Entries from June 2008 ↓

This one’s all over the place… new stuff from the likes of Frustration, The Vickroids, Mac Blackout, Jaunita Y Los Feos, old stuff from the Lollipop Shoppe, The Motions, The John Does, Rudy Ray Moore, The Mystic Tide, plus lots in between (Country Teasers, Crime, Dead Moon, Lost Sounds, The Gears, The Weirdos, The Philisteins), and lots more deranged rock’n'roll wildness to help kick-start your weekend. Turn it up!

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I just set up a Personal Fundraising page on Barack Obama’s website. Please join me in supporting his campaign for President of the United States and help me meet my goal of $1,000 by contributing however much you can afford.

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OK, this is just wrong on so many levels. The Associated Press pointed out in a story published today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that there’s a glaring grammatical error (the missing hyphen in “Show-Me”) and the fact that the Missouri State Department of Revenue refuses to fix it because “that’s how the plate looked when it won an online contest last year” (I suppose if the state’s name had been misspelled that they would have also left that alone, too), but this is all beside the point of the even more glaring fact that this is the ugliest, most embarrassing “design” (if you dare to even call it that) of a license plate in history! From the ugly color gradient to the uninspiring font usage to the boring state outline to the tiny image of the bluebird stuck way down at the bottom… it’s worse than bad. It’s horrible! Maybe if enough of us let them know how much it sucks, they’ll change it? I know, I know… don’t hold your breath.

Way to go, MO!

It’s been a while since I last got a spam comment on the GaragePunk.com blog worthy of reposting here, but this one that came in this morning made me laugh. Of course the links have been removed so as not to give the spammers their just deserts, and the original comment was marked as spam, but here it is for what it’s worth…

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Actually, I guess that one is more like a short story than haiku…

It’s been almost four months since we had to have Ruby put to sleep, so we began our search for a new dog to add to our family last weekend. Our search didn’t last long… in fact, we found an adorable puppy that we just could not resist adopting on our first Humane Society visit (at the Maryland Heights location). Little was known about this pup except that she had been dropped off by someone on May 27 and was 4 months old (my guess is that she was either a stray or runaway). As far as the Humane Society workers knew, she didn’t even have a name! So they named her Trixie, spayed her and gave her the shots she needed and put her up on the Humane Society’s adoptable pet photos site. I guess they were told that she was a “lab mix,” but looking at her and seeing her behavior, we believe she is a full-blooded black lab (and from the looks of her paws, she’s probably going to end up being pretty big, too). She’s incredible sweet and loving, too. Very well behaved. We think she’ll be a great pet for us and a perfect companion for our son, Miles.

By the way, speaking of Miles, he and I took Trixie on her first walk to McDonald Park a few days ago, and she immediately ran into a large pool of rain water that had collected beneath one of the swing sets there and started splashing around (even sticking her face down in the dirty water):

Yep! That’s a lab, alright. No doubt about it.

Oh, and I also found a great message board online for Labrador Retrievers, too. So far it has been very helpful in answering a few of our questions about the breed. Check it out at Lab-Retriever.net.

I’ve uploaded some photos of our abbreviated trip to Seattle last month. Overall, we had a good time despite the news that my father’s health was deteriorating over the weekend and would pass away on Monday (Memorial Day), forcing us to return to St. Louis a week early.

We stayed with friends in Ballard (a northern neighborhood of Seattle that overlooks Puget Sound) and got to visit some interesting places like the Ballard Locks, Golden Gardens Beach (in Ballard), the Seattle Farmers Market, the Seattle Aquarium (by far Milo’s favorite attraction of the trip!) and, of course, the Space Needle (see pic above). We also had some of the BEST hamburgers we’ve ever eaten at a place called the Lunchbox Laboratory (unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of that… was too enthralled in just how delicious the burger was!). We had some really tasty (and cheap) fish & chips at a couple of different places, too, although we did not get a chance to have a really good seafood dinner like we had hoped we would.

The weather was a bit cooler (and wetter) than we were hoping for… the first two days especially, which were very cool, damp, and cloudy. The weekend was really nice, though, and the sun was out for both Saturday and Sunday as well as part of Monday (Memorial Day). We had to fight huge, Fair St. Louis-style crowds when we went to the Space Needle, though, as the Northwest Folklife Festival was going on.

Seattle wasn’t all that much bigger than St. Louis, although it’s definitely different. Different food, culture, climate, and scenery. I’d like to go back again soon, especially to finish out our original vacation plans by going to Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula and making it down to Oregon… Seaside and Portland as well as Mt. Hood and the Columbia River Gorge. Unfortunately that will have to wait until we can reschedule. Maybe in the Fall…