So Who Is StuffWhitePeopleLike?
According to the LA Times, it’s a copy writer named Christian Landers.
Here’s a quote from Gregory Rodriguez’s column, White Like Us.
“I’m writing about the white people who think they’re absolutely unique and individual,” Lander told me. “I’m calling them out and poking fun of myself. The things I post are all the things I like too!”
This too:
Still, Lander is less concerned with cross-ethnic and racial relations than he is with how whites treat each other. As a onetime graduate student in the Midwest, he got tired of coastal condescension of the fly-over states and the glib assumption that “red staters are evil and stupid.”
I thought I smelled something political.
Watch What You See
It’s terrible that things are so far gone that we need reform.
Pay attention. Be skeptical. Think for yourself.
“Bitch Is The New Black”
I kept seeing on the news SNL was looking for an actor to play Obama and Saturday’s show would be the first one since the writers are back from the strike.
Wow, did anyone see it last night?
Tina Fey has fired up the political forums and blogs with her comedy skit, “Bitch is the New Black.” Finally I saw something good about Hillary on tv. Yes, good.
About fucking time.
I stole this last part of Fey’s monologue on Weekend Update from Uncle Wiggly.
Tina Fey: I want to say something about those calling Hillary a bitch…
Yeah, well she is…
So am I, so is she (pointing at Weekend Update news host Amy Poehler)
Deal with it. Bitches get stuff DONE! (Amy says yeah and starts nodding her head in rhythmn and saying more yeahs, uh huhs and a you go girl)
Like back in grammar school, they could have had priests teaching you but no, they had tough old nuns who slept on cots and who can hit ya and you HATE those bitches.
But at the end of the school year you sure KNEW the capital of Vermont!
So COME ON Texas and Ohio
Get on board, it’s not too late!…
Bitch is the new Black!
Found it:
Watch Bitch is the New Black on NBC’s website
And here is their spoof of the democratic debate showing the obvious media bias toward Obama.
Nine In The Afternoon
AJ, this is a direct hit from Spanky for making fun of her band.
I second it since you can no longer sleep late.
Check it out, Panic! At The Disco. If you don’t like this sort of music, at least watch it without the sound (the singer sounds like he’s had too much cooooooffffeeeee). Reminds me of Sergeant Pepper…
Split Decision
I just finished watching the debates and usually what I do after these things is turn off the tv and write my thoughts.
Overall I found the debate unifying for the democratic party. No huge cheap shots in either direction, but more of “my opponent is a great candidate” and “Bush and McCain are evil.”
I think with so many people voting for both of them, they will just have to do the dream ticket thing. I got the feeling the two of them know something we don’t know. That’s my impression from their behavior toward each other tonight.
Clinton did not appear desperate or grasping in any way. She seemed confident. Her explanation of their differences on universal health care was long overdue.
Obama has to know hers is better, he admits prices for health insurance goes down if more people pay into the system, he said so when he talked about why he would force all parents to buy it for their children.
Now I see more than ever why exactly Obama appeals to younger people, especially those without children. He would let them escape paying into the system during the healthy years when they also don’t have assets to protect and can “risk” getting a half million dollar hospital bill that they will never have to pay.
I have a problem with rounding up votes that way. You are either for universal coverage or not.
So, if there will be a dream ticket, who should be the presidential candidate? I say Obama because that will keep people from wondering if Bill Clinton were running the White House.
For that reason, I may vote for Obama. But I’d have to do a whole lot of hoping and whole lot of believing in the dream ticket idea.
Early voting began this week in Texas, but I’m going to wait until the last day to vote and then caucus that evening. Especially since this race is so close. We get to vote twice in Texas, so each vote is like a half a vote. I could vote for one in the primary and the other in the caucus. Or stay home.
Punk Politics
I’m aggitated that CNN and FoxNews blogs have become the top blogs at WordPress, beating out the unbeatable lolcats. That’s just wrong.
The mainstream media (msm) is out to protect their own interests. They do not want someone like Obama in office any more than they want Hillary in there. The thing is, with Obama they have much more to work with. They have created a frenzy over him, and like rock stars, Obama has no where else to go but down.
