Dakota, Daschle, Drowsy

No sleep ’til Blog-lyn!

Why, when I was a kid we had school five days a week!

If I knew I could go pro by playing with Legos, I would never have switched to Construx.

Main is open?  That sounds like a good enough excuse to hit Brost’s Aquarium and Hobby.

For the anti-gift card crowd, here is another piece of ammo.

Somebody tell Rapid City about all the bank trouble.  I think we forgot to include them on the CC list.

Davis had a pharmacy robbery?  How do I miss a headline that includes the phrase “pharmacy robbery”?

How the demise of Gateway is totally boning South Dakota schools.

Spearfish decides to move on emergency phones and golf course ownership, that’s good news if your golf course catches fire.

There will be fewer Sioux Falls trucks on the road for a while.

Aurora is experiencing a growth spurt.

If you can run Brookings, you can probably run the whole state.

The Corn Palace isn’t getting any bigger.

Vermillion residents need to wake up and smell the fraud going around.

I’ve really been slacking on my blogs after I do the South Daktoa linkfest.  Like last weekend, I’m super tired.  The difference this time is that I want to do something besides the links.  So, let’s see what my drowsy brain can churn out.

A good friend of mine lost his job because of some corporate rigmarole.  That makes me angry, but not that angry because he’s a resourceful fellow who will have an offer or two in no time.  I’d offer him a job, but (A) I’m not in that capacity and (B) he actually got out of Southwest Minnesota.  I’ve been meaning to comment to his blog/profile/whatever, but I really don’t know what to say about it that others haven’t said. 

What freaks me out is when foreign actors do American accents.  I’ve been watching a lot of Craig Ferguson lately, and sometimes he goes from Scottish to American, and his American would fool me.  I can’t think of a reason this weirds me out, because I realize we only don’t think of ourselves having accents because we hear ourselves every day. 

Congrats and kudos to Tom Daschle.  I think he’ll make a fine Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

White Zombie broke up ten years ago.  Hot damn, where does the time go?

Check this out!  No Doubt is back!  About freakin’ time.  Hopefully this tour really spurs some good songwriting.

Hot damn, Saturday Night Live has been so good this year.  I think we’re entering a new golden age on the show.

The new Butch Walker CD is pretty good.  I haven’t heard from my friend who went to the cities yet who was going to pick me up a copy of Chinese Democracy.  A road trip to a Best Buy is in the cards if he couldn’t get one, but not quite yet.  I’ve waited for this album a long time, and I can probably wait a bit longer.

Once again, for the record, pocket kings f*#% me over almost every time.  I did break even, and for the first time playing poker with my usual poker crew I felt comfortable and part of the group.  It only took three years or so.

I really think I kinda suck at writing action sequences. 

I’m running on empty, but I’m not quoting Jackson Browne.  I don’t want to get sued.