Why do you think I left this retro website up for all you curious folks?

I’ll do you one better – I’ll give you something fresh (on this website, not chronologically; it’s like 15 years old): The Phoenix Down catalog is now available right here for your downloading and listening pleasure. You can click on that lovely Phoenix Down logo in the menu to the left (or above if you’re on mobile) to download yourself the songs recorded at Full Well Studio, as well as a couple of older ones from before that time…

If you wanna just stream the music, then here you go:

But anyways, I always think I will be back to write more things and it never actually happens. So take this for now, leave me a hello, and maybe I’ll get back at it in the future…

Thank you to Mark MacLeod for the years of free hosting.

With that being said, I am considering starting something else back up, which I will post on the main yarsh.com domain. I’m just not sure what yet. I mean, I have joshsmithdev.com that I never finished, and joshandtory.com hasn’t been updated since before Elena was born (I’m married with a kid now, btw).

Enjoy a walk down memory lane with all of these funnies, seriousies, and randomsies.

-Josh, er, Yarsh

This is just a note to say that I am planning a site redesign. I have gotten rid of my content at yarsh.com and this blog will be the new home of yarsh.com (retro.yarsh.com will continue to point to this location). Once I have the redesign complete, I will begin at least attempting to post semi-regularly. I will also host some of the old content here, specifically IOTD (funny images around the interwebs) and Looney Bin (personal pictures).

Stay tuned, and thanks to the 3 or 4 of you who just happen to still be subscribed to my RSS feed. It will be worth it.

Eventually.

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So, the company had a Christmas party this year and we were going to do a White Elephant gift exchange. So, I came up with a creative idea for it and began the necessary work to implement it. Then, 3 days before the party, the gift exchange was cancelled. So, since I had already invested a decent amount of time into this gift, I decided not to stop at just 1 gift, but enough for everyone at the party (well, employees at the party). The following is what I came up with – each were framed individually, wrapped, and randomly selected by my coworkers (with the exception of 2)… (and of course, clicky to embiggenate)

Do I make you horny, baby? Yeah!!!

It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic.

Sargeant Yarsh’s one and only Lonely Hearts Club Band

Yarsh… In… SPARTAAAAA!!!!

I look good in a kilt… with Mel Gibson’s pre-alcoholic body…

Bond. Yarsh Bond.

Duuuun dun dun dun Duuuuun… SuperYarsh!!!

YAAAAARRRRRsh

Asps… Very dangerous. You go first.

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DRMTH8R – Dream Theater!

Damn, why didn’t I think of that??? Oh right – because I already had YARSH.

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Seriously, I am so proud of him for doing this. Joining the Army (National Guard) is something that I don’t think I could pull off.

Again, Congrats!

UPDATE: I have received a couple of additional pictures and thought I would share.

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Guyz Nite may have created the awesomest song-tribute to a movie. I present… Die Hard! Note – this song does have a verse about ‘Live Free or Die Hard‘, but it really doesn’t give anything away. Also note – this song does contain some language. Yippi-kay-ay Mother F…

Next, is an oldie but a goodie. Oldie is subjective (it came out a few months ago), but I knew about it then and apparently didn’t blog it. So here is No More Kings‘ sweet song and even sweeter video “Sweep The Leg“. A song based around The Karate Kid. This song is pretty cool, but the best part is that all of the actors (with the exception of the band and a pizza-joint-managing Dennis “Mr. Belding” Haskins) are the same actors that were in the original movie.

[tags]Die Hard Song, Sweep the Leg, Dramatic Chipmunk[/tags]

[tags]Dramatic Chipmunk[/tags]

It’s got an “unconditional lifetime guarantee against defects in workmanship & materials.” Does this menan that I can get a replacement shirt tag for free?

[tags]Haggar, The Q Guarantee, Ironic, Typo[/tags]