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God is really picky with his food. Did you know that the Bible says not to eat lobster? Add that to you can't eat meat on certain days, gotta have bread and wine at church, can't drink too much, can't eat too much.. As my mom would say, jeepers crow! But really. What's the Man got against lobster. Lobsters ain't never hurt nobody.
Neither has the gay and lesbian community. But they ban them from oh shit no, marrying?! Do you know what they could do if they got married?! The horrors!
Maybe that's why lobsters scream when you boil them. They're screaming SINNER, SINNER!
On to baby news, I got to hold Liam yesterday. He's the cutest little shit on the planet. But he's got really long fingers. It's kinda freakish. But that's okay. I have freakishly long legs. Everybody's got something freakish about them, so he shouldn't sweat it. He's obsessed with his face too. It's kinda weird.
I said something ridiculously funny in the car last night, and I thought to myself, that's going in here, but now I can't freakin' remember what it was, and I don't like it. Sorry you missed out.
Tomorrow is Hug a Jew Day. So make sure you find your local, community Jew and give them a big ol' hug. The only Jewish blogger on Mindsay that I know of is eje224, so make sure you send her a virtual hug on this momentous occasion. If you don't know a Jew, just hug a stranger. Spread the love.
But please be cautious about it though. Don't go all orangutan on some poor unsuspecting person. Women nowadays tend to be rightfully paranoid about certain people. So if you're creepy looking, you have a huge beard, or if you look like Benjamin Linus from LOST, just stick with hugging your brother, aunt, or perhaps yourself. I've never been tasered, but I can imagine it sucks.
If you look like Dr. McCreamy, make her day and hug away.
Adrienne's mom proposed a great question last night: Why do baseball players always have something in their mouth? I'll let you guess what my immediate response was.
I don't like how a few of the people who have come back for the reunion thing are talking about how Mindsay is "great again" because there's more people, but then bitch about the lack of stuff that other blog sites have. Jimschweizer said it best. That's not Mindsay.
Does your driver's side doorlock work when you put your key in? Mine doesn't. It really sucks. But I look like a total gentleman when I walk around to let my wife in. Too bad I look like a total dumbass when have to pull a reacharound if I'm by myself.
I had an epiphany yesterday. For years I've always confused Bono, Sonny Bono, and Yoko Ono. I know, fucking retarded right? But I seriously did. I always thought Sonny Bono died from cancer or something cause he smoked a lot of pot. She told me this after I was singing Eminem's "Who Knew." Sonny Bono, skis horses and hittin some trees.
I was pretty dumbfounded to find out he died in a fucking ski accident.
I don't understand those commercials for loans, computers, and what-not when they say, there's no credit checks! Isn't this how we go into this silly mess in the first place? And I'm tired of Beatles cover songs in half of the commercials on television. Just give me the Beatles version, not some pathetic knock-off.
The only Beatles coversong I enjoy is Lynden David Hall's "All You Need Is Love" cause he put some soul into it. There are certain songs that should never be covered. Two years ago some guy on American Idol covered "Imagine" and lost. That's because you don't fucking cover that song. It's perfect the way it is. There is nothing to be added. Let it be. A-har-har-har!
Anyway, if God gets to be picky with food, I get to be picky with music. Here's one of my favorite songs.
Okay, in response to otacon120's blog entry concerning whether or not he looks like a young Johnny Depp, I had to do a little investigative photo comparison...
I think it's the mustache and beard, the dark eyes and hair, and those unmistakable cheek bones that draws a likeness between the two. Even Jakob's hair matches Johnny's! Sorry Jakob, it's true, you're a dead ringer for a young Johnny Depp. And Johnny is HOT. After highlighting this comparison, you should be getting hit on by chics all the time now!
As for some people saying he has a baby face, I don't think I agree. You are young, but not that young! Since I'm a Johnny Depp fan and loved his performance in John Water's "CryBaby" we're going to do another fun comparison...
And who can resist OTACON SCISSORHANDS?
Looks like he's gonna cut up that flag...
Hmmm.... I wonder if there's anyone else out there on Mindsay who looks like a celebrity? Maybe I'll do some more fun photo comparisons...
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna bring it on! Remember the movie "Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle?" Here's callmeroger , otacon120 , and dickdammit on their way to Whitecastle!
And here's Bono of U2 in the Renassiance...
Totally unrelated to the subject, I know, but had to throw it in for a laugh! And, no, I didn't do this photoshop job. I got it from a very funny site where artists made contemporary celebrities into Renassiance characters featured in several famous old paintings. Check it out!
