Monday's Missives

I love this vehicle- the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. If you've seen The Pentagon Wars and/or remember the debate over it when it was being fielded everything you think you know about it is wrong. It's a great, reliable, survivable vehicle that is responsible for saving the lives of many Americans and ending the lives of many, many enemy. I'll talk more about it someday, but I came across this pic looking to illustrate this post and got a warm and fuzzy feeling so I thought I'd put it up..

• Echo And The Bunnymen- Lips Like Sugar.


• Which made me think about this song, Kill Hannah- Lips Like Morphine.


• Not really obsessing about lips this morning just an Internet induced lazy train of thought.


• Stupid Internet.


• I put a gray moth caterpillar in a bowl with Goldfish crackers the other day to show Zac when he came to see me. In a few hours it had eaten nearly a whole cracker and in less than a full day had eaten several. By the next morning it weighed 11 pounds and by that night was dead.


• Scientific conclusion: Goldfish crackers are dangerous.


• But, maybe the caterpillar didn't weigh 11 pounds though.


• But, it was ginormous.


• I'm very picky about food and drink products I ingest being fresh and safe with one possible exception- I'll warm days old coffee in the microwave.


• That even sounds gross, but yeah- I do it.


• Richard Deacon who played Mel Cooley on the Dick Van Dyke show wrote several microwave cookbooks.


• I recently watched the pilot to that show. It was terrible, but the weird thing was none of the actors were the same, although all the characters were more or less intact when the series did air (the exception was Carl Reiner initially played Robert Petrie). It was correctly deduced that the concept was good, but the actors were wrong.