Travels with Grumpus

A masterpiece from Mickey. Pearl Farm in Davao.

Mickey: Boy. Serena Williams really beat the crap out of Maria Sharapova.

Maya: “Beat the crap”? Not just “beat”?

Mickey: Yeah - 6-1, 6-2.

Maya: Wow.

Mickey: Yeah, she really brought out that can of whoop-ass. Too bad she looks like a man.

Maya: Well, she’s laughing all the way to the bank.

Mickey: You’re right.

Maya: She hears you, she’ll probably say, “Well, fuck you, Mickey. Here. Wipe my ass. I’ll give you a thousand dollars.”

Mickey: I’ll say, “Make it five and I’ll think about it.”

I know I said I’ve moved on, but damn! The boy is lookin’ mighty fine right now.

Mickey rolls his eyes and shakes his head.

More pics after the jump.

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Mickey: Who was older again, Luke or Leia?

Maya: I don’t really remember. I just sort of spaced out in the final Amidala scenes. She was such a wuss.

Mickey: Yeah. She just gave up and died. Good think the kids took after their dad in the tenacity department.

Maya: Yeah, arms and legs cut off, left for dead, burning, on a planet of molten lava, and the fight never went out of him.

Mickey: He’s just like that knight in the Monty Python movie.

Maya: You’re right! “It’s just a flesh wound!”

Mickey: Arms and legs cut off, and he was still “I’ll bite your legs off.”

Maya: Hmm. Coincidence?

Mickey: I think not.

Judge for yourselves, dear readers. Here’s the clip from the Monty Python movie, and here’s the clip from Episode 3. The bit you’ll want is at the very end.

Look what I picked up at a bar last night.  Closeups after the jump.

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To round out the trilogy.

Grumpus is such a cutie.

Just ‘coz.

American Idol’s new season is starting right about now, and I have asked Grumpus to shoot me if I start watching again. I went pretty crazy last year. I cried for three days after my little Elliott was eliminated, could talk of nothing except him during my sister’s wedding, and spent the rest of the year in the various chatrooms and fanboards. To help you wrap your head around the extent of things, after the jump I’ve pasted the text of an email I sent everyone I knew in the US in May last year. Thanks to Angie for reminding me of my insanity.

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Behavioral economists have finally come around to what we’ve all known all along: buying stuff is not a rational activity. The New York Times reports:

Even the most rational economists, though, realize that the shopper’s mind is more complicated. The brain’s “impartial spectator,” as Adam Smith warned, has to duel with “the passions.” Last year, after surveying shoppers’ passions, behavioral economists at Carnegie Mellon University developed what they call the Tightwad-Spendthrift scale.

Grumpus and I would be well on the right side of that scale. Full article here. Thanks to daddy for the link.