Come On Magic Eight Ball!

No More Ice Bridge To St. Ignace!

Two days of steady 30 mph winds blowing out of the east have wreaked their havoc on the ice that covered the Straights of Mackinac. Around noon today ice west of the bridge let loose after a relentless push. This made room for the wind to blow all of the ice south of the Humbard trail under the bridge and allowed for a huge amount of pack ice to blow in from the void of Lake Huron. The pack ice was scooting along the shore at Windermere Point traveling an easy 15 mph- too fast to casually keep up with on a bike apparently.
I took some photos of the events from Sunset Rock.
Are you wondering if pagans or hippies visited the beach this summer? I think it was hippies.

facebook Power Consumption

I filmed this and posted it just to waste server space and help out with facebook's $1,000,000 a month electricity bill. Here's to the energy saving paperless society!

My Shades Are Too Small To Cover The Blinds- I'll Keep Them On My Face.

Some fun Podcasts that I have been listen to lately are good enough to share.
You Look Nice Today- A Journal of Emotional Hygiene. "You Look Nice Today is an audio-based Journal of Emotional Hygiene, staffed by lonelysandwich, scottsimpson, and hotdogsladies.
The three hosts met on Twitter.com, and soon realized that none of them had anything better to do than this. And Twitter."

The Bugle is a Times Online podcast that features John Oliver (The Daily Show) and Andy Zaltzman. A weekly news round up that features Hotties From History.

Psuedopod brings you the best short horror in audio form, to take with you anywhere. It's pretty good- wouldn't call it 'horror' though. Nice fiction.

Uhh Yeah Dude. More guys sitting around being nutty.

All of these great podcasts are available for free on iTunes.

Ethel Merman disco mp3 sample track! Oh how I wish I were 15 years older.

I like socks- good socks. Man oh man! So do these guys!

While we discuss haberdashery, let me show you an instructional video for the putting on of pants.

How many camels fit into a Subaru? No really-

Which describes how you're feeling all the time? Let Pac Man help describe.

Catfish and hot chicks. It turns out the ladies enjoy catfish noodling too!

The International Jurassic Park Erotic Fan-Fiction Writer's Association. You have to be kidding. Not only is the idea for the page terrible, the actual page itself is horrid. 1997 horrid.

Let's make drugs!

The hypnic jerk is the reaction one has after having that 'falling feeling' when falling asleep. Man- does this happen to me all of the time.

At-Ats in the home and in the park!

Scanwiches. Scans of sandwiches. Don't ask. Its good.

Neat bikes in NYC! Fun bikes! Tall Bikes! Tough bikes!

A trip to Chernobyl. Eerie.

Don't give your dog an enema in the park.

Photos of Russian history superimposed on Russia of the present.

I Got Teh Fever!

Here is a Model Die Casting 0-6-0 that I threw together a few weeks back. It is not a model of any particular prototype, but was fun none the less. I built up the coal bunker on the tender to more closely resemble something that may have been found on the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic.
I am trying to find a model close enough to the monster in the b&w photo to make one or two of them. They were 2-8-2 Mikados purchased used from the New York Central and were the largest steam locos to run on the DSS&A. I don't know if they ever made their way into St. Ignace, but I'm sure they would have been quite a sight! I'm holding out for just the right starting point to recreate these locos. Not just any mikado model will do! Any tips?

The Donuts Must Be Fried

The weather above the 45th parallel in Michigan has been a bit warm. Just warm enough to melt down the hard packed snow on the roads of Mackinac Island and with some judicious plowing the State Park boys and Mr. Horn have allowed for bikers to ride with caution.
The ice around the island has seen better days, but is still relatively intact, and has its good and bad days. Today the island was hammered with a rather stiff east wind and blew a bunch of pack ice back into the open water that had formed around the lighthouses.
On St. Patrick's day Mr. Bynoe organized a broom hockey game on Windermere point with two teams with three person rotations and a few spectators.

After Eight Weeks of Oil, This Latex is For Apes.

Parrots, I am told, have emotions and feelings. They must also like Ray Charles.


This screen shot is real. The Scrabble web page has a word of the day that must be well humored or have a poor editor.

I always follow Steve's Ways To Be Cool.

Eighteen Wheels of Justice!

Hamburger Pie Requires An Egg

I saw Watchmen in Mount Pleasant on Friday and enjoyed myself. While I am still convinced that no one will see this film thanks to marketing aimed towards lovers of the graphic novel leaving the uninitiated lost and bewildered, it was a lot of fun- even with the rather odd sex scene. Night Owl going to town on The Silk Spectre is one thing, but instead of a good pile driving the action mimicked an ultra sonic jewelery cleaner. Awkward.
Baffling fornication aside, the movie did a nice job placing camera angle to reproduce the books artwork and the action scenes, while rather gory, are well done and express the pint they are trying to make.
Enough of that.

Pranks for remodelers.


A list of Star Wars quotes made better by replacing a word with 'pants'

Aww... White mice playing little tiny instruments. Or are they giant mice playing regular sized... Oh dear god!

Can't get the old boyfriend off of the couch away from the Play Station? Here is your cure for that stinking lazy bastard.

That Guy ruining (or perfecting?) good memories.
Here is one of me. Being That Guy.



Bow down to you masterful overlord!

If you live in the Louisville area and have a particular need, this guy will perform the services that you require. For free! NSFW- but tastefully funny. No pun intended.

Stick-on tattoos gone wrong.

"I put 2222 toothpicks in my beard!"


A brilliant representation of people organized by stereotype. Spending the time to look at them all is well worth it.

A story written by a former San Francisco school teacher that was dosed with LSD during field trip. I feel it necessary to repeat that he was dosed without his knowledge.

What does the 3 year old art critic have to say?

She's looking for a husband and has a few requirements.

He has a cat on his head- and it likes to be there.


Flat bottomed tacos. I like my tacos to have a bit of a rounded bottom if I do say so...

This Just Doesn't Pass Mustard

Here are some various photos taken on Mackinac Island this last week.
They include a very premature robin in a tree, shots of the Iroquois Hotel from the ice and the Bernida under wraps on the Arnold coal dock. Have a click, have a look.





































This shot is of down town Mackinac Island MI on an average Friday when the ice is safe enough for visitors to cross on their snowmobiles. I stopped counting sleds at 65.