My next charity: water update will be Wednesday. Plan on sharing a story or two.
This is just a friendly reminder to check out Awkward Family Photos on occasion.
Be sure to check out the AFP caption below. Feel free to add your own.
They could never understand why the boys weren’t interested.
“Y’all come back now, y’hear?.”
- Anonymous Wise Saying
I am a lover of good music, good art and good t-shirts. I also am a fan of good people doing good things to help or assist others.
With that being said, I came across an organization that blends all of those things together. It is called the Yellow Bird Project — cool name, even cooler group of artists and philanthropists.
They describe themselves as:
“… a tree of creativity, with branches joining together indie musicians, charitable organizations, and t-shirts with a fashionable punch. We’re a non-profit Montreal based organization dedicated to bringing our customers the finest of quality, originality, and philanthropy. We seek out only the coolest of cool artists, collaborate with them to design awesomely awesome tee-shirts, and give all the prettiest of pretty profits to charities of the artists’ choice.”
I think by their own description you can tell that they are pretty cool organization. Check them out — my Devendra Banhart shirt (which will help fund the Teenage Cancer Trust) is on its way right now.
I have also added their banner to my blog (on the right sidebar) for quick and easy linkage.
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I recently ate at a local Mexican restaurant. They have done a great job decorating the place with authentic Mexican displays. I found myself captivated by most of it. Even in the bathroom. They even decorated the bathroom with bright hangings and an artistic porcelain sink. Maybe I was paying too much attention to the decorations in the bathroom because when I looked down I realized that I had been peeing on the wall.
I always feel better about the safety of my online activity when that little security check box pops up and asks me to do copy work. The little box appears and I am requested to transcribe 2 words in wiggly text. There have been combos like “scrimshaw germany” or “whitelash hotpants”. You get the idea. But never have I felt more safe about my world wide web proceedings than the time I was asked to copy the words shown in the still below.
I challenge you to post the most ludicrous combination that you experience today or that you’ve witnessed recently.
(The following entry was added 1 day later)
After going to Facebook to post this blog entry update, I got this security check:
I think I am going to write a book with ideas based on these security check words.
The “Dub Quest” you ask? It is the shortened and more sexy version of what is called the “Double Question”. You may wonder when you have experienced the phenomenon. The DQ is usually experienced at the start of any event. It is most likely used at the beginning as it is the way the emcee tries to establish a relationship with the audience. It usually goes like this:
MC: (Checks mic by tapping on it) Good evening everyone! How are you doing?
Crowd: (Mixed grumbling)
MC: I said, how are you doing?
Crowd: (Again, louder mixed grumbling with a few “goods” and “alrights” and usually one smart alec screaming “SUPER!”)
MC: Okay then. Thanks for coming to Mark Dean Elementary’s 4th grade production of Pulp Fiction…
Should I be concerned? Should I be worried? My all-time favourite pizza is Donatos, and I am beginning to wonder if they have altered their delicious ingredients. If they have changed their recipe, it does not agree with my system. Every single time I alone eat an entire large pizza (original crust, green olives and pepperoni), here is what happens:
If you have insights regarding the apparent new recipe for Donatos pizza or if you have any thoughts about a medical condition I may have, please do not hesitate to let me know.
This photo is from the hilarious blog Awkward Family Photos. If you do not frequent that site, you should. It is hilarious and you always find a bit of yourself or a bit of a family memory while visiting.
Please read the caption below the photo.
Due to budget constraints, the Easter Egg hunt has been cancelled.
After the countless e-mails and the new subscriptions to my blog, I think that one man captured what America was thinking regarding my last entry. This question came from a close friend of mine, Tyler Stanton.
Tyler writes: “What’s reason number 10?”
Well Tyler, if I list it here, it is only because I am so serious about it and your penetrating question demands a response.
10. I will have a big family.
Example
My own. I currently have 6 children. 5 would not have been enough, and 7, well, just would have been silly. And as you know, I do not, under any circumstances…play around. To make that point even more — the years where Lacey and I were not fertile enough? We adopted.
If there is one thing that people know, the same people who occupy space around me, it is that I do not, under any circumstances…play around. The following 10 reasons speak for themselves.
1. If you decide to play a sweet, delicate little prank on me, count on getting a searing hot level 10 payback.*
Example
Riley, my oldest daughter who at the time was a young lass of 9-ish, thought it would be funny to put a nasty-horrific-terrorpoo-inducing doll wearing a mullet wig and reading a book that was upside down on my toilet. The goal was that I would find it after I came in late from work one night. I silently made my way into the bathroom so not to awaken anyone. After I whizzed my pants and Near-Swearfest 2003 officially ended, I decided to drop a level 10 on her unconscious little dome. I went to my sleeping daughter’s room where I snatched her up from a sound sleep. I ripped the bedsheet off with her inside, threw her over my shoulder Santa style, and then made my way into the bathroom where I placed her into the bath tub. Then I went out into the cold night and flung that nasty doll back to hedes from whence it came.
(Just so you know, I considered writing 2-9. In the end I determined that I would have been playing around. And as you now know, I do not, under any circumstances…play around.)
* Please do not attempt to test reason number one.
