The World According to Chuck

232 Candles

Chuck — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:58:24 +0000

Happy Birthday, America.

Civics

Chuck — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:58:16 +0000

A citizenship test for you on this Fourth of July. Thirty questions, 20 of them actually on the U.S. citizenship exam; it’ll take about a minute is all. A passing score is 24; I got 29, so beat that. Hint: Know your amendments.

50 Interesting Americans

Chuck — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:58:04 +0000

The Philadelphia Story

Chuck — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:57:41 +0000

Muppet style.

Requiem For Ferris

Chuck — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:48:44 +0000

I admit to being a fan of these fake trailers; I’m easily amused. This was well done, though. Ferris Bueller’s day gets a little darkish.

Cootish

Chuck — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:48:00 +0000

Definitely getting a little coot-like here. I take an unusual amount of pride in my rose bushes. I watch my neighbors and comment on what they’re doing. I talk to complete strangers and tell them about my day without being asked.

I found myself yesterday driving around a parking lot to get a spot that was perhaps 10 feet closer than another one. I’m starting to reminisce fondly about the ’80s (”I don’t care what you say, they don’t make shows like ‘ALF’ anymore…”).

And I rejoice in our rain.

The combination of our perfectly seasonable warm weather and some unstable whippersnapper weather produced thunder and lightning last evening, a rarity up here, and now we’re wet and drippy and I’m loving it.

Because I live in an unincorporated part of the county. Not for long; shortly I will become an official resident of Mukilteo, but in the meantime this is frontier country, where anarchy reigns and the sheriff stays busy. And we’ve got a bunch of yahoos in my neighborhood; I see and hear them, and I guarantee they’ll be lighting off fireworks tomorrow. This is the place. Lawless country, the perfect opportunity to blow stuff up legally.

And it’ll be raining big time. Heh. Good luck with that, yahoos.

He’s Doing What?

Chuck — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:18:47 +0000

I’ve been partly irritated and mostly amused by the lefty blogosphere, the constant fretters who are now netrooting around for reasons to be disappointed in Barack Obama. He’s tacking toward the center! He’s trying to please the Heartland! He disagrees with Wes Clark!

I kept trying to find the words to express this, and then Andy Borowitz went and done it for me:

The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election.