Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Video Surveillance Beatings

In the past week, I have seen no less than three beatings on the news, courtesy of video surveillance. One was a guy beating an 90 year old woman with a walker in an ATM cubby, one was a thug beating a skinny lady bartender, and one was a guy beating another guy in a store.

Um, ok. So, WHO IS WATCHING THESE FEEDS? It's so great that the police can id attackers after looking at the tapes, but wouldn't it be nice if they could actually PREVENT the beatings? Just a thought.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Alernate Realities


Alernate Realities
Originally uploaded by Hannahchan.
Me me me! And Cheeta Torpeda of CCRG fame.

I like this picture because we're not skating yet, so you can't see me being very very very winded and falling very very very much behind the pack.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Ow ow ow, Pittsburgh is the best, OW, I give, OW OW OW!

So Mr. Pinchloaf let me know that Pittsburgh just beat VCU in the NCAA dealy. So, I wish I HAD gotten into Carnegie Mellon. At least then I'd have gone to school in the same town as a school that beat the school I actually went to.

In other Pittsburgh news, this weekend at the Philly East Coast Extravaganza, the Steeltown derby team beat Long Island! So Pittsburgh wins aGAIN! And in a way cooler sport. The sport of flat-track roller derby. At least, I think Pittsburgh beat Long Island; I only watched two out of three periods.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Ha ha, my school beat your school!!!

If you went to Duke! Ha ha, sucker...

So yeah, I went to VCU, and they beat Duke in the NCAA dealy, or so I have read. I don't follow basketball, and I really didn't follow basketball when I went to VCU, but I still feel some pride... VCU's a good school but we were always kind of the red-headed stepchild, forever living in the shadow of University of Richkids and Va Tech and UVA and all that. So, yeah, go us!

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Mind By Mattel really rocks some Eminem

I just want to say that this past weekend, Mind By Mattel totally got up and blew everyone's mind at Rockit Grill k'roking Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up. (I'm sure that's not the actual name of the song.) It ruled.

Also, I can't make the links work, but here are some cool blog links by peoples I know:

www.mindbymattel.blogspot.com

www.tinyaccoutrements.blogspot.com

www.3pennyjane.blogspot.com

Check zem out! This message of course is for the 2 people who read my blog who aren't those bloggers. Ha ha ha.

Everybody Stop Pretending Oprah's a Selfless Force for Good In the Universe

Lately I've read a lot of Oprah criticism. In the latest news, she spent a chunk of her enormous wealth on a very nice school for African girls, and the school's full of million-thread count sheets and Crate and Barrel furniture, and also the main subject being taught at the school is 'leadership' or possibly 'glowing on TV.' Also, she released a new self-help book/DVD/itune/nano-bot injection, which, it turns out, is crap.

Various critics in the liberal leftist publications I read have a problem with the fact that she didn't build many less costly schools instead of one fairly lavish one. And that her self-help is bogus crap.

I really don't get why anyone's bothering to care. It's always been my understanding that once you become the richest woman in the country, you can pretty much spend the money how you want to, as long as it's legal. If I were the richest woman in the country, I'd probably build a school out of marshmallow peeps. No reason. Just because I could.

Next, the self-help book. First, of course it's crap. ALL self-help books are crap. And yet, what surprises me is that anyone's surprised that Oprah would write a crap self-help book. This presupposes that Oprah is a selfless force for good in the universe. In fact, she's a tireless force for making money. She's worked for it, she's earned it, and she isn't retiring any time soon. And how does one make oodles more money? Ask L. Ron Hubbard.

Also, ask yourself if you're really going to buy a book from someone who inflicted Dr. Phil upon the world. Dude is not a doctor, but he sells psychobabble advice, and dude is not skinny, but he sells diet plans. I do not like the dude at all. He is seriously A-nnoying. In fact, in my head, Dr. Phil did not help Orah through a hard time, inspiring her to bring him on his show to dispense his home-style wisdom to her audience. In my head, Oprah was caught sans cash in a back-alley Alabama poker game, and Dr. Phil spotted her a cool thou to keep the sharks away, and in return she let him launch a career off of her notoriety. That's probably not true but it's the vibe I get from their relationship.

Where did this idea come from that Oprah was some kind of saint? Is it because at one point in her career, she decided to stop doing sleazy 'my brother slept with my girl' kinds of shows? That's admirable, but hardly the greatest humanitarian ever. Was it when she decided to use her show as a platform to campaign to catch and imprison sex offenders? Certainly that was a good thing, although it was a bit creepy watching Oprah mobilize the nation to catch the alleged offenders. What if Oprah decided to turn her steely gaze to another segment of the population? Yeah, I took it to an unecessarily sci-fi place, but that was the tone of the sex offender show.

I like Oprah - if business is based on the 'find a need and fill it' principle, Oprah created the need. She decided that what people need was Oprah, and eventually, she was right. Other than that, I'm not buying the book, or the DVD, or a copy of the magazine. And um, I pretty much believe she's a business woman. A good one, but still.

Friday, March 02, 2007

I'm really sore

I know it's skate related soreness, but it doesn't make much sense since Tuesday wasn't too hard and Wednesday wasn't hard at all. But my legs are all sore-styles and my arms are kind of too. Obviously I was intended to live on a planet with much much lower gravity.

I had lofty plans to get crafty last night, and they didn't really work out because of my lame-ass fatigue. My plan was to make a Day of the Dead style skull template out of posterboard and spray paint a blue skull onto a black T or a black on onto a blue T. I got all the stuffs to do it and then dozed to American Idol.

I did see that Antonella did not get kicked off, ick. She sucks, but people keep pointing out that she sucks, so now she's the underdog and will stay on the show. I do love watching all the other contestants lose their shit when people get voted off. They must keep them awake 20 hours a day, I'm sure they're mostly crying because they're really, really tired.