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What is the dealio with this hair?! That is some kind of wind swept. Obviously Lansbury pulls it off beautifully.

Major Suckage

My computer is in its death throes. And not peaceful ones! The kind where every time I turn my computer on, a scary blue screen pops up and tells me that my computer has just recovered from an extreme error, and then it shuts the bitch down. If my computer were a person, when it died we would all talk to each other about how happy we were that it was finally out of pain. It's getting ugly. So, basically, I am not turning it back on until I can take it to geeky type deal peoples to fix it, or at least to back up my iTunes.

This computer sitch is bad for my blogging. Nothing is better than sitting in front of the tv, getting totally annoyed by something, and writing about it. Now the only computer I can use is the desktop in our spare room. Very distressing.

Anatomy of a Kari

Well, in Trevor's defense, his Mom does have huge breasts. I'm just saying.

Sandlot Party, Take 2

So, it's the Sandlot Closing Party, and we have reached the point in the night where we are sad about what we are celebrating. No more Sandlot.
But, being the people of high character that we are, we find a way to soldier on.

It's a party, after all.

Seems like so long ago

Well, it is the 1 year anniversary of the closing of the Sandlot. I was just talking to Jackie last night, and we were saying that sometimes it seems like a very long time ago, and other times like it just happened. Let's look back at the Sandlot going away party, shall we?

It started out well, with a little present giving.

Everyone was having a nice wholesome time.

We all got hot new shirts for the occassion!
The post won't let me put up any more pics, so the second part of the night is going to go in another post.

Death Ride!

Mariah and I participated in Bike the Barns, a bike ride around southern Wisconsin farms, this past weekend. I am not going to compare it to the Cherokee Trail of Tears, but only because I don't want you to know how shallow I am.
This is us when we decided to be content at completing the 35 mile ride instead of doing the full 62.
This is the donkey we met! There was another and they were totally making those donkey Hee-Haaw sounds.
The ride was hard, but the countryside was so so beautiful.

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Prarie grass, sunset, autumn. It's sad that it just began and is almost over. Happy End of September everyone. More here.

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Someone attempted to make the floor plan for the Golden Girls house. I always try to put it together in my head! Really the garage is off the kitchen back door area. But it doesn't make sense because of where the kitchen and the bedrooms would have to be... I guess this is why it's a TV show.

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Angela Lansbury is a fitness guru! Lansbury had her own line of fitness videos, and on Murder, She Wrote, she was always going for walks, runs, and bike rides. Sometimes she even worked out in the gym!

Keeping up with the goings on of the Committe

more animals

New Kitteh Pic!

more animals

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Cute bots! This is a pic that my friend Tim sent me. He is also into baby kitty bots. I love bots!!

Added: Um, what happened to my kitty pic?

Added: Wait, is it back!?! I just saw it and then it was gone. I'm confused. I wish I knew anything about the internet.

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More portraits! This time it is a lovely rendering of Ms. Lansbury. This is painted on the saftey grate of a store in Hollywood.

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Portrait of Bea Arthur by Chris Zimmerman.
A second reason to say Oh. My. God. in as many days. I'm sorry but I found this and I had to post it today. I wanted to save it for a winter week when we all needed a little pick me up, but no, the world must see this now. Wait, has the world already seen this? Did everyone but me know about all these paintings? I don't think that the subject actually sat for this one. It is now owned by Lenora Claire, who does Golden Girls Gone Wild exhibits or something! I'm going to write her- she should come to Madison!

Added: I set this as the background on Jeff's computer.

Is it wrong that I find this funny?

I used to sometimes send Cate "Dear Abby" columns and stuff during class to try to make her laugh. The funniest one was the one about the lady who had never had been close to her sister in law, and she finally felt like she made some inroads, that they were getting closer. But then they got too close! The sister in law would not stop talking about all the anal sex she was having. With the woman's brother! Anyway!

Is it wrong that I kept starting to laugh through this? Especially when the ex husband told said he hoped she gets cancer and dies?

