A Sheriff’s report did not say what the suspect ordered at McDonald’s or if he ultimately purchased the meal using something other than marijuana. (AP)

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There are many stations for 3G connection, many for Edge Connection, several local radio stations, and a few general internet radio stations. What’s cool about FlyCast is that it buffers the music to save your bandwitdth and battery life, and also can play music while you’re doing other things on the iPhone.

All I really know is that they have a Rush Radio station. The Canadian power-trio Rush, 24 hours a day, every day. Best. app. ever.

And it’s free.

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Go Joe!

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I used to watch Mister Rogers and Sesame Street twice a day. The same programs twice a day! And I don’t remember being any less excited for the second airing than I was the first. Name a show today that you would be willing to watch twice a day, every day. Well maybe you’re not 5 years old, but still you get my point. And I bet several of you out there are guilty of the same thing.

I learned my ABC’s and 123’s from Sesame Street. However, from Mister Rogers I learned how to be a real person, how to have good values, how to look at the positive, how to focus on the simple rather than the complex, and how to like myself just the way I am. And a lot more.

So it is pretty sad that PBS has recently decided to only transmit Mister Rogers Neighborhood once a week, instead of every day. To think I used to be able to watch Mister Rogers twice a day, and now i’ll be down to only once a week. A few PBS affiliates have promised to keep Mister Rogers on every day, but I have a feeling that Barney and Teletubbies will beat out the only real person still able to talk to our children today.

There is a somewhat new website, Save Mister Rogers, that has a Facebook group and has been trying to get people like you to contact your local members of Congress and help them urge the President of PBS to keep Mister Rogers on five days a week. After all, the Pubic Broadcasting Station is tax payer and publicly funded. PBS should be airing what we feel is most important for our kids, not what is most profitable.

I pretty please urge you to contact your elected Congress members and explain why the tax payer funded PBS should continue airing Mister Roger’s Neighborhood daily . . . or maybe PBS won’t get any more millions of our dollars next year. (Like Fred Rogers convinced them to do many years ago and saved PBS - in this video.)

Below is a copy and paste you can use, but try to add some personal stuff in your emails and just admit the below copy and paste is a better explanation than you could ever do.

PBS has recently announced plans to virtually eliminate daily broadcast of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a children’s program that has enriched the lives of millions of American children of all backgrounds. The gentle, accepting, understanding message of his program is in stark contrast to the coarseness of most “children’s” programming today. Mister Rogers provides vital social and emotional education to kids, embraces and celebrates diversity and promotes understanding and tolerance-all things that are in short supply in our world today. Furthermore, Fred Rogers almost single handedly saved PBS during his 1969 testimony to Congress before Rep. John Pastore. He-and we-deserve better. Please encourage Linda Simensky, PBS’ Senior Director of Children’s Programming, to reaffirm PBS’ commitment to broadcasting Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on a daily basis. I would not support continued funding for PBS or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting without Mr. Rogers.

Well, whatever you can do would be great. Thanks for being you.

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Finally! Yes, it’s the life-changing, prayer-answering, best-idea-anyone’s-ever-had invention of the century! Cause seriously, holding a beer is exhausting! And don’t even get us started on holding 6 beers. Whew! But thankfully, the long dark days of arm-breaking party beer-holding are over. Say “hello” to your new best friend, the Beer Belt! This sturdy nylon belt feature 6 plastic cup holders, sized to fit cans or bottles. Fully adjustable, with a plastic buckle. Imported. Wipe clean.

Technically, you can carry six beers on your waist, and at LEAST two more in your hands for a total of 8 beers. Hey if you’re a lightweight, you’ll be good to go (in the infamous words of the great Lionel Richie) - ALL NIGHT LONG (like the little lightweight you are.)

Cheers pussies.

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It took a while to figure this out, but it is very consistent and happens on two different computers. Anyone else have this copy and paste / cut and paste problem, or better yet a solution? I hate having to deselect the text every time I want to paste.

Fortunately, my iPhone doesn’t have this problem, but then again it can’t even copy and paste . . .

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Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular clown in a ton of appearances and he licensed the character to others, including dozens of television stations around the country. The local stations hired actors to be their local Bozos.

Pinto Colvig, who also provided the voice for Walt Disney’s Goofy, was the first Bozo the Clown, a character created by writer-producer Alan W. Livingston for a series of children’s records in 1946. Livingston said he came up with the name Bozo after polling several people at Capitol Records.

Harmon would later meet his alter ego while answering a casting call to make personal appearances as a clown to promote the records. He got that job and eventually bought the rights to Bozo. Along the way, he embellished Bozo’s distinctive look: the orange-tufted hair, the bulbous nose, the outlandish red, white and blue costume.

The business — combining animation, licensing of the character, and personal appearances — made millions, as Harmon trained more than 200 Bozos over the years to represent him in local markets. The Chicago version of Bozo ran on WGN-TV in Chicago for 40 years and was seen in many other cities after cable television transformed WGN into a superstation. Bozo — portrayed in Chicago for many years by Bob Bell — was so popular that the waiting list for tickets to a TV show eventually stretched to a decade, prompting the station to stop taking reservations for 10 years. On the day in 1990 when WGN started taking reservations again, it took just five hours to book the show for five more years. The phone company reported more than 27 million phone call attempts had been made.

By the time the show bowed out in Chicago, in 2001, it was the last locally produced version. Harmon said at the time that he hoped to develop a new cable or network show, as well as a Bozo feature film.

He became caught up in a minor controversy in 2004 when the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee took down a plaque honoring him as Bozo and formally endorsed Colvig as the first. Harmon denied ever misrepresenting Bozo’s history. He said he was claiming credit only for what he added to the character — “What I sound like, what I look like, what I walk like” — and what he did to popularize Bozo. “Isn’t it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done, they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn’t do anything for the last 52 years,” he told the AP at the time.

Harmon protected Bozo’s reputation with a vengeance, while embracing those who poked good-natured fun at the clown. As Bozo’s influence spread through popular culture, his very name became a synonym for clownish behavior.

“It takes a lot of effort and energy to keep a character that old fresh so kids today still know about him and want to buy the products,” Karen Raugust, executive editor of The Licensing Letter, a New York-based trade publication, said in 1996. A normal character runs its course in three to five years, Raugust said. “Harmon’s is a classic character. It’s been around 50 years.”

On New Year’s Day 1996, Harmon dressed up as Bozo for the first time in 10 years, appearing in the Rose Parade in Pasadena. The crowd reaction, he recalled, “was deafening.” “They kept yelling, `Bozo, Bozo, love you, love you.’ I shed more crocodile tears for five miles in four hours than I realized I had,” he said. “I still get goose bumps.

I still remember how excited I was when I walked into Showbiz Pizza and saw the Bozo the Clown game for the first time. You know the game: the ping pong ball, the buckets farther away from each other, and Bozo making the game so much fun . . . yup, The Grand Prize Game! Kids loved you Bozo, so thanks to Larry Harmon for making Bozo a lot bigger for a lot more kids around the country.

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Energy drinks have caffeine in them, which causes your veins to expand, allowing the alcohol the beverages are mixed with to circulate faster. A lot of energy drinks also have an amino acid called taurine in them, which helps speed up your metabolism. This causes you to feel the effects of the alcohol faster than you would under normal circumstances. So get geeky drunk a lot quicker on us!

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