From Frogtown to Radtown

Iowa has become the first mid-western state to allow same-sex marriage.Iowa is now the third state in country following Connecticut and Massachusetts to allow gay-marriage.

Michigan is also changing laws by passing the Medical Marihuana Act.  This will allow people with chronic pains and illnesses to receive marijuana as a prescribed treatment.

An interesting point from the act:

Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports and the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics show that approximately 99 out of every 100 marihuana arrests in the United States are made under state law, rather than under federal law. Consequently, changing state law will have the practical effect of protecting from arrest the vast majority of seriously ill people who have a medical need to use marihuana.

This new law will allow qualified patients to possess up to 2.5 ounces and to cultivate up to 12 plants.

The New York Post is being morally questioned for their printing of a political cartoon last Wednesday.

It all started when a chimpanzee in Connecticut attacked a woman.

The cartoon published two days after the attack and just one day after the signing of Obama’s stimulus bill features two police officers standing over the body of a chimpanzee.  In the cartoon the officers said “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

It’s pretty obvious how that can be read the wrong way but according to the Post’s apology it “was most certainly not [their] intent” to express racism.

But some celebrities have chosen to boycott the post to express their outrage, including Spike Lee.

Bryan Hawkes, a twenty-five-year-old Radford resident stated,”That let’s you know what kind of people work for the Post.  That’s dirty.”

Many other people agree with him.

On sort of the same subject … the Post had an interview with Matt Groening, best know for his show The Simpsons.

Here I will give you the best parts of that interview:

Groening, the original creator of The Simpsons and Futurama has been writing a cartoon called “Life is Hell” for 29 years.  He has been doing lost of changes.

The new title is “Life is Swell”

There are changes to the opening scene of The Simpsons as well.  More than just Bart’s chalkboard antics and Lisa’s saxophone solo, with the arrival of HD technology, the opening credits scene has been extended to almost a full 2 minutes.

The Simpson family has many new roles, and there are more characters of the show featured.  The infamous couch has also become it’s own character and taken on a life of it’s own.

Groening is also putting out a new Futurama movie tomorrow (Tuesday) titled “Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder”.

Groening is one of the best known cartoon producers and creators and doesn’t seem to be slowing down or losing his creativity anytime soon.

Lately,

Well first let me say that lately I have been going to work a lot, still.

Second, Bryan programmed the TV for HD and now somehow we can get nice HD channels, the Playboy Channel , a bunch of music channels and a few porn channels. Yeah you read that correctly FREE HD PORN b/c we hit a few buttons on our TV.

Steve’s the one that told us about it as he had just bought a new tv and was programming his when it started moaning on channel 180-1, i believe. -Bryan won’t tell me because he doesn’t want me to put it in here.

Tomorrow we are going to go shoot my model 1894 Winchester!! It’s going to be great, the shells for this baby are rather large and I’m pretty sure it’s actually going to be too much for me.

Third-Site-to-Store ordering for walmart.com/Wal-Mart because the people at wal-mart are pretty incompetent. First, I go into the store and I give this guy credit, (excuse my un-politicalness as I will call him), Wheelchair Guy greeted me and told me exactly where I need to go to get what I need.

So I go to the back(Bryan wondered off to find something for Ben and bullets for tomorrow) of the store and walk around the giant insurance company booth- set-up. Once there I read the credit/debit card machine and it says:

“Press screen for assistance” or something along those lines. So I pressed it and heard the intercom lady call for assistance to the back for site-to-store.

It was kind of like Sonic because it then read, someone is on their way or something to that effect. So I waited. Then I got mad and pressed it again but only once the screen had cleared as if someone was there helping me. They WERE NOT!

So I hit again, hear the intercom lady again and waited again. By this time Bryan had already purchased the thing for Ben and separately purchased the bullets. So you can imagined I am pretty pissed as I have still not seen a Wal-Mart person.

So I broke out the cell phone and called them. Ironically the woman that answered the phone was also the intercom lady and was also pissed that noone was helping. So she got me a manager. And I thought my life was saved. HA!

This “manager” came to the back. The first thing out of my mouth was:

(while pointing at the screen on credit/debit machine) “This thing’s not very efficient” He didn’t say anything. Then he pushed a bunch of keys on the computer and it made noises we all knew it shouldn’t be making.

Five minutes of beep, beep, beep I almost left. Then he called for Duane on his walkie-talkie and I shot a look to Bryan and went to get a cart for my box. When I returned Duane was leaving and Bryan and my box were right behind them.

Thanks Duane and next Wal-Mart in Radford, Virginia, get Duane first!

After all that I forgot to tell you that on Saturday I am going to be volunteering at the animal shelter to start off my new year and I am also eating a lot more healthy and exercises a little more frequently. Okay enough for today.

Just follow this link and the very first few comments couldn’t say what I think any better. It’s uncanny.

If you need an example of TV ruining a child (other than the parent who can’t turn it off!), check out the episode of South Park with Lemmiwinks.—it’s a gerbil(actually a King Gerbil!) caught inside “Mr. Slave’s ass” and thus he must journey up and out because the “mighty sphincter” has blocked his way back out.

