The Plight of a Mother

My friend sent me this e-mail she got that was supposed to be send to all Mom's in the US, it made me roll my eyes but then again, I'm not super sympathetic to the chosen plight of motherhood. Hey you CHOSE to have kids, don't complain!:

"Ever see those bumper stickers from Italy, France, and Spain on people's cars and wonder why your car only goes back and forth to the grocery store? Us too. But while mothers don't get to travel to far off exotic lands as often as others might, we certainly do get to travel to the heart! And we should have something to show for it!


Want to show everyone you or someone you love has been to the Motherland? We're offering you a free & fabulous MOM bumper sticker that lets everyone know that you've been there and you're proud of it!"

BLOGGERS NOTES

a. Super sad thought thinking about how all mom's do is grocery shop. Maybe give it a rest ladies?? 32% of kids in the US are overweight or obese! Take the kids on a bike ride to the local farmers market or start growing a garden!

b.Italy, France and Spain are all you could come up with for "far off exotic lands?" The three most commonly visited Western European countries? Too be honest I doubt you ever had ANY interest in traveling anyway. Otherwise you would have traveled instead of having kids.

c. Not only mom's get to "travel to the heart"ok? Also, what does this mean??

d. Do not use the term "Motherland" to denote the fictional place where Mom's substitute traveling to far off exotic lands for. No doubt a rep from the NAACP has called you already....

e. So you want something to show other people that your a mom huh? The out of shape body, mom jeans, mini-van, stained outdated clothes, lack of knowledge of things outside of Disney and sex starved husband aren't indication enough?? No? Maybe the kids will suffice as a sign of your motherhood?? No?? Still want the sticker?? Ok you win.

f. I hope you are happy with your stickers (that kind of blow) vs. the freedom of world travel, cultural perspective, tangible knowledge to pass to your kids and the exhilaration of experiencing new surroundings and ways of life...

Religion Made Me a Murdering Crack Whore

"...countries with the lowest rates of social dysfunction—based on 25 measures, including rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, unemployment, and poverty—have become the most secular. Those with the most dysfunction, such as Portugal and the U.S., are the most religious, as measured by self-professed belief, church attendance, habits of prayer, and the like."

Read The Rest on Newsweek

KISS Alive/35

KISS has been touring to celebrate their 35th Anniversary since last year. It's their first tour in five years and they've been on the road doing a 3 leg 38 show tour of the world and are hit the Southern California stages in November, tickets are on sale now!! I'm seriously considering it, I love big rock and roll and seeing a legend, even after the fact-ish would be so bomb!! Wonder what the fans are like now....

KISS ONLINE

Welcome to another round of: Would you send your child to this ghetto daycare?

While picking up some rental tables in the City Heights area I walked past this dirt stained old house that was advertising day care for kids. The weather beaten kids play jungle circa 1995 sat forlorn and unused. Maybe it was nap time and the kids were inside sleeping on old towels?

Good Show at The Casbah Tonight!

Possibly more than the music of Black Out Party I think the members in the band are the warmest, most genuine guys on the scene. Makes me want to support them and shout out their shows, hey, it pays to be a nice normal human being. Bands with bad attitudes take note: if you're a dick, people will stop coming to your shows. Being a moody pussy is out, can't use it as a substitute for your mediocre emotional bland music anymore, this decade is finally coming to an end...

25th Annual California Coastal Cleanup

The beaches in San Diego are one of our biggest assets and things that make living here worthwhile. As a tribute to the last official weekend of Summer and because days at the beach have relaxed and defined your San Diego existence (along with drinking) head out to the beach and pick up some trash. I can guarantee it will make you feel good!

CA Coastal Cleanup Website

On This Day in History: Jimi Hendrix Dies

Guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies in 1970 at the age of 28, following a drug overdose in London.

Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942. He grew up playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as early rockers. He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury that exempted him from duty in Vietnam. In the early 1960s, Hendrix backed such musicians as Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke. He moved to New York in 1964, where he played in coffeehouses.

