Here is this year's roundup of weird and inexplicible toys.
Sorry to say, Gooey Louie has passed to that great toy box in the sky.
Craziness: November 2006 Archives
Here's a video to get you through Black Friday. Enjoy!
This morning, Christopher Kimball, editor of Cook's Illustrated magazine and host of America's Test Kitchen on PBS, offered tips for saving some Thanksgiving treats from the incompetence of the chef.
Here is a print version of his tips, but for a real treat, listen to the audio of him showing how to cook a turkey in less than an hour. The process involves a rubber mallet. The sound is pretty incredible. It sounds like the soundtrack to a horror flick.
Here is my pal Tony Norman's take on Michael Richards. Tony is a terrific columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Richards is a loser, as Tony illustrates in this piece.
This is from the Washington Post:
BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 -- For the last three years, Walid Hassan had an impossible task. He had to make war-weary Iraqis laugh. Week after week, the comedian and broadcaster found inspiration in the turmoil and bloodletting. On his weekend television show, "Caricature," he poked fun at the poor security, the long gas lines, the electricity blackouts and the ineffective politicians.
In Hassan's world, nothing was sacred. And many Iraqis adored him. In a nation bottled up with frustration, he was their release. They would recognize him on the streets and uncork their plights. He would listen, and turn them into satire.
On Monday, Hassan, 47, a father of five children, became a victim of the war and chaos from which he drew his inspiration. A Shiite Muslim, he was found in the majority-Sunni neighborhood of Yarmouk in west Baghdad with multiple bullet wounds to his back and head, according to police. He was last seen by witnesses in a black car with a driver and two other passengers.
Here is the whole story.
Michael "Kramer" Richards, take note.
Here's a photo from today's New York Times:
Here's one to get you started: Bush to Putin: "I'm not wearing any pants!"
