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Alanis Morissette

I've been enjoying this video lately. I LOVE ALANIS. I can't get enough. I've always hated that "My Hump" song. It caused me to go from liking the Black Eyed Peas to disliking them. Aparently Alanis didn't think the song was that great either, hence the parody.

You gotta be freeking kidding me!

Illinois police arrest teen after teacher "disturbed" by essay

By Jeff Long and Carolyn Starks
Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Told to express emotion for a creative-writing class, high-school senior Allen Lee penned an essay so disturbing to his teacher, school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct, officials said Wednesday.

Lee, 18, a straight-A student at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Ill., was arrested Tuesday near his home and charged with the misdemeanor for an essay that police described as violently disturbing but not directed toward any specific person or location.

Continue story at the Seattle Times Website

This is an example of overreacting. This kid instructed to write a FICTIONAL essay. He wrote one. His teacher had him arrested. The kid should have been commended for creating such a strong reaction with his FICTION.

There is NOTHING that this straight-A student could have written in a fiction essay that warranted this kind of response. How disgusting. The teacher should immediately be fired, along with anyone who colluded with him.

What the hell is this world coming to?

Charlie The Unicorn

When you're down and you're looking for some cheering up
Then just head right on up to the Candy Mountain Cave
When you get inside you'll find yourself a cheery land
Such a happy and joy-filled and perky merry land
They've got lollypops and gummy drops and candy things
Oh so many things that will brighten up your day
It's impossible to wear a frow in Candy Town
It's the mecca of lovely Candy Cave
They've got jelly beans and coconuts with little hats
Candy Rats, Chocolate Bats it's a wonderland of sweets
Ride the candy train to town and hear the candy band
Candy Bells it's a treat as they march across the land
Cherry ribbons stream across the sky and to the ground
Turn around, it astounds! It's a dancing candy tree
And the candy cave's imagination runs so free
So now Charlie Please will you go into the cave!

What the hell?

photo by demedulce at flickr

This lady is nuts

courtesy of Obstinate.org

This is what's wrong with people. This is that same sense of entitlement that pisses me off sooo much.

The lady..get this..CALLS THE COPS CUZ BURGER KING DIDN'T MAKE HER HAMBURGER RIGHT!!

Direct quotes from the recording...(which you can listen to for yourself at the link above)

Cop: Ma'am, I suggest you get your money back and go somewhere else. This is not a criminal issue. We can't go out there and make them make you a cheeseburger the way you want it.

Lady: Well, that is- that- You're supposed to be here to protect me!

Cop: What are we protecting you from? A wrong cheeseburger?

Lady: No!

Cop: Is this a harmful cheeseburger or something? I don't understand what you want us to do?

Check out what they're trying to do do Internet Radio. IMPORTANT

Mike Daisey Audience Protest, Walkout and Attack

Ok. This is terrible. I have never heard of Mike Daisey. He's pretty funny. The group walks out....

People think they have the right to not be offended. They do. However, they are in conrol of that. If you don't want to be offended. Don't go anywhere that might potentially expose you to offensive material. Stay in your house, turn off your TV, tape up your windows and exist there. Or, you might just decide that reality is going to have some offensive bits. DEAL WITH IT.

If you go to a show, you should a) know the show's content b) have respect for the performer.

It was absolutely inexcusable that someone destroyed his papers.

From what I gather, a high school choir group went to the show and their chaperone decided to leave due to the language. The chaperone is the one who poured water. Inexcusable behavior. Showing the kids that it was ok to do that, while protesting a performing artists language. The very DEFINITION of hypocrisy. If you are uninformed enough to take your innocent, virginal, raised-in-a-cave kids to a show with shocking foul language, and then realize your mistake, you should quietly get up and leave. When the artist asks what the heck is wrong, say:

"I made a mistake, I was not aware that this show would have such foul language. I cannot allow the children to see this sort of thing, I apologize for my rudeness, but if I don't leave, I'll be fired from my job."

Then perhaps you won't get people like me feeling that you are a pathetic loser with no redeemable qualities.

Thoughts on Virginia Tech Massacre

I work at a college paper. Tonight I went to a candlelight vigil in memory of those who died at Virginia Tech.

Hmm.

I guess I haven't really given it much thought. I hate to sound uncaring, but I think most people around here pretty much feel the same way. This affected almost no one around here directly. There was a good showing at the vigil, but there were no tears in evidence. Everyone showed up, did their moment of silence, prayers or whatever, then they left.

I took a few pictures for the paper. Then I left.

I gave it some thought on the way home.

To feel this sort of tragedy one needs to get into the victims. Needs to see them, hear them, feel them. Otherwise they're just characters in a tv show. Something that happened to other people. It loses it's reality.


Liviu Librescu and G.V. Loganathan


Ross Alameddine



Jamie Bishop


Maxine Turner



Professor Jocelyne Couture-Nowak


Nicole White


Henry J. Lee


There were many others. These people died. They're gone.

I kind of needed to put a face to these people. Make them real in some way. They look like people I might see, might know. They were having a good time when these pictures were taken. That's all I'll ever know of them.

They had parents, sisters and brothers, Husbands and wives, lovers and friends. Those people said goodbye to them that morning, that weekend, or even a month earlier and and knew with some certainty that they would see them again. They never will.

That sucks.

A lot.

Do you recognize this picture?



Lori Lewis-Rivera

She was the little sister of my first girlfriend. She was a little brat, like little sisters can be, but I remember her fondly. I used to hang out at her house constantly. I watched Labyrinth for the first time with her. She said I had to watch it, it was so good. It was...

She was killed by the Beltway Sniper in October of 2003. These things can hit home sometimes...