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We all have secrets.

2008-05-28T23:07:00.000-06:00

Some are just more interesting than others.

via http://www.isthisyour.name

2008-05-26T12:47:00.000-06:00

All about 'Thomas Heald'...
Etymology:

Forename:
Origin: Aramaic
Meaning: Twin

Top 5 Facts:
36% of the letters are vowels. Of one million first and last names we looked at, 47.7% have a higher vowel make-up. This means you are averagely envoweled.

Backwards, it is Samoht Dlaeh... nice ring to it, huh?

In Pig Latin, it is Omasthay Ealdhay.

In ASCII binary it is...
01010100 01101000 01101111 01101101 01100001 01110011 00100000 01001000 01100101 01100001 01101100 01100100

People with this first name are probably: Male. So, there's a 98% likelihood you sweat just thinking of the price of shaver blades.

3 Things You Didn't Know:
Your personal power animal is the Blast-ended Skrewt

Your 'Numerology' number is 7. If it wasn't bulls**t, it would mean that you are spiritual, eccentric, and a bit of a loner. Introspective and analytical, you think deeply and preferseclusion.

According to the US Census Bureau°, 1.383% of US residents have the first name 'Thomas' and 0.0014% have the surname 'Heald'. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 58 Americans who go by the name 'Thomas Heald'..

it's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me?

2008-05-25T11:05:00.000-06:00

I don't do Halloween, Christmas or my birthday (June 2) as "events" anymore, as I would rather treat every day with a Carpe Diem attitude. I give people gifts because i get the message from the universe/God that the person is supposed to have the item.

Occasionally I've been in these platonic (wish it could be more than) friendships and just going somewhere quiet and alone or a movie (Moulin rouge" was a birthdayer) is just nice.

An embarrassing public event with mom, dad, my brother and his kids at Olive Garden where my 16 year old bipolar ADD nephew thinks it'd be cool to go out the fire alarm door and orders 2 vanilla cappuccinos because he's not paying the tab and mom has bought magic relighting candles which are more like sparklers and specifically says on the package have to be put out using water (because the flames and sparks go up about 2 inches ... mom bought the dollar store candles because they had neat little free holders!) ... well, that was 2007.

that man ...

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Not why the blog is titled 'I Don't Get It'

2008-03-04T19:50:00.000-07:00

Americans are not getting enough action. The United States is one of the world's most undersexed countries, according to a new study released Monday. Just 53% of Americans having regular, weekly sex according to results from the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey of 26,000 people in 26 countries, tying the USA with Nigeria for the second worst spot on the list.

Only Japan - the Land of the Rising Sun - where little else rises, apparently - fared worse, with 34% of those surveyed getting regular action. Greeks apparently have the hottest standard of living, topping the survey with 87% of respondants getting regular sex at least once a week.

It's carnivale all year round in Brazil, which finished second with 82% of responders getting lucky. Russians apparently found something to do when it's cold outside, finishing third in the survey with 80%. No surprise how China became the most populous country on Earth: It finished fourth with 78%.

No matter how much whoopie they're making, the survey showed that only 44% of people are fully satisfied with their sex lives. Surprisingly only 60% of us say that "sex is fun, enjoyable, and a vital part of life," according to the survey.

Just Smile and Act Nermal,

2008-02-26T18:11:00.004-07:00

Personally, I've always maintained that the comic strips Garfield and Cathy are just as funny in Spanish, particularly if you don't read Spanish.

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

the perfect headline

2008-02-25T23:23:00.001-07:00

McCain Explain Flails Mainly in Disdain!

WHAT'S THE WORST POSSIBLE MOVIE I COULD SEE THIS WEEKEND?

2008-02-25T23:11:00.003-07:00

Sure, you automatically assume "Semi-Pro" starring Will Ferrell.

But the dumbest basketball movie since ... well, it's tempting to say "The Fish That Stole Pittsburgh" but let's instead go with "BASEketball" ... is trying to be as dumb as Mitt Romney's
campaign advisers.

No ... the new worst movie opening Friday February 29th is ... "Possession," in which Sarah Michelle Geller (again?) thinks her brother-in-law is now her husband, since he's the first or the two to awake from comas following a car accident that may have merged their souls. Yes, that combined sequel to both "Vice Versa" and "Sommersby" has finally arrived.

May "Possession" take 9/10ths in the box office rankings.

Laramie projections

2008-02-25T18:38:00.001-07:00

'Laramie' releases flood of emotions for Central High students and teachers.

In the last eight years, the Tectonic Theater Project's experimental docu-play about Laramie, Wyoming, has been performed over 5,000 times. But Rapid City's production offered something Thomas Howard, Jr., Ed.M., educational director for the Matthew Shepard Foundation, who's been present at over 50 different stagings, says he has never before witnessed. "I haven't been to a place that feels like this. It's rare for a high school production to have this many parents sharing the stage alongside with their children. My only wish is that the entire high school could have seen it."

