he who can't dance can (sometimes) be so HOT

So let's hear it for the boy...



Having a cheesy moment here. I couldn't get the song out of my head tonight and I figured doing this might help. I know Chris Penn is no longer with us, but damn, was he one red-hot, sexy, uncoordinated piece of midwestern meat! Perhaps one day I can cut loose--foot loose--with a hottie like that.

wet boys are fun

Checked out Bana this weekend and it was totally worth the trip...

the higher power of the american prude

American censorship strikes again. You may disagree with me on this one, but I hardly find the word, "scrotum," offensive. It is the "official" name of a body part. That's what's written in school books, so what is up with all this unreasonable modesty?

Kids need to be taught to refer to genitalia in a manner that allows them to understand that these are merely body parts and not the "sin machines" that religion and culture dictate. Besides, refering to penis as "pee pee" and vagina as "porky" hardly sounds decent, either.

Banning Susan Patron's Newbery-winning "The Higher Power of Lucky" does not protect a child from whatever your imagination conceives that might cause harm. Neither does pretentious modesty.


“The people who are reacting to that word are not reading the book as a whole,” [Pat Scales]said. “That’s what censors do — they pick out words and don’t look at the total merit of the book.”



February 18, 2007
With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar
By JULIE BOSMAN

The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.

Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.
“Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much,” the book continues. “It sounded medical and secret, but also important.”
The inclusion of the word has shocked some school librarians, who have pledged to ban the book from elementary schools, and reopened the debate over what constitutes acceptable content in children’s books. The controversy was first reported by Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine.
On electronic mailing lists like Librarian.net, dozens of literary blogs and pages on the social-networking site LiveJournal, teachers, authors and school librarians took sides over the book. Librarians from all over the country, including Missoula, Mont.; upstate New York; Central Pennsylvania; and Portland, Ore., weighed in, questioning the role of the librarian when selecting — or censoring, some argued — literature for children.

“This book included what I call a Howard Stern-type shock treatment just to see how far they could push the envelope, but they didn’t have the children in mind,” Dana Nilsson, a teacher and librarian in Durango, Colo., wrote on LM_Net, a mailing list that reaches more than 16,000 school librarians. “How very sad.” click to read the entire article...

Ms. Understood

I'm not famous. I'm not rich. But I feel more blessed: I don't have a whole slew of vultures ready to pick at my flesh each time I fall.

Not a Brit fan by any means, but can we find another way to feel better about ourselves other than preying on people like her?

Valentine's Day: Cooking for One

Valentine's Day can be equally depressing for some people. This makes me grateful for the fact that I do enjoy being single and really don't mind cooking for one.

Whether you're having a romantic dinner with the love of your life or choking on cocoa powder alone in your kitchen, try to not end up calling 911. :-)

Enjoy yet another commercial holiday, folks!

BBC Comedy Hall of Fame: Catherine Tate

This clip from the Catherine Tate Show got me in stitches. A tad offensive, but I think it's meant to poke fun at people who lie about their skills and the idiots who blindly follow their lead.



The Translator

"...where is my sandwich?!?"

miss cleo messed up

ooh, dear...

I know the whole Miss Cleo thing is so 1999, but can you blame me for indulging?


"Miss Cleo" by Milan
"Miss Cleo, I think what you're doing is wrong, low-down, dirty and rotten. And I'll give you one chance to prove me wrong--tell me, where is Osama Bin Laden?"

Amy Sedaris is a total dick!

I swear: Amy Sedaris never fails to crack me up. This time, she plays Paulie the Penis in an animated sex ed movie called Puberty Pals. Something about her voice just gives me the giggles.

And yeah--watch out for the va-jay-jay... it got me rolling on the floor in laughter.
"You might have an odd dream about some special lady where you touch her in that special place that smells like the sea..."
Bwahahahahahaha!

rebuffing Buffy

SHE'S BAAAAACK! Yeah, well--again.

Joss Whedon decided to release a comic book series to cover what would have been Season 8 of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. I was too excited not to pre-order the first 2 issues. I don't feel so bad, though. I have a few other ones who did the same thing.

There's this couple who are both good friends of mine who bought 3 of each. They each get to keep one copy of each issue to read while the third ones remain sealed. Not a bad idea considering how much BTVS has helped revolutionize the writing and energy of current prime time drama/thriller series.

I'm a dork and darn proud of it!!!

Speaking of being a dork, we even came up with dork names:

me = Frisky McDork
KS = Cinnamon Dork (don't ask)
LL = Evil Bitch Dork (a.k.a. EBD)
NL = Dorkaholic