The Greatest Experiment Since Deep-fried Turkey Most Pointless Spent Time Ever

I'm not sure if this will actually behave the way I wish it to, but if it does, I will no longer have a reason to wait so long between entries; other than the lack of good titles, that is. Soooo...I suppose if I am writing I should have something to talk about. Well, do I ever! This past Thanksgiving I had turkey. But wait! That's not the funny part. I had LOTS of turkey! Ha! I bet you haven't heard that one before.
Oh, you have? Well, I also found this incredible article, which is, of course, the first pop-culture list of its time. And in case you were wondering there is a difference between:

- "Hey HEY hey!" (Dwayne Nelson, "What's Happening!!")

- "Hey hey HEEY!" (Fat Albert, "Fat Albert")

Anyway, if this post doesn't work, I'm going to re-write this whole thing so that it's funny. If it is posted, well, then it'll look like I am not just letting my blog collect dust.

Okay, I take it back. It didn't work, and I don't want to re-write. Here's try number 2...

Try # 3 - skipping this "new" method and doing it the old-fashioned way

UPDATE: INTENT ON MAKING ME LOOK LIKE A FOOL, THE BLOG DECIDED TO POST MY INITIAL TEST ENTRY RIGHT UNDERNEATH THIS ONE, AS IF I JUST DIDN'T SEE IT.

The Greatest Experiment Since Deep-fried Turkey

I'm not sure if this will actually behave the way I wish it to, but if
it does, I will no longer have a reason to wait so long between entries;
other than the lack of good titles, that is. Soooo...I suppose if I am
writing I should have something to talk about. Well, do I ever! This
past Thanksgiving I had turkey. But wait! That's not the funny part.
I had LOTS of turkey! Ha! I bet you haven't heard that one before.

Oh, you have? Well, I also found this incredible <a
href=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/28/tv.catchphrases.ap/index.html>article</a>,
which is, of course, the first pop-culture list of its time. And in
case you were wondering there is a difference between:

- "Hey HEY hey!" (Dwayne Nelson, "What's Happening!!")

- "Hey hey HEEY!" (Fat Albert, "Fat Albert")

Anyway, if this post doesn't work, I'm going to re-write this whole
thing so that it's funny. If it is posted, well, then it'll look like I
am not just letting my blog collect dust.

Ohio in 7 hours

Recently, I was in Ohio for a wedding. While I could elaborate on the details, I think that I'll just describe it with the following:

Drive, wedding, Pre-reception OSU watching at local bar, Reception with guy on Segway trying to recruit people for the dollar dance.

Yep, that's pretty much it.

Post-Election Analysis

Well, another election has come and gone. For some reason, other bi-annual events, such as the Olympics, seem to get me more excited than elections. My first attempt to vote in the morning met with disaster, as apparently I became a west-sider by simply moving a block away from my previous residence. I was sent to another location, but I couldn't go that morning due to this job that doesn't recognize the non-existent holiday of Election Day. So after work, I made my way out to vote.

When I made my way inside, it was a relatively happening little place. I had to wait about 45 minutes before taking part in my civil duty. And as I stood there in front of that glorious machine, with that fantastic digital LCD screen containing all those magnificent pixels which, in conjunction with specific pixels around it, spelled out the names of hundreds of people I had never heard of before in my life.

Ha, I kid! There were actually a dozen or so that I vaguely able to recall, but due to conditioning from the political advertising in the area, I thought I was looking at a list of convicted criminals. When I was finally finished selecting those that I had actually scrutinized the credentials for (and one where I just thought he had the funniest commercial), I finished by pressing the LARGE RED BUTTON. I thought I would need someone there to insert and turn a key alongside myself while doing it, but it turns out we can press it ourselves.

So that was my voting experience. And am I the only one who always subtracts a single vote from those that I voted from and thinks to myself "Whoa, if I hadn't voted, she/he would have only received 1,234,342 votes"? Probably.

Election Day Eve

Once again, another election year has rolled around. And once again, candidates are looking somewhere between bad and worse and the Whigs are still sitting it out on the sidelines. Everyone seems to be talking about the extent of negative campaigning. This doesn't concern me so much; however, I think that we should spend more time convincing candidates that we would be more likely to vote for them if they won a cage fight against their political rival. I suspect this may even be true in some areas. Anyway, go out and vote when you can. Remember, there's always write-in's and I'd be more than willing to serve for the greater good. I'm also training to be a cage fighter.

Also, an update on a previous post. As I sat in church, I pointed out a little girl that I thought looked like Sally from the Peanuts comic strips (particularly, the crazy hair aspect) to my girlfriend. Later, we had a guest speaker who referenced Charles Schultz, the author of Peanuts. I think I should keep a notepad around where I write down everything I think of and then when I see a reference to something on the list, then I make a note of it. Maybe I'll notice a detailed pattern, like when I think of something that is not very obscure, I'm bound to see a reference to it within a certain time frame.