Animal House

A couple in New Mexico face animal cruelty charges after police found 118 animals in their home. Authorities found 102 cats, a pair of goats, a peacock, and an entirely new meaning to the term "crazy cat lady." (NBC)

Obama For Change??

OHIO: After being fired for pulling a KKK costume prank the day before Martin Luther King Jr. day, two troopers have won back their jobs...but probably not their presidential choice for year's election.(Associated Press- 11/5/2008)

Why D.A.R.E. doesn't work

When their children returned from Halloween trick-or-treating, a Ramsey couple found suspected methamphetamine, worth up to $200 on the street, and $85 in cash among their 7-year-old son's Snickers bars and Skittles. Sugar highs will no longer suffice for today's children.

Andy's Thoughts...or Something Like Them

I find the retro candy gift boxes amusing. What will be in the future’s retro candy gift box?
People call “There Will be Blood” the best movie of the year. Frankly I don’t see any movie with blood very great or beautiful.
If there is anything that everyone should have on their birthday it is a fudge birthday cake. I don’t see how anyone couldn’t find the fun in that.
Why would anybody buy cheese off the internet?
If there is anything a pet owner shouldn’t do to their pet it is making them wear silly costumes. Aren’t animals silly enough as it is?
If I had a child, which I never will of course, I would dress them up as Pooh Bear. Hell I will dress myself up as Pooh Bear. Nobody can say they don’t love Pooh.
It surprises me that anybody still wears a watch in this day and age. Are watches necessary? They definitely aren’t fashionable, no matter what color they come in.
This society sure is obsessed with candy. But I say, why not!?
Sometimes I wonder if books will someday be nonexistent. Why would people ever want to read books from a handheld computer? I suppose it’s just a matter of time before everything we know now goes digital. Such exciting times we live in!
Any woman in a costume looks beautiful. Beautiful is being ok with being somebody else sometimes.
There are so many exercise products with the word “perfect” in the name. Not everyone who exercises is perfect and just because you don’t exercise doesn’t’ mean you can’t be perfect. Everyone has potential for perfection and everyone should strive for it. Why else would you be here if you weren’t meant for perfection.
Perfect pull-up. Perfect Push-up. Perfect I don’t do much of anything and I am fabulous.

What Fun Cultural Music and Dance Can Be for a Tourist!

Why is it that in other countries besdies the US there are traditional music groups that both entertain the tourists and represent the country's heritage and culture? I can't help but become consumed with happiness and glee when I come across groups like these in other countries. Is it that we in America simply do not have a traditional music/dance that has the means to entertain foreigners, or do we just choose to not display it in parks, retaurants etc. Here I am in these pictures with examples of this form of art and tourist entertainment. Me with Polka dancers and players in Krakow, Poland. And also me with a traditional Mexican mariachi band in Puerto Vallarta. If only we Americans were proud enough to entertain streetwalkers and visitors to our nation with such a fun and historical form of art! I give a big BOO HOO to the seriousness of America's tourist entertainment.

Girls night goes surreal

So every Wednesday night my best girlfriend and I have what we like to call "Adventure Wednesday." Last Wednesday, there weren't many adventures going on, so we decided to lay low at my place. Before we knew it she, my husband, and myself had downed two bottles of wine and were loopy in the kitchen. And then it struck me and I exclaimed, "You guys I HAVE to show you what we watched in class this week!" I put down the Doritos, pulled out my laptop and searched "Un Chien Andalou" on youtube. If there was anytime to watch this film I thought, it was a time when one is under the influence of something. We watched all fifteen minutes or so of the film in silence. And when it was over we all just sat there staring at each other. I must admit I was pretty proud of myself for bringing that little piece of splendor to the table that night. We all love the film, although most of it makes no sense to us, but I would say I definetely added some adventure to our not-so-adventurous Wednesday this week.

Using Words is Everyday Life

FYI! I'm not a perv! I just google image searched the word scrabble and this came up! Ha! Sorry in advance if I offend anyone, but this picture is priceless!

Words. How would we live without them? Would it be possible to change the way we all communicate and eliminate words from our life? Words are such an overlooked aspect of our everyday, that even I, an english and literature nerd, failed to recognize the overlooked importance of words until I played Scrabble last night. If there is any game that relates to everyday life, it is Scrabble. No matter one's vocabulary skills and strengths, anybody who knows how to read can play Scrabble. Although it is to the player's advantage if they have an extensive vocabulary, the game process of placing the wooden letters on the board to form words is possible for a first grader, or a college grad.
I have a friend who I play the game with quite frequently. Sometimes we make up our own rules to allow slang, foreign language, or sometimes we play "dirty word" scrabble. Any way you play the game, whether you are following the directions to a tee, or making up your own rules, you are still playing a game that relates to our everyday life. It cannot be argued that words are a significant part of our life, and my favorite game, Scrabble, displays one of the most important aspects of the everyday.