Evel Knievel pinball flyer
And PDF manual in German. Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is awesome. I've been meaning to link to this ever since it was published a couple months ago. (I have a huge list of things such as this to show you but I'm a little backed up.)

Anyway, read this because it's hilarious and true and just about every single line could be a pullquote. Moochie's Surprise
Cover of a children's book by Kathie Lee Gifford. The infinite cat project
"...cats regarding cats regarding cats.

I'll be happy to post a picture of YOUR cat as long as it is shown looking at a monitor which bears the image of the last image in the sequence. "

Here you will find an ongoing series of almost 200 cats, each looking at the preceding cat who in turn is looking at the preceding cat, and so on.

I wish there was a Star Trek episode about a planet where everyone stopped working on whatever they were working on and instead started working full-time on contributing to The Infinite Cat Project.

[Thank you, Eryk]

Stairway to Stardom
People of the Internet, rejoice! You have been generously granted access to early 1980s Manhattan Cable. Specifically, you can now view clips of the cable cult classic, Stairway to Stardom, courtesy of Sharpeworld, which continues to do an excellent job of putting things into the Internet that weren't but needed to be.

The clips are bandwidth-busters--but totally worth it if you can handle QT movie files that weigh a little over 10Mb.

Stairway to Stardom featured everyday people of various levels of raw, unpolished talent, showcasing their performance skills.

Its host, the super-creepy Frank Masi, wasn't ashamed to wield his host power to embarrass a guest he had a minor grudge with, or to steal an unwelcome kiss from a female performer too nervous to deny his on-camera advances.

Somewhere I saw the show described as The Gong Show meets American Idol; that's about right, but it's even lower rent than Gong and there are fewer winners than Idol.

It's all worth your time, but in particular, I would like to draw your attention to one performance: Melissa Ann Ledwon's tap routine single-handedly (double-footedly?) validates the invention of video.

K.B.i.T. (Killer Bees in Training)
I was just thinking it would be cool to go about my daily life surrounded by a cloud of trained killer bees. How come no one ever does that?

Bueno the Bear
Comic with a friendly fun sunshine summer day vibe. Good stuff. Click around the entire site and check out everything. If you don't have time for all of that, maybe just peruse the misc. drawings section. If you don't even have time for that, maybe just peruse this.

[Thanks Elizabeth! P.S. You should go visit Elizabeth's site also--great illustrations.]

Heathcliff
I've been meaning to tell you about this particular comic strip too, drawn by a fellow by the name of Brendan Larsen. I like it.

fridge update
Oh yeah, we bought a used fridge.

The nice thing about this replacement fridge is that it's one of the loudest refrigerators ever made, so even if your eyes are closed, it's really easy to find. Its tremendous noise output will also be helpful in keeping unecessary conversation to a minimum in the kitchen.

It says "frost-free" on it but this fridge doesn't play by the rules. It's very independent. After 3 days of operation, it's already filled its freezer with beautiful frosty ice stalactites.

That's the exciting news about the fridge. It has been given the nickname "buyer's remorse".

xml
Thanks to the code wizardry of Mr. A.B. Waxy, this site has joined the exciting world of XML-ificated websites.

I barely even know what that means, but if XML provides another useful way for people to enjoy the high-quality content generated by our staff of retired senior citizens, then I'm happy.

So, if you know how to XML, you can now XML this site like crazy, right here. XML it until you're blue in the face. XML it until your eyeballs are sore. Etc. XML sounds like "egg smell"
XML sounds like "egg smell" which reminds me that the refrigerator that this apartment came with just died.

Apartments in LA don't necessarily come with a fridge for some reason. This one had a refrigerator but with the following caveat: "It's yours until it dies."

The fridge is actually older than I am; so we got to meet it in the twilight of its life and spend a few precious years with it until it passed away.

Thankfully there are numerous used refrigerator bargains to be found in the greater metropolitan Los Angeles area.

Let's pretend the above entry is not just a boring entry but is a parody of boring weblog entries.

In fact, let's always pretend that.

"...numerous used refrigerator bargains to be found in the greater metropolitan Los Angeles area."

Oh my God, imagine hearing that said in a slow, droning monotone. So boring... So boring, it's genius how boring it is!

Or that's what we're pretending anyway, don't forget.