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Danno died. I feel sad....

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:51:00 +0000

The Comic Book Catacombs: In Memorium: James MacArthur James MacArthur, who played Det. Danny “Danno” Williams over eleven seasons of the original Hawaii Five-0, has passed away at the age of 72 in Florida. MacArthur was the last original cast member of the long-running CBS crime drama to pass away, after Jack Lord (Det. Steve McGarrett), Kam Fong (Chin Ho Kelly) and Gilbert Lani "Zulu" Kauhi (Kono Kalakaua). A rising stage and screen star prior to his Five-0 casting, James MacArthur found his...

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honesty

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:12:00 +0000

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I MUST...

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:54:00 +0000

...own this. Yes. It exists. A company in Hong Kong called Hot Toys. Did I mention it comes with two sets of hands...?

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mother's day 2010

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:01:00 +0000

mother's day 2010 Originally uploaded by sampasumbflickrs of mothers day....

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favorites

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:14:00 +0000

You can tell a lot about a guy by looking at his Favorites folders. So in the interest of transparency between the two of us, here's mine. Art Art-Artist's Sites Art-Figure Models Art-General Art-Nudes Art-Nudes Photography Art-Pen and Ink Art-Woodworking Auto Renewals Diann Finances Geekery Movies Movies-Art Movies-Asian Movies-Buy/Rent Movies-Exploitation Movies-Horror Movies-Information Movies-Reviews Online media conversion Reading Reading-Books Reading-free ebooks Reading-munseys...

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Why do I love the Internet so much?

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:21:00 +0000

Why indeed. Is it because I can find fantastic treasures of knowledge, like the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, online? No. No. Is it because I can get the latest news, wherever it might be happening in the world, at a moment's notice? No. Of course not. It's because I can go here, and listen to EVERY SINGLE ONE of Burt Ward's "Holy ________, Batman!" quotes, uttered over the course of the entire Batman TV series. Oh, I love the...

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First Letter Frenzy (a Facebook survey)

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:11:00 +0000

Rules: Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real; nothing made up. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your own name for the boy/girl name question. Cheese 'n' Rice! Like readin' a freakin' legal contract.... 1. What is your name: Dan (Dan Dan Bo Ban Fee Fi Fo Fan Ohhhhhhhhh Dan) 2. A four Letter Word: Dick. (The boys NAME, people! sheesh) 3. A boy's Name: Dagwood. (And not just the cartoon guy--It's real....

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today...

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:03:00 +0000

... as I stepped into the shower, I did my usual spider-check: tub--clear. walls--clear. shower curtain--clear. Then I happened to glance up at the ceiling and saw THE SCARIEST SPIDER EVER. It was big as a house. Well, of course, showering with the beast ready to drop onto my unprotected noggin was out of the question. Luckily, I keep a house-sized glass mason jar for just such emergencies. I made a run to the kitchen for the jar and, after a brief scuffle, had the eight...

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today...

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:01:00 +0000

...I am a little bit distressed that my Google Image Search for "charlie brown football" included this result:

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Room for Rent: clock radio, knife, roll of quarters included.

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:03:00 +0000

Excerpt from this story in today's Salt Lake Tribune:A South Salt Lake man allegedly bound his wife, brought her 2-year-old into the room and threatened to kill the child with a dumbbell if she did not confess to an affair he suspected. In charges filed Tuesday, police wrote that the man held the woman captive for three days... choking her with a cable, cutting her hair off with a knife and beating her. The man, 31, allegedly accused the woman of cheating on him and told her it was "time...

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A Soviet Agent Who Moved Among the Hollywood Elite

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:30:00 +0000

With a radio transmitter hidden in her vacuum cleaner and a homey fire burning in the living room to destroy incriminating documents, Elizaveta Mukasei posed for decades as a housewife while pursuing her real job as a Soviet spy. Um. This lady had a spy radio vacuum. How cool is that and where can I get one? I wonder if she had a shoe phone or a pen that fires poison darts.... I also wonder if she burned that fire all summer long and the neighbors wondered why there was smoke in the chimney...

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Getting to know... the latest Facebook survey.

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:32:00 +0000

1. What time did you get up this morning? 6am. Well, the alarm went off at 6. I sat slumped over on the edge of the bed like an abandoned stroke victim until about 6:20. 2. How do you like your steak? I always said medium rare, but it was always too bloody. So then I said medium, but it was STILL usually too bloody. So now I'm thinking of going with medium well.... 3. What was the last movie you saw? [Theatre] Terminator: Salvation - lame collection of cheesy references to the first three...

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Danny's Big Day at the Library

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:04:00 +0000

So I went to the library to check out some books. "Excuse me", I asked. Do you have Craig Ferguson's new memoir, "American on Purpose"? Ms. Moanz - former playmate and current head librarian - looked up, her smoldering eyes meeting mine and then moving lazily down my body: shoulders... chest... stomach.... Her examination apparently blocked by the waist-height checkout counter, she leaned out and across, firm breasts thrust into prominence by her form fitting v-neck sweater, to continue....

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Poland scores high - Hollywood... not so much.

