I'm allergic to fire. -- Arthur, The Journeyman Project Part 2

ITCXXVIII: Allez cuisine!

Seen in a Pastablitz in Ellicott City (Contrast enhanced):

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Personally, I’d prefer the food be fresh and the service be good, but I’ll take what I can get.

ITCXXVII: Sex and Politics

And now, here’s a picture which taken out of context, looks like a prominent political figure having an orgasm.


OH NANCY PELOSI NO!

ITCXXVI: Rememeber the time we went to that place and did that thing?

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Stuff? Sweet! I love “stuff”.

ITCXXV: In Large-o-Rama

Today’s IT can’t be safely scaled down to fit the width of this column of text, so go ahead and click on it to enlarge.

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FAIL.

ITCXXIV: Because it’s been nearly two weeks

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Aww. My wife and infant child look so cute and loveable and carefree as I am about to back over them with my SUV

ITCXXIII: Bad taste, worse taste

Not too long ago, I found a pile of digital camera pictures from some time back. Today, I’d like to juxtapose two that I took at the National Aquarium in Baltimore on or around the beginning of November, 2006.

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This is a little funny, because here’s an adventurous outdoorsman in a playset with a bunch of wild animals, and look: his arm’s missing. O for fun. Now, look at what was directly under it:
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ITCXXII: It’s pronounced “it-sexy”

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Monastic monks. As opposed to the other kind.

ITCXXI: I suppose you can have Charles Heston’s gun now

This may be one for the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

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Actually, those scare-quotes aren’t wrong; it was a zombie band.

ITCXX: Real is the new Fake

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Bakelite is plastic. Bakelite is the original fake material. Faux-bakelite is imitation fake material. Costume jewlery is fake jewelry. Reproduction costume jewlery is fake fake jewelry. Faux-bakelite reproduction costume jewlery is fake plastic fake imitation jewlery. I think this means it’s actually made of gold.

ITCXIX: In which someone dies, and I am flippant

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Dink dink, dink dink dink dink-dink. Dink-dink, dink ding-dink ding dink dink. Dink-dink. Dink dink-dink dink-dink. Dink dink-dink, dink dink-dink, dink-dink.