Last week in the Kroger parking lot, during daylight hours, I noticed a guy blasting his mixed music out of his car.  He asked a lady passing by if she likes CDs.  She kind of looked his way, shook her head and kept walking.  That registered as odd in my head, but I shelved it away in the back of my brain.

Until tonight.

Getting out of the car in the same parking lot, I heard someone blasting a very familiar beat, slowed way down, emanating from a moving car.  I focused my attention and it took about a millisecond for me to figure it out.

"No fucking way, is that a chopped and screwed version of "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough?!"

I listen for about a second more and sure enough, it's GOT to be.  What the hell?

About forty minutes later, coming out of the Kroger, I heard MORE of the same song, out of the same car, seemingly driving around the parking lot endlessly.  This time I heard the slowed down vocals and just shook my head.  That HAS to be the same guy.

Crazy ass Houston!

Out of curiosity, I just Googled and FOUND IT.

Brian Kilmeade (a.k.a. Black-Haired Guy Who Isn't Steve Doocy) of FOX & Friends says something mindblowingly stupid.

Have any of you noticed three or more different hair types/textures on your head?  I guess I'm probably asking the ladies specifically, but if you men have longer hair you may have noticed it as well.  I've noticed it for decades now but I never really got curious about it till now, I guess.  I Googled and found mostly black women's hair websites talking about it so I'm not sure how related to race it is.  Anyway, my hair is mostly 2B according to this site and its curl varies with length, so when my hair gets to be shoulder length I start to get bouncy, spirally curls.  Occasionally though, I'll run into a really weird, much thicker, very coarse, straight and springy (refusing to lay flat), jet-black type which I assume is type 1 and sometimes I'll run into 4C, which is called "kinky coily hair" on that same site.  It's odd because it's fineish, seems brittle and is a very tight S coil pattern, usually not much longer than 10-15 S-es, from memory anyway... probably because it breaks so easily.

Strange, I know, but I notice these things and wonder if anyone else has wondered too.

O_O

I don't like this article!  It makes me cry.  :(

Yep, it's the yearly birthday weather watch. For the newbies, it always, always, ALWAYS rains on my birthday. It would not be my birthday without rain. In fact, it'd be downright odd and probably a bit unsettling if it ever didn't rain. As an odd bit of trivia, sort of a curiosity, my birthday happens to fall on July 15th, better known to some as St. Swithin's Day.

St Swithun's day if thou dost rain

For forty days it will remain

St Swithun's day if thou be fair

For forty days 'twill rain na mair.

( Well, here's the forecast... )

Oh dear.

Play her off, keyboard cat!



I was totally going to make one if it didn't already exist on Youtube, which is how I even found this! :D

I can't wait to find out why she's quitting in such a hurry. Something she said in her weirdly breathy, rambling speech really struck me as a point she wanted to drive home, a word or two VERY loudly and awkwardly emphasized, but I didn't transcribe it or anything. It was when she was talking about Alaska's money being wasted, I think. Either way, this may be a clue. Also, see these possible reasons and keep an eye on this blog.

Okay, so I just heard the most BS thing EVER.  I am actually quoting this from her announcement, typing it as she speaks:

Wow, you sure the hell do.  What a manipulative, bullshit thing for her to say.  As she said the "meanspirited adults" thing, the camera moved to poor Piper's face, not looking too happy.  Okay, so her kids decided it was best for her to quit her GOVERNORSHIP because some blogger ON THE INTERNET Photoshopped a local Alaskan radio talk show host's head onto Trig's so that it looked like she was holding him, in baby form, instead?  And she agreed?  Are you fucking serious?  As if her kids read political blogs and just happened to run into the picture or something?  Yeah, tell us another one.
Oh, Sarah, give me a break!  Yeah, you need your kid.  He's a really convenient excuse for you to paint any opposing voices to yours, online, as inhuman bastards who would mock a special needs child... except, hello, they weren't mocking your kid and you know it.  Also, a bit of a bizarre statement... the world needs more severe Down Syndrome sufferers?  What exactly is her reasoning here? It sounds all feelgood and sweet, but could she picture the REALITY of that statement?  Please, get your head out of your ass!  The only one making a mockery of your kid is YOU.

Shameless!  Absolutely shameless.

MUST order bialys from here.

I've never done one of these before and I guess now seemed as good a time as any.  I think my favorite all-around Michael Jackson song is "Rock With You" but if we want to include earlier stuff, The Jacksons' "Can You Feel It" is a very strong contender, as is "Blame It On The Boogie".  The "Off The Wall" album is generally great stuff, as is "Destiny".  Of course "Thriller" is THE classic of the bunch but I feel the others are a bit overlooked in its favor though I will give "P.Y.T." honorable mentions for being super catchy.

