Bull Moose Strikes Back

Is the steam running out of the 9-11 Truther movement? It’s the only way I can explain this theory gaining steam as the nutballs jump from one ship to the other.

And like the Truther movement, this conspiracy theory doesn’t pass the stink test either.

First of all, if you have complete control over someone’s life and movement, as the Army did over Tillman, isn’t there an easier way to kill him than to do so in a way which will perpetuate the need for a cover-up? Like send him on some insane mission? Here, Pat, take this 9 mm and this extra clip. And go root around Tora Bora until you find Osama.
Second there is a lot of conjecture there (all the stuff the pointy hands are pointing to) without much proof. Sure, the lack of proof is evidence of a cover up because they took all the proof, right?
Third, this might make a little more sense if Tillman were in Iraq, but he died in Afghanistan. Most of the bumper sticker slogans are aimed at Iraq. Afghanistan, after all, is where even the crazy left admits was planned. I think a lot of Americans would have shrugged off Pat Tillman’s criticism of the war in Afghanistan as sour grapes when he realized what he had given up. But I don’t think any American would shrug off his murder. The risk is too big to stop what Tillman would have accomplished for the anti-war left.
Fourth, Noam Chomsky is involved. You know you’re lacking in the truth department when that happens.

There is a lesson to be learned here, though. If the Pentagon would have just told the truth about what happened in the first place, it wouldn’t be able to spawn whack conspiracy theories like this.

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We haven’t have any Moose Droppings for awhile. The moose needs some fiber, I guess.

• Memo to college student from Colorado: A Navy peninsula isn’t the best place to start slashing tires at military recruiting centers, especially if I live there. I (kinda) tolerate the Kitsap for Peace hippies because they live here. We don’t need drunken Boulder college know-it-all hippies stinking up the place.
• I looked over my professors for the fall. Two of the four have Big Ten school ties. Which is good, since for some reason I tend to do better in classes taught by profs with Big Ten school ties. Actually, one was at Penn State long before it was in the Big Ten, so let’s say one-and-a-half. But one went to Illinois for both undergrad and law, so let’s call it an even two. Well… it was Illinois. Let’s call it three-quarters.
• The last movie of the summer that I am looking forward to: Underdog. This thing just looks genius all around: First of all, they made a live action Underdog movie. Second, they gave it Jason Lee’s voice. What’s not to love? I think my daughter and I will have to go see that one together.
• Speaking of Jason Lee, before The Simpsons Movie, they rolled the Alvin and the Chipmunks trailer, in which Lee plays Dave. That thing looks like it will be doing hard battle with Transformers for the biggest overblown piece of crap of the year. Which leads me to a theory: The better the TV comedy you are in, the worse the movie you will make during hiatus. Underdog excluded because that was only voice work, you have the “My Name is Earl” star in Alvin, Steve Carell in Evan Almighty, (40 Year Old Virgin was filmed prior to “The Office”), Rainn Wilson in The Last Mimzy, John Krasinski in License to Wed. Then there were all the “Friends” movies. Ugh.
• Will the Brewers still be in first place, or at least tied for first place, when I see them on Friday? They’d better be. I’d hate for my one game a year to be ruined by pathetic incompetence.
• I hear Bill Walsh’s cancer advanced on his body’s defenses with a short, horizontal passing attack and then burned it with a long pass down field. That bit of poor taste aside, football really did lose one of its great minds yesterday.
• I have to agree with Bert Blyleven in that if he would have spent a chunk of his career with the Yankees or Red Sox he would have been in the hall of fame on a second or third ballot instead of never. But it seems a little distasteful that he is the one pointing that out in this article. Of course, it’s not that surprising that someone who is associated with a Minnesota sports team is sitting around and bitching about getting screwed.

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Professional Responsibility (the class) is history. The exam was one of those where you can’t finish all of the questions with any quality in the time allotted. So I did the True-False questions, then did all of the high value questions and worked my way backwards. I got all of the questions answered to some extent.

Listening to my classmates it didn’t sound like any of them had been real motivated to study for the test either. And after the test it sounded like I was probably a little ahead of the curve. Whatever. The prof said he was giving the two C-minuses required by the curve and everyone else the highest grade the curve would allow. Which probably made a lot of us unmotivated to study.

53 down, 37 to go.

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Aldous Huxley approves. Actually, if the point of Brave New World is digested, Aldous Huxley disapproves. They aren’t quite taking Soma, but how far away can they be? The Soviet Union might have worked with Soma.

