Friday’s Watch it or Whine: Baby Mama
Guess what I did today? With my mom? And no one else? And no one interrupted me, and the baby crying was not mine? I went to go see Baby Mama, (if you had not guessed that by the title, this may not be the blog for you. Try someone else).
Anyway, I thought we would switch up the Read it or Rant a little this week because the only thing I have read either involved talking animals on cardboard pages, or is a glossy magazine full of clothes I can’t afford, and would not fit even if I could. ( We get lots of magazines here, and do not pay for any of them. The MMIL gives us hers when she is done, and I get Marie Claire and Cookie for free because we steal other people’s coke points.)
We went to a matinee ( How do you spell that?!? Every way I try still has a red line under it!) and while it was a cute movie, I was glad that we did not pay $7.50 a ticket for it. It is about this Type A lady (Tina Fey, whom I loooove) who has focused on her career and now has acute baby fever. She can’t get knocked up, so she hires this totally white trash chick (Amy Poehler, one of the very few shining stars from SNL lately) to be her surrogate. The girl gets pregnant and moves in with Ms. Type A. Hilarity ensues. Steve Martin, Greg Kinnear, and Sigourney Weaver were all hilarious. Without giving away plot points, it has some fairly predictable twists; Mom and I both had the ending pegged pretty early on. I think that this cast actually outshone the writing, but with anyone else, this movie would have bombed. To sum up–definitely add to your Netflicks queue, or go see a matinee with your Mom or Girlfriends, but save the big bucks for this one. I will try to actually read something this week.
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This is one of those posts where I make excuses for slacking on my blogging. Sorry ’bout that. I am working a certain festival this weekend, AND going camping. I will be back Monday…maybe Tuesday, with PICTURES, and UPDATES about Toady McGuire, a READ IT OR RANT, and OTHER STUFF.
In the mean time, Here is an awesome time sucker to keep you company until I am back! http://oldfungames.com/
Tetris alone should keep you busy through Sunday.
Filed under Time Suckers | Comments (2)Because Al does not have a monopoly on caring.
In other words, Happy Earth Day fellow earthlings! I know that I have said disparaging remarks about Al Gore before, (I mean come on the guy said he invented ….. the interwebz, how can I respect that?), but there is one thing that I do commend him on. He has made a wider spectrum of our population at least think about our planet. End commendation, wait for it……..now.
So you may already know this, but Hey You is a card carrying Republican. How Republican you ask? I have worked for a Republican U.S. Senator, I was the Vice-President of our college Republicans, and I still think that Richard Nixon was one of the best Presidents we have ever had (seriously y’all, do you really think we would have such a good relationship with China without him?). One way I think the Republican Party has been wrongly portrayed is that they are uncaring about the environment. I think that realistic is a much better adjective for my good Ole’ GOP. You would be hard pressed to find a modern Republican (meaning one who is not busy in bathroom stalls, or over 90) who would publicly pronounce “Global warming is a bunch of horse biscuits!”
The left side of our country (literally and figuratively) has made billions proclaiming that their products (almost always more expensive) are “green” and are marketing them to make we overachieving, guilt fueled, over indulged Americans feel better about ourselves. “So River and I just bought a new Hybrid! We are soo doing our part to help save the polar bears. Those fuel guzzling SUV’s can just kiss my hemp covered ass, the one held up by my hairy legs, with feet adorned in my Rosie approved Birkenstocks.” Whatever peeps. The truth of the matter is that just the INCREASE in coal that China will burn by 2020 will send as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 3 billion (that b-b-b-billion) Ford Expeditions, each driven 15,000 a year. So the increased burning of ONE source of energy by ONE country is equal to the to the CO2 emissions by 3 billion massive trucks. (Oh and it would take Ford 15,000 years to even sell that many.) On to the spirally fluorescent bulbs, even if every light bulb in America were replaced by these (which thehuckablog household does use FYI, they last a heck of a lot longer) thrn it would only reduce world emissions by .0003%. Also, did you know that the livestock industry accounts for 18% of ail greenhouses gases, from their, you know, breezes. So therefore any global warming activist who is not also a Vegan is a total hypocrite (and have you seen Al of late?). One more thing, just as with all politicians, they are unfairly swayed towards the groups that give them large amounts of money, and tend to ignore facts to the contrary. (I am not leaving the GOP out of this classification either, can we all say Halliburton?) Al Gore (and Hillary and Barack) all have been in the top 5 politicians to receive money from these “green” special interest groups. They cannot fairly analyze the real situation.
The truth is that while Global Warming is happening at an extremely slow rate, the numbers have been grotesquely overstated. The real numbers are much less sinister. Take for example the oceans rising that have been much touted by Mr. Gore and his homies. He said that the oceans will rise 240”. The UN IPCC (not exactly a right wing organization) says that the real truth is 15”. He is obliterating facts to sell movie tickets. And gets a Nobel peace prize. The congress (yes it was republican) voted down adapting the Kyoto treaty by a nail bitingly close margin of 95 to 0. Why? Listen up Beastie Boys, because even if we pretend for a second that everything that Global Warming activists say is true (its not), and the Kyoto protocols were fully implemented (not even close), the effect would be immeasurably small.
Let’s end with the cheery thought that most scientists say that “it is much too late to sweat global warming”, San Francisco Chronicle 2/13/2005. It is time for us to worry about the things that we can change. We can change pollution. We can stop annihilating the rainforests, we can stop poaching endangered animals, we can stop leeching chemicals into our ground water. We can leave a place cleaner than when we got there. We can choose to not be wasteful or greedy. We can plant trees, and educate our children; but not to stop, or even slow global warming. I will do these things to keep the beauty God has given us, to teach The Son to respect and treat his blessings kindly. I want my son, and his son, and his son, to be able to hike and see eagles, to be able to swim in lakes and to fish in the Gulf of Mexico. I cherish this earth for what it has given us, and will spend my time, and energy helping it in ways that make a difference.
And for sticking with me through my Earth Day diatribe, a reward! A picture of The Son!
I got a lot of this information from Glen Beck’s An Inconvenient Book.
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In case your Fridge looks like mine.
All Condiments and nothing to put them on.
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La tee da! Hey You was right! And the Hulk agrees.
Check out the second question answered by The Hulk today!
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Set your VCRs, Tivo’s whatever!
The New Kids on the block will be performing on the Today Show on Friday Morning! It turns out that their breakout album is turning twenty years old. And Hey You now feels old.
Y’all, I was so going to marry Joey McIntyre. We were going to have babies, and live in a pink mansion that had huge stables for all of my ponies. He was going to write song after song about ME. MEEEEEE!! I had no interest in any of the others, especially that bad boy Donnie, just my Joey.
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Both Pictures are circa 1990.
Sigh. Mrs. Hey You McIntyre. Anyway. Where was I? Oh, yes. Well, it turns out that I never met Joey, and the closest I came to birthing little McIntyres was kissing the shine off of my life size poster I had tacked to my pink walls. My Hangin’ Tough tape had to be replaced after two months because I wore it out. I would pretend swoon every time “Please Don’t Go Girl” came on. I wore my NKOTB t-shirt to school three days a week, and my pink Jansport backpack had a huge I*heart* Joey pin on it.
I will be busy on Friday morning, and do not know how to work my VCR, so someone tape it for me, m’kay? So who was your favorite New Kid? Or Beatle? Or Hansen, or whomever?
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