January 19, 2007 – 7:15 pm
The Beast penned this little ditty and posted it as “Christmas Carols for Global Jihad” last month. One of his readers decided to record it and sent the music file. Christmas is long gone but what the heck, you may enjoy it.
Many thanks to PL9 for the inspiration, and to Purple Roadster and his talented [...]
January 17, 2007 – 8:41 pm
Author and Business Blogger Ted Demopoulous posted a thought-provoking piece on his site yesterday on “How to Pitch a Blogger”. Here’s an excerpt.
I know, we bloggers are supposed to hate the word ‘pitch.’ Pitch is the word PR-types use for flinging ideas at the Mainstream Media.
I get lots of clueless ‘pitches’ — people contacting me [...]
January 16, 2007 – 8:19 pm
The Beast is a fisherman and a shark enthusiast, so when something sharky happens it goes on his blog. There really hasn’t been all that much going on lately (sharkwise) but The Beast has noticed in his various web searches certain pictures showing up over and over. One of the more popular is this shot [...]
January 12, 2007 – 3:13 pm
Now that The Dems have taken the tiller in Congress the goodies are being dispensed. From Maine to The Maldive Islands minimum wage workers will soon see their incomes soar from $5.15 hour to $7.25. Their fryolaters overfloweth.
Everywhere except American Samoa, that is.
Amercan Samoa is a U.S. protectorate popularly known as the source of thyroidal [...]
January 12, 2007 – 4:01 am
Athens (THB) — It was probably not the first explosion these potties have ever seen, but it wasn’t caused by a night of ouzo and bad squid. The third floor Restroom of the US Embassy in Athens Greece was spontaneously redecorated (presumably in varied shades of brown and tan) today by a rocket launched from [...]
January 12, 2007 – 2:49 am
You know you’re getting old when you can recall voting in a Presidential election in which there was not a single “Bush” or “Clinton” on the ballot. Someday The Beast will gather his grandwhelps about him and bore them silly with hoary tales of campaigns long past. He will fix them with a rheumy eye, [...]
January 10, 2007 – 7:24 pm
Occasionally, (The Beast can’t remember exactly how often) a telephone call will come from The Ex in which she will say something like “The kids have a dentist appointment three weeks from tomorrow at the office in Raymond, they have to be there by nine-thirty, can you take them?” The Beast will grunt his assent [...]
January 9, 2007 – 7:31 pm
Rosie bites the trough that feeds her.
When Celebrities Attack: The New York Post reports today that ‘The tension between “The View” creator Barbara Walters and co-host Rosie O’Donnell, sparked by O’Donnell’s feud with Donald Trump, boiled over yesterday morning when the portly comic called Walters “a [bleeping] liar.”
It can’t be easy to be Rosie.
The zeppelinesque [...]
January 8, 2007 – 6:46 pm
From the graphic novel by Frank Miller of “Sin City” and “Dark Knight” fame. The Beast SO going to see this!
January 4, 2007 – 5:46 pm
“Yeah BABY! Shake that moneymaker!”
Washington (THB) — Jubilant Democrats came to D.C. this week eager to celebrate their reaccension to power. But the festivities became far more festive than anybody expected when Senator Ted Kennedy arrived ten minutes late with a bottle of Scotch in the crook of one arm and exotic dancer “Tiifini Tyler” [...]