Impedimenta

Dee Powel’s pool party

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:53:12 -0400

Dee Powel’s pool party

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:52:32 -0400

Dee Powel’s pool party

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:52:05 -0400

Dee Powel’s pool party

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:51:43 -0400

Dee Powel’s pool party

Test pic

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:46:17 -0400

Test pic

listening to "Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers"

Mon, 18 May 2009 22:19:00 -0400

listening to "Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers":

This song is the ringtone I have set for when my pastor calls.

listening to "Holy - Nichole Nordeman"

Mon, 18 May 2009 22:00:42 -0400

listening to "Holy - Nichole Nordeman":

This was the big song when I started listening to Christian music.

listening to "Word Up - Cameo"

Sat, 09 May 2009 15:46:43 -0400

listening to "Word Up - Cameo":

This has been in my head for two days.

listening to "Why Can't We Be Friends - Smash Mouth"

Thu, 07 May 2009 11:02:50 -0400

listening to "Why Can't We Be Friends - Smash Mouth"

listening to "Mama Said Knock You Out (1991) - LL Cool J"

Thu, 07 May 2009 10:51:59 -0400

listening to "Mama Said Knock You Out (1991) - LL Cool J"

leo: trumcgowan: Moscow, 1988 The tourist with a camera on...

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:58:15 -0400

leo:

trumcgowan:

Moscow, 1988
The tourist with a camera on the left is undercover KGB agent Vladimir Putin.
(via laureola via soupsoup, mikehudack, ibeching)

I’m back. Did you miss me. I’m trying out the tumblr iPhone app. Who knows, I might...

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:56:55 -0400

I’m back. Did you miss me. I’m trying out the tumblr iPhone app. Who knows, I might start posting here again.

Goldn Corrl is so web 2.0

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:41:53 -0400

Goldn Corrl is so web 2.0

It’s not a party until you’re seeing double.

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:24:11 -0400

It’s not a party until you’re seeing double.

Why You Can’t Take Me Anywhere

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:37:36 -0400

Last night I attended a meeting at our local school. It was part of a larger program put on by the police to teach parents how to prevent their kids from using drugs when they get older.

My personal objective was to make it through the night without making any inappropriate jokes that would embarrass my wife. It was a narrow escape.

Let me tell you, there are some situations where it is physically painful to be me. There was one point in the program where I think I ruptured a spleen trying to keep the jokes in. It came during the module on methamphetamines.

A parent asked why anyone would take meth, given all the downside risk and side effects. One of the policemen answered that meth releases 50 times more serotonin in the brain than an orgasm. Then they showed a before and after picture that looked a lot like this one:

http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/MethResources/faces/photo_8.html

So I’m sitting there, doing the calculations in my head: Okay, that’s 4.5 years of meth use, once a day, 365 days in a year, 50 times more serotonin than an orgasm…that’s the equivalent of 80,000 orgasms.

On the downside, your teeth rot out, your skin itches until you scratch it off, you vomit, have withdrawals, possibly burn down the neighborhood, and roll around in your own filth while your life becomes a living Hell. And there is the jail thing.

Still, 80,000 orgasms…

I wanted to raise my hand while the “before and after” pictures were up and ask, “Isn’t that what anyone would look like after 80,000 orgasms?”

Or maybe, “So, on balance, you’re saying it’s totally worth it? Or am I doing the math wrong?”

But I didn’t. I listened for two and a half hours and tried my best to avoid looking like I had any of the telltale symptoms of hardcore addiction the policemen kept describing. I’m highly suggestible, so this was difficult. When they talked about the uncontrollable fidgeting, I realized I was fidgeting. When they talked about red eyes, I felt as if all the moisture in mine had evaporated. When they talked about the teeth grinding, I had an uncontrollable impulse to grind mine. I took deep breaths and tried to meditate so my pulse wouldn’t be too high – a sure sign of ecstacy use. I don’t think I was alone. The audience looked like a warehouse of mannequins by the end of the night. No one wanted to be a conspicuous fidgeter.

Then there was the bad guessing. The policeman would hold up a bag of one sort of drug or another and ask if anyone knew how much it would cost. No one wanted to nail the estimate on the first guess and have the drug dogs tearing out the upholstery in their minivan five minutes later. I was planning my own bad estimates in case I got called on. It would have gone something like this: “That looks like about a pound of cocaine, so I’m guessing it would be worth nine or ten dollars on the street. Am I close?”

I managed to get through the night without embarrassing myself, and without getting strip searched. I even got a free cookie, which spiked my blood glucose level and gave me a mild high, but I couldn’t enjoy it.

(via Brian’s shared items in Google Reader)

Darth Vader playing the harmonica (via billyfaithfull)

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:21:05 -0400

Darth Vader playing the harmonica (via billyfaithfull)

Sheriff’s Office busts 26 in drug investigation Apparently...

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:54:44 -0400

Sheriff’s Office busts 26 in drug investigation

Apparently they were all getting their hair cut at the time.

Ric Flair Finance

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:31:53 -0400

Ric Flair Finance:

This is where I’m getting my next loan!

This thing will get out from under you in a hurry.

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:57:02 -0400

This thing will get out from under you in a hurry.

"Football is 80% mental and 40% physical."

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:58:02 -0400

“Football is 80% mental and 40% physical.”

- Steve Emtman from the movie Little Giants.