Weasel Boys

April 1, 2005

Several years ago I read a really great book named Weasel Boys”. A few years later a movie was made from it called Mtn Grove Nights”. The movie was good, but the book was special.

On one of my recent marathon road trips to Oklahoma and back, I pulled over to take a break and noticed a place that was selling library books for a buck apiece. Low and behold, there were two Weasel Boy companion books on the table. I didnt know there were companion books. I snatched them up and got busy reading the first one, The Mtn Grove Way.

Sequels never seem to live up to the originals, but this one certainly did. It was like reading the next several chapters of the first book. I finished it and am currently plowing through the last one called Weasels of Stone.

If you like to read, I would suggest these biographies of the life and times of Dennis G. Jones… Weasel Boy.

Not to be confused with Homer H. Hickam… Rocket Boy.

The BrotherJones New Official Top Secret Motto

April 2, 2005

Now With Flavor Chunks!

April 5, 2005

I was really wanting some chocolate chip cookies this weekend and since my wife Karen was out of town I decided to go ahead and make them myself. How hard can it be, right?

I found the recipe and started mixing things together.

In hindsight, I think it would be wise to make sure you had all the ingredients you needed BEFORE you started out on a cooking excursion because I seemed to be short on a whole lot of the key cookie components.

Right off the bat it called for two large eggs. I did not have two large eggs I had several medium eggs. I decided the smart move would be to put in three medium eggs to make up the difference. Judging by the finished product I would have to say that was probably one egg too many.

I then discovered there were only about twenty five chocolate chips left in the bag. (I do enjoy a handful of those from time to time when nobody is looking) Since this did not seem to be enough chips for the cookies I started looking around for something else I could throw in. I found a small Tupperware bowl in the freezer containing some sort of obscure crushed nuts. In they went.

The real problem was the brown sugar… it was hard as a rock… literally. I got a hammer out of the garage and started pounding the tar out of the bag but I could only get it crushed down to chunks that were about two inches square. The recipe did not say what to do in a situation like this so I decided maybe if I just mixed the chunks in with the other ingredients perhaps they would soften up and disappear. They did not.

What to do at this point? With visions of chocolate chip cookies and milk dancing in my head, I threw it on into the oven and hoped the cooking process would magically turn my lumpy batter into delicious cookies.

I don’t think what I ended up with could technically be called a chocolate chip cookie… they were more like brown sugar chunk cookies. Since the brown sugar was in chunks and not spread out in the dough, the cookie itself was pretty darn bland. An average of two chocolate chips and one nut per cookie didn’t help things either but hey, when you hit one of those two inch pockets of pure brown sugar it was just like eating brown sugar straight out of the bag… which I also like to do… when nobody is looking.

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A Community Service

April 6, 2005

The Huntington County Chapter of the Indiana Socks Without Mates Support Group will be meeting all this month at my house on the edge of the bed. We are happy to open our home up to this worthy cause. Please keep the light blue sock on your prayer list. It is particularly distressed about the loss of its mate.

Go For The Bargain!

April 7, 2005

So you go online to the i-Tunes Music Store and buy ten songs at a dollar apiece and each of those songs is approximately three and a half minutes long. You just got yourself thirty-five minutes of music for ten bucks. Not bad but you could do better…

Next time try using the Brother Jones Method of purchasing products. Look for the bargain! Get the really long songs! Here is a list I would suggest

(1)I Know Your Out There Somewhere (Moody Blues) 6:38
(2)Layla (the original version) (Cream / Eric Clapton) 7:05
(3)Long Time (Boston) 7:46
(4)Beginnings (Chicago) 7:52
(5)Dance With me George (Ambrosia) 7:53
(6)Major Tom (extended version) (Peter Schilling) 8:05
(7)Long Way (Little River Band) 8:46
(8)Song For America (Kansas) 9:05
(9)Grey Day (Jesse Colin Young) 11:20
(10)Free Bird (live version) (Lynyd Skynyrd) 13:41

Using the Brother Jones Method of buying music you have just purchased an hour and a half of music with the same ten dollars! You have almost tripled the amount of music you originally had by simply getting the longest songs available.

Who cares if you don’t like any of the music you just bought… YOU GOT A BARGAIN!

Exclusive Photo!

April 8, 2005

The BrotherJonesDennis Page of this web site has obtained this exclusive photograph taken at the Friday Brother Jones Online Bored Meeting.

You can always count on the BrotherJonesDennis Page to bring you the latest in breaking stories and the most current paparazzi pictures.

Fire Hydrant

April 11, 2005

Here is a picture I took, and this is my journal article for the week. I hope you enjoyed it.

Art Tip of the Day

April 11, 2005

It is really helpful to have some sort of game plan formed BEFORE you start slinging paint. Here is a simple strategy I use. Paint the stuff in the background first. Paint the stuff in the foreground last.

Flat Outa Luck

April 13, 2005

It’s the official BrotherJones Photo Contest day! Each of the Jones brothers have taken an artistic type photo from around their residences and have displayed them today for this heated competition of imagery.

It is your duty and responsibility as a BrotherJones visitor and true American to cast a vote for one of the pictures. If you are reading this, you are eligible… and URGED to vote for one of these photos. We know you’re out there… So get on that mouse and vote! Just hit the comment button below and give us your best critique! (No fictitious names please.) and we will count that as a vote. VOTE NOW!

SaaaaLUTE!

April 14, 2005

As hard as I tried to crop my brothers out of this picture, (and I tried pretty hard) you can still see them.

That is Doug in the background in his boy scout uniform and Donald peaking in on the left… and that’s me, front and center, giving everyone a great big official Dennis Jones Backhand To The Forehead Salute.

I mastered this salute at an early age. Some might say it is just a failed attempt at doing that boy scout, two fingered salute thing… but I beg to differ. This is exactly the way I wanted my official salute to go.

Now that you know it… you have my permission to use it, too.

SaaaaLUTE!