Monthly Archives: May 2010

Before and after photos of the basement man-cave.

Here’s one side of our basement just before we moved in around July 2008. There was some demo and clearing out to be done, the remains of the old drop ceiling removed.  I did that the first year we lived … Continue reading

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Britain’s Got Talent Freddie Mercury Dancers.

See the story here. Bonus: Queen tribute band on Australia’s Got Talent. Freddie-ness begins around the 1-minute mark.

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Kay Kyser introduces the Sonovox in the 1940 film “You’ll Find Out.”

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100-plus awkwardly worded cross-genre portmanteaus.

In a world of hybrid forms, hybrid cars–and, as fellow WWAATDer ME Griffith points out, cross-bred hybrid animals–the awkwardly worded cross-genre literary portmanteau is all the rage these days. But why make up names for new ones when yours truly … Continue reading

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Jury acquits accused rapist because victim wore skinny jeans. #wtf

Ah, the skinny jeans defense. Let’s make this about me before we get down to reporting the link: roughly this time last year, I was wearing skinny jeans on a regular basis, and there’s no way I could have “collaborated” … Continue reading

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