Buck Owens, RIP

When I was in first grade, I glued together multiple pieces of paper, carefully drew out a guitar and colored it red, white and blue. I cut it out with my scissors and played air guitar for my classmates. I was imitating Buck Owens who starred on Hee Haw with his red, white and blue guitar. Sadly, Buck passed away yesterday at the age of 76. He was a gifted songwriter and guitarist who exposed a generation of folks to country, bluegrass, redneck comedy and hot girls in corn patches. To Buck, Saaaaalute!

Gory Details Project

Leave it to the artsy types to come up with this kind of stuff. This is one of those type of sites that you should probably just avoid...but I can't help but rubberneck a bit. When you catch snippets of stories including "My ear was now leaking disgusting yellow fluid.", "I haven't had a tofu burger since, let me tell you.", and "I was up all night thinking I had a tick in my arm..." How can you not want to hear the rest of the story? Here's their description of the project:

"THE GORY DETAILS PROJECT represents an attempt to capture on audio a scandalously unscientific survey of first-person medical emergency narratives -- stories describing your broken bones, burns, cuts, poisonings, or any other accounts of personal medical traumas you'd care to share. The recordings will be streamed and archived and (in some cases) incorporated into live performances, music, and video."

So, if you want to hear some cringe-worthy audio (and I'll admit, I have no idea why you would), this is the place.


[Audio files probably not work safe. If you don't already have Real Player or Quicktime installed, just download and install the codecs using Real Alternative or Quicktime Alternative.]

The Rise and Fall of E.T. the Atari 2600 videogame



Neat music video for "When I Wake Up" by Wintergreen. Tells the story of the ill-fated Atari E.T. game. I remember this one the Christmas it was released. What a terrible game...but a cool video.

Winter is almost over.


Wow, we've had a really mild Winter this year. That probably means that this Summer will be a killer. Regardless, Griffin and I have been trying to take full advantage of the wonderful weather. We discovered that there is about 3 square miles of woods and pasture land just a block away from our house. We've spent many hours following the cow paths past stock ponds (tanks.) and fallen trees. Flannel comes along and has a blast chasing tennis balls over and over again. When we get back home, she can barely hop up in her chair to sleep, which isn't unusual. You'd sure never know she had hip problems to watch her darting down and back up a hill to catch a ball on the 2nd bounce.

After getting up early this past Sunday morning, Griffin and I decided to go to the zoo. It was a wonderful time, with all of the animals out and about where we could see them up close. I think we both ran each other out of steam. It was quite a birthday weekend for the little guy and his parents. Here's some final pics that didn't make it into his birthday collection.

Hope everyone is doing great. I'll post more when it's Spring!!

Happy 4th Birthday, Griffin!!

The pride of my life, my one and only son Griffin, turns 4 years old today. I can't believe how quickly he's growing up. We had a really fun party for him at Chuck E. Cheese last night. Everybody got to stuff their faces and run around and play games until they were ready to drop. I've posted up a new photo gallery of the party. I'll follow up soon with some other misc. shots I've taken over the past few months.

YoYo Man

When I was about 12, my friends and I went to the local Western Auto, where a Duncan man was giving a yoyo presentation. We learned how to "Walk the dog" and "Rock the cradle", but we never saw anything like the tricks this guy performs.

Easiest Fishing Ever!

Live Actions Simpsons Intro

Incredible attention to detail. Entire Simpson's introduction done with live actors.