I was going to post about some political mumbo jumbo but there is a more pressing situation — I think Mr. Tommy Dunan does a better job posting about Florida’s multi-tiered threat against it’s very existence. I haven’t dealt with a Hurricane head on since I was a real youngRead More

Not that it’s important, but I thought up a tag line for the floundering Baseballboards.net… The site certainly hasn’t done enough to warrant me pushing it very hard in the future but at the same time, ther eis some passion from certain members that give the site a chance. IRead More

I’ve been in the dumps the last couple of days… I meanh really down and jus tlost what to do and hwo to live. I feel trapped, I feel without a purpose and I can’t exactly find reasons to push myself. Sure, I am doing great with my recovery andRead More

I am oblidged to say this… CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. AND MRS. DAVID COAKLEY. The reason why I shout that out is because Melanie of Melly’s Mind got herself married. I pitty her :wink

It was sort of an interesting thing to happen and cool that it happened to me but at the same time, it aggravated me… No, not just that, it infuriated me. Last nigh, a representative from Warner Brothers Home Video emailed the webmaster of Boltsmag.com — namely moi — andRead More

Tom Benjamin is pissed off, and with good reason ladies and gentlemen. Here is politics at it’s worst and Pork Barrels in America also at it’s worst: CC NHL Weblog How does it work? In the United States the entire sports franchise is apparently a depreciating asset. Never mind thatRead More

I haven’t talked about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a real long time… I think the last time I put up a post was in January where I gave a general sports roundup. Of course, my sports eye has been on my primary love in Tampa Bay — The LightningRead More

Take the good with the bad I suppose. I’m about back where I was a year ago — or over a year ago at that. I am not quite able to go out and do stuff on my own but I am not a gimp anymore. I don’t want toRead More

The Case Against George W. Bush Just like that, a country whose economy had been reduced to shambles by international sanctions, whose military was less than half the size it had been when the U. S. Army rolled over it during the first Gulf war, that had extensive no-flight zonesRead More

So Al Qaeda has the idea to go and attack the American financial institutions to do damage to our way of life. Citicorp, Prudential, etc… Sure, major financial institutions such as these are indeed good targets but really, is Al Qaeda missing an opportunity here? Why go after these bigRead More

Monday, August 2nd is turning into one day of digital frustrations for poor little Johnny. After getting my Computer back from Compustore, I rescued the files I coudl from the found chunks that were saved and tried to start over. That was Friday. With a plethora of frustrations and aRead More

Hate it, loathe it or not care about it whatsoever… The current Electoral Vote tally stands as such:

Well the computer is back and has been since Friday BUT I may have to format it again. At least I have the opportunity to rescue some of my personal files before having to wipe the HD again and go through the re-install bullshit once more. Much thanks to theRead More

Never start defragmenting your hard drive, stop suddenly and then reboot. Ever. Never. Ever. I wiped out boot.ini it seems on my PC and I’ve got no access to my windows directory to fix the problem on the WIndows XP rescue menu (through the command prompt). To top it off,Read More

Oh how the Mighty have fallen. Off Wing Opinion quotes two articles with regards to the breaking of the Sports news leader… The once cultish sports network has risen to carrying all 4 major sports, along with poker and other side leagues, and a promotional arm for it’s owner: Disney.Read More

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Sometimes I hate it when I am right. For ego reasons, this time I am sorta pleased about it but at the same time, looking at the area I live in and their level of tolerance — I hate howRead More

Oh dear god, I am falling in love with the Daily Show. For years I hear about this growing cult of people who watch Jon Stewartt and company report on he news with a humorous, cynical and smart ass spin to things. I’m a fan of Jon Stewart but IRead More

It’s tough trying to keep myself busy these days – I’m failing mor often than I’m not. I did alittle housekeeping on Boltsmag — nothing to write home about. I’ve been pinning about bbb.net and starting to think it was a mistake – that the market is indeed over-saturated andRead More

Jeez, it’s nice for someone to give me props for dumping a link on him… Thanks to Tommy at Sticks of Fire. Now if only I had something relevant to put on this site besides parodies of college dorm ads :-p

Well, it looks like Boy George and Kerry can get together and do something worth while — even if it’s just parody 😀 (08.01.2017 — Dead link and not able to locate what is being referenced via the Wayback Machine. -JF)

heh :wink (real graphic can be found here)

Dear god, I hate all the empty space that is showing up on The Stonegauge lately… It’s not like I’m spread thin on he Internet or anything, it’s just that I haven’t wanted to rant about anything that I could rant about. I mean, really, how many times have IRead More

“What’s in a name? If we were to call a rose by any other would it not smell as sweet?” What’s college for? A time for self discovery? A time for experimentation? What’s Google news for? Messing up someone’s mind with news you were looking for from coincidental sources insteadRead More

I think Gabe sums it up pretty well in this strip… Just why don’t superheroes die?

