This evening dined with Mr. Jason, and my lady Betty, and her gentleman, which occasioned our thinking and remarking upon the happy life that we live now, having we nothing to care for but ourselves. Mr. Jason treated me most nobly, procuring a great platter of ribbonned dough seasoned in the Sicilian manner, and many flagons of ale and a bottle of wine, which was of very great flavour.

All our discourse and others are of his excellency's election, and we begin to speak of it very freely, and of Mr. Dean's outcry and of Mr. Kerry, who does wish to renounce the parliament and reside at his excellency's manse, supplanting his excellency thereby. Strange how these people do now promise anything: to each pauper a station, to each guild a full purse of coin, to each gentleman wisened with years a vessel of chemist's physic. I pray God to keep me from being too much lifted up thereby.

After that we went forth onto the high street and looked to buy a pair of tanned boots of sorrel hue and belt and hose, and finding none, after that Mr. Jason and the other gentleman led us to Brittania Tavern in Saint Monica's Lane, where Mr. H— and Mr. S— were, and we drank a great deal more of ale, and malted whiskey, and outside smoked the tobacco weed, and they paid all.

From thence to the Yankee Doodle tavern, where standing at the door Miss D— comes by, with her gentleman, and the two of them appearing very fond and loving to the other, and filled with drink. It pleasing us to admit them into our companie, we entered the tavern thusly and much merry making and reverie did come to pass, whilst betimes our gentlemen made to wager after the carom of the billiard.

After that took leave of our friends, who each of them was very sorry to part with us and such, and returned by my lady's carriage to Brent's Wood, and disembarking at the mews, retired by a lift conveyance to our dwelling flat, wherein we sat and talked, and beheld the television device before repairing to our respective chambers.

While in the midst of my ablutions and preparation for the bedchamber, did rang out from the telephone apparatus the announcement of my gentleman's very presence at the vestibule of our dwelling abode, though he bade us farewell but three quarters of the hour past. Still sleepy with drink and attired for the night, yet i took the gentleman into my chambers upstairs, and there did we dally a great while, drinking a mild beverage and talking till the gentleman began to be most loving to me and kind, whereupon was sustained the Latin nulla puella negat, but happily.

Posted by: annika at 02:26 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment
Post contains 482 words, total size 3 kb.

1 Your best yet, Annika. Pepys is proud. Do nice girls ever say no?

Posted by: Hugo at February 07, 2004 02:51 PM (R7IeP)

2 Right. OK. Fine. But didya get any?????? to each gentleman wisened with years a vessel of chemist's physic. Victorian Viagra! (Wonder if that'll have a hope in hell of getting through Pixy's Blacklist?) Beautifully done.

Posted by: Light & Dark at February 07, 2004 09:15 PM (Hrm9v)

3 Bravo! Excellente tournure. Kevin

Posted by: Kevin Kim at February 08, 2004 06:23 AM (WOf5M)

4 Actually, this version is somehow much more interesting than Peyps's.

Posted by: Matt Rustler at February 08, 2004 05:26 PM (of2d1)

5 "Pepys's," that is.

Posted by: Matt Rustler at February 08, 2004 05:27 PM (of2d1)

6 thanks, my pepys. i mean peeps.

Posted by: annika! at February 08, 2004 06:02 PM (TGZxa)

7 Prithee m'lady understand how her beauty of posting device has left us in a most betimely state of awe! Oh...and, hope the sex was great, too!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at February 08, 2004 06:31 PM (tN726)

8 A most delightful tale of merriment and mirth.

Posted by: Tiger at February 09, 2004 08:16 AM (qWgy0)

9 That is one of the best posts I have ever seen, on any blog. How creative!!

Posted by: ginger at February 09, 2004 11:12 AM (WX5CY)

10 find 'em, feed 'em, fuck 'em, forget 'em.

