I’ve decided to embrace blogging 2007 style. No categories. No structure. No theme on which to ponder. If I want to post something random, I will. If I post something with substance, great. If I post something silly, even better. Quotes, conversations, pictures, videos - whatever. The best thing is this: no expectations.

So I bid farewell to this site. I will leave it up for a time, but someday expect it to disappear.

Feel free to join me over at my new home (and update your feed, too): j.tumblr.com. It should be fun. Or not. Whatever.

UPDATE: you can also find me at 50mm to mediocrity.

1) snowshoeing. Basically hiking on snow, snowshoeing is something I’ve never done and would like to try.

2) cross-country skiing. Ditto.

The only problem I have is simple: I have no idea how to even begin to get these two things done. Any suggestions?

We had turkey for Thanksgiving. And stuffing. But we took the stuffing and baked it in the oven. It was crunchy. We also had mashed potatoes and corn. I put the corn in the mashed potatoes and mixed it all around.

True story. And a total snooze-fest. Now, imagine I told you that story with background dancers doing their thing behind me.

Awesome, right?

In short, they failed to lead.

Am I wrong? Have you ever had to pull out the so-called nuclear option?

To kick off his retirement, Barker said he will “sit down for maybe a couple of weeks and find out what it feels like to be bored.” Then he plans to spend time working with animal-rights causes, including his own DJ&T Foundation, founded in memory of his late wife, Dorothy Jo, and mother, Matilda.

He said he’d take on a movie role if the right one came along, but filmmakers, take note: “I refuse to do nude scenes. These Hollywood producers want to capitalize on my obvious sexuality, but I don’t want to be just another beautiful body.”

Anyone else scarred (and/or scared)?

Time travel to a day later. The doorbell rings and I am confronted with the same three foot bipedal organism. She asks again, quite cherubically, if I’d buy chocolate. I’m thinking perhaps she doesn’t remember hitting this side of the complex already. “How determined!” I think to myself. Again, I politely turn her down and close the door.

Fast forward one additional day. I arrive home from work to find some cheap looking chocolate sitting on the counter. When I inquire of my wife about the “Finest Quality” brand on the chocolate, she tells me she purchased it from a little girl that was, you guessed it, fundraising. We compare notes; it’s the same girl.

Who is coaching these so-called “children” in the ways of door-to-door salesmanship? I wish my wife had read this.

Assumed: Men that are very successful in business often times are less than successful at home (i.e.: broken marriages, children that are a terror, etc.).

Most of the time, people assume the family is a mess because of the business. What if, in some situations, it’s the other way around? Isn’t it equally possible that the family itself is so unimaginably horrible that the man throws himself full tilt into the business?

Why do we automatically assume the former when it could just as easily be the latter? Well, at least I assume the former…

The American Academy of Pediatrics says what children really need for healthy development is more good, old-fashioned playtime. (cbs)

we find this:

Tag, you’re out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is “a time when accidents can happen,” said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban. (charlotte.com)

Awesome. I propose that we also remove from schools:

• all pencils and pens. The danger of being impaled is real.
• paper. Lord knows that stuff can lacerate!
• computers. Proven to lead to lead poisoning in China’s children.
• blackboards. Chalk dust causes pulmonary disease.
• music classes. Can cause ear canal damage and mental anguish.
• gym class. Climb a rope? Oh, the insurance premiums!
• teachers. For their tendency towards sexual exploitation.

I mean, we wouldn’t want our children to have experiences, would we?

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Yes, well, enough about me. What about your company, my German friends? And where are my royalty checks?

Now I see the movie is coming out on DVD. And guess what? The two stars have reportedly split up. I know -huge news. Huge news should help promote the DVD release (in theory).

My question to those of you who have seen the movie is this: is the movie really that bad?