http://www.flickr.com/photos/yahooeditorspicks/galleries/72157625550600212/

Pretty cool link to some high speed and high resolution pictures of some mundane occurences, like a water balloon the instant that it pops in a guy's hand.

Check it out- safe for work.

Topical things are funny

This just in via email from Brendan up in Oregon. The subject line reads "You can almost hear the Manderchuckle."

The Shanty's Bar

There's this bar. Not a hero, cause what's a hero, anyway? But there's this bar that just seems to fit right in there.

It's known as The Shanti Bar. We will be visiting it in two weekends.

For you matt, Happy Birthday big guy!

Back boobs?!?! Has anyone ever seen
such a thing before?

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the O-Town "Bridge to Nowhere"?

The Shanty Blog Welcomes Shlomo!

Cheers, but you still need to take me to your Vonnegut.

Here are a couple handy links on:

Tagging posts

Making playlists or otherwise putting music in your post

Wanted: Any and all pictures you may have taken this past weekend

Already started putting things together in a movie of some kind and I could use all the material that I can get my grimy little paws on. So send them this way (rusty.oc@gmail.com) and I'll be sure to include them in the up and coming "Road Tripping with Capt. Buffnstuff."

And we are back...

The most beautiful place in the continental us..if not more...




















Vancouver sunset...




















Phish Friday Night...mmmmm....















Trey and Mike switching instrumental duties...















More to come later... have a good day everyone!

Real life calvin and hobbes

Guillermo Del Toro Makes Wine Labels?

Checking in on the Burr Oak Tree

One of Missouri's favorite trees.

Kinda Gross

Hey folks!  Haven't been able to spend a spell at The Shanty for a little bit.  Some great music being tossed around, though.  Like Cotton Jones!  There's a find, huh?  I wish I had some music to share, but unfortunately all I have right now is a bit o' truth to lay on you.  It's a hard pill to swallow, so the squeamish may want to turn away now.  Here it goes.

You swallow spiders in your sleep.  Though the numbers vary with who you talk to (like 2 or less than 1), recent events have confirmed that it does happen.  There are lots of folks who claim that this is an urban legend, that is has no basis in fact, an absurdity that only internet gullibles believe.  Well, it's not.

I can prove it.  Just this past weekend it happened to me.  I swallowed a spider while at the Pedaler's Jamboree.  After nearly 35 miles of pedaling, drinking and eating it was time for sleeping.  I woke up the next day and my throat kinda hurt.  Here's what I found...

A fucking spider bite on the back of my throat!  Yea, you swallow spiders in your sleep.  It may not happen to everyone.  It may only happen in certain circumstances.  But it happens.  And when it happens, you better hope that the spider's not a fighter.  Fuck spiders.

This one can be seen from my folks' back yard and is also quite the sight. If developers ever build on this pasture, I'm going to be very angry.

This tree, the Burr Oak Tree as it's known in central Missouri, is one big wode. I'm pretty sure it's protected and will never be cut down. It looks like the Tree of Life, and that's why I'm posting it. For those of you that have been there, you know the power of this thing.

The Beatles

After I rescued them from their carbon-neutral submarine fiasco, they insisted on taking a picture with "their hero."  It sucked that George couldn't make it in, but there wasn't enough room on the set.

Sam Beam

I'll see your William Elliot Whitmore and raise you Sam Beam and me after a free Tortoise show at Millenium Park in Chicago

William Elliot Whitmore

Jason and Matt with William Elliot Whitmore, right after we tried to steal the man's cab.

Rusty and Dusty