The latest abuses of power from the TSA. Some scary, scary stuff. Something is seriously wrong here...

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Am I the only one tired of Obama going around the world and meeting with important people and telling them what he thinks should be done?

Here's a list of recent headlines...

Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
Obama meets key Mideast leaders
Obama to visit West Bank, Palestinian official says
Obama to demand more from Europe in Berlin speech
Obama presses Europe on Afghanistan

"Hey, guys, I'm going to run one of the most powerful nations in the world, so you should ALREADY be paying attention to me, and heeding my words!" News flash, man. Until you actually get into office, you DON'T speak for the entire U.S., you only speak for yourself! How arrogant!

Did his people think this would look GOOD? What were they thinking, sending him overseas to tell everyone what he thinks is wrong with them?

Imagine if someone running for president from France came to your country and started telling you what was wrong with you and what you should be doing? How would you feel about it THEN?

*eyeroll*

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EDIT: On a more upbeat note, do you like ska? Do you like cheese? Then you should probably hit play here...



...sneak preview of a cartoon starring the Aquabats.

A friend on my LJ is the actor in this commercial...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRBj8Gitpbw

If you could watch it to give it youtube hits, that would be awesome. And if you repost this, please use the url link and not embed, so that the page hits register ^_^

Thanks!!

Firstly, here's some art you might want to check out. Yeah, I'm not usually one for
art pimping, but this guy got a lot of kids to draw pictures and then took the ones he liked best and recreated and took photos of them. There's some fun stuff there.


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( Cut for graphical test result... )

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Beware the Grocery Shrink Ray!

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For those book fans out there, here's something awesome. Make your house/self smell like a library. I know a lot of people on my list are like me and inhale deeply everytime they enter a library for the whole gestalt of the experience.

FYI, there are other awesome scents there, too.


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Between postrophe and hakuen offering to let me borrow cars and catlyn99 asking me if I needed a ride to college, I have the best friends in the world.

In updateyness, the car is fixed AGAIN and I'm now $5,300 in debt, although it will soon be $3,800.

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...and this is just funny, funny stuff. Ganked from krystalemerges...

Since it's summer and all, I thought I might take this moment to let y'all know that a while back I took a moment out my busy, busy schedule to whip up a signature blend of teas for what I consider to be a great summer fruity iced tea. It's called Death by Fruit (Decaf). The decaf is so people can drink it at night on the summer porch and still be able to go to bed soon. I don't think I get any kickback for it, but I like it so I figured I may as well throw a pimp out there.

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Fun with physics. Cornstarch, water, a pan, and a bass speaker.



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I made a new Gir desktop over at DeviantArt...

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( Noise Warning Pt. II )

That's it for the LJ spamming for a while, I promise...

( Noise warning... )

FYI, this toy is free just for today at giveawayoftheday.com.

...here are some pics of water in the area and my cats.

( Hey, water and cats don't go together! )

Yesterday my transmission went out. It will be 2000 dollars to fix it. School starts Monday. I still owe mom 2,600 for fixing this car and she can't loan me anymore.

I have no idea what to do and I'd elaborate on everything, (I was planning on it) but it would just be too depressing for you. Or for me. I'm not sure which.

Sometimes I miss the Caribbean so much that I break down and cry.

Partially because today is a big American holiday, and partially for an excuse to use my icon, here is a truckload of vaguely appropriate images (and a movie)...

( Bring on the weirdness... )

Regardless of where you are today, enjoy your liberties!

I dyed my hair again, and it turned out darker than it said even people with BLACK hair would have after using it! The last time this happened I felt hideous for MONTHS!!!


*sobs*

(and please don't tell me I'll be attractive anyways, because if I FEEL unattractive I'm still depressed horribly)

1. If I was the sort of person who could afford this, threw parties and thought there was a point to serving dishes having pictures on them even though food will be obscuring it most of the time, I would TOTALLY buy these...

http://www.arteffectchicago.com/product.asp?lt=c&catid=7320&pfid=AET04939

http://www.arteffectchicago.com/product.asp?lt=c&catid=7320&pfid=AET04938

http://www.arteffectchicago.com/product.asp?lt=c&catid=7320&pfid=AET04937

2.As distressing as it is that so much of the state is on fire, there's something almost comforting about the fact that at least this ONE time it isn't our area on fire.

3. I made a desktop with Rufus from Kim Possible and posted it over at DeviantArt, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

I'm looking for a video online, I think most of us have seen it? It's a shot from, I BELIEVE, a British children's show, and there's a puppet in it. They have a dog on the show, I think the dog's owner or trainer is being interviewed, and the dog is interacting with the puppet and the puppet is acting frightened of the little dog getting in it's face. It's pretty funny. Martin doesn't remember it, so I wanted to show it to him, but I can't find it. Any help?

