End of Year Rad

I've been slacking on my lame and rad updates. New Years resolution: be better about that.

RAD!
XM radio, as I have previously stated, is super rad. But I have to give a shout out to the radio I've been streaming at work lately, The Current. It's the Minnesota Public Radio music station and it pretty much rocks my world. Thank you MPR for streaming your RAD station so that I can sit at my cube and hear lovely tunes.

Sales at grocery stores are RAD. Especially buy one, get one free sales. My buddy, Megan, and I split the price of one roast the other day because we got one free. FREE ROAST. So rad. But this whole thing gave me an idea. What if you went to the store, bought everything that was "buy one, get one free" that you knew you would use, and then gave the free one to some soup kitchen or homeless shelter? That way you are still just buying the groceries you really need, and not spending any extra, but you can help out other people, which is pretty much the raddest thing of all. Just an idea...

This blog is rad.

That's pretty good for now.

kind of frightening and lame.

the cops have to do quarterly shoots. i'm not exactly sure that they need to score a certain accuracy in order to carry their guns, or what, but they have to do shoots at the range.
One of my cops did his shoot today and got 100% accuracy. This is not in itself scary, or lame, but...
This same detective keeps accidentally setting reminders on his cell phone and can't figure out how to turn them off. I hear the alarm go off and know that he's going to come to my desk to have me turn it off, because he doesn't know how.

Ugly Lame.

Using women's bodies as battlefields, like what just happened in Guinea, is the worst kind of LAME. It's scary how awful people can be to one another.

most rad song

Give It To Me by Lee Dorsey



I heard it on True Blood. True Blood is pretty rad.

la-la-la-lame!

I haven't had a burrito from the burrito lady in a week. That is lame.

Rad-erific

Monster Bug Wars. Stumbled upon this TV show last night after Mythbusters (also pretty freakin' rad, as far as television goes). This show is a compilation of nature show footage of bug battles with little bios of the bugs. Such as, King Cricket vs. Giant Centapede-- King Cricket has giant, muscley hind legs with spikes, Centapede has posionous fangs evolved from its legs. WHO WILL WIN!!! I was glued to the TV. This happens very rarely, generally only when football is involved. Rad indeed.

The cops I work with are totally rad.

Part Rad, Part Lame

Squid are totally rad. It's possibly lame that they are changing their habitat due to global warming/ over-fishing/ human irresponsibility. Sigh.

lame.

killing people because you think killing fetuses is wrong. hypocrisy is lame. (is a weapon of mass destruction.)

Rad overheard comment from my office...

"Meth addicts and child molesters will never change, they'll just keep dumpster diving in their tutu's."


Also kinda silly and rad, sporting my Moe's Bagels sticker on my nalgene at work. "Only the Best Get Baked," in the narc office. Just a tiny little bit of subversion...

Lame: cereal made by our commrades in the fields.

It looks like it was made with the blood and the sweat of the people for our fellow workers, but the raisins are like rocks and the flakes are like cardboard. Yes, it's half the price of the name brand cereal of the oppressors, but if we're gonna have a revolution we're gonna need to have a little higher quality control.

Lame, or Rad?

I think I see a resemblance.

The Scion IQ concpet car and...


... the evil bunny of Donnie Darko. Or...

Mom makes a good point...

Earth day is coming-rad

First off, rad shoes from Payless...

Also rad, scientists figured out how to take all that methane from the dams and use it as natural gas. Suh-weet.

Eco-lame

The methane produced from the organic matter that builds up behind a dam that creates hydro-power is often times more than the green house gases produced by a coal burning plant. How much does that suck???

Special: Not to Be Taken For Granted Rad

Putting on clothes warm from the dryer.
Delivery tacos.
Turkey and turkey products.
Talking on the phone for as long as you want.
Beer on tap.
Buffalo wings.
Buses without livestock.
Iowa.

Lame but kinda funny

Subtly be damned! Buy the razor and trim the bush!

Radest of tunes

Neko Case. Her new album renews my confidence in her radness...

Loudly Lame

The Geo Metro that passes my apartment each morning with some kind of pimped out (or maybe just broken?) muffler. Loud turd on wheels.

Icky Lame

Mouldery bread that you have to throw out. Also, bagels with beards. Hate wasting food.



(Rad on the side, mouldery is a totally RAD word.)

RAD.

Yes We Can.

NPR is rad, but BBC is radder.

Tater-rad.

http://www.modcloth.com/store//ModCloth/Apartment/Taterpots

Lame... Almost-middle-aged-man-anorexia

What's up with my male friends over the age of thirty thinking they need to lose weight? And attempting to do so by forgoing meals, replacing them with cigarettes and light beer? Strange.

Rad conversation

Scene: cab ride home from karaoke last Sunday
Dale: You are going to go home and sleep with the cat who doesn't talk to anybody
Me: She talks to me!
Dale: Well, then, you are special.

Rad-iation heat

Toaster Ovens.

From Rad

Poli-rad

Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas. Totally rad and totally getting her kudos for it.
The sad part is, even though she has a "record of working across party lines," these days, those on the other side of the line have no intention of crossing it.

Lame: When Chimps Attack

... and it gets incredible amounts of airtime on the news...
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ap-chimpattack0218,0,999235.story

And what the heck was the chimp doing taking Xanax? I mean, if not at the time of the crime, in general, shouldn't those drugs go to PEOPLE who need them?

Rad

Rachel Maddow.

From Drop Box

rad shoes.

From Rad

Valentine's Lame-O Gift

Only thing worse than giving a grown woman a teddy bear? Expecting sex in return for said teddy bear. Ew.

Lame

Litter (especially Walmart and Starbucks litter)
dying houseplants
hunger
rotten food
distance between friends
7th Heaven
potholes
speeding tickets
dog poo

Rad: Brightly colored things, happy children, toilet paper, letters in the mail.

On this blog, I shall keep a running tally of all things Rad versus all things Lame and I hope that, in the end, Rad wins.
But sometimes it feels pretty good to list all that Lameness in the world.
While mostly based on my opinion of things (and I love comments and criticisms as long as they are intelligent, witty and/or constructive), there are things on these lists that just about no one can dispute (war is pretty much lame to everyone, and who doesn't like trees in some way?).

For now, some Radness.
string cheese
solar panels
trees
dinner parties
new pens
visiting new countries