My most favorite Halloween special to watch as a kid is this: Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile...

I wish they'd still show it on TV, but I guess Raggedy Ann and Andy aren't very popular now. It's by Chuck Jones, though! And it's so adorable... I guess the pumpkin who cries pumpkin seed tears has just always had a special place in my heart...
I also loved Garfield's Halloween Adventure. It's really creative and funny. Except for Jon who always has been and always will be such a dweeb.

And if you want to check out a really good horror-themed series, watch The Gregory Horror Show:

You have to watch several before you really get and appreciate them and it's worth it. They're short, anyway.

The thing I like about Halloween is there's no fuss involved. Not usually, anyway... It's supposed to just be about having fun and indulgence and being naughty, unlike other holidays where there's a lot of stress and you're supposed to be nice and cheerful and all that crap... But tonight apparently some people will be over so it kinda ruins it. I figure if it's really annoying, I'll just go out, though. I really want to go to a haunted warehouse, anyway. I would've gone Fri night, too, but was teeered. :( And then I can watch Let The Right One In. :)=

Anyway... Have a Very Merry Hallow and a Happy New Ween!

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“Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.” - Jack Handy

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind” - John Cheever

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This amuses me so... :} My brother says it's the worst thing ever, so that just makes me enjoy it more.


ALSO!

I wish I could find a better quality video, but I was reminded of this bit from The Office today. Only we didn't mess up, our GPS did. It had us driving down gravel roads going back into the middle of nowhere while we were trying to find the interstate. And at one point it directed us to drive into a field... SERIOUSLY GPS WHAT DID YOU THINK WE WERE DRIVING, A TRACTOR??? I'm glad no one saw us driving this little white Honda down gravel roads that were probably only used by farm equipment... That was seriously the dumbest thing a GPS has instructed us to do, ever. _-_

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►► Watch all of Stella! Wait... Maybe that's more along the lines of recommending a show...

►► Farm Sanctuary is definitely a worthy cause and their website has a lot of information.

And how about... Hark! A Vagrant. It's pretty funny.

I'm going to have to drive for about six hours tomorrow... so I better make myself go to sleep. =_=()

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I still really like A Series Of Unfortunate Events. And I still need to finish reading all of them...

Also...

Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. I've also wanted to reread Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I remember my dad reading it to me when I was younger, but I forgot parts of it.

When I was in Middle school I liked reading novels a lot. But then after that I sort of fell out of reading them. If I do read a book anymore it isn't fiction. Well, save for when I read the HP books. And ASOUE, but they're really short. I should make myself go to the library and pick something up.

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You know people didn't know what Communism was back then. They still don't know what it is today... You don't like something? Just call it Communist!

Of course you can also go with Socialist, Nazi, Fascist, or Muslim! Just don't use them all at once, you guys... Using one makes you look like a big enough of an ignorant jackass, that's all you need.

Pretend this was posted yesterday. When I wanted to use LJ it said it was down. =_=
And... Darn you, October... Why is it so cold already??

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I figured I'd upload a song no one has probably heard. It's techno/electronica/dance/something. Anyway, I just really like how it sounds and the lyrics.

►►► ♪♫ Let Go - Paul van Dyk ♫♪ ◄◄◄

The guy who gave me this song disappeared from the net awhile ago. Last I heard from him he said he wanted to "get away" and go off somewhere, like on a wilderness retreat or something, idk. Hopefully he's just taking an internet break and didn't get in trouble or eaten by raccoons. :|

I watch too much TV...

Watching an interview of an actress who's in the time traveling husband movie that's coming out, she talked about how the husband had had a vasectomy without her knowledge at some point in his life. So her character "slept with a younger version of her husband (since he time travels and various versions of himself pop up at various points throughout his lifespan) so she could 'get back at him' and get pregnant." Really? How is that not creepy and effed up? Way to make women look like deceitful bitches.

It has always really bothered me if anyone has the mindset that they basically own the body of their significant other. It's disturbing, selfish, and entitled. If he got a vasectomy and she didn't like it, yes she has the right to be mad. They can work it out or they can break up. But she's not entitled to his jizz.

