This song is a few years old, but apparently Pink wrote it just for GW to tell him what she thought of him. In this YouTube video, someone added images to the song.
A very good friend and client who will one day be famous worldwide was holding onto my feet yesterday and said this: “Life is about two things - being happy and learning. If you’re not doing those things, something’s wrong.” I thought that was the most profound thing I’d heard recently. I will be thinking about that for a while.
The other night, my main squeeze took me flying. I was a wee bit nervous when we left, but on the way back, I got out my camera and took some photos. It was near dusk, and the sunset photo I got is truly a gem.
I hate to ask for money in two consecutive posts, but the Red Cross really needs our support right now. If we needed their support, they wouldn’t think twice about it, so we need to belly up so they can continue to help our brothers and sisters in the flood-ravaged western states of our great nation.
Obviously most of us were joking four years ago when we threatened to move out of the country if W was re-elected. Maybe a few really did. I spoke with one European today who is actively planning for the possibility of another Republican regime. His plan: to move back to Europe. Why is this bad for you and I? Because Europeans add a much-needed diversity and cultural stimulus to our country and, particularly, Sarasota. When I moved here, that is one of the things that endeared me - you can’t throw a stick without encountering someone from England or Ireland or Colombia or Australia. It was a refreshing change from my sheltered life in Vermont. Trust me - you don’t want to live in a completely homogeneous city - it’s indescribably boring.
So, that’s one reason to SEND MONEY TO OBAMA. The other reason, of course, is that if he loses, you are going to see some serious third world shit go down in our country. You know how 1% of the population controls 95% of the wealth? Well, that other 99% of the population is going to start taking action when they can’t feed their children, drive their cars or pay their mortgage… all three of which are already happening as we speak. When people can’t eat, they get desperate and millions of desperate people should not be trifled with. John McCain has absolutely NO CONCEPT of how to help our nation’s impoverished citizens… and their numbers grow every day in this economy. They don’t have jobs, they can’t afford the rising cost of food (made worse by the recent floods), their children are not getting the education they need to rise above.
If John McCain is elected, our country WILL lost its superpower status as we try to cope with feeding our own citizens and providing them with jobs. We didn’t need checks for $600 - we needed REAL economic stimulus in the form of more green jobs, aid to schools and tax cuts for middle class Americans… not the rich.
I believe what Al Gore said last night… we’ve got one chance. Our descendants are either going to wonder how we could’ve fucked it up this bad (excuse my language) or they are going to wonder how we summoned the courage to do the right thing. I feel very sorry for whoever is living in the former world.
Phoebe was due for a checkup, so I asked that they include a much-needed teeth cleaning while she was there. I knew this would involve a lot of stress on her part as she hates to stay at the vet for any period of time, but she only goes a few times a year now, so she’s got it pretty good.
When I got her home, I noticed that part of one of her front legs had been shaved. I was like “What the..?” I guess I didn’t think that they would give my little girl an IV just to clean her teeth. Poor little thing… there was even bruising around the insertion point. She probably hates me. (But her teeth are dazzling!)
This idea seems a bit ill-conceived: developers want to build a 2-story grocery store. Apparently, you would have to get to the second floor in an elevator if you have a grocery cart. How big is this elevator? Would only one person be able to use it at a time? Many people in grocery stores are very rushed, and I cannot see them waiting minutes upon minutes to catch the next elevator to get to their car.
I’m sure this has been done before - especially in Europe. But I think the concept should be reserved for smaller grocery stores - preferably in downtown areas where people probably wouldn’t be buying cartloads of grocery. It sounds like a nice boutique style grocery store idea. They shouldn’t even have carts. The parking lot is not that big anyway, and with a bunch of carts rolling around, it would make things a bit hazardous. Perhaps they could restrict it to those small sized carts that they have at Whole Foods.
I hope they at least put all the healthy food on the first floor and reserve the second floor for the really bad foods. That way people who weren’t eating healthy would have to walk those extra steps to get at it.
I guess I didn’t believe my roommate when he told me there were black widow spiders at our house. He said he found one on my car the other day. So, when we came home last night, and I saw a spider in a web outside, I wasn’t expecting to see a red hourglass shape on it’s abdomen. But I did. We took a picture of the culprit below.
My rommate assures me that they only come out at night, but I’ve read that they get into vehicles and that’s how they are transported from place to place. Also, most people get bitten whilst sticking their hand into some dark corner, and I spend a lot of time gardening and cleaning up outside.
I have to admit that I’m extremely disturbed to know that there are tiny killers inhabiting my yard. What’s in your yard? If you found a black widow, would you kill it?