DEAR ABBY: May I respond to the letter from "Needs to Know Now in Virginia" (Aug. 4)? I, too, spent time behind bars -- 14 months. My soon-to-be ex sent me a card on our 20th anniversary, a month after I was incarcerated, promising he'd be there for me when I got out. After months of denying there was anyone else, I finally found out the truth. She was not only accepted by his family, but also my kids.

When I fell into a deep depression and tried to commit suicide, my husband told everyone it was just an act. That was 11 months ago.

Today I believe everything happens for a reason, because during most of our marriage my husband had tried to control me and verbally abused me. He'd tell me I was a horrible mother and wife, that my own family hated me and I had no friends. After a while, I started to believe him and had little or no self-esteem. While incarcerated, I took classes and learned that verbal abuse is as bad, if not worse, than physical. The scars heal, but the words kept playing over and over like a tape in my head.

One thing I learned in the classes is you can't change someone else; you can only change yourself. To this day he continues to verbally abuse me. Last week he said he hopes I have cancer and die. But the words don't hurt anymore. The only hurt I suffer is that he has convinced our children that I was a bad mother, so they no longer speak to me. They have welcomed her into their lives.

I have learned to accept that my children want nothing to do with me, but pray that someday they will return to my life. I have met a caring man who knows all about my past and loves me for who I am. I am now grateful to the other woman. She saved me from a miserable marriage, and I know one day he'll do to her what he did to me.

So, my advice to "Needs to Know" is to run away as fast as she can because the man she's involved with is no man. A real man would stand by his wife for better and for worse. -- HAPPY NOW IN RHODE ISLAND

Oh. My. God.

My song worked!!! Well, it half worked. It helped the Brewers, but it did not help the Cubs. So, the Brewers and the Mets are still tied. But I don't care! I am happy. That damn Brewers game dragged on and on and on and on tied at 1. And then a walk off grand slam. Hopefully this means that Ryan Braun gots his groove back. Mmm hhmm!

Today's song, in honor of the Brewers

Go Cubs go
Go Cubs go-o-o
Hey Chicago whadaya say
The Cubs are gonna win today!

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Here is a little comment by film critic Emmanuel Levy about Angela Lansbury in her first film, Gaslight. I've linked to it and I'm also going to just copy it. One of my other all time favorite actresses is Katherine Hepburn, so it is cool to see them compared.

Gaslight: How Cukor Discovered Angela Lansbury

George Cukor's casting coup was the hiring of a young British girl, Angela Lansbury, for the important role of Nancy, the conniving maid who attempts to lure Anton away from his wife. Looking for a girl to play the sluttish maid, Cukor knew one thing: she had to be English. Writer Van Druten told Cukor of a British actress, Magna Margia, who was in town with her daughter Angela and her two sons. The entire family was working at Bullock's in the Christmas rush.

Cukor asked Lansbury to a test, which went excellently. The young actress had the right poise and her Cockney accent was authentic. But she was too young and didn't seem sexy enough. Overweight and spotty, Lansbury looked like a department-store salesgirl. "I don't think you're going to get the job," Cukor told her, "but I think you're a very talented girl." Lansbury went back to Bullock's with a mixed reaction of dejection and encouragement.

However, a week later, Cukor looked at Lansbury' test again, and called her in for a second audition. It turned out to be even better than the first. In the end, Cukor liked her so much that he had her role rewritten and expanded. When Lansbury told her Bullock's manager that she had found a better job, he proposed to raise her pay to 27 dollars a week. He was shocked when she said that Mr. Cukor at MGM had signed her for a seven-year-contract at 500 dollars a week!

