8 Suit Deck of Cards

On the 4 hour car ride home from our vacation in the little finger area of the magic mitten that is Michigan, my son came up with the idea to have a deck of cards with an extra suit so that more people could play just about every card game there is.  I told him that if we scoured the internet when we got home  I bet we could find one already out there.  Sure enough we found:   http://8suits.com/

In addition to the four regular suits they have stars, moons, teardrops and clovers.  We ordered a deck on the spot and in a couple of days I should be playing 6 handed Euchre!  (I know, you could actually play 8 handed Euchre but I doubt I could get 8 people I know to tolerate a go of it.)

Jimi Hendrix Incense Burner

   The perfect way to add more Jimi Hendrix to your decor.  Order it here:

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The Computer in “The Fly”

The computer in the 1986 movie “The Fly” didn’t have a mouse, internet connection or even decent graphics yet it was a milestone of computers in the movies.  Up until then most computers were depicted as super intelligent machines with personalities that you interfaced with by sitting down and talking to them.  Like HAL 9000 in “2001 Space Odyssey” or even “Mother” in “Alien”.  In “The Fly” Jeff Goldblum’s character Seth Brundle not only types most commands in and just occasionally uses  a rudimentary (and realistic) voice recognition interface for basic commands like “save file” he even states that computers are essentially dumb.  That’s why the steak he transports tastes synthetic and it isn’t until he re-programs it does it understand the “magic” of the flesh.    The one glaring error in “The Fly” however is that when the computer gets “confused” by having two sets of genetic codes, Seth’s and the fly’s, it adlibs and combines the two together when we all know from our perspective of the future that it would have simply locked up and Seth would have had to get out and hit ctrl-alt-delete to have another go at it.

Its Fun to Make Up Your Own Yogi Berra Quotes

  “It ain’t over till I flush the toilet.”

  “If you come to a fork in the road, stick it in Hanna-Barbera’s ass!”

  “Deja Vu is what it used to be.”

  “No one goes there anymore because its too crowded.  Also it sucks.”

   Try it, its fun and relaxing!

Sara Ray Art Studios

  A Blonde bombshell in a leopard bikini and high heels floats above a crashed 1953 Chevrolet, she holds with her the tools of a disaster a vintage revolver, a butterfly knife, chromed brass knuckles, a pearl handled switchblade and a smile.

Check out more wicked awesome art from Sara Ray:   http://www.sararayart.com/Home_Page.html

  My favorites are the ones with crashed cars and wild guitars.

Parachuting Trees

   This is a drawing that I have drawn over and over again periodically over the last twenty years.  I’m not sure what it means but in some way I find it very peaceful and at the same time a little frightening to imagine looking up into a pleasant blue sky and see it filled with trees parachuting down.    I once wrote a story about the world being terrozied by Parachuting Trees sent by a well meaning alien race that came crashing down to Earth like little bombs dropping out of the sky.  Imagine a tree landing on your roof and several trees landing all over your neighborhood.  I think it would make a good movie if I could some how work Zombie trees into the plot.

Would You Pay for Bare Feet?

Mine would have to be custom made because my second toe is longer than my big toe

   A guy at my work actually paid $80 for these, I got my flesh colored ones for free and they never get too small.

Babe Ruth with Spiderman Undies

Extremely rare photo of Babe Ruth with Spiderman Undies

 

  I paid a lot of cash for this unretouched photo of Babe Ruth sporting Spiderman undies.  I’ve got a certificate of authentication to prove that this photo is real.  Babe Ruth was a huge Spiderman fan after he did a bit of time traveling thanks to a little known Thomas Edison invention.  In fact he’s sitting with me right now as I type this and I’m going to give the keyboard over to him now:  This is Babe Ruth and I never wore these underwear help me I am really confused, this baconpie guy is scaring me, but if I try real hard to ignore him he’s not so bad.

Its Lucky Underwear Day!!

Me wearing my lucky Spiderman underwear while I was getting the idea for Windows 7

  My theory is that nothing really bad can happen to you if you are wearing a ridiculous pair of underwear.  So if I’m gonna have a rough day out there, I’m gonna have some crazy stuff happening under there.   Mandatory Lucky underwear day happens about once a month and today is the day!

Charonaut: The Perfect Party Guest

  Charo would be the life of the party, but you would have a much more interesting conversation with an astronaut.  Why not combine the two to form the perfect party guest of all times bar none?  Charo is actually quite an accomplished flamenco guitarist which reminds me of the sad fact that no one has ever played guitar on the moon.