Today's Fortune Cookie Says...

"Wine should be taken in small doses,

knowledge in large ones."

Pretty ironic since I'm supposed to be off alcohol & caffeine (grr) and done with my Theology class by tomorrow.
Good thing Theology classes give you 10 day extensions!
We'll see what my caffeine jitters have to say tomorrow morning!
Maybe they'll say, "let's have tea".
My "prize" for finishing Theology class will be getting to read the final Harry Potter book... also kinda ironic, I guess.

Hmm... Here's yet another good reason to be a veggie!

I wanted to celebrate my TWENTIETH blog by posting this hilarious fact about cows!

"Producing one kilo of beef generates more CO2 than a three-hour drive while all the lights are left on at home, a new Japanese study concludes."

So, it's okay to drive and leave your lights on if you're a vegetarian?!?

Or grind beef with your teeth if you ride your bike everywhere and use candles and hand fans?!?

Global Cool has such good ideas!
(For those of you who do not know about "Global Cool", it is a global warming non-profit formed by scientists and celebrities... & most notably by Orlando Bloom.)

You can read the WHOLE article here:
http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/20/beefing-up-the-atmosphere/

Happy chomping!

Atoms for Peace

I heard this song on the way back from LA.

I am posting it in dedication to the people I love and am leaving behind...



"No more going to the dark side

with your flying saucer eyes



No more falling down a wormhole

that I have to pull you out



The wriggling, squiggling worm inside

Devours from the inside out



No more talk about the old days

It's time for something great



I want you to get out

And make it work

So many lies

So many lies

So many lies

So feel the love come off of them

And take me in your arms



Peel all of your layers off

I want to eat your artichoke heart



No more leaky holes in your brain

And no false starts



I wanna get out

And make it work

So many lies

So many lies

So many lies

So feel the love come off of them

And take me in your arms



I wanna get out

And make it work



I want you to get out

And make it work



I'll be ok



So many lies

So many lies

So many lies

So feel the love come off of them

And take me in your arms"



(Thank you Thom Yorke!!!)

I'm in LA today...

"This is the foreign land
With the Spray-on Tan
...And it all feels 'fine'"
-The Shins

My wandering mind:
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The land of smokey grayness
Not from fog or magic or steam
A mute button over the colors of the earth
So you'd better look more pretty
more shiny
more something...
who are you today, pretty one?
what will you say and how will you smile tonight?
I dub thee "Botox Squeeky Red Nose BOBO"
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I can recall the names of wounds by exits off the freeways.
Drive on
Further
Move away
Further
The prickles of the 210
The crushing of the 110
The lost dream and lingering false hopes of the 134.
And then there's "home"
Off the Azusa blvd exit.
The only exit of peace.
And the only one I should drive on past.
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People are exhausted here.
There's no color, so you have to provide it.
There's no escaping traffic, so you sit in glazed eyed numbness
Or you pull off and wait, in your car, til you can go home and rest.
Put off rest another hour.
MOVE MOVE MOVE!!!
There's still some things I love about here.
I have crazy fun times.
But there's little place to land,
and no one can stay put in one place long enough to land with.
The mantra of this town is:
"What do you do? & How can I use you?"
I just want to make them all a cup of hot chocolate and tell them they are still beautiful.
I want to curl them up in a blanket by the licking flame fire and let them be at peace.
You are you. Let God fill in the colors.
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I saw a rainbow in the clouds on the trip up over a long stretch of nowhere.
A promising banner, that nowhere is still somewhere in the heart of it's Creator.
I am still somewhere.
He makes everything beautiful.

INSPI(RED) to plead GUILTY

So, the woman who robbed me in Mariposa (see other post) has finally plead guilty.
She was wearing my shirt in prison, the one that says "INSPI(RED)".
SOoooooooo hilarious!!!
The district attorney sent me a picture to identify my "property". Since the evidence of her WEARING MY SHIRT IN PRISON was overwhelming, she has finally plead guilty.
She's getting four years of felony probation, rehab and 6 months jail time. One other little drunk in public or drop-kicking of her child in public and she's off to felony prison for four years.
Sucks.
But if the truth's not working, the Product (RED) shirt will set you free...
HA! I'm a dork!