More political humor

This one is from William Gibson:
President Bush goes to an elementary school to talk about the war.
After his talk, he offers to answer questions. One little boy puts up his hand and the president asks him his name.
“I’m Billy, sir.”
“And what’s your question, Billy?”
“I have three questions, sir. Why did the US invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? And whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?”
Just then the bell rings for recess. Bush announces that they’ll continue after recess.
When they return, Bush asks, “OK, where were we? Question time! Who has a question?”
Another little boy raises his hand. The president asks his name.
“I’m Steve, sir.”
“And what’s your question, Steve?”
“I have five questions, sir. Why did the US invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? Whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden? Why did the recess bell go off twenty minutes early? And what the heck happened to Billy?”

Turn of the Century Cane-Fu

The extended entry has a nifty image from an online reprint of a self-defense article out of Pearson?s Magazine, 11 (February 1901), 195-204. No real point to this post, apart from noting that I love the way that even the loutish assailant is properly dressed in a top coat and straw hat.
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Lightbulb Politics

From John Cleese – How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?

None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn’t work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that it is burned out, they are merely giving aid and encouragement to the Forces of Darkness.

Mini Fire Elemental

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Now all we need are some miniature marshmallows, a box of Honey Graham’s cereal and some chocolate chips…

We are a hedge.

Is this actually topiary? I mean, if you spend all that time gardening so that you can have a perfectly square shrub in your yard, wouldn’t it be just a rather truncated hedge?

Mini Air Elemental

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Hey, it’s another mini photo! This little bugger is an air elemental, to go with yesterday’s water elemental. It’s a slightly more exciting model, with a really fun face…

Sew I see…

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My wife is learning how to sew! My sister is teaching her, and I’m helping her document her progress. I know she’s going to be posting a couple pictures and sewing stories, but this is one that I took that I decided to appropriate for my own site… It’s a fairly low light shot, maybe a 3/4 second exposure and I really like how the moving needle left blurs of light in the air.
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Mini Water Elemental

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First of the elemental mini pictures! And, sadly, the least interesting. Unless you were a 28mm tall surfer or something.

I don’t mean to offend

I’m getting back into a hobby that I picked up in college. Actually, I suppose it’s a sub-hobby, since it’s attached to an existing superset of hobbies that I’ve had since high school. Or would it be a hobby extension? Never mind. It doesn’t matter how you wind up drawing your particular personal Venn diagram of hobbyism, the point is that I’ve started painting minis again. I may post a couple pics at some point…
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Stay in the shadows!

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Just a quick image for today. Caught sight of this guy out of the corner of my eye as he was creeping around, trying hard to stay in the shade of the few trees around the parking lot outside of work.