Read all about it Or, maybe it is...having never grown up in cold enviros, what does either Marla or Michela know about pond ice. But even we SoCali girls know; only 24 days of frigid weather?...probably t'ain't nuff to go ice skating. We thinks the kid on the 3-wheeler didn't know he was driving onto ice, it is hard to see sometimes. But the 44 year old ought to have taken his little girl to the ice rink, not the semi-frozen pond. We just don't get it sometimes.

Read all about it Anti-abortion whacknuts want to fly pictures of aborted fetuses over the beaches of Hawaii. They claim it's unfair to restrict their 'free speech' by not allowing airborne advertising. M mm mmm.

Forget that Walmart hires walking brainstems to scan those little pencil looking bars across the blinking red thingie (the best explanation a Walmart clerk can give you for what their job is), forget that Walmart packs their aisles so full of junk you can scarcely maneuver around the five-fat-kid-family to retrieve your toothpaste, forget that the store layouts make as much sense as the mazes used by scientists to confuse genetically dumbed down rats, they sell crap. CRAP. My Ma (the best Ma in the whole wide world [and a reader of this blog eh-hem, eh-hem)]) was kind enough to buy me a set of sheets after my flood (all you people rolling your eyes and saying oh JEE-suss, not the fucking FLOOD again! go to hell, ko?). Those sheets were 300 thread count. They're sandpaper, I tell you, sandpaper. I've got 250 count sheets that feel better after a day at the beach. Further, they are bleaching out with each wash. They have big white spots all over, as though I washed them in bleach. I don't even own a bottle of bleach. I don't bleach anything. It's just the crap dye used in the crap sheets. AND, they do not even fit my pillow top mattress. Is there any mattress on this green earth that is not a pillowtop besides the po' college student Futon? Anyway, Walmart, they sell crap. CRAP. If you wanna save 5 cents on your toilet paper, go ahead. In the meantime, I'm going to TARGET!

I sat through this whole movie without even pestering anybody for the time. And that is saying a lot for a movie that has very little action, no sex, and the flat, desolate Kansas landscape as its central exterior backdrop. I'm late with this endorsement, it's playing in few theaters now. But if you want to see one of the best acting performances of this decade, I urge you to see this flick. One thought crossed my mind watching this movie, having read both To Kill a Mockingbird (written by Harper Lee) and In Cold Blood (written, of course, by Capote; the creation of which is the central focus of the movie)... what were the chances two of the greatest witers in the history of the universe would grow up next door to each other? This film depicts the close relationship between Harper Lee and Capote, friends since childhood. Capote never finished another novel of any sort after In Cold Blood, and Lee never wrote another novel after To Kill A Mockingbird. Capote's finality we toss off to alcoholic insanity...Lee? Mockingbird is one of the greatest books ever written. Is it possible it was written by Capote? Why would such an amazing author never produce another work whatsoever? Even Capote produced flashes of genius through his alcholic fogs (Answered Prayers). Just a thought.

I hear the Catholic Church is upping the training on exorcims. I think I need one here, very badly! The Anti-cat: The Anti-dog:

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Read all about it If the ex dies, Michela is goin' ta jail, there's no doubt about it. Hopefully he's back to hiding out in his hole, safely tucked away from random gunfire, sharp knives, and cut brake lines on steep hills. However, this story is somewhat unique in that this picture of perfect mental health (the murderer) married a psychologist (the murder-ee) who had drugged and raped her at 16. What the? And then he abused her from ages 22 through 47. What the? Further, he had a long history of mental illness. And she didn't? This marriage sounds like a knife fight waiting to happen. Mine on the other hand...well... half the drama and twice the sanity. I'd have no defense man, no defense.

UCLA Medical Research A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle. For instance, if she is ovulating she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating, or menopausal, she is more prone to be attracted to a man with scissors lodged in his temple and a bat jammed up his ass while he is on fire. Further studies are expected.

Read all about it A great deal of history and architecture in Mississippi and Louisiana has been lost, but they can rebuild it and preserve at least the former, if not the latter. German cities were reconstructed to mirror their pre-allied bombing conditions, architecture, and city plans. When you stroll through Munich, the buildings just ooze Ye Olde Deutschland, and the Germans are proud that they were able to preserve, in a strange sort of way, their histories. This is also what the South must do.

Read all about it It is feared that 50,000 people will have died from this earthquake by the time the bodies can all be counted. All the hand-wringing and sky-high death predictions of New Orleans don't shake a stick to figures like that, and, they turned out to be more false than the Pamela Anderson's body parts. This looks to be real. Dire and real. The similarly sized San Francisco quake (click now to read about it) killed about 60 people. The only thing that separates Loma Prieta, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Pakistan is a capitalist society, judeo-christian values and a kind nod to twentieth century progress. Countries like Pakistan who insist on living in ancient history, including a dark-ages approach to learning, religious bigotry, and male/female roles will be damned to the rubble of their pre-historic societies. It's not with a cold heart I say such things; it's with certain sadness to realize that people will trade the lives and futures of their children in for their outdated ideals.