At last, "Beer Goggles" explained - scientifically to boot!

Meddlesome radio

You gotta love it. I'm sitting here listening to Sigur Ros on KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic and the person at the controls busts out One of These Days (which apparently has been remastered and reissued). But then he follows it with some Allison Moyet crappy 80's type shit. What the fuuuuuuccckk??? Nonetheless, you gotta love it.

Everyone drive/fly/gorge safely.

herb

Venezuelans Should Outsource Chavez

I know most of you don't go to Information Week for its humor, but this one is well worth the trip. This short piece by Paul McDougall covers quite a bit of ground and is pretty funny. If you're too lazy to click on the link, look below for my favorite snippet:

Chavez, accompanied for some reason by Diego Maradona, the world's second most famous cocaine addict next to Kate Moss, chastised President Bush for even thinking about giving Venezuelans access to American-style jobs and prosperity, calling the free trade plan a pretext to "invade." Chavez believes his people will be better off if he forges closer trade ties with economic dynamos like--Bolivia and Cuba.

Never too old to shotgun

When was the last time you shotgun-ed a beer? I can't really remember but it certainly marked my precipitous decline in fratitude.

Why did you stop?

Maybe it's just because nobody looks (or smells) cool doused in canned beer.

Or maybe people don't shotgun as they get older because they need accouterments - a snifter for brandy, a stem glass for wine - to disguise the fact that they still only drink to get drunk.

That barrier has now been removed by the Shotgun Beer Opener. Imagine the envy of your friends when you bust this out at your next company picnic.

Booyah!

Cue the Arcadia

I once knew this guy. His name was Ethan. People called him Herb, and it was funny. He was very politically-minded, and though it was always apparent on which side of the fence he stood, every Election Day he'd encourage you -- the folks from every tick along the political spectrum -- to get out there and vote. That was his thing. Like clockwork every year. And then he moved to Florida and now he just doesn't give a damn. Oh, he still cares about politics. He just doesn't give a damn about you people. But you should probably go vote, anyway.

Good times in the 'Burg last weekend, except for losing to friggin' JMU on a late field goal. Lammies of all ages turned out to reprove the adage "It's not how old you are, it's how old you are and you're still smuggling airplane bottles of Jim Beam into W&M football games???"