Electric Mayhem Band

Having a link from the BikeSnobNYC is like the grand poobah Lance Armstrong taking a break from destroying everyone on the tour to come ride RAGBRAI with you. It’s like Ted Nugent taking a Saturday off from hunting big game to hunt squirrels with you. It’s like Bruce Jenner taking a pause from Wheaties box photo shoots to pole vault over your fence, it’s like Michael Phelps foregoing a bong hit to come party with you. It’s like David Letterman kicking Joaquin Phoenix off the stage to interview you. To say it in no less words, it’s cool!

I’m glad that Miahael Phelps has found his niche.

With friends like their dealers, clearly Chrysler doesn’t need enemies.

What an awful name.  Who were the ad wizards who came up with that one?

Money quote:

On one level, Obama’s bill is an effort to boost the American economy. On another, it’s an opportunity for lobbyists to make a mockery American government.

“Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.” — Doug Collins. See, now this is exactly the kind of stuff Vinny Del Negro should be teaching his young Bulls team.  If you don’t turn the ball over and score more points than your opponent, you’ll win the game…almost always.

This is, for whatever reason, really amusing.  I have this picture in my head of a smoke filled room with the fat cats from big oil and the military-industrial complex and the world supergovernment/alien alliance all planning their devious deeds, while the maître d’ won’t let the rep from the Big Plastic Bag industry in to the room.  Which almost makes me feel sorry for him.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

Hotel butlers shared notes, reminding each other that when Mr. S visited, “no one is to enter the suite unescorted or unannounced except the butler assigned.” And when Siddiqui was entertaining, the notes remind staff that the “butler will need to maintain a presence, if not in the room, then in the pantry with the door open so requests can be heard.” The staff knew when to leave, too. Siddiqui will “dismiss you by requesting privacy. He will be very direct with this request. Leave until he contacts you.”

Siddiqui never drank when he was gambling, one casino employee said. However, his guest profile shows, he liked his room stocked with Grey Goose vodka, Crown Royal, Johnnie Walker Black, Jack Daniels, Grand Marnier, Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish Cream liqueur, Dom Perignon, Kurosawa Sake and expensive cognac bottles of Hardy Perfection and Remy Martin Louis XIII.

Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Short story: a disgraced Indiana financial advisor fakes a distress call from his small aircraft, parachutes away, contacts the authorities and escapes into the countryside on a previously-stashed motorcycle and then….

What are the odds that this won’t end poorly for Mr. Schrenker?