The cashier told officers the man approached her register softly mumbling. She asked him several times if she could help. The man finally spoke loud of enough for her to hear that he wanted money and “this was a robbery,” according to the police report.

It was then the man pulled the bullet out of his jacket pocket.

Officers noted the strong odor of alcohol coming from the man.

You don’t say?

What are the most frequently played songs on your iPod or other music thing? I’ve mostly just listened to Pandora since getting an iPhone, so I thought this would be an interesting snapshot of my musical tastes from the not-so-distant past.

Here’s my Top 25 from my iTunes playlist:

1. Super Disco Breakin’ – Beastie Boys
2. Carnival – The Cardigans
3. Ran Kan Kan – Tito Puente & His Orchestra
4. Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
5. Man of Constant Sorrow – Dan Tyminski/Soggy Bottom Boys
6. 19-2000 – Gorillaz
7. Pain Lies on the Riverside – Live
8. You Are My Sunshine – Norman Blake
9. We Close Our Eyes – Oingo Boingo
10. Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
11. Incense and Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock
12. Summer Breeze – Type O Negative
13. Keep on the Sunny Side – The Whites
14. Ventura Highway – America
15. Intergalactic – Beastie Boys
16. Song for Junior – Beastie Boys
17. Pictures of Matchstick Men – Camper Van Beethoven
18. Alison – Elvis Costello
19. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
20. The Grease Megamix – John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John
21. Blew – Nirvana
22. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
23. We Are the Champions – Queen
24. The Way I Feel – Remy Shand
25. So Easy – Röyksopp

Seriously?  Grease Megamix?

I got chills, they’re multiplyin’.

Christmas Gun Ads via Retronaut.

“Not if they have a jet-pack.” he replied.

Seeing that his logic was sound, I had to concede that yes, if they had a jet-pack then maybe it was a possibility.

I came home from work last night and when I went to tuck him in, I found him asleep in his bed with his Nerf bat which he had written “Skull Cracker” on with a Sharpie, complete with a little skull.

So let this be a warning to any jet-pack wearing burglars out there… Newt’s taking care of business.

World’s biggest insect found – it’s so big it eats carrots

Any recommendations?

I hope Alan is happy.