Culture
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What About This, is THIS Wrong of Me?
Maya and I were out and about today, and Gloria Gaynor’s disco hit, “I Will Survive” came on the radio…and it took me back to 1999, when this little video was making the rounds at work…I’m sorry, but I just looked at it, and it STILL cracks me up.
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Proof of the Apocalypse #2
I found myself agreeing with some guy on MSNBC last night. I thought that was a conservative run station, and probably it is (I don’t watch enough of it to be sure), but this guy, Keith Olbermann, was talking about She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named* last night, and her latest desperate plea for attention…and I agreed with him. Of course, nothing that she has done lately has changed my opinion of her in the least, because I HATE HER and I think she is EVIL and surely has 6-6-6 tattooed on the underside of her tongue (as well as the inside of her eyelids), but maybe, just maybe, this time she has gone too…
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I Voted….Did You?
Several states around the nation are having primary elections today. We just went and voted (not for Arnie, in case you’re wondering…), and boy, the turnout was BAD. We were voters #12 and #13 for the day, so far. Ted got to try some fancy new computerized system, and I had to do a provisional ballot, because I requested an absentee ballot, but then forgot to fill it out and send it in (and I also lost it…). So at least we provided a little bit of excitement for the folks at the community center. 🙂 If you haven’t voted yet, and you’re in a state holding elections today, get…
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Go Ask Alice?
I was talking to my niece recently, who is just finishing up her freshman year of High School. She was reading “Go Ask Alice“. Did any of you read these fake annonymous books back in the day? Remember the horror with which you followed her decent from a ‘good girl’ to a ‘druggie’, remember how quickly it seemed to all go wrong? I never read “My Name is Davy, and I’m an Alcoholic“, but I’m assuming it’s pretty similar in that way, as was the anorexia horror, “Goodbye, Paper Doll“. What is it about teenagers that makes them so fascinated with reading about others who are dealing with tragedy? Books…
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Virginity
For some reason this story reminded me of a question I asked my mom when I was about 7 or 8. I had been arguing with my best friend, Amy Derocher (I just realized I have no idea how to spell her last name), whose parents were pretty religious by our heathen standards, and I came into the house to settle the matter. Went and found my mom, who was taking a bath. Me: “Mom, do you have to be a virgin to get married?” Mom: “No.” Me: “Are you sure?” Mom: “Yes, I’m sure.” Me: “How can you be sure?” Mom: “Well, I wasn’t a virgin when I got…
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Money money money….
Now that I’m working from home, I am even more horrified by the number of charities and political calls that we receive than I was before. We are on the “Do Not Call” registry, so we don’t get the sales calls, but charities and politicians are exempt from the rules, there. Part of me would LOVE to give them all some money. They are all worthwhile organizations, out there doing good work. But I have a couple of issues. What percentage of the money I donate goes to the telemarketer? I have read that for some of these charities, 75%-80% of the money goes to the expense of raising the…
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Why I LOVE me an Angry Black Bitch Once in Awhile
Because I have this thought in the back of my head, which goes something like, “Why would we want a Constitutional Amendment outlawing Gay Marriage, which will be overturned someday when our ideas of Civil Rights are a bit more defined and humane, and when we have bigger fish to fry?”, and she writes this, which talks about so much more…about how our Congress is a bunch of mamby pamby asshats that worry too much about stupid shit and not enough about REAL issues. Like poverty. Like health care. Like education. Here’s a quote of her brilliance: “Tell me how a bitch prepares to look the desperate, denied, hungry and…
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Proof of the Apocolypse:
Noam Chomsky talking at West Point on CSPAN2. Never thought I would see that. Yet there it was on Monday night TV. (It was on Book TV, which won’t come up right now, so I can’t find out if there’s a link to the actual show or not. Like you’d want to watch it, I know. It was classic Chomsky, though, which is always interesting.) Proof I married well: When the cadet goes up and gives Chomsky a gift at the end of his talk, Ted says, “What if it’s the user manuel to his car?” HA!
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Time for the Ego
In a complete 180 from yesterday’s post, today I’m thinking of ways to improve myself, in very superficial ways. So, first, I want to stop eating like a wolf. I used to eat very slowly, chewing my food complelety before swallowing. If I didn’t chew all of the way, it would kind of make me sick. Then I had a child. And every time you want to eat, they need something. And she had colic, so we had to take turns eating while the other one held a screaming baby. After months of colic and years of a child needing you 24 hours a day, I turned into a wolfer.…
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What’s W doing at Mom 101’s Blog?
Looks like he took over for a few minutes and did a meme. Mom 101, I hope they didn’t ship you off to Gitmo while he worked on this! ‘Cause you know, it probably took him quite awhile!
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Yeah, that will work….
Well, Wisconsin is pretty and green, I’ve heard they have some mighty nice cheese, and you can probably find a condo there for under 500K, but this is crazy. For those of you (and you know who you are!) getting your news from this site, the governor of Wisconsin has decided that it should be LAW that sex ed teachers need to emphasize abstinence over all other forms of birth control. …teachers must emphasize that refraining from sex before marriage is the most effective way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. A spokesman for the governor, a Democrat, said most Wisconsin school districts already take that approach. I wonder…
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What’s Wrong With These Glasses?
If you’re saying that there are no frames holding the lenses onto the face, you’re correct…almost. They are attached through the bridge of her nose…you pierce the bridge of your nose and put a tiny wire through and that holds them. I can’t imagine much more disgusting than that. If you want to read more about this horrid (wonderful?) idea, click here. (The part of me that remembers people complaining about the pain of glasses and earrings in 30 below weather wonders what a piercing right there would feel like, too…ugh.) I’ve thought about getting the surgery on my eyes, so I won’t need my contacts anymore…I get so tired…
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Much More Disturbing….
My mother-in-law and I went to see a movie this weekend, Water, that was the saddest movie I have ever seen. I came home wanting to see something cheerful and uplifting, like maybe, Romeo and Juliet. Madame Butterfly. You know, comedy. Water takes place in India in 1938, and is about the 2,000 year old custom of how widows are discarded after their husbands die. The main character is an 8 year old girl, Chuyia, who doesn’t even remember getting married. She is brought to an ashram and left there by her father. She is scared and confused, and convinced that her mother will be coming to get her soon.…
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Guyanese Proverbs…
After yesterday’s recipe, I started thinking about the culture of Guyana. I’ve never been there, and I cannot claim to be any sort of authority on it at all. BUT, I can say that there are some pretty interesting expressions/proverbs. My personal favorite, especially when Ted says it while doing his best Bill Clinton impression (Don’t forget the little gesture with your hand, like you’re putting your ATM card into the machine), is this one: “When mattie’s house afire, trow watah upon you’un” Literally translated: “When your neighbor’s house is on fire, throw water upon your own” I love that in Bill’s voice. I think Bill should go down to…
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What’s Wrong with America?
If we were to take a poll today, my 4 loyal readers, and ask people, “What is the greatest challenge facing the United States today?”, what do you think the answer would be? Would it be terrorism? The war in Iraq? The ignored war in Afghanistan? The ‘homosexual agenda’? Godlessness? Racism so deeply ingrained, we may never be free from its ugly grasp? Maybe infrastructure, or how Americans are working harder than ever and losing ground in so many areas? I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and say, Poverty. Poverty is the root of SO many problems in our country, that if we, the richest country in the…