…so that’s what happened…

…like this:

…and woke up giggling at 3:30 this morning.

They did “Big Bottom” as an acoustic beatnick-jazz finger-snapper with a modern dancer in a leotard.

“Talk about mudflaps, my gal’s got ‘em…”

If you had to eat what Survivorman eats, I bet you could.  This is entirely aside from the killing issue-from the aspects of personal ethics and safety.  It’s obviously a dangerous proposition to hunt/snare/kill anything if you’re inexperienced.  If you’re vegan, that’s admirable, but it may be more of a challenge after 7 days in the back country eating only a handful of greens and a few berries -and remember mushrooms are extremely risky for non-experts.

With disclaimers out of the way, let’s look at survival food from a purely gastronomical standpoint.

If you’ve eaten these (escargot):

You could eat worms.  A worm is just a snail without a shell-right?

If you’ve eaten these (spider roll, which is softshell crab roll):

You could eat spiders and scorpions.  Crabs, lobsters, crayfish…arachnids…what’s the big dif?

If you’ve eaten chicken, you’ve eaten a bird, which is just an evolutionary block or two down the street from frog and snake.

 Confession of the worst kind:  I’ve never eaten rodent.  I read Watership Down when I was a kid and haven’t been able to eat rabbit, which is stupid, but true.  If you HAVE eaten rabbit, it’s as good as rat or squirrel-so you could eat roasted desert squirrel if you had to.

Plus, when you’re so hungry that you HAVE TO, almost everything tastes AMAZING.  Hunger is the very best appetizer.

Bugs are a different category, and require expert advice.  Some can make you sick, or worse.  Like some plant foods in the back country, they can get you into deep trouble for very little caloric payoff.  Ants, a great deal of the time, are a nice protein boost, and are often safe.  But it pays off tremendously to learn the foods in any back country you’ll be venturing into, in case you’ll need the information.

It’s just one great thing Survivorman teaches us.

Sing it with me again: “Chaaa, chuka, chuka, chuka….”

Cathy Taylor covered a story about odd (and unsettling) product recalls this morning, one of which was a recall of defective…ahem…”athletic cups” from the Under Armour Company.

Click here for the story.

Of all the things in the world to have a manufacturer’s defect.

I mean, come on. How hard is it to test a plastic cup?

Hell, if you give my son an aluminum baseball bat he’d be a very efficient “product tester” for the Under Armour company.  He works cheap too…..

…for suggesting that the statistic cited by CDOT meant more than it did.  Clumsy wordage on my part.  I am sorry to have ever suggested that motorcycles INITIATE problems on the road 80% of the time.  That  is unsubstantiated.

However, the statistic from CDOT that motorcyles were AT FAULT 80% of the time is one you can look up. 

We’re all responsible here, obviously.  But I’m OK with it even if I did make you mad.   Nobody deserves to be a statistic.  If I made you mad enough to talk about it, maybe I did my job.

Did you ever stop to think that for as challenging as it must be to PUT a band together, it must be equally as challenging to come with a cool name for your band.

It’s gotta be short….and memorable….and It should be a fun name….but not too fun…otherwise no one will take you seriously.  And it’s okay if it’s an edgy name, but it can’t be too edgy…..otherwise you’ll just end up with like 6 nerdy goth kids listening to your band……and no one wants that.

And, of course, it’s got to sound contemporary….but not too contemporary…because it’s gotta be timeless….just in case you and your buddies end up being as big as the Beatles, or whatever.

See what I mean?  It’s challenging.

All that said, here are 10 bands that get the award for “probably should’ve put a litttttle more thought into your name” 

10. Goo Goo Dolls (it’s either a baby with mushed up carrots all over its face or one of those ugly prizes you win at the state fair)
9. Blue Oyster Cult (sounds like a compound in Waco)
8. Jethro Tull (wasn’t he Ellie Mae’s cousin on the Beverly Hillbilles)
7. Travelling Wilburys (sounds dirty)
6. Steely Dan (IS Dirty)
5. Sniff N’ The Tears (sounds like a bad ventriloquist act),
4. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (all you need is an appearance from Billy Mummy and you have bad episode of the old TV Show Lost In Space)
3. Fleetwood Mac (does it come with a sesame seed bun)
2. Supertramp (is it a Disney movie or a lady who’s been walking the streets for way too long?)

1. And for the worst band name of all time, the award goes to:  Mott The Hoople.

I know they named themselves after a book……but from what I recall……it wasn’t that great of a book to begin with.  Both parts together “Mott….The Hoople” remind me of a character name from that old TV show HR Puffenstuff …..and if you separate the names, the Mott part reminds me of applesauce…..and Hoople makes me think of the “Don’t squeeze the charmin” guy from those old TV commercials ………

Applesauce, toilet paper, and HR Puffenstuff aren’t exactly the hallmarks of rock n roll.  But fortunately, history judges a band by the music it makes and not by its name.  Because when you think about…..The Beatles isn’t really that great of a band name either…..but it didn’t seem to hurt them any.

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Let’s hope so…

SCARY…

…waiting for Terminator: Salvation.

Holy crap!  I love the Terminator story WAAAAY too much.  You Tube won’t let me embed the trailer, but here’s the link.

THEN…this headline.  From SWEDEN…the Governator’s fatherland:

Robot attacked Swedish factory worker!

Nuggets win by 58!!!  Lead the series 3-1!!! I’m Mike Casey and I’m addicted to exclamation points!!!!!!!

Nothing against the Hornets….but how weak is it to make the playoffs and get blown out AT HOME by almost 60 points?

Like waving the tea bag at a cup of lukewarm tap water…THAT weak….

My advice to New Orleans?  Save the money on plane fair and have your ring-man throw in the towel….no need to make the trip to Denver on Wednesday.  This baby is OV-AH……