May 08 2008
From the “You did what……why???? department…..
According to this Yahoo!News story, Clint Straatman, a PE teacher at Minico High School in Rupert, ID, took a Mexican flag from a student…
because “white kids” might have hurt the 16-year-old.
¡Malo!
But wait…..it gets better…..
He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it.
¡Muy, muy malo!
Camelo had brought the flag to school, as did other students, in celebration of Cinco de Mayo….
May 08 2008
When I used to watch a lot more TV I really liked to see the TLC station’s home improvement shows like Trading Spaces. There was another show called Clean Sweep that always impressed me. For those that haven’t seen it… The Clean Sweep crew would show up at someone’s house where they would show us two rooms crammed full of junk. With barely enough room to walk through. And I would gawk at all that stuff and think I would never let my place get that bad. The CS team would completely clear the rooms and then a designer and carpenter would come in and paint and redo the rooms with closet organizers and lableled bins, furniture, etc. and turn it into a functional space again. Meanwhile the couple would be out on their lawn with all their piles of stuff. The host and a professional organizer would then help them sort through all of it to Keep, Sell or Trash. The organizer guy (with a cute Australian accent) would lay out a little section of tarp and allow them to keep only what could fit on it. Then the homeowners go through excruciating distress trying to part with grandma’s treasures and all the unused wedding gifts they received…etc. After they sort through it, they hold a yard sale. What isn’t sold is donated to a charity. In the end, the host brings them back into their house to see the new rooms: pristine and decluttered. They are always stunned and delighted and most of them cry. Sometimes I cried too.
May 07 2008
Yesterday was crazy…and today isnt looking much better. Some days I just have no choice but to be in 2 places at once….being a single parent of 2 is like living in a zone defense. And yesterday, it was ALL defense….
So, right now my one eye’s still closed and the other is only half open. So I’m off to get the ‘skin-ponies’ (i decided that if LEP’s dogs can be ‘fur-people’, my kids can be ‘skin-ponies’….heeheehee) off to school, and then hopefully back here for a quick pony party post…a real one, not this drivel im typing right now….
…but if’n I dont make it, add some comments below so this place doesnt look so empty….. 😉
May 07 2008
I’m fine! There, that’s out of the way.
Our journey today takes us from In Grid to Sugar Blue.
From the ‘Be careful what you click on Department’
An Italian Pop-Soul Singer covers Dylan in Warsaw:
Okay, so that’s not too good, an enthusiastic, but possibly really, really drunk crowd…..but I got curious, she’s very popular in Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I…
So then you see one that says: I Was a Ye Ye Girl.
Move to the ‘What’s New is Old Department’
(In Related Videos , there’s also Dracula Ye Ye and Egyptian Reggae, but I’m trying to stay focused here on the Ye Ye Phenomenon)
Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged out of France and Québec in the early 1960s. Yeye means young, innocent, and cute.
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The yeye movement had its origins in the radio programme “Salut les copains”, created by Lucien Morisse and hosted by Daniel Philippacci, which was first aired in December 1959. This program became an immediate success and one of its sections (“le chouchou de la semaine” / “this week’s sweetheart”) turned to be the starting point for most yeye singers. Any song that was presented as a chouchou went straight to the first places in the charts.
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Gainsbourg called France Gall the French Lolita, and, wanting to check to which extent her innocence was real, composed for her the song “Les sucettes” (“Lollipops”): “Annie loves lollipops, aniseed lollipops, when the sweet liquid runs down Annie’s throat, she is in paradise “. It is amazing to think that not even that video (with all those giant penis-like sucettes dancing around) rang a bell for poor France! She was finally told of the double meaning of the song and that is when her yeye period finished… Her innocence was gone and it took her some 5 years to sing again, now with a completely different style.
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As mentioned above, the yeye movement was led by female singers, but that does not mean that there were not any yeye guys.
Link to France Gall doing Les sucettes due to content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
DO NOT REC THIS Go re-read ucc and get really horny, then come back.
May 06 2008
Please follow the link to the Yahoo!News story about the bald eagle whose beak was shot off, and the efforts of those attempting to make a prosthetic to enable her to eat. There are some pictures of the bird, named ‘Beauty’ (hence the cheesy title of this pony party).
Part of Beauty’s beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her alive.
May 06 2008
That’s correct – this is an update about my pups. They’re both doing better – they finally have appetites. We’ve been giving them roasted chicken – that’s all they would eat. And they’ve been on a combination of medicines, including an antibiotic, phosphate chelator and a vitamin supplement (which is a lovely opaque, brownish-orange concoction). We’ve had tried to give them sub-cutaneous fluids, which are administered by poking the scruff of their necks with a needle. Not for the pickle household faint of heart. Now they’re eating carrots, pasta and other goodies. With a bit of luck, they’ll actually eat some dog food for a balanced diet, but we had to give them anything that they’d eat just so they could start putting on some weight, as they’re currently scrawny little things. This has been a long, arduous two weeks.
