It’s the classic case of art imitating life imitating art: more and more marijuana is being grown in the suburbs a la the Showtime show “Weeds.” It seems that this trend will only continue as the years go on which means that soon you might get a contact high just taking your dog for a walk.
I’m going out to eat at Pinch in NYC tomorrow and the name got me laughing as I remembered a humorous series of Honda Element ads. They starred Gil the Crab who wanted to pinch everything in sight – who doesn’t – and if you know what I’m talking about you are probably laughing already. Of course I went to YouTube and collected and posted them for you. Watch and enjoy.
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Video #3: (never aired)
Note to self: when driving around with tons of illegal drugs in the car – drive carefully! Check out the news article below from the good people at the AP (the reporters group, not the supermarket chain which utilizes an ampersand). In one word, it’s ridiculous!
Car with pot in trunk hits state trooper: 54-year-old caught with 43 pounds of marijuana after South Carolina crash
The Associated Press (Updated: 12:21 p.m. ET March 6, 2007)
ORANGEBURG, S.C. – It might have been one of the easiest drug busts in the history of the South Carolina Highway Patrol: A car with 43 pounds of marijuana crashed into a trooper’s cruiser, authorities said.
The easy bust happened after two patrolmen parked their cars in each lane of northbound Interstate 95 near Santee early Sunday morning following a series of wrecks that had tied up traffic, Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said. A Chevrolet Malibu going about 70 mph hit one of the cruisers, causing minor injuries to the trooper behind the wheel, Williamson said.
Officers found two large duffel bags in the trunk with 43 pounds of marijuana in plastic bags, worth more than $150,000, Orangeburg County deputy Warren Pendry said. They also found a few marijuana cigarettes and cocaine, Pendry said. The 54-year-old driver from Daytona Beach Shores, Fla., was charged with driving under the influence, possession of cocaine and trafficking marijuana, authorities said.
This humor clip perfectly illustrates what I feel about the recent Adult Swin Bean Town debacle. Long story short: it has a major inferiority complex and needs to feel relevant when it really isn’t. Enjoy!
Via Neu
When you travel, its helpful to read reviews so that you “know before you go.” As an FYI, the Days Hotel in the UWS has some of the worse reviews I’ve ever seen. If you need a place to stay, don’t stay here!
A friend sent me a link to an AP article about how “desperate” letters written by the father of Anne Frank have surfaced in the United States and will be released next month.
What I found extremely odd was that the URL to this article was http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070125/en_afp/usnaziannefrank.
Please draw your attention to the very last part of that string: usnaziannefrank. Yes, the article involves the Nazis (who murdered Ms. Frank and her family) and the United States (as the letters surfaced here) but it seems pretty odd that the Associated Press’s content management system (CMS) automatically truncated the path to this article to something that can read as “US Nazi Anne Frank.”
Anyone want to cook up a conspiracy theory?
Via Phyl
Stephen Colbert has a great bit on how nonsensical corporate branding can be. He uses the history of AT&T to illustrate how silly things can get. Please watch and enjoy.
Via Neu
I normally do not do this but it’s short and sweet so I’m lifting a paragraph verbatim from amNY:
“A blaze caused an estimated $50,000 of damage at an unlikely location yesterday morning – the headquarters of the East Meadow Fire Department. The fire started around 4:30 a.m., Fire Chief Christopher Sala said. It took about 100 firefighters half an hour to get it under control.”
You can’t make this stuff up…
Via amNY
A horrible smell best described as “gassy” invaded NYC yesterday. It concerned many, closed buildings and forced a PATH station to evacuate. It was actually so bad and people were so freaked out that Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference to say basically, “everything is fine – its not terrorism – go about your business.”
After much investigation, a marsh around Bayonne is being blamed and the news outlets are having a field day with their headlines. NY1’s “Who Dealt it?” is one of my favorites. In case you were wondering, Bayonne is in the “Garden State,” aka New Jersey. It seems that NJ smells so bad these days that it can’t even contain itself anymore, – sort of how I felt in while on vacation after eating Israeli salad, cabbage and choumous at every meal of the day…
I have a black and white old skool marble notebook with a Led Zeppelin “Houses of the Holy” sticker on it that houses a lot of good quotes and poems I’ve amassed over the past fifteen odd years. I think I’m going to start posting them because a number of them are really great. To start this project off, as I’m embarking on a trip to the Holy Land very soon, one passage about the how ridiculous some people are in the way they worship their chosen deity gave me pause and made me smile. It might do the same to you:
If God existed (a question concerning which he maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped ( a proposition which he found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to him to the point of redictio and absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed bye the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as “worship.”
– Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Tradition is one thing but some people truly go overboard in “worship.” Everyone should keep in mind the quote above and the simple adage that its not what you do inside a house of worship that matters, its how you conduct your life outside of it that matters.