Posted by: JimmyCrackCorn at February 09, 2004 11:22 AM (/vawD)

11 nulla puella negat 1. "No young women says not" 2. "No young woman/girl refuses/denies [none/anything]" 3. "She refused me nothing"

Posted by: The Agnostic at February 09, 2004 04:27 PM (e09SV)

12 I don't know much about trackback, Annie, but I think yours may be malfunctioning. I linked to this post yesterday, but it's not showing up.

Posted by: Matt Rustler at February 09, 2004 09:17 PM (of2d1)

13 Ya know, letters to Penthouse usually work better when they're written in English.

Posted by: Victor at February 10, 2004 10:46 AM (L3qPK)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

This is one of my favorite pictures of Ronald Reagan. With the Statue in the background it's so allegorical, isn't it?

He was, and is, a truly great man.

Posted by: annika at 07:13 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 37 words, total size 1 kb.

i just checked out CW's blog, nosuchblog. He has a post about a disturbing occurrance that i hadn't heard about before. A Boeing 727 disappeared last year and no one knows where it is.

When last seen, the 727 was being taxied to the runway without clearance by a known airplane "repo man" from Miami named Ben Padilla.

Whew, apparently not.

There are actually a lot of jetliners out there being operated "on a shoestring" by various fly-by-night charter operators . . . . Occasionally the charter operators default on the lease, and the owners will send an airplane repo man to get the jet back.

. . .

But what makes this case unusual is the 727 never showed up anywhere in the world. Despite a concentrated search by the world's security services, there hasn't been a trace of the missing airplane since it took off from Luanda. What makes this case more interesting is the economics of old 727s. They generally aren't worth much. The cost of stealing one, flying it around the world, repainting, and refitting it is generally more than it is worth. You'd be better served to simply buy a nicer one close to where you are.

A big suspicion, because of the extra internal fuel, was that terrorists had procured the aircraft to use in a Sept 11-style attack. This is why just about everyone in the world was looking for this plane.

Update: At Freedom of Thought, Claudia posted this e-mail, supposedly from Mr. Padilla's brother, and this update back in August.

Posted by: annika at 12:11 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
Post contains 325 words, total size 2 kb.

Without entering the fray on the AWOL controversy, (You probably can guess where i come down on that one, anyway.) i wanted to shed some light on the plane George W. Bush learned to fly back in the day. Kind of a bookend to my famous post on his fatherÂ’s plane (and this gives me an excuse to recycle that link yet again).

Truth be told, the F-102A was almost obsolete by the time George W. Bush began flying them. But in itÂ’s day, ConvairÂ’s Delta Dagger was pretty badass. It was billed as the first supersonic all weather fighter. It first flew in 1955 and began operational service about two years after the Korean armistice. Nine hundred and seventy-five were built by the Convair division of General Dynamics between 1955 and 1960. It was used sparingly in Vietnam. Later, some planes were sold to The Greek and Turkish air forces, and it flew during the Cyprus conflict of 1974.

It was big. If iÂ’m not mistaken, i think it was the biggest fighter weÂ’ve ever had. At over 68 feet long, it was almost six feet longer than the F-4E Phantom, which was no midget itself. But with only one engine, the Delta Dagger weighed half as much as an F-4.

The weight difference makes sense when you consider the mission of the F-102A. ItÂ’s kind of misleading to call it a fighter, because thatÂ’s a term that encompasses a wide variety of planes that were designed to do vastly different things. ItÂ’s more accurate to call the Delta Dagger an interceptor.

To understand the job of an interceptor, as opposed to a pure air superiority fighter, you have to remember what we were afraid of back in the Fifties and early Sixties. These were the early years of the Cold War, before intercontinental ballistic missiles. If a nuclear war happened, it would have been fought by long range bombers penetrating the enemyÂ’s homeland to drop bombs just like in World War II.

To defend against these long range bombers, the superpowers relied on early warning radar to detect an attack and interceptors to stop it. The idea was to shoot down the bombers as far away from the homeland as possible. Early warning radars needed to detect the bombers while they were still far enough away for the defending interceptors to take off and get within range.