There were some unanticipated problems with Lansbury, however. At 5'8", she was the same height as Bergman. To add to her height, so as to contribute to the suspense of the scene in which she threatens Paula, Cukor made her wear platform shoes. "They thought my towering over Ingrid would make me more sinister," recalled Lansbury. Another unexpected problem was a scene in which she lights a cigarette, in defiance of her mistress. This scene was postponed for several weeks, because Lansbury was only 17, and the studio's teacher would not allow her to smoke until she was 18. When this eagerly-awaited day arrived, Cukor and Bergman threw a surprise party for her on the set.

Cukor later said that, aside from Katharine Hepburn, Lansbury was the only other actress who took to film so quickly. An ordinary-looking girl, when the audience saw Lansbury for the first time, all the character was right in her face; she became the character by just drooping her mouth. "Even though Gaslight was her first picture," Cukor said, "she had the ability to transform herself into the character she was playing as soon as the cameras turned." "Some people have experience, but still remain eternal amateurs," Cukor elaborated, "but Angela was a pro from the very first day."

Lansbury's stunning debut in Gaslight certified her talent and honored her, at the age of l8, with the first of three Oscar nominations. "I was really very young," recalled Lansbury in an l978 tribute to Cukor, "and I didn't know my ass from a hole in the ground. He introduced me to style."

A huge box office hit, Gaslight was nominated for eight Oscar Awards, including Best Picture, though Cukor failed again to receive a directorial nomination. At Oscar time, the movie won two Oscars: Best Actress for Bergman and art direction for Cedric Gibbons.

No, it's not Elvis...

...it's Britney, bitch!

Ah, the innocence of youth

Part II.

Yummy!

Oh wait, I mean gross!

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Every year since she was married, on her anniversary, Blanche slips into her wedding dress. She has to go on a drastic diet to be able to fit into it this year. She's having a hard time sticking to her diet, and Sophia keeps bringing tempting food into the house to sabotage Blanche. But then Sophia seemingly has a change of heart.

Sophie (eating an eclair): Blanche, I've never weighed more than 100 pounds any day of my adult life. And because you're my friend I want to share with you that secret.

Blanche: Tell me Sophia.

Sophia (still eating): I was born that way. I can eat whatever I want and not get fat.

Getting dressed

You're doing it wrong.

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Grasshopper eating bokeh pods. More here.

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Ok so I am wandering around the internet reading stuff about Lansbury and I stumble upon some crazy shit. There is a blog that just recaps episodes of The View. (??!!??!!??) Well, it turns out that Lansbury was on The View last February 26th. Here is the recap of the Lansbury portion. See if anything jumps out at you.

Angela Lansbury appeared on the show. She said that although she was nominated for Oscars in the past, she never won. She thought maybe she might have won for The Manchurian Candidate. She also never won an Emmy for her long-standing role as Jessica Fletcher on Murder She Wrote.
Lansbury is currently in rehearsals for a new play on Broadway called “Deuce,” about two women who were double tennis players in their youth and come back together to watch today’s tennis stars play. Angela said she would love to play the role of Jessica Fletcher again and hopes that her son, who is a director, will find a good story so that she could play the character again. She still gets nervous when she performs because “nothing is certain in life.” She played the role of Mame on Broadway and was disappointed when the role for the movie version went to Lucille Ball. In the 1960s and 1970s she became very frustrated and nearly gave up her career for her children. She and her husband uprooted from the big city and moved to rural area in Ireland.

LANSBURY WANTS TO PLAY J.B. FLETCHER AGAIN! "Murder, She Wrote" is back bitches. Lansbury is just watching and waiting, cagey like a pather, to pounce when the time and the story are right! Now, I would suggest she hurry the duck up because she is not getting any younger. But she gets better with age!!! If she plays J.B. again I should have a big party and we can all watch it together. On second thought, you people will probably want to talk and shit and make me miss my show! So you're out. In fact, Jeff has to leave and I'm locking the cats in a room. And turning out the lights. Just me and "Murder, She Wrote," together again.

I like the food but...

I am sick of the Chinese. Not like every Chinese person or anything, obviously, but the Chinese as an entity. I don't like to make blanket statements, but the Chinese are liars and they cannot make a product that you would want near your family or your pet.

