Iron Maiden in the Deep South

This is for my buddy, Don, who hails from the formerly great state of California. He's a big Maiden fan - I showed him this video and he cracked up. It apparently was made by a band (The Full Throttle Band), somewhere in the SE U.S. ... specifically, "live at the Dauphin Island Spring Arts Festival April 2003." (I am pretty sure Dauphin Island is part of Alabama.)

Anyway, the cover version of Wrathchild isn't too bad ... what's hilarious is the audience. They're about five people in the 'crowds' and look to be as enthusiastic as my laundry hamper. All I know is that the Dauphin Island Spring Arts Festival organizers should be fired.

Cartoons Causing Riots? Right.

OK - I prefer to post nonsensical and (what - to me - passes for) humorous things on this site ... but I cannot fathom these riots. On Oct 17, 2005, a well-known Egyptian newspaper published those very same cartoons that are NOW causing riots ... the obvious question is "WHERE WERE THE RIOTERS ON OCT 17, 2005?" What made the Danish publications more insidious than the Egyptian publication 3 1/2 months earlier? There are some great posts out there ... here are some of them:

From the depaulia.com site

From the thereligionofpeace.com site

From the aynrand.org site

Kiss This Guy

A very common occurrence for someone who is raised by parents whose native language is something other than English is to learn how to mispronounce words ... and be blissfully ignorant while doing so. My personal example is for many years, I was convinced that there was a department store chain called K-MARK. Why? Because this is how my dad repeatedly pronounced it.

In a similar vein, have you ever had a song in your head and when you sing it to yourself, you're rather proud of how you really know the lyrics ... and then, sometime time later in your life, you find out you were WAY off base?

Well, there is a web site that is a depository of self-reported messed-up lyrics ... if you feel up to it, go ahead and report your self-delusional lyrics.

The Farting Preacher - a video collection

OK - these are amongst my all-time favorite video clips. Here you go:

Farting Preacher #2



Farting Preacher #3



Farting Preacher #4 (my personal favorite)



Farting Preacher #5a