Stuff&Junk

The Strange Art of Blogging

2009-03-11T23:43:00.000-07:00

This is just a little commentary. If you blog, you may have written a post you think is totally exciting and will just invite floods of comments. You check it constantly, expecting those comments. You get nada. You write a post that is just kinda silly and you get a million comments.

I thought my last Scientology blog post would be super exciting. Anyone comment? Nope.

Life's funny that way.

Puppy

2009-02-06T08:05:00.000-08:00

I don't know if I've already mentioned this and I'm too lazy to really look. I got a puppy a few months ago. He's freaking adorable. I've never owned a dog before, so this is a new experience. It's amazing how much joy a dog has. Anyway, I'm showing him off in the picture below:

Show me the Funny!

2008-10-01T15:18:00.000-07:00

I found some funny stuff online:

Phelps facts are as funny as Norris facts, but hotter.

Great haiku thread

Comics for all

Rather twisted (but still funny) comics

Temple of Science

2008-09-29T15:22:00.000-07:00

I ran into this really interesting yahoo! article today. It's about a scientist who is trying to close the gap between religion and science. Check it out and let me know what you think about what he's trying to do. I, personally, think it's pretty rad.

The Right for Women to Vote

2008-09-05T14:47:00.001-07:00

A friend emailed me this touching story, and I thought I'd pass it on here. It's a good, if graphic, reminder to all women just what was done to establish their right to vote only 100 years ago:

"This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers,
as they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that
women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were
jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs
asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went
on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing
sidewalk traffic.'

They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above
her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an
iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought
Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits
describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming,
pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the
warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to
teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared
to picket Woodrow Wilson 's White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail.
Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one
of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her
to a chair, forced a tube Down her throat and poured liquid into her until
she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was
smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year
because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to
work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's
new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle
these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling
booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion.
But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more
rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege.
Sometimes it was inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's
history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to
talk about it, she looked angry She was--with herself. 'One thought
kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 'What
would those women think of the way I use--or don't use--my right
to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women,
but those of us who did seek to learn.' The right to vote, she said,
had become valuable to her 'all over again.'

HBO released the movie on video and DVD. I wish all history,
social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their
curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else
women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we
are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little
shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to
persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could
be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor
refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her
crazy.

The doctor admonished the men:
'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know.

We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for
by these very courageous women. Whether you vote Democratic, Republican or
Independent - remember to vote.

History is being made."

Fail Blog Photos

2008-09-02T15:58:00.000-07:00

Okay, I saw these and died laughing:

(oops... I hope they don't really mean that)

see more pwn and owned pictures
(I know real estate is having problems, but this is a little much)

(This might work... if the string goes somewhere)

Interesting Video by a Brain Scientist

2008-09-01T23:39:00.000-07:00

Not for Anyone Who Gets Offended by the Word A**

2008-08-22T01:08:00.000-07:00

Check this video out:

The Responsibility Project

2008-08-17T19:35:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine forwarded me this link to something called The Responsibility Project. I thought it was pretty neat, so I'm sharing it with you.

China Revokes Human Rights Activist's Visa

2008-08-06T09:42:00.000-07:00

I just read an article that frankly pissed me off. Chine has revoked the visa of Joey Cheek - an Olympic gold medalist and human rights activists. Apparently, though China doesn't need an official reason to revoke any visa, Joey has been speaking out against human rights violations in Darfur that China was involved in - and that was too much for the Chinese government.

Maybe instead of sitting on their high horse, the Chinese government should take a look at their country, at their actions, and see what they are doing to their own people - as well as other people. They are polluting their own drinking water - do they need an epidemic like the London cholera situation to set them straight? They have incredibly polluted air - do they need people to die from pollution or asphyxiation to change this? They inflict human rights violations - do they need the whole world to shut them out to realize how wrong this is?

I'm not too thrilled at having the Olympics in China anyway, but I think they've taken it too far with Joey Cheek. What's your take on this?