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Get ready. Hold on to your hats, socks, and anything else that might fly off. Artist John Curin created an amazing nude portrait of Bea Arthur in 1991. I had never seen this before. It reminds me of my favorite bumper sticker that I have ever seen, "Bea Arthur, Be Naked."

I know that you are too busy being amazed by this, but pull yourself together and read some critique:
Currin's painting, on the other hand, seems relatively restrained, evincing an almost Cycladic elegance and symmetry. Scarcely the sort of conclusion one would expect? Even in the case of one of Currin's most deservedly famous, or notorious, early paintings, Bea Arthur Naked (1991), the sitcom star preserves a certain restraint, dignity even, that militates against the overtly camp/kitsch (or possibly anti-feminist) readings of the picture that so readily come to mind. Perhaps the Arthur portrait is going rather against the grain of the Currin mode, even as it was only coalescing in the early 1990s - the exception that, maybe, proves the rule of perversion.

Ah the innocence of youth.

This girl is 15?

She looks thirty. A sort of elegant 30, not an Ali Lohan 30, but still.

I don't know what is going on in this photo, but it's weird and I like it.

NCIS

Season premiere of NCIS! I DVRed it and am watching it now. I have not seen nearly all of them, but I've started trying to catch them when I can, and I've watched some with my parents b/c they get them off Netflix. I basically love all the characters. Mister Jeff doesn't love the show, which surprises me because Mark Harmon is in it and Jeff likes him I think. Also, my mom is (totally definitely do it!) thinking about getting some dwarf goats, and I think that she wants to name one Leroy Jethro Gibbs after the main character/Mark Harmon character. I don't really have anything to say (so it is interesting that I have chosen to right a post about it) except are Agent Lee and Mr. Palmer still having an affair? Did Director Shepard really die? Does anyone watch NCIS? Is anyone even reading this? I am on a need to know basis with all of this information.

Added: I have no idea what is going on with the font. But I feel like it looks like Top Secret font, which is fitting, so I'm leaving it.

Added: OH SNAP! Lee is a double agent! It's a good thing that Mr. Palmer dumped her dumb ass.

Added for Mom: The team is getting back together! Tony is still stuck in the boat, though, and wackiness ensues next week!

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I love lights! I wish people lit up their house with them year round.

Congrats

Ok, I support Clay Aiken finally admitting he is gay. I always thought it was sort of stupid that not only was he not out, he used to flat out deny being gay. Now he is the dad of a baby by artificial insemination with his 55 year old best girlfriend and roommate. Right. But the thing that I love, that I find you funny, is that a man who refused to admit he was gay for years, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, has decided to finally come out like this:

Could that font be any bigger or bolder? Love it.

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Today let's all take a moment and remember that Angela Lansbury was the original Mrs. Lovett from "Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street!" I'm sorry but I just feel like people do not appreciate Lansbury's versatility, talent, and ability to always remain relevant. No matter what the decade!

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What the duck?

Chris Klein.

Favorite thing I heard today

"He collected strippers like some people collect stray cats."

You know that shit doesn't even make sense! I love it. How many stray cats can someone collect?

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Processed with Topaz Adjust in PSP XII. Whatever that means!
I know nothing about photography, but I love this pic!

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Some great interesting Golden Girls trivia! You will note that the GG's still get 16 million viewers weekly on Lifetime! This is a great achievement and a reason to be hopeful about the kind of roles that women can get and be successful in, regardless of their age. Also, the line "I'm jumpier than a virgin at a prison rodeo" is one of my favorite GGs lines ever. That's pretty jumpy.

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Kanye had a favorite white girl, but he has wisely reconsidered.

And I'm angry about something else, too!

