Somebody won the Superbowl!

I’m celebrating that it’s over. Yay!

Post-game chatter about the game, the half-time event, the commercials, all go here. I’ll stay out of it, not knowing anything about it.

I guess the biggest news about the football game was Madonna’s performance at the half-time. Here it is.

It was cheesy, overblown, grandiose pop. She delivered exactly what was expected of her, competently and with talent. I don’t quite understand all the hating that’s been going on — is it just that women over 40 are always going to get slammed for not being women under 20?

Episode CCXCVII: FREEDOM!

Octopus escapes! Everyone cheer!


We caught this Octopus in a shrimp trap here in Alaska. It had crawled in through a 3 inch opening and terrorized our catch of spot prawns, killing and eating several of them, and then, attached itself to the bait jar and unscrewed the lid to open for dessert of prepared shrimp bait pellets! We decided to let this brilliant creature go (option was to eat it! …yum!) as I respected it’s intelligence and genius. We set it on the deck and let it “escape” on it’s own… Cool fun with a sea creature!

Episode CCXCVI: Cowboys & Creationists.

Episode CCXCIII: A belated happy birthday to Janis

Her birthday was yesterday, and I would have posted this here earlier, but you all were dragging your heels about filling up the eternal thread.

I first discovered Janis when I was 12, and I was afraid there might be something sinful about her, because every time I listened, I felt funny. Good funny, but kind of dangerous funny, too. But now that I’m a little bit older, I know that she was wicked, the best kind of wicked there is.

Even now when I listen to Janis I feel that same deep-down funny.

(Episode CCXCII: Eradicating all junk science.)