In an effort to justify the purchase of a pen tablet and to struggle past the learning curve on the thing, I made a desktop wallpaper doohickey thing, and you can see it over at deviantart. Not my best work ever, but it WAS the first thing I ever really drew on it, so I suppose it's good for that. And it's sort of an advert for an old single my virtual band had, so don't assume you're not hip for not having heard of us.

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As the subject says, 27 Louise Brooks icons, taken from the screencaps I've posted over at cap_it. All of the images are from the documentary Louise Brooks - Looking for Lulu, which was silly of me, really, because I've got so many pictures of Louise Brooks on my hard drive already...

Cute little film border from minttea, and the sprockets are transparent, so they'll look good on any background ^_^

Rules: CREDIT IN KEYWORDS on your userpic page! FAQ #95 at LJ will give you all the gooshy details. Commenting is not required, but I do APPRECIATE IT WITH THE WHITE HOT INTENSITY OF A 1000 SUNS. So could ya? Seriously?

Previews: 8. 14. 25.

( Roll 'em... )

Say you knew someone who had a new pen tablet and wanted to draw but was a complete noob with using one. What program would you recommend for them to use with the pen tablet??

Maxwell is today's Kittenbreak!! Go look at Maxie when he was a bebbeeeeeee!!

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Part 2. One item multipost...

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I like reading manga. On the other hand, I can burn through a 7 dollar book in less than half an hour sometimes. You can bet I was pretty pleased when Martin referred me to OneManga.com.

MAN, they have a lot of titles!!

Martin is currently reading Gantz and I'll all over Addicted to Curry.

I've been saving little things for a multiposts lately and whenever they stack up I'm gonna post. It seems easier than posting 2-3 times a day 0_o

Here's the latest coolness I have stumbled upon on the web...

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Just _smelling_ coffee is good for you...

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Why doesn't this stuff get as many headlines as "Supersize Me"??

Virginia man sheds 80 pounds eating at McDonald's

It's all about THINKING about what you put in your mouth, folks, McDonald's is not inherently evil!

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...On August 18, 2005, he was promoted to Colonel-in-Chief. He is the first penguin to hold this rank in the Norwegian army...

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Latin culture is beginning to melt into Japan... Interesting article and some fun pictures.

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Pick a subject or two and go to town ^_^




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Edit: Baaaaaa!!

My Text Crawl

Do you like Miyazaki films? Of course you do, we all do. As much as I like them, which is pretty well but not MONSTROUSLY, I enjoyed Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns even more. It's a Miyazaki film that Miyazaki didn't make. Weird, I know, but I think it's the best thing I've ever seen from Ghibli. My recommendation? Totally rent it. I'm putting it on my wish list to own as well.

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I know a lot of you out there are huge movie geeks. Therefore I must post this link. SOOOOOO many fabulous toys, so few in our price range...

http://www.propstore.com/

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-torture12-2008jun12,0,4017237.story

"A Riverside County jury found 55-year-old Mansa Muhummed guilty on 25 counts Wednesday, including torturing seven of the children, abusing 12 of them and falsely imprisoning two wives. He faces seven possible life sentences. Muhummed told authorities that his Muslim faith gave him the right to take multiple wives."

Discuss.

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Los Angeles now has it's own Maid Cafe! Anyone want to make a trip?

http://theguide.latimes.com/restaurants/latcl-royal-t-venue

...unless, of course, you'd rather be waited on by schoolgirls...

http://theguide.latimes.com/restaurants/latcl-class-302-venue

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A REAL Wall-E on the streets of Los Angeles!! Oh, I WANT to see that in real life!!



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I don't understand all the talk (especially pre-decision) about people deciding whether it's better to vote for a black or a woman, or a recent article I saw about black conservatives being torn on whether to support Obama. If we're really tolerant and race-blind and everything, shouldn't the color of the candidate, or the sex of the candidate not matter? Shouldn't this be no more complex than any other election? Shouldn't it be all about issues and experience? Shouldn't color and sex not even come into it except with people who really are LESS tolerant or LESS race/sex-blind?

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Pick a subject and go to town!!

Wondering what we did to celebrate thudpucker's birthday? Wonder no more! I've got a picture post all set up now! That's a huge shock, eh? Honestly, I've considered just making a California Tourism Community to post all my picture posts in, so much of them have that "Visit Sunny California!" feel...

( Enough of the blabbering, you promised pictures?? )

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On May 31st, postrophe and krystalemerges were nice enough to invite Martin and I along with them to the Los Angeles Conservancy's Art Deco Walking Tour. It was filled with awesome and pretty and the three of them probably learned a lot about art deco in Los Angeles. I was busy in hyperactive ferret mode going...

"GottaTakePicturesGottaTakePicturesGottaTakePictures!!1!11eleventy-one!!"

On the other hand, I came back with 356 photos. It's a mixed blessing, though, because it meant I had to go through 356 photos and try to pare them down to the best 50 to show y'all. Yeah. Fifty. Feel free to just scan through looking for the architectural details that speak most to you.


( Only the Brave Shall Enter (and those who like Art Deco)... )