Police on My Back (The Clash)

Posted on August 24, 2025 by Kip

Apposite, but klein kommentar on the advice of counsel. 🙂

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Health Benefits of Chocolate

Posted on August 23, 2025 by Kip

It’s true. I don’t know how many of you know this, but eating a moderate amount (a MODERATE amount) of dark chocolate every day is quite good for you. It preserves DNA, it helps with cholesterol, a whole bunch of things. Antioxidant, as well. Louis Leakey, the anthropologist, once was asked what he would give apes when greeting them for the first time in the wild, and he said, “A chocolate bar.”

Some of the benefits are listed here, and you can double check on Google or various other legitimate health sites. Remember, dark chocolate. Milk chocolate and white chocolate are way too fatty and contain too little actual cocoa.

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An Update on Me

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Kip

Okay, so, some of you may have been wondering what’s going on with me, so — a quick update. My father’s estate was in probate for a year; that’s done with, and my property on Cape Cod is sold. I’m working out a trust that starts next month sometime with some (A LOT) of help from my godmother.

The trust actually isn’t that much, but…without saying anything else, I am fine, both financially and in terms of life, at least for the moment. Stable, at the very least. I read a long time ago that mourning periods were very, very long for only children (several years, sometimes), and I’m an extreme only, so things have been a little rough.

I have some nonsense to deal with in September but once that’s past I think I’m pretty much free to do as I please. I need a adopt a cat, and have dental work done, but the latter will be taken care of soon, and the former is kind of up to me (for the winter, especially).

Th-th-that’s all, folks.

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Are You Drinkin’ With Me, Jesus?

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Kip

“Does your head pound, Jesus…as hungover You do rise…how does Paradise look, Jesus…through Holy Bloodshot Eyes?”

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Flashing, Blinking Lights

Posted on August 17, 2025 by Kip

Modern life in a nutshell, courtesy of AIRPLANE! 2. God-damned flashing, blinking lights. Not to mention the chimes, bells, knobs, levers, swipes…

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New Study Links Black, Caffeinated Coffee to Decreased Mortality Rate

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Kip

Just like the title says, a new study from Tufts in conjunction with HHS, part of which you can find over here, links a cup of black, caffeinated coffee a day to a decrease in all-cause mortality of about 16% and, after that, 2-3 cups a day of black coffee go a little further. Especially for cardiovascular disease, but I believe for everything (coffee has massive antioxidant properties). The catch is, it has to be black, caffeinated coffee. No decaf, as little as possible sugar, and hardly any creamer (though adding any creamer and sugar drops the statistic to 14%). Those in the study who drank their coffee with any kind of creamer or sugar had much less of a change in their mortality rate, and those who drank it decaffeinated had no change.

Hail the bean!

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Happy Birthday, Mom, Wherever You Are

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Kip

It’s been…eight years, I think, since my mother, Caroline Lange, passed? Seven or eight. Seven, maybe, I get a little confused because she passed on my birthday (I always say, she made sure I’d remember). Today is her birthday anniversary, however. A day may go by where I don’t think of my mom, but not a week, and not very many days. My mother and I were two peas in a pod; we were wired similarly in many ways. I just pray I’m a little stronger than her in the end about everything. Not that there was any goddamned thing you could do about all the surgeries and the hospitalizations and the crap, mom, for what, ten to twenty years, but…well, wherever you are, at least you’re not suffering anymore. Over and out, your once and future son — Kip.

P.S. I know. I’m still trying, mom.

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Doctor Demento Retiring

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Kip

Yeah, Ozzie died, and Hulk Hogan died, but buried in that news — Doctor Demento is retiring after fity-five years on the air.


That is correct, Barret Hansen, AKA “Doctor Demento”, who launched the career of many spoof artists — including, notably, “Weird Al” Yankovic, is hanging up the mic.

I remember many, many nights as a boy tuning in to Demento to hear song parodies growing up. It was rare, because hey, even in 1980, you didn’t use the radio much to actually listen to shows; you spun the dial and listened to songs.

A hat tip and a good luck to the good Doctor. Good luck, Mr. Hansen! Thank you for many years of enjoyment and introducing us to songs such as “Like a Surgeon”.

Full article on it over here.

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An Interesting Lottery…

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Kip

We *are* based on Rome, so may I suggest something? Let’s try this — “Emperor Elagabalus, known for his eccentricities, also employed lotteries but with a more chaotic and unpredictable nature. He would sometimes include both valuable prizes and ridiculous or even dangerous ones in the lottery, like wasps, bees, or even death sentences.” Imagine if your scratch ticket read “Wasps” or “Death by Hanging” instead of showing a $ when you won. It’d be interesting, at least, admit it, and you would *still buy the damned tickets*, wouldn’t you?

Elagabalus pictured above, by the way (if you bring up this blog post as a single article).

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A KipLange.com Bulletin Board

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Kip

I am currently running an experiment in a bulletin board (using phpBB) at https://kiplange.com/bb/. Or https://kiplange.com/bb/index.php if that last link doesn’t work. You’re welcome to take a look at it while I work at it and even try your hand at posting, if you want.

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