Learning the alphabet was never this much fun.

This is a short note to ask my blogging friends and any blogging acquaintances who may read this to please check your blog spam occasionally for legit comments. A bit of recent drama may cause Akismet to spamlist comments from me. Thanks to Her Pinkness for pointing this out.

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It’s worth noting that NPR, a favorite news source of mine, occasionally does things that make me question what the old hippies are smoking. A few days ago their normally literate front page editors let the Ebonics riddled tease below litter my screen. Considering the subject, it feels more like a wagered dare than an honest mistake. Et tu, NPR?

Go ahead… say it fast three times. I found few English posts about the Calatrava brothers, but it seems they’ve been around for a while. I gather they sing eccentric songs and do comedy sketches a la Sabado Gigante performers. Using the universal straight man/funny man shtick , one sings while the other holds a running commentary. From the 1974 compilation Spanish Bizarro Vol. 1, here’s a riveting cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

Hermanos Calatrava: Space Oddity

The usual barrage of heat produced a spectacular squall a couple of days ago. One day I’ll be in the right, relatively safe spot to capture some nice lightning. I was blessed to make it to lunch without floating away when I shot this pic.

Part II

Next day more of the same. This front produced some tornadic activity in the Sandhills portion of the state. It takes a lot to make me stop and shoot clouds as it’s hard to capture their true character in a photograph. I believe this one speaks for itself however. Oddly enough, it wasn’t as violent a storm as the day before.

OK, this has been covered elsewhere on the web, so I won’t reinvent it here. But it’s too delicious an idea to let escape the Blue’s radar. Everyone in the civilized world and beyond knows that bacon makes everything taste better. So what if you wrap it around an item that needs no enhancing. Kind of like the Blue Bonnet/Ritz conundrum. You know, “Everything’s better with Blue Bonnet on it” and “Everything tastes better when it’s sitting on a Ritz”, so what if you spread Blue Bonnet on a Ritz. Well forget the abstract philosophy, prepare to get greasy. Note: potentially NSFW.

The Bacon Bra

One great thing about the ‘Net: no matter how bad your day is, there’s any number of sites to visit to make you feel better.

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