Too lazy to write out long blog posts, too cantankerous to keep posting on facebook. Music-obsessed, lover of all animals (except for snakes), soccer player, oddly angry for a hippie and burner of the best mix cds ever.
Poison and Wine
Every single drawing I receive on Draw Something looks like a penis or some sort of freaky sex position. I got one today that I would have sworn was some sexual acrobatics and ended up being “Bagpipes”. I don’t know if this means I’m a secret pervert or what…
:(
Know where your food comes from. Demand that it enjoy a comfortable, healthy life before being slaughtered for you.
Or you know, like don’t eat animals and stuff :)
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Another day, another appalling undercover investigation from the Humane Society of the United States: The animal advocacy group has released evidence — and video footage — of pig abuse at a factory farm that allegedly is a supplier to Tyson Foods.
Video shot in April at the Wyoming Premium Farms facility in Wheatland shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls; swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs; striking mother pigs with their fists; and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.
A Tyson Foods spokesman denies the company buys directly from the farm:
Tyson Foods does not buy any of the hogs raised on this farm for our pork processing plants. … A company that we own has purchased hogs from the farm. We will not purchase from this farm until we’ve had a chance to investigate.
(Heads up — video contains graphic images of animal abuse.)
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Breaking News of the Day: Obama Backs Gay Marriage: [UPDATED] President Obama has publicly announced his support for gay marriage in an interview today with Robin Roberts. (Watch the video here.)
I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Obama, who is the first U.S. president to openly back gay marriage, had come under fire this week for remaining mum on the subject after Joe Biden and Arne Duncan publicly declared their support. The president’s announcement comes a day after North Carolina voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that bans marriage equality.
Obama’s interview will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday. Excerpts will air tonight on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rrnn1KlB1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Breaking News of the Day: Obama Backs Gay Marriage: [UPDATED] President Obama has publicly announced his support for gay marriage in an interview today with Robin Roberts. (Watch the video here.)
I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Obama, who is the first U.S. president to openly back gay marriage, had come under fire this week for remaining mum on the subject after Joe Biden and Arne Duncan publicly declared their support. The president’s announcement comes a day after North Carolina voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that bans marriage equality.
Obama’s interview will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday. Excerpts will air tonight on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer.
I have a very deep emotional relationship with cupcakes, of which Richard is aware due to my constant viewings of Cupcake Wars and repeated requests to drive 45 minutes to North Dallas so that I might purchase just one from Sprinkles.
During an all day trip to Dallas this weekend to look at furniture and basically get away from the countrified redneck-ness that is Fort Worth, Richard started GPS navigating to a “prospective neighborhood we might look at when we buy a house”. That neighborhood ended up being Sprinkles Cupcakes. I’d never been before, a fact that I mourned loudly and obnoxiously on a regular basis. So it was a big deal.
He even bought me two when I couldn’t decide what to get. They were both delicious, but getting surprised was the coolest part :)
Okay going to go vomit now. Sorry, that was gross.
The Landlord was still my favorite episode. I dig weird and awkward.
That episode, “Naked,” really came from my personal experience of thinking that sex is really funny, not that I couldn’t say “penis,” or that I come from a place of approaching sex as a child. It came from thinking it is funny and not really understanding people who think it is really serious and passionate. We thought that Zooey was so funny with all of her different ways in trying to say “penis.” We followed the joke and didn’t really think about the larger ramifications for the character.
“New Girl” creator Liz Meriwether tells us about the blowback over star Zooey Deschanel and her character Jess’s “adorkable” qualities—like the time she couldn’t say “penis.”
Eight years and change ago, I was in the market for a dog. While visiting the shelter in Lubbock, one of the employees told me about one that had been abandoned at a kennel she worked in. I agreed to go check her out, and came home the same day with my beloved Big Fat Emily.
We had six wonderful months together where we took long walks around campus, she slept in my bed, and we were each other’s favorite person in the world. Then Richard showed up and Emily forgot I existed, except as competition for Richard’s affection and attention, and my entire world was ruined (I have obviously totally forgiven him for stealing her from me).
A year later, I made the executive decision that Emily needed a dog friend to play with when we were gone during the day, and came home with Maggie Magoo (executive decision = I didn’t tell Richard there would be a new dog until he came home and she was sitting there).
Luckily Maggie did not enjoy being chased, wrestled to the ground, or bitten (this is the kind of mutually abusive relationship he and Emily enjoy), so the second Richard tried to bond with her, she fled from him making horribly mournful noises that sounded a lot like those made by pods of whales. Because I was not chasing her around the house or biting her, I officially became Her Favorite Person and have not been able to go to the bathroom by myself or go downstairs/upstairs without hearing her right behind me for the last 7 years.
So when I came home yesterday and saw this, you can imagine how horrified I was:
I caught my Maggie in bed with the notorious stealer of dogs’ love and affection!!! And just look at that guilty face. She knows she has done me wrong. He will pay for this….