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:22:00 +0000

Found a big bunch of Polish film posters over at WellMedicated.com. Thought they were pretty amazing and wondered how their American counterparts would compare. So I, um, *borrowed* most of the posters from WellMedicated and then searched out corresponding American posters for each film. For a few, I couldn't find an American version so I replaced those with movies of my own choice. Anyway, there ended up being so many images (a hundred) I decided to separate the post into two parts. It...

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My folks went to the Bahamas and all I got was this lousy vulva... er, T-Shirt.

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:16:00 +0000

Can someone please explain to me... ...what this ad has to do with t-shirts?

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His Bite was Outta Site!

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:21:00 +0000

Oh. My. GOSH! Amok Time Toys is releasing a (gasp) BLACULA action figure! ..........I KNOW!.......... And this is not some crappy 6 inch all plastic no articulation figure, either. This is 12 inches of artfully crafted, cloth costume covered, fully articulated beauty. Comes with 3 - count 'em - 3 interchangeable heads - Aristocratic Prince head, Killer Vampire head and Melted By The Sun head. Wow. I. Want. It. Sixty five freaking bucks. Damn crooks. But it's sooo... beautiful! Blacula...

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Why Cigarettes Really Are Good For You

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:31:00 +0000

They help you get the girl.... They make you feel young again.... They help separate fact from fiction.... The more you smoke, the more nice things you have.... They heighten romance.... They complement jewelry.... They bring families together.... Women behave provocatively when you smoke in front of them.... They're good for skin color.... M.A.S.H. Doctors use them to strengthen morale.... Smoking is friendly.... They bring out your...

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The Fifty Things

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:25:00 +0000

01. Who was your last text from? Silly Rabbit; Texts are for kids! 02. Where was your default picture taken? Took it between the car and office, with my handy dandy Snap-O-Matic. 03. Your relationship status? Oh-So-Happily-Married. 04. Have you ever lost a close friend? Apparently not. 05. What is your current mood? ...cautiously upbeat? 06. How many siblings do you have? A Big Brother, a Little Brother and a Little Sister. 07. What are your brother(s)/sister(s) names in birth...

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no no - thank YOU

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:58:00 +0000

It's a wee film called "Merci!" I watched it, and started to laugh. But then I started to cry. Go figure. "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself," Y'know, this is just GOOD. And when a fellow comes across GOOD, he oughta pass it along. Thanks to Karen Bayard for bringing this little gem to my little attention span. And for even more GOOD, since we all suspect we've heard that line about contradicting ourselves before, but can't remember where.... It's from Walt...

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today...

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:29:00 +0000

...i watched The Iron Giant, on my ipod, during the train ride home. When it got to the part where the giant sacrificed himself to stop the missile from blowing up the town, my eyes got all teary. And then I started sniffling. And then I started making little choking-back-sobs-in-my-throat noises. And then the lady across from me looked at me like i was weird or something.I'm the world's nerdiest nerd.

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Sorry, but that's just MESSED up....

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:40:00 +0000

Earthtimes.org Lula blasts archbishop for excommunications over child's abortion Posted on : 2009-03-06 | Author : DPA Rio de Janeiro - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Friday said it was "regrettable" that a Roman Catholic archbishop excommunicated the mother of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion after being raped by her stepfather. Brazilian Archbishop Jose Gomes Sobrinho also excommunicated the doctors who performed the procedure. "As a Christian and a Catholic, I...

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15 Reasons Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:38:00 +0000

I saw this at mentalfloss.com and, being a Fred fan, it touched me.... 15 Reasons Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever By Mangesh Hattikudur - November 7, 2008 1. Even Koko the Gorilla loved him Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a...

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Fat Talk

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:36:00 +0000

This video grabbed me during a recent web search. ....54% of women would rather be hit by a truck than be fat.... (?!!) That's messed.... The video is from a setup called The Reflections Body Image Program. "Fat Talk Free Week" is just one part of a bigger deal. The program was created by TriDelta Sorority and aims to help college-aged women improve their body image. It sponsors an annual week long event, and also provides resources for smaller groups to hold events throughout the year -...

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I thought I would take a moment...

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:57:00 +0000

...to show you my favorite Christmas present EVER. (EV. ER.) Yes... yes it IS a King Kong nightshirt with matching nightcap. And you're thinking - HOW did this happen? WHERE could he possibly have obtained such a marvel? ...Not at the King Kong Store (would that there were such a paradise). Nope, instead, my sweet wife made it for me. Well, she got by with a little help from her friend. Y'know, like the Beatles. Some weeks before Christmas, she snuck my other nightshirt with matching...

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toast goes shopping

noreply@blogger.com (dan) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:17:00 +0000

On Valentine's Day morning, I went to the store to get some breakfast fixings. Paula and I had a hankering for breakfast, but knew all the IHOP type places would have waiting lines a mile long. Of course, Toast wanted to go with me. I said, not this time, but.... When I went out to the car, he was sitting there already buckled in. It's tough to say no to a face like that, so I said okay, you can hold the shopping list. Toast loves taking car rides. He doesn't get to drive since he can't...

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