It was at one of these coffeehouse gigs that British bassist Bryan Chandler of the Animals first heard Hendrix play. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band's first single, "Hey Joe," hit No. 6 on the British pop charts, and the band became an instant sensation.

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance, at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix made a splash by burning his guitar. In the next two years, the band released classic songs like "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "The Wind Cries Mary." The band's albums included Are You Experienced? (1967), Bold as Love (1969), and Electric Ladyland (1969).

After the band dissolved in 1969 over creative tensions, Hendrix made his famous appearance at Woodstock, playing a masterful, intricate version of "The Star Spangled Banner." Later that year, he put together a new group called the Band of Gypsies, which debuted on New Year's Eve, 1969. The band released only one album, Band of Gypsies (1969). (A second album, Band of Gypsies II, was released in 1986.) Hendrix then recorded another album, without the band, called The Cry of Love, which was released in 1971. Jimi Hendrix played his last concert in August 1970, at the Isle of Wight Festival in Britain.

SD Reader Writer Out For Blood

Josh Board, local writer for the weekly San Diego Reader, admitted in his blog "Bicyclists and Poditrists" that he attacked a random cyclist at the latest Critical Mass ride. As the ride was passing, Board (according to his own account) threw a piece of gum at a random cyclist, unprovoked, and then picked up a rock from the ground and threw it at another cyclist, striking that cyclist in the head.

Furthermore, in the comment section of the blog, Josh Board encourages readers to join him in South Park to attack Critical Mass riders w/ weapons on the next ride. In his blog, Board premeditates further attacks, specifically vehicular assault which carries with it the potential to seriously injure, paralyze, or murder a victim. In addition, Board premeditates that if such a situation were to occur that he would lie about it in court and say that he 'just didn't see the cyclist.' See below for a full quote:

By JoshBoard 12:07 a.m., Sep 2, 2009"
"I kinda liked the idea that if I ever run into the CM crowd, and I'm in my car...well, I just go when the light turns green. If that means a major accident, or someone falls over my hood, well...we'll let the courts decide who was wrong. Me going thru a green light (and possibly saying in court I just didn't see the cyclist, as I was looking down for a second, but I did see the light turn green and went, assuming that's a safe time to pull forward).



More info at biccontrol.blogspot.com

Please help spread the word. Keep our community safe.

How Many People Makes it An Offical Gang Bang?

My friends and I agreed that it takes at least 3 people exclusively banging one person. If you have just two people and one person getting banged, it's technically a threesome. If another person begins getting screwed by the others we then thought you'd have to upgrade it to an orgy as a gang bang means a group banging just one person. You're welcome for clearing up that pressing issue:)

NOTE: Generally gang bangs are not anywhere as sexy (or as highly fashionable) as Dolce and Gabbana would have you believe! Also, there is a large chance that most of the men in the add are gay and would not be exclusively banging the chick so maybe this is an orgy. Apologies for the inaccurate photo pairing....

Skype, Talk Free, Impress with Snazzy Emoticons

If you use Skype you know that half the fun is the moving emoticons lol. Ok half the fun is being able to talk to your friends and family half way around the world for FREE. A dear friend of my mine is living in Japan and we video Skype often. It's like shes right there with me. Check Skype out if you haven't already and if you want to up your emoticon game check out the shortcuts below. There are even some naughty ones to impress your friends with. I particularly like the joint smoking emoticon and the drunk one too!

Not to be confused with Beer Pong!

You may have forgotten what ping pong was in the rise of white fraternity craze Beer Pong. Actual ping pong does not involve beer, at least not beer that you are trying to aim the ping pong ball into, and actual ping pong uses paddles, say it with me, paddles. If you long for the nostalgia of table games of yore check out the event below. Everyone attending will still be white and the ping pong table at least looks the same. Resist your urge to start stacking red solo cups on the table! From past Sezio events I've realized the majority of attendees went to uber Christian Point Loma Nazarene University, are attractive but not sexual, are white and "indie", do not drink more than 1.5 beers per person, and are very very nice in a very very creepy way. The Pearl rules though so maybe just get sloshed, order their cheese plate and kick it in the pool with the other sinners!

