First?

I’m turning 40 tomorrow. I have to pick up my bad back today at the age-appropriate maladies office.

Hey, I keep noticing the MT Anderson ads over there to the right. I think I’m going to go to that. Is anyone else a fan?

I can enjoy that video without a trace of irony. Good stuff. Either Jethro or Homer plays a mean mandolin.

Happy Birthday Kurtis!

Shoot, I thought it was a Homer Simpson thing. Why is there a guy in the background wearing a matador outfit?

Happy bday Kurtis!

Happy birthday Kurtis, you should be happy to know that I picked up the bad back just this last year at the ripe old age of thirty thanks to a pillow top mattress that the wife had to have. Rest easy knowing that I had the pleasure of paying eight hundred some bucks for it and you may pick it up for free.

Enjoyed the J & H musical interlude, max. Happy birthday, kurtis. If you liked 40, wait until you hit 50. Wo, wo!

Today’s Headline of the Week.

What’s so funny? It was on the front page of today’s Star Tribune.

(slaps Nancy Barnes accros face)

The reporter on that story, Brooks Barnes from the NY Times, was a college roommate of mine.

Looking at crazy comments on this story on Minnesota job losses in the Srib. Many blame Obama. huh?

My personal fav: “Why don’t they state how many jobs were lost due to the smoking ban?”

From the article: Only three employment sectors remained positive: Education and health services added 1,700 jobs, leisure and hospitality gained 1,000, and government grew by 700 positions.

Look how far you both come since then, Jason. You’re doing stories on snot and he’s covering the Angelina Jolie beat for the Newspaper of Record.

And both of us can afford to pay our rent now, without living with 6 other guys. Life is good.

Jason, did you see Dutch invited himself to your house for the weekend?

Life is good indeed, Jason.

Happy Birthday Kurtis. I could probably get you a good deal on a bad back rental. That way you could try it out and see if you like it!

Just when I thought I rid myself of roommates, Tom… now Dutch is moving in. I think he’d be a great influence on my two kids. He could teach them what “ass cold” means.

Just making sure you have seen this. Short and SFW, NSFCH (not safe for cat haters).

Say, what do people prefer? Open in same window or open in new window? I chose “not set” so we’ll see what happens. I wish there was an open in new tab option.

It opens in the same window. Me, I’d right click and open in a new tab. But perhaps that is TMI.

Just a public service announcement:

If you hear reports of an adult male acting suspiciously at a movie theater this weekend, don’t be alarmed. It’s probably just kevin waiting in line for “Twilight.”

I like open in a new window. Lots of windows don’t bother me.

Open in new window will open in a new tab if your browser is set up that way…

I thought cats and vaccuums were natural enemies.

I use “new” but I guess, too, that people with right mouse buttons know how to use them.

You need to set this video to this song. (GRRFL)

Ah, the Gear Daddies. Good times.

GRRFL?

If you hear reports of an adult male acting suspiciously at a movie theater this weekend, don’t be alarmed. It’s probably just kevin waiting in line for “Twilight.”

Heh. I wouldn’t be caught undead waiting in line for that tween-girl vampire romance.

GRRFL = Guaranteed Rick Roll Free Link.

click the mouse wheel to open new tabs.

Happy Bday Kurtis.

DeRush, I’m actually coming over too. Please make sure you are stocked up on Costco snacks.

Anyone else notice the recount-results-so-far on MinnPost? With 43% recounted, Al Franken has gained 86 votes out of 216 he needed. If you extrapolate that, it means he’d lose by 12, and there are 700 contested ballots. This is going to get outrageous. Maybe it’ll end in a coin flip yet.

From what I read Meyer made millions by turning vampires into sissies. That’s why my next YA novel is about a vegetarian werewolf named Pansy who just wants to be brushed and tied up with bows.

Did I hear that right? Party at the DeRusha mansion? I’m so there!

I enjoyed Riemenschneider’s review of the new AC/DC album in today’s ST. He even throws in a little politics:

it starts with a slow, lumbering, tank-attack beat and quickly builds to atom-bomb intensity, with Angus shredding his guitar as if it was the U.S. Constitution during the Iraq War.

But he barely mentions the irony of “the ultimate juvenile, shirt-untucked, fists-clenched bad-boy rock band” only selling their album through Wal-Mart.

That was my second choice for Today’s Headline, miller.

“Why Angus Young never grows old”

Er, dude, for some of us, that old “schoolboy with an axe” thang grew old a long time ago.

But don’t let me rain on yer AC/DC parade, fans. Forget this hater and rock on.

Don’t forget to go to the Dr Pepper web site for your free soda on Sunday!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gc9S2shf_wKwjH11jMbO9iJGbjlAD94IV63O1

Dr Pepper to deliver on its free-soda promise

16 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy” is a reality. The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. “Chinese Democracy,” infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.

Dougie I tried to start a post about the GnR but I guess maybe this is the place.

Are you gonna get it at midnight?

I think I will wait to hear some of it first. The Klosterman reveiw in the Onion was very positive.