So there is this show on MTV called "Exiled." Those spoiled dumb dumbs from "My Sweet Sixteen" get taught some kind of lesson or something. Their parents think that the kids can;t handle the real world, and they want to teach them a lesson, so they send them away to learn about hard work in Third World Countries. Very dramatic. None of the spoiled dumb dumbs want to go, and it is like a horrible punishment that has been inflicted on them. And this is my problem. I have tried my best to avoid this show, but have surfed over to MTV twice at the moment when the parents are sending the dumb dumbs away. The countries they are being sent to: Africa and India.

This is where I am pissed: why is it a punishment and a lesson to be sent to Aftrica? Or India? I hate to break it to MTV and the spoiled dumb dumbs and their stupid box parents, but many people call those continents/countries home, and although life may sometimes be hard, it is not a punishment to be there. They work and eat good food and have babies and birthdays over there. It's not all concentration camp.

Nobody wants to see those dirty duckers from My Sweet Sixteen be unhappy more than me, but what are you teaching them? How are you changing their perception about their status relative to others when you present the developing world as a punishment and a hardship. Bullshit! And I'm sure there is some saccarine message at the end of the show where the dumb dumbs come to realize that we are all the same or some shit, but I don;t care! Still bullshit! Wrongheaded and offensive. So there you go.

Very Sad

The crazy San Francisco dog attack case takes another turn. I have to say that I am VERY disappointed with the murder charge being reinstated. The article I have linked to does not fully describe the case, but I have read a lot about it and watched the great American Justice documentary about it.

This crazy couple, the Knoller-Noels, have some crazy sexual relationship with an adult convict who is also a white supremacist. They have two dogs, which are supposed to be supremacist attack dogs, but there is little evidence that they were really trained this way. One day when Knoller is taking the dogs home from a walk, one dog goes absolutely berserk and attacks a neighbor Dianne Whipple. Ms. Whipple was virtually torn apart by the dog. Ms. Knoller, the owner, threw herself on the dog to try to stop that attack, and her clothes were shredded and she was cut up and bleeding everywhere. The case gets complicated (I don't understand why, but it did) by the fact that Ms. Whipple was gay. Now the headline is like "White Supremacist Attack Dog Kills Lesbian."

Anyway, the long and short of it is that there was a second degree murder conviction, but the charge was CORRECTLY reduced to involutary manslaughter. Then the CA Supreme Court remanded the case back to the trial court and the court reinstated the murder charge! I am totally offended by this charge. How can it be murder when Knoller and her dogs had no idea Whipple would be there in the apartment building hallway, Knoller did not direct her dogs to attack, Knoller tried to stop the attack, and there is no evidence that the "white supremecist" dog had any idea that Whipple was a lesbian? This is clearly involuntary manslaughter. The dog should be (and was) put down, and the owners need to face criminal charges and go to jail. But murder?

The only reason that this is murder is because the Knoller-Noels are such total freaks and are hated by the community because they are perverts and biggots. They have made comments that blame the victim for the attack. They are fully and totally hated by the community at large in San Francisco. The fact that you are some biggot freak who adopted a jailed white supremacist who you are having sex with does not change the facts surrounding the case. Murder necessitates an intentionality which was totally lacking in this case. The Knoller-Noels did a lot of things which are wrong and criminal (most dog attacks cases result as a municipal fine and possibly a civil action, never criminal charges), and they should be punished criminally. But murder? That is ridiculous. I am disappointed in the judge. She has clearly been led by her passions in this case.

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Let me just relate to you a little of the hotness than is Murder, She Wrote for those of you that think it is a boring old lady show. The synopsis of one of last nights episode begins "a tycoon invites Jessica to his private island retreat to find out which of his heirs is trying to kill him." Tycoon? Private Island retreat? Jessica? It drips sex! If you are not convinced of the sexy yet, just take a look at this TV Guide cover featuring Lansbury:

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I feel warm and fuzzy.