4 Awakard Moments in Facebook "Likes"

My sister sent me this hilarious page from College Humor!

Facebook Stats, it's taking over!

-----Facebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit. The online community crossed the 300 million threshold. There are about 307 million people living in the United States

Question: How does Facebook make money!? Maybe advertising alone?

-----About 70 percent of Facebook's users are outside the U.S.

Comment: WHOA!

-----The site started out as a portal for college students but has attracted the attention of baby boomers and older generations in recent years. Facebook says its fastest-growing demographic is people older than 35.

Comment: This is why Facebook seems lame! All my older aunts and uncles are on there, my damn Dad is on there. All these old people keep commenting on my page and I've hurt feelings deleting my parents friends. Is there not a middle ground between the teenage geard Myspace and the baby booming Facebook!? Should we get Friendster going again??

Glasser in LA Tonight!

In LA tonight?? Check out the show at The Troubador with Chairlift, Glasser, and John Maus. I don't know about the other two but Glasser is a great show to see man.! She performed at a San Diego House Party and had dancers and backup singers that really worked with her Bjork-esque vocals and soothing yet complicated mix of backbeats and instrumentals (see pictures below).

All Aboard for the Cougar Cruise!

NOTE: I just don't know what I think about this! I mean shit, I love older men and would TOTALLY go on a Silver Fox Cruise! So why not let the older ladies and the men who love them have a damn blast! I just tend to think of cougars as desperate and pathetic, why else would you go from some scranwy poor dude who doesn't clean his underwear and uses cool whip tubs for bowls? But maybe I should change my thinking because above those dirty tubes sock is a young, agile, willing package of fire, and ladies, I totally get the draw!


From USA TODAY

First a cruise for swingers. Now a voyage for . . . cougars.

That's right, a bit of naughtiness will be hitting the high seas in December as what's billed as the first "cougar cruise" sets sail out of San Diego.
It is a three-night escapade aboard a Carnival ship, which is aimed at older woman who pursue younger men -- or "cougars," in contemporary lingo.

The International Cougar Cruise, as it's being called, kicks off Dec. 4 on the Carnival Elation and will include a single stop in Ensenada, Mexico. Prices begin at $125 per person.

Singles Travel Company executive director Ann Thomas notes 2009 is "the year of the cougar," according to a recent story in Newsweek. The term is going ever more mainstream with TV shows like Courteney Cox's soon-to-debut Cougar Town on ABC and the Bachelor-like reality dating show The Cougar.

The voyage will be headlined by Miss Cougar America 2009, Gloria Navarro, crowned at the recent National Single Cougars Convention in Palo Alto, Calif.

PLEASE WATCH THIS HILARIOUS COUGAR RELATED SNL SKIT

The Muslims (Soft Package) Tour Kicks Off Today!!

SERIOUSLY needed another San Diego Date!! If you know ANYONE in a 100 mile radius of any of these shows call them up and tell them to get their asses to the show. They will love you for it and it will make you feel good! Don't forget to see a show yourself!

Check Out The Band Website

Sep 16 2009 8:00P
Greek Theatre w/ PHOENIX Los Angeles, California

Sep 17 2009 8:00P
Warfield Theatre w/ PHOENIX San Francisco

Sep 18 2009 8:00P
Dante’s (NXNW Festival) Portland, Oregon

Sep 19 2009 8:00P
Crocodile Cafe Seattle, Washington

Sep 22 2009 8:00P
The Aquarium Fargo, North Dakota

Sep 23 2009 8:00P
7th Street Entry Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sep 24 2009 8:00P
University of Madison Madison, Wisconsin