How long will it be until someone shouts, “Obama is a sell-out!” (I predict 30 days or less)
It’s starting already. The downward spiral. The thing is, the msm is attacking Obama voters as cultish and mindless. Hey, what did we dislike most about Bush supporters? The same thing. Can’t the msm at least change the fucking story line?
The thing about the msm that has me disturbed is the hatred toward Hillary Clinton. This has trickled down into the blogosphere. No one ever really says why they hate her, only that they do.
I do not bow to hatred. Voting for Obama to get rid of Hillary-hate is saying it is okay to hate.
I can’t believe people have bought into this superdelegate/disenfranchisement thing. It’s white hot. I’m getting emails from the progressive movement to stop this travesty. Tons of them. As if the primary process is fair except for the superdelegate issue.
Now that the progressives have gone ape-shit over this, it turns out Obama spent more money on them than all of the other candidates put together. I wonder if people who gave money to the Obama campaign are aware that their money might have been used to lobby superdelegates?
Change. For Obama to say he wants to move away from the politics of the past while he has half the Kennedy family standing right beside him is a mind fuck. Like I’m not seeing what I see.
But that’s not why I’m voting for Hillary in the primary. I believe her plan for universal health care is better than Obama’s. I’ve followed that issue for over twenty years and worked in health care. Hers is better because it makes everyone pay into the system. We already pay for all people over 65, the sickest and most expensive people to care for (what a relief for the health insurance industry, huh?).
I am also voting Clinton because the msm doesn’t want her to win. Screw them. She’s a street fighter and knows how to beat the crap out of the other party. If she can get there. Republicans know how to beat unbeatable candidates by whipping them in the primaries.
And if Obama wins the primary, I’ll vote for him in the general. He’s a great candidate and wants the same things Hillary wants. Almost.
I still think these two will be on the same ticket. Yes, with the Clinton baggage and Obama’s “bomb Pakistan” and fake accents and all.
Yes, I know this makes me the uncoolest person in the universe. Yeah? So what! (I think Johnny Rotten said that first)
You Might Hate Me For This
I found this blog last night, StuffWhitePeopleLike.
I promise if you go there you will end up reading every post, or at least every single blog title. I admit, I did actually see a little of myself there and it stung for a little while. I have a blog, I like coffee, I listen to NPR, have a Mac, iPod, iPhone…
It’s a satirical social commentary on upper and middle class liberals in America. For a while I tried to guess the race and gender of the blog’s authors. I’m guessing they are actually members of the upper middle class and it’s not really about skin color at all.
They know too much.
Night Sweats About Obama
This chick, Sarah (aka Seaswell) wrote a funny post about having endorsed Obama on her enormously popular (but newish) blog, BROOD.
I hate to send you out to read other people’s stuff two days in a row, but, you have to go read this short post for a good laugh. You don’t even have to know anything about politics, just go read:
Oh, and if you are looking for a freelance corporate copywriter, give her a call.
Happy Valentine’s, Love
I just adore the way some Brits end a sentence with “love” just as Southerners end theirs with “darlin.’” Once, I asked for directions from a complete stranger with about fifty piercings in his face and ears and he said, “It’s not difficult at all, love…”
Anyone notice all the wild Valentine’s gift commercials out there on late night television? There’s the one for lingerie that suggests if the guy gets his girl some of this stuff he will get a strip show, maybe even a pole dance. The stuffed teddy bear gift one (those start at $80) shows a bunch of ladies in an office oogling a teddy while some clueless dude in a cubicle eavesdrops, then runs to his computer to place an order.
Poor bastard.
Over at Fog City Diva’s, Toni McGee Causey did an excellent guest post just in time for Valetine’s Day, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”
She goes over a little history of the holiday as well as the commercialization of it. You’ll laugh too, there’s humor in just about everything Toni writes.
You can find Toni blogging mostly at Murderati these days along with a slew of other published writers. Oh Toni, how do you do it all?
Split Brained Over Politics
I’ve been smitten with Obama since the fall of 2005 when I first heard him speak (I wrote about it here).
I have also always liked Hillary because she was the first politician I ever heard who had the balls to talk about universal health care. That was in the early 90’s and way too close to the cold war. But she did it. And I think the real reason people hate her today is because of that.
