ok, some more in the world of politics.
1-ted stevens, antiquated criminal senator from alaska, was finally defeated.
he was narrowly defeated in alaska. which kind of begs the question: who votes
for a convicted felon for senate?
2-yesterday was joe biden's birthday, which gave rise to my favorite headline of
the year:
Obama Surprises Biden With Cupcakes
3-well, i guess that's it for the entertaining world of politics today. i mean, sure, there are lots of other things going on, from wars to cabinet appointments, but why not just enjoy 'obama surprises biden with cupcakes' for a minute? and it's nice to know that the 'cupcakes' referred to in the headline were in fact cupcakes, and not the stage name of a stripper in reno. not that i have anything against strippers in reno. and not that i have anything against strippers in reno named 'cupcakes'.
i'm just glad that we've dodged a cupcake related scandal involving a stripper in reno. i wonder if people in reno send emails that say 're: no' when they're responding in the negative. it's probably happened once or twice.
speaking of word nerds, did you see the simpsons the other night where lisa was at a crosswords competition and they had a montage of her doing crosswords to cameo's mid 80's hit 'word up'? it was, to use an overused word, genius. and they had cameo's (ha, no pun intended. wait, is that even a pun?) from 2 of the luminaries who put together the ny times crossword puzzle. word nerds across the country rejoiced.
this has been a very long '#3', especially as it was supposed to be about politics and it ended up being about strippers in reno and mid 80's r&b and animated crossword puzzle competitions.
ok, that's all for now. i hope you've enjoyed puppycam. or, rather, i hope you're enjoying puppycam. more salient and weighty journal entries to come. maybe next time i'll revisit the marvelous world of toast.
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i'm not one of those people who has the worlds greatest vocabulary so you see i had to go and look up 'salient' in the dictionary. so i now know that it is quite an interesting word! are the salient and weighty journal entries to come going to be -
a)projecting outwards?
b)conspicuous?
c)noteworthy?
d)or leaping and gushing?
on the subject of strippers and prostitutes etc, although i have to admit that cupcakes would make a cute name for a stripper, i am doubting that obama would ever have been into the stripper/hooker/pornography scene at all. i know life is full of the wicked surprises. up untill the time that i started to read your journal, i wouldn't have guessed that you would be into that scene at all either, then I read the journal entry in which you mentioned that you had stopped off to get a hand job done by a hooker one day, although you said you were joking, maybe you were not really joking but rather secretly fibbing about joking and maybe you really did it.
although i can dig a bit of exhibitionism, the thought of being completely indiscriminate about who sees what and who gets let in where is not in the slightest bit appealing to me. i was surprised to hear recently about there having been a bit of pressure from women within a particular anarchist/political activist's network for other women in that social scene to get on into some prostition as if that is a good way of "taking back power". I was like wtf??? and "did they ever get to say no to anyone who they really didn't feel like fucking?" well apparently yes they did have the option of saying no but the "madam" who managed the brothel could then get pissed off with them. obviously they wouldn't keep employing anyone who said no a lot. I'd known other women before who had been into prostitution for a time when they were younger, but they had been in seriously abusive family situations and prostitution had been a way out for them. when i knew them, they were both really awesome women.
1. Nice job, Alaska. I was
1. Nice job, Alaska. I was losing hope.
2. The cupcakes thing was just incredibly adorable. Almost as adorable as puppies. I saw a picture of Obama giving him the cupcakes and just sat there saying "aww" for about ten minutes. And apparently I'm not the only one who loves them. There is actually Obama/Biden fan-fiction online.
Yeah. I don't participate. I swear. Really.
It's going to be a weird 4 [8] years where we all [well, us sane ones] love the president and his VP. Maybe a bit too much.
3. That was one of the funniest Simpsons episodes I've seen in a while. I'd been missing the new ones lately, I'm sad to say, but thanks to the joys of the DVR I've been catching up.
I suck at crosswords, but I still try every week. And continue sucking.