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Thinking about why I love the Mushroom Kingdom so very much, while not having much of an affinity for the less fanciful video games with their fancy graphics and sophisticated controls.  I'm in it for the absurdity.  There's just something absolutely ridiculous about playing a dinosaur sitting in the back of a car driven by an Italian plumber, licking a baby carriage containing a little monkey and a turtle.  It's awesome. 

The final challenge that can be unlocked in Wii Fit is sitting.  The simulation/motion control video game has been taken to the logical extreme, and it is absolutely absurd.  I love it. 

If I want to make an album of photos of different sizes (lets say 5x7" and 4x6") and orientations, is my only option to cross over into the dreaded *twilight zone music* Scrapbook Territory?  I'd just as soon not.

Yes, paper photos, I know... how quaint.  Next I'm going to go churn my own butter.

Don't put off scheduling an eye exam until you're on your last contact and your prescription has expired.   12 more days of seeing out of one eye...

On the plus side, apparently people with stereo vision get headaches when they have blurry vision in one eye.  I, on the other hand, am used to only using one at a time. 

"How about sending a herd of Deere after them?"

Just thought you'd be thrilled to know that the old Har Mar Theater (ye of gilded sparklies) is now a Staples.

Also, you missed your chance to bid on this chandelier from the theater.

When the over-inflated tech stocks blew into a pin factory in 2000, it was the same story: CHRISTMAS DOOM. Retailers were reduced to wrapping diamond necklaces in $100 bills and throwing them at the heads of customers. Even when the economy was running so hot you could fry an egg on the appraisal statement for a one-bedroom shack between a cemetery and a cyanide factory, we were told that consumers were pressing hard for bargains. If the most popular new gift was a top-hat incinerator and the second hottest was the top-hat -- actually, the three-pack; you saved 20 percent -- the stories still predicted a slack season.

I've been checking Target 2-3 times per week for the past several months with no sign of Wii Fit.  Apparently some Targets have been having them sporadically, but not in MN.  I also sporadically checked Best Buy and every game store I passed with no luck. 

Game Stop has them on their website for preorder right now (for shipping on November 14th), so I ordered one, hoping that maybe my order would actually be filled.  And it shipped today!!!  I get a Wii Fit in two days!!!

It had better not suck, that's all I have to say.

I see the light beyond the shadow!

So, when 75% of the city that elected you mayor twice thinks that you should not be holding elected office, maybe the rest of the state should get a fucking clue and, oh, I don't know... not vote for you because you're a slimy good-for-nothing sleezebag.

Of course, the glimmer of hope in all of this, is that, as Ethelred points out, Norm Coleman (being douchebaggy weasel) will probably switch parties again to ally with those in power.

Well, we tried.