Oh wait that's just my slippers. Haha! So, the guy who created E-Harmony has been married for 49 years. Or so says the commercial. But his wife is on there too, backing up his claims, so I believe them. This makes me happy. Not that I really care one way or another about E-Harmony (wait, maybe I hate them...are they the ones that won't match same sex couples?) but I like knowing that the guy who claims to know about compatibility has been with his wife forevs. I hate shit like Dr. Phil, who has no idea about anything, tries to tell you your business about relationships, and really has to like pay his wife to stay married to his dumb face. Doctor Phil was on Frasier once, so I tried to like him because of that, but no. Charlatan!

Let's talk about another commercial

I hesitate to say this, but one of the women in the new Oral B Sonic Toothbrush commercial is fug. The reason I didn't want to say it is because, you know, she's just a normal person, and that's probably what they wanted in the commercial, just average looking Joes. But all the other people in the commercial are like the actor version of average Joe, meaning they are a little more shiny than you or me. This lady is a little more fugly than you or me.

Oh please, that is funny!

There is apparently an outbreak of listeriosis in Canada that originated at a deli meat factory, and sadly 16 people have died. Some touchy types are upset because a politician made some jokes about the outbreak and of course he had to apologize. I say don't apologize! Lighten up you dirty Canadians! Why so serious? Agricultural Minister Gerry Ritz did not make jokes about the people who actually died or anything! He said -and I can hardly type this because I am just so amused by it that I'm sort of shaking- "This is like a death by a thousand cuts. Or should I say cold cuts." I'm sorry but that is hysterical. That is classic. It reminds me of something that the Marx Brothers would say. Listeriosis is a serious infection, and it can end very tragically, but I do not understand why that should get in the way of the inspired comedy genius of Gerry Ritz.

Do you think this is true?

Here's what Yahoo claims that today's top searches were:

1. Keira Knightley
2. Jada Pinkett-Smith
3. Navy Cross
4. Ghost Town Movie
5. Credit Crisis

6. Talk Like a Pirate Day
7. Brad Pitt
8. Blue Whale
9. Smallville
10. Melamine

I mean, how popular is Smallville? And what is Melamine? And I refuse to believe that even one person cares about Keira Knightley.

Added: Melamine is that stuff in the Chinese milk!

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photo by Alan Light

It's Lansbury at the 1993 Emmy's looking like
Eleanor Duvall, her character from SVU!
Or looking like Mrs. Iselin, her character from
The Manchurian Candidate! Lansbury is a
chameleon.

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Bea Arthur has a louder anger than Lansbury.
I feel like they are displaying the same emotion, but in their own ways. Or maybe I feel like I have been looking at these pics too long.

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Missing Joe.

HOLY SHIT!!!!

So I go to the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator (thanks Aunt Candy) to find out what my name would be if Sarah Palin were my mother. (Repress shudder.)

Guess what it would be?

Nam Guadalupe Palin!!!!

Now, first things first, I do not think that this is a name Sarah Palin would give. It's all filled with foreign mumbo jumbo! Nam? Not very patriotic is it? Who would name a baby after a war the U.S. lost? Only a commie, that is clear. Also, Guadalupe? What V.P. candidate would be naming a baby Guadalupe with the issue of immigration inflaming the passions of the masses? Whatever, that is not the point. The point is that THE BABY NAME GENERATOR KNOWS ME. It named me after my tatoo/obsession! Coolio.

Brings me back to my youth

This reminds me of how when I used to live with Mariah (well, actually I lived with 5 other girls including the hotness of Lauren and Maggi, but I shared a room with Mariah) and like every night she used to sing me ducked up songs. Like, I am not a Shania Twain fan, and I can;t remember which song is was but she would always sing it to me. Like at night, before bed. At least that is my memory. I think she once made me a CD of nothing but this Shania Twain song. The other song she used to sing me was "Fat Bottomed Girls." Now that shit is hot. Ah, youth.

Money saving tip!

