THOR’S DAY RANT: It’s Effin BAD Science!
There’s this new show on the G4 channel, and I’m going to have to go all Phil Plait on it’s ass for a moment. The show is called “It’s Effin Science” and it’s been advertised very widely on my satellite service provider, Dish Network. They try and give it a Mythbusters look, with “cool”, “hip” [...]
THOR’S DAY RANT: Wait 4 Independance Day, you jerks!
All you idiots out there with fireworks, itching to make some noise- wait until Saturday. Some of us have work tomorrow morning. I mean, cmon! It’s Thursday night, I’m sound asleep by 10:30 PM, and BOOM! I get woke up by frickin’ cannon fire next door. What the hell?! First off, things like roman candles [...]
Olive Garden- Incurring my Grapes of Wrath
(NOTE: This post was originally composed on Sunday, May 9, 2010) Dear Olive Garden, I’m at your Clarksville, IN rest. and it will be the last time I ever come here. We waited 1 hour and 12 minutes to be seated. At a 4-person booth. A chair was put at the end as we have [...]
THOR’S DAY RANT: Avoid Danger!
My in-laws have this annoying habit of endangering themselves on a fairly regular basis. I’m not just talking about how they refuse to lock the door to their home during the day- despite there having been cases of criminals barging into homes and attacking people in their town. No, I’m talking about how they dash [...]
Support Troops Not War
I had just gotten into my car to go home from work when I saw it. There it was beckoning to me, demanding I look — demanding I read, insisting I understand…But then, I didn’t. “Support Troops Not War,” it said. I silently mouthed the words. “Support Troops Not War…. (long pause)….Support Troops Not War?” [...]
THOR’S DAY RANT: Children should be watched and herded!
So, I was with my kids at our annual Thunder Over Louisville outing, camping on the top of a parking garage with hundreds of other families, watching the festivities. And, I had a visitor. Lots of visitors, actually. Little ones. Little dirty-faced kids that looked like they’d been hugging tires from all the black filth [...]
THOR’s Day Rant: Does Anyone Really Win?
I’m a sucker for online contests. I enter them all the time. Despite the fact I never win anything. And every time I lose, even though I fully expected it, I get mad. Then I begin to wonder- was any prize really given out? My obsession with drawings started back in the 1980s, when a [...]
THOR’s DAY RANT: Wash Your Damned Hands!
As I cough and hack and wheeze and otherwise feel like complete crap- or bantha poodoo if you’re a Star Wars geek- I feel compelled to discuss something you all should know already. Wash your damned hands. Last week, I had the joy of taking my 9 year old daughter around to various local museums [...]
Where have all the real men gone?
I’m feeling a little lonely here. Like I’m the last real Man in America. I’m talking about the e-Volve Gadget Shoulder Holster I just read about. It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back. Or maybe wrapped it in sissified, purse-ified comfort. The Gadget Shoulder Holster, or “dork purse” as I’ll call it, vaguely looks [...]