Sep 25 2009 8:00P
Chopin Theatre Chicago, Illinois

Sep 26 2009 8:00P
The Vollrath Tavern Indianapolis, Indiana

Sep 27 2009 8:00P
The Pike Room inside the Crofoot Detroit, Michigan

Sep 29 2009 8:00P
Silver Dollar Toronto, Ontario

Oct 1 2009 8:00P
Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oct 2 2009 8:00P
Bowery Ballroom New York, New York

Oct 3 2009 8:00P
Middle East (upstairs) Boston, Massachusetts

Oct 6 2009 8:00P
The End Nashville, Tennessee

Oct 8 2009 8:00P
The Cavern Dallas, Texas

Oct 9 2009 8:00P
Walter’s on Washington Houston, Texas

Oct 10 2009 8:00P
Emo’s Jnr w/ WAVVES Austin, Texas

Oct 16 2009 8:00P
Casbah w/ WAVVES San Diego, California

Oct 17 2009 8:00P
Echoplex w/ WAVVES Los Angeles, California

Mission Nights Tonite!

The Guild is Becoming a New Cafe

Barrio Logan's lone posh haunt closed awhile ago. This was much to the dismay of people who loved their tasty food, awesome atmosphere and the ability to feel so much better than everyone else because they knew about a hip schmoozy restaurant off the beaten path. And in a Mexican barrio no less! But The Guild was hit with the tough economic times and it closed. I just drove by it on my way to work and saw that it was painted and a sign was in the window. Wonder how it will do!!





Also: Right across the street I saw a sign for smoothies (I presume) that made me giggle

Get to Know: Tom Sachs

When I was looking for a picture of a guillotine for a future post I came across one with a Chanel logo all over it. It was creepy and thought provoking. Turns out it was by Tom Sachs. Check out his website and read an overview about him on Wikipedia if you like. More images for you below:

Do death row inmates really get last meals?

This was something me and my friend Amanda were discussing while we smoked a bowl last night. It's very historical we agreed but we wondered if like our federal prison system gave inmates condemned to die a last meal of their choice before ending their life. Of course this conversation took a heavy and lasting turn into discussing what WE would have as our last meal, options abounded, I still don't know, so much pressure!!

Here's what Wikipedia had to say:
In the United States of America most states give the meal a day or two prior to execution, and use the euphemism "special meal". Alcohol or tobacco is usually denied. An unorthodox or unavailable request will be replaced with a substitute. Some states place tight restrictions. For example, Texas limits last meals to food available within the prison system, though occasionally permitting food "from the free world". In Florida, the food for the last meal must be purchased locally and the cost is limited to $40.

107 Year Old Still Battling Daddy Issues...

By Saeed Ahmed
(CNN) -- Afraid that her husband will leave her for a younger woman, a 107-year-old Malaysian woman is looking to marry again -- for the 23rd time.
Wok Kundor: "I am an aged woman. I don't have the body nor am I a young woman who can attract anyone."
Wok Kundor has been happily married for four years to her husband, a man 70 years her junior. But since he left their village in northern Terengganu state for a drug rehabilitation program in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, Wok has had a gnawing feeling.

"She said that she has been feeling insecure lately and she needs to find out whether he still loves her or not," said R.S.N. Murali, a reporter for The Star. The English-language Malaysian daily was among several local media outlets reporting on the lifelong romantic.

"She is worried he might not come back after his program and find himself a younger wife," Murali said.
If so, Wok has her eyes set on a 50-year-old man, but hopes it does not come to that.
"I realize that I am an aged woman. I don't have the body nor am I a young woman who can attract anyone," she told the newspaper."My intention to remarry is to fill my forlornness," particularly during the Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan, she said.

Malaysian media, which has previously reported on the woman, said Wok has been married 22 times. That would make her marriages last an average of four years.
Wok would not discuss past relationships, Murali said."Some of her better halves have passed away or have divorced, but she doesn't want to talk about them or her children," he said.

Wok and her current husband, Mohammed Boor Che Musa, hail from the same village and met there.Muhammad, 37, was quoted in an earlier report as saying the couple fell for each other because it was "God's will."

