wtf

maybe im missing something here, but why in the hell would you need your gun inside a restaurant?

The Tennessee House of Reps just approved this bill by a margin of 70-26 that would allow people with a gun permit to carry their weapon into restaurant/bars serving alcohol as long as they dont drink. i come from a family of hunters, and would never choose to deny someone their right to take a gun into the wilderness to shoot at baby animals in the cold hours of the morning if thats what they want.... but all the baby animals at chili's and tgi fridays are already dead and on the plate. you dont need a gun.

stoopid. click the headline for the full article, and dont forget to read the comments!!!

what is kismet doing?

answer: running around on top of the furniture. additionally, kismet is getting his hair cut tomorrow! stay tuned for pixies.

ctm.

(nataliedee)

Poor Kitty! Does your tum-tum hurt?

Kitties are great. They're normally fluffy and soft. Unfortunatly, all the fur can result in hairballs.

One expert on hailballery writes,"...although hairballs may be the topics of jokes among thoughtless humans, they are a source of discomfort or worse, for cats. Hairballs pose a potential danger by blocking the passage of digested food through the intestines, causing an impaction.
Hairballs are formed when a cat grooms itself and swallows hairs. Since hair is not easily digested, it can compact with undigested food in the stomach and gastrointestinal tract. Impactions are serious business, and sometimes must be removed surgically."

Well you know who needed surgery for a hairball? This LION! I know! I couldn't believe it either.

This is Tiny (a boy) African Lion and he lives at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Smarden, near Ashford in Kent, Enlgand. He's 200kg and had to be aneasthetised using a dart and blowpipe in his den! EmBEARassing! Also totes embearassing, he had to be operated on in a THEATER, normally used for horses!

The surgery involved 6 vets and 8 handlers. Turns out, Lil' Tiny gets fed mostly horse meat which has some skin and hair--BECAUSE ITS SUPPOSED TO HELP WITH DIGESTION! Well, I would think again, Keeper Mark. Cause this kitty was seeayuck, "Part of his mane and tail fur was also found by the surgical team, who spent several hours operating to remove the hairball in his stomach. A three foot-long length of inflamed gut also had to be removed."

Sounds like someone forget to brush Tiny! Who could forget such a thing! I was always told: brush kitty erry day and, if you think they're getting a hairball, put a little petroium on your finger and let them lick it off. OMGCYI (could you imagine)!

meet lulu's new puppy

well, here she is. lulu's new puppy (still unnamed, despite everyone's helpful suggestions).
n-e-wayz, nanners told me a bit about the new pup and her time so far:

"the puppy likes to crawl into the food box and eat as much as she can... she ate too much the other night and her belly blew up like a balloon. lulu likes to play tug of war with the puppy and if the puppy wont do what she wants she paws her. they like to wrestle and growl at each other and the puppy sounds way meaner than lulu does."

"the puppy is mean as hell... she bit lulu last night. lulu is still my favorite cause she doesn't wake me up in the middle of the night."

then i pointed out lulu's dribble and she said lulu slobbers a lot on the puppy.

then patrick called her a 'hoodrat dog'.

imagine this

have you ever wondered what one trillion dollars looked like?

this guy used sketchup to illustrate just exactly how much money is being talked about for our economic recovery..

very illuminating. click on the headline.

just because

a weekend convo has me revisiting paul simon's 'graceland'...the song and the album.

i also found these:
grizzly bear - graceland (cover)
hot chip - graceland (cover)

transcript!

nymag has transcribed the now infamous kelly-bethenny fight. definitely worth a read.

p's + r premieres this week

It is fitting, in an age when our banks, automobile manufacturers, and insurance companies are owned primarily by Barack Obama and Uncle Sam, that our newest sitcom locale is not a bar, or a law firm, or the revolving-door apartment of upwardly mobile and fabulous twentysomethings. Our hero (or, in this case, heroine) is not an advertising executive, crass agent, or morally compromised lawyer. Instead, Leslie Knope, as played by Amy Poehler in Parks and Recreation, which premieres this Thursday night on NBC, works for the government. Sure, she’s the deputy director for the Pawnee, Indiana, Parks Department, but hey, not everybody can work in the West Wing. (nymag)

dolly parton on 60 minutes!

tennessee mountain tales!

charles gibson <3's fever ray

fever ray featured on ABC news webcast.

ctm.

keekerz speakerz

beyonce - ego (remix feat. kanye west)

vermont is for gay lovers

vermont made history today as the fourth US state to legalize same-sex marriage, and the first to do so through the legislature. governor jim douglas attempted to veto the bill, HR 275, but was overturned by an overwhelming majority of senate representatives (23-5; well more than the two thirds requirement). marriages will begin on september 1st 2009.

the new bill replaces a pre-existing law, signed on April 25th, 2000 by former governor howard dean, which grants civil-unions to same-sex couples in vermont.

a study by UCLA this past march determined that same-sex marriage in vermont would create nearly 700 new jobs, and generate over 30 million in business activity throughout the following three years, which would increase state and local sales tax revenue by over 3 million.

i think we can all safely conclude that homosexuality will single handedly save vermont from the recession.

"the hills" is BACK!

the final season of the hills kicked off last night with a full HOUR of brilliance. i won't go into deets, because i'm sure some of you haven't watched yet. here's a trailer though. god. its so good.

"i mean, what's next? though. what , really. like what's. next." -lo

that's enough, eminem.

its so bad. why are you talking like that?

ctm.

oldie but goodie.

nErD aLeRt!

In the last few years, as museums have tried to take advantage of the Internet to connect with young audiences, they have produced an increasing number of online videos, from artist interviews and time-lapse shots of exhibition installations to short profiles of curators, art handlers, and even museum guards. Most institutions feature these videos on their own Web sites, as well as uploading them to sites like YouTube or blip.tv. But until now, there has been no dedicated place on the Web for art videos.

ArtBabble (artbabble.org), which goes live to the public on Tuesday, is intended to change that. (nytimes)

buzzzzzzzzz.

Apologies to residents of the Lower East Side; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and other hipster-centric neighborhoods. You are not as cool as you think, at least according to a new study that seeks to measure what it calls “the geography of buzz.” (nytimes)