Swimwear

With the summer beach season quickly approaching, I've decided it's time for some new swimwear. I'm considering this little number, though it might be a bit too "speedo" for me.

What do you think?




tagged: swimsuit, thong, speedo, nude, naked, fashion, humor

Amelie Friday, back by popular demand

All of the avid readers of this blog (well okay, one of the few readers of this blog) are demanding (well, casually inquiring) that Amelie Friday make its triumphant return to Three O'Clock in the Morning.

Well, far be it from me to disappoint (actually, that's what I do best, but do let's proceed).

Here's how it works: I list three things I like and three things I dislike from the previous week. Then, you add your own list in the comments.

Here’s my list for this week:

Things I Like

• Three-day weekends (who doesn't like that???)
• Dinner and drinks on the corporate card
• Boulevard Wheat on the deck at O'Dowd's on a sunny afternoon

Things I Dislike

• When the week-old bag of stinking, rotting, fermented grass clippings breaks open all over my legs as I'm bringing it to the curb the night before trash day.
• corporate reorgs (who doesn't hate that??)
• Having high expectations dashed by mediocre novel writing

Okay, that’s my list for this week. Add your own list of likes/dislikes in the comments section. Or better yet, post them on your blog and let me know so I can link to them. Let's make this a regular thing.

Have a great weekend.

tagged: Amelie, Blogger, corporate, Boulevard Wheat, O'Dowd's, Da Vinci Code

West Side represent, yo

Quick, tie a string around your index finger.

This string is there to remind you to submit a blog post for the Kansas Guild of Bloggers Carnival that will be posted on Monday, May 29.

Here are a few quick guidelines:

• Participating bloggers should be either living in Kansas or should at some time have lived in Kansas.
• Or, participating bloggers should have at some point traveled through, around, or over Kansas.
• Or, participating bloggers should have something to say that would be relevant to people living in Kansas.

That should about cover everyone.

One thing I would like to see more of is bloggers from western Kansas. Recent KGB carnivals have been pretty east-Kansas heavy, so if you know anyone from the West Side, tell them they better represent, yo.

And it always helps when you mention this call for entries on your blog. Feel free to include the submit link as well.

Thanks. Check back Monday for the roundup.

tagged: Kansas, blog, blogger, carnival, KGB

Book Report: Welcome to two years ago

I picked up a copy of an obscure little novel the other day to help pass the time during a long weekend trip to a high school graduation ceremony.

You may or may not have heard of The Da Vinci Code, a quick little read that swept the nation a couple of years ago. The fact that I just picked it up last weekend pretty much makes me the last person in the known universe to read it.

My initial thought after reading the first few chapters was "Hey, they should make a movie out of this."

But seriously, I gotta say, 50 chapters in, I don't get what all the hubbub is about. Sure, it's a good yarn, but I haven't read anything that I would consider controversial.

So the fictional account of the quest for the Holy Grail attacks Christianity. You would think Christianity would be used to this by now. There have only been, what, a dozen or so Holy Grail movies? None of which were as good as the opus by Monty Python.

But then again, it's not like Catholics are lining up to burn embassies over this, so no biggie.

My biggest disappointment is in Dan Brown's writing style. This is the first of Brown's books that I've read. The plot is rife with twists and turns, but the structure the narrative is a bit clipped and full of literary gimmicks.

There are lots of four-paragraph flashbacks, for instance. And did you notice how Brown sets up a really tough situation only to have a character resolve it simply by having flash of intuition?

"Langdon had no idea how they were going to figure out the secret combination. Then suddenly it came to him. The combination was his social security number in reverse."

See what I mean? I dunno, just seems a bit too easy to me.

But still it's a passable novel if not a classic. I'm looking forward to finishing the read, then seeing the movie in a couple of years when it's out on DVD or aired on HBO.

tagged: books, Da Vinci Code, movie, Dan Brown, writing, controversy, culture

"So I nearly got killed today"

Okay, I'm about a month slow in finding this story (thanks Andrew at J4TR), but I still wanted to ask this question:

How much you wanna bet the 'shooter' in this scenario was doing the Robert De Niro Taxi Driver "You talkin' to me" routine in his bathroom mirror --- with LIVE FREAKIN' AMMUNITION!!!

