“Official: Even chimps in tutus can be vicious.“Anytime I hear about stuff like this it makes me all cranky and pissed off. Please people, it’s inhumane to take a wild animal and subject it to tutu’s and diapers for your own enjoyment and pleasure. Gross.
Speaking of chimpanzees. I cannot believe that NY Post published THAT cartoon. Even more ballsy was their apology: “There are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past – and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback. To them, no apology is due. Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon — even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.” Ugh.
There is a whole site devoted to Asian jokes. Don’t ask me how I found this, but here it is. I was expecting to laugh as much as I did when I first saw this blog but ended up so sad when I realized that so many stereotypes applied to me.
C’mon Mark Zuckerberg, people inherently don’t trust people who say “trust us.” The world calls bullshit on your stealthy under the radar changes in Facebook’s Terms of Service.
Watching this once will make you think that you are really quite normal. Any more than that and you’ll start thinking WTF?!?
Despite the feeling of ‘love’ in the air, the world was not devoid of lows:
Okay, even though I waxed poetic about the Charles and Emma kind of love, Darwin was not perfect. Like any scientist, when he was considering the pros and cons of marriage, he wrote it down in a list called, “Marry. Not Marry. This is the question.” Highlights from the marriage pros: “… better than a dog anyhow.”
Most folks dream of getting married someday. But Bacon reader, Jennifer Lou points out that in some countries marriage is being utilized as a means to oppress women and molest children.
And oh God, watching these parents pimp out their teen-aged kids to The Sun is a new low. Teen pregnancies happen all of the time but what parent would allow their kid to pose for a photo shoot to be on the cover of that rag?
But let’s leave this post on a high note, shall we? Check out this cutie pie duo called Pomplamoose:
First week of February lows. Full moon tomorrow and the forecast predicts snow. Doublay-UGH!
I take full responsibility for my weight issues. With that in mind, I do believe that the food industry’s marketing machine is really, really powerful. Let us hope to God this picture was not taken at a high school. Coffee? Check. Pizza? Check. Red Bull? Check.
In a post-recession/pre-depression scramble (no pun intended), Denny’s Restaurant chain decide to give away free grand slam breakfasts to EVERYONE. Read this account of 5 breakfasts in 4 hours. I think I baby barfed.
I was “outed” at work. As you know, I started working amongst the masses again. I’m glad to have a couple of friends that work there already but one of them (you know who you are) “outed” my blog. She did it because she’s really proud of me and was bragging about my journey (she is way too generous when she talks about it). But now, when I am walk down the hallways amongst the sea of cubicles, I catch myself thinking stuff like, “some of these people know how much I weigh or that my childhood was jacked up or that my first drug experience was mushrooms.” It’s one thing to quietly write your thoughts down in the confines of the kitchen, but it’s quite another thing to put yourself in a situation where people now know more about you than you know about them. I’m okay with it, but it’s still weird.
Why the media love/hate affair with Sarah Palin? Let’s not ever talk about her again. Seriously. Never. Again. P.S. To CNN Talking Head: Aerial killing is waaayy different than hunting on foot. Imagine someone hunting YOU on foot. Now imagine someone hunting you from a helicopter. Which would you rather have?
If you are experiencing this message when checking out my site. Sorry. I experienced it too. CNN wrote an update on my progress and I’ve had a flood of new visits. After reading the article that Elizabeth Landau wrote, I started thinking about all the things that I say on my blog and whether or not I’ll ever regret them. For the most part, I think the answer is “no.” But there are definitely times when I cringe at my videos and think that I sound like I am drinking the koolaid and completely full of myself. Believe me, I am not taking this too seriously at all, but I am having fun.
On a video that Giyen Kim recently posted on iReport.com about her frustration with trying to lose weight, one user commented, “Who cares how much you have lost you are still a fat a**. Stop eating and go to the gym.”
In the past, Kim might have cried and turned to a pint of ice cream for comfort, she reflected. But this time, she hit the gym — a reaction she views as a revelation.
Yes I did say that. But why? I have no idea.
See #3? Now people will imagine me running to a pint of Ben and Jerry’s every time they say something I don’t want to hear. Or even worse, they might rush to hide their ice cream from the community kitchen or walk on eggshells when mentioning the dairy delight.
To round this list out with something happy. I can hardly stand how much I love this song (I think I’ve mentioned it already). I found it through Dana Loesch’s blog called Mamalogues:
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