I'm a Creationist. I have always thought evolution was a load of crap [everything in this post is my own opinion - I do not intend to offend anybody] - I never bought it. There's so many discrepancies it's not even funny. There's no way it's scientifically possible. If an animal is born mutated, it's never a good thing - it usually dies early and suffers the entire life that it does live. It doesn't grow new legs when it wants to, or make its neck longer to reach leaves that are a foot higher.

     I also don't believe the earth has been around for "billions of years". Thousands, yes. Well, maybe it was around for millions of years, but that's before God created Life. Genesis 1:2 says, "the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

     Anyway, that gets me to the point of this post - dinosaurs. I've loved dinosaurs my entire life. I've been made fun of for it, but I never cared, because why can't I be obsessed with dinosaurs if you're obsessed with dogs/cats/birds/etc? No difference to me. I didn't play with dolls and Barbies when I was a child - I played with Jurassic Park and Discovery Channel brand dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up. Well even though I've kept every last one of my dinosaurs in a huge collection, I no longer play with them. Nowadays, I'm interested in them for the animals they are - the scientific part of it. And for their beauty. I that never found them to be "scary". Just as scary as a lethal tiger, are they not beautiful?

 

 

God also speaks of the mighty behemoth, in Job 40:15-24:

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

     After reading of the behemoth, do the Apatosaurus [formerly "Brontosaurus"] or Brachiosaurus not come to mind? "He moveth his tail like a cedar..."

     Consider the Loch Ness Monster. It has been spotted by many people for hundreds of years. Although many photos of it, including possibly the most famous one, have proven to be fakes, that doesn't mean Nessie doesn't exsist. I'm sure you've heard all about the Loch Ness Monster though, so I'll not bore you with that. I'll instead provide the stories to some very different marine dinosaur sightings...

     Now, I will quote some bits from a book written by Phil Phillips entitled, "Dinosaurs - The Bible, Barney, and Beyond":

Might Dinosaurs Still Be Alive?

     "If dinosaurs survived the Great Flood on Noah's Ark, evolution scientists argue that there should be some evidence of that.
     Creation scientists respond, "There has been and is!"
     Not all creatures died during the shifts from period to period. Ammonites, once thought to be alive only in the Cretaceous period are now found in layers of sediment described as Triassic - millions and millions of years apart, according to evolutionary science.
     Others claim that dinosaurs have been and still are being sighted in our modern age."

Do Plesiosaurs still Swim the Oceans?

     "What happened to the great sea dinosaurs? An old Hebrew legend says that only three animals survived the Flood besides those on the Ark. They were the 'giant og, the monster reem, and the fishes.' The word 'og' means gigantic and long-necked. Plesiosaurs?
     Plesiosaurs, the giant dinosaurs of the ocean, disappeared millions of years ago, according to evolutionary scientists.
     Yet...
     On April 10, 1977, a Japanese fishing boat [Zuiyo-maru of the Taiyo Fishery Company Ltd.] pulled in an unexpected catch off the coast of New Zealand. Their net held the rotting remains of what they reguarded as an ocean reptile. The captain tossed the carcass back into the sea [for fear it would spoil their catch of fish], but took photographs and made measurements first.
     The creature was thirty-two feet long and wieghed about 4,000 pounds. Its skin was pinkish-red in color. Photographs show a long neck and fins on an otherwise reptile-like crature.
     The Japanese fishermen took a sample of the creature's flesh back to Japan and a scientist at the National Science Museum concluded that it was a Plesiosaur! Furthermore, the scientist deduced that the animals are not only not extinct, but that there must be a group of them still surviving in the ocean depths since these creatures could not survive more than sixty million years alone. [Also take note: judging on how much this creature had rotted, it was concluded that it had been dead for only a month or less before the fishermens' discovery.]"

     "And...
     A few years ago, the U.S.S. Stein tangled with an unknown creature on its way to track submarines near South America. The ship returned to the Long Beach Naval Dockyard when its sonar went out. The ship was put in dry dock and when the crew examined the underwater sonar dome, they found the rubber cover that normally protects the dome torn and tattered with dozens of large gouges. Hundreds of sharp hollow teeth (or possibly claws) were still in the rubber - some of these were longer than an inch. To date, scientists have not been able to associate these teeth or claws with any known species."

Is Leviathan still around?

