Apropos of nothing

I really like the name Fiorello.

This Week and John Boehner

I'm listening to John Boehner on This Week with George Stephanopolous and Boehner is saying, America wants to win in Iraq.

Can anyone tell me what conditions would have to be met for us to declare victory?

How about if we say our goal was to destabilize the region and set off a civil war? WE WON!!! AWESOME!

The Cycle of...

So I've been in a real autumnal funk this season. My creative output has been low and I've been cranky and really dissatisfied by the whole podcasting and blogging thing.

But then I got an iPod and while looking for random videocasts I came across Lynch Land, Liam Lynch's very strange little video show that combines geek and stoner humor with amazing animation and video effects. You can find him on iTunes or at www.liamlynch.net

I am now fully enthused about my goofy little online presence again. Sure, I'll never be another Liam Lynch but none the less, that anyone else is putting out that kind of weirdness, gives me great encouragement. I've gone through my notebooks full of ideas that I couldn't get hammered into shape for the show and now think much of it will be on upcoming Black Tie Martini Club oddcasts.

It feels good to have that oomph back in my creativity and I hope to be entertaining you more soon. In the meantime, I still love any suggestions/requests and I do think that the Halloween Show though essentially a best of, is quite entertaining and the best I've done in a few weeks at least.

good night everybody.

back in the ussr

I have, according to the most recent statistics, more listeners to my podcast in Georgia former Soviet Republic than in Georgia, former slave state.

That hurts me President Carter, it really hurts. After all I've done for you, too!

an afterthought on modern living

As fewer and fewer people go in for the standard get married, change the wife's name and have kids model; the security question, "What's your mother's maiden name?" becomes less and less meaningful.

I feel like something of a clown even asking it when it's the same as the person calling's name.

Help a brother out

What's the funniest name ever for a federal politician? I mean a real historical or serving one not a fictional one.

My Drinking Problem

As I have mentioned before, I don't like the cooler months of the year. In Ohio that's most of the year. So I have attempted to turn to Alcohol. I bought a bottle of wine the other day because it's hard to buy booze in Ohio and I don't like beer. Attempting to use said bottle revealed that I didn't own a bottle opener.

Now, I've bought zillions of bottle openers in my life. It seems like I have to buy one every few months. Perhaps if I moved less often this would be less of an issue but there I was with a full bottle of vino and no opener.

I did, however, have a knife steel. So I figured I could force the cork down into the bottle and extract the boozy goodness that way. What I did not count on was the forces of barometric pressure. When you force a cork down it creates more pressure in the bottle and when the cork finally leaves the neck of the bottle there is a great POP and wine splashes all over your kitchen, your person and the whole area if your apartment is small enough. Mine is.

Tonight I bought another bottle of wine and a bottle opener. Haha! But alas the cork was insanely dry so rather than work like a bottle opener is supposed to, I wound up essentially crumbling the cork out of existence over time. Wine didn't wind up everywhere this time but it did rather commit me to finishing the bottle in one sitting.

If I could just have bought a bottle of Gin and another of Vermouth, this all would've been much much simpler. I honestly don't even know where in Cleveland one can buy vermouth. It's almost like the Beer distributors have colluded with the legislator to force a person to buy beer or wine. It's straight up easier in this town to buy marijuana than get a good martini. That's jut fucked up. As am I. Goodnight everybody.