Mike Browne’s Blog

I was listening to the Beatles album (CD actually) Revolver the other day and we heard Tomorrow Never Knows. A trippy tune that John Lennon wrote while reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Screenhead.com had a link to a flash video of the tune on it today. Very timely. I feel a flashback coming on… Weeeee! Look at the tracers.

Check out Elite Designers against IKEA. Brilliant!

“Design inspiration is everywhere; in the call of a Blue Tit whose wing is wounded; in the smell of rain on the cheek of an enfant.”

I know it was yesterday but I didn’t see the picture from Gracie until I came in to work this morning.

Superman actor Christopher Reeve has passed away. After a fall from a horse 9 years ago paralyzed him Reeve went through hell but came out a winner proving he really was a ‘Superman’. He became a world renowned advocate for spinal cord research. Reeve also returned to the film biz playing the shut in Jason Kemp in a ‘for TV’ remake of Hitchcock’s Rear Window among other things.

Two words for Carol from Pauly … Robby Benson

Make your own sign right here.

Martha Stewart Reports to Jail to Begin Sentence
She’s in the slammer finally. Evil woman.

Honestly though, Martha Stewart, in the kilnk? What’s the world coming to. Who ever really thought she would do time? Not me. Carol still reads her magazine (she has a subscription). So we have been doing our part to help Martha fund her defense. I guess when you really did do it, unless you’re OJ.

I hope Martha boned up on her Prison Slang here and here before she went in. She won’t know what people are talking about. She, being a fish, may get green lighted to be shanked in the chow line over some drama about a choney bar when the screws are tossing cells.

She even got strip searched. Apparently she had suitcased some napkin rings and matching candle holders. Looks like a write up and off to the hole right away for ol’ Martha. Jail – It’s not a good thing.

Here’s a little cartoon starring George W Bush, Gary Busey and 2 Ferrets with crosses carved into their foreheads.

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It’s called the 401-Keg Plan

Thanks to my old friend and math wizard Ken for this little tidbit. However, investing in this way would not be prudent for someone like myself as I would, no doubt, drink the profit using the money saved by cashing in cans to buy more beer. Sad but true.