Thus, speed was the one overwhelming requirement for a true interceptor. Maneuverability was not so important. These planes were like dragsters, not formula one cars. They needed to get within range of the bombers fast, so they could shoot them down before the bombers crossed into homeland territory or got near their targets. The Delta Dagger had no guns; interceptors werenÂ’t intended for dogfighting.

We had the Delta Dagger, and itÂ’s unbelievably fast successor, ConvairÂ’s F-106 Delta Dart. The Russians came up with the Yakovlev Yak-28 and the huge Tupolev Tu-28 Fiddler. Perhaps since it was the first of its kind, BushÂ’s Dagger was relatively slow compared to the Delta Dart and the Russian Fiddler. The DaggerÂ’s top speed was only 825 mph, while the Dart went 1,587 mph.

The strategy was for interceptor units to be ready to scramble on a momentÂ’s notice, in the event of a nuclear attack. They would race towards the incoming bombers and fire air-to-air missiles as soon as they came into missile range. i would guess that the range of an interceptor was important, but then the range of the air to air missiles would be added to the aircraft range.

i don't want to sound like iÂ’m minimizing the contributions of the brave pilots who flew the F-102A. Those men stood guard so my parents could sleep at night during a very dangerous period of the Cold War. Still, flying the F-102 was not the same as flying a Phantom over Vietnam. Interceptor pilots sort of pointed their plane in the right direction and stomped on the gas pedal. The radar automatically guided the plane into attack position and fired the missiles.

Thankfully, we never discovered whether interceptors would have been enough to stop a nuclear bomber attack. There was a period of time when military planners thought that the wave of the future would be faster and faster bombers. But that ended in the early 1970s when strategic planning had abandoned the idea of nuclear bombers penetrating enemy territory. The new method of nuclear war relied on inter-continental ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and submarine launched missiles. Obviously the interceptor was no defense against these newer strategic weapons. The nuclear missile made the long range bomber obsolete. And when the bomber was no longer needed, the interceptors became extinct too.

Although the Delta Dagger remained in service until 1974, the U.S. Air Force began moving its interceptors to National Guard units at the end of the sixties. So by the time George W. Bush graduated from his T-33A trainer into an F-102A at Ellington AFB, his unitÂ’s mission had already begun the transition from air defense on 24 hour alert status to pilot training.

ItÂ’s a tricky thing to try to place a value on one individualÂ’s service in the Armed Forces. Who am i to judge? i have a friend who has the seemingly cushy task of serving on the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman as an administrative clerk. Besides the fact that sheÂ’s sitting in a gigantic floating target, sheÂ’s doing a hell of a lot more to serve her country than i am doing, even if her duties are somewhat mundane. i would never denigrate her service, because she volunteered and every person in the military is there to protect me.

Obviously, flying an obsolete plane in a training squadron is different than driving a boat in the Mekong Delta. Still, they also serve who only stand and wait. Bush had the misfortune (or good fortune, depending on your perspective) of being born a few years too late for his chosen mission. We shouldnÂ’t hold it against him that he became an interceptor pilot at a time when that mission was winding down for reasons he probably was not aware of when he joined. If he had served in the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group a few years earlier, he would have been on the front lines of the Cold War, a far more important and potentially dangerous war than KerryÂ’s Vietnam. i donÂ’t think that lessens the value of his service to our country one bit.

Bonus trivia question: What is the plane in the picture doing?

Posted by: annika at 12:09 AM | Comments (28) | Add Comment
Post contains 1100 words, total size 7 kb.

Once again, Frank J. has outdone himself. Read his satire of the typical Democratic Underground.com comment thread, which can be used equally well with any topic.

Posted by: annika at 06:21 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 30 words, total size 1 kb.

This piece at Free Republic.com appealed to my love of historical irony so much, i am reprinting it in full here:

We must fact the fact that our Republican president was a DESERTER! He never even served in the REAL military. Instead he was in the Illinois state militia during the Blackhawk War and NEVER saw any combat. Captain Abraham Lincoln even admitted years later that the worst he suffered in the Blackhawk War was a bunch of mosquito bites. Not only that, even though Captain Abraham Lincoln mustered out of the militia on July 10, 1832, there is NO RECORD of a Captain Abraham Lincoln being in the militia (not a REAL army) from May 27, 1832 to July 10, 1832. One can only conclude, despite any facts to the contrary, that Abraham Lincoln was a DESERTER. At the very least he was AWOL.

