It's That Time of Year Again

With all the work I have, and the excitement and planning for the Impending Nuptials, I ALMOST forgot: tomorrow is International Take Like A Pirate Day! Gosh, it just comes so close to equinox and Rosh Hashanah, it can really slip right past you.

In case you find yourself without a pirate name, you can find it here. I am Joan Thieving Arse, which is cool. Me pirate's vessel is The Madness of The Manta. Me favorite poet is ARRRchibald McLeish. Me favorite disease is SARRRS. I like MARRRRshmellows. Me sister is an ARRRchitect.

Okay, you get the picture. Assume your eye patches.

In Case You Missed This

The 2007 Air Guitar World Championship is over. Can there really be a "winner" of such a thing?

I think the guy in the overalls there looks a bit like a neighbor of mine. Not that I have seen him play air guitar, but he reads this blog, so he can expect to be called upon to perform a little Yngwie Malmsteen next time I see him.

This Is It?

So that's it then? Freeze a pitbull and call it Chupacabra? I don't know, I expected it to be scarier. More Satan than Spuds McKenzie.

Like many from Mexico, this chupacabra was found in Texas. (Is that offensive?)

I am suspending my normal "meh" attitude towards Dave Matthews because this is a pretty good song, but more importantly because Zoe choreographed the video and dances in it.

Cool!

And lest you think my sister and I are the dullards of the family, think again. Lorin is the project manager on the retro-fit and re-design of Casa Zimbabwe, a housing collective at Berkeley. Thus her irritation at not being permitted to install nuclear exit signs. I can't find any pictures of the C.Z. architectural changes, but you can see from the outside that they are probably very dramatic, since this is what they are working from.

Perhaps Lorin will share some photos with us so I can sing her praises as well.