Funny Graphs

2008-07-22T14:02:00.000-07:00

more graph humor and song chart memes

more graph humor and song chart memes

more graph humor and song chart memes

Funny Picture Roundup

2008-07-20T15:22:00.000-07:00

more graph humor and song chart memes

more graph humor and song chart memes

Awesome Radio Program

2008-07-03T17:08:00.000-07:00

My friend recommended an excellent radio program called X Minus One. It's so cool! It's got old 50's radio programs, they are so fun! I'm listening to one show right now. :)

Blockbuster Gets Strict

2008-06-26T13:18:00.001-07:00

Cat Lover

2008-06-25T09:02:00.000-07:00

This guy loves his cats:

Sad but True

2008-06-24T13:27:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted on here for a while, I know. I was waiting to find something truly fantastic to write about - not just the fact that it was 103 degrees at my house last week. I finally found that cool, funny, poignant (?) thing that I simply had to post about. Here it is, courtesy of Pundit Kitchen:

(so sad but true - it's $4.59 out here!)

and this:

(Maybe gas is expensive, but at least I don't get these)

and this:

(That makes sense! Finally, I know how they determine the price of gas)

Paranoid Seal

2008-05-15T13:17:00.000-07:00

Is paranoid :)

Dilbert... How I Love Thee...

2008-05-01T12:49:00.001-07:00

Metallica's Really Creepy Music Video

2008-04-28T13:28:00.001-07:00

Believe it or not, I had never seen the music video for "One" by Metallica until Saturday night, when my boyfriend showed it to me. We checked it out because it's the topmost popular Metallica music video on iTunes.
The video's got the song and shots of band members rocking out with interposed pictures and audio clips from the movie "Johnny Got His Gun". If you ever need an anti-war anthem and music video, check this out:

How chilling and downright awful is that? In some ways, I'd like to see the whole movie, but really I'm not sure if I'd be able to deal with such a horrifying situation - a situation that really could happen and probably has happened.

My Rolling Sauna

2008-04-28T13:25:00.000-07:00

Okay, I live in LA... but it's HOT outside. On Weds it was mid to upper 60's. Today it's close to 100 outside, which means inside my car (affectionately dubbed "the rolling sauna") it's 110.

Kitteh Sonnet

2008-04-25T14:48:00.000-07:00

I got this LOLz sonnet from Making Light

I in ur sonnet, doin ur ritin.
How do this hapn? I just a kitty.
Main job of catz are just 2B pritty!
(‘Cept with the doggies, then us be fitin.)
Course back in da old days catz was workin
Eatin ur mouses an axin fr milk…
Now giv me treatz or me clawin ur silk!
An bring em here fast, none of ur shirkin.
U humanz r comin under r powr
Uzin ur money to pamper n feed us,
Learnin from websitez how much u need us.
R clvr planz is comin to flower!
Now mousie are safe in his tiny holz
Nless u go catch him. I da boss. LOLz

Sad but True

2008-04-18T22:28:00.001-07:00

see more crazy cat pics

Two Great Bands

2008-04-09T10:12:00.000-07:00

I just discovered the Flobots who I've decided I love. They are kinda a modern Rage Against the Machine, in that they are rather political.

Also, I have fallen in love with Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight cd because of the two (also rather political) songs: "What I've Done" and "Hands Held High".

I'm excited to see artists trying to raise awareness of the situations going on around the planet.

(04/10/08) Another awesome band is Death Cab for Cutie. Their new album Narrow Stairs is out on May 13th and I'm really excited. I just heard their single "I Will Possess Your Heart" on Indie 103.1 this morning and I love it.

The Taxman and the Sign of the Devil

2008-04-08T13:39:00.001-07:00

I have been chuckling ever since my taxes. Not my normal reaction to be sure, but the money I just mailed in to the state tax collector and the federal tax collector equal 666. That makes me chuckle a little. :)

Best Depiction of Girl from the Ring EVER

2008-04-07T16:25:00.000-07:00

see more crazy cat pics