My Sick Mind

News Item: It was a last-minute project for Linda Bargas and her children in Pueblo. Bargas bought one of the last Easter egg dye kits at the store. Bargas said, "We were getting ready to go to the Easter Vigil. I had egg all over me. Just dyed the egg, and it was dripping. And the kids were like, we're going to be late, we're going to be late, so I took the egg and I blew on it. And when I blew on it, I see the image. Oh my gosh kids, look what happened." What appeared on that egg eight years ago to Bargas and all of her friends and family is the image of the face of Jesus Christ. Bargas stopped short of calling it a miracle, "I think it just happened, and it's something beautiful to look at." The egg is still hard-boiled, and it doesn't carry any odor. Bargas plans to sell it on eBay. "It's lasted in my house for eight years. Will I miss it? Probably a little bit. But it's time for it to go." --------------------------------------...

Recently, I was required to do something that I would rather not do. I had to deal with Ticketmaster. The Dave Matthews Band is going on their summer tour, and it's time to deal with the devil, which means Ticketmaster , which isn't Hell, but you can see it from there. While I promised myself that this blog would not be a personal diary of my life, the Ticketmaster experience is enough of a worldly pain in the ass that I cannot imagine anyone having anything nice to say about it. Yet, we continue to deal with it, Pearl Jam notwithstanding. It's because the ticket machine has become a monster. Legal scalpers on the web, phone scams and schemes of all sorts are used to bag precious tickets. So my pain is probably your pain, and I suspect that if you have anything nice to say about getting tickets to a show, it's because you were able to get them. Otherwise, you dealt with busy signals and "server busy" messages. And speaking of servers, what's with that rid...

Fear is a great motivator. We use it against children to keep them in line. Bill collectors use it against us so that we'll keep making payments, and our doctor uses it so that we will stop our death-defying lifestyle. However, I do not believe that our government should use it to get us to pay our taxes. It works, but just because something works doesn't necessarily make it morally right. Your taxes are due on Monday. I say "yours" because I've already filed mine, and if you haven't filed yours, it's either because you procrastinated too long, you owe a lot of money or you just plain don't understand the tax code. But the basic reason you're going to pay is because you're afraid not to. You've already had money deducted from your paycheck every week, but it may not be enough. If it's too much, chances are you've already filed, but if you owe, you live in fear until the check clears. One thing I know for certain is that on the Mon...

News Item: London's most expensive sandwich, nick-named 'The MacDonald Sandwich', is seen at Selfridges in London April 10, 2006. The sandwich, which is on sale for 85 pounds ($148), contains ingredients of Wagyu beef, fresh lobe foie gras, black truffle mayonnaise, brie de meaux, rocket, red pepper and mustard confit and English plum tomatoes. Someone in England is willing to pay 148 US dollars for a sandwich with ingredients that I can't even pronounce. I'm afraid we've lost our way, folks. When I think about all the things that $148 will buy, a sandwich comes at the end, with maybe the last eight dollars - probably less, but it sure doesn't eat up the whole wad. Hmmmm ... I haven't used the phrase "eat up the whole wad" in a while. But I digress. I have to admit that I don't know what lobe foie gras is, but I'm not ashamed. Yesterday, for lunch, I had a veggie wrap, and I could name every vegatable in it, including the tomato wrap a...

When I post a high score on the Yahtzee game on my Sony cell phone, it tells me "You Played Like a Real Pro!" Geez, I didn't even know there were professional cell phone Yahtzee leagues. But, if I need to use steroids to compete, then I guess I'll have to pass. Yahtzee, I'm guessing, is best played either stoned or drunk. In that case, count me in. Conversely, when I post a low score (because, I assume, I am not drunk enough) it tells me that "you need to practice some more." I interpret that to mean that I need to use more Southern Comfort and less cranberry juice. Practice makes perfect.

On Tuesday, we are being subjected to yet another money grab by the entertainment industry. The re-packaged versions of the Beatles albums that were originally released in the United States are being re-released on CD. That's right. Never mind that the albums have already been released, albeit in their British forms - that is to say, their intended forms - and I suspect that anyone who wants them has already bought them. But the good folks at Capitol Records have seen fit to suck some more money out of erstwhile Beatles fans with another set of CDs. Capitol ripped us off back in the 60s when they re-packaged the original Beatles albums for sale in the U.S. Old habits die hard, and this one has more lives than Freddy Kruger. Here we go again! But wait! these are DIGITALLY REMASTERED - LIMITED EDITION - PRESENTED IN MONO & STEREO . Mono? What year is this? Do I want to regress back to the glorious days of mono? I have a CD player in my car, an MP3 player and a portable CD play...