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Last year this day, I married the best person I know. We got married in Gatlinburg, TN, at a small wedding chapel up a one-lane winding road on the side of a mountain. We decided to have it there because it was a fairly convenient place for both of our families, and the chapel would take care of all the arrangements. We drove in a couple of days before, through Sevierville and Pigeon Forge, and stopped in Pigeon Forge to get the license. If you’ve ever been in that area, you know: Driving through Pigeon Forge on the main highway is like driving through Main Street at Disney World with 50,000 other people driving as well. Or maybe just Myrtle Beach. It’s a sensory overload experience, so we were quite surprised to turn off of the highway at the license office and discover that Pigeon Forge is also a very small, quiet town nestled a block behind the garish facades of theaters, amusement parks, and motels. ...

Arrrrrrr! Link courtesy of White Noise Update: The Pirate Captain received 44% of the vote, forcing a runoff. Update, again: The Pirate Captain has won.

boringboring… Update: Another good parody site… I like the ad on the upper right. “Vaguely Depressed but still Naked.” :) And the original...

Here’s one good lesson about the fruits of plagiarism, and the fruits of using someone’s real name and enough information to contact them on your site. Perhaps no one in this little drama should act surprised by the consequences?

And is at peace, despite the continued conflict outside. “And so his heartless cruelty continues until this very last moment. This is not only a death, with all the sadness that brings, but this is a killing, and for that we not only grieve that Terri has passed but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this and we pray that it will never happen again.” - Frank Pavone ...

This is just scary: Who is Shane?

What? Was he making a joke during a news conference about multiple murders? “I mean, you have many, many stab wounds and those ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ fantasy games involve swords and knives and daggers and things of that nature. There may be a connection but I can’t say for sure.” Link courtesy of Gamegrene

This site seems to stand up well to nukes, as well as Martian attack, but dinosaurs walk all over it. Try knocking out Fox News over at Netdisaster. Link courtesy of Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin

In the continuing list of good spam from my various inboxes, we have this entry: Sender: Executioner A. Eminently Subject: Let’s be having you! First line of email: How about your good self? Almost seems cheerful, on a rainy day. :)

I haven’t posted in a while. Busy. Buying house. Working. Thinking about house. Celebrating. Inspecting house. All that kind of thing. :) Well, okay, I’m not that busy, but it does take a lot of energy. Cue the Saturday Night Live version of the first Presidential debate from 2004: Lehrer – And what happens in phase three? Bush – Jim, we’re still working on phase three. You know, huh, and believe me…we’re working hard…‘cause it’s, huh, it’s hard work…and we’re…working hard…every day…working evenings…ordering in…working hard together…now to answer your question, we don’t know all the details yet. But basically on phase three, we crush the terrorists and hold elections, so that the Iraqi people can choose their own destiny. Because I believe all people want freedom, don’t you? ...