In fact, I’m Mrs. Madman. Rarely heard from on here but frequently reading in the background. I have decided that I need to start adding my two cents to this blog, whatever that is worth. Don’t expect anything grand or hilarious like Mr. Madman brings you. Or even even anything educational. I like to think […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
“But it’s so much more fun when we both squeak.”
I was searching online for assistance with a Blackberry issue for work when I stumbled across this topic in a tech support forum: I really have no idea why he posted this in a phone forum. Maybe he doesn’t actually want any assistance and he’s just venting. The obvious solution is for […]
Think about the lyrics, and you will realize that Mmm-bop is the unfunniest metaphor for death.
André the Giant died 19 years ago today. André was always one of my favorite wrestlers. When I was a kid, we didn’t watch wrestling at our house. Whenever we were at Grampa’s (my Dad’s dad), every Saturday morning was Bugs Bunny followed by, as Grampa called it, rasslin’. This was back in the early […]
“You lost today, kid. But that doesn’t mean you have to like it.” One of the best lines in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (or any movie of that matter). It’s what the lead tomb robber (played by Richard Young) said to Young Indy (River Phoenix) as he gifted him with what would become […]
“From the day that you’re born to the day you ride in the hearse things are never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.” Sam Duncan was an African American educator in Higginsville, Missouri from the 1950s-1970s where he taught a number of classes and coached several sports. The high school’s football field is named […]
My friend Dawn’s colloquial name for those bare ceramic light bulb sockets usually seen mounted in basements. Deluxe model shown below:
“What a waste of money! What a waste of time! It’s no answer to say that I was well paid. Nobody can be adequately paid for wasting his time.” From a letter to Alfred Hitchcock, which can be seen in its entirety at Letters of Note.
Heather and I both agree that Sherwin Williams Paint has probably one of the creepiest professional logos: It totally looks like they want to dump blood all over the earth. I don’t think Sissy Spacek would approve.