Saturday Morning Cartunes with Dietrich

Sometimes I wonder what radio DJ's I hear look like. When I hear Dietrich from the Saturday morning 6-9AM slot on WMSE I picture Lieut. Dan from Forrest Gump. I shouldn't be surprised if Dietrich looks nothing like this but I bet he did at one time. At the same time Gary Sinise doesn't sound anything like Dietrich does. I also wonder about Haven from the same time slot on Wednesday mornings. She sounds very much like a former friend of mine from my early college years and I have a hard time getting that out of my head when I hear the radio on Wednesday mornings. It's uncanny. It's like they were separated at birth or something. I'll bet she looks nothing at all like I imagine.

I'll have to go to a radio station event sometime to find out what everybody looks like. I think they have a chili cookoff or something every year. I'm not sure when that is. I think Dietrich said this morning that he might check out the Primus show tonight at the Rave. Maybe I'll go to that and see if I'm able to find a guy that looks like Lieut. Dan but with legs.

Turns out Doogie Howser is gay

That surprises me. It really does. I found out today from a friend that Doogie Howser disclosed that he's gay. According to the news story here he says he's "a very content gay man". Who are we going to hear that from next? That Fred Savage guy from the Wonder Years? My friend also heard a rumor Kirk Hammett from Metallica was gay too. I researched that a little as well but I couldn't find anything. That appears to be hearsay. Not that it matters gay or straight but I hated that Doogie Howser show. Same thing with the Wonder Years. I had a roommate in college that liked both shows and watched them all the time in reruns which were on constantly around the time. It just made me hate them more. They were just such utterly stupid TV shows.

Sick Dog

Jon Carry Banner

"Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." -Sen. John Kerry

My opinion is this. I don't think he intentionally set out to insult our armed forces in Iraq. The words that he said probably didn't come out as planned but I think reflect his true beliefs about A. the intelligence level of a person who chooses to serve in the military in the absence of a draft and B. the reasons they choose to serve in the military. I'm not buying that it was a botched joke. What was the joke supposed to be again? Then he at first refuses to apologize but then laters caves into the pressure and does so. That's revealing in and of itself.


The Soldiers Behind the Banner from the blog of Charlie Sykes

I killed rabbits

I shot them. This was many years ago now. I think I was still living at home at the time. We had problems with them eating the garden or plants or something so we kept a pellet gun handy in case we spotted any of them. My mom gave my dad and I the go ahead to kill them. The first one I killed I shot from about 20 yards straight into the rabbits' ear. It was a good shot I thought. It dropped dead instantly right where it sat. The second rabbit I killed first ran off to the neighbors yard. My dad circled around to scare it back toward me. I think it died a shot or 2 later but it was more of a challenge and involved some tactics and strategy. If I remember correctly one of my shots went into its' ear just like my first one. Now the last rabbit I killed I still feel a little bad about. As I approached I could see that it was a pretty small one. It didn't run or anything. I walked right up to it and shot it at pretty close range. I remember beforehand standing there wondering whether I was going to listen to my conscience or to my mother. This one was just too easy. I chose the latter but after that I didn't want to kill any more rabbits. That was the last thing I ever killed. Since then I've only shot at soda cans in the backyard or at pieces of paper at the range.

That same summer was the time when we got a visit from a policeman at our house. Our back yard has a wood fence around it and bushes but apparently a passerby saw us with the pellet gun and called the police on us. I think we stepped outside the fence to see if a rabbit ran that way when they saw I had it. We found out it's against the law to fire a weapon of any kind within our village. I guess that makes sense but whatever. Who gives a rip about hunting rabbits with a pellet gun? It's not like it was a .22 or something. We checked with all our neighbors and they didn't care. They wanted the rabbits gone as much as we did. They were a real problem that year.