This is an Excellent Time to be a Repo Man!

I'm a Repo Man. by ~Otto-parts

Just in time for National Dog Bite Prevention Week, I'm heading out to a dog behavior class this evening, but I thought this article was worth posting rather than leaving as a comment link:

So many people have so many things they can no longer afford. This is an excellent time to be a repo man.

When a boat owner defaults on his loan, the bank hires Jeff Henderson to seize its property. The former Army detective tracks the boat down in a backyard or a marina or a garage and hauls it to his storage area and later auctions it off. After nearly 20 years in the repossession business, Mr. Henderson has never been busier.

“I used to take the weak ones,” he said. “Now I’m taking the whole herd.”

More from the NYT's Economic Tide Is Rising for Repo Man

Dolly Dimples' Meat and Jelly Bean Games

While I was viewing The Penguin Girl via ectoplasmosis, I came across Dolly Dimples - The Dainty Fat Lady on The Human Marvels. As a child she loved playing a game with a family friend. Apparently it involved dangling bits of butchered meat in front of her. Dolly’s first word was “meat”. Another favorite game involved creating elaborate jelly bean mosaics prior to consuming them.

In her heyday the 4’11” “World’s Most Beautiful Fat Woman” weighed 555 pounds. She later lost 443 pounds by eating nothing but baby food and published the best selling Diet or Die: The Dolly Dimples Weight Reducing Plan.

Prior to the baby food regime a typical menu included the following:

BREAKFAST
4 to 8 eggs, any style
1/2 pound of bacon, or a pound or more of ham
a can of peaches mixed with a pint of cream "and lots of sugar"
a loaf or more of bread, sliced, with butter and jelly
cafe au lait made with cream instead of milk, with sugar

LUNCH
3 to 4 pork chops - "if they were breaded, I'd have five" - with gravy a platter of fried potatoes "including all the grease"
vegetable of choice served in a sauce of cream, sugar, salt, and pepper
a loaf or more of bread, sliced, with butter
4 pieces of peach pie with whipped cream
about 1/2 gallon of milk

AFTERNOON SNACKS
one or more boxes of candy
6 or 7 bananas
cookies, apples, popcorn, etc.

DINNER
most of a large roast, or one or more whole chickens, with gravy
3 or more servings of mashed potatoes. "Sometimes I would eat enough mashed potatoes to feed an entire family of ten. I would hollow out little holes, sink in the butter, and cover it all with gravy."
2 avocados in season, or mixed green salad with grated cheese and mayonnaise dressing hot biscuits with butter and honey
4 pieces of custard pie, half a cake, or 2 pounds of candy
about 1/2 gallon of milk

EVENING SNACKS
4 or 5 sandwiches
ice cream, or in summer "the leavings of a frozen custard machine that belonged to some friends of mine. Every night they gave me a half-gallon bucket which was filled with the extra thick and creamy custard which had settled at the bottom of the machine."

BEDTIME SNACK
2 pieces of pie. Dolly also liked to take a box of crackers to bed each night, and munch herself to sleep.

I wonder if her jelly bean mosaics looked anything like the one...

Jelly Bean Elvis by ~RachelS

In other news, voting for 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Dick Cheney winner is on hold until Schnapps submits her entry.

Happy Halloween!

For those of you Zillow Booker's who may have missed what Szandora was doing with her right finger due to distraction, I've cropped that element away to make it SFW. She looks like she has a good sense of humor, doesn't she? Maybe she's a funsultant...
I discovered Szandora via a random SpookyBlog find...

This Halloween week, we are just all very excited about the professional contortionist level hotness of the beautiful girls of GothicSluts. Szandora’s spooky socks feature ghosts and the word boo and the classic black and orange Halloween colors. Somehow I’m having trouble focusing on just her cute little feet and their cute little foot coverings. I think it is the ankles all the way behind her ears which is distracting me.

I like spooky things and wish BlueBlood's Spooky cash didn't require an SS# for sweet spooky deals (Follow the $$$).

While structurally unsound, this duplex looks like the sweet haunted deal I want, but it is in firm escrow...

Fun Shui and Coercive Joviality

I have never been a big fan of those workplace team building events where one builds balloon sculptures, bowls, etc. and theoretically “has fun” for the sake of team building. Perhaps a funsultant would have made all the difference...

Are We Having Fun Yet?
The infantilization of corporate America

I particularly liked this quote:

"When you and I were born, there were 2 billion people in the world. Today there are 6 billion. Maybe there are only 2 billion real jobs and all the rest of us are being relegated to bullshit jobs, like fun coaches and creative directors. If we took away all the bullshit jobs, our economy would collapse."

Casey Cassandra

As the Casey crap draws to a close, I’ve been pondering my thoughts on the mess...

Of course, I’ve never understood his lack of concern over his financial and legal issues, but I’ve always taken an overly literary/historical/what-have-you/philosophical/itsallfucked and absurd perspective on things and his name reminds me of Cassandra.
However, the more details I heard regarding his treatment of his wife and family, I was a proud card carrying Casey Hater – with a capital H.
Nonetheless, he has been a good Cassandra for the rest of us who thankfully aren't personally involved in his messy mess.

The 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Einstein Winner is…

SouthernBread with this sweet entry! Woohoo! Win-Win!

As Ogg suggested over at Stephanie J.’s place wouldn’t it be fun if Casey played the next 6 Degrees of Casey Serin game? Let's have a vote!

6 Degrees of Casey Serin side show declares a win-win winner!

As Casey’s big circus continues so does the 6 Degrees of Casey Serin side show attraction! Woohoo!

FlyingMonkeyWarrior and Ogg the Caveman were running neck and neck for the 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Jason Voorhees win-win title.

It was too close to call until “kissin’ cousin" FlyingMonkeyWarrior surged ahead and is now this week’s 6 degrees of Casey Serin win-win winner with this sweet entry!

Woohoo! Sweet! Win-Win!