No . . . nothing smutty.

If you’re into stop-motion animation (an underappreciated art, I think — the creators of same have the patience of Job), Tennessee Reid Norton might appreciate your stopping by at his b(p)log:

Richard Private:The Private Dick

“Richard Private” is an old-school private detective, see?  Yeah . . .

Actual brilliance, bowel-splitting hilarity, flat-out stupidity . . . from fools such as thee and me:

QDB: Top 100 Quotes

Rick Mercer recently met up with Jann Arden and — somehow — convinced her to climb onto a bull.

Jann, should you inconceivably not know of her, is a Canadian treasure; she’s an award-winning singer-songwriter with an extraordinarily quick wit.

But she’s just not into bulls.

CBC Television - Rick Mercer Report

(Click the ‘Rick and Jann Arden’ link to view the video)

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China ’selling prisoners’ organs’

China ’selling prisoners’ organs’

BBC News spans the planet. It’s a hoot to see headlines like this mixed in with terrorist coverage and bird ‘flu disaster planning.

BBC NEWS | England | Coventry/Warwickshire | Duck seen with dart in its head

On Wednesday, the van’s sway bar broke.

You can drive quite comfortably with no sway bar — you tend to lean a bit on corners — but a broken sway bar is less safe; when mine broke, it began to dig into the driver-side tire.

I wasn’t certain of any of the above, however. I just heard a grinding sound which vanished a second after it appeared. As it happened on a highway on-ramp, I figured I ran something over.

Quite some distance — and another highway — later, the tire blew out. If you, like several hundred others, drove by me and chuckled as I was changing it, bite me.

In response to this, my wife informed me that I have bad luck. She, it turns out, drove a Suzuki Sidekick for [insert number of years I've forgotten] years without so much as changing tires.

Unlucky or not, this was waiting in my email when I got home:

I’m one of 3,000 people who won a seat at the Degree Poker Championship in Niagara Falls this May.

Things may be looking up.