On Monday, he told The Star that he is still very much in love with his wife and cannot dream of life with someone else. But Wok wants to hear him say it, Murali said.

Soon, the centenarian plans to make the journey to Kuala Lumpur -- if she can find a neighbor to drive her there.

NOTE: Man this lady didn't get a lot of male attention growing up! I wonder if her bits and peices still even work? I mean her latest husband is in rehab so I don't think she picking like TOTAL winners but man...somebody give this granny a hug!

On This Day in History: Marilyn Monroe's skirt scene filmed

The famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot on this day during the filming of The Seven Year Itch. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist. The couple divorced shortly after.

Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortensen and also known as Norma Jean Baker, had a tragic childhood. Her mother, a negative cutter at several film studios, was mentally unstable and institutionalized when Norma Jean was five. Afterward, the little girl lived in a series of foster homes, where she suffered from neglect and abuse, and later lived in an orphanage. At age 16, she quit high school and married a 21-year-old aircraft plant worker named Joe Dougherty.

In 1944, her husband was sent overseas with the military, and Monroe worked as a paint sprayer in a defense plant. A photographer spotted her there, and she soon became a popular pin-up girl. She began working as a model and divorced her husband two years later. In 1946, 20th Century Fox signed her for $125 a week but dropped her after one film, from which her scenes were cut. Columbia signed her but also dropped her after one film. Unemployed, she posed nude for a calendar for $50; the calendar sold a million copies and made $750,000.

Monroe played a series of small film roles until 1950, when Fox signed her again. This time, they touted her as a star and began giving her feature roles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she starred with Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, playing fortune hunter Lorelei Lee. Her tremendous sex appeal and little-girl mannerisms made her enormously popular.

After her divorce from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Monroe searched for more serious roles and announced she would found her own studio. She began studying acting with the famous Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York. She gave an impressive comic performance in Bus Stop in 1955. The following year, she married intellectual playwright Arthur Miller. She appeared in the hit Some Like It Hot in 1959.

She made her last picture in 1961, The Misfits, which Miller wrote especially for her. She divorced him a week before the film opened. She attempted one more film, Something's Got to Give, but was fired for her frequent illnesses and absences from the set, which many believed to be related to drug addiction. In August 1962, she died from an overdose of sleeping pills. Her death was ruled a possible suicide. Since her death, her popularity and mystique have endured, with numerous biographies published after her death. Her ex-husband Joe DiMaggio continued to send flowers to her grave every day for the rest of his life.

Kanye, true to character, Acts Like A Douche Nut Job

Yes, we all know about it already! The VMA's crave their wacky moments that have people talking for weeks and I swear to god someone is paying Kanye West to act like that much of a fucking idiot right!? PLEASE somebody tell me he is on some publicity firm's payroll! While I completely agree Beyonce's video was infinitely better than Taylor Swifts you don't fucking steal someones mic in the middle of their acceptance speech. You got Twitter Kanye, tweet your ass off after the show or throw a rampage as you exit! 15 year old girls and their cougar moms are totally going to stage Kanye West album burning parties....

BEST PART OF VMA INCIDENT FOOTAGE: Beyonce's reaction!!! Shes like WTF is happening?!? Kanye's NOOOOO, don't claim me you crazy fool!! LOL, I love her. She showed such class and poise in letting Taylor come back up and have her moment. Oh Kanye, might be time to schedule a plane flight headed for the ocean floor or the broad side of a Rocky Mountain bluff....

San Diego Music Award Winners Virtually Copy Cat Prior Years Results

CONGRATULATIONS TO TWO OF MY FAVORITE SD BANDS!!

