7. Madison, Wisconsin's Official City Bird:

The Pink Plastic Flamingo.



Here's the whole list of The 12 Strangest State Symbols.

I was aware of this happening recently and other than thinking about how much this is a waste of time, I thought little else of it. Now here it is showing up on a list already. Maybe that was the plan all along. Madison does seem to like all the lists it has been on the last several years.

I noticed everything else on the list is a state item. Madison is a city, yet it still made this list? Be careful what you read on the internet...

An Honest R&B Song

This is hilarious. It's kinda like Regular Everyday Normal Guy.
Kid warning for lyrics.

Happy Labor Day

Updated 4/28/13.  I effed up while trying to upgrade the video in this old post because I sent a link to friends and wound up losing the original post somehow.  Don't edit when drunk is all I can say.  I lost all my text from the old post, my only save is to post the video again, that's all I can do now.

This was Labor Day 2009, the original vid was uploaded to blogger, when you used to be able to upload vids to blogger.  It still worked but was small, in 2010 I put stuff on youtube and was just trying to upgrade the post tonight and it went bad.  Sorry.  But the video from our dinosaur camera is still pretty neat.

Deep Fried Butter

• Deep Fried Butter could push the grease-o-meter to a new high. "100 percent pure butter is whipped 'til light and fluffy, then specially sweetened with a choice of several flavors." It is then surrounded by a "special dough" and quick-fried.



Raw butter. Deep fried. Cheese curds weren't bad (good) enough. Also, mushrooms, jalepenos, pickles, snickers bars, twinkies, etc... We now have to deep fry battered raw butter? What The Hell, People!!?? And No, Wisonsin does not need to respond to this atrocity from Texas. I seem to remember Texas being not far behind Wisconsin in a list of fattest states, but I could be wrong. But if they eat like this, it won't be long!

Facebook? Myspace? Not for me...

...heck, I still refuse to get a cell phone. This blog is as social as I've ever been on the internet, and this is mostly one-sided (since YOU aren't commenting!).

I'm not saying this would ever happen to me, but you know it is happening all the time these days. Yeah, it's a whole 5 minutes, but actually a quick watch.



Note: This is a post I wrote about a week ago and hung on to for when I needed something. After reading Bill Sticker's post today I respect him even more and thought it would be a good time to post this, in agreement if you will. Read his post here.

So Happy It's Tuesday

S.o H.appy I.t's T.uesday, get it? Yesterday was not a good day but today was better thankfully.

Well, we did have company Friday night for the Packers game (they still look great!). I think it went well. It's nice to have the freedom to entertain and socialize in our new house. In the old apartment, we never went out of our way to make our place a destination like we can now. I like the two other couples very well and they seemed to get on together as well. It was a pretty good night of football, food and drink with hardly a lull in the conversation. I think everyone had a good time. I still worry about being a host, I have little practice. There was enough room for six (incl. wife and I), but for something like this, six is probably max. Other social occasions (like not a game on the telly) more people could be spread out to the porch and kitchen.

I also saw some of old B.F. as a Viking last night. I haven't been moved to comment on his unretirement here. Same for Michael Vick. I'm disappointed Favre is playing for Minnesota, and that any team would take Vick right now. But, bully for each of them. Me, I'm still just watching, taking it all in. Like I said before, I'll just enjoy the sideshow. I have faith in the main attraction - the Green and Gold can whoop 'em both! :)

btw, My mom stopped by Sunday, but she doesn't want me to say what she did while here!