Alright, so I buy organic milk like many of you. (Just a little side note: I really love writing things like "many of you." It tickles me. Even thought I know that like 4 of my friends read this. It still tickles me). Not much if any pesticide actually ends up in milk, but the reason to buy organic milk is not about pesticide, it is about hormones. We already get a lot of naturally occurring hormones in milk, and even they may be harmful. So it is important not to let the dirty nasty agri-chemical company Monsato shove the synthetic hormone rBGH down your throat. Artificial hormones increase milk production in the cows, so I know, of course it must be great. Why allow cows to produce milk at a natural pace when you can make more more uber more? And of course the hormone also increases the incidence of mastitis in cows! It increases not only milk production but also infection! Yum! I love wholesome milk.

Monsato is pretty much the sole producer of the synthetic hormone. They have convinced the FDA to basically require any producer that wants to say "we didn't use synthetic hormones" to also say, "but there is no health difference between milk that has synthietic hormone and milk that has none." Anyway the point of this whole thing is that even some milk that is not fully organic is still free of synthetic hormone, and since there really are no pesticides in milk anyway, hormone free is plenty good enough. The milk may not be advertised as hormone free because the dairy may not want to get into the whole disclaimer rigamarole.

So, the overall point of that this whole (looong) post is that Dean, who also owns the organic brand Horizon Organic, produces a lot of milk that while not fully organic is made by dairies that do not use synthetic hormone. To find it, you have to look for Dean milk that has a little seal on it that says "Our farmers pledge not the use synthetic hormone," and they have it at Woodmans! Mister Jeff is very happy. He loves milk. He tried to hide it but I could tell that his patience was wearing thin with the price of organic milk (and my insistence on buying it :)). Well, the Dean hormone free is like more than $2 cheaper than the organic! So go buy it!

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Saying goodbye to summer.

Let's celebrate!

Break out the champagne and shit because those Brewers finally won! And they beat the Cubs! I cannot believe that they didn't find a way to duck it up, but there is it. Saw it with me own eyes. I haven't checked on the Mets and Phillys today, so I don't know what this does to the Wildcard, but it is so far past being about the Wildcard. This is about self respect, about being able to look yourself in the eye, about me not screaming "you dirty goddam scum sucking bums!" at the TV every night. So raise a glass to the Brewers tonight. Then, break the glass and use the jagged edge to threaten the Brewers with bodily harm if they don't win. They need the motivation!

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Who would publish such a demonic picture of Lansbury?

The Roanoke Times, that's who. Haters.

That baby's face looks fake!

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Rose and Sophia are dicussing Blanche's love life.

Rose: Where ever she goes, she finds a man!

Sophia: So do hookers.

Contact Hormel

Read this article about the ridiculously cruel abuse of animals on an Iowa farm that provides pork to Hormel, and then go here and complain to Hormel.

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Prayer for the 11th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa, Sept. 5th 2008.

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Best Week Ever gets it right yet again! They complied a list of Hollywood's Hottest Cougars, and guess whose hotness made the list? Lansbury! Hells yes. Here's what they had to say:

Angela Lansbury
Age: 81
Natural Habitat: The Tony Awards; Behind a Typewriter; Your Most Perverted of Sexual Fantasies; the set of Weekend at Bernie’s V: Aunt Angie’s In Town

Do we even need to explain why this wild and erotic creature still ranks as one of the hottest cougars on the market? Lansbury is a Cougar Queen. And a lady, at that. If this still isn’t making sense, call your therapist — there’s a lot you guys need to talk about.

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The Golden Girls won the 2008 TV Land Pop Culture Award. This is given to a show that crosses the line from TV show to pop culture phenomenon. They could not have picked a better show. What other show has become such a part of pop culture? None! At least I can't think of any. And I don't want to think of any because the Golden Girls rules. I mean, what other show has the kind of following the Golden Girls does, with "Stay Golden" t-shirts becoming hip 15 years after the show goes off the air? Again, none!

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Lansbury's Myspace! Add her as a friend!

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Look! One of my many cousins, Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, won the Costena Jalapeno Eating Contest yesterday!

We are not amused.

These dirty duckers need to straighten up and fly right!! What is the meaning of this?