Crazy

I'll tell you what is Crazy - the song Crazy by Gnarls Barkley being declared the song of 2006. I am officially out of the music loop. IMHO - that song is the pits. Have a Happy New Year! I hope everyone drinks so much that they forget that Crazy ever existed.

Happy Holidays from Satellite Radio

Hey gang, I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. I went home to Michigan and saw my great fam. I decided to drive the 8.5 hours instead of flying and renting a car. For the trek, I decided to activate the XM satellite radio in my car. Yes - I did take my iPod, but one can get bored with their own selection. I like satellite radio because the channels stay the same, the reception is great (even in the Alleghany Mountains) and most importantly there are no commercials. Unfortunately, XM has the same affliction as terrestrial radio - they play the same songs over and over and over. In 1997, before satellite radio, my college roommate and I drove from Boston to Ohio and back - every station we tuned to was playing R.Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly. I think even country stations were playing it. Well on my trip to Michigan this week I heard these same songs over and over and over:
1. Ciara - Promise
2. Justin Timberlake (any song from FutureSex - I have this CD and I love it but it may not get any more spins because it is now burned into my brain)
3. Nelly Furtado
4. Akon (I Wanna Love You and Smack That)

For those of you that listen to XM, I was listening to Channels 20, 21, 65-68

Rock the Vote

Hey Gang,

Just want to remind everyone to please go out and vote on Tuesday, November 7.

This is what I call having a bad day. 

Uhh I think there is a shark in my window. LOL. This is the Discovery Channel's Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. Do you think Shark Week is coming soon?  

Happy Birthday! Today, July 9, 2006, is Tai Shan the Panda's First Birthday and my 28th, I mean 25th Birthday. Hope everyone has a golden day. Love Cass. 

Clippins'

Do you ever wonder what genius thought it was a good idea to make finger nail clippers as keychains???

I personally do not think that people should be clipping their nails in public. So...today around 9am I was on the red line of the Metro heading into downtown DC and there was a professional woman in a grey suit clipping all ten of her nails. Yuck. No one wants to head to work and hear this loud clipping noise, and most importantly - no one wants to be hit in the head with dead nail clippins' - this is gross. And no, she did not pick up the leavings. Then the lady had the nerve to put on black satin gloves...umm last I checked it was July in this swamp we call the District of Columbia, so there was definitely NO need for the gloves. Therefore, I have to assume that this woman is one who has a heightened fear of germs. Well I have I heightened fear of being hit with the detritus of your fingernails.

So lady in the grey suit, the next time you do this I am going to take a picture of you and post it on my blog. If the stares of everyone on the train won't get you to stop, maybe posting a photo of you grooming your claws will shame you into clipping your nails in your own home.

My new kitten, Giles. He has a nasty little cold.  

Cynical

Janan Cargile wrote that in our generation "trust is nothing more than temporary suspension of belief."

Is this true? Is our generation so jaded that we believe in nothing? I think so, because our generation doesn't even have a name that sticks. (I forget, are we X or Y or better yet the Jackass generation)

I propose a new name for our generation: "Don't believe the hype" generation. People call us lazy and ungrateful. These people are wrong, maybe our generation doesn't believe all the lies we are told. For example: ads tell us that if we have all the right things (i.e. a new iPod every few months, a new car, new clothes, ) we will be happy, or that if Bird Flu reaches America we will be ok, or that the levees really do work, or that there is justice, or that global warming is the greatest hoax ever. To all this we shall say "Don't believe the hype." It's not that we don't care, its that once upon a time we believed the hype and all we are left with is gutter sludge.

daVinci Code

I saw the daVinci Code this weekend, two years after reading the book on a beach in Florida. I will simply say that the movie was as boring as watching paint dry. Ever since I heard that Tom Hanks was cast for that part, I was telling people that he was the wrong guy to play Robert Langdon. Most people challenged me to come up with a better suggestion. I think David Duchovny of X Files fame. My mom thought John Malkovich would have been a better choice.

Tom was just too bland and his hairstyle was just all wrong. I do like Tom Hanks as an actor, but I definitely preferred him in such film greats as Splash and The Burbs. I despised his turn to the serious. Not to say that he didnt do an amazing job in Philadelphia or Forrest Gump. I just preferred the silly movies and the roles Tom played in those movies.

I am not saying you should not go see the movie. I am just warning you that the great beach read, is not as fascinating on screen. As an aside, I also saw Friends with Money this weekend. It was an excellent movie and it bothers me that most of the movie-going population does not know about these types of movies or do not put forth the effort to see independent films.

Rock the Vote

In the Washington Post, Lisa de Moraes comments on Idol Voting vs. Presidential Voting. Hilarious.

Thirty-five percent of "American Idol" voters believe their votes on the singing competition count more than or as much as voting in a presidential election, according to the latest navel-gazing study of the Fox series -- this one by Washington-based public opinion research firm Pursuant Inc.
This may be because on "Idol" you're encouraged to vote early and often, whereas in the presidential election you get to vote only once, except maybe in parts of Florida where "over-voting" looked like it might catch on in 2000.
And, mercifully, in "Idol" elections, 1 vote = 1 vote, unlike our system for picking our president.
But, hey, why rain on another study on "American Idol"?

Jeryl and I on the beach, with my crazy Alfalfa sprout. 

The beautiful beach in the Bahamas 

Best New Quotes

From the blog www.whyihatedc.blogspotcom:

1. " I have internet: HOLLA"

2. In reference to having to walk 2 miles after getting off the metro while inebriated: "Zero units of fun"

LOL