Use your claw and reall to mine gold and other treasures out of the earth. Your claw will swing back and forth. Press the down arrow to lower it. If you press the left arrow key right after you drop the claw, it will retract. Once it has grabbed something it will reel up. Between levels you can buy items that can help you.
Collect the target amount of money by the end of the level or it's game over. Your money carries over from one level to the next.
If you accidentally blow up everything on a level or you just feel like going on, you can press the "end level" button. If you haven't met your goal it will be game over.
Feed Me More...On A Stick
The Wisconsin State Fair. It's not just about cream puffs anymore.I'm a sucker for anything that comes fried on a stick, so the fair gets some free mentions today. They just sent out a press release detailing some of the creative food you can get at the fair. It includes the following [...]
My Old Pet Photos
I was going through the Charlie Family Photo Album, remembering some of the good old times, and I noticed an unusually large number of family photos with pets. I just had to share.Thanks to awkwardfamilypetphotos.com
Salt
Rated PG-13 – 1h40I know the doctors say I should cut back, but I would love an extra thrilling serving of Salt.Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a female action hero living up to her full potential. She’s right up there with Ellen Ripley from “Alien” and Sarah Connor from “Terminator.”Salt is a seasoned CIA [...]
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Rated R – 2h9Imagine you just ate a delicious steak and the next day you were given dog food for dinner. That’s how I felt with Swedish-subtitled The Girl Who Played With Fire. This is a bad sequel.The follow up to the impressive thriller: The Girl With Dragon Tattoo, (and the trilogy [...]
Cyrus
Rated R – 1h31It’s a good reminder that you’re only dysfunctional, until someone even more dysfunctional comes along.In this dark comedy Cyrus, John (John C. Reilly) is at a low point in his life. Afraid of being alone, he is forced by his ex-wife to meet someone else.While acting a drunken fool at a [...]
Music 411: Kings of Leon (& Bird Doo)
This may be one of the better rock and roll stories to comes out in some time. It wasn't fabricated to create media hype, nobody (really) got hurt and it doesn't involve rehab.The Kings of Leon were performing Friday night in St. Louis. After just three songs, they canceled the show because pigeons that were [...]
Ultimate Tailgating For Yuppies
The last Packer's party I was at, a guy was wearing one of these on his head. Except it was fueled with the usual double cans of beer.I wonder if Zach Galifianakis just didn't get the concept? It just seems less fun with wine. Go ahead and give it your best caption.
Severe Weather Photos
OMG! Did you see the severe weather photos they took from last night's storm?There was a lot of flooding, especially in rural areas. It was so bad at one point that farmers had to start giving cows swimming lessons.Check out this other flooding image from Sun Prairie this morning. Man, mother nature isn't messing around!
Friday Night 80's: Kevin Bacon Is Evil
The townies in Footloose thought Kevin Bacon was a bad guy simply for wanting to cut loose....footloose.Now it turns out they may be right. Mr Seven Degrees of Himself has been tapped to play the lead bad guy in the new X-Men: First Class movie.First they thought Bacon might play the villainous Mr. Sinister. [...]
