" Rubbin's Racin' "

This past weekend, I went with my parents and Jon to the U.S. Grand Prix (F1 race) in Indianapolis where we met up with my cousin & her husband... True to form & as predicted, Mom & I got into a lovely spat before we even loaded our fat asses up into the car to begin the 9-hour sojourn north to Indiana!!! Oh, and on the way home. Just north of Nashville yesterday, she pulled out the dramatics which somehow led to me being told to just shut up. Soooo, I put on my earphones, cued up my iPod, & did just that. What, you have a question for me? Sorry, I'm still in "shut-up mode". Gotta love family road trips...
I won't go into specifics about the race -- if you care, you either already know, or you can click on the "U.S. Grand Prix" link above... Suffice to say that a good time was had by all at what may have been the last running of the U.S. Grand Prix at Indy. (Note: Bernie Ecclestone, the F1 boss, can take his derogatory comments about the U.S. and shove them up his Andy Warhol-looking, arrogant, European, tight ass...)

Snippets & tidbits that could not be left unshared:

• US judge faces year in jail for getting pumped up at murder trials: OKLAHOMA, USA (AFP) - A US jury has sentenced an Oklahoma judge to one year in prison for using a penis pump on the bench during three murder trials and a civil case in 2002 and 2003.
• Operation removes lightbulb from anus: MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus.
• Every stoner's dream --> "Chocolate Factory" theme park to open in Amsterdam: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam will get a theme park dedicated to chocolate and inspired by Roald Dahl's children's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," city officials and entrepreneurs said Thursday.

Here's wishing everyone out there a safe & happy 4th of July!!!