I’ve been torn between these two amazing choices until a few weeks ago, when Michelle Obama said she would have to think about whether or not she would vote for Hillary if she were the nominee.
As a lifelong dem party supporter, this stunned me. She would consider voting for McCain? “100 years of war” McCain? This is “I didn’t vote for the war” Obama’s wife.
I could see right there, Obama’s weakness. His Achille’s heel. Michelle Obama.
I also noticed all the favorable press Obama’s been getting, like, everywhere. He is a great scoop. But I don’t trust the manipulative mainstream media. This is the same fear, fear, fear, media that drove people to vote for Bush. The same media that weeks ago made Bill Clinton out to be a racist (c’mon, the dude was the first black president, he has an office in Harlem, does humanitarian work in Africa…) 90% of this media which is owned by what, five major corporations?
Can you trust that?
So I wondered if they were harping on Obama because they think he’d be easier to beat in the general election.
And I wondered if the Obamicans (Republicans for Obama) were crossing over and voting in our primaries because they wanted an easy fight in November. This is a typical Rovian tactic. Crossover vote for the “loser” candidate so you can beat them later.
I just listened to Obama’s speech after the Potomic primaries. Then I watched McCain speak. Back to back. Then I watched the news commentator’s jaws drop. I could see it in their faces. There is no way McCain will beat Obama. Not even with the power of the media. They will have to steal it from him.
When I hear Obama, I tear up. He says things I have been wanting to hear for over twenty years. My right brain goes into overdrive. All will be good. He says college kids they will get $4000 a year to go to college. Not for free though, they will have to do community service for this cash (work in a homeless shelter or a VA hospital), learn a foreign language, or join the Peace Corps. “Yes we can” is sounding more like “yes we will.”
Then my left brain says, wait, he was whining about the Clintons ganging up on him, the republican machine will eat him alive. How’s he going to do all the things he promises? Hillary does things. She, too, wants change. She wanted it first, waaaaaay back when she burst onto the scene with universal health care. And she was around when Bill cleaned up that first Bush mess. We have a big mess to clean.
So I’m stuck back on the fence. The good news is, I don’t think McCain will be able to beat either one of our candidates.
One last word. McCain ended his speech with Obama’s line, “I’m fired up and ready to go.” Did he vote for Obama too?
I Promise Not To Bore You With This One
Michele tagged me with the infamous page 123 meme. You grab the nearest book and jot down three sentences after the fifth. Maybe including the fifth.
I grab the nearest book which is not mine, it’s Blane’s. Nikola Tesla’s My Inventions. (Click on the photo for link)
It does not have a page 123.
Next book.
Nikola Tesla Colorado Springs Notes 1899-1900.
Oh my. Does a mathematical formula count as a sentence?
I’d lose most of you if I wrote those three sentences, I know, because I got lost, myself.
So lost I want to give up and ditch this post. Thing is, it’s not my nature to give up on anything. I’m the rescue freak. The angel of lost causes. There is also this strong desire to turn this around and make this entertaining.
Tesla? The electricity geek? Entertaining?
Hell yeah. Let’s go back to the first book, the one without 123 pages. Tesla’s autobio. Where is it? I think Blane took it with him and he will not be back until tomorrow (I started this post yesterday)
To Myself: Finish this, Kitty.
Okay. I’ll paraphrase. There was something in there around page seven where Tesla wrote that his mother, at the age of sixty had fingers that were so nimble she could tie three knots in an eyelash.
I am changing this meme. This time around, those tagged have to tie just one knot in an eyelash. No books. No looking for quotes. No excuses.
I dare: Dailytri, Ginny, TigerWillow, Michele, and Max (today is her birthday, go get some cake).
This is not a stunt to get you to link me. In fact, you are forbidden to link back this post. Wait. This could turn into some famous thing. This could be groundbreaking.
Link me baby, one more time.
No, seriously, don’t link. This is not groundbreaking. Just tie a knot in an eyelash. If you do, your fingers are more nimble than mine or you have camel lashes.
That is one thing I can’t do.
Goin’ to Texas
Well it looks like the democratic primary in Texas might be a big deal.
Which is worrisome since Karl Rove has been meddling in politics here for 20 some-odd years.