Contrast that sad military record with that of our great Democrat, George McClellan who bravely faced down Quaker Guns outside Richmond, VA in 1862. McClellan, who is now running for president, is absolutely correct in his assertion that Lincoln is a miserable failure as a president especially since he did not seek the advice and consent from our European allies in the War of Rebellion. I look forward to a political campaign featuring a distinguished REGULAR military officer with a chest full of medals up against a Republican deserter who slacked off in the militia, not the REAL army. One candidate spent the war slacking off and suffering from nothing more than a bunch of mosquito bites and the other candidate is a genuine WAR HERO who did not desert.

This November the choice is yours. VOTE for the Democrat candidate WAR HERO....NOT the Republican deserter.

p.s. Did I mention that the Democrat candidate is a WAR HERO?

Link thanks to Professor Hewitt.

Posted by: annika at 04:38 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 402 words, total size 3 kb.

Because i'm big enough to admit it when i'm wrong, even if belatedly, i want to point out that the following statement was made in error:

What about Edwards and Kerry? In my crystal ball, the only question is whether Edwards and Kerry will endorse Dean or Clark after they drop out.

In my own defense, i wrote that on January 16th, before Iowa, and nobody was giving Kerry or Edwards any chance back then. The media, with their far left goggles had fallen in love with Dean. Everyone else, including me, felt a temptation to accept the media's skewed judgement without question. In reality, the rank and file Democrat always had doubts about Dean, thus the "apparent" Kerry surge. i think media pundits and bloggers, on the left and the right, were hoodwinked by a little wishful thinking in regards to Dean. i can understand the traditional media falling for him and missing Kerry, but we bloggers are supposed to know better. We're the "new media" after all.

Posted by: annika at 07:37 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment
Post contains 171 words, total size 1 kb.

i promised you news of my doings during my recent trip to Detroit. We didn't work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so our hosts gave us tickets to the North American International Auto Show at the Cobo Center. Always thinking of you, my visitors, i took some photographs of the cars that really impressed me.

Outside it was freezing cold. i'm not used to it. i'm a Californian, my nordic blood notwithstanding. Snow is something that belongs in the mountains. You ski on it. You don't drive on it. 50° is about as cold as i want it to be outside. Not fucking 20°!

There were five of us. Paul and i were the two senior paralegals, Linda and Grace the two associates, and Patricia the temp paralegal. The other temp, Kathy, stayed in the hotel room nursing the flu, which she eventually passed on to the rest of us.

The convention center was a sea of people. On the day we were there, the attendance was 41,415! And at any given time, at least one of the five of us was lost. Someone was always lagging behind, gawking at a vehicle, or in Paul's case, gawking at a spokesmodel. We used up a lot of cellphone minutes just trying to keep track of each other. Here's a view of the bedlam that greeted us inside the Cobo center.

One of the first cars that caught our eye was this Lincoln convertible concept car. Everything is going retro these days, but i think Ford did a real nice job on this baby. A little stodgy for my taste, but cool nonetheless. One thing i really liked was the pale cream colored leather interior. It was almost bluish; i've never seen a color like it. The official pictures are here.

No one does retro like Jaguar, though.

The Pontiac Solstice will be available next year, so i was told. It looks great, but i remember how shitty the Fiero was. Hopefully Pontiac has learned their lesson.

About lunchtime we all went out to the concession stands and paid through the nose for some hot dogs and sodas, which they called "pop." There was some sort of rock band playing music in the arena and we hung out there while we ate. Unfortunately, being the only smoker in the group i had to duck outside and freeze my ass to keep my nicotine levels up. Paul was nice enough to accompany me and chase away any homeless dudes, while i smoked.