My profile here says that I’ve been a member for 4 days. Huh. I swear I’ve been here for, like, three years.

Klosterman liked it? I’ve heard some of it on my computer machine. It was not good. Most of the album is available here.

aeklund,

Sorry about that. When we imported the data from Rex’s Access database, we discovered there wasn’t any indication of how long a user had been a member of MNSpeak. In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be tying your accounts here to the old comments and posts from MNSpeak, and I’ll set your member since date to be the date of your first post or comment.

I have been on MnSpeak since nineteen aught four, the year of the Tennessee Valley Internet Flood, when a lot of us dirt farmers migrated online.

The whole album is available here I believe:
http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses

I like it I really like IRS

Who is this Klosterman fella?

I have been here since I was expelled from Heaven after a big fight with the boss.

 Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name.

Klosterman is, quite simply and almost literally, an ass. His soft, saggy face bears a disturbing resemblance to a 50-year-old man’s failing, hairless back end. His tiny, red mouth is a sphincter twisting to a pained close 40 seconds after taking a brutal pounding from Peter North. To round it out, he has a mop of ironically uncombed, dyed-yellow hair and thick-rimmed glasses that look like they were placed on the ass as a frat prank, like a wig and sunglasses thrown on an old jack-o-lantern.

Max is there anyway to view posts that you have submitted?

and by you I mean I of course

Not yet. I think it’s in process.

Once I hit 2,000 posts, the thrill was gone.

I’ve been here at least as far back as when the abortion blimp flew over downtown. When was that? I lurked for quite a while before that — after my dirt farm went belly up…

The thrill of knowing how many posts I had done, rather. I still enjoy posting.

Is there a more undersexed male likeness of Diablo Cody on the interwebs than Klosterman? All the fanboys hate him. Except marsh.

Get Mammu on the horn…stat Max…tell him to flip on the switch…this is drupal…I want it yesterday. LOL I am just messing around I a sure that it’s been beefed up and modified a bit.

Rex also like him. I’ve never read Klosterman, so I have no opinion, but I only have room for one big red beard in my life, and that’s just gonna have to be Andy.

They are advertising the new Diablo Cody project with Toni Colette on Showtime but her name is nowhere to be found.

Maybe all the credit she needs is in her bank account. Unlikely, but possible.

What’s the definition of “fanboy”? Other guys who write about pop culture?

I like a lot of Klosterman’s books. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs was my favorite. However, once you read a few, they become a tad formulaic.

Miller I would loosely describe it as somebody who focuses an unhealthy amount on someone person or product,When taken too far they may actually live vicariously though another individual or product. On a side note they may or may not live in Manhattan or San Fran and have a tumblog.

The Klosterman novel looks kinda interesting but I’ll check it out from the library.

I still want my refund for “Killing Yourself to Live”. It may have been “80% (or whatever) of a true story”, but it was no more than 11% of a good story.

The comments section on AV Club is good reading. Shame I don’t get good wireless reception in the bathroom @ home on my laptop.

I liked Cocoa Puffs, but the rest of his stuff… meh.

Ryanl: Does Barack Obama have fanboys?

Ooh. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Turbaconducken.

That’s right. A chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon.

First – good god that’s ingenious.
Second- how the hell did I not know about a website called Bacon Today???

Speaking of turkeys (GRRFL)

That thing looks like a failed cloning experiment.

That’s a disrepectful way to talk about Sarah Palin, Rat.

Most certainly Rat…most certainly.

except they are referred to as: Oba-maniacs…come on Rat dontcha watch teh television.

If you hear reports of an adult male acting suspiciously at a movie theater this weekend, don’t be alarmed. It’s probably just kevin waiting in line for “Twilight.”

I gotta admit, that one goes over my head.  But I was thinking about going to a movie this weekend.

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DeRush, I’m actually coming over too. Please make sure you are stocked up on Costco snacks.

And fortify your chairs.  Did you know that girl’s thighs weight 154 pounds a piece?

I couldn’t make it to the Bond film last weekend. So maybe..

The Palin-turkey carnage video is even better when MSNBC adds their hilarious captions.

Burn, CornGuy, burn!

I’d like to see The Dukes, but I guess it’s not playing here yet. wtf? I thought the RNC was supposed to put us on the map?

Before I forget and before I split, I would like to say…

It started out a bit shaky, and change can be hard for some people. But aside from the business decision of the rename, I’m liking the new MNSpeak….

And fortify your chairs. Did you know that girl’s thighs weight 154 pounds a piece?

Keep it up kwatt. I’m going to squish your tiny head with my thighs.

I like mb’s name on her comment: mb is drinking wine (not verified). The implication is she might be drinking Schnapps, or Everclear, or eating corn from the can. It is not verified.

Boy, and if kwatt ever returns to his keviniscrampedinthebowels type of login, we really expect Max to go verify that before allowing the comment.

I verify it all.

Keep it up kwatt. I’m going to squish your tiny head with my thighs.

Bring. It.

mb21 only eats creamed corn from the can. She’s classy.

P.S. I’m drunk.