I now know what procedures Walmart has implemented in the case of a tornado.  Last night we had a tornado come through these parts.  It was maybe 25 miles from where I live.  Today after a doctor’s appointment I thought I needed some fresh air so I went to the Walmart in the town where that tornado was after my aunt and mom asked if I wanted to get out.  I looked at the minimal damage around the town(just a bunch of downed trees, loose shingles, and a couple businesses that lost roofs).  I got what I needed and waited for my mom and aunt to finish.  I was sitting in front of the store people watching.  Then it started raining and it was coming down so hard that I thought the roof was going to collapse.  My mom cam and sat next to me and we were watching the rain and Walmart employees scurrying around.  All of a sudden we hear this cashier scream, “TORNADO!  YAY!”  Then they came over the loudspeakers telling us we need to go to the back of the store.  Then there was a line of employees that reminded me of riot police on State Street on Halloween.  They would not let anyone past.  We were herded into the electronics section.  I couldn’t believe how many people were back there.  Then they shut off the air conditioning and with all those people and the humidity it got so hot back there and I go into a full blown asthma attack.  One of the Walmart employees sees me struggling with my inhaler so she takes me to a back room to sit and try to cool off.  There were like 50 people in this room.  It was awful.  We had to sit there until they were given an all clear.  People start freaking out because phone lines went down.  Luckily I could send out texts on Twitter but I couldn’t take or make phone calls.  Well the all clear was given and we left.  I think the worst part was not knowing what was going on because they didn’t have TVs or radios.  The managers were huddling around a weather radio elsewhere in the store.  The tornado did no damage that we could tell.  It was about 5 miles away.  So I’m alive and didn’t see any members of the lollipop guild.  The strange thing was that after the tornado I counted 20 pregnant teenage girls.  I didn’t think we were back there that long.

Links...the last time I'm doing links because I went through and deleted all the ones that were sitting in my files.

1.  When I was a kid I had a lot of action figures.  My favorite were G.I. Joes.  I had a friend that had almost every He-Man figure so that's why I thought of posting this list of the most ill-conceived action figures.  I had a few of the Rambo figures.  I didn't see the movies until I was out of college but I had those action figures.

2.  And while we are talking about action figures, here's another list of the 36 worst action figures from iconic lines.  I had #8 and 9.  My friend had both the He-Man figures.  The Stinkor was horrendous.

3.  I like studying etymologies because I'm that big of a nerd.  Anyway, here are 11 politically incorrect etymologies of common words and phrases.

4.  And here are 9 dirty etymologies of every day words.

5.  If you remembered I enjoyed wikipedia lists.  Here's a list of minor planets named after people.  I was going to suggest naming one after Xanga but...fuck.

6.  Here's a list of causes of death by rate.  Xanga by suicide?

7.  This is one of the most terrifying Tumblr sites I've happened upon.  It's called Actresses Without Teeth.

8.  Someone on Tumblr created a site devoted to photos of Bruce Springsteen's Crotch.

9.  And one of my favorite Tumblrs, Michael Buble being Stalked by a Velociraptor.  Hmmm that's a lot of Tumblrs.  Guess where I'm heading once Xanga dies.

10.  Here's a website that's thriving.  It's a bulletin board and it's a support group for people who chew ice.

11.  There's something about Wisconsin and the Bloody Mary.  When I was in Minnesota and watched friends order the drink it was basically just the drink and maybe a piece of celery and a couple olives.  In Wisconsin, bars go all out with their Bloody Marys.  One bar that I worked next to for a few years in the tourist trap served what they called "The Breakfast of Champions".  It was a standard Bloody Mary as far as the drink goes but it was garnished with 6 jumbo shrimp and 3 dill pickles and a celery stalk.  It also came with a bottle of whatever beer you wanted for a chaser.  Then there's a bar in my town that features a Bloody Mary garnished with a cheese stick, pepperoni, black olives, dill pickle, and celery stalk.  Now a bar in Wisconsin has created the mother of all Bloody Marys.  The best part?  It only costs $5.

12.  I swear if I lived in Madison I would go broke ordering from this service.

Tattoos:


I never thought I'd see the day when I'd see Twin Peaks tattoos.

He's going to be so Ledgendary on the internet for the rest of his life.

No

Probably not

Dick Nixon?  He was all about the money.

This may be the tastiest tattoo I've ever seen.

This one is actually really cool.

Tattoo Chuck Norris cannot be stopped from kicking your ass.

Oh that's going to get removed in a year or so.

No one is looking at the tattoo.

Best Thom Yorke tattoo ever!

Xanga changes
What the fuck?  Seriously?  You give the community 6 weeks to raise $60,000.  This is nothing but a shakedown.  It would be nice if you gave us some incentive to using the site like allowing us to go back more than six photos in our photoblog.  Or having the music section work.  Or having the videos upload.  Maybe if you put time in the website people would be willing to pay but when it doesn't work why should anyone.  I hope you give out refunds.  Oh and if the site dies what are you going to do with all the information you've kept on file for people who paid and faxed in photos of driver's licenses so they could view all the sites here?  I'm going to Tumblr.  Here's a hilarious Tumblr called Xanguh.  It's a collection of real screenshots from this dead site.