Maybe it’s because in my formative years Russians were the “bad guys”, but I’ve yet to meet a Russian that doesn’t seem weird, at least to my sensibilities. Even the ones that hate communism. (And trust me, working in my field you meet a fair number of Russians.)

In Soviet Russia, sex has you!

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I spotted this car in the parking lot of the local PetCo while I was buying some chow for the mutt:

And I thought I had a lot of gadgets on my car. He’s got six aerial antennas, one satellite antenna, had two seperate GPS receivers, an XM or Sirrius radio, and a HAM radio mounted to his dash. Then he has the bike rack and bumper stickers explaining what all the stuff is for.

As I suspected it might, the bumper stickers indicate that s/he is a geocacher, so I probably know him or her. I just don’t recognize the car.

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I’m not sure how much posting I will be doing this week as it promises to be a little crazy.

I’ll be working Monday through Wednesday, and everyone around work is pretty keyed up right now, which usually results in more work for me. Tomorrow night I have the Professional Responsibility exam. Tuesday night I’m going to be running around like mad from one place to another finishing preparations for my trip to Chicago. Wednesday night I’ll be flying to Chicago. Thursday and Friday I’ll be interviewing. Thursday night I’ll have to make an appearance at the cocktail party being held by the people holding the interviews. Friday night I’ll be going to Miller Park to see the Brewers who had better still be in first place by the time I get there. Saturday I’ll be spending a day in Madison. Sunday, I fly home.

It’d be nice if I could snag a job offer out of this trip to make it worthwhile.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, I miss my favorite half-week of the year in Seattle – the week that the Blue Angels are here practicing and performing. I like it because I get a good view of the Angels from work, but I also enjoy listening to the stupid hippies complain about the “military porn” going on in Seattle.

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And it was pretty good. I knew it was going to be good when it opened with Homer berating patrons of an “Itchy and Scratchy” movie for being suckers for paying for something they could see on TV for free. Some might say it was just a very good extended episode of The Simpsons with a few small things (no offense to Bart) thrown in to make it non-broadcast TV ready. I think I might take issue with the word “just,” when a very good episode of The Simpsons is still better than almost anything on network TV. In this summer of questionable movies (Transformers was so bad, I can’t bring myself to write up even a short review of it) The Simpsons Movie is still better than almost anything else in the multiplex. Plus, all three of the things that I counted that will need to be censored when they inevitably broadcast it on FOX were laugh out loud funny.

They didn’t do what Parker and Stone did to South Park when they made it into a movie and take the freedom of a movie to deluge it in things you can’t get away with on television (even, in the case of South Park, on permissive Comedy Central). And that is fine. What made the South Park movie hilarious would have made the Simpsons suddenly sleazy and unclean. South Park gets away with what they do because Cartman and the gang aren’t sympathetic characters, where Homer, Marge, and Bart are. Not Lisa though, she’s like an always-on internet troll.

Unexpectedly, that’s what the movie chose to build on more than anything – how human the Simpson clan has become. I went in thinking, what can they do that is new? But, for example, in 18 seasons of the show Marge never left Homer in a heartbreaking way like she did near the end of the second act of the movie. I guess they shut me up.

The story is fine. There seemed to be a little more thought put into it than we’ve been getting with the TV show lately. Which makes sense, with the return of some early series writers and the need to make a movie work better than a churned out episode. The scope was just right – it wasn’t a couple of episode ideas strung together clumsily and it wasn’t overblown. Some of the gags will be familiar to Simpsons fans – familiar, not identical to what you’ve already seen – otherwise there are some good sight gags, Homer and Bart hijinx, and the throw away lines of dialog that Simpsons fans love. And Spider Pig. And Spider Pig’s theme song.

If you do go, make sure you stay for awhile into the credits. After the Spider Pig theme song, the funniest joke of the movie takes place between Smithers and Mr. Burns, then there is another good one a little bit after that.

I’ll grade this one on a sliding scale:

Simpsons Fans: A-

Simpsons Haters: Who cares?

Everyone else: B+

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The Hockey Stick Hoax should be a scandal as big as the discovery of the Piltdown Man Hoax. Bigger, really, since so much more is at stake.

That was taken from an Orson Scott Card article where he talks about much of what I have been saying when I address the global warming boogie man – unreliable data sets, faulty computer models that are stacked upon one another like a house of cards, and the agenda driven True Believers of the global warming crowd. But Card writes about it in a much more clear and succinct manner than I can. That’s probably why he’s a legendary sci-fi writer and I post stuff here.

