broke arm blog

this blog has been neglected because i broke my arm recently. i'm back now, and to get us up to speed i thought i'd share a few things i've been thinking about while resting and healing in my igloo:

if ingesting silver made you look like papa smurf wouldn't you stop ingesting it?

effective advertising = song stuck in my head (girl and clothes are gorge, right?)

i'm learning french - slowly. i still sound silly. i'm starting to read french well…ok, ok, i just read 'decent.' there are still so many words i don't know, but its true that picking up a word and a phrase a day works well. i've made some french friends, including mondrian. i've been listening to their songs a lot lately. my ears like them. check them out, your ears might like them as well...

not to freak you out or anything, but you really need to read THIS and consider how and why you submit. it's a question i think we all need to pose, and hey, it's winter so we have some extra thinking time on our hands...

effective advertising = drool…

my friends grandmother recently suggested he consider joining the military. after we laughed for, like, five minutes, we talked about all the young people who are mislead by our government's recruitment efforts. the TRUTH isn't being told, yo…

ron paul, allegedly, is a racist. the gaybashers can claim obama and now the american national socialist workers party is claiming that ron is a big-time white nationalist. are we shocked? are outraged? aren't we the same country that had trent lott in a position of authority for years?

i will share more original thoughts with you tomorrow...

p.s. the EMPIRE is striking back.

just think of the time i'll save

my christmas list is very short. it began with two items: a cruiser bike and a muppets calendar for 2008. i already got the cruiser bike (thanks nick), so i think it is ok for me to add one more item: the douche card. for a mere 5 dollars i can save myself time and hassle by handing the douchebags of the world a card that says it all for me. brilliant!

product description: "Tired of arguing with complete morons? Tired of getting into bar room brawls? Well now avoid the confrontation with our glorious Douche Card. Simply hand it to the asshole in question and walk away. Problem solved."

each set comes with 25 cards ($5), but i think i need two sets of cards since there are a lot of douchebags in this world...

it's cold outside, so i made you soup...

...internet soup, that is. but if you'd like to get some real soup, HERE is a great minestrone recipe (photo).

the big gay sketch comedy show has a video online entitled; "lesbian phone sex". check it out. (heads up by feministing).

there have been a lot of gun stories in the news the past couple of days, right? a woman brings a loaded, semi-automatic weapon into disney world (of all places), and in colorado a mega church and a mall are shot up.

people be getting STRESSED out around christmas time, right? it happens every year. bill mckibben from grist magazine wrote a nice piece called, "the problem with christmas", that resonated with me. i haven't had a christmas tree up in years and for a blah second i thought i might change that this year and have a christmas tree, but nah...i mean bah...

alternet, as always, has some great articles up right now that are worth reading. "'guiliani time: just when you thought you knew how evil he is" needs to be required reading - everyone needs to know his insane hatred and evil doings towards non-whites and poor people. he is, after all, running for president. also on the required list is an article about how bush is launching a new program that will spy on you more, but this time you will be spied on by private security contractors. if you don't know what the nsa is, you must learn and then go on to find out about the nao. go on, destroy your sense of privacy.

lastly, the onion has an article about an important new report that shows 32% of people in the united states are still not famous. seriouslies, what the fuck is wrong with you losers?

let her STARVE if she wants to

last night i was exposed to cable television. it's a lot of nothing, isn't it? i flipped through the channels and came across a 'documentary' about victoria beckham. i've always had a soft spot in my heart for the spice girls and victoria (aka "posh") in particular, so i decided to give it my time and attention.

after wasting more than 20 minutes of my life i concluded that this documentary, "what's eating victoria beckham?", is not a really documentary - unless you count e's "true hollywood stories" a real documentary. what garbage! first of all, i feel sorry for anyone who has unflattering photos shared with others and people from their past talking shit about them on the telly. it really is in bad taste. second of all, why waste so much time on her eating habits when there are STARVING children all over the world. she's a grown woman and a wealthy woman too! if she doesn't eat or hardly eats, why is it any stranger's business? she makes her own decisions. she can afford food. if her health is truly in jeopardy, it would be her friends and family that would intervene, rather than strangers who saw her on the telly or read all about her life in some tabloid rag. so what is the point of this rather than the exploitation of a public figure for another's gain, and the propagation of a culture that is far too celebrity obsessed to begin with?

what a trite time waster. we need more documentaries about people who are starving due to circumstances rather than unbelievably wealthy people who we "fear are starving themselves." priority check, yo. priority check.

worst blog ever

i used to think that when a person got older their taste in music would become conservative, more musiak, if you will. yet, i have found that my taste in music is only becoming louder, crunchier, and far more experimental as i age. who the hell knew?

i used to think the when a person got older their heart would become smarter, more cautious, if you will. yet, i found that my heart is just as fucking dumb and reckless now as it was when i was 13. who the hell knew?

as we age the only thing we really know is that when it comes down to it, we don't know SHIT.

"and how was your day, dear?"

i had an interesting juxtapose today, sweetie. earlier today i got word that the adoption of a dog i took in a year ago was finalized. i took her in to foster her after she had surgery and months later i decided that i was the best person for her. we've been very happy together for a year now, and she truly is my best girl. i was estatic about the adoption being official, only to be asked a few hours later to work on a case of dogs being decipated and strangled in bolivia (*warning, this video is graphic).

supporters of the bolivian president held a protest where they said their opposition would "die like dogs" if the situation escalated. sadly, they choose to further make this point by strangling two dogs and then decipating them.

i asked a friend to translate the video for me and after viewing it she explained to me that "die like a dog" is an old saying. che guevara's enemies warned him that he would "die like a dog" and when he was found he told them that he was not a dog, he was a man, and he would die like a man. whether a dog is being killed or a man is being killed, they're both feeling beings. they feel death, strangulation, and decipation. it is this "saying" and heinious acts such as this that needs to die.

luckily the world reacted to these acts of incredibly cruelty and the reaction caused the bolivian administration to act quickly. in an interview that came out this morning the vice president of bolivia, alavro garcia linera, spoke out act these acts and stated that the administration is urging congress to pass an animal welfare ordinance that will prevent something like this from happening again.

i'm not sharing my day with you because i want you to watch that disgusting video, or because i want to whine about my day and bum you out. i'm sharing this with you because i want to show you an example of how people's voices can result in compassionate change. silence will not save anyone.

even if you are busy you can still make a big difference for dogs. it can be as easy as sending out an email or making a phone call and it IS effective because you are adding your voice to a choir, and the louder we get the more change we will see in this world. please visit www.helpinganimals.com for more information and to start speaking out.