Sorry everyone. The hamsters that run the servers got into the liquor cabinet, and the results were not pretty.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:42 PM | Comments (212)
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I think for most of us 2009 was a pretty sucky year. And of course to cap it off the comments are down so you'll have to direct your drunken yells over to the old New Site in the top post back up again.

Here's to hoping 2010 is better. more...

Posted by: Open Blog at 06:07 PM | Comments (810)
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Go here -- at the new not-quite-done site -- to comment if comments don't come up soon.

Posted by: Ace at 04:28 PM | Comments (9)
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I provide this simply as a public service because last night I had to inform two people that Bruno Kirby died...THREE years ago. Come on people, pay attention!

Be sure to check your death pool and collect your money.

ADDED:
Apparently the comments also died in '09.

Um, stand by.

Posted by: DrewM at 03:44 PM | Comments (10)
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Yes another top ten list...Whatever. This one really shows the creepy side of the advertising world.Enjoy it ...if you can. (click on the pictures for pop up videos).

Posted by: Open Blog at 01:37 PM | Comments (33)
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I don't have a top anything of the anything post for the day and I'm rather comfortable with a blanket in front of the fire with the Navy-Missouri game on the bigscreen hanging over the fireplace. Also my BFF's girlfriend's dog has fallen asleep on my legs and I'm starting to lose the feeling in my toes. So you're getting this instead.

Click over to the Google homepage and type "why" in the box. It will helpfully provide these suggestions for completing your search string. I fear that they're based on frequency:

Best wishes to you all; see you next year!

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 01:03 PM | Comments (133)
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There's a record?

A Sturgis woman had a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, possibly a state record, when she was found earlier this month behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle parked on Interstate 90, according to Meade County StateÂ’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal.

A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered Marguerite Engle, 45, on Dec. 1 passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck reported stolen in Rapid City.
Her blood-alcohol level was almost nine times South DakotaÂ’s legal limit of .08 percent.

Checks with local and state labs where blood-alcohol levels are tested suggest EngleÂ’s reading may be the highest ever recorded in South Dakota, Sondreal said.

Sondreal said a state chemist recalled a sample that tested .53, but nothing higher, in his more than 30 years on the job.

Dr. Robert Looyenga, who recently retired from the Rapid City Police DepartmentÂ’s forensic laboratory, told Sondreal that the highest blood-alcohol sample he tested measured .56 percent.

SondrealÂ’s research indicates that a blood-alcohol level of .40 is considered a lethal dose for about 50 percent of the population.

“Engle’s was almost double that,” Sondreal said.

After she was found, Engle was hospitalized and freed on bond.

She failed to appear in court on Dec. 15, but Sturgis police located her Monday evening in another stolen car sitting in a ditch along S.D. Highway 34 near Fort Meade.

They didn't let her out on bond again.

Note to self: Facebook-friend Marguerite Engle. I think I have a pretty decent chance with her, if you know what I'm saying. (And what I'm saying is hot, dirty coma-sex.)

Um, let me do a PSA here: Take it easy tonight, guys. I'm really pretty much addressing this to myself, but you're welcome to take the advice yourself.

Personally, every time I go out on New Year's, I get drunker than intended and drunker than I wanted to be. It's really dumb. If three or four is enough any other night, it should be enough for tonight, when all we're really doing is celebrating the use of a new calender.

That's like whooping it up just because the new TV Guide is out.

So everyone chill, drink very slowly, alternate drinks with glasses of water (and nurse both), because you probably will end up drinking too much anyway, and it's better to drink as little too much as possible.

Everyone stay safe and stuff. It's going to be a good year, and you should be here for it.

Thanks to Rodney for the tip.

Posted by: Ace at 01:02 PM | Comments (97)
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Waterboard Farouk? Abdullahlullahblullahlullah or whatever?

58% say Yes, please!

30% say "No, we're too busy being all bad-ass and ass-kicking and stuff to actually do anything about these miscreants."

Thanks to AHFF Geoff.

Posted by: Ace at 12:40 PM | Comments (72)
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Okay. If I'm getting this right -- and I think I am -- we should not wet ourselves over the prospect of psychotic murder cultists blowing up our planes as they descend to land over major cities, in order to kill hundreds of additional people on the ground; but we should be afraid of polls that say 2010 will be a difficult environment for Democratic candidates.

Got it.

Posted by: Ace at 12:27 PM | Comments (25)
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It was no big deal, but I was/am sort of sick. Not seriously sick, just have this weariness and achiness and nappiness for three days now. Minor stuff in nose or throat. It's more like this illness that just demands I lay in bed and nap.

It's not really an excuse, because, at the end of the day, I could have fired out just headlines and some snark. So, I guess the real reason is: I didn't feel like it. Was a bit unwell (not really unwell, just enough to notice) and decided that I should indulge myself like a big, pants-wetting baby all worried about terrorism and stuff.

Plus... whoa, that Christmas holiday this year? Four days off? In a row? I guess I sorta got used to that, too.

Anyway, I'm still under the weather but will try to remember a bit more that I am fortunate enough to have a job, and that I shouldn't just take off whenever I feel like it.

On the other hand, holiday's coming up again, so...

Open Blog.

But will be blogging and stuff on the lighter weekend-type schedule, at least until Monday.

Posted by: Ace at 12:16 PM | Comments (66)
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