     "Leviathan may very well have been a Kronosaurus. This was a large reptile with great, sharp teeth, fast-swimming, with strong jaws and protection on its back and undersides. Psalm 104 describes them as swimming where the ships travel, probably the Mediterranean ["Here ships ply their course; here Leviathan, your creature, plays"]. While not a true dinosaur, this was a very large reptile, a close cousin to the dinosaur, and a creature we do not see in today's oceans (at least as far as we know to date).
     One may have been spotted in 1915 in the North Atlantic. The British steamer Iberia was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank quickly. A few seconds after the steamer went down, a violent explosion broke the water and pieces of wreckage shot out of the sea. Along with the wreckage came a gigantic sea animal, writhing wildly.
     It was seen by the German submarine captain [Georg von Forstner], his officers on watch, the chief engineer, the navigator, and the helmsman. None of them had ever seen a creature like it before. They described it as being about sixty feet long, crocodile in shape, with four limbs, webbed feet, and a tail that tapered to a point."

Are There Any Sauropods Roaming the Jungles?

     "In recent years, American and Japanese scientists have been searching the jungles of Africa for a dinosaur the natives call 'Mokele-Mbembe'!
     Large animals have been reported in the swamps of the 'Congo' area for decades. One native said that in 1980, he saw a reddish-brown animal rise from the water in front of his canoe. The creature had a 'snake-like head', six to eight feet long. As he paddled away, he saw the animal's back appear. In looking at photos offered by missionaries, he identified the animal as a Sauropod [i.e., Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus], a plant-eating dinosaur.
     Another native, a young girl, was paddling her canoe along the shore of Lake Tele when her boat became stuck on a sand bar. As she tried to dislodge her boat, suddenly a large animal broke the water's surface with a great deal of splashing. The frightened girl could not tell the animal's head from its tail, but she did see its body. She described it as being the size of four elephants. Her parents found her in shock and crying for help. They went to the place where she had apparently seen this mysterious creature and found large, unrecognized foot prints for hundreds of feet along the lake shore."

Do Pterosaurs Still Fly?

     "What about Pterosaurs? The supposedly died out sixty-five million years ago.
     Yet in 1856, railway workers in France were digging a tunnel. They blasted the area with gunpowder to remove a boulder, and when the dust settled, the workmen found a huge bat-like creature. It was stunned, but not dead. The workers brought it out into the light and it began to shake its wings, made a horse cry, and died shortly thereafter.
     The creature had a long neck, rows of sharp teeth in a long beak-like mouth, and was shiny black. Its wingspan measured more than ten feet! A scientist concluded that it was, indeed, a Pterosaur.
     Ptreosaurs are not supposed to have lived any time close to the era of man, according to evolutionary science. In fact, they are supposed to be tens of millions of years apart! One apparently survived until 1856."

I finally got me a hat. I've been wanting some kind of western or southern hat for a long time, but could never find one I really liked. I'd have loved to get a Van Zant Hi-Rider, but they're a bit too pricey, so I went with this $7.99 deal from Wal-mart.

It's actually very well-made and comfortable ("New and Improved, now with a better-fitting sweatband!"). I think it's made by Faded Glory... I'd seen the same one on eBay a couple weeks ago, and I'm glad I didn't get it because the auction went to over $20. Anyway, here's the hat, and here's me, wearing, The Hat.

I love you!

After 9/11, I made a whole pantload of these little flag pins. They're made with safety pins and seed beads - I sold quite a few in first year or so, but now I have about 200 of them left and don't know what to do with them, so I figured I'd try selling them on eBay. They're $2 a piece, $2 s&h, and $.50 more s&h for each additional pin if you want more than one! :D

Nothing is like the old WWII warbirds. Nuthin'.

The Collings Foundation owns four beautiful airplanes that they tour the U.S. with. The B-17 Flying Fortress called "Nine-O-Nine", B-24 Liberator called "Dragon & His Tail" (which isn't here this year - it's currently being repainted as a B-24 that was in the 8th Air Force, 467th Bomb Group, called "Witchcraft"), an F4U-5NL Corsair, and a B-25 Mitchell called "Tondelayo".

The B-17, B-25, and Corsair are all at my local airport at the moment (they've flown over our house a number of times today), they come here every year. Last March, we had the chance to fly in the "Tondelayo". It was my dad's birthday present for me, and probably the best I've ever gotten. The flight cost $300 per person (which is dirt cheap considering how much it costs to fly those things per hour) and lasted about thirty minutes - they took us out over the ocean too.

Here's a picture of the B-25 with us in it (we were sitting in the waist-gunners' positions):

Why Nat hates Tom Cruise:

"I hope you can spare an hour as this might take a while...

