More pork, please.

Prince Edward Island meat production businesses are in trouble. The hog processing plant has slipped into receivership and the large grocery stores are bringing pork products from other parts of Canada. The locals are pleading with Island consumers to buy local or their neighbors will go out of business.

PG-13 e-Cards

If you're looking for something edgier and, well, rude, here's just what you need.

Skillz I haz them

Most people over 30 will think of video games as, well, games, stuff that younger (mostly male) people do until they get around to growing up. The real world, however, is realizing that the skills learned while playing video games aren't completely useless. For example, we learn that surgeons hone skills on Nintendo Wii
. In addition, the military has found that "video games made better soldiers and sailors faster, safer and cheaper." In addition, businesses are finding that, along with learning manual skills, video games can teach leadership.

Diagramming the Preamble to the US Constitution.

From Diagramming the Preamble to the US Constitution. - Boing Boing

Weapons of the winter war

On Monday evening, we were watching a news story about how much better the state and local public works departments handled Monday's (modest) snowstorm. I remarked that, for narrow streets, instead of plows, they ought to use flame throwers. I didn't realize that I was 35 years behind the times. (The ad is from 1972.)

Update: This article, in the 1/20/08 Boston Globe, describes how New York and Toronto use, and Boston does not use, snow-melting equipment to clear the streets.

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Where infinitives are always split

via Miss Celenia on English

Quadro the Snowman

Huck stories - skis

When my father was a kid, he asked his father for money (maybe ten
bucks) for a pair of skis. "We're not paying for skis," the old gent
said. Instead, they went out into the woods, found a good, straight
birch trees, cut it down, and dragged it home. There, they cut,
carved, paned, and polished the wood into a set of skis. If I remember
the story correctly, Huck broke theis on the first or second time out.

RIP, Huck, one year ago today

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Drink from the well and yield your place to another. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

This Week's RoasterBoy Playlist

• YouTube - Garland Jeffreys - Hail Hail Rock 'N Roll ( Tuesday, Jan 15, 08 at 09:25 AM GMT)

  YouTube - Garland Jeffreys - Hail Hail Rock 'N Roll

• YouTube - The Rolling Stones - Love In Vain ( Tuesday, Jan 15, 08 at 08:39 AM GMT)

  YouTube - The Rolling Stones - Love In Vain Listening to the Stones naturally leads to other artists, such as Chuck Berry and the Temptations. On this Chuck Berry clip , however, you'll need some ear bleach; the Bee Gees join in the chorus. Better to find something like this medley of Promised…

• YouTube - The Velvet Underground - Heroin ( Monday, Jan 14, 08 at 01:22 PM GMT)

  Friend Ken, tall and lanky, looking like Cookie Monster, died a junkie's death in a burned-out van a number of years ago. Each time I hear this song , I remember him. Even on the underground radio stations in the late 60s into the 70s, this song was banned because it told the story too well.

• YouTube - The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (Live) ( Monday, Jan 14, 08 at 01:07 PM GMT)

  PBS has been teasing its Jane Austen series with the Cowboy Junkies refrain of Lou Reed's Sweet Jane (Live with The Velvet Underground) .

• MilkandCookies - Animaniacs: Yakko's Universe Song ( Monday, Jan 14, 08 at 10:06 AM GMT)

  It's a great big universe and we're all real puny. We're just tiny, little specks, about the size of Mickey Rooney.

• MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Live ( Monday, Jan 14, 08 at 09:58 AM GMT)

  MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Live . More , from Wikipedia.

• James Brown - It's A Man's World ( Thursday, Jan 10, 08 at 01:11 PM GMT)

  I'm never sure what to think or say about this song . From one side, it's arrogant, sexist, and demeaning to women. From another, its ache is like no other. Add to Luciano Pavarotti and, well, I don't know what you get. On that theme, though, of why men do what they do, here's Al…

• Old folkies ( Wednesday, Jan 09, 08 at 02:49 PM GMT)

  Today's Boston Globe has a review of a show at Passim's this past Sunday. The show included lots of performers from the Boston folk music scene of decades past. These people were an essential part of our sound track. It's not only impressive that these musicians are still performing, but…

• FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3315843) Bob Dylan shows Donovan a thing or two..."Love Minus Zero/No Limit" ( Wednesday, Jan 09, 08 at 11:40 AM GMT)

  FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3315843) Bob Dylan shows Donovan a thing or two..."Love Minus Zero/No Limit" From "No Direction Home"

• YouTube - The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star ( Tuesday, Jan 08, 08 at 10:27 PM GMT)

  From Charles Laquidara's blog : YouTube - The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

Should be standard issue for all cars registered in Massachusetts

From bookofjoe: Best bumper sticker of the year:

Upgrade time

If this hasn't happened to you, you haven't been trying.

How Massachusetts are you?

Even though they get the pronunciation of Worcester wrong, it's a fun quiz:

Dude! You're 100% from Massachusetts!

Dude! Me and Sully and Fitzie and Sean are gonna hit Landsdowne tonight after the game, hang out at the Beerworks. I'll pick you up at the Coop at 6.

How Massachusetts are you?

The hand of God reaches out to us.

I've had a copy of this George Booth cartoon for a long time, 30 years maybe.






















Booth's cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker.