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That's one creative "Cake Boss."

This is far more about ignorance than it is political, but is it ever funny. I still remember it, so I looked for it ...

Interesting day, by my boring standards, anyway ... Friday, on a two-lane country road: Last Buick LaCrosse with the smaller, blacked out oval grille, so probably 2007. It was silver. It was immaculate. I thought the grille was weak, but having it blacked out is a nicer treatment. I wish they had partially blacked out mine instead of all the shiny metalized plastic bling. Right behind it ... a Monte Carlo LT coupe of about the same year. It was also silver. It was also immaculate. Good to see those were in it for the long haul. In two different country bumpkin driveways, a red Alero sedan and a silver Alero sedan. Both were spotless and shiny. It's nice to see that these little 2.4 Ecotec sleds have been so reliable for people, lasting some 17+ years, when some early Mercedes 190 sedans turned out to be problematic throw-away cars. Again, I once had a rented Alero coupe out of Spokane Airport and also drove it into British Columbia and Alberta, and it was fine, but I never would have thought it would have made for such a durable vehicle.

^ Haha. Like a Southerner in Atlanta once philosophically said to me, "Every pot has its lid."

Great! Is this a "shaken, not stirred" sort of dude? J/K

How did I miss this? It again reinforces the notion of what it's like to deal with the "don't know how much they don't know" crowd.

I like the symmetry here, David.

Q: What's the first thing a sorority girl does in the morning? A: She goes home.

Some incredible culture in L.A. decades later with the Getty museum complex and so much more. But, yes, you are right in that the culture in Los Angeles, and South Florida, appears to be conspicuous consumption and flash over REAL culture. I remember that it was often annoying. @oldshurst442 It would be interesting to have the full list of who's been on the casting couch. The only person I can recall who has been brazen about admitting it is Madonna, now out of the spotlight and living in Portugal, I believe. She fared far better than most University of Michigan dropouts. And, even though she's Italian, I have always disliked her.

This is an old joke, and far less applicable as the years have gone by ... Q: What is the difference between Los Angeles and yogurt? A: Yogurt has culture.

The Wilson sisters are touted as Seattleites, and they are/were. But I believe they were born in San Diego. Thinking "Dreamboat Annie." "Smooth Operator" might be my favorite Sade song because I heard it while crossing the GW from NYC to NJ, but this one is fairly slick.

Life is definitely not fair. There are so many examples of this but one that really disturbs me is that a person who survived the 9/11 WTC attack died 2 months later when that flight between JFK Airport in NYC and somewhere in Latin America crashed in the borough of Queens. Clearly, horrible for everyone in both events, but you want to cheer on a person who survived 9/11 to embrace life going forward after such trauma. On a better note, it is very cool to open the mailbox and have a $6.99 Great Clips coupon staring at you right about when you are thinking of getting a haircut.

These are the toughest of people to deal with ... the ones who think they know everything but really "don't know how much they don't know" ... a keeper of an expression!

Along with Pit Bulls, Presa Canarios, and Rottweilers, these make the list of challenging breeds to own. I was actually surprised to see German Shepherds on the list, given that they are part of the working dog and herding dog family. However, the write-ups go on to say that they are very smart and will finally have had enough if an owner were to mistreat them and can turn. Most German Shepherds I've been around aren't the friendliest dogs. And, since it looks like and is a close kin of the German Shepherd, the Belgian Shepherd (comes in about 4 different breed name variants, which I have forgotten or can't readily spell) gets the same sort of marks. They are also used for critical and important work, are aloof, and aren't recommended for families with young kids, since they won't be accommodating when rug rats start pulling their tails, playing with their ears, and all that.

I only had a dog as a teen, providing 12 years of joy through college and entering the workforce. She was 35 pound, natural dock tailed, blue merle Australian Shepherd. (This is obviously a faded photo.) She far exceeded what I could have hoped for in being a smart, fun, and loyal pet. Is it any wonder I'm stuck on the idea of getting a Miniature Australian Shepherd? Also, there is no dog versus cat scenario for me. I prefer a dog but there are a fair number of cats with great personalities out there.

We can only wonder whatever became of the likes of King Harvest and even the Silver Convention, seen here ... I randomly thought of this song when I was in a cool bird sanctuary venue, complete with a few alligators, along the Gulf last month. Their thrusting motions with their elbows during their routine are odd and/or dated. Ulterior motive?

J'ai vraiment besoin d'aller au Quebec. Mais je suis triste: maintenant nous ne peuvent pas entrer.

What Warren Buffett* says is a major key to success ... (2 t's, as he is not AYCE) I was surprised to see this, but it makes perfect sense: the ability to say NO. Just think how much more time and money most of us might have saved had we done more of this.

It would. It has an identifiable enough shape for a waffle! Interestingly enough, Michigan's UP, on its own, is a big time logo. Everywhere you go when there, you see the outline of just the UP ... on t-shirts, coffee mugs, billboards, etc. etc. As for the "Four Corners" states, not so much ...

I like those! When you go to those chain hotels in the Lone Star state, they have self-serve waffle makers that produce waffles shaped like the state of Texas! Only the strawberries for me. Add syrup, too. Creative, even though Texas can be self-regarding in many ways. But it lends itself to being a waffle, unlike California and Florida!

It can be tough! But, damn, the Puget Sound area, with the wall to wall evergreen, looks so damn nice when covered in snow, even though it doesn't function well. Also, with enough curvy two-lane roads and hills in the burbs, the black ice sort of sneaks up on you. If a person can walk to a local independent coffeehouse that's open, that could be good. Thankfully, this sort of weather in the Puget Sound Basin is a rare occurrence.

Artists and illustrators can't let go of this. They fail to grasp that Jesus Christ was a man from the Middle East. Instead, we have become conditioned to believe that he looked like someone who may have attended today's Burning Man festival.

There was one MAD magazine cover when I was young that everyone in my house laughed at, and a copy of it was even purchased. It had the MAD magazine guy with the curly red hair and an irreverent prank involving a cartoon of Sophia Loren and her cleavage. My parents even laughed at it. I looked for that image to no avail. But I found this one. This is a little different. I've seen this a lot as of late. (That's Jayne Mansfield.) It's difficult to infer what the possibilities might be here. Main cravings - it's kind of perplexing when they become food, travel (even if sitting on an airplane and playing with the video monitor), and sleep ... a lot of quality sleep.

Really? It seems more difficult to "get off" in general with the passage of time.

Most people would not construe that comment as particularly inflammatory. It was a blighted casino that wasn't cutting it. Atlantic City, in general, doesn't measure up to what it should have been. Implosions are rare and complex events, requiring a lot of planning and with no room for error, so they're sort of nifty in a weird way. I've only seen one and it was that of the Kingdome in Seattle in 2000. Too bad, because I liked the Kingdome. Closer to your turf, the implosion of some stadium, possibly where the Eagles once played ... not sure, on the south side of Philly along the Delaware River was one of the more interesting ones, with the collapse following the circular form of the stadium. And you took my last comment incorrectly. It applies to a lot of people who react the same way when they can't back up anything discussing a weighty topic. So, in addition to you, it would be some ridiculous and not very enlightened friends of my late mom, a few clueless neighbors of mine, etc. I agree, Olds. It's that it's done consistently, as is the situation with the confused vote, and with no added commentary, which doesn't have to be present, but NEVER is. And it's done in a little kid, "cat ate the canary," smart-alecky sort of way.