Kids, Cancer, Chaos

I am so SICK of Tom Cruise. It seems like every time I turn on the boob tube there is another of his movies on, or E channel is talking about him, or somebody is talking about psychiatry or Scientology or being glib and his name comes up. Ewww. I have a personal boycott going on. I have actually turned the TV off when I see his face. If I happen to have control of the remote and am watching with the BF (boyfriend), I must change the channel. If I don't have control, I leave the room. I hate him...and I don't like to use the word "hate". Last night I was flipping during one of the commercial breaks in "Rescue Me" and I thought I saw "The Last Samurai". I had a mini-seizure and changed the channel immediately. I think maybe he is my Mary Hart - the sound of his voice gives me seizures. Although, it's really a lot more serious than just the sound of his voice. Even the thought of him preaching about how much he knows about psychiatry/psychology m...

I think OJ is a cheap whore too. Classic. It's a good thing New Yorkers can tolerate the tourists . New York City is truly one of my favorite places in the world. I think if I won the lottery, one of my first purchases would be an apartment in NYC. God knows, I wouldn't be able to afford it otherwise! I love the Neverending Story ...such a great movie.

I just love Maureen Dowd. Read her Op-Ed piece in the NYTimes from 8/25/06: The Old King put the Boy King over his knee yesterday and gave him a good thwack with a lobster-shaped paddle. O.K., that didn’t happen, but don’t you wish it had? Junior certainly deserves it, with recent attempts to blame his dad for policies that led to 9/11 and the rise of Osama and Middle East terrorism. As with so many things about this byzantine, Shakespearean relationship between father and son, reunited here at last for a wedding, a christening and a funeral this weekend, it’s an ironic turn of events. The son was furious when the father was painted as a wimp in the 1988 campaign, and now he and his spinners are painting 41 as a weak leader. W.’s pain at what happened to his aristocratic dad with “the wimp factor” led him to overreact in the other direction when he became president, embracing a West Texas-tough, muscle-bound foreign policy that shunned diplomacy, nuance, compromise, multilateral treati...

How beautiful is this? And how lucky am I to live in a place like this? It is sunsets like this one that make me think the world is not such a terrible place to be.

I've been reading about SD's financial mess. The public sentiment around SD is that the city employees are to blame for this and the "high powered unions" who represent them are even more responsible. If the unions hadn't asked for wage increases and pension benefit increases then the City would be just fine! YA RIGHT! The unions are looking out for their own. They are not responsible for granting benefits the City can't afford! If the CITY couldn't afford to give the wage/pension increases, they shouldn't have done it! The union only asked for what they wanted and what the employees deserved. If the benefits increases were agreed to and only later it was discovered that the City couldn't deliver, it is not the employees' fault. They go to work every day, just like the rest of us. They have families to support, just like the rest of us. They have to cover those family members' health care costs. Most City employees make just enough to keep ...

What is it about the "C" word that most women find so offensive? I tried to use it today when I was cut off by some bitch on her cell phone driving her 47 kids around in the Expedition. I could see that she was quite distracted by all the goings-on in her vehicle, but come on!! I had to slam on my brakes and almost get hit by the car behind me. I was so mad that I tried to call her the "C" word, but it wouldn't come out of my mouth. I was left wondering why I couldn't say it. Maybe it's the same as Tony who hates the word "nipple" or Jenna who hates the word "moist", or Megan who hates the word "scaffolding"? Scaffolding? really? Why would you use "hate" to describe your feelings about scaffolding? Hmmm. I just don't know why I hate the "C" word. It brings to mind that scene in "Silence of the Lambs" when Clarice Starling goes to the prison to meet Hannibal and gets Migs' semen thrown a...

I got a new dog yesterday. Well, she's not so much a dog as she is a factory of slimy drool that the boyfriend seems not to notice. I can see already that there is going to be a power struggle between us two bitches over who is the boss and who is NOT. Never having owed a dog as an adult, I am unsure of how to address this new creature. I'm also pretty sure that she wants to eat my cat. The cat will probably put her in her place as soon as he gets over the shock of having his house invaded by a stinky giant.