We all kidded Linda about getting a new car. She makes a shitload of money, but she's still driving the same car she had in law school. A beat up Corolla from the eighties! She doesn't want to get rid of it because it's paid for and it still runs great. But we made it our mission to select Linda's next car and then apply relentless pressure on her until she buys it. My pick was this thing:

Too bad it's only a concept car and not on the market yet. It's called the Subaru B9SC Roadster, it's a hybrid and it is phat! Official pics are here. The windshield is made of special glass that changes the tint like some sunglasses do. Confidentially, i think Linda needs to upgrade her image to something sportier. Maybe this car will be available for sale by the time her Toyota finally craps out on her.

Paul noted that Linda's style is, shall we say, simple, tasteful, conservative . . . maybe somewhat dowdy. i don't think she considered that a compliment. At any rate, Paul encouraged her to stay with what made her comfortable. His choice for Linda's next vehicle was the Chrysler 300. That didn't go over too well either. i didn't take a picture of it, but here's what it looks like. Contemporarily stodgy. A bit more mature than my friend would like to go.

i think we all agreed on Linda's future car when we saw the new BMW mini SUV. We fell in love with it. It's called the X3. i sat in it and it's wonderful. So comfy. i just love the seats in german cars.

i didn't take any pictures of the X3 because it was at that moment that i heard music and birds singing and a heavenly light shone down and i became dizzy with feelings of intense desire. i saw this vehicle:

Oh yes, my darlings. BMW has revived the 6 series. In convertible. i stood there slack jawed and repeated to myself, "yes . . . yes . . . yes . . . 645ci, you are mine, baby!" Sure i'll never be able to afford it without marrying rich. But lemme dream, okay? i would look so damn good driving along Sunset in that bitch with the top down at a ridiculously high rate of speed. i get all weak and tingly just thinking about it. Gaze at these official pics, if you will. It's simply gorgeous.

After they dragged me away from my new love, we all went back to the hotel to rest and get ready for the evening. We met up with some of the in-house people for our client, who drove us down to a place called Dave & Buster's, which is apparently a chain, although it was the first i'd heard of them. They make a very good desert with bananas and caramel sauce.

The place is like an adult video arcade. Paul was in heaven. i tried a few of the shooting games, but i really liked the airplane simulator, even though i kept crashing. We had fun even though we couldn't get rip-roaring drunk like we wanted. We tried to keep up appearances since we were with the client's employees and we had to work early the next day.

And that was how i spent my MLK day.

Posted by: annika at 10:33 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 996 words, total size 7 kb.

Please don't think that i'm turning this into a Brittany Spears bashing site. (It's just that she's such an easy target.) i promise i'll take a break from mentioning her for a while, but i can't not mention this inspired poem by the Big Hominid, about the American Skankwoman.

Posted by: annika at 09:23 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 55 words, total size 1 kb.

She does wear her hair like me, though.

Innocent


What's your sexual appeal?
brought to you by Quizilla

Posted by: annika at 08:04 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 32 words, total size 1 kb.

"Rise and shine, campers, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today!"

Ha ha. i love the movie. Bill Murray is the best. i laugh and cry and think, every time i see it.

"A thousand people, freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat."

Posted by: annika at 03:44 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 55 words, total size 1 kb.

1 One of my favorites!

Posted by: Ted at February 03, 2004 05:41 AM (blNMI)

2 Don't drive angry. DON'T drive angry! Great movie.

Posted by: Budly at February 03, 2004 12:31 PM (6/1Z7)

3 I would love to see Bill snag that Oscar, even if it's not for Ghostbusters

Posted by: Susie at February 04, 2004 01:08 PM (0+cMc)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

This appears to be the week for me to blog about nipples, seen or unseen.

Kevin's Wizbang is the place to go for pictures of Janet Jackson's boob and what i now know is a "nipple shield," not a pastie or a piece of tape as some have suggested. That's fucking sick. And i say that as someone with a pierced tongue. Anybody who thought that Janet might be the only normal one in that family . . . think again.

Oh, by the way, i was named Wizbang's Blog of the Day. Thanks Kevin! (Let me know if that PayPal bribe didn't go through.)

