google image cache for naked pirate cooking show

over half my traffic now comes from a google image search for the naked pirate cooking show image i stole from someone else as a blogpost. the url gets chopped for length by my statcounter tho. i've tried google image searching words like naked pirate and cooking in different combinations, and i don't get my own page very high in the results list.

where are y'all coming from?
hell, one hit was from angola. how the fuck did the angolans find me??

star wars clone wars by genndy tartakovsky

i just watched genndy tartakovsky's 'clone wars' animation series for the first time when they finally played it en masse on cartoon network this saturday. genndy's absolutely brilliant at action scenes, and the best one was just at the end.

grievous spends maybe 10 long, action-packed minutes chasing palpatine and four jedi before defeating them. just as they're boarding their ship, windu's transport is shot down and he jumps to the ground to see grievous escorting palpatine in. then, in a dialogue-less 5 seconds, grievous turns from a hunch noticing windu out of the corner of his eye to a 4-lightsaber-pose akin to a scorpion or cobra about to strike. windu reaches out and clenches his fist as squashing a fruit and grievous's metal chest caves in with a ka-shanggg, sending the previously fearsome and victorious beast coughing and choking to the ground in a single move just as the loading doors close him in. the ship jumps to hyperspace before windu can do more. freaking awesome direction.

my favorite scene though has a female jedi cornered and powerless by grievous as the last jedi defending palpatine when grievous stops to gloat the situation in a brief "prepare to die" speech, while she uses the force to tie his cape to a train without him noticing. the best instant is palpatine momentarily losing his innocent act and raising an eyebrow in amusement at this just before the train zips off at mach speed. ^_^

world-record for most airbourne lighted discs + tourneys

is appropriately part mine, ask any of my old friends, i was hardcore about glowee-frisbee-night-golf wayback.

300 visit park to take lighted disc challenge - Organizers honor Frisbee golf inventor with record attempt

i took second place at that discgolf tourney, and thirteenth place this past sunday at the fox valley open

I left saturday and hopskotched from course to course playing new courses and driving the whole day. i played 6 courses that day, raining through a lot of it, and lost 2 discs. i had lost an important one the day prior into the milwaukee river by putting AWAY from the river, uphill, thanks to a miracle roll that i wasn't able to catch up to. i threw my main driver (a flash) into lake michigan saturday too, but i stripped down, got in, and found it in knee-deep water. i tell you, if a body of water has a name, i'm much more likely to throw into it! -_- the rest were lost due to carelessness throwing too many discs per attempt. by 10pm i was playing with LED's taped to my discs and an flashlight (to find the baskets), but there were assloads of cops busting noisy teens right where i was, so i sketched and i got a motel after doublechecking the location of the next day's tournament.

the tourney was fun, i did fine. nothing to impress, but thankgod no messups. had just as many errors (in my mind) as bullshit lucky occurrances so i think it was at least representative of my what my average play should be. one of the guys from our monday night competitions (will, i believe--i'm so bad about names..) won it, and it was his first tourney~ no surprise to here, he usually mops the floor with me by 5 or so strokes at sussex. i met my first UNfriendly person at a disc tourney too.. dude just took a HATE on me, started making no sense, and totally threw my game off for the first round. but as soon as i was done and started bitching, others were all "oh yeah! that guy's TOTALLY crazy and been kicked outta these things before!" so i felt a lot better about it. he's apparantly QUITE notorious already--i wish someone had warned me. the second round's always the best cuz yer paired up with the people who scored the same as you. i NEVER get to play with other people EXACTLY my skill level like that any other way, and it's fun. and there was a GIRL playing the men's division in my group! whatever, shouldn't gush, but how awesome! sad to say, that's the first time i've seen that eye-of-the-tiger howm-i-gonna-curve-this-on-in-there kinda concentration in a girl. it's better now: there are at least girls that play for their own enjoyment rather than just to placate their boyfriends, but she clearly understood how to aim any throw she needed to just as well as i can, which helps my faith tremendously. i spent my winnings on discs to replace the ones i lost, enjoyed a little parting chitchat with friends i've made up there in the appleton-area over the last few weekends and made the long drive home.

as it always is

The resolution of the defenders increased with their success. A sort of
fever seized upon them all. Death had become a little thing, or it was
forgotten. The blood in their veins was fire, and, transported out of
themselves, they rained shells and bullets upon men whom in their calm
moments they did not hate at all.

(from Joseph A. Altsheler's 'The Rock of Chickamauga')

zeppelin photos

happened by these by accident. neat!





link to site

Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan

link to article

"The London Times reports that the British government and the United States government had secretly agreed to attack Iraq in 2002, before authorization was sought for such an attack in Congress, and had discussed creating pretextual justifications for doing so."

"Blair also discussed the need for America to "create" conditions to justify the war."

what's being broadcast as news to america this week? the fucking runaway bride. mooooooooooo.

played in the steady ed memorial this sat

steady ed was the guy who invented the frisbee, frisbee golf, and the frisbee golf league, the pdga. they had a tournament at grignon park up in kaukauna near appleton in his honor.

i got up at 6am sat to drive to appleton, which is very unlikely, my family will tell you. played in the open men's division (really, the lowest below pro and advanced) and took second place (out of maybe, 8 people). got a couple disks i'll likely never use, a tshirt, and a nice framed drawing of their signature 7th hole.

played some great golf tho. nothing spectacular, but very very consistent. i made all the shots i thought i should have, and THAT was very satisfying after a few weeks of trying to putt in high winds. met a buncha neet people, from steady ed's wife to the guy who put in the course at sussex where i often play, the guy who designed the logo on the discs i got at the last tournament at standing rock, and a buncha other good ppl. they set up 18 holes of little mini-baskets and we played 18 holes with our mini-disks. that was way fun. then last, at about 10pm, we set a supposed world record for the most lighted disks thrown into the air at once (which is very appropriate for me--all the night games i've played).

they all spoke of a good tournament at fox valley or something next weekend. hope i can go.

al jazeerah political cartoons

al jazeerah political cartoons

interesting stuff, nice to see they've a free enough press to exist.