I was glad Jon Stewart found it messed up...

On Colbert they featured the story about blue food dye being able to prevent spinal cord damage. And they showed the picture of a rat that was used for research.

The rat was paralyzed then injected with enough blue dye to make it turn color. Later the rat was able to recover and live normally.
When the photo was shown on Colbert the audience went "OMG CUTE!" But Colbert had to remind them that its spine had been broken and then the situation wasn't as adorable. :|

Aaaaand or some reason I'm having serious issues with writer's block... What's the deal?

Joel Barish

No. Like most members of America's cultural elite, I worship Pan the goat god!*

If someone asks that's what I assume tell them. I don't normally tell people I'm an atheist, as I just don't want to deal with any flak.
You know, it's rather impossible to convert to another religion if you've never followed one to begin with. I've never had any desire to pick up a religion.

Although I do kind of worship coffee. It can be my religion. And my sexual orientation. I am coffeesexual.

*If you know the source of this quote you win 100,007 internet points.

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A man is born alone.

He should celebrate that day alone.

In somber isolation.

:|

Thank you catcubus for the virtual gift. How did you know I always wanted a purple octopus to give me daisies? ♥ All of my dreams have come true...

I dunno what I'm gonna do. I might go to Des Moines tomorrow and get drunk or something. That seems like the proper thing to do, y/n? I don't expect to get any presents or anything. I technically got my car upgraded recently so now I don't have to drive that old piece of tin around town. I'm all spoiled and junk.


Just don't be depressed, don't be depressed, don't be depressed... t__t

A Comet Appears: The Shins
We can blow on our thumbs and posture,
But the lonely is such delicate things,
The wind from a wasp could blow them,
Into the sea,
With stones on their feet,
Lost to the light and the loving we need,

Still to come,
The worst part and you know it,
There is a numbness,
In your heart and it's growing,

I stole this from houndartemis' profile awhile ago. (idk, if that's weird. I check my friend's profiles sometimes, usually when I'm editing my own. I figure if people are going to put cool stuff in them, someone might as well look at them, right?) Actually, I'm pretty sure I took this before, but forgot about it.

The reason I wanted to post this is that under the "fictional characters" section of people who share my personality type it lists Filburt the turtle. From Rocko's Modern Life. "I'm nauseous! I'm nauseous!" ...I never thought of myself as Filbert, but... I-I guess it fits? Especially with him having a shell and everything. :only 5% extroverted...cries: Just... Talk about an obscure reference.



Today is my brother's birthday and I have a lot of stuff to do. I meant to get most things done the day before, but Jesus... Talk about a day I felt like doing nothing. My back was seriously making me feel like an old person and it still is.

Speaking of old people, Dominick will be 16 years old this month. I guess in dog years he's like 90. He's a medium-sized dog, so I think it's rather remarkable.

Mmm! Oh, man. After seeing this week's House, I had to download the song that plays during the final scenes of the episode--Lose You by Pete Yorn. That song... That episode. Just when you start to like a character... I've listened to that song about 15 times.

Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage

So! Anybody want to come and gay marry me? Anybody? Anybody?

"Iowa's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and first in the nation's heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed."

I wasn't going to hold my breath on this going favorably, all things considered. But it was a unanimous decision. I guess a lot of people were very surprised, thinking Iowa is a state where such a thing could never happen, but:

"Iowa has a history of being in the forefront on social issues. It was among the first states to legalize interracial marriage and to allow married women to own property. It was also the first state to admit a woman to the bar to practice law and was a leader in school desegregation."

Now I seriously wonder if a couple members of my family will tie the knot.

This is the starfish story my science teacher gave me in 8th grade. He commended me for wearing environmentally themed shirts, usually with animals on them, rather than whatever was trendy. I guess I was the only one in any of his classes who did this or something. The story was on a bookmark size piece of paper and had a tiny starfish pin attached to it. I still have it somewhere.

An old man was picking up objects off the beach and tossing them out into the sea.
A young man approached him and saw that the objects were starfish.