I feel really bad because an article in Whim that I didn’t even edit. It was edited by an employee of Whim but not a copy-editor. We had a time crunch and too much content for me to keep up with. The author of the article writes for us all the time but provides us with entirely too much work per content. I don’t know if that makes sense, but here’s the link to the article and then below is the comments about the article. I believe that the comment by the mumbo-jumbo name is James Street, the author. I feel horrible for doing that to him because he does give us great stuff it’s just confusing sometimes. I think I’m going to send him an apology e-mail.

martineden

Posted at 2007-12-17 04:44:16 Did Whim’s copy editors die or something?

About half way through the arguing you see this:htradredavhtis

Posted at 2007-12-28 10:57:11 I’ve just watching this and it seems like this could be taken care of in a more professional way. Not the armchair quarterback editing done by martineden, but the public display of critique by people who I think work at Whim or at student media. If there is a problem with a writer shouldn’t steps be taken to tell him instead of blasting him on forum. Isn’t Student Media supposed to be training people to handle things professionally? If you were in the real work arena and you have an employee that is not performing you just don’t go telling the world before you sit down and talk to the employee. I always thought forums were to critique the story not the writer?It goes on from there and others get involved and it just gets worse … check it out.

Gift cards are one of the greatest inventions but I have decided the biggest winner is still the company.
This Christmas I received 3 gift cards for different places. Between the three of them I spent all but around 10 dollars. The problem is, there’s $2.20 on one card, $6.06 on another, etc. I’m never going to remember to swipety-swipe for two dollars and 20 cents! That’s like nothing.

But all bitching aside, This was the best Christmas I’ve had in a while. Everyone seemed Happy and we all knew that even though “times were rough”(when weren’t they though), we were still extremely lucky have everything that we do.

The little old lady next door gets a little crazy every night and yells and sings, it’s sad but cute. Well she made me tear up the other day, it was Christmas Eve at like 10 p.m. and I hear her start to sing Jingle Bells and she sang it all the way through the first chorus. Poor lady, I’m glad she has family or I would’ve really lost it.

Even worse than that, Bryan and I are sitting outside watching our little camp fire and a man in a big white dually type pick up pulls up and asks where 400 Fairfax Street is and we tell him. A few minutes later the same guy pulls up and asks if we know someone named Cory something or other.  It sounded familiar to me but I told him know, and then he described the guy to me and I did know him.  The man then asked me if I had seen him recently or if I knew how to get a hold of him.

–It’s Christmas Eve and there was a man in his 40s and a young girl(probably his daughter) looking for a young man in his 20s.  Dude can’t find his kid!!! that’s so freaking sad.  At that moment I realized my Christmas couldn’t get any better.  I knew that all my loved ones were in a safe place.  Even those that can’t be here this year.

(Gma Eva…Chris!!I love you guys.)
I’m lucky, most of us are.  I can’t stop thinking of that damn photo of a girl in Sudan crawling to a feeding station and the vulture waiting just feet behind her for her to die.–the photographer of that picture committed suicide later.

Anyways with these damn gift cards I got all kinds of things but my favs- a new book called The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.  a new covered kitty litter box and catnip!! we got new curtains, some new shirts, a new season of south park DVDs and a paper shredder.  That’s right no more stealing my identity.–That’s a pet peeve story for another day.

wish me luck as the rest of this week could really go downhill or just be as great as getting this month long vacay. I have two exams which im not worrying about because my theory is “if i don’t know it by now im not gonna”. But then I have all these damn bills and this fight with Nextel. Trust me bitches this is not over. Just in case I lose service for a while B’s number is 434 960 2015.–try to make those important i’m not trying to blow up his phone all the time.
I think i’m just going to not pay them and not use my phone and see what they charge me with next month.
I also have to learn to close at PJs not that it’s going to be that hard or anything.
I may have overdrawn my account today by .64

what a day.

I would make every employee of nextel/sprint suck my left nut if i had one.  too bad im a girl.  In the last 6 months/;

1.  I have been charged for ms. pac-man more than 5 times and downloaded it 0 and played it 0 times.

2.  my phone used to ring … it doesn’t now… it never had any physical abuse.

3.  while on the phone with tech support trying to get my phone to ring… my contacts disappeared and he failed to find ms. pac-man or the 1ktv i’ve been getting charged for every month.

I pay $70/mth for a phone that doesn’t ring, take pictures, download things, or have any games on it.  On top of that I don’t have any of my friends numbers anymore.  Way to go you assholes.  I’m fucking done with you.  I’m getting a house phone… you couldn’t even attempt to delete my numbers then because they would be on a piece of paper on the wall.  And you couldn’t take my ringer away either.  Do  you know it’s cheaper too?  I should’ve never switched to cell phones.

FUCK YOU NEXTEL/SPRINT  www.sprint.com can kiss my fucking white ass and like i said if i had a nut you would suck it.