Because YOU Demanded It!

A couple of Spanish guys talking:



In the back there, you can't quite make it out, is the marqee for the Madrid production of "The Producers."

Not a Hoax, a Dream, or an Imaginary Story!

Here's a bus with an ATM in it:



Cobblestones!



Really long subway car (really!):

Nerds of Spain

So, couple of days ago, I'm walking around Madrid, and I see what might be the Spanish version of Cousin Steve's comic-book store:



But it's closed, and there's a sign (circled above) on the door:



My Spanish not so good, but it seems there's some sort of comic-book convention this weekend. Later, on the subway, I see this advert:



I also see this one:



And this one:



But that's really all nuts and butter.

Anyway, I go on the internet, find out about the show, and make my way over to the Pabellon de Convenciones:



And here we go; the Nerds of Spain:







The main difference between a comic-book show in Spain and one in the U.S.; In Spain "Wolverine" is called "Lobezno!":



And also, in Spain, one of the booths might be carving up a big old ham (jamon):



Yes, that's what's left of a ham, not a paper-mache space gun...

Choose a Pink Floyd song.

I'm in Madrid, Spain.

Atocha Train Station


Dunkin' Donuts


Recycling!


Random Building


(Wish You Were Here)

Secret Code

Emster bentogy man "Gloggy Sentello;" mel sundossen dento srega, "Debotto Senorgy," a 965 Eggy Dotrum, Dancy, Nobottom. Ba klemster oso marchikant.

Heh heh.

Who is Fred Broski?

Click Here for an interesting article about the early life of Fred Broski.

No, really.

Two Unrelated Stories

Story 1. A Thanksgiving Miracle.

So, I spent Thanksgiving day at the home of my friends P_____ and K_____. We have another friend C______, who works at the same place P and I do. (I is me, not an initial.) C could not make it on Thanksgiving day, but would be at their house the following day.

P and K's house sits right on the Hudson river, and there's a ramp with a little inlet there. On Thursday, it had been raining, the river was high, and, as sometimes happens, a large driftwood log had gotten stuck in the inlet. I like to be a helpful guest, so I got a piece of rope, snagged the log and dragged it out to float away down the river.

"I'd like to see C do that," I said as I went back in the house.

Well, it turns out the next day, after I had left, C ended up doing the same thing. Dragging a log, with a rope, out of the inlet.

I was talking to C at work today, and the subject of the logs came up, and I said "Well I'm sure my log was much bigger."

"No way. My log was huge."

"There's no way your log was bigger than mine."

We called P.

"Whose log was bigger?"

"You'll have to ask K. She's the one who really got a good look at both logs."

We haven't heard from K yet. Or from the guy who sits in the cube next to C's.


Story 2. Unrelated to the above.

About 20 years ago, I was in a movie theater lobby. A couple was standing nearby, looking at posters of upcoming movies. The woman said to the man, after seeing a particular poster, "Karate Kid 2!? Is nothing sacred?"

I thought to myself "Yeah, I guess if only one thing could remain sacred it would be the Karate Kid."

That woman probably had a stroke when they made Hilary Swank "The Next Karate Kid"

Wax on. Wax off...


Note To Commenters:

Please don't leave the comment "I heard that same conversation coming out of the Men's Room."

Nobody talks about the Karate Kid in the Men's Room. It is at least that sacred.

OK Then...

Thanksgiving: Worst Case Scenario

Someone put friggin' Scalia in the mashed potatoes!





Don't get it? Click Here to see which whiny pair of girl's underpants I'm making fun of...I mean empathizing with...

"Egg Veins This."

More Medical Fun at Clinky-A-Go-Go!

Correction

Please cut out these black bars and place them over the eyes of the girls two posts down...

The Name Of My Vexation

In this post I write of the changing traffic patterns in Times Square. Apparently, the new traffic pattern has a name.




Either that or Times Square is closed off so that we can all learn a new dance in time for New Year's Eve.

What about these two?

They insist on being photographed in soft focus.

Here's what I'm thankful for...

I'm going to Spain next week.

Not permanently. Just visiting.

A few years from now...

But apparently sooner than we thought.



In black and white today.

This is wrong.

I blacked out in front of my computer and when I woke up this picture was posted. I don't know who the girl is, or why she has the Wolverine's haircut and sideburns, or why she's next to a giant bunny and dog and other animals.



I think maybe the original picture comes from here.

Unlucky in "Seven," Lucky in Escape

(In which we ruin the endings of a couple of movies, that you should have seen already anyway.)

If your character dies in the movie "The Magnificent Seven," then you get to get out of Germany in "The Great Escape." (Coburn, Bronson)

If your character survives in "The Magnificent Seven," you get sent back to the cooler in "The Great Escape." (McQueen)

If your character is decapitated in "Se7en," you get to be one of "The Royal Tenenbaums." (Paltrow)

If you go blind and get shot in "The Great Escape," you get to be the President and "Escape From New York." (Pleasence)

If you get killed in "Escape from New York," you get killed on "South Park." (Isaac Hayes)

If you get killed on "South Park," you get to come back again week after week. (Kenny)

If you get to "Escape from New York," you survive if you're in the original "Poseidon Adventure," (Borgnine), but die if you're in the remake. (Russell)

If you die in the original "Poseidon Adventure," you also get to be one of "The Royal Tenenbaums." (Hackman)

If you play "M" in "Casino Royale" (Sorry, the 1967 version)(John Huston), your daughter gets to be one of "The Royal Tenenbaums." (Anjelica Huston)

If you play "Vesper Lynd" in "Casino Royale" (1967), you also play "Honey Ryder" in "Dr. No" (Ursula Andress)

If you play "James Bond" in "Casino Royale" (2006), or "The Hulk", or one of "The Pirates of the Carribean," you get to be an avenging Jew in Steven Spielberg's "Munich" (Daniel Craig, Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush)

Wha Hoppen?

So, if you were one of the few people who was watching that tv show "Smith" on CBS, before it got cancelled, you probably want to know how it would have turned out. That's what sucks about these cerealized shows, if they get cancelled halfway through a story line, you're screwed. Or if you forget to bring home milk.

Anyway, CBS has been good enough to put the rest of the shows they made, but didn't show, on their website. If you have a high-speed internet connection you can watch them on your computer. And they've put up detailed plot synopses of the rest of the episodes that they didn't make, completing the story.

NBC is finishing "Kidnapped" this way as well, with a new episode online every Friday.

And I guess ABC hasn't cancelled "Lost" yet. It's just resting.

Here are some other shows that you can see for free on the internet:

CBS.com
CSI
CSI: NY
CSI: Miami
The Class
How I Met Your Mother
Jericho
NCIS
Numb3rs
Shark
Survivor
The Unit
3 lbs

ABC.com
Lost
Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
Ugly Betty
Six Degrees
The Nine
Daybreak

NBC.com
Friday Night Lights
Heroes
30 Rock
Studio 60
Las Vegas!

FOX.com
Bones
Prison Break
Standoff
OC
The Loop?
(*You can't watch the Fox shows on a Mac. That, and they're putting OJ on tv. Bastards.)

I'm not talking about shows you can pay to download on iTunes here. These are free, just go to the network websites.

And remember: Nobody on his deathbed ever wished he had watched more tv.

I'm really tired.

If I wasn't really tired I'd do some Photoshop of Cousin Steve in a bathtub full of raccoons, covered in medical scrasps. And spiders. But I'm tired, so you'll just have to use your imaginations.