Best Alternative
Apes of Wrath


Best Blues Album
Lady Dottie & The Diamonds – Lady Dottie & The Diamond

To view the rest of the 2009 San Diego Music Award Winners, click here.
You can also view the winners on past SDMA websites and winner's list from other years. It's pretty much the exact same people. I mean I know this is more of a big town vs. a city so the pond is small and the big fish really stand out but...ugh, my complaint reserve on San Diego is getting really low. I'm going to save it for when I really need it. Like the next Brandon Welchez inspired band that gets signed or maybe a few years down the road when MC Flow is still being nominated for Best Hip Hop Artist.

Bastards To One Up Pulp Fiction

Third place for movie openings this week went to Quentin Tarantino's sturdy "Inglourious Basterds," which dropped only 44 percent in its fourth weekend to capture $6.5 million. The violent WWII pic, which has so far grossed $104.3 million, should pass "Pulp Fiction" this week to become Tarantino's highest-grossing movie.

Movie Rental Help!!

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME

I love renting movies, I don't have Netflix, thinking about it though. I usually I get my inspiration from strolling up and down the aisles and seeing what feels right. This method has let me down many times, I'm not saying it's a golden measure of exactness. But you know, you see a movie with Sarah Silverman, Jeff Garlin and Bonnie Hunt and you think, HEY this will probs be funny if not really good! Toats wasn't. Dude it wasn't even funny, Jeff Garlin tries but Silverman plays a quirky girl with no endearing qualities and the movie sort of gives up at the end and ties everything together in a 15 sec happy ending clip. Don't waste your time ya'll. Silverman is so damn hit and miss and if you want to see Jeff Garlin rent out Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes.

What You Should Rent: Unleased, Jamie Foxx Stand Up!!

So hilarious, lots of hilarious universal jokes and 90's centered jokes (it was filmed in 1997). I love when past stand up refers to Bill Clinton as "the closest we'll ever have to a black president" lol!! Also, you may know this but Grammy Award nominated Jamie Foxx has a gorgeous voice and wonderful piano playing ability (you've seen Ray right? Put it in your queue if not!). He actually ends his special with a wonderful time at the piano singing slow jams and joking around. I really enjoyed this!!

San Diego Wants to Fuck Over Sick People

On September 9th the SD Cops drew their guns and rammed down the doors on 14 San Diego County medical marijuana dispensing collectives. Federal agencies were part of the task force but the operation was coordinated at the behest of San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.


Using frightening strong-arm tactics to intimidate medical marijuana providers was completely uncalled for. The image below from video captured by San Diego’s KFMB News shows an officer manhandling a wheelchair-bound patient and operator of one of the targeted facilities.




TAKE ACTION!!!

You can call District Attorney Dumanis’ office at (619) 531-4040 or e-mail her at publicaffairs@sdcda.org.

Please be polite but firm when making contact with the D.A.’s office. Feel free to use the script below to help guide you through your call:

Hello. I’m calling because I’m alarmed that the District Attorney’s Office appears to be using scarce resources to target for prosecution collectives established to help local patients obtain legal medical marijuana.

Please explain to me why this should be a priority for our county given enormous budget constraints and much more serious crime in our community — not to mention the voters’ wish that legal patients be provided safe and open access to medical marijuana.

Another Reason To Be Glad I am Not in College Anymore

Maroon 5 Announces Exclusive U.S. College Tour

I love this quote

Heaven for climate, Hell for society
-Mark Twain

I'm an Athesit so I don't believe in Heaven or Hell. I know that when a human dies we are put into the ground and we decompose and become soil like every single other glorious animal on this incredible earth. BUT if you do believe in Heaven and Hell (and poor you for having to live with that fear your entire life!) then which one do you think would be cooler? I for one would rather hang out with the rock stars, comedians, dancers, partiers and fun folks in Hell than hang in heaven with people who don't drink, don't dance, and hate gay people. I used to be intensely involved in studying Christian biblical scripture for years AS a Christian. I was really affected by how horrible boring Heaven sounded. You basically sit and worship Jesus all day. Awesome. Send me to Hell Oh Lord where Bob Marley is playing a concert with John Lennon as we speak! LOL

9/11

36% of Americans consider it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that government officials either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks themselves.