Monthly Archive September 2004

http://www.philosophy.com
http://www.truth.com
http://www.freedom.com
My God, that’s depressing.

 
-- jimski, September 30, 2004, 8:02 pm

Have you ever taken a really good look at Yoda’s upper arm development?

No wonder he stuck to training; he’s as boneless as a Mcnugget.
That picture is taken from a fun article about demystifying Star Wars at CNN.com, an article in which I also read the following about Yoda:
“We thought, ‘Maybe if we trained a monkey, […]

 
-- jimski, September 30, 2004, 2:46 am

Thanks to Greg, I have been doing some reading this afternoon on the president’s bling. As he mentioned, VH1’s hard-hitting coverage of the 2004 election contest continues this week with “The Fabulous Life: Bush vs. Kerry Bling-Off.” I applaud VH1 (owned by Viacom, also lords of MTV, CBS, Blockbuster, Oprah, Star Trek, BET, The Brady […]

 
-- jimski, September 27, 2004, 7:29 pm

NBC announced Monday that Conan O’Brien will take over from Jay Leno as host of the “Tonight” show.
Hot diggity damn!
Our long national nightmare is over!

 
-- jimski, September 27, 2004, 6:59 pm

Presidential debates in the United States have a relatively short history. The first was not held until 1960, when Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat John Kennedy faced each other on the new medium of television.
…After the Kennedy-Nixon debates, there were no more for another 16 years when Republican President Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter […]

 
-- jimski, September 27, 2004, 5:56 am

(314) 935-8432

 
-- jimski, September 15, 2004, 9:15 pm

KSLU Loses Call Letters to Actual Radio Station

 
-- jimski, September 14, 2004, 9:05 pm

Downtown traffic suffers double whammy
In addition to the massive jam surrounding the Savvis Center, traffic also was snarled on the north side of the Arch grounds in the Laclede’s Landing area due to a report of a suspicious container.
The St. Louis Fire Department’s Haz-Mat team was activated after federal park rangers spotted a swollen Minute […]

 
-- jimski, September 14, 2004, 8:30 pm

Teresa Heinz Kerry is not turning out to be nearly the caffeinated nutbar I was promised.
This whole thing has been disappointing fromthe word ‘Go.’

 
-- jimski, September 14, 2004, 7:05 pm

Most Crimes of Violence and Property Hover at 30-Year Lows
…The department’s statistics differ markedly from those collected by police departments because they are based on a survey of United States residents and include crimes that were not reported.
In fact, only 48 percent of violent crimes and 38 percent of property crimes were reported, according to […]

 
-- jimski, September 13, 2004, 3:40 am

Yesterday, my company’s owner called another meeting about improving effectiveness and product benefits, which is to say a meeting about how we never seem to get done around here.
The meeting was four hours long.
At the beginning of the meeting, a coworker asked him, “Do I need to be in this meeting?”
He replied, “Yes, I would […]

 
-- jimski, September 9, 2004, 8:17 pm

One in Five Germans Wants the Berlin Wall Back

 
-- jimski, September 8, 2004, 5:57 pm

Cheney warns terrorists may hit US if Kerry wins
Do you ever get the feeling that Cheney’s “undisclosed location” is under some kid’s bed?

 
-- jimski, September 8, 2004, 5:56 pm

Am I alone in thinking that Labor Day is the most depressing day of the year?
Anybody else want to proffer another contender? Day after Christmas? 9/11? Whaddya got?
I am just paralyzed today. I’m sucking in lungfuls of this miasma of gloom, and I swear the sunset came an hour earlier today. Just like that.

 
-- jimski, September 7, 2004, 12:17 am

I was reading a blurb online the other day about a new Batman movie currently being filmed in Chicago. (Yes, yes. “Comic book movie spoilers? However did you find those on the internet?” Get it out of your system.) There was a sneak preview of some early footage at a big comic book convention in […]

 
-- jimski, September 4, 2004, 8:09 pm

In his capacity as a loyal subject of God’s anointed king, Dad wants everyone on his mailing list to know that John Kerry is a false prophet. Proof, you say? Well, proof does not get more incontrovertible than this:
Subject: (Fwd: HMMMMMMM !!!!)
HMMMMMM!!!!!! The Lord has a way of revealing those of us who really know […]

 
-- jimski, September 3, 2004, 2:45 pm

Our local “alternative” weekly, the Riverfront Times, has let me down a little more with each passing week since “alternative” came to mean “owned by a large faceless conglomerate, just not Pulitzer.” It gets a little more slick and interchangeable with every other rag in the country every time I look at it. So this […]

 
-- jimski, September 2, 2004, 1:53 pm

As outlandish as they’d like to make it sound, it feels like this is on the cusp of happening every time I go to the movies.

 
-- jimski, September 1, 2004, 7:54 pm