Everything´s coming up Millhouse!

School’s back in session, we just took a field trip that kind of sucked, Friday (2nd) was Shakira’s birthday and my kids took a stomping in intramural soccer, lost 4-0 much to my shame and to the extreme detriment of their grades. Rumor has it the gay, America hating, ex-pro hockey player (Washington) who steals the tennis courts at the best times everyday has been ejected from the country. For being gay. Not really, for being violent in his encounters with the locals. He tried to claim he was just being “sassy” but since this culture’s too macho for such a homo word, out he went. Speaking of homosexuality, I just found out Thomas Jefferson* had a lisp. All I have to say to that is “ssssweet asssssss!” Strangely so did Martin Van Buren*, and John Adams.,* three of the first eight. Thomas Jefferson used his lisp to invent the swivel chair. There’s something about lisps and genius, I wonder if anyone’s ever done a study. Probably someone with a lisp. I just watched Pirates of the Caribbean but think the best treasure movie of all time is City Slickers II. I get the impression my maid doesn’t appreciate my using the cheese grater as my pasta strainer. It destroys the sponge and she knows I’m not busy grating cheese with it. The new Will Ferrell ice skating movie looks to be hilarious. Getting a little political with the quotes section, all apologies. I’m of the belief that anyone who takes Ann Coulter or dominionism* seriously ought to have to try school again, starting way back at the beginning Billy Madison style. Colombia has an income tax of course, not as high as say Sweden, but an income tax nonetheless. For some reason, they also have a 4% use your money tax. They take out the income tax, then you put your money in the bank, then if you use your money, you pay 4% of what you use. This isn’t sales tax, they have that also, and so after extracting your money, and losing 4% of it, they take more for sales tax when you buy something. Thus you get taxed earning it, extracting it, and then using it. Seems a little ridiculous to me. I leaned on a counter at a tienda the other day and got electrically shocked. The man at the counter looked at me like I was retarded, apparently this type of counter/cooler always shocks people. I should have known not to touch the counter where I have to lay my items for purchase. I think states should be able to pick which star on the U.S. flag is theirs. Sometimes when I try and chat with someone online, and they don’t answer, and I start to feel bad about myself as a person because of it, I go out and make someone else feel bad, and hopefully then they go and make someone else feel bad, starting a vicious cycle that I can only dream gets back to the person who didn’t immediately answer me, even though they probably weren’t at the computer. I’d like to see my nieces more, I think Ajíaco (Bogota soup) is the best soup I’ve ever tasted, Lost season three is about to start down here, old people behind the wheel scare the crap out of me, Nutella is delicious and previously undiscovered and people speaking Spanish makes me sleepy. The last is a bit of a problem considering the neighborhood I live in. I went to the doctor and he claimed I have narcolepsy, but he was talking to me during the examination. My home internet is down indefinitely, maybe be back up in March, thus the problems returning emails and posting on this. I´ll try and keep it up but I have to do it at work now.

Random Movie (quote) of the Week Déjà vu, I like the “we need more cowbell” they slipped in.
Random Book of the Week On Writing by Stephen King, it´s really good actually. Short.
Random Spanish word of the week Gadejo, short for Ganas de joder, someone who likes to do things to piss you off. Policia acostado, “sleeping policemen” for speed bumps is amusing as well..
Random song of the week Picard Song by Dark Materia, a song where all the dialog is all Star Trek the next generation Jean Luc sound bites making him sound like he’s rapping, it’s hilarious.

mid-day at the grocery store,
~Tyrone

The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet--it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. ~Ann Coulter

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. ~ Al Franken

(Concerning Superman) And he came here after his home planet of Krypton was destroyed. Most likely by Gay Marriage. ~ Stephen Kolbert


*President John F. Kennedy once welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

*There’s an episode of Seinfeld entitled the "Van Buren Boys" where Kramer and George are threatened by a street gang called the Van Buren Boys with the secret sign of the number 8 because Van Buren was the 8th president. They picked that name as he was "the meanest president".

*John Adams developed his lisp late in life, after losing his teeth and refusing to wear false ones.

*Dominionism refers to Genesis 1:28: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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