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Syndicate Me

Many apologies for my lack of posting the last few days. I think the world's events may have given way to thoughtful days and nights, instead of writing here as I normally do. I am back on track now, hopefully, and I look very forward to telling you all to subscribe to BrainBlenders RSS using this simple tool.

I don't know how often I will say it but, trust me it will be often...get an Aggregator! Then subscribe to your favorite sites and soon you will forget what surfing the net aimlessly was all about anyway. Seriously, I read several hundred websites on a weekly basis. Not all of them get read daily...due to work and eating and breathing and such (although I am pretty sure I can breathe and read at the same time - just not type and inhale) and my wonderful little aggregator NetNewsWire keeps them all logged and accounted for in one handy location.

What I hate is when I want to capture a sites RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and they don't have my particular need met. So...hence the reason I am giving everyone who would like it...the BrainBlenders RSS feed.

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Urinal Signage Update

You need to read the previous post in order to make sense of this one.

OK, you're back...welcome.

So, some creative mind went to work and designed three new signs that totally rock. I love them, and have shown them to men and women alike and they all bring uproarious laughter. Who ever put them up...we tip our hats to thee.

The best part of the signs is that they actually work! People are flushing!!! My favorite one says (If you shake it more than 3x your playing with it.) That's the beauty of working for a creative company...

Man In Black

In light of the new deck I acquired from Enjoi Skateboards here is BrainRadio's American IV: The Man Comes Around, or at least some of it.

Haunting and  some of the best music you could listen to as you do your time sheets...or write a mournful letter. They say that when Johnny Cash does a song he owns it...listen to Hurt from Trent Reznor then Mr. Cash and answer that question for yourself.

I thought this deck was appropriate for me, seeing as how I won't damage it and when I pop it up there he is...The Man in Black. If you don't like Johnny Cash, you are a Communist.

On a COMPLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: someone has posted signs in the second floor bathroom of the building I work in that say "Please Flush Urinal". Seriously, I don't even work in a grade school or psychiatric ward. Who in the HELL doesn't flush a toilet? Even if your mother told you "If it's yellow, let it mellow", you should know that you flush a toilet in a public building.

That brings us to the other point, why are the signs posted? Was there a chronic toilet flushing problem? Did the sign police come in every day and find the urinals filled to the brim? No? Then flush it Mensa and go on with your life.

Johnny and I thank you for your time.

Retouched and the best redneck roundup ever

How about a montage of pictures set to the tune of Dueling Banjo's from Deliverance? A design company out of Oregon named BPN Inc. had a BBQ on August 5th and this was the invite to it. I laughed, I cried, I felt homesick. Very creative!! Video here

You know the Oregonians were poking serious fun at my people...and to be honest - most of it wasn't too far off. But, in our defense or glory...when was the last time anyone thought of putting a montage of footage together for the Northwest?? Just shot after shot of woodlands and homely women in sensible shoes set to John Denver singing Rocky Mountain High?

On a completely unrelated note...after D. Dog's last article about magazine covers being "touched up" I am not surprised to have received this from an alert reader and all around trouble-maker "The Pope". Look closely and my you will notice that nothing escapes my vision.

Who's lovin your Mama?

I was going to send this to all my boys as a direct assault on their Ma's, but instead I will just post it here as a way of saying..."Nobody loves you like your Mama loves you but, who's lovin your Mama?, I am"

This is the funniest video I've seen in a couple of minutes...the looks on these kids faces are priceless. And tell me that if you weren't one of the kids in this you wouldn't just hand this skinny punk his butt in his hat?

Medical Breakthrough: Magazines Make You Younger

Dog Blog

Don’t waste your money undergoing painful and scarring cosmetic surgery to keep your youth. And don’t even think about giving up donuts to go work out at the gym in the morning. No, all you have to do is get yourself on a cover of a magazine.

Look closely at Steve Martin and Martha Stewart on these magazine covers. Their skin is smooth and flawless. No bags, droops, wrinkles or blemishes. Wow, haven’t they aged well. He—LLO! Do you remember how old these people are! Steve and Martha are at least in their 60s, and if you saw them recently on the supermarket tabloids, which don’t airbrush their subjects, you’d remember that these people DO have bags and droops and wrinkles in real life, but not on the cover of a magazine! So start working through your six degrees of separation to some glossy magazine that does shameless retouching of cover models and get ready to impress your friends (just don’t meet them for lunch if the lighting is not just right).

Oh, yeah, a work colleague’s response to seeing Martha on the cover was, “Well, I guess I need to go to prison so I can look this good.” I wanted you all to know about this possibility, but I think I’ll place my bets on the fact that it was Photoshop that made Martha look this good, not prison.

Busy in CHI

Dude, it's been a week since a posting. Man I seriously have never done this!! Well, I'm back..and it's the weekend.

This picture is much better than it looks here. This guy was "resting" in the exact position as the guy in the movie poster. I tried several pictures to get the exact look I was going for, but this was the best I could do. I was suprised he didn't even look up as I got closer and closer and closer. More to come...and whatnot!!

BBQ = Passion

Check out this comment on the Food Channel regarding their article about BARBECUE IS CLEANING UP ITS ACT! .

“ I agree with the fact that barbeque is an art but that’s as far as my agreement goes. In fact it's more than an art it is a passion, it shows a respect for tradition, it upholds its own code of values and it posses an integrity that cannot be dismissed with push button ignitions. "Small sacrifice in flavor"? First you slap us across the face with a glove (time to dust off my anti-French sentiments again) and then you blaspheme the only TRUE reason to BBQ in the first place, FLAVOR!!! I have no idea what makes the author qualified to even pick up, an item sharper than a crayon but this kind of assumption is naive. I'm of the thinking that one of the last bastions standing after the politically correct smoke does clear, will be a man and his wood/charcoal fired barbeque pit. “

I love to hear the fervor come out from this respondent. I think BBQ must be a most personal of foods...