hot pants college II

My latest very strange dream: Eddie Murphy as a little person.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:53:56 -0500

My latest very strange dream: Eddie Murphy as a little person.

Video: Daily Show: The Rogue Warrior | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:48:21 -0500

Video: Daily Show: The Rogue Warrior | The Daily Show | Comedy Central:

si, senor.

feel certain I’m on the precipice of feeling terrible.

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:15:59 -0500

feel certain I’m on the precipice of feeling terrible.

"Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Be thankful a chimp did not eat your face. Does anyone else think..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:27:12 -0500

“Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Be thankful a chimp did not eat your face. Does anyone else think that’s why Oprah is retiring? That she was interviewing a woman with a chimp-eaten face, struggling to find that special Oprah balance of sensitive New-Age “compassion” and carnival-barker HOLY SHIT FOLKS LOOK AT THE FREAK, and suddenly thought WTF am I doing with my life? That’s my theory, but I am open to others”

- mimi smartypants - Seriously, though: what’s with the penguins?

"What do we say about someone who doesn’t want to learn about the effects of meat on the environment?..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:18:22 -0500

“What do we say about someone who doesn’t want to learn about the effects of meat on the environment? If you saw somebody on the street beating the shit out of his dog, you’d call the cops! And if you had a friend who said, “Oh, let’s just keep walking,” you’d think less of that friend. What we do to animals is as bad as that. It’s systematized, and we do it to 50 billion of them every year. Yeah, I suppose we could say, “I don’t want to look at it,” just as we could walk past the guy who is beating the crap out of his dog, but it’s not who we want to be. We’re not going to be totally consistent. I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don’t do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect—that’s silly, that’s naïve. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer | Books | Interview | The A.V. Club

To Sen. Tom Harkin: Please move forward with the Patient Protection Please please pelase

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:50:32 -0500

To Sen. Tom Harkin: Please move forward with the Patient Protection Please please pelase

"It’s also the season of the sashay — no one other than me moves with any degree of urgency. No..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:33:25 -0500

“It’s also the season of the sashay — no one other than me moves with any degree of urgency. No matter what, they sashay. I don’t even have the adequate words to describe how mad and frustrated I would get: “We have to get down to the runway right now!” and they’d just kind of glide along through the workroom.”

- ‘Project Runway’: Tim Gunn carries on (to Season 7) | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times

I have serious call reluctance.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:11 -0500

I have serious call reluctance.

ugh. compassion fatigue!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:02:26 -0500

ugh. compassion fatigue!

just call me Presbo.

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:02:26 -0500

just call me Presbo.

Andrew Zuckerman: Bird

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:09:14 -0500

Andrew Zuckerman: Bird:

The African Pygmy Falcon is my new favorite bird.

Animals Smiling (PHOTOS)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:52:48 -0500

Animals Smiling (PHOTOS)

"Disappearing sands would also wreak havoc on the environment as many animals and plants would lose..."

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:52:12 -0500

“Disappearing sands would also wreak havoc on the environment as many animals and plants would lose important habitats. The Hawaiian monk seal, an endangered species, gives birth and nurses pups on beaches. The green sea turtle, a threatened species, lays eggs in the sand.”

- Hawaii’s White Sandy Beaches Are Shrinking

"Oh but wait - hold on - while they don’t want you to have an abortion, it is okay if they have..."

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:46:10 -0500

“Oh but wait - hold on - while they don’t want you to have an abortion, it is okay if they have one. 176 Republicans and 64 Democrats in the House voted on the Stupak Amendment last Saturday - the most prohibitive legislative measure against abortion introduced since the Hyde Amendment - which basically blocks access for low-income women to an abortion, despite the fact that staffers of the Republican National Committee have had abortion covered under their insurance plan since at least 1991.”

- Low Income Women Can’t Get Abortions, But RNC Staffers Can | Women’s Rights | Change.org

Who are these people buying these vacation homes in Fiji and Belize? #househuntersinternational

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:57:30 -0500

Who are these people buying these vacation homes in Fiji and Belize? #househuntersinternational

twitter is magic.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:13 -0500

twitter is magic.

"I wear some pretty thick skin during our work with dogs, but I can’t shake my minds-eye image..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:11:15 -0500

““I wear some pretty thick skin during our work with dogs, but I can’t shake my minds-eye image of a little black dog splashing frantically in bloody water … screaming in pain and terror … brown eyes saucer wide and tiny black white-toed feet clawing at anything, desperate to get a hold. This death did not come quickly. The rescuer in me keeps trying to think of a way to go back in time and somehow stop this torture and pull the little dog to safety. I think I’ll be looking for ways to pull that dog out for the rest of my life.””

- Michael Vick’s unpaid dues: Why dog advocates aren’t moving on

Buying snow boots for kiddo (for Iowa winter) is considered extraneous spending by my now miserly...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:39:30 -0500

Buying snow boots for kiddo (for Iowa winter) is considered extraneous spending by my now miserly husband.

there is no good reason to stay up late.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:39:28 -0500

there is no good reason to stay up late.

"Szczupider, who had been a volunteer at the center, told me: “Her presence, and loss, was..."

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:30:39 -0400

“Szczupider, who had been a volunteer at the center, told me: “Her presence, and loss, was palpable, and resonated throughout the group. The management at Sanaga-Yong opted to let Dorothy’s chimpanzee family witness her burial, so that perhaps they would understand, in their own capacity, that Dorothy would not return. Some chimps displayed aggression while others barked in frustration, but perhaps the most stunning reaction was a recurring, almost tangible silence. If one knows chimpanzees, then one knows that [they] are not [usually] silent creatures.””

- The Story Behind National Geographic’s Viral Chimp Funeral Photo