Author: Kim du Toit

Incognito

Music

Stumbled into this little compilation of “Best One-Hit Songs of the 2000s“, and I’m happy to say I’d only ever heard two of them:  Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet (can’t help thinking that Prince would have murdered this one), and Wherever You Will Go by The Calling.

Now when I say I “heard” them, it’s not that I ever listened to either of them all the way through — no, it’s just that a few momentary notes happened to stick in my brain when the songs played in some store or other, or blasting out of some weenie’s souped-up Honda Civic at the traffic light.

Small wonder that all the above are one-hit wonders.  Completely unmemorable at best;  totally shit otherwise.

And now we return you to our regular programming.

That Maintenance Thing

Weapons

Loyal Reader Mike S sends me a missive entitled:  “Sharpening Bayonets Takes Time”.  Well, yes;  indeed it would…

By the way, I’m lacking a bayonet for my M1 Carbine, so if anyone has a spare knocking around, drop me a note.

News Roundup

Bad News

When will it ever end?


…I always suspected something like that was going on.


…this is going to end well, just not for him.

Dept. Of Irony:


…guess she wasn’t really her best friend after all.

From the Josef Goebbels Memorial Wing:


…

And in medical news:


…


…this being Italy, she probably said that just to protect her cousin.

From the Karma Is A Cold Bitch Department:


…no reports on how many people showed up at his funeral, or whether there was laughter.

And from the Department Of The Blindingly Obvious:


and:

…where would we be without polls and reports?


…no doubt, the Jews will be blamed.  Again.

Time for INSIGNIFICA:

   


…I suppose that means we’ll be stuck with the Kardashians and Lizzo forever.  Hand me the pills, Simon.


…a.k.a. the “Frozen” Syndrome.


…it might have been even worse had we actually seen Gaga’s well-trodden pudenda.

And here’s Marilyn, just so that everyone can see what I’m talking about:

Not even close.

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

From several Readers comes this cheery little tale:

A suspected catalytic converter thief was shot dead by a concealed carry holder on the North Side late Wednesday, according to a source and initial information from Chicago police.

However:

CWBChicago has learned that the dead man was on parole, and he was charged with illegally possessing a firearm two months ago — but state authorities decided not to revoke his parole, and he was released back onto the streets.

Read the whole report.  Doesn’t look like Our Hero is going to be charged, though.

I have to tell you that I used to live in Lakeview, but East Lakeview (next to Lake Michigan);  West Lakeview was an extremely pleasant part of town back then, and I could quite easily have lived there had we not found our wonderful apartment when we did.  I guess the scumbags are migrating…