So, I'm sitting here in the office (I think yall can expect som quality blog posts from this spot, as I have basically nothing to do). As I was saying, I have nothing to do, and so naturally I'm catching up on my current events. Here are some quality bits of news that I think you will all appreciate:
1. (NY Times) This British bird kept saying "Gary" and making kissy noises. The guy who owns it thinks nothing of it, since he doesn't know a Gary, and his girlfriend says she doesn't either. Then, one night, they're watching TV, and the bird goes, "I love you, Gary" and the lunkhead STILL doesn't think anything's going on, then his girlfriend breaks down and tells him she's been cheating on him with (guess who) this guy named Gary. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. This is juuuust plain hilarious to me. The BIRD totally called her out. The article ends like this, the girlfriend goes, "I never liked that bird, and apparently the feeling was mutual."
2. (The Australian) (I'm not sure why I'm reading an Australian newspaper) Sooo this article is about how the Christian right hates Hollywood. Basically the Golden Globes proved to them that (and I quote, I am QUOTING) Hollywood is out to "homosexualize" America. Apparently since Brokeback Mountain was not a BOX OFFICE SMASH it did not deserve any awards. The president of "Concerned Women of America" wants to know why a movie won that America isn't even watching. I didn't really know that the Golden Globes were a popularity contest. Other problems: the fact that Truman Capote was gay and William Seymor Hoffman won and then that the woman from Desperate Housewives won for her portrayal of a transsexual, and then the woman from Weeds who portrayed a good, loyal, obedient housewife who started selling pot. Haha. This is funny to me.
3. The mayor of New Orleans! Holy mother of God. THIS IS HILARIOUS. He apparently gave a speech on MLK day saying that he believes that New Orleans "WILL become a chocolate city again" and that "God is mad at America" and New Orleans will become a black city again because it is the will of God. So, this article is basically about he took it all back and was like, "whatever, I love Asians! I love white people! Yay, races! Everyone come to New Orleans! I just said that shit because I was talking to a minister beforehand and uh, you know, I got carried away." DAMN! What minister were YOU talking to!!!! I just like, canNOT believe that he SAID those things. I mean, I knew the dude was hardcore...I heard this radio interview of him right after the hurricane and the guy was flipping SHIT on the government...but dude, what politician in his right mind would say that New Orleans is a CHOCOLATE CITY!?!!?!?!? Shiiiit.
4. There is a website (this is in the NY times...I cannot believe this stuff is news) called deadbodyguy.com where this guy (you guessed it) takes pictures of himself pretending to be dead. REALLY!!?!?!?!? And WHYYYY is the NY times writing about it!? And then I go to the website, and it turns out that newspapers AROUND THE WORLD (i.e., La Repubblica in Italy, I read that article too) are publishing about this guy, and he is TOTALLY shameless in saying that he's just doing it to get famous. Wow. Don't go to the website, by the way, it's totally nasty. Apparently his wife is the photographer. WEIRD.
5. Dogs can smell cancer now. I think that's kinda cool, actually. But who was like, "hey, let's see if this dog can smell cancer..." Specifically, it's only lung cancer and they can smell it on the breath of the patient.
6. Hillary Clinton said that the House of Representatives is being run like a PLANTATION. On MLK day! damn, this a big day for racial commentary.
Ok, the other thing I wanted to say about the world being a crazy place is this story that Emily told me last night. Ok, she talked to her college roommate for the first time in 2 years a few nights ago. Her name is Becky (name changed for confidentiality). Becky had been dating this guy, Dan, for like 4 years. They moved in together, they got engaged, blah blah blah. All the normal stuff. Everyone meets him and totally likes him, he came to Em and Jake's wedding 3 years ago, Em said he is a really dynamic and interesting guy and she usually hates everyone her friends date (I do too, just for the record. I just think they're not good enough for you guys. Anyway.) So he's totally a great guy! Becky's parents are divorced (have been since she was 3) and both are remarried and the two couples NEVER. SPEAK. EVER. They HAAATE each other. Becky's mom gets this ANONYMOUS message on her answering machine saying that they should look into Dan's past...and they're really freaked out, so they hire a private investigator. Turns out this guy is PSYCHO!!!! LITERALLY PSYCHO! Like, he has a knee high criminal record, has a 6 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, and owes the mother like $60,000 in alimony. He's crazy! So, one night Becky's mom asks if they can get dinner (when she knows Dan is gone) and ALLLLL FOURRRR PARENTTTS come over and hand Becky this like, 3 inch thick folder on all the crap the private investigator found on this guy. He's got like a billion aliases and did ALLLLLLLLLL this crazy shit. CRAZY SHIT! So one night Becky confronts him about it and he like, goes all schizo on her and becomes this TOTALLY different person, like really scary, and she kicks him out of the house and she's never seen him since, OH WAIT EXCEPT FOR WHEN HE WOULD COME SIT IN HIS CAR OUTSIDE HER HOUSE. AHHHHHHH. Anyway. She's trying to move now. CRAZY! CREEPY! SO, moral of this story: Cam and Kel, just because every guy we know is gay, maybe we don't want straight ones because they might be PSYCHOTIC.
Ok I'm out. I hope you all enjoy this.