Sticky Situation

You know when you buy a CD or a DVD and they come with the little sticky security strips at the top (or in the case of DVDs, on the top, the side, and the bottom)?

Is there any way to remove them without leaving huge strips of really, really, REALLY sticky stuff that stays on for weeks? I just bought a new DVD today and after removing all the security strips, the box is now slathered in super sticky glue.

I think they use the same glue that's used on bumper stickers.

What's worse is I have four cats. Cats that shed. Shed fur that tends to float around. Float around near the DVDs and CDs. The ones with sticky glue residue. Nothing like grabbing a CD off the shelf to find the top of the jewel box covered in fur.

Irony

From ABC News.com:


Congressman Mark Foley, Republican from Florida, resigned today just hours after ABC news questioned him about a series of sexually explicit instant messages involving current and former underage male Congressional pages. Foley used the login name Maf54.

Maf54: Do I make you a little horny ?
Teen: A little. Maf54: Cool.

Foley was the chairman of the house caucus on missing and exploited children and has long crusaded for tough laws against those who use the Internet for sexual exploitation of children.


Sad.

Tequila!

Danny Flores, the guy who played sax and shouted "Tequila!" on the song of the same name has died.

Pee-Wee Herman fans worldwide mourn the loss.



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Amazing Race!!!

You can take your Big Brother *. You can keep your Survivor **.

The Amazing Race is back on. This is the king of reality shows. A race around the world. The fun of watching twelve teams of hapless Americans bickering, whining, and flaunting "American cultural superiority" in the face of "lesser" cultures.

Watching people raised on Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip grimmacing as they gulp down fish eyeballs to continue. Watching out-of-shape city folk attempt to climb a portion of the Great Wall of China, chanting the mantra "I can't do this!!!" over and over again. Watching a couple who said their relationship is solid turn into bickering kids over which direction the next Pit Stop is. Watching the English-speaking-only racers think the way to communicate to someone who doesn't speak the language is to TALK. LOUDER. AND. SLOWER..

This is brilliant television.

* I dunno about Big Brother. Once the two most deserving people, Will and Janelle, were kicked out, I could have cared less who won. Boogie only made it to the end on Will's coattails and Erika didn't deserve to win because she's just scary to look at and whiny to boot.

** Is it me or did the whole "race card" twist this season fall flat on its face right from the start? I had a feeling the producers were hoping the island would erupt into a race war with opposing teams trying to terrorize each other with drive by fish spearings and Molotov coconuts. Instead, everyone acknowledged that they were divided by race, then proceeded to get along just fine and act like every, single other Survivor competetor in the past. I get it -- we could end racial conflict by dumping everyone on an island and offer a cash prize of a million dollars and fifteen minutes of fame!

Star Wars Episode III - The Backstroke of the West

Check out these screengrabs of "Star Wars Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith" from a bootleg Chinese DVD.

The subtitles are hilarious.

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9/11 - Five Years Later

It's been five years since this awful event and the governments of the world still make life miserable for everyone, waging wars, perpetuating poverty, doing everything they can to destroy hope, and existing in insular, greedly little cliques whose only motivation is their own petty needs.

It's also a testament to the goodness and tenacity of humanity that, in spite of our governments, we still survive and manage to remain happy and hopeful.

We should live every day like it's September 12th, when everyone came together with a shared purpose of helping those who had suffered so much. We should never forget that we are capable of such a gracious and caring spirit.

In spite of our governments, that is.

Nominee: Album Title of the Year

The new one from Yo La Tengo:

"I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass"

Brilliant.

Nominee For Politically Incorrect Blog

My wife found this and passed it along.

Tard Blog

This is the musings and rantings of a special ed teacher. On the surface this reads like a very politically incorrect treatise on the mentally disabled. However, I got the feeling that she enjoyed what she did but needed this blog as a way to blow off steam.

Then again, the blog hasn't been updated since July 2005, so she could be happily working a complete different job.