Wake up!

more animals

and Dad can freak out too!

Some dad's first reactions on M3 Turbo

again from Autoblog.

Should I take the spouse for a drive or not?

F1 driver Riccardo Patrese takes his wife out for a lap(in a Civic Type-R!)...with hilarious results in Italian!

from Autoblog.

Fluffy Road Trip?

Few people realize how good The Chrysler Building is at playing hide-and-seek. No, really, it's true! It would constantly surprise me, especially in Zabar's...

So we seem to be going back, very soon, to renew our rivalry...

and we may go here...
or here...
If Camie were with me, we'd go here...right?

and soon...reports!

Sadly....

Saint of the House of Fun, Don LaFontaine, has passed away at 68. Thanks for the trailers, Don!

"When you die, the voice you hear in heaven is not Don's. It's God, trying to sound like Don. I wish he'd quit his day job..." -- Ashton Smith

Here's is my older post about Don.

She's not your father's Spiro Agnew!

Is this really the VP candidate? Oh. My.

from usemycomputer

Surrounded by the right people!

See that woman with the fur collar, and the red, white, blue, and uh...purple corsage? Front center, between Mr White Fur Viking and Ms Wonder Woman colors steel bra?

Why, that's now John McCain's pick for vice president, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin!
How could you not want to vote for the new Algonquin Society?

Plus....she'll supply America with venison...
and fish!


UPDATE:

This is Sarah Palin as Miss Wasilla!


This is Dawn Wells of Gilligan's Island fame, where it was a much warmer place than Alaska...
Still, the resemblance

Yow! Did she catch this bear? How 'bout that crab? What's next, rail splitting? Chopping of cherry trees? Clearly, a legend in the making!

Some candidates visit Cannes...some bring the baby to the market because they're out of... all kinds of stuff, and it's good to grouse with someone else in the same boat! Who ate all the Pringles? That spouse o' mine... At least her friend clearly could make some burgers, or "loose hamburgers" in those hot dog buns...some onions, a little chili sauce...some extra moose meat for flavor...so life is good.

most extra pics from HuffPo!

A Fluffy Poll!

Do you blog or read blogs in your underpants?
	Yes
	No
	Wouldn't you like to know!
	Yes, but not my genders underpants
	Do small woodland animals count?
pollcode.com free polls

A hat tip...

For regular Althouse readers, it's long been known that commenters extraordinare Trooper York and Victoria have deserved their own shot at Bloggingheads...and I hereby give it to them!

Those Fabulous Astaires

So Fred Astaire is lovingly looking at his sister Adele here, but Adele...she's looking at us! I wonder what she's thinking...

Double Blimpage .... and phone pole!

So you race outside when you see that there are TWO blimps around town at the same time, just to get their picture, and what's in the middle? The phone pole! Ah, well...

August?

Holy moley, August is already a week old! These are truly the dog days in Ann Arbor, bounded by two events; the end of Art Fair in July, and the beginning of Football Season, towards the end of this month. It's easy to get parking! Things are relatively quiet! Alas, soon to be over...

Despite the emptiness of the fridge, I blundered into a way to make a good pot of beef stew, so that was done, and I've been eatin' on that one for a couple of days...

Things are quiet in blog land, Camie has been very busy with small children, and some of the noble corps have moved on...but I find new blogs, have fun with those, and bring back to this one little bit of spiritual nourishment, and let it cook slowly, like my stew...

Happy Birthday Victoria! After a long disappearance, she's back, but now on Euro-holiday...

Amba, you've become a favorite in a very short time! I check in every day.

It's all good!

Troublemaker...or Genius?

This young man needs your support; I could talk him up to beat the band, but, I'll let his mother do it. Go here and let Camie explain it. We at the Stuffin think the world of The Little Man and want him to exceed all our expectations! If you love Fluffy, give it up for The Little Man!

Hey Fluffy, what's in the fridge?

A bottle and a half of ketchup, 2 things of lemon juice, a good salsa, an old salsa that needs to go away, some pickle relish, some grated cheese, some mayo, and some mustard. That's it!

Bar Friends

Here's Camie and friend Cher outside at a bar sharing a beer with ol' Fluffy...being Ann Arbor, this is during the "EcoFair", where they're trying to get you to buy an Electric Lada, or compost your dead relatives or something. My English friends (and Cynnie too!) could be also enjoy beer with us, but alas...

Nothin' to do?

So what do the women of the Aircraft Carrier Ronald Reagan (I believe) do on their off days?

Shoot a video of course!

Fireworks for idiots!

These morons start shooting their fireworks at each other and....



I admit I laughed myself senseless...

Yes, I think we need blogger medals also

The USAF is proposing this badge for their Internet whiz-bangs...formal recognition and all. Shouldn't there be medals for bloggers also? Let's imagine some...

Blog-we!

I know I haven't been writin' as much as I should. Camie and I both have been expending energies on things that are gnawing our heads, not leaving much room for good thoughts to blog about. But Cynnie has been inspiring, and I love how her blog is so much her. That's why I like it as much as I do, even though I simply couldn't blog like that if I wanted to. But her blogging has got me back on the horse here. Plus, the writing of Amba has been amazing.

It's taken me awhile to figure out how much I have to write out of me. I simply can't blather on about things in the paper, or current events, or even about my hobbies per se. Nor do I want to just talk about me; I want you to take something for yourself, to make you happier, smarter, better, however you define it, from my writing. But it's funny to think how much the idea of that makes me happier, gives me a bit more focus.

I'll try to write more out of the depths of myself, just to make sure I'm doin' it right. Stay tuned.

Fireworks!

Last night Detroit had its big fireworks display in the Detroit river alongside Windsor, Ontario...

Here's just a bit of the finale; there is panning between the three main explosion areas, but the sense of the energy of the finale is there....