Anyway, read it all.

H/T Kim du Toit 

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Dear Jackasses Who Can’t Figure Out How to Pay Their Mortgages,

What the hell?

Do you think other people don’t have money in the stock and real estate markets? Do you think it’s funny that I, along with everyone else who wasn’t delusional enough to think 4.1% interest rates would last forever, should suffer for your incompetence? Sure, it would’ve been nice to take out an ARM when we bought our house a few years ago, but we used this thing called “common sense” and decided to shell out the extra dough short term for a guaranteed long term rate.
Now, the market is falling because they can’t figure out what to do with you.

My only consolation yesterday and today as I watch my net worth fall despite a decent gain in GDP is that I’ll be sleeping indoors tonight as the sheriff is putting your 60″ plasma screen out on your sidewalk.

By the way, I’ll let you sleep in my garage for a week for that plasma screen. But don’t touch my motorcycle while you’re in there. Post-foreclosure it’s worth more than you are.

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First, I should note that The Simpsons Movie is now playing. The one day indicates when I will see it. I have to prod myself to study for my Professional Responsibility exam, and figure The Simpsons Movie would be a good reward on Saturday.

Speaking of which, I thought I’d tie in the fact that this is a law student’s blog with my daily Simpsons countdown today and remember some of the finer moments in Simpsons legal history.

Dedicated to the late, great Lionel Hutz (aka Miguel Sanchez), who accounted for most of these moments (before he was tragically killed by Brynn Hartman):

• Lionel Hutz changes his card from “Works on Contingency. No money down.” to “Works on contingency? No, money down.” and then removes the bar association logo and eats it.
• In Chester Lampwick’s copyright infringement case, the black judge grants judgment for 800 billion dollars then admits that the amount “may come down a bit on appeal.”
• At Sideshow Bob’s parole hearing he explains that his “Die Bart Die” tattoo is simply German for “The Bart The,” to which one of the parole board members responds “no one who speaks German could be an evil man.”
• In another attempted intellectual property case, Lionel Hutz cites the precedent of the “Frank Wallbanger case” standing for the fact that you can’t copyright a drink (maybe they should have tried patent law). Hutz then lauds the fact that he looked something up and that the books in his office are useful for more than making the place look good.
• Hutz cites the precedent of “Finders v. Keepers” when the town is trying to decide who owns the angel skeleton.
• Bart tells the judge it is great to see “chicks on the bench.”
• Mr. Burns presses a button to raise a wall in his office where he stores his high priced lawyers.
• Lionel Hutz, at his law firm called “I Can’t Believe It’s a Law Firm,” at various times offers a free smoking monkey, shoe cobbler services, and to sell a half drank Orange Julius to Skinner. Skinner replies, “Why don’t I just go drink out of a toilet.”
• During the civil trial for running over Bart, the attorney for Mr. Burns places the fact that Burns is rich and powerful on the record. After this Burns stands up and declares, “I should be able to run over as many children as I want!”
• Burns berates his attorneys as “overpaid notary publics” and demands they hang their heads in shame, which they obediently do, when they suggest he settle the case.
• Dr. Nick giving questionable testimony about Bart’s injuries. “You see that smudge on the X-ray that looks like my fingerprint? No, that’s trauma!”
• In Homer’s case against the all-you-can eat seafood buffet, one of the few cases that Hutz wins, or at least favorably settles, Hutz examines Marge, who tearfully admits they drove around looking for another seafood buffet and when they couldn’t find one they went fishing. Hutz turns to the jury and asks “do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?”
• Hutz refers to his fraudulent advertising suit against the producers of the movie “The Never Ending Story.”
• Ned has to serve on a jury in a suit about someone who backed into a decorative rowboat flower planter which they are trying as a maritime offense.
• When Homer is caught driving drunk the judge orders his license suspended and orders him to attend alc-anon meetings. Homer asks that the last remark be stricken from the record. The judge says no.
• Hutz, while consulting with his clients, hears an ambulance siren. By habit he starts to get up from his chair, but realizes he’s otherwise occupied.
• After settling Bart’s suit against Krusty-O’s for swallowing the “prize” – the jagged metal O included in each box – for $100,000 Hutz gives Bart his cut of $500. When he sees that Bart is naively happy with the amount he turns to the other lawyers and says, “Let’s roll!” and speed off in a white truck with the license plate “NOT OJ.”

