The Wright affect

So I guess this is why people are so concerned with the Reverend Wright/Barack Obama connection.

I still think Rock Band is way cooler!

According to MSNBC the game is projected to sell NINE MILLION COPIES in its first week! Everyone in marketing deserves a raise!

Oprah says,

So I was browsing the Oprah site, as usual and came across a section that I've never browsed before. It's called Famous Bookshelves, which is just a list of random celebrities and some of their favorite books. I thought Micheal Moore's was the most interesting:

1984 George Orwell

Johnny got his gun Dalton Trumbo

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown

Rules for Radicals Saul D. Alinsky

The Soft Revolution Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

How Children Learn John Holt

Fit from Within Victoria Moran




In case, in the very slimest of chances, Oprah somehow stumbles on this blog, these are the most recent additons to my bookshelf:

Atonement Ian McEwan

I am America. And so can you! Stephen Colbert

The secret life of bees Sue Monk Kidd

Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun Darby Conley

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

You won't like me when I'm angry...

Hopefully they get it right this time, the last one was bullocks! I love Ed Norton by the way. His range is impeccable!

Be kind to your sister.

Or, if she's mean to you, just sing this until it gets on her nerves. Classic movie BTW!

Awesome cat pic of the week!!

Do believe the hype.

OK, so at long last SPRING is finally here! So you know what that means right? SPRING CLEANING! One of my favorite past times. Sweeping out the cobwebs of winter, putting away winter sweaters and busting out those feng shui skills for a fresh new start.

The most exciting part of Spring Cleaning 08 is that I just got myself a Dyson vacuum cleaner! Let me preface my explanation by saying that I bought a Hoover exactly ONE YEAR AGO and it's never really done that great of a job. It's always sort of spit the dirt right back out at you, like a two year old that's just realized that you've been hiding brussel sprouts in his mashed potatoes. So I went to vacuum last week and the cleaner was DEAD. It wouldn't even turn on.

I decided to research a vacuum that would not only CLEAN but would actually last more than a year. I live in a fully carpeted apartment and this is the second vacuum cleaner we've bought in a three year period. So I decided to check out the Dyson. I know, I know, their are like $400, but I had a $100 gift certificate and SEARS was having a sale. So I decided to try it, and if it didn't live up to the hype, I would just return it.

To say that this vacuum cleaner is WICKED GREAT would be an understatement. It suctions like a dream. I vacuumed the ENTIRE apartment and only emptied it ONCE. And it's cute too! Yes, yes ya'll it truly doesn't stop! it picked up things I couldn't even see! It's like the Rolls Royce of the cleaning world. It really is! My testimonial is done now. I gotta get back to cleaning.

360 degrees of awesomeness!

The people who know me best are fully aware of my Anderson Cooper obsession. I've never been able to explain what it is I like about him so much. I'm not sure if its his handsome silvery hair, his sarcastic wit, or the fact that he is a fellow Gemini who happens to be born on the EXACT same day as me!
Or maybe it's the fact that he's the heir to a denim empire, who need not left a finger in financial support of himself, but instead is on his grind daily. He's traveled to war torn countries in Africa, he's seen first hand the devastation of hurricane Katrina and just happens to be the illest news host on CNN sorry Wolf Blizter).
With all this being said, imagine my dismay when cancer rumors started flying around the blogosphere. It turns out that my beloved Mr. Cooper had a spot of melanoma on his face and had to have it removed. It wasn't at all serious. So now he can go back to being awesome every weeknight at 10 pm eastern.

In Memoriam

Dear Mr. Heston,

since before I can even remember, I have spent Easter Sunday watching The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur with my parents. You have been an institution in my family, though I must admit that in recent years I've favored Yul Brynner's Ramses to your portrayal of Moses. That is not in anyway to take away from your performance, I always root for the bad guys.

I must say, I've never quite forgiven you for rolling with the NRA and that "cold dead hands" comment sort of put a nail in the gun control coffin. There are some democrats who may want to do a two-step on your grave, but isn't a steadfast belief system what this country was built on. I've ALWAYS disagreed with you on your views on guns, but have somehow always respected that same steadfastness.

I've watched you part The Red Sea, race chariots at dangerous speeds and even wrestle with super evolved monkeys. Your battle with Alzheimer's is finally over and I hope you find peace in the great beyond.

Much Respect,

D

From the archives.

Among the infinite number of Shirley Temple movies, old-school Disney musicals, and animated feature films that I watched as a child, this one ranks near the top. Milo & Otis is the heartwarming tale of two BFF's, a pug and a tabby cat, who live on a farm and have mischievous nature land them in all sorts of trouble.

If you watch this movie and it doesn't make you smile, then you should check your palm for a serious of 6's for you are indeed the anti-Christ and should avoid direct contact religious artifacts, and sunlight.

Watch it with you favorite little person today, they might like it too.