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Friday, October 26, 2007

No title cause I'm lame.

Dear new weather system,

I have nothing to say. Surprise surprise. No seriously though, I don't even think I have some awesome pictures to put up. Lemme check...yep, nope. Okay here's the deal: I'm going to go take the dog out for a poop then try and think of something crazy cool to put up.

5 seconds later...yeah, Kitty is sleeping.

Anyways here what I learnt this week:
1) Chemistry

Here's what I'm excited about in the upcoming days:
1) Not doing chemistry

Boo ya. I think if there was a trophy for the most creative imaginative thing, I would win. Hands down. I may or may not have already cleared some shelf space for my new gold trophy. By shelf space I mean I contracted a carpenter to build me the greatest mahogany trophy case to house this glorious object celebrating how superb my brain is.

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY AD!!!

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

3 Days Until Ad's Birthday!

Dear Weddie,

Ah, the beloved hump day. Unfortunately the week for me can only get worse BUT I suppose on the positive side there are only 2 days when it can be absolutely horrible (to be said in a French accent).

But today I do not want to discuss the looming unkablamoness of my upcoming midterm, I do not want to let the world know that my looking ball still resembles a squashed tomato, I do not want people to feel sorry for me and the depressing rain...no, no, no, today I want to talk about fascinating things.

Like me.

Kidding...not about me being fascinating but about me talking about me being fascinating. Fascinating to me is crazy cool amazing phenomenal scintillating challenging and non-challenging alike nouns. Like Kitty. She's a thing, a dog to be exact AND the world's coolest dog at that. Another example is The Darjeeling Limited - a well-done five star movie which mixes comedy with the fantabulous colours of India. What else is fascinating? Hmm...lightning, thunder, rain but not drizzle, libros, books and livres, levers, salmon, lakes, fresh water likes, fresh water lakes at high altitudes, Ad's birthday, posters of gigantic things like fish, a globe that opens and theres rum in it, photos, photos in black and white to make things look more artistic, a 10-year old girl selling paintings for copious amounts of cash, turtles and the fall season. Just to make it clear, frogs are not, I repeat are NOT, fascinating in any shape, size or form.

The next and last fascinating thing I'm going to talk about today is this blog called "Indexed". This imaginative character/blogger depicts the situations of life on Venn diagrams and simple supply-demandesque graphs in an attempt to, "make fun of some things and sense of others."

Check it, yo.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Fats To Get a Letter

Dear Husky,

As I was perusing the daily headlines I stumbled upon this one: "Parents of obese children in U.K. may get warning letters" I'm not going to say whether this is a good idea or not. I don't know if the letters will actually affect change or even if its the schools' moral obligation to send these types of letters.

On one hand sending a memo entitled "Re: YOUR KID EATS BABIES FOR BREKKIE" is not nice and thus probably not the most effective way of making a difference. I mean authorities don't send letters out telling parents that their child is ugly...but then again being hideous isn't necessarily a hazard to one's health or detrimental to a population. Furthermore, I'm not sure if this is the wake-up call parental units will need to get their offspring to board the health train. If anything, such letters will probably anger parents prompting them to become defensive of their little porker. I think instead of battling the increasing obesity epidemic governments should lead by example. For instance, if Mrs. Clinton become presidito, she should probably encourage her and her flame to shed some poundage. Look at Sarkozy! Always photographed running, in rockin' suits, his ex-wife is a slim fashionista and the results? France is skinny. Point proven.

HOWEVER, it is slightly amusing that instead of getting an 'F' for fail on your report card you get an 'F' for fat on your weight card! Haha, lame...Sorry. But on a serious note such a proposal is telling that obesity is becoming on par with the serious issues that require a note being sent home (E.g. drug and alcohol abuse). With that being said, I'm going to go on a 15 km run...run I mean eat, and by 15 km I mean cookies.

A completely unrelated picture...L'il Roar Roar on the
left and Kitty on the right.

High Five for Creativity!

Dear Eisel,

With the popularity of PostSecret increasing exponentially, I was curious about other community art projects in motion and decided to do a little digging. Amidst all the googleshit I found these two which are particularly interesting. Take a looksie...

1) The Bubble Project
This project was started by a one Ji Lee, who is attempting to rebel against the corporations by encouraging open dialogue through bubbles. This project was started when Ji printed out several thousand blank thought bubble stickers and placed them around various locations in New York. The public did the rest, and the rest as they say, is history.

2) Invisible Clock
This project involves benches, a park, an author, and some mad digital-something skills. Basically the project is aiming to replace the mundane seats and backs of park benches with different images and text to, "enhance a public sitting space" which is used to, "rest, contemplate, nap and wait - for a friend or for our daydreams." The text on all the benches is an excerpt from a book by Alan Lightman called Einstein's Dreams and is fitting for a park where one tends to get lost in their thoughts and lose track of time.


Have a most fantabulous week twinkies!