And wow, instead of being in jail, Rove’s in your living room via Fox News. If you watch that crap.
Anyway, here’s a video from the late 80’s, early 90’s by British bloke, Chris Rea who sounds just like a Texan. Singing about Texas. It’s so idealistic it’s creepy. Especially knowing what we know now.
“Texas” by Chris Rea.
Watch what you watch on tv.
Mardi Gras In Stitches
Here is another thing I do with my hands, counted cross stitching. It is like “drawing” on fabric with little “X” shaped stitches of thread.
I stitch on linen because it is more exquisite and the weave of the fabric doesn’t distract from the artwork on it. I’ve done tons of them and have given many to friends and family.
In honor of my favorite holiday, Mardi Gras, I’d like to share one of my favorite projects of all time.
10×13 inches inside matting.
Looks festive, doesn’t it? That bread looking thing is called a King Cake. It is like a coffee cake or gigantic cinnamon roll, sort of, with gold, green and purple sugars on top. Inside is hidden a tiny plastic baby. The person who gets the piece of cake with the baby has to buy the next one.
I’ve seen different versions of this in other countries. On Jan 6th in France, they celebrate La fête des rois or King’s Day with a tart type pastry and porcelain figure hidden inside. The person who gets the slice with the figure also gets to be the king or queen for the day. I noticed something similar in Portugal, but they had this ring shaped fruit cake with a baby inside and it is tradition to serve it on New Year’s.
Back to the stitching.
What is unusual about this piece is the use of beads, sequins, ribbons, and blending filament (metallic thread) in certain parts of the picture. Zooming on the mask and the coins, you can see the sparkly stitches.
A little closer and you can see the weave of the fabric as well as the stitches.
To get an idea of the scale of this, there are 196 little “X”s per square inch.
Happy Mardi Gras Y’all!
Stolen Again
I stole this from Finicky Penguin who stole this from Savage Chickens.
I know stealing The Scream isn’t groundbreaking, but I just had to do it.
Wanna Dance?
One of my best friends, Helene, is the Parisian I talk about here from time to time. I met her about eight years ago while renting a vacation property she owns. We became such good friends that I see her at least once or twice per year. She has even come here to visit us once. She’s like a sister to me.
When I am in France, Helene always passes out great advice about things we should do to experience off the beaten path French culture. She often takes us to some of these things.
Last summer she took us to small festival out in the country. It was like a barn dance with live music, a fireworks show, and a huge bonfire at the end of the evening. What surprised me most about that evening was how the dancing was exactly the same as Cajun dancing.
Lately, Helene has been encouraging me to take dance classes. She started taking them about two years ago and says this is one of the best things she has ever done. A few days ago she sent me some video links of this French guy, Thierry Desequelle teaching country line dancing. You’ve got to go see this:
You don’t need to speak French to understand the guy, mostly it is just counting steps. Go see.
If you want to see more of his dance lessons, there are tons of them here.
Scary Stuff
The First Lady of Texas, Anita Perry said at a press conference regarding Stalking Awareness Month, “Victim’s of stalking are not alone.” (that was in the Feb. 4, 2008 Newsweek.
Oh my.
Something that is freaking me out at the moment is this gadget on the Huffington Post.
Here is their description of what it does:
FundRace makes it easy to search by name or address to see which presidential candidates your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors are contributing to. Or you can see if your favorite celebrity is putting money where their mouth is.
Good thing I don’t use my last name on here.
Another thing that is scary, some of the mapping things on the internet, like Google Earth and Microsoft live maps. A friend of mine told me she saw the front, side, and rear of my house in 3D on that thing. As well as my swimming pool. That is behind my 8 foot privacy fence. I don’t mind my friend seeing that, but strangers?
Scary stuff.
A Little More Time
In just one year we will have a new president. Less than one year. Doesn’t that just sound like cause for celebration?
Wouldn’t it be great if Hillary and Obama would run on the same ticket? Can you imagine what those two could get done, how our world would change? It would certainly show how America has changed before they even step foot in the White House. We need that.
What else? What else… Oh yeah.
In just three months my son Blane will have a viral video on YouTube. He’s making it right now. That is all I’m allowed to say about it.
