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It's a murky day. The atmosphere is sludge, a noxious reminder of the season.

I really hate summer.

Weezer - Troublemaker

Released last month...

Troublemaker

Weezer

Put me in a special school,
'Cause I am such a fool,
And I don't need a single book to teach me how to read.
Who needs stupid books?
The alphabetey crooks,
And I will learn by studying the lessons in my dreams
So turn off the T.V.
'Cause that's what others see
And movies are as bad as eating chocolate ice cream
They only sicken me
Don't let me play football
I'll sack the quarterback and jack the brother of the ball

I'm a troublemaker
Never been a faker
Doin' things my own way
And never givin' up.
I'm a troublemaker
Not a doubletaker
I don't have the patience to keep it on the up.

I picked up a guitar,
What does this signify?
I'm gonna play some heavy metal,
Wishing you would die.
You wanted arts and crafts?
How's this for arts and crafts?
(guitar solo)
(That's Right!)
I'm growin' out my hair
I'm movin' up to Cherokee
I'm gonna be a rockstar
And you are gonna bear with me
'Cause I can't book a job,
Like any other slob,
Punchin' in and punchin' out.
It's up to (?)
Marryin' a bi-atch,
Havin' Seven ki-ads,
Givin' up and growin' old,
And hopin' there's a god.

I'm a troublemaker
Never been a faker
Doin' things my own way
And never givin' up
I'm a troublemaker
Not a doubletaker
I don't have the patience to keep it on the up

I'm gonna be star
And people will crane necks
To get a glimpse of me
And see if I am havin' sex
And studyin' my moves
They try to understand
Why I am so unlike
The singers in the other bands
I'm such a mystery
As anyone can see
There isn't anybody else
Exactly quite like me
And when it's party time
Like 1999
I'll party by myself because I'm such a special guy

I'm a troublemaker
Never been a faker
Doin' things my own way
And never givin' up.
I'm a troublemaker
Not a doubletaker
I don't have the patience to keep it on the up.

Keep it on the up
(I'm a trouble maker)
Keep it on the up (UP!)
(I'm a trouble maker)
Keep it on the up
(I'm a trouble maker)
Keep it on the up (UP!)
(I'm a trouble maker)
Never givin' up

Thanks For Nothing, DG

Kirk
Yesterday
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The thing about your cat finding your long lost, hand-knitted, wool gloves for you is that he only brings you one and then refuses to reveal the location of the other.

Overdue kitten pix

Laurie
Yesterday
8 comments

These are the three kittens who were rescued a week ago Thursday, and have been living in my bathroom since then. They're 8 weeks old.

Here they were moments after rescue:

Kittendoodz

5 comments

And here are their beauty shots, taken today:

Butterscotch

Chocolate chip

Fluffernutter

When I was taking that last one, I didn't even notice he'd crossed his paws so sweetly. This was their first time in the bedroom, for the photo session, and it was hard to get them looking anything but saucer-eyed and scared.

Tomorrow morning, I'm trapping again for three more kittens (5 weeks old) that are now out of the nest at one of the colonies I help with, but they won't be staying with me. If we're successful and I get good photos, I'll post some.

Vox Hunt: The Unexplainable? "He puts the bone in Zamboni" * made me laugh! I don't know why.

Show us something you can't explain.
I just watched Blades of Glory -- and laughed. Several times. Amazing.
*from the movie

Best LOL Ever?

Bookmole
Yesterday
2 comments

Me Neither!

I feel much better now. I mean, if even Yoda can't get to grips with predictive txt, what chance do I have?

Lunchity-lunch, yummmmy yummmmy yummmmmy

Just ate this for lunch: an Acme Markets Frozen Bean Burrito heated with a glob of CheezWhiz all over it, and sliced tomatoes and salsa on top. And then I had 5 mini-Reeses. If a killer meteor hit the Earth right now, I'm pretty sure I'd die smiling. :)

CERN:Falling off the edge of the world

dewitte
Yesterday
1 comment

Have you been keeping up with this? Maybe or maybe not. I've only kept up with it a little. I've heard jokes on podcasts about "We'll finally be able to divide by zero without an error!" While MAYBE nothing bad will happen, the amount of "scary" press out there is impressive. This is just the kind of thing that Stephen King and other science fiction writers write about where the ending is never good. I guess I'll start keeping up with it, if nothing else but to either be relieved or to jump about the "They told you so" bandwagon. I do like, however, how the SCIENCE mags all say "It will be great" and "There is nothing to fear", but articles from The Christian Science Monitor warn that you may as well get your business in order for your final days here on the earth as we know it.

If you want to know more about it, check out THIS site.

Just a bunch of crazy people? A few people don't think so and even though their case was thrown out, it still makes you wonder. (Government Seeks Dismissal of End-of-World Suit Against Collider)

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk

Astonishing as it may seem, no major discovery has been made in fundamental physics for a quarter of a century. In that time all the excitement has been with "string theories" - a sea of as yet untestable hypotheses proposed as a way of unifying the forces of nature and explaining the underlying structure of matter. But these exotic suggestions have not advanced what is actually known in particle physics, which essentially has remained the same since the 1970s.

All that might change when the Large Hadron Collider is switched on; but, as Michio Kaku outlined, the big question being discussed in anticipation of recreating the first split-second of the universe is whether the risk involved - of generating a mini black hole or a strangelet particle that could eat the Earth and everything beyond - is worth it.