Tom Cruise is celebrated and famous while being the most talentless, type-cast play-actor in the history of cinema. He's as fake as they come in Hollywood and that is saying alot. He divorced Nicole Kidman while she was pregnant (a pregnancy that took years to happen), shacked up with a duck-faced Spanish actress, and paraded around with her all over the world which I believe contributed to Nicole's subsequent miscarriage. He has basically made the same film 20 times - some hot shot (usually the best at what he does) lawyer/sports agent/fighter pilot/police officer/soldier/motivatio nal speaker/secret agent falls from grace and must overcome enormous obstacles to redeem himself. Yet for some reason the world fawns over him like he's the most handsome and gifted actor of his generation. Every movie I have ever seen him in he is ALWAYS out-shined by his co-stars because, honestly, he just isn't that good - Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man), Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jerry McGuire), Demi Moore and Jack Nicholson (A Few Good Men), Colin Farrell and Max Von Sidow (Minority Report), Ken Watanabe(The Last Samurai), Jamie Foxx (Collateral). He has a long list of co-stars who get nominated for awards when working with him. Why? Because it takes a really awesome performance to make the seemingly endless glamor shots of Tom Cruise waving his hair and posing add up to a palatable film. Tom Cruise has managed to do the impossible. He makes Richard Gere look like Sir Alec Guinness by comparison and Richard Gere has only ever reminded me of soggy oatmeal.

I could go on, but I have a headache. This email has brought back some bad memories - Far and Away, Legend and The Firm to name a few.

Oh and another reason why I hate Tom Cruise - he crashed my wedding to Rick and had the audacity to fall into a bon-fire completely killing the atmosphere. I mean, burnt Cruise smells like toasted ass."

I must say, I agree with her 100%.

Here's a small (but good) update on Scott Grimes [see original post] and his single "Sunset Blvd.":

"Scott made the following moves on the chart this week.

"Sunset Blvd."

27-25 (with bullet) on R&R
31-29 (with bullet) on Billboard
24-16 (with bullet) on FMQB

He also picked up KBAY in San Francisco.

The CD comes out one week from today, 2-22-05"

Listen to the single here:

AE: Any idea...what the hell this thing is???


Mal: Good Lord, where'd you find that?!

AE: I lurk in dark places...fungally.

Mal: I always thought you resembled fungus.

AE: Little did you know...I actually am a member of the Fungai!!!
Muahahahahahahaha!!! WE SHALL CONQUER THE EARTH...in tiny, annoying patches...

Mal: What is wrong with you? ......WERE YOU INVOLVED IN THE MOLD THAT GREW ON THE WALL AND TRANSFERED ONTO MY BATH TOWEL??

AE: What's wrong with ME!?!?!?! BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm of the FUNGAI!! We're JUST this WAY! BAHAHA!!!! And, yes, some of my tiny peeps were responsible for the bath towel incident. I knew about it, but why would I compromise our operatives in the field, eh??

Mal: Are you on something??? HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY TOWEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just for that..... GAMUT!!! Let it be KNOWN that I'm letting you off easy. Much worse things have happened to those who've purposely come into contact with my washcloth.

AE: BA-HAAAAAA!!! LET IT BE KNOWN that by any and all means necessary, our Fungai operatives WILL be on the prowl in bathrooms around the globe...slowly, sloooowly, s l o w l y, taking over, we WILL conquer the WORLD!!!
(Occasionally, I do like flights of fancy...jeez, just go with it! :) )

Mal: THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK!!!!! You surely won't get past my extensive army of.... TILEX!!!!!
Oooookay 'n' stuff, yeah maaan. Hey wait......I know I'm in a field of tall grass somewhere.... or is it all in my head? As I fell asleep and dreamed, I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie, and that I was the star of the movie. This really blew my mind.............but there I was....

AE: Baaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahaha ::inhales deeply:: Baaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahaha Baaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahaha Baaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahaha ::shakes head:: Simple, simple humans. You think "Tilex" isn't working for us already? ::snicker:: (And, basically, you're Russell Crowe in Gladiator. Sad but true. Field of tall grass + Hollywood movie + Star = Crowe)

Mal: "...basically, you're Russell Crowe in Gladiator." That is perhaps the worst insult you've ever insulted me with. He's. A. MAN.

AE: OMG! Is this really the time to allow your femininity to be insulted...after all, The Fungai are taking over the WORLD! How about some perspective here!

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You might know Scott Grimes as Tech./Sgt. Malarkey from "Band of Brothers", or as the annoying Dr. Archie Morris from NBC's ER. But I betcha didn't know that boy can SING too! He's got a new album, "Livin' on the Run", coming out on February 22nd, and even has a single of "Sunset Blvd" out, which can be downloaded in full at his official website. The song is doing VERY well, and here's the latest news:

"Sunset Blvd" made the following moves on the charts this week.