There are so many, I’m sure I’m missing some other great moments. The Simpsons has sure heaped satirical criticism on the legal profession and system, probably more than any other subject. I’d guess that doctors are a distant second. Not that lawyers don’t deserve it…

UPDATE: My wife pointed out that I missed one of my favorites:

Hutz: Your honor, I move for a bad court thingy.

Judge: You mean a mistrial?

Hutz: That’s why you’re the judge and I’m the law talking guy.

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I joked a few days ago how my parenting skills are lacking because I’ve been letting my daughter watch The Simpsons. The truth is, I’m not all that uncomfortable with it. I’ve always thought that any family on TV, cartoon or not, that goes to church every Sunday, shows a married mother and father that actually love each other, and feature a pair of polar opposite siblings that still are loyal to each other can’t be all that subversive. Sure, Bart is rude, Homer drinks to much, Lisa is a snot, and Marge is a little too uptight, but I can name three real families off the top of my head with that same scheme.  As a bonus The Simpsons won’t indoctrinate my kids with mushy political correctness as so many cartoons that are aimed at kids seem to be required to do these days. It’s hard to believe that The Simpsons was ever thought as some subversive threat. Then again, the Beetles – dressed in suits on the Ed Sullivan show – were seen as a subversive threat.

The Christian Science Monitor has a good article that agrees with my assessment of the show. Actually it goes even further and declares The Simpsons “good for kids.”

The Simpsons have come full circle from the parents of my generation fearing it, to the kids of my generation being reared on it as semi-wholesome entertainment.

Woo Hoo!

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Anyone who has been to my house since March will understand why I thought this Ctrl+Alt+Del cartoon is funny:

For the record, I have gotten 5 stars on Psychobilly Freakout, both on Easy and Medium. However, I have not taken off a dude’s head with a guitar.

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I guarantee that this book is going to be in the window of the Elliot Bay Book Company one of the next times I walk by:

This is the type of book that a lot of people will buy just to be seen reading it or to have it seen sitting on their coffee table. If I read that book, I can show everyone what a worldly, caring person I am, right? It will show how open minded and progressive I am.

How is it possible that I live in such a different world than the people I work and go to school with?
H/T: Tammy Bruce via RWN.

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Here at BMSB.com the theological holding that Han did not shoot first in the first episode of the Holy Trilogy is considered blasphemy. That’s why I’m awfully confused to come across the following picture:

That’s George Lucas, the man who decided Han did not shoot first, talking to the man who played Han Solo, but currently dressed as Indiana Jones, wearing a “Han shot first” t-shirt.

Ow. My head.

UPDATE: Shouldn’t it be “Greedo never shot?”

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Today, I pick my favorite episode from each of the first 18 seasons. Mind, these are not my favorite 18 episodes, just the favorite from each season. (Treehouse of Horror episodes were excluded from consideration.)

Season 1: “The Crepes of Wrath” It was hard not going with “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” the premiere episode which set the tone for the entire series, but “Crepes” made fun of both the frogs and the commies.

Season 2: “Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish” Burns runs for governor and for the first time pits Marge and Lisa against Homer and Bart. Plus this episode really lets Burns come into his own as a character. “That anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes cost me the election, yet if I were to have them killed I would be the one to go to jail! That’s democracy for you.”

Season 3: “Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk” This was the toughest season to call, since two of my other absolute favorites, “Lisa’s Pony” and “Flaming Moe’s” are also in this season. But there are just too many great moments in this episode – one man layoffs by alphabetical order, “we can still buy the Cleveland Browns,” the land of chocolate, “your beer is like svill to us,” “acthen lieben, racoons,” “what good is money if you can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?”. But what caps it for me is Mr. Burns’ false terror after the Germans threaten him, informing him that Germans are not all sunshine and smiles. “Ooh! The Germans are mad at me! Not the Germans!”

Season 4: “Mr. Plow” / “Marge vs. the Monorail” Did I say Season 3 was the toughest? That’s because there is no call to be made here. Sure, it’s cheating, but I defy you to judge which episode is better. It can’t be done. “Whacking Day” almost makes it a three way tie. The Simpsons is at its peak at this season, which it maintains through season 6.

Season 5: “Cape Feare” This is the best of the Sideshow Bob episodes and the best of the movie parodies in the same episode.

