It's True

I spend half the summer fixing our bikes, and the other half listening to Lisa and the kids demanding new ones and complaining about how often I have to fix them . . .Pfui to it all.

Hollywood News

Per the magnificient reporting that is Facebook, Antonio Banderas & Melanie Griffith are going to divorce after 18 Years of marriage

D-Day

A big thank you to all the veterans of the Normandy invasion on this, the 70th anniversary of D-Day 🙂

LuLu's Birthday Cupcakes!

We're here at Incrediroll celebrating LuLu's 11th Birthday! And it features yet another baking marvel by Lisa!

Don Zimmer

RIP Yankees coaching great, and former Boston manager, Don Zimmer

TV News is a Joke

From JSOnline's Duane Dudek, commenting on the Slenderman story:

"The crime was "graphic, disturbing and hard to believe," said Meekins, as a WTMJ onscreen headline screamed "Slumber Party Stabbing" and later "Plot to Kill." Reporter Jermont Terry practically leaped off the screen describing the crime and sat on a bicycle while reporting that the victim was discovered by a bicyclist. WISN reporter Christina Palladino prefaced her report by noting "the people I talked to literally have no words" and then interviewed people who used words to speak on camera."

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

We watched "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" over the weekend. If I'm being honest, I thought it was slow. His fantasy life, so hyped in the trailers, was a throwaway that wasn't needed to establish his character's yearning to break free from his rut, and the movie moved at a PBS pace. Still, not a bad film and certainly not the worst way to pass a few hours.

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Tiananmen Square

25 years since Tiananmen Square . . . man I'm getting old. And in China, the government is still hiding their crime.

The Slenderman Stabbing

I'm sure you've heard the media jump on the story about the two local 12 year old girls who stabbed their friend after hatching a murder plot, then tried - so far successfully - to blame it on the influence of the video game character SlenderMan. 

I saw some Alpha Male sheriff, looking all howdy doody in his little dress up costume, give a stern lecture about the dangers of the game and boy did the local stations slurp up his crap. 

For the record, SlenderMan is a thin, very tall, faceless paranormal being who inhabits a first person horror game that is downright, legitimately pulse-raising creepy. I wish I'd come up with such a scary, iconic character. 

 All of my kids know of the game, and OJ and PD have played it. I've watched them play it, I've heard them talk about it, and I don't have a problem with it - and that's coming from someone who enforces a no-video game system household. We have no Playstation, X-Box, etc. None. These 12 year old's hacked away at their friend because they are sick, warped f**ks, not because of some computer game.

Shame on the media (yet again) for jumping on the nearest bandwagon. Once the SlenderMan angle falls short, they'll start talking about how the girls were bullied, boo-hoo. Just you watch.

Ugh.