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That was quite a fashion show. Now the question is how to get rid of a perma-grin.

Michael, Chris, Nick… you guys have any ideas?

I’m on a mailing list since I bought the curly maple to make the croquet mallet heads. So once a week or so I get an email with a picture of amazingly pretty wood for a fortune.

This week it was quilted spalted maple. If I were making a dining table, I’d definitely consider it.

However, the email was very very odd. I have no idea what the woman was possibly trying to say. Here’s the quote:

Aren’t these cool!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes when it was coming out of the planer. How amazing, this veneer grade log sat in a bog just long enough to make all the really crazy color and pattern.

We have more, I just creamed what we do have to show you the best of the best. Have a great night

What could that last sentence mean? Seriously, is she saying what I think she’s saying?

Christmas is on a Sunday this year, and what are a bunch of huge churches doing? Canceling church!

Seriously, what the fuck? You have this huge religious holiday and you decide to cancel your religious services? It’s especially bad since the reason they mention is that the people who help with services would like to be able to spend time with their families. So shouldn’t they just bring their fucking families to church?

Some Megachurches Closing for Christmas

Sidenote: I used to hate having Christmas on a Sunday… not only did it mean that we had to go to church a bunch of times in a row (Christmas Eve service and then Sunday morning service) but it meant that I had to give up part of my birthday for Church.

…you simply must check out today’s Order of the The Stick comic.

Wizard people, dear reader, indeed.

On my recent airplane trip, I got a Stuff magazine. Unfortunately, there were some little kids in the same aisle and I didn’t want to warp their little minds with images of scantily dressed women who belong to the tail of the genetic bell curve.

Anyway, I just got around to reading the lingerie “article” by Jenny McCarthy last night. The main point: expensive lingerie is good, but moderately priced stuff is probably better.

Her exact quote is in the comments. It was going sully the blog a little bit too much to have it out front.

When I was at the post office today, I saw a great license plate.

It was an Oldsmobile Silhouette and the plate was IMAUFO.

He said it well enough I’m just gonna quote the article:

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s chief astronomer said Friday that “intelligent design” isn’t science and doesn’t belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.

The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was “wrong” and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.

“Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be,” the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. “If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”