Caught!

The BTK has been Caught. The nightmare is over and I'm free to move back to Wichita. Let's see if they can actually get a conviction. This is the town that let the Fager killer walk. I had gone to school with Kelli from Kindergarden. I know it seems like Wichita has even more murders than Baltimore. Well, growing up on the mean streets of Wichita, Kansas is one of the reasons I'm so darn tough.

Downloaded and Ready to Rock

The W-Pod could crush them Downloaded and Ready to Rock (washingtonpost.com): "Downloaded and Ready to Rock
iPod Nights Turn Amateurs Into Digital DJs at D.C. Club"

Crockie: Revised For Additional Humor

"Did you get me a Crock Pot for Valentine's day?" I thought to myself, "Did I leave the Crock Pot in Erica's trunk when I took her car out to get washed.... Yes." Always quick on my feet, "Yes, but I got you something else of course." Note to self: Get something else. I could tell by the tone of her voice that crock pots don't make good Valentine Day's gifts for new mothers. And thus Crockie came into our lives. Perhaps not as anticipated or welcomed as Ally, but Crockie didn't take long to leave his mark. He's got three meals under his belt. Chicken Cacciatore: Outstanding. Lemon Chicken: Failure. And then tonight, Beef Brisket: 10. Erica refused to yield the lamb in the freezer to Crockie. Well, she's on her own with the lamb, because you don't deny Crockie. The road to loserville is not paved with Crock Pots. Trust me. However, I will admit, it has come to this, blogging about Crock Pots, but such is my state of affairs.

More Hunter S. Thompson

I'm sure my experience at the Preakness this year will be similar to this (also a nice commentary on the South and Kentucky Colonels):

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved

This Could Be Worse Than The Last Post

Property 101

Courtesy of Zimm

Courtesy of Eugene

This is rather Absurd.

Why We Suck

Another Loss for KU. That's three in a row. It's tough playing from behind. Down 17 at one point this game. That's the story of the year. Only Simien is a complete player. Langford can only put together one decent half a game and absolutely can't make a free throw to save his life. Giddens has perhaps the worst shot selection of any KU player ever. Miles game has improved all year, but the team is plagued by turnovers. Need to run the table the rest of the way for a shot a number one seed, but with OSU and Missouri on the road, if they're not careful, a three seed is where they're heading. I still like this team alot, but Simien can't do it himself, he's not Danny Manning.

Shocking

The New York Times > AP > National > Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself: "Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself

The only author my father half-heartedly attempted to ban me from reading in high school.

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like ``Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,'' fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.

Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's time in Las Vegas, he is credited with pioneering New Journalism -- or ``gonzo journalism'' -- in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story.

An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson wrote such books as ``Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail'' in 1973 and the collections ``Generation of Swine'' and ``Songs of the Doomed.'' His first ever novel, ``The Rum Diary,'' written in 1959, was first published in 1998.

Other books include ``Hell's Angels'' and ``The Proud Highway.'' His most recent effort was ``Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness.''"

Hitting A Little To Close To Home

I'm pretty sure I've given this exact advice to some of you, but someone pushed me on to Tivo too, you know who you are. From the Onion:

'Get TiVo' Friend's Solution To Everything

SANTA MONICA, CA—According to waiter and aspiring writer Ian Shortridge, his friend Dan Stavers has only one piece of advice: "Get TiVo." "You could program a Season Pass so that you never miss the business report," Stavers said, after Shortridge complained that he couldn't get a mortgage. "I'm telling you, TiVo will change your life. Hey, I was right about the iPod, wasn't I?" Since purchasing a digital-video recorder in 2002, Stavers has urged Shortridge to buy one so he can "spend more time writing instead of sitting through all those commercials," "tape some fitness shows and find out how to get in shape," and "catch some funny movies" to help him get over his father's death.

New Photo Album

Month 1-2 (Feb 13 - March 12): view photos

Mean Streets: Part Deux

LA Times published this one the day after the NY Times, : Bleak Math of Killings Clouds Baltimore's Anti-Crime Effort

BTK Update II

At least two of you have sent me BTK updates, so here's the an Update for the rest of you.

New Comment Feature

Ok, you should now be able to post a comment and leave your name without logging into blogger by selecting the "other" option. Your stupid nicknames should leave you anonymous to the world at-large but allow me to determine who in the hell is leaving these messages.

Etiquette

I'm not sure of the etiquette here, but I'm pretty sure what I'm about to do isn't the way to go about this, but at the risk of reminding all of you who failed to get me a birthday gift, I must inquire about the birthday gift I received in the mail yesterday which did not indicate who it was from. If this was you or possibly you, please e-mail. If this was not you, well you know what to do.

Mean Streets

NY Times takes notice.

Wolfian Panic

Partial text of message sent from President of Company regarding another recent birth: "Ava weighs 5 lbs, 11oz, and so as not to send the company’s mothers into a Wolfian panic, ___ chose not to speculate as to her length, either crown to rump or otherwise."

On a side note, at the Company Christmas Party, _____ and his wife had yet to settle on a name for their daughter referenced above. _____’s wife mentioned she liked the name Ava, but they hadn’t decided. Regretfully, I threw my weight behind _____’s position and shot down the name Ava. Booze, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Congrats to the Pats

Classic SNL

Cowbell

DTD

Colleague: So are you getting enough sleep?
DTD: Not last night.
Colleague: Is that why you are so mean today?
DTD: Nope, just taking care of business.

Ok, I made that last line up. But now it's ready, like a Costanza's, "well the jerk store called and they're out of you." In any event, lack of sleep apparently makes Dave mean (and refer to himself in the third person).