Revolution!

Here.

If a Cow Laughed...

...would milk come out her nose?

How come abbreviated is such a long word?

These are a couple of one liners by Stephen Wright.  Maybe they aren't so funny when not delivered in his deadpan style, but they make me laugh.  Here are many more.  You'll notice a couple of familiar ones: cannibals eating a clown, statistics made up on the spot.  And here's another one from somewhere:  47% of people don't believe statistics when they are presented to them. 

The Amish Invasion

Looks kinda familiar, doesn't it?

My cousin Jim Canty posted this shot on Facebook, taken last night at Opening Ceremonies at Worlds in the propitious location of Ames, Iowa. Oh, the memories.  Here's an article about his fourth-grade daughter's team, and here's their picture:

That's Maeve in pink.  If you enlarge the picture, you will see one heck of a lot of pencils on the props and backdrop.  The team's skit is set in "Pencilvania."  Good luck to Maeve and the State Street Elementary School from Skaneateles, New York!  Team, are you ready?

A Bovine Free Herd

Bingo

www.freemarketamerica.org

Happy day!

I couldn't decide whether to post flowers for Mother's Day, a birthday cake for Dad, or just a picture of Jamie. So here's all three. 

Happy Mother's/Birthday from your children (and grandchild)!

P.S. I'll call later.

What?

Did he really say that?  I'm talking about what he said at 30 seconds in.  So strange.  Similar to the speech he gave in Afghanistan where he exclaimed, "..and you have ME in the house."                                                                                                                                                   

Jamie at 11 weeks

He's working on controlling his arms. He smiles all the time but won't do it for the camera! I'll add a couple of short videos tonight, once I figure out how to do it from the iPad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ain't no Free Lunch

Where have you heard before that there is no difference between the "employer share" and the "employee share" of social security and medicare taxes?  Huh? Where?  WHERE? 

Congratulations, Laura and Jason

We are so happy to welcome Jason to the family!

Global Warming Causes Lying

Also, global warming ate my homework.

Update by Mom: Also, global warming causes more home runs.

Jamie

meets his Great-Grandmother

 considers his grandfather

 learns to play the piano

gets to walk on the keys

 and shows off his smile.

 Daddy's tired,

 and Jamie's practicing his "Harold and the Purple Crayon" look.

See?

Bobby V. the Clown

I all ready CAN'T STAND this guy:

The Bobby Valentine Show

Sustain This, M**********r!

NYTimes, The Myth of Sustainable Meat. Really, this shit just makes me want to do something violent.

This is better.

These animals

are pretty funny, even if we did let the poor things down.  The last one is the best. I love dogs!

Pictures of Jamie's second cousin

http://kidfantastic.org/

This is quite beautiful.

Watch it for a while. Just ignore the links on the bottom to windmill propaganda.

The tradition continues

Sherburne-Earlville will be well-represented tomorrow at States. I'll also be watching the performance of a Div. I team from Skaneateles that my cousin's daughter is on. He says it's her first trip to States and she's pretty much beside herself. (Remember??) Update: The scores are up. Nobody from S-E is going to Worlds, but my cousin Jack's daughter Maeve's team came in second in Div. I "Odyssey Angels" and is off to Ames, Iowa in May. So, we've got family to root for!

Cherry Blossoms

Jamie visits the farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How I spent the weekend

Careful preparations:

and great hats

not to mention shades

and then there are SHADES.  This is my father's Cousin Tolly.  She will be 86 on her next birthday, she just retired a few months ago from 44 years as the City Chamberlain of Hornell, NY, she was Grand Marshall of the parade, leading off something like 80 McCarthys and another hour's worth of fire trucks, Girl Scout Troops and bagpipe bands in her golf cart, she's more fun than a barrel of boas and beads, and don't try to outlast her at the bar late at night on St. Patrick's Day after a long day of marching, meeting far-flung family and drinking -- you will fail.  But you'll have fun doing it!

These are "The Renas." We all had nametags that showed our McCarthy heritage: Mine said, "Rena; Jack; Cathy." All of us who were Rena's descendants -- that is, my dad's mother, Catherine "Rena" McCarthy Frey -- gathered for this shot. More were absent than were there, but nonetheless, she would have loved it.

More to come!

Baby Monkey Riding on a Pig!

What's wrong with this picture?

This is a self-checkout machine at CVS.