Season 6: “Homer: Bad Man” If one episode of TV is picked to represent the Clinton years, this would probably have to be it. Homer is mistakenly accused of sexual harassment and soon a feminist lynch mob is after him. (They aren’t crazy about nuclear power, either.) I look back on this one and think about that nice lull we had there between the Cold War and 9-11, where we as a nation could obsess over sexual harassment as our biggest national problem. Not that charges from Anita Hill or Paula Jones weren’t serious, but destroying careers, or at least attempting to, over unsubstantiated allegations was a fair target for The Simpsons and they executed it perfectly. Honorable Mention this season goes to “A Star is Burns,” all the better since hippie creator Matt Groening took his name off of it, letting his Harvard graduate writers – the ones who actually made the show funny – get all of the credit for once.

Season 7: “King Size Homer” The series starts to get a little surreal for the next few seasons, and this episode is a good demonstration. Homer puts on a hundred pounds so he can stay home and work, since he didn’t qualify with “lumber lung” or “achy breaky pelvis.” There are some pretty good gags in this episode – putting the drinking bird to “work,” the movie theater offering Homer a garbage bag full of popcorn to go away, Mr. Burns calling ice cream “frozen pudding” – which just aggregate into a really good episode.

Season 8: “You Only Move Twice” See a couple posts down regarding the ending of this episode. Homer is oblivious to the fact that his new boss is a James Bond movie-like supervillain with plans for world domination because he is so concerned by his family’s problems. Touching, surreal, and hilarious.

Season 9: “The Cartridge Family” It is the rare episode of TV that can make fun of soccer, soccer hooligans, gun fearing sissies, overzealous gun nuts, and fit in an appropriate Tom Petty song all in the same episode. Yet this one does.

Season 10: “Maximum Homerdrive” While the series is on a downward trend at this point, and is about to be temporarily eclipsed by “Futurama” (which happened to premiere right after this episode), I defy anyone to find a funnier line of broadcast network television from any other series in the 1998-1999 season than “This man is dead of meat poisoning… from another restaurant,” after Homer buries a man – literally – in a meat eating contest.

Season 11: “Brother’s Little Helper” This one was probably funnier to me as someone who works developing pharmaceuticals than it would be to anyone else. But this list is of my favorites. Homer strangling an untrustworthy carboxyl group on an organic chemical model had me rolling on the floor.

Season 12: “HOMR” Homer has a crayon removed from his brain causing his IQ to skyrocket, only to realize life is more enjoyable when you are dumb. If it wasn’t for Lisa’s elitism being validated, it could have been a great episode.

Season 13: “Sweetest Apu” In kind of a throwback to the temptation of the flesh episodes of the early years, Apu has an extramarital affair with the Squishee machine repairwoman. Because it was side character Apu, not Homer or Marge, the character could actually yield to temptation and the after-effects of an affair could be examined.

Season 14: “Old Yeller-Belly” I’ve always had a soft spot for Santa’s Little Helper and for Duff Man. This episode prominently features both. Ooohhh yeah!

Season 15: “Smart and Smarter” Lisa gets knocked down a peg when it is revealed Maggie has a higher IQ. Isn’t it always the lefty Buddhists that have a problem with jealousy?

Season 16: “Seven Beer-Snitch” This wins the season for me because the first half is kind of an unintentional inside joke for the Seattle area. Frank Gehry designs an orchestra hall for Springfield only to have it turned into prison because no one in Springfield actually wants to sit through a symphony. Shortly after this episode aired, it was feared that the Frank Gehry designed Experience Music Project in Seattle would go down the tubes and they had no idea what to do with the monstrosity of a building. Someone suggested it be made into a homeless shelter, which is close enough to a prison in my book.

Season 17: “Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife” Ricky Gervais writing an episode was a breath of fresh air. I hadn’t laughed this much at an episode in seasons.

Season 18: “The Boys of Bummer” Bart screws up a big play in the championship little league game. In order to make him feel better the town recreates the play to give him a second chance, which he screws up, repeats. Sometimes you blow the big play and have to accept it. Hmm… maybe that’s not a good sign that they are putting that message out right before the movie.

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There seems to be two schools of thought on our laptops here at school:

1. One school holds that the top of laptops should be covered with stickers, with very little surface area visible. That way when you flip up the screen, the entire class and/or professor, depending on the room orientation, can read your socio-political ideology and your favorite sports teams (assuming that having a favorite sports team fits within said socio-political ideology) without having to drive your bumper-sticker laden car into the room
2. The other holds that adhesive should never touch the top of a laptop.

