Butterfinger and Mounds just returned this morning from seeing Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) at the scorchingly hot desert music festival known as Coachella just outside Palm Springs in Indio, California. I should have gone. I am sure I would have been complaining incessantly about the heat, frustrated by the number of people and lack of adequate bathroom facilites, but this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see one of the greatest artists perform my absolute favorite album - Dark Side of the Moon. To say I am kicking myself for being lazy and making excuses that I needed to stay behind for the dogs would be an understatement, applying forceful, traumatic blows to my temple would be more accurate.

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April 28th, 2008 | Entertainment, News, Nostalgia, The House | 2 comments

The animals of this world are not pleased, and they took it upon themselves to let us know of their discontent through two well-publicized displays of violence. The first vicious act took place during the beginning of last week, when a bear attacked and killed its trainer. The second time the animals lashed out was in the form of a deadly shark attack off the coast of San Diego. What have we done to make these giant beasts so angry at us? (more…)

April 27th, 2008 | News, Natural Disasters | 1 comment