AC Radio & Records jumps 29-27 (11 new adds including Cleveland, Nassau and Austin). Made the R&R most added again. Top 10 in Kansas City (KUDL) and Baton Rouge. Doing very well in Toledo, Mansfield, and Canton, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Michigan too.

AC Billboard jumps 36-31

AC FMQB jumps 40-26

The push for HOT AC starts next week."

Be sure to pre-order your copy of "Livin' on the Run" today, at Amazon.com. Scott is a most excellent singer, you won't be disappointed. If you have doubts, head on over to scottgrimes.com and listen to "Sunset Blvd." :D

19 years ago today, the world was graced by my presence. Thanks to all my friends for my Birthday wishes!

image courtesy of A.E.

On this day in:
1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1943 - General Dwight Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.

Mal: Okay here's the thing.
Mal: First I'm gonna buy a ship.
Mal: Then go storm chasing and learn to fly and buy my own airplane.
Mal: Then study paleontology and then become a weapons specialist.
Mal: THEN.
Mal: I'm gonna retire happily with all my favorite guys.
Mal: How's that sound?
Friend: It sounds wonderful.
Mal: Okay.
Friend: But how are you gonna pay for the ship? Ships are expensive!
Mal: Aye, so are airplanes.
Mal: I just wish I had time to do everything I want to do!
Friend: You're gonna have to make some money on the side...hmm! WRITE A SMUT BOOK!
Mal: I can write about kahunas, perhaps?
Friend: Dude, do you know how much those cheesy smut books get? Tons of dough.
Mal: ...about Jason reeling in the bathtub, and Jack rockin' that trailer!
Mal: THEN I can buy the ship.
Mal: Maybe later on down the road, I'll open my own theme park.
Mal: What say you? Will you be my first mate/co-pilot/assistant?
Mal: I wouldn't mind owning a frog farm either.
Friend: I'm not good with airplanes...they don't like me!!
Mal: You never been in one!
Mal: Airplanes love you. You just don't know it yet.
Friend: They don't like me.
Friend: They know I don't like them.
Mal: When we go storm chasing, would you mind if I put you directly in the path of the twister, just to um.....test it?
Mal: If it.....sucks you up.....then I'll know it's....yeah....and I can run and get away.
Mal: Hmm, I was thinking, if the smut book doesn't work, you know we can always get some bucks by building a castle on Mars.
Mal: And I don't care what ANYBODY says, Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.
Mal: Are you listening to me?

*five minutes go by*

Mal: I'm trying to make life-changing plans about our future here, and you're......watching Power Rangers.
Friend: ROFLMAO!!!!
Mal: LOL
Friend: OMG! OMG OMG CAN'T.... STOP.....LAUGHING....
Mal: Can we at least try the frog farm??????? You're not answering any of my questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friend: I just had to not type anything, your sentences were getting quite interesting!
Mal: Omg.
Friend: I'm sorry. I'll refrain myself from not writing.
Friend: ...NO, I will not let you put me near the damn tornado.
Mal: WHY THE HECK NOT?? ONE OF US HAS TO LIVE?!
Friend: Jupiter sounds shitty too!!!
Mal: It's an ENEMY PLANET I TELL YOU.
Friend: ...No, Mars would not be a good place to relocate.
Friend: MARS HAS NO OXYGEN!
Friend: JUST BIG ROCKS!
Mal: We'll invent panties that contain a lifetime supply of oxygen.
Friend: Panties? Lifetime oxygen? How will that work??? Will it go up our butts or something?!! ROFL.
Mal: OH, we can invent anti-gravitational bras and loinclothes too, to keep people from flapping in the wind when there's no gravity around (i.e., on the moon).
Friend: Ahh I've got to go!
Friend: Sleep well, and think about the panties invention!!
Mal: Oh POOP, just when it was getting interesting.

Y'all check out my buddy Bruce Wall's website, Down South Jukin'. It's everything about Lynyrd Skynyrd, Southern Rock, Southern culture, heritage and humor. Not to mention, yours truly made some of the graphics on the site, including the photos on the entrance and home pages, as well as the banner! Visit the Photo Galleries, and look for my page of wallpapers, too!

Also, if you like Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Van Zants, and anything Southern rock, check out and listen to 43 The Hawk.

Made this a couple days ago:

Hi, I'm Mal of Daft & Demented. This is my first time blogging but I am not new to the whole blogging subculture.

As Rob Thomas sings, "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell."

My favorite things include Lynyrd Skynyrd, WWII movies and history, airplanes, pirates, Johnny Depp, strange demented humor, web design, and last but not least, my Dad, "Prancing Patrick":

When I told my dear friend Nat (dangerkitty) of my first-time nervousness of blogging, she replied, "Here's my bit of advice for you: If you can talk and fart at the same time, you can blog."