Cold And Slo

That cold snap that I predicted (to somebody) is here. Reason #358 to love/hate living in Tennessee. Atmospherically, the state has bipolar disorder, no doubt about it. At least it is sunny.

I got my car tested and my tags renewed today, so I am driving legal again. Do any of you ever fell like you are playing catch up in life? That is me right now.

And now, a YouTube double shot!

Any of you remember the old elementary school song, "Circle circle dot dot now you got your cootie shot" for all of those icky girls in your third grade class? Well, guess what I found on You Tube!

This video by the band OK Go gets the award for best use of eight treadmills in a music video.

Birthdays for April 5th are Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Albert R. Broccoli, Gregory Peck, Frank Gorshin, Colin Powell, Mitch Pileggi, Diamond Dallas Page, and Elodie Bouchez.

Finally for today, I saw in the news today that Bob Clark, the director of A Christmas Story died in a car crash yesterday. In memoriam:

Ralphie: I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle!
Mrs. Parker: No, you'll shoot your eye out.

Mr. Parker: Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
Mrs. Parker: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, dear.
Mr. Parker: Oh, yeah.

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.
Mr. Parker: That son of a gun would freeze up in the middle of summer on the equator!
Mother: Little pitchers!
Mr. Parker: Thanks... hold it!
[the furnace conks out]
Mr. Parker: It's a clinker! That blasted stupid furnace dadgummit!
[he walks down a few stairs and falls the rest of the way down]
Mr. Parker: Darn skates! [coughing]
Mr. Parker: Oh for cripes sake open up the damper will ya? Who the hell turned it all the way down? AGAIN! Oh blasted!
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.