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I don’t know that it’ll interest the Kraken, but it looks like Rick Snyder has picked a running mate.
http://www.annarbor.com/elections/source-says-rick-snyder-to-pick-rep-brian-calley-as-running-mate/
Dear Baby Kraken,
I love Loooove travel. At least I love the idea of it and fantasizing that someday I can afford to travel. I am a huge sucker for travel shows whether it’s Anthony Bordain eating the world or the next Bachelorette eating love in the isles. I want to go, eat, digest!
But I’m also worried about global warming. The best thing about being poor is I already turn off the lights, down the thermostat, scrimp on gas and can’t afford to travel farther than Birch Run. But I really try, too, even when it doesn’t save me money.
Here’s my dilemma. Why do people who drive Priuses fly everywhere? Don’t they know that taking a plane to anywhere pretty much is the worst thing you can do? I mean, I’m pretty sure the guy (okay, my Dad) who drives a big Ford pickup EVERYWHERE but is a teaparty spendthrift who never leaves town has a lower carbon footprint than all my friends who “shop local” but vacation in Italy (and bring back “local” wines and fashions). And why do all the famous lecturers (Hollywood, politicians, academics) fly everywhere? Why do they get to spew a jetstream of carbon and make me feel guilty for shopping at Kroger and driving a 94 Sunbird? (Seriously! I’ve had folks with hybrids be like, “Um, can you drive my car, it’ll save on carbon” when they ask me for a ride to the airport).
I guess what I’m getting at is can’t we give everyone a carbon allotment, like the WWII rations, and once they’ve run out they have to downsize and stay home or buy rations off someone else? I’m pretty sure I’d quickly earn enough to pay for my once-in-a-lifetime trip to Thailand.
It just seems like folks with money pretend to care when they can afford it, but aren’t really willing to give up anything that many of us don’t even have.
Sincerely,
Broke and Craving in Ypsilanti
Mark, you must open a bar called The Baby Kraken. You must do this immediately. You must do it with passion. It should serve one kind of beer, and platters of cheese.
Trailer for the movie “Conviction” filmed at Sidetracks among other places in the area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCwlaLyjtcA
We haven’t talked about prostitution here in a while and I’m wondering if anyone else has noticed increased activity lately.
Kraken, whatever you do, don’t look at this.
http://whomovedmysambal.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/seoul-101-plans-to-eat-live-octopus-failing-korean/
Kraken,
My little brother told my parents that it was me who ate up all the honey we’d put by for winter, and now I’m being punished. I want to get back at him, but I don’t know how. Do you have any suggestions?
I like a Kraken that likes Cheap Trick.
Keep it classy Ypsi.
Does anyone have any in depth reviews of Smarty Catz? I still have not been there.
Smarty Catz has the decor a strip mall restaurant but with beer signs between the art and a stripper pole in the middle of the floor. Very confusing. The bar area was nice. and so was the person working.
I didn’t know stripper poles rotated. I guess it makes sense. It was fun to play on. Go there for that alone.
Is it true that you can eat your lunch off the belly of a stripper there?
As for your brother, I’d suggest hanging him in his closet and making it look like autoerotic asphyxiation. Be sure to leave some really nasty gay porn at his feet. This will be especially funny if he’s seven years old or younger.
Damn. When did MM.com go all 4Chan? Don’t kill the kid. Just cover him in honey and stake him to an ant hill.
FiveThirtyEight.com, the terrific political statistics blog, was just gobbled up by the New York Times.
http://www.metafilter.com/95113/Independent-Political-Blog-FiveThirtyEightcom-has-been-absorbed-by-the-New-York-Times
Is that really what sperm looks like when it comes out the tip? And what’s with all those grooves on the penis? I’ve never heard it described like that.
during an otherwise terrible week, my night is a little better after seeing the preview for ‘conviction’– i can proudly report that the button i made for the propmaster during filming made the cut. you just barely see the older woman wearing it at 1 minute 9 seconds, and 1 minute 19 seconds. …it’s the little things… those are my two seconds of hollywood fame.
that, and that my cousin, jimmy griffin, was in the band ‘bread.’ when i was at the cemetery burying my grandmother last week, the staff person working with us was very excited to learn our relation to him. he’s buried there too and featured in their “famous people buried at memorial park in memphis” booklet. while there a memorial for isaac hayes was also going on, because they’re naming a section of highway after him.
I found out today why I never get raises. Apparently my vagina isn’t clean enough.
http://www.alternet.org/story/147991/hey_ladies%2C_want_a_raise_wash_your_vagina_–_women%27s_day_magazine%27s_ultra-sexist_ad
I’ve have had very good luck bathing my balls during my annual reviews. I put a small tupperware dish on my bosses desk, fill it with tonic water, drop in a few denture cleaning tables (that’s my secret), then slowly lower my balls into it. I let them float around of a few minutes, and then we’re done. I always get my raise.
I had a meaningful open-thread comment but… I’ll wait until next time.
Evolution caught in the act.
Australian lizard species making the transition from eggs to live birth.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/100901-science-animals-evolution-australia-lizard-skink-live-birth-eggs/?source=link_fb09062010skink
The early predictions of self-proclaimed psychic Joseph Delouise were nothing but a morbid parlour trick. I’m curious if anyone else can see the revealing patterns and clues.
It’s late September and the specticle that is Michigan football is in full swing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Kz6Rw99Kk&feature=player_embedded
Breaking News:
Former President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized
Knowing you, Robert, I’m sure there’s a conspiracy theory.
I think I’m coming down with a cold.
Someone must have opened a hatch in the atmosphere. The earth is depreassurizing.
http://www.earthcurrent.com/2010/10/midwestern-pressure-system-sets-new-low.html
Goodbye everyone.
Can someone please verify that this photo is real?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/04/canada.disguised.passenger/index.html?hpt=C1
Terrifying. I will never visit my grandfather again. As of this moment, he’s dead to me.
We may have found life in space.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/12/02/151204/NASA-Finds-New-Life-This-Afternoon?from=fb
No word if it looks like baby kraken.
It wasn’t in space. As I understand it, it was here on earth. Scientists found a parallel kind of life that’s builds its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes from arsenic. Here’s an article. It’s pretty trippy stuff.
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/
It looks like Elvisfest is gone.
http://www.annarbor.com/news/ypsilanti/elvisfest-future-faces-challenges-after-shift-in-management-loss-of-seed-money/
According to this comment left after the article, it might not be dead after all.
I have a great new glove.
Wanna see it?
http://i.imgur.com/44zh7.jpg
All I wanted was a Coke, and now I have tickets to a UM football game. Does anyone want them?