I love 'em. Every album, every song...I truly think they are the best.
However...
I'm starting to wonder about Bono. Campaigning for the end of poverty and world peace is all good and charitable. I would love for the starvation of Africa to end and for everyone to get along...but, with my current obsession with the end of the world and all...I begin to ponder things...Could Bono be the Antichrist? If anyone could woo the world it would be him. The AC is supposed to lull us with his great world peace...hmmm...it's just very interesting...
Bono and Former South African President Nelson Mandela:
Bono and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin:
Bono and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern:
Bono and EU commission President Jose Manuel Barroso:
Bono, California First Lady Maria Shriver and Jordan's Queen Noor:
Bono and French President Jacques Chirac:
Bono and President Bill Clinton:
Bono and President George Bush:
Bono, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and Russian President Vladimir Putin:
I'm sure this is just one of those crazy ideas that one gets in idle time...I will continue to buy their albums, and - if given the chance - will attend a live concert...but if this crazy idea ever proves reality...well, I've warned myself, I suppose.
What can I say? I am on a spiritual high after seeing U2 live for the first time in my life. The circumstances leading up to this moment are remarkable.
Backtrack to 1987, when I was 22 years old. I was in the top floor of a University of Victoria dorm room. All my floormates went to see the concert except me. I don't know what was wrong with me...I guess I thought I was too good for concerts? They weren't my thing????
I'll never forget 1982 when "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" played on our rock 104 Fm radio station in Kelowna, BC. The radio announcer said, :Listen tot his Band. They are something special, up and coming, and we'll be hearing more from them in the future." Boy, was he right!
Anyhow, I'm about to have my 40th birthday this June. When I found out they were playing in Vancouver, I knew I had to go. This time, I would not snub them.
Only one problem...I have no credit card. Only another problem..both shows sold out in 6 minutes. I prayed that there would be contests to win. I went online and listened to JAck FM, Rock101, and 102 Mountain FM. I phoned in the previous Friday to Mountain FM after hearing a U2 song, only to find out the last possible entry was called in two hours earlier..I had missed the boat.
Meanwhile, throughout March and April, I periodically babysat my landlords' dog if they went to Vancouver (I live in Whistler). They would always ask, "Do you need anything from the city?" I would jokingly reply, "U2 Tickets!" We would both laugh, as I certainly wasn't expecting them to find me some. Heather said to me, "Well, you never know. When you put it out the Universe, the universe will provide!"
On Thursday at 3:00, right as I was dismissing the children, I recieved a knock on my door from the principal. She told me there was a "Heather" on the phone. I was discombobulated, but walked down the hall to accept the call in the office.
"I have a U2 ticket for you, and you're not paying for it! said Heather on the phone! I was shocked. I told her we were about to have our teacher meeting, that the inspection from the government was tomorrow, and that I had $8.00 to my name until April 30, when I could cash the cheque. I also said that I had no way to get down there. She said, "We'll loan you our vehicle." Well if anyone here knows the Sea to Sky highway, you may realise that I was a bit intimidated to drive a Nissan pathfinder through that and then through a big city. I asked, "Can you phone me back in half an hour?"
I was in shock. I told my colleagues and asked them what to do. I didn't want to leave them in the lurch. I had no way of paying for a bus ride ($69.70 one way with Perimeter) down there, and the buses didn't run that late on the way back. A parent who had her two children in my class overheard this, and said, "let me see what I can do." She made a few arrangements, and then offered to drive me there and back for God's sakes! I tell you, I had my own stretch limo there and back. I was treated like a queen, and had $8.00 to my name. Tracy even phoned ahead to Samurai Sushi to bring it along for our "Dinner on the Road."
MY GOD!!! I have never worked at a school where everyone, including a parent, encouraged me to drive two hours on a school night down to a Rock Concert and back again.
The concert itself was unbelievable. It was so awesome to see each of the four guys walk the "ellipse" and have a chance to shine. Bono has a great sense of humor as well as serious messages about eradicating the world's poverty. He brought young people up on stage to honor them, as well as show off a lady's large sign that said, "I've just ditched my wheelchair. Will you dance with me?" He called her up, and some weird backpack/skirt contraption she was wearing kept falling down, so he kept pulling it back up for her and tying it about 2 times! It was so funny! Another time he found a balloon, held it to his chest until it popped, and said, "I'm going to pop every one of these I find!"
My computer is so slow here I'm going to lose everything i worked at, so I'm sending this now. More later!!!
Angie
