Crabitat.
About Mother's Day around here. My wife slept in since, for once, she had no kids to run around (which is not at all normal given the kid's many activities). I saved the kid's lives by buying a card and a gift for her from them. I gave her my own card and a gift as well. She spent a lot of time watching funny movies, then suddenly announced that she wanted to go shopping.
At Bass Pro Shops.
So we all packed into the car and toddled off to shop. We bought all sorts of equipment for my youngest daughter who is going to compete in a Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC), some archery gloves for my youngest boy and some shotgun shells for daughter. My wife actually didn't buy a thing for herself other than a drink at the in-store Starbucks. On the way home she asked if there was, by any chance, a twelve step program for Bass Pro Shop-aholics.
Did I marry the most wonderful woman in the world or what?
A British magazine, FHM, polled it's readers and crowned Keira Knightly as the world's sexiest woman. We here at Blue Crab Boulevard don't know if we'd know Keira Knightly if we tripped over her*, however, as is always the case in stories like this, it provides us an opportunity for gratuitous linkage. WARNING - at least one picture at this site is NOT work safe.
*Actually, we would know her, but it sounded better that way!
It looks like The Truth Laid Bear stats are working, at least partially. It actually picked up on links to this site. I still have no clue why Technorati can’t seem to count links at all, though. They still show a zero link count - which is wrong. Anyone familiar enough with Technorati to figure out how they are missing incoming links?
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency lost a long-time employee on Monday when Arthur Winston retired.
How long-time you ask? Well, he’d held the job for more than 75 years. Winston is 100 years old.
His coworkers are sorry to see him go, Winston was well respected.
He has no plans to slow down, though. He will be volunteering to do charity work and plans to explore LA using his bus pass!
Holy smoke, this guy held a job longer than most people live! May your retirement be long and healthy, Mr. Winston!
Ok, after an afternoon spent loading all the old Blogger blog entries onto this new site, I went home and found that I could not log back into the new URL. It simply didn’t exist according to the browser.
Well, it seems there was a bit of a problem propagating the new URL through the mystical world of DNS… I THINK it’s fixed now, though. Leave a comment if you do visit, just so I know it works. Thanks!
Well, I’m trying to get all settled in here. Luckily, Word Press works pretty well as far as importing stuff. I am going to be a while learning all this, though.
Well, having ranted and raved often enough on other people’s Blogs, I decided it was time to give them a fixed target to hit. Hence, my first experiment at actually having my own Blog. I have absolutely no idea whether anyone will ever actually read this or not. Heck - I don’t even know if I have anything useful or original to say that anyone would WANT to read.
This Blog is a work in progress. I do not yet know where it is going or what it will look like in the end.
Gaius Arbo
06-January-2006
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