And, in reference to my previous nipple related post, where Brant commented that he thought Brittany's nips were lower than normal due to a botched implant job, lookie here. Kin, posting at Jen's has the photographic proof, not only of the American Skankwoman's augmentation, but also of the below the equator orientation of her little nippies. Good work Kin!

Update: Ginger opines on Nip Slippage.

Posted by: annika at 11:37 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment
Post contains 178 words, total size 1 kb.

1 I, ummm, don't feel comfortable hammering on other peoples' piercable bits. Some would say that my piercing is pretty icky, too.

Posted by: zombyboy at February 02, 2004 12:00 AM (X7Bhq)

2 Have you seen the site that traces Britney's evolution from A-cup to C (and maybe D) cup - and back again? Her boobies vary over time. Maybe the girls got inflatable implants...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 02, 2004 06:06 AM (jtW2s)

3 So Annika, in honor of your nipple-blogging week, what are the odds of you posting a topless pic. You know not that I'm asking for gratuitous nudity or anything. I'm just thinking theme here, and what better way to get it going.. Just a suggestion.. I'm thinking logos, promotion, corporate sponsors.. 'Annika's boob week'. I could be huge.. I'm gonna get banned now, huh?

Posted by: Rob at February 02, 2004 08:00 AM (QDVwP)

4 So Annika, in honor of your nipple-blogging week, what are the odds of you posting a topless pic. You know not that I'm asking for gratuitous nudity or anything. I'm just thinking theme here, and what better way to get it going.. Just a suggestion.. I'm thinking logos, promotion, corporate sponsors.. 'Annika's boob week'. It could be huge.. I'm gonna get banned now, huh?

Posted by: Rob at February 02, 2004 08:01 AM (QDVwP)

5 A stupid comment, and it double posted. I suck.

Posted by: rob at February 02, 2004 08:02 AM (QDVwP)

6 In the immortal words of Patsy on AbFab... "Accident, sweetie".

Posted by: d-rod at February 02, 2004 10:40 AM (CSRmO)

7 Three times is the charm?

Posted by: annika at February 02, 2004 11:04 AM (zAOEU)

8 Annie- just curious, if you really get down to it, just how is it that a nipple shield is that much different than a spike through your tongue? i asked my little sister why she got her tongue pierced and she said to me, "there is only ONE reason to do it, and if you don't know what that is, i'm not gonna tell ya" body modification is a very personal thing, and many people do many seemingly odd things for reasons only known to them. does that really make them sick or perverted? i'm not so sure. i'd never judge you for that sort of thing (hell, i think it's sexy) but i think you might be exhibiting a bit of intolerance on this one. i do still luv ya though arf coyote arf coyote

Posted by: coyote at February 02, 2004 11:09 AM (cfoFZ)

9 "body modification is a very personal thing, and many people do many seemingly odd things for reasons only known to them. does that really make them sick or perverted?" Not necessarily, but in the case any member of the Jacko family, the answer is yes. Seriously 'Yote, i do have my preferences where body art is concerned. i pierced my tongue, my nose and my navel. But i wouldn't pierce my nips, too sensitive. i dated a couple of guys with pierced nips and i did find that a bit sexy. i dated guys with pierced tongues too. That was, um, different. About half of my friends have pierced tongues, too. What you see as intolerance is just a matter of aesthetic taste for me. A guy with a little ring on his nip is sexy, if he has the attitude to match, but i don't think lip rings are attractive in any circumstance. i'm ambivalent about eyebrow piercing on either sex. What's the point of that? i like tattoos, but i think a big hunkin sun tat on the tummy is ugly. i have no prob with nip piercing, per se, but attaching a shield is overdoing it, in my opinion. It makes me cringe to think what would happen if that material had gotten caught on one of the spikes when Justin pulled it off. Yeeoow.

