Bush was Warned about Hurricane Katrina

What’s My Age Again?

Today was a random and amusing day.

While waiting at the bus stop downtown, a guy who had thrown his cigarette butt into the landscaped side of a Portland State building started a mini-brush fire. Well, it wasn’t really a fire–not yet anyway. It was more like a gentle smoldering that emitted a lot of smoke.

When I first arrived at the bus stop and noticed the smoke, I went over and tried to stamp it out with my feet. Then the guy who was apparently the cause of the incident, showed up and said, “Yah, don’t worry. I just talked to the firemen down the street. They are going to swing by with a bucket of water,” and then added nonchalantly, “hmm…looks like it could get serious.”

The culprit ended up boarding the number 12 bus with me, leaving behind his potential fire. When we drove by the fire station, I saw the firemen outside, enjoying the sunshine and washing their truck, apparently oblivious to the horrible potential danger down the street from them.

Later that day, Mike and I went to the opening of a new vegan BBQ restaurant. Well, it wasn’t really a restaurant, more like a few picnic tables and a huge grill set up in a once vacant plot of land on Alberta street. While we were gobbling down our  BBQ Tempeh, Spicy Soy Curls Pita Sandwich, and “Mac and No Cheese,” a gentleman came strolling down the street, loudly and proudly singing the lyrics to that classic song, “What’s My Age Again?,” by Blink 182. He had ear-buds in, so he apparently had no idea what he sounded like or how loudly he was singing. It was by far one of the most amusing and entertaining 30 seconds I have ever experienced.

After we got lost at The City of Books, we came home and clipped off the flight feathers of our pet chickens. Have I mentioned lately how much I love Portland???

Oh, and to top it off, I found this:

Swine Flu?

I am watching Janet Napolitano on CNN news, and on the bottom of the screen it reads:

PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARED

20 swine flu cases in the U.S.

You have got to be kidding me. “Public Health Emergency?!?!”

1260 people die a day from heart attacks!!

115 people die a day from car accidents!!

45 people are murdered every day!!

….and twenty cases of a curable flu is considered a public health emergency?!?

This is exactly why I don’t watch television anymore. Our government and media are RIDICULOUS.

Green Porno

“Green Porno” is a series about the reproductive habits of insects acted out by Isabella Rossellini.

It is sexy, hilarious, educational, and a tad bit disturbing—a lovely combination of my favorite four things! Check out youtube.com for more.

You Decide

Is the world really this crazy or has journalism really gotten this bad?

Headlines!

February 3rd, 2009

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Want Party To Be More Like Palin

Joe The Plumber Now Advising Republican Party

Phelps’ Sponsors Sticking With Him After Bong Photo

Worker At Salmonella-Infested Peanut Plant Talks: ‘I Saw A Rat Dry-Roasting In The Peanuts’

Random Porn Clip Interrupts Super Bowl Coverage, Shocks Viewers

Miley Cyrus’ slant-eye pose slammed by Asian group

And drumroll for winner headline of the day….

Healthy kidney removed through donor’s vagina

Why living with lots of people can be amusing

8 Reasons I Don’t Like Barnes & Noble

1. “Sold out” of the book I was looking for. Typical.

2. Carry only ONE August Wilson play. (?!?!?)

3. Freaking. Expensive.

4. Tried to get me to sign up for a Barnes & Noble card by enticing me with 10% off of their cookies and cheesecake.

5. Bookshelves upon bookshelves dedicated to Self Improvement, Diet, Bargon Books, and Traveling, and only one bookshelf dedicated to Theatre and Poetry.

6. Worst. Organization. Ever.

7. Starbucks inside.

8. 10% off cookies and cheesecake!

The ID “Debate”

As a future educator, this makes me very sad. And very angry.

Reclaiming Cunt

You know what they say– all press is good press!

I think it is hilarious that the words used in “The Vagina Monologues” are still causing such a ruckus–even in the year 2008! What is ridiculous is that Fonda used the ::gasp:: “C-WORD” in complete context–she was simply naming the monologue she was asked to perform, she was not using it in a profane way. Yet everyone FLIPPED out. Common, people!

Language is all about context, and Fonda was completely appropriate: words do not hold inherent power, only so much as we give them power. And we have the power to change the meaning of a word if we want to, because language is dynamic, not static! This is the very pointof the monologue itself! The short monologue, written in a sensual slam-poet type of way, is an empowering piece that shifts the negative connotation away from the word and moves it into a place of profound acceptance and ownership; the piece is called “Reclaiming Cunt.” Maybe instead of freaking out and apologizing to the viewers which only perpetuated the dirtiness of the word, a conversation could have started about why Eve wrote the piece, and its important and powerful purpose in our culture.
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The actress used the four-letter c-word for a woman’s anatomy on the show Thursday while talking about the play “The Vagina Monologues.” Fonda, 70, is appearing in a 10th-anniversary performance.

Fonda said she was asked to perform a monologue with the slang term for vagina as the title — and she used the term itself on the air. She said her reply was, “I don’t think so. I’ve got enough problems.”

About 10 minutes later, “Today” co-host Meredith Vieira told viewers that “Today” and Fonda apologized for the remark.

NBC News has recently apologized for comments made by Chris Matthews and David Shuster

–Associated Press
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