The show was produced not by Central High School, but by the independent "Advocates for Creative Theater Students," which paid to rent the theater and for teacher Justin Speck's direction. And while no public funds were used, it received complete support from the Board of Education.

After seeing the opening night show, Central High's new principal Mike Talley revealed to director Speck the full extent at which he has been discriminated against as a Native American. Assistant principal Steve Vernon has also praised the production and Speck suggests the student board may be also responsive in efforts to protect all students from discrimination.

Speck revealed during a forum between the Saturday performances that "while educational" the school "couldn't require it for the full student body." Speck spent "an hour and 15 minutes conversation from one parent opposed to the production." The largest opposition seemed to come from people who had neither seen nor read the work. Actor Robbie Martin concurs. He was stunned to learn the gossip which was being spread about the drama, when asked by fellow students "how graphic the play's death scene was." "No such scene has ever been shown in the work" he countered, yet the teen insisted that "my daddy told me that Matthew Shepard's murdered on stage."

It was such fears that terrified Gifted Education counselor Kathryn Sosa. "I was very concerned and apprehensive about how graphic this might be." But after reading the work, she wound up auditioning and landing the role as the play's narrator and author Moisés Kaufman. "My concern was this goes beyond just Matthew Shepard. And that was my feeling before today, 'How can we take this piece -- this performance -- and apply it to what needs to happen here at Central High School.' I knew that this was not a play but that this was real life. It didn't become real until today. This is what is happening in our country. ... Something has changed. We have got to change," pleaded a tearful Sosa.

Teacher Constance Krueger believes that "Art, like this, has the power to produce change." Early in her teaching career, she witnessed the Kent State Massacre, and while she kept hearing that "it was 'okay' that the students there got killed, my heart was with the college kids. I told them never 'give your power to an adult.'"

One of the high school actors, who says he was bullied because of his perceived effeminacy and size (not unlike Matthew Shepard) early in his education revealed at the forum not only that he is gay in real life, but that he might have committed suicide had it not been for the support of the drama department. Howard, the representative from the Matthew Shepard Foundation, noted that in bullying "the bruises don't have to be seen."

Speck says "Doing this play has been a huge blessing -- (learning) the gracious nature of human beings. We knew that we were going to face some adversity and be challenging some opposing views. (But) I'm kind of in a state of euphoria now."

The play itself includes material from over 200 interviews, and among its 60 portrays are town residents of faiths including Mormon, Catholics, and conservative fundamentalist leaders in the town as well as an Islamic feminist. But, Speck pauses, "No matter what you believe Matthew Shepard has been present with us at every rehearsal and every performance."

hatman ....

2008-02-18T20:33:00.001-07:00

Hey, what's the worst movie I could see this weekend?

2008-02-01T00:09:00.000-07:00

Let's remake "Ghost" as a comedy and have Eva Longoria in the Patrick Swayze role: "Over My Dead Body."

My, that is pretty bad

2008-01-24T03:35:00.000-07:00

Total Eclipse of the Heart Attack

2007-10-23T02:19:00.000-06:00

The McDonald's McRib sandwich is sorta like Christmas. It's overcommercialized, is a mainstreamed bastardization of the original concept, and seems to be celebrated for months at a time, but not by all of the major religions. This year, McRib Season (which it seems odd that Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck never got around to arguing about) coincides with the also "limited time only" McMonopoly promotion. (As though the seeming 11.9 months of the year the promotion runs is a "limited time.") Combined, the two form a veritable McClipse, blocking out the arteries over most of the nation with faint hopes, minimal payoff, and momentary joy ... and that's just the rib sandwich.

"Brighter Discontent" by The Submarines

2007-10-21T04:09:00.000-06:00

Got a brand new roof above my head
All the empty boxes thrown away
I rearranged the place
A hundred times today
But the ordering of objects
Couldn't hide what's missing

All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be home again
All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be alone again

Got myself a bottle of red wine
Got a night of nothing else to do
I think I might know
What I really want
But is a brighter discontent
The best that I could hope to find?

Got a big black television set
Now I can watch just what I want
But I'm here staring up
At pictures on the wall
And where are you,
You're still stuck inside them all

All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be home again
All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be alone again

But love is not these belongings
That surround me
Though there's meaning
In the memories they hold
A breaking heart in an empty apartment
Was the loudest sound I never heard

Got a desk I'll write myself a note
Pretending that it came from you
On hotel stationary
From the time we first met
Whatever I can do cause
I won't throw my hands up yet

All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be home again
All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be alone again

But love is not these belongings
That surround you
Though there's meaning
In the memories they hold
A breaking heart in an empty apartment
Was the loudest sound I never heard

Well I'll be find if
I dont look around me now
Too much for what's gone
If only I can wait here just a little while
And let time pass in my room

Sugar. Oh Honey, Honey.