Posted by: annika at February 02, 2004 03:35 PM (zAOEU)

10 ok Annie- i must have just misread "That's fucking sick" and "Anyone who thought that Janet might the only normal one in that family... think again." my bad. ;-) coyote

Posted by: coyote at February 02, 2004 04:10 PM (cfoFZ)

11 Annika: Did I call that or what? Poor woman. You have to pity someone who spends all that money on a boob job and then her nips point not only down, but in different directions.

Posted by: Brant at February 02, 2004 05:31 PM (WfQGW)

12 I think I'm gonna follow Rob's lead and make this into a world wide effort. Think of it as Girls Gone Wild:Spring Blog '04 Show your tits!

Posted by: Kin at February 04, 2004 11:22 AM (IDa3v)

13 Have you ever had a wardrobe malfunction, annika?

Posted by: d-rod at February 05, 2004 06:20 PM (GNk2j)

14 buy stock newsletter from our secure server! get next day delivery free! and save over 70% on all of our popular brand name medications. Delete if you dont like it.

Posted by: order stock newsletter at January 26, 2005 06:00 PM (MChdQ)

15 buy merchant account from our secure server! get next day delivery free! and save over 70% on all of our popular brand name medications. Delete if you dont like it.

Posted by: order merchant account at January 26, 2005 06:00 PM (MChdQ)

16 buy pharmacy from our secure server! get next day delivery free! and save over 70% on all of our popular brand name medications. Delete if you dont like it.

Posted by: order pharmacy at January 26, 2005 06:01 PM (MChdQ)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

Tony Pierce's new project, Lick Magazine, was launched today at halftime of the [Most Excellent] Bowl. i read through it and hereby pronounce it to be rad, very rad.

Posted by: annika at 11:00 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 35 words, total size 1 kb.

New England 32, Carolina 29. The Pats win by one field goal. i said they'd win by two. The Pats didn't cover the spread. i said they wouldn't. i told you to take the Panthers plus 7 points. i hope you did. Did you take the over? i should have told you about that too.

i am awesome!

It was actually a pretty good game, too. Good defensive play in the first half, big offensive plays in the second. i was cheering for both offenses in the fourth quarter, because i wanted my predictions to come true. My friends were looking at me funny.

When New England made that 2 point conversion, i thought i would have a push, but then Carolina tied it up and i knew i was golden. Didn't i point out that Vinatieri was going to be key? Yes, i did.

i am so awesome!

P.S. i missed the whole halftime tittie fest, since i was out on a beer run. i can't stand Janet anyway and Justin bugs me. Apparently, Zomby wasn't impressed. And Shae's blog has good coverage of the er, uncoverage.

i did catch the National Anthem and was gratified to see Beyonce sing it with grace and dignity, unlike her ass-shaking spectacular from last Fourth of July in front of General Grant's tomb.

Link thanks to Michele.

Posted by: annika at 07:39 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
Post contains 235 words, total size 2 kb.

1 I think Yahoo may have it wrong; that move looked deliberate to me, and I thought (although the camera was pretty far back) that she had her nipple covered with latex or something.

Posted by: Matt Rustler at February 01, 2004 08:23 PM (of2d1)

2 I am finished with my rant, so I thought I'd check out what you had to say about the halftime show. The Houston paper has a pic that shows that she was wearing a flesh colored cloth over her mammary projectile. The CBS Sportline poll asking which moment is the most memorable called what happened a "wardrobe malfunction." Uh, yeah. How can something planned be a malfunction? I know so many kids who were watching that show. I am so disgusted. I thought Janet had more class than that. She had said that she was going to have a special surpise guest at the show and I guess the surprise guest was her "exposed" breast. Does Michael Jackson need his sibling to expose herself in front of millions of people right now? Is that helping his case? Okay. I'm finished... I have to calm down and get to bed. I have to work tomorrow and a job interview Tuesday (yay!). You didn't miss ANYTHING during the halftime show.

Posted by: Shae at February 01, 2004 09:10 PM (9lKAK)

3 Surprise, surprise, surprise... CBS says they knew nothing about the incident and Justin says it was an unfortunate accident. I looked at the picture again and really couldn't tell if anything besides her hand was covering herself, but still... I am interested in knowing, if it was a wardrobe malfunction, what WAS supposed to happen when he reached over there? How is it that he grabbed and pulled the fabric so hard that it ripped off -- and it was an accident? Hmm... I'm sure this will get more interesting over the next few days... and look for a skit on Saturday Night Live soon.