For instance, the lady a row down and to my right has no fewer that two Flying Spaghetti Monster stickers, two Amnesty International stickers, and the rest of the surface area is covered with anti-Bush stickers. (We don’t really get along.) There are one or two that I have seen with right-leaning stickers, so it’s not just a lefty thing, though obviously in a Seattle law school there is more left than right.

I got a Harley Davidson sticker in the mail from the MoCo to fill out some survey. I thought it would look kind of sharp on my on my laptop, and thought about putting it on there. But there doesn’t seem to be any middle ground, and I’m not sure I dared break that ground. It sat in my drawer until I finally slapped it on the back side window of my Xterra.

I guess I need to ask the MoCo to send me about 320 more stickers so I can do it.

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I was rather amused last night when the professor and a classmate got in an argument over whether South Carolina was “as bad” as Alabama. We were talking about something shady that South Carolina tried to do in the seventies. Sterilization of single mothers on welfare or something of the sort. The professor said, “This was our country, in the seventies. And imagine what was going on in Alabama if this was going on in South Carolina!” He was granting that maybe South Carolina, being closer to the enlightened blue state of Maryland was “better.”
My classmate then protested. What was amusing to me was that in the ensuing conversation it turned out that neither of them had ever been to either state, or in fact anywhere in the southeast, nor did they even know anyone from either state.They both had some definite ideas about that part of the country though.

I imagine that in my classmate’s mind the country can be broken into distinct blocks, and there is no difference within the blocks – the Southeast (rednecks), the non-coastal west and midwest (hicks), the southwest (rednecky hicks), Texas (scary redneck hicks with guns), the northeast (enlightened), the Great Lakes region (enlightened) and the west coast (enlightened). Of course, if he’d drive an hour or two west he’d find that not even Washington is that homogenous.

After listening to this for three minutes and realizing my time was being wasted in a pissing match, I chimed in and said something like “I’ve traveled extensively in the Carolinas, I haven’t been in Alabama, but I’ve been through similar areas of Georgia and northern Florida, plus my dad went to veterinary school in Alabama in the ’70’s, so I’ve heard a lot of stories. My impression is that Alabama makes South Carolina look like Canada.

I actually think that rural, non-coastal South Carolina is very similar to rural, non-coastal Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, but I don’t like that particular classmate. Now, if it had been North Carolina, that would probably have been an accurate statement.

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In a development that simultaneously demonstrates my two-year old daughter’s superior breeding and my failure as a parent, she has become obsessed with “The Simpsons,” or as she calls them, “The Simsims.” She has been asking to watch one, two, or three episodes at night before bed and even in the morning before daycare.

Sunday night we were sitting on the couch together after she asked to watch an episode of “The Simpsons.” She turned to me and said “I want popcorn, juice, and beer!”

“Beer?!” I said.

“Beer is for you!”

Homer has taught her well.

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Remember a few posts down, when I was all chipper about not having to drop $800 on new brakes for my motorcycle because it turned out they were covered by the warranty? You don’t think that stayed in my bank account long, do you?

Nope. Sunday was the day I had to go buy some new interviewin’ suits. I obviously have some suits, but nothing so conservative and spiffy as what I’ll need to land the kind of law firm job that will make this ordeal worthwhile. Since I leave the evening of August 1 for Chicago and my first round of interviews, the time was at hand to go on a spending spree.

The final tally:

• One navy blue suit
• One charcoal suit
• One white shirt
• One earth tone shirt
• Ties for each shirt
• A pair of black dress shoes
• Shoe trees and shoe horn for the shoes
• A couple pairs of socks for each suit
• A special piece of luggage for transporting said suits and shoes via aircraft and/or motorcycle without getting them all wrinkly

Total: $1100, including the cut going to the Governess.

Ouch. That’s a lot of money that I would have enjoyed wasting on a lot of other more fun things.
On the other hand, the reality of the world I’m leaving (jeans, t-shirts, usually with acide holes in them) versus the world I’m entering is starting to set in.

At least I’m getting $100 back in Men’s Wearhouse gift cards though.  That way my next shopping trip will only set me back $900.

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What is probably my favorite Simpsons episode ending ever – perhaps only the Grimey episode ending is better – comes in on number 10 on this list.Of course, my mimicking Homer moaning “Oh… The Denver Broncos!” took on new meaning after Super Bowl XXXII.

The number 9 ending on this list was one I could never stand. It seemed like they wasted a perfectly good Homer episode with a cheesy surreal ending (not that surreal is necessarily bad, see, for example, the previous paragraph).

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