2007-10-16T19:10:00.000-06:00

The Jones Soda company is infamous for its ever changing Thanksgiving Dinner Holiday Pack of sodas which has included such tempting tastes as liquid "Turkey & Gravy, Sweet Potato, Dinner Roll, Pea, and Antacid," Turkey & Gravy; Smoked Salmon Pâté, Corn on the Cob, Broccoli Casserole, and Pecan Pie," Turkey & Gravy, Green Bean Casserole, Cranberry, Mashed Potatoes with Butter, and Fruitcake," and "Turkey & Gravy, and Cranberry, Wild Herb Stuffing, Pumpkin Pie, and Brussels sprout." More gag gift than practical potables, they benefit Seattle charities. Are you ready for ... Candy Corn soda for Halloween? Wouldn't an IV of Karo Syrup be easier?

And if all you need to do to celebrate is to say "it's Sunday," The Seattle Seahawks collector pack includes tributes to "sweat, grass, dirt, sports cream ... and if you can finish it all, the Sweet Taste of Victory." (What? Soiled Jockstrap? Processed using a cotton gin?)

Is it easier to just drink Drano or wait for the Jones Soda flavor?

CRACK FACTS IS WACK!

2007-10-15T01:15:00.000-06:00

Guess what? None of the following are true.

1.Crack is different from cocaine.
2. Crack is instantly and inevitably addicting.
3. The "plague" of crack use spread quickly into all sectors of society.
4. Crack is the direct cause of violent crime.
5. Harsh sentences for crack are necessary to deter "serious" and "major traffickers."

Damn, they'll have to skip 8 Frappucinos to afford that...

2007-10-13T15:51:00.000-06:00

FDA Approves Anti-AIDS Pill From Merck

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government approved a novel anti-AIDS pill on Friday, offering a new option for hard-to-treat patients.

Patients take Isentress, also known as raltegravir, twice a day. A Merck spokeswoman said the drug would cost $27 a day, or $9,855 a year - in the range of other competitors.

When Gods collide...

2007-10-12T16:34:00.000-06:00

Beliefnet's "Idol Chatter" pop culture / religion section is giving away copies of "Evan Almighty" to their judged selections on this subject: "What do you think God looks like?"

My entry is not necessarily what you'd expect:

The face of God is a kaleidoscope. Depending on the time of day, the day of year, or millennium for that matter the face of God looks different. Ultimately, it depends on the viewer. The face of God is that which he (or she) allows his (or her) creations to see at any given moment in time. For some, it's a bearded Caucasian in Charlton Hestonesque robes and Cecil B. DeMille bombast, for others, it's George Burns or now Morgan Freeman. But for over 3000 religions to see different images of what is possibly the same entity, for some not to see the image at all, or still others not to believe an image exists or not to be sure what its existence or their own means, the face of God changes slightly every second the Earth rotates upon its axis.

Sure and they have a problem saying that homosexuality being genetic is bad.

2007-10-12T02:21:00.000-06:00

"Deadbeat granddads, life-shortening sons and genetically bullying brothers—these are just a few effects revealed in biologist Virpi Lummaa's studies of how evolutionary forces shape later generations"

"Yes, they are Bugle Boys" -- a made up quote we shall humorously attribute to Kevin Federline, Uncle Cracker, and every the male American Idol contestants who launch country music careers when asked about their gene pools.

Just because they hung that guy to a big cross?

2007-10-12T02:07:00.000-06:00

BARNYARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS?

Some of the young adults' disdain for Christianity is the result of another new wrinkle that was nowhere on the scene a decade ago. The study found that 91% of non-Christians in America -- joined by 80% of the their peers in the pews -- now believe that Christianity is "anti-homosexual."

Great, now he can dye his hair blonde, lose some weight, write a book and have the same credibility as Ann Coulter

2007-10-12T02:03:00.000-06:00

MASTERMIND OF FIRST TWIN TOWERS ATTACK CLAIMS HE HAS CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY

Fear for the future...

2007-09-15T22:09:00.001-06:00

At a houseparty Saturday Night, a trio of young ambitious lawyers arrived (shall I presume a Prius?) and over the course of the evening I learned that two of them -- having gone through law school -- don't really like reading books anymore. I can only imagine that their legal pads in court must look like the rebus puzzles of "Concentration." (Y+oar) (N+oar) knot + (quilt+tea) shower + (pull+E).

The third lawyer admitted he likes to read, but at his call center job, he got so engrossed in whatever he was reading that he took the book to his car and read it on his way home on the interstate.

Can I hope that the crew (doomed to open their own bar called the Legal Pad) are all proecutors if I'm ever a defendant in court?