"Why in the world are you throwing starfish into the water?"

"If the starfish are still on the beach when the tide goes out and the sun rises high in the sky, they will die," replied the old man.

"That is ridiculous. There are thousands of miles of beach and millions of starfish.
You can't really believe that what you're doing could possibly make a difference!"

The wise old man picked up another starfish, paused thoughtfully,
and remarked as he tossed it out into the waves,

"It makes a difference to this one."

The bad kind of hummer. Not the good kind.

"Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week.

That's because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada.

By looking at everything from how much grain a cow eats before it is ready for slaughter to the emissions released by manure, they are getting a clearer idea of the true costs of food.

The livestock sector is estimated to account for 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and beef is the biggest culprit.

Even though beef only accounts for 30 percent of meat consumption in the developed world it's responsible for 78 percent of the emission--"

"Switching to no red meat and no dairy products is the equivalent of (cutting out) 8,100 miles driven in a car ... that gets 25 miles to the gallon," Weber said in an interview following the symposium.

Buying local meat and produce will not have nearly the same effect, he cautioned.

That's because only five percent of the emissions related to food come from transporting food to market.

"You can have a much bigger impact by shifting just one day a week from meat and dairy to anything else than going local every day of the year," Weber said.

For more information on how to eat a low carbon diet, visit www.eatlowcarbon.org.

Read the rest here.

Methane emissions are a huge problem so I liked that this article talks about what people can do in their daily lives to reduce them. I find it frustrating that often there aren't any compromises made when it comes to consumption of meat and other animal products. If a person has the attitude that they want to eat meat or dairy or eggs then, by gawd, they're going to keep doing it as they please! But there is a middle ground. Just don't eat so much meat. People in first world countries generally eat waaaaaay too much of it. And dairy.

The article recommends chicken and turkey or even pork--although hog confinements are still horrible for the environment--over beef and dairy, but that bothers me as an "alternative" considering those animals are generally treated even worse than cows prior to slaughter. But, again, this has to do with people eating so much meat. If the demand for it wasn't so high than it would be "easier" to raise animals in a more natural environment and they'd have a better quality of life. They wouldn't "have to" be crammed in confinements. People just really need to lay off the animal products and consume more plant nutrition for both environmental and animal-welfare reasons. It's not like it's impossible... As the article says: --people are eating far more meat than they need to. "Meat once was a luxury in our diet. We used to eat it once a week. Now we eat it every day."

If you find giving up meat/dairy a few days a week is too hard, er, you could just think of the cows?


This reminds me of the interview with Jon Stewart and Tom Selleck tonight. Selleck was talking about how he had a "ranch" and how he and his family cared for each of the animals individually. They were really pets, rather than farm animals apparently. They had a cow that was originally supposed to be a dairy cow--Tom said how a beginner shouldn't try to start a small dairy because he didn't even realize that the cows had to be kept pregnant to give milk--and when she died he and his family had the cow cremated. Jon laffed his ass off at that and when Tom said that when they got the ashes back it was a helluva lot of ashes... He said something like, "You couldn't just put them in an urn and carry them under your arm" or anything. I have a sense of humor so, yes, the idea of cremating a cow is funny. But, then... Well, someone could love their cow as much as someone loves a horse. And nobody has a problem with people loving a horse. I guess you could have a horse cremated, too. Although, that is also kinda funny... :S

I always wanted a cow. Or a pig. They're supposed to be as sweet as any horse or dog. Hell, I'd get a pet cow just so I could say, "I had a cow, man."

Pineapple Express gets a whole clip segment thing on the Oscars featuring 2008 Comedy. That was the best thing ever. :O

I figured I would just really like watching Tim Gunn in the pre-show, since I haven't seen that many movies that're up for nominations this year. But the "extra" crap for this year is pretty entertaing so far.

I need to get Pineapple Express on DVD. And Sex Drive.

Here it is:


The tribute to Musicals was also pretty great.

And I'm glad Heath Ledger got Best Supporting Actor. I assumed he would, but it was just nice to see it.