Asparagus pee, Gooblek & Other Neat stuff

We were watching the debate this week between Bush and Kerry… in case you missed it, Kerry won.

Again.

There was a point in the debate where Kerry said, “I led the fight to put 100,000 cops on the streets of America.”

To this, The Lady Janet made the suggestion, “Wouldn’t they be better off in police cars?”

(And you wonder why I love this woman?)

Surprised today to find a new site at the top of a search on “Asparagus Pee.” Turns out there’s actually somebody trying to sell merchandise with this logo and a couple of others. Hey, more power to ’em, right? Get your Asparagus Pee T-shirts, coasters, and what not right here!

NOTE: Asparagus Pee, Gooblek & Other Neat Stuff is not affiliated with “The Pure Breed Revolution” and neither endorses nor discourages their efforts. Image at left used without permission, but I’m helping their Pagerank&#153 a whole bunch. And why didn’t I do this first?

So I’m eating my bag of generic store-brand BBQ chips tonight, and it’s an especially good extra-red-salty batch, but I turn the bag around, and I swear to god it said, “Try and enjoy our other delicious snacks,” like, “Come on, I dare ya.” (Click the pic for the big picture.) Guess it’s the perfect real-life example of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

In other completely unrelated business, here’s a picture update of the wild turkeys that I see on my morning walk &#150 I wasn’t satisfied with my Fujicam pics, so I took a real camera and got it developed.

For my last exhibit, I just got home a couple of hours ago from a Candidates’ Night for the school board, and it was hard &#150 either I didn’t know there was going to be a quiz, or the dog ate my homework. Either way, here’s a quick jpeg showing my name on the local ballot with Dubya. I’m honored. No, really.

Here’s my obligatory link to Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam – Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Elliott made stuff like this sound so effortless, but gosh it’s hard &#151 I slapped this a capella thing together and posted it last November, not because it turned out particularly well, but because it almost killed me. In case you missed it, here’s a link to Chris Benson sings I Didn’t Understand badly. Some parts are pretty painful, but I guess some other parts are accomplished passably well.

I wonder if Bill O’Reilly will ever figure out that if you’re going to keep going around confronting people, you need to pick on people who aren’t your intellectual superiors like Al Franken and John Stewart. If you ask me, Mr. O’Reilly is proof positive that there are worse things to be than a “stoned slacker.”

(Thanks to Maya at Postcards from Sacramento for the link to Yahoo News.)

This little drawing from Reality Carnival makes my brain feel good.

We watched the season premiere of Joan of Arcadia last Friday, and once again, I urge all of my loyal Asparagus Pee readers to make this a must-see. It bothers me a little bit that whenever they are in the police station where her dad works, the whole scene is filmed in NYPD-blue, but other than that, this show is near-perfect.

I mean, where else are you going to hear God advise a teenaged girl, “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. That’s Sartre. Or was it Zappa?”

UPDATE &#151 This is in fact a Frank Zappa quote, and there’s a pretty concise list of good ones over here.

My spambox, sorry, I meant to say my “inbox,” is filling up now with stuff about refinancing my house “the Christian Way” and getting out of debt “the Christian Way.”

What the bejeebus is that supposed to mean?

I’ve always kind of imagined that the Christian way to get out of debt would be to pay back the money.

And why do these spams always have the cross or the bible against a backdrop of an American flag? Can’t the Canadians get out of debt the Christian way, or must they pay off their debts shamefully as the heathens do?