"Rock With You" is one of those songs that instantly brings me back to when I first heard it.  I was only five years old but the song and the video really made an impression on me, as did the one for "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".  I couldn't tell you offhand where I first saw his earliest videos... perhaps on Night Flight?  MTV wasn't around at the time and they were fairly racist in their beginnings anyway so he never would have gotten play because he was a black artist.

I find I really never clicked with his music past the "Thriller" album, except maybe for some of the collaborations he did, like Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" or the various duets.  Oh, and 1984 Jacksons' album "Victory"... that's pretty much where it ends for me.  Oddly, that's when he started to go a bit weirder with the plastic surgery... maybe there's a connection somewhere?

When "Thriller" came out, the supermarket around the corner from where I lived, Domino's, used to have a 25-cent machine where you could put in a quarter, turn the metal knob and out would pop a plastic ball with a sticker of Michael Jackson or Boy George inside.  I think I prefer to remember Michael Jackson as the young, vital star whose stickers I collected and happily stuck in my sticker books, rather than as the sad, sickly, later figure of ridicule and suspicion he became to so many.

Not my all time favorite song, but it's up there, and what a classic video!

Rush Limbaugh blames Mark Sanford's affair on President Obama.

No, I'm not even kidding!

Sometimes I think I should get one of those dealies that updates LJ when I update Twitter or Facebook.

I'd probably be annoying though.

I'm listening to my 1978 playlist again, trying not to skip some of these but there are some awful country songs and ballads mixed in so I can't really help myself.

I'd also really like some ice cream or some Homestyle Pop Secret popcorn RIGHT NOW. Just felt I should share.

I've only been waiting for this Sirius XM app since FOREVER, since I got my hopes up with the Starplayr version and they got shot down. :'(

Unfortunately I have to shell out an extra $2.99/mo. for internet access I already get for free, that isn't compatible as it's not considered "premium", but hey, it's worthwhile to be able to hear crystal clear music in my kitchen as I cook and whatnot. It's hard to listen to music with the antenna because it's indoors, on my windowsill, and at certain points of the year I get worse reception. It may work for talk radio because it can be at a lower bitrate but I can't really put up with stuttering, dropped out music. If I had my own house, that antenna would be on the roof, but well, we can't have it all, I guess. ANYWAY...

( See more screenshots from my iPod Touch! )

If you have an iPod Touch, not 1st gen, or an iPhone, you can try out Sirius XM for a week, free of charge. Hey, why the hell not!

Laughs found here and here.


My own contribution, because hey... he pretty much deserves the ridicule and I don't mind piling on:

@petehoekstra Typing very quietly, in a darkened bedroom, so as not to make a peep. This must be how Anne Frank felt. #GOPFail

I hadn't seen a real need for Twitter for myself, before this happened, but yes... I have twatted many times today and even changed my icon there to a lovely shade of green to show solidarity in my own small way.  It is fascinating, really much more than that, to watch how it is all unfolding second by second, using Twitterfall, checking blogs, Youtube and all the rest.  I've been glued to this story before elections in Iran even took place and much more so afterward but I didn't really have anything to say about it here, until now, I guess.  This business about a recount is absolute BS.  Reports I was reading mentioned how many boxes of votes for the Greens and others were burned, not to mention there were a certain number of ballots printed up and nobody has seen the remaining ones, as of yet.  So, how can you do a recount when so much is wrong with the data you have?  Total BS.

This picture says so much to me, possibly even more than the millions plus wave of people that had been making the rounds today:



He should get some sort of award for that photo!  Here are more, probably some you've seen, some you haven't, plus a collection of large sized photos from over the past few days.  Also, an interesting article on Iran's hackers for you to read.  The beautiful thing I saw today on Twitter is that total strangers in the United States and elsewhere are setting up proxies for Iranians to use to bypass their corrupt government's internet blocks.  More than encouraging... amazing.

As an Iranian protester said yesterday, "Ahmadinejad called us Dust, we showed him a sandstorm."

"That looks like me! Look at those ears!" -- found here.  There's also video!




Also, did any of you guys catch that speech this morning?  I did, as it streamed live on Youtube, and people were screaming that they loved him and were chanting his name at the end of it!  It takes a lot to shock me, but I admit I was shocked at the warm reception.  Granted, I am comparing the reaction to this and this, so maybe I set the bar a bit too low?

Yes, the digital music channels you probably get with your cable television.  This is what they did.

There are several pictures here, as you might imagine. I snapped them while watching TV in the past few days. Edited: Now, with 50% more RANT!

( This isn't even ALL of it... )

So, why does everyone keep calling Sonia Sotomayor "Sota My-eer" or "My-air"? She's not Golda Meir. Stop saying it that way! Seriously, do they not see the fucking O at the end of her name or what? Do you know English? Does the letter O have a long E sound, ever? Where is this coming from?

*bashes head against desk repeatedly*

What the shit?





#1: People are STUPID.  SO stupid.

#2: WTF?

#3: I hope whoever paid for this left their name, address, phone number, whatever.  What a piece of shit.