And now, for some reason, The Wire fan fiction

Oh fan fiction, you are incomparably terrible. Normally it’s pretty obvious the genres that attract such crappy fan service story lines – sci fi, fantasy, possibly Ace of Cakes – but a gritty urban crime drama? I guess anything is possible. Especially on the internet. And boy howdy, did I stumble on a polished ruby […]

A Cleaner, Greener MD – Eventually!

(Muke) – According to the Baltimore Sun, Martin O’Malley committed Maryland to significant (?) cuts in pollution: The plan would commit the state to a 25 percent reduction by 2020 in climate-warming pollution — mainly carbon dioxide — as last year’s bill did. Dropped from last year’s original language is any long-term goal or target […]

Shouldn’t We All Smell Like Hamburgers? Requiem

The short answer to this question is no, no we should not smell like hamburgers. After the holidays, I found in my mailbox the Burger King Flame “body spray” that I ordered some time ago and thought “heh.” It comes in a tiny bottle much like the bottle in the picture, in fact it’s almost […]

Dumb ads throughout history – Volume 1

Advertising, as necessary and powerful as it might seem to our economy, has almost always been incredibly stupid, bothersome, and at its worst somewhat deadly – debatable I know, but shut the hell up and enjoy these ridiculous ads I have sitting on my desktop. I have literally thousands of these.