The Anti-Otter was damn lucky to come away with only a splattering of drywall shrapnel.

I think this incident lends support to my theory: Guns don't kill people, jackass numbskulls do.

tagged: gun, shooting, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver, culture

Axl to grind

Speaking of 90's has-beens, I almost missed this story out of New York.

It seems Axl Rose, the sole remaining original member of Guns N' Roses, got his ass kicked by fashion force Tommy Hilfiger in a New York nightclub last weekend.

Ostensibly, the brawl was about Rose moving the drink of Hilfiger's main squeeze. But according to the NYPost, there's more to the story (isn't that always the case?)

"...the combatants have been at odds since Rose started dating Diane O'Connor, the ex-wife of Hilfiger's adopted brother, denim designer Michael H.

One source even went so far as to claim that the Hilfiger brothers had made a "pact" to pummel Rose on sight."

Rose tried to laugh off the incident. But if I were him, I'd be super embarrassed at getting the beat down from glorified tailor. What could be worse than being Tommy' Hilfiger's bitch?

The way I see it, his only recourse is to pull a Tony Soprano and pick a fight with the biggest, baddest bloke at fashion week (assuming he can a big, bad bloke at fashion week).

tagged: Axl Rose, Tommy Hilfiger, New York, has beens, fight, pop+culture, Guns N' Roses

YouTube Tuesday: Canon

This promising young musician has a great career ahead of him if he chooses to focus on classical music.

In the home-brew video below, we see him take on Johann Pachelbel's Canon with aplomb. It's good to see that there is at least one youth whose cultural awareness hasn't been eroded by Xbox and MySpace.

And for those of you who "don't like" classical music, at least give this a chance. It rocks. (And excuse me for trying to class up this joint).



tagged: music, YouTube, video, guitar, classical, Canon, Pachelbel

It blew my mind...

...today when someone said "Pauly Shore is nearly forty."

If you ever think you have wasted your life, just remember that at least you're not Pauly Shore.

Pauly, it's not okay if you're close to 40 and people are still calling you Pauly (unless you're in the mob).

tagged: Pauly Shore, culture, entertainmnet

KGB Carnival for May 22

Thanks to another crazy busy weekend, this week's KGB carnival is a short one. But what it lacks in length, it makes up for in brevity.

Also, there are some damn fine posts, if I do say so my damn self. So enjoy.

• Josh Rosenau is Back from New York at Thoughts from Kansas.
  
  
• John B. thinks about God in a Darwinian cosmos at Blog Meridian.
  
  
• Steven introduces a new love posted at A Heartbeat Away
  
  
• J.D. asks some tough questions about the human genome project at Evolution
  
  
• Kelly Begins Finals Week at Kelly in Kansas.
  
  
• The "D" has an edible complex at What the Deuce?.
  
  
• Thanos laments the death of an offshore drilling plan at Nobless Oblige.

And this week's Honorary KGB blogger goes to...

• Joe Schumacher, who presents Lebanon, Kansas: Cowboy Stencil Capital of the Universe posted at What About the Plastic Animals?
  

Thanks for checking us out. Don't for get to submit your favorite posts of this week for next Monday's KGB roundup.

tagged: Kansas, blog, blogger, carnival, KGB, oil, human genome, Gad, Darwin

Do It!

As Frank Barone would say, "Holy CRAP!!"

It's Friday afternoon already and I haven't put out the call for KGB Blog Carnival submissions.

So remember, all you Kansas bloggers, submit your favorite posts of the week for Monday's KGB roundup.

Help me get the word out by forwarding this invite to any blogger you know who might want to contribute.

And don't forget to check back here Monday (or subscribe to the RSS feed) for the latest update on what Kansans are blogging.

Thanks again everyone. See you on Monday!

tagged: Kansas, blog, blogger, carnival, KGB