May 05 2008
Docudharma’s picks:
| who picked whom? | 3card | LOTF | documel | NightOwl | fortschreitend | UCC | 73v |
| Flyers-6 | Flyers-6 | Flyers-6 | |||||
| Pens/ |
Pens-5 | Pens-6 | Pens-7 | ||||
| Wings/ |
Wings-6 | Wings-5/6 | Wings | Wings-7 | Wings-6 | Wings-5 | |
| Stars-6 |
and ucc edges me out by picking the correct number of games for the stars/fins series….good job, ucc!!
Conference Championship Matchups:
Eastern Conference
Pittsburgh (2) vs. Philadelphia (6) (series begins Friday)
Western Conference
Detroit (1) vs. Dallas (5) (series begins Thursday)
May 03 2008
I forgot about pony party because I have an out of town guest.
Oops. Here is your morning art…..
And a pop song to contemplate….
I like that whole “too shy” concept even though it doesn’t describe me….
Save your money on “Iron Man”….. I went to humor a friend. Short summary: white dude redeems himself with help of female personal assistant with secret crush on him mixed with skeptical realism, and loyal best friend who happens to be black second and doesn’t get to do much. Basically world order is restored by the rightful heir: the middle aged white man.
Have a great day. Please don’t recommend pony party, hang out chit chat and then go read the excellent offerings on our recent and rec’d list. Probably won’t be another pony party as I am in host mode. So bootleg up peoples.
May 03 2008
hello… what’s up… how is everyone? i’m on my way out… and i’ll be back on Sunday!!!
don’t get into too much trouble, okay?
oh… i’m going to my dad’s house with my sisters. sans kids, husbands, lovers… just the four of us before i go… ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and my paperwork is all good EXCEPT missing one doc… a waiver by each of us of health care. i told the lady… that wasn’t a form in the booklet. she said, well, it’s required. okay. so one more piece of signed paper to wait for… but she said even if i don’t get it from the soon-to-be ex, the divorce would be signed in 30 days. i can’t wait that long…
no. no. no. so let’s keep everything crossed that the ex will send the paper ASAP…
love you all… pf8
May 02 2008
This is one of the most amazing pieces of video i’ve seen in a while. If you dont like modern dance you may not enjoy the routine…but the dancers themselves are beyond belief….a dance team where the female lost an arm, the male lost a leg…
May 02 2008
RiaD is off (again), going to some High Society http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00… Art Show. So no T.I.T.A.S.S. today.
& its a dinner honoring artists (my girl! w00t!) whose work is being displayed at the opera house…. whatthehell do you wear to that?
Robyn suggested I wear fresh road-kill & tammy faye type make-up in order to fit in with the high society crowd!
https://www.docudharma.com/show…
but she actually will wear:
My girl & her BFF bought me a dress! (it kinda looks like a nightgown to me)
it’s got spaghetti straps, is ankle length, beige with a black print that looks like bubbles and swirls (a lot at the bottom & gradually less as it goes up)& strappy black sandals! & my hair up.
O & NO sox
On to the Party! What are YOU wearing to celebrate the work of The Polish Prince?
another h/t to robyn for this https://www.docudharma.com/view…
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_…
Bobby Vinton has been called “the most successful love singer of the ‘Rock-Era'” . (BILLBOARD MAGAZINE) Starting with his first hit release ” Roses Are Red” in 1962 through 1972 (10 years) he had more #1 records than any other solo male artist. (BILLBOARD MAGAZINE)
Born Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr. in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), he was the only child of a locally popular bandleader, Stan Vinton (Stanley Vintula, Sr.).
At 16, Vintula formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area. With the money he earned, he helped finance his college education at Duquesne University, where he studied music and graduated with a degree in musical composition. While at Duquesne, he became proficient on all of the instruments in the band: piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, drums and oboe.
Vinton’s birthplace of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania is also the birth place of Perry Como. Vinton has been honored by his hometown with a major thoroughfare Bobby Vinton Boulevard. Canonsburg town fathers had plans to erect a statue in his honor, but Vinton vetoed the idea noting that the $100,000 planned cost could go to far more important town needs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B…
The Book
http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/…
I suspect that this one is not in danger of being recommended, but don’t even think about it. If I have to remind you that there’s a Front Page with good stuff on it, well, I gotta wonder about your prioroties. Mission Accomplished!