Posted by: Shae at February 01, 2004 09:26 PM (9lKAK)

4 I'm following Annika for all my football betting needs next year. Do you do NHL, too? As for "wardrobe malfunction", I call bullshit. That was planned, she had the tassle on, and it was simply meant to be controversial. I've already said my piece on my overall feeling on the subject, but to lie about it afterward is just pathetic. Heh. Not that I have an opinion on the subject...

Posted by: zombyboy at February 01, 2004 09:42 PM (X7Bhq)

5 Yes, yes, the Jacksons are all freaks. I question how any of those poseurs ended up on stage in the first place. Now Toby Keith would have given us a powerful and emotional halftime instead of banality. As for the game... One rarely sees such pathetic officiating in the NFL. The fix was in. If you don't believe me, TIVO back to the last NE TD, and watch the receiver as he comes off the line, grabs the DB and shoves him to the ground before running 25 yards down the field to make the catch. Pathetic.

Posted by: Casca at February 01, 2004 09:51 PM (RXTfP)

6 Ha ha Shae. "Mammary projectile" is a good one. Zomby, i know about as much about hockey as i know about football. Casca, if Toby Keith had been doing the halftime show, i might have stuck around for it.

Posted by: annika! at February 01, 2004 10:27 PM (doUdg)

7 This sort of thing is becoming more common for has-been stars. first the Britteny Madonna kiss now this. Their overwhelming lack of talent is not keeping them in the spotlight so they have to do something.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at February 02, 2004 07:58 AM (UquFN)

8 hell. i didn't even know they were still playing football this time of year. who was playing anyway? :-) arf coyote

Posted by: coyote at February 02, 2004 03:42 PM (cfoFZ)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

This is funny. i'm not in it thank goodness. Guess who is the Ace of Spades, though. Link thanks to Kevin.

Posted by: annika at 01:23 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 33 words, total size 1 kb.

Many people have wondered why i haven't posted my prediction for today's [Most Excellent] Bowl game. (Okay, one person wondered.) So here it is.

Carolina Panthers vs. New England Patriots. Funny, neither team represents an actual state, just a large region. New England is favored by 7 points. The field is neutral of course, since the game is being played at Reliant Stadium in Houston. But i heard somewhere that Carolina has never practiced on artificial turf until this week. That sounds funny, but if it's true could it factor in somehow?

Friday, Rush Limbaugh said the game will be close. He picked the Patriots, but didn't think they'd cover the spread. That makes it very tempting for me to predict that the Patsies will cover.

It's really not that hard of a game to handicap, though. Tom Brady, besides being just about as adorable as any football player i've ever seen, can also show flashes of greatness on the field when it counts. And don't forget that NE has Vinatieri and [Most Excellent] Bowl experience on their side.

So, i say Carolina won't roll over, but New England will pull it out by six. Therefore, take the Panthers and the 7 points, if you get the chance.

Posted by: annika at 12:29 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 210 words, total size 2 kb.

You gotta see this video of a Supermarine Spitfire in flight. It's hilarious.

"Fuck me!" LOL.

Just watch it.

Thanks for the link Matt. It's best viewed on a high speed connection. But if, like me, you are on dial up, just click the link to save it (right click: select target as . . .), then after it's downloaded it should run in the Windows Media Player without all those annoying pauses.

Posted by: annika at 11:03 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 77 words, total size 1 kb.

1 Airplanes are so f-ing cool . . .

Posted by: Matt at February 01, 2004 11:52 AM (of2d1)

2 Holy crap! I would've ducked, too. Great video.

Posted by: zombyboy at February 01, 2004 09:44 PM (X7Bhq)

3 Interesting.

Posted by: Stephany J at November 06, 2004 08:48 PM (WgEFB)

Hide Comments | Add Comment