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C'mon boys, let's rock the ho-o-o-o-ouse...

Does anyone know Bill Kurtis personally? I think it would be awesome to have him record, "My name is Bill Kurtis and you're reading Snippet Wednesday at kapgar.com" and embed the MP3 in all future editions. Can anyone make this happen?

Do you L-U-V...

By the sound of things, I'm one of the only people in the world that was actually let down by this year's Super Bowl. And the commercials.

But even the crowd can't help me now...

I don't like to get into political discussions on my blog. I don't feel entirely well versed in the topics and truly hate sounding stupid. You can probably count on one hand the number of times I've discussed politics. Let's see... Obama in 2008 and Bachmann last year. Yeah, that's about it.

Comatose or pretty close...

Hey all! Welcome to another installment of Snippet Wednesday. I am kapgar and I will be your host on this crazy little blog. I hope you enjoy it!

Mistaken for magic...

Welcome to the first of a dozen monthly recaps of my attempt to stick to a series of New Year's Resolutions for 2012. This first installment shall cover January. Yes, we still have a handful of hours left in the month (where in the hell did the month go?), but it's close enough for government work.

No more time to tell how, this is the season of what...

I start to get petit-mal cases of self loathing when I go several days without writing up a blog post. Thankfully there are people like Kim, Marty, and Dave to help me out with a meme to get those cranial juices flowing again. Sure, this meme is a week or two old right now, but it's still doable.

Goin' out of my &*^$#! mind...

Would ya look at this? I'm actually posting Snippet Wednesday on *gulp* a Wednesday!!!

AHHHHH!!! The dead rise from the grave! Seas boil! Dogs and cats... living together!! MASS HYSTERIA!!

These boots are gonna walk all over you...

I love when art and life comingle a bit, get all kinds of cozy together, and wind up turning out a result such as Left. Left. Left. Right, Left.

But the words never change...

Hey all, sorry about missing out on a Snippet Wednesday yesterday, but support in the fight against SOPA and PIPA reigned supreme across the web. Not sure how it will all play out, but we can hope, right?

Stop...

Sorry. No Snippet Wednesday this week. I will be back tomorrow with Snippet Thursday: The Reckoning. In the meantime...

That is all.

Oh you were a vampire...

I really hate when you start to see support for a technological device wane.

Right here, right now...

I'm attempting to decide what's worse... having a winter with consistently cold weather throughout that makes you hate winter, Mother Nature, life... or having a weird, moderate-temperature winter followed very suddenly by some wicked snow.

Show me your dragon magic...

Oh man, not a good way to start 2012 by missing out on my first opportunity at a Snippet Wednesday last week. Gah! Must rectify.

I'm the first mammal to wear pants...

One of my Christmas gifts was a copy of the two-disc, 20th anniversary edition of Nirvana's Nevermind. While not my favorite Nirvana album (that honor goes to Bleach), I still feel Nevermind is pretty damn close to perfect and I love it dearly. And, while listening to it on the way home this evening, I expressed this "near perfect" claim on Twitter.

How's it gonna be...

For a couple years now, my buddy Bob, of Voices In My Brain, has been conducting an annual Celebrity Death Watch on his blog. This year, I'm going to follow in his footsteps and, even though we're a week in to the new year, post my own Celebrity Death Watch.

The boys are back...

It's been 2+ years of poop-and germ-free peace and quiet. But he's back.

With his love...

I think the Metro in Chicago is trying to kill me.

When things go boom...

I finished my second-straight annual photo challenge over the weekend. It feels good knowing that I've committed to a creative project and actually come through in the end. Of course, using an iPhone this past year made it so much simpler than the year before since I could upload to the web live.

This is my modest proposal...

Perhaps I've become jaded in my old age screaming in vain as all them young whippersnappers go tearing by me in their speed-demon vehicles, but I've been thinking about that post of mine from a couple weeks ago where I talked about the NTSB's proposal to ban ALL cell phone or device usage while driving and, to be honest, I'm starting to like it.

So everybody put your best suit or dress on...

For many, it's a chance to reminisce on an eventful year gone by and look forward to another great year.

For others, it's a chance to say "see ya" to a year they might prefer to forget and hope that 2012 will prove better.

Whichever way you choose to look at it, I hope 2012 is a great year for you.

Happy New Year!

At the motion picture show...

Welcome to the first ever blog post written using my new combination of iPad and Apple Wireless Keyboard. This is quite handy. I can get used to this.

The only issue I'm having right now is that that iPad version of Safari doesn't allow for rich-text formatting with the WYSIWYG editor of my blogware. Oh well, I guess I get to do HTML formatting. That'll be fun. Especially with a post like this.

Everyone strapped in tight, we'll ride it out...

I wasn't quite sure how to handle today's Snippet Wednesday since I hadn't really been actively collecting any snippets of goodness from around the web this past week. Then it hit me! Let's treat this final Snippet Wednesday of the year as my New Year's Resolution post even if it is a few days early.

All for the little ones' Christmas joys...

I hope Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Festivus, Eid or whatever else you celebrate was good to all of you this year. It was a pretty good holiday for Katie and I.

We had a lot of fun with our families first and foremost. A lot of time visiting with several people we don't always get to see all that often, which was nice. 

Have a holly jolly...

To you and yours... a very merry Christmas!

It's been at least another year...

I know, I know. I said Thursday. And here it is Friday. Still and all the same, though, it is now time for the Kapgar Top 10 Albums of 2011!!!

As much fun as this post typically is and as much as I enjoy music, I always hate posting this. Why? Well, there are typically two reasons:

It comes and goes...

I can't believe there are only two Snippet Wednesdays left this year. Where did the time go? Why am I always asking that question? Oy!

Mesmerizing too, mesmerizing to you...

I'm writing somewhat of a music post today in preparation for my top albums countdown which I anticipate posting on Thursday or Friday. While this is going to be all over the place and could technically work as a Snippet Wednesday, it is, at least, all music related. So buckle your seatbelts!

Tune in for those who are wantin'...

Hi-ho! And welcome to the 2011 Primetime TV Kappy Awards!

For the record, that was supposed to be a sorta impersonation of Kermit the Frog and not an invitation to prostitutes to read this post. Not that prostitutes who are so inclined are not allowed to read my blog. I wholly encourage it. I just don't actively solicit it... or them... or... hell, let's just get on with it, shall we?

Been caught stealin' once...

So I'm stealing this meme from Marty who in turn stole it from Avitable. It's like a bad case of WWII-era Nazi art theft. I wholly expect someone to steal it from me in a generation or two and return it to Avitable's children.

Oh god. There's a wicked thought... Adam's kids.

Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun...

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you enjoy this edition of Snippet Wednesday.

You can read me anything...

I'm sorry I've been kinda M.I.A. since the last Snippet Wednesday. I've been contemplating my year-end best-of lists. Believe it or not, it actually takes a bit of work.

Oh war is the common cry...

Oh it's another wonderful Snippet Wednesday for all of you. Despite being cold, at least everything is relatively still outside so it's not as bad as it could be. Give it another 25-30 degrees and I'd call it practically perfect.

Ah well.

I love all of you...

In case you didn't figure out the picture yesterday, that was legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel. He was wearing the number 37, a nod to my 37th birthday. That was why I posted it.

'Cause it's a brand new year...

'Nuff said.

What could you find...

Have you ever had a movie completely catch you off guard... in a good way? A film you weren't expecting anything from at all, only to have it so surprise you with its sincerity and uniqueness that you're still talking about it the next day and recommending it to everyone you can think of?

For me, that film is Hugo.