Perhaps the best public speaker in the world

Forget Joe The Plumber, please allow me to introduce you to Jesse LaGreca.



Way to go Jesse! Your verbal suplex followed up by a kimura submission hold of Fox News had them tapping out in less than 3 minutes! Jon Stewart, take note, this is how it's done:



 This is funny AND confrontational.

Jesse, we're all taking notes here at Occupy Los Angeles. Thank you. #OccupyLA #OccupyWallStreet

Labor Day Antics: Fire Fighting and Roof Diving

Hope y'all had a fun and relaxing Labor Day. Summer may be over, but it's just heating up in L.A. For your viewing please, behold Fire Fighting Aircraft and Roof Diving...



How did you spend your Labor Day?

Al Franken passes his first test

Congratulations Al Franken! You managed to calm the hostile mob of angry health care anti-reformists!



I bet you could win the Kobayashi Maru scenario!

The last 9 weeks

"These bladder wheeled bicycles are diabolical devices of the Demon of Darkness. They are contrivances to trap the feet of the unwary and skin the nose of the innocent. They are full of guile and deciept! When you think you have broken one to ride and subdued its wild and Satanic nature, behold it bucketh you off in the road and teareth a great hole in your pants. Look not upon the bike when it bloweth upon its wheels, for at last it bucketh like a bronco and hurteth like thunder. Who has skinned legs? Who has a bloody nose? Who has the ripped breeches? They that daly along with the bicycle!

from a sermon, Maryland, 1896.
As quoted from: A social History of the Bicycle, Robert A. Smith
found at Atomic Cycles

I've spent many weeks pondering this quote, since grabbing a faceful of L.A.'s finest asphalt.

Lucky for me, the LAFD was still fully staffed at the time.

And I was just dazed enough to make light of the whole experience. Actually, my thumb was the real victim, broken and in need of surgery, a couple pins and 6 weeks of immobilization...

A cast is a dignified accessory, like a pocket watch or kerchief. A real conversation starter.

In the meantime, the camera provided me a chance to disassociate from my broken body, temporarily at least. The Tour De France and a couple New Yorkers also filled my hours on the couch...


Oh, and a trip to Hawaii....and Oregon....




oh yeah, & Idaho....




on the way home, the window seat proved to be irresistible. So I reached across Heather who was seated in it to record this sequence:





Here's a funny story. After the cast finally came off, I found this lodged in my chin. A bit of roadway briefly sheltered in my face:


Last weekend, we needed to escape the smoke for at least a couple hours...


It seems we weren't the only ones...

Protect Marriage - Let's Have a Consitutional Ban on Divorce!

From Facebook:

The real threat to the institution of marriage comes not from inclusiveness
in the tradition, but from the possibility of divorce. Let's protect marriage by
making it illegal to divorce. Come on! You made those vows "till death do us
part." If you're allowed to just end it when you feel like it, that cheapens the
vows for everyone else. It makes marriage a sham. Let's protect the sanctity of
marriage. End divorce for all straight couples now!

"Shoot a muther humpin moose 8 days of the week"

Evidence mounts: McCain just wanted Tina Fey back on SNL

Sarah Palin miserably fails to name a single source of her news.

"His Brisket is Beyond...It's Beyond."

Sarah Silverman has jumped into the presidential race with a ringing endorsement of Barak Obama.

I just got Simpsonized!

And you can too! Click here! Please send me a pic before and after! I'll post them for all to see!

Tom Cruise expounding on Scientology