Anyone who knows me knows who my favorite band is… Then again, most of you readers are coming off the search engines and probably don’t know… Lets just say their were four of them, they were fab, and they revolutionized popular music. Anyway, you may or may not have heardRead More

Melanie sent me a rather cool petition by the father of one of the kids killed in the Columbine tragedy. Tom Mauser’s petition is based on the 6 Degrees of Seperation… But it’s graphically followed how far the 6 Degrees go for any one person, and these degrees go muchRead More

Tampa girls are so fucked up. Read the full ad to get an idea of how fucked up they are. And to underline the idea that people are messed up in general in Florida,

Heh… I’ve got too much spare time….. (as inspired by George W. Bush’s 4 years in office) I pledge allegiance To the Man Who bankrupt the Enron Corporation And to the Bush Administration with world domination plans An abomination, Oh dear God Politically divisible With treachery and greed for allRead More

It’s always tough to change a habit…. but in these times, you just have to do it… I am talking about switching from Internet Explorer to Netscape… With the threat of attack or exploiting IE that has been all through the news, I figured it was best I go aboutRead More

I think I finally get Ralph Nader a bit more this year. Ralph was on the Daily Show last night and came off like a senile old coot and was in charge of his entire time on the program. I’m not saying his senility is the reason why he isRead More

I still haven’t been posting much on the site because I want to make statements on here and not personal diatribes. My anecdotes aren’t that funny or I tell them better one-on-one with close friends instead of telling them to the masses all at once. I got into a littleRead More

(9-14-2007 I’m fixing some stuff here in the future and there was a very large graphic of a cover from the NY Post suggesting John Kerry had selected Dick Gephardt as his running mate for President. The graphic has since been removed and I replaced the graphic with the AltRead More

Ever wonder what Saddam Hussein does when he is not being interrogated? No? Ok, for discussion sake… Lets say you do… Well, you’re in luck because he did the exact same thing in court — He plays Rock, Paper, Scissors!

Current things just have me thinking…. Nick Portokalos: Don’t let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become. Toula Portokalos: Nick that’s beautiful. Nick Portokalos: Yeah that dear Abby really knows what she’s talking about. Gus Portokalos: My daughter gonna marry Eeee-anRead More

How do you make an online community financially viable… ?

Even Justice Scalia couldn’t help his buddies in the White House this time. Int he last 4 years, it had seemed everything was simply going to be allowed and handed to the Bush administration – Congressional approval of whatever they want, Supreme Court rulings in their favor (from secret documentsRead More

In some ways, I still believe there is no sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The action-packed, sci-fi sequel to James Cameron’s The Terminator. What really bothers me, what explicitly, forcibly bothers me, is seeing some of Terminator 3 lately on HBO and learning the plot of the movie (alongRead More

Sore throat, head that feels like bricks, itchy eyes and a nose that leads me to sneeze over and over again…. Oh Nurse, where are you when I need you?

Matt over at Defective Yeti has yet another hilarious anecdote to share with the world as he talks about X2: E-Men United and he art of cinematic bladder control. If I wasn’t fondly aware of moments like this at movie houses, I probably would just scoff and move on toRead More

Fahrenheit 9-11 was a sold out this evening and my older brother attended the showing at AMC Woodlands Square this afternoon… Now, this isn’t a first hand report, I’m relaying this story because I didn’t attend, but the movie had people in tears and roaring with laughter at other times…Read More

Well, the Bolts won the cup — Hurray! The Calgary Flames have their Flames Girls instead of the Cup and all can enjoy them — Hurray! Now? How about Hockey perverts showing off on the web and being able to rate them?!

Is this the Jack Ryan we all know? Is this the Jack Ryan we want to have represent our country? Or is this guy more like it? Oh sure, Ben Affleck and Alec Baldwin both played him in the movies (along with Harrison Ford) but that doesn’t make him aRead More

I wonder if there’s ever been “Elmer’s Glue Incorporated” in the sport of Horse Racing. What a great name!

Ah the wonderful world of Johnny. Details, details, details of Keith’s visit to suburban hell… er, Tampa Bay. So I was f’n stoked on a Saturday Night when the Lightning tied the Stanley Cup finals. Keith, of course, is in disbelief. He had expected to be attending one of theRead More

Can someone tell me what the rule is when it comes to going to a restaurant and acting like a total asshole? Or totally snobbish? It seems the last two times I went to a finer restaurant — not a fine restaurant where there is a proper dress code, butRead More

No Exit: There goes the neighborhood So, I’ve taken to taking advantage of the sophistication of my new neighborhood by driving around it (my neighborhood) at a very low rate of speed until my laptop picks up a wireless network. Then, in true loser form, I sit outside somebody’s houseRead More

The casting alone makes em want to catch the remake of Stephen King’s 2nd novel-come-movie, ‘Salems Lot Rob Lowe playing Ben Meares — I can live with that. Donald Sutherland as Richard Straker? Exact casting that I imagined reading the book. Rutger Hauer as Barlow? Another dead-on casting! James CromwellRead More

Added the Web Cam feature once again to Der Stonegauge. I can’t do direct connections so I haven’t used Camarades in a while and can’t unless I get a special webcam which I don’t plan on… Still images refresh every thirty seconds when I have this thing running, but nothingRead More

I’ve been writing a story for over a year now and it is starting to piss me off more than actually entertain me with regards to finishing it. If I can’t focus on the story, I choke and can’t write anything. I’ve already had to quit Long Ridge because IRead More