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Entries from December 2007

Everywhere a sign #4

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Brought to you by the Madonna of the Braids

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Tags: signs

Doodlin’ in a doodly wonderland!

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Banana, banana, banana.

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Tags: music

Where ideas come from

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Situation: Painful jump-roping > Patent idea: Skipping ropes with more comfortable & effective skipping position

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Tags: ideas · language

Random Song Machine: “Mad Dog” by America

December 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Being a Beatlemaniac, my claws were out when I first realized what America seemed to be doing with this song, but it is so well done – and such a trifle at 2:42 – that I will give it the “all clear.”

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Tags: music · Random Song Machine

87.7

December 8th, 2007 · No Comments

“Look, this isn’t an art gallery,” he answered. “It doesn’t matter what you like; there’s big money driving the music.”

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Everywhere a sign #3

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

B is for backward Birmingham Benz –
Barricaded by barbed wire,
Yet captured by lenz.

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Fantastic tales of gambling in Old California

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

The padre invited me to play a game of cards. I accepted. We played and he won all the sugar. I did not know the game and I had no idea that the priest would win, but he did and I returned home with nothing. When I turned over the sugar to him, Father Menendez said to me: “See here, Pico, it has happened to you as it did to Christ when he came into the world.”

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Tags: family · history

Of course, once you told me I was no good, I could probably get a job at a bargain basement and like it!* (Screenings: Holiday Inn)

December 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

  • Hatching a plot to get Bing’s girl under contract as Fred’s dancing partner.
    Danny, Fred’s manager: “This is no time to be honest!”
    Fred: “Well, what should I do?”
    Danny: “All we have to do is to convince Jim that he’d be a heel if he stood in the way of a chance like this.”
    Fred: “Oh, that’ll be easy. Like peeling a turtle.”
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    Tags: film · language · Screenings

    Everywhere a sign #2

    December 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments

    Alabama Industries for the Blind

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    Tags: signs

    Utilitarian uses for radios and cigarettes.

    December 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

    utilitarianism: n. The belief that the value of a thing or an action is determined by its utility. You Turn Me On, I’m A Radio If you’re driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Who’s bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on I’m a radio I’m […]

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    Tags: music