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March 22, 2016
Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Amish TV Shows There Should Be!
Who are we kidding? We know we all love the Amish. If there were an Amish TV channel we’d binge watch all of the shows on Netflix. Here are ten shows that would be killer in the Amish Nielsen ratings.
10.House of Cards:Inept Jebediah Gruber keeps building his house out of cards and the strong wind off the plains keeps blowing it over. Each week his clumsy friends Levi, Amos, and Paul come over to rebuild while the women-folk churn butter and gossip. Hijinks ensue.
9.Breaking Bad Wind:Miriam...
March 21, 2016
Music Monday! SWMRS
SWMRS? Yes, SWMRS, pronounced “swimmers” is a punk/alternative rock band from Oakland, California. I heard this song on the radio a couple weeks ago and liked it, but I became more intrigued by this band when I heard the drummer, Joey Armstrong, is the 21 year old son of Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, my favorite band ever. It frustrates me to no end that this band won’t spell their name the way it sounds.
Have a great Monday! ~Phil
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March 19, 2016
HindiFest 2016! (aka Fun with Search Terms)
This isn’t really a post about a festival for my Hindi speaking readers, although Holi is coming up this Wednesday. This is my quarterly scholarly examination of some of the more unusual search terms that have brought readers to my blog. So, whenever you’re “Googling” something, keep in mind that someone somewhere is reading it and if you don’t log out of you’re Google account someone will know who you are.
Real sexting conversations to read in Hindi:For the past 12 mont...
March 17, 2016
Throwback Thursday! The Brazilian Dictator Lift
This week I’m going way back for my Throwback Thursday. I first wrote this in March of 2011. Enjoy!
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Honestly, the word Dictator in the title could easily be replaced with “Butt” and I doubt few would argue, although Muammar might have me shot. News broke this week that a Brazilian cosmetic surgeon admitted that in 1995 he performed liposuction on the then 53 year old Muammar Qaddafi and then injected the fat into Qaddafi’s face to remove wrinkles. He also rep...
March 15, 2016
Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Reasons I Should Be The New “Most Interesting Man in the World”
As most of you have heard, Dos Equis is retiring the original Most Interesting Man in the World, played by actor
10. I once visited the Virgin Islands. Now they’re just called The Islands.
9. You know how some camels still have two hum...
March 14, 2016
Music Monday! The Struts
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A few weeks ago I first heard The Struts singleKiss This and immediately loved it. To me it sounded like a super catchy throwback to 80’s pop-rock. Then today when I started to do what passes for research for my blog posts, I found this quote on Wikipedia: “The Struts have been described as “unabashedly over the top retro-fetishist classic rock”, “glamourous and dangerous”, and as “having a chance to spark a real rock revival with their hooky glam sound, which manages to pay trib...
March 10, 2016
Throwback Thursday! Daylight Stupid Time
This is my bi-annual reminder that this weekend in the U.S. we move our clocks forward by an hour and my reminder that it’s stupid. I’ve been posting this since 2006 and will continue to do so until we do away with Daylight Savings Time.
When I’m elected President, or Sexiest Man Alive, whichever comes first, I’m going to pass a law getting rid of Daylight Savings Time. I don’t know if other countries do this. I do know that not all the U.S. states abide by it. Daylight Savings Time was crea...
March 8, 2016
Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Things I Irrationally Love
We all have things that we love more than anyone else seems to right? A particular TV show that for some reason cracks us up no matter how bad it is, or maybe it’s that Pumpkin Spice Latte you look forward to every fall. Some of these things makes us quirky or endearing, hopefully. These are my ten:
10. My hot tub:I have one up at a little family summer cottage. It kills me that I can’t have one at my regular home. I only get to use my hot tub about 5 months out of the year. When I’m there o...
March 7, 2016
Three More Things…
About a year ago I posted Three Thingsand over the last two months that post from last March is suddenly getting a steady stream of views. So, not being one to look a gift horse, or gift blog views, in the mouth I decided I’d write the sequel in hopes of getting more views that I can’t explain. Also, there’s been some idiotic stuff going on in the world lately that I need to make fun of.
Naked Butts aren’t always good:Last weekend in Brazil, cyclists, not all of whom had had a Brazilian, too...
Music Monday! Ghengis Khan?
Yes, Ghengis Khan. the 12 century Mongol dictator. No, he’s not the artist, but the title of a song that has grown on me as it has grown in popularity in the alternative rock world. The band is Miike Snow (pronounced maIk sno). They’re a Swedish trio that has been together since 2007. Two of the members, who prior to forming the band, collaborated as producers and songwriters, actually won a Grammy award for having written Britney Spears 2004 hitToxic.True to their pop music roots this song h...
