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Oh, emails sent in rage. If I had a nickel every time I sent an email I regretted later on… possibly even minutes later, I could at least buy myself a soda. However, none of my emails stack up to the “Kelly Tripplehorn ‘You Suck’” email. Tripplehorn, a now ex-intern for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (and a defensive tackle for the Amherst College football team) sent a ridiculously vicious email to a girlfriend that included such rousing verse as:
“Michele I am sorry, I don’t care how big of sadistic [f-bomb]ed up crush you have on me but people like me simple don’t date people like you.”
“But guess what Michele, you will never move up the ladder because I am at the top and people like me hate people like you.”
whew… just wait, there’s more!
“In the end, all I can say is that people love me and people hate you. You should observe me and take a few notes on how to make real friends.”
Oh man. Wow. That is just fan-tastic. And those quotes aren’t even out-of-context! The context is this: he’s a jackass!
This is almost better than that Peter Chung Asian hooker email, or perhaps even the Miss Kim’s Date has a small boat email, or the Doing Jack [S-bomb] for $2400 a week email or the…. geez. What is it with well to-do young folk and their lack of email scruples?
Oh, back to our boy “Tripplehorny” — check out a photo of him in The Washington Times (with complimentary article)! Nice Polo, jackass!
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This may be the best hamster name ever.
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From Yahoo News: Two Charged After Human Catapult Death
Yeah. Catapult? Oh no — they were firing PEOPLE with a TREBUCHET. Wow.
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Got an email from Interpol this morning (the band from New York, not the international crime agency). You may remember them from a number of posts involving them earlier in the year. In any case, they are touring yet again — a smaller fall tour, to which they’ll be pre-selling the Montreal, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago dates. Oh, and they redesigned their site. I liked the theme so much, I ripped it off. Note well that you can change your theme under “setup” on the lower right over there —–>
That is all. Enjoy your theme.
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so, i was walking through the parking lot of a neighborhood Kroger grocery store today, and I saw a heavily-stickered car. Reading further, I saw quite a few religious statements of the Christian variety. Yes, the Darwin fish being eaten by the Truth fish (or maybe it was Jesus) — either way, Creationism was the ideal set forth. Right next to that was a large sticker stating:
[that we better get] “Back to the Bible, or it’s Back to the Jungle”.
Now, I don’t know what they intended by this “Jungle” thing.
This states that we were, at one time, in the jungle — like the apes that we didn’t come from due to evolution. Yeah. Ah well. Most cars don’t inspire such thought.
Thank you, giant-Christian-stickered-car!
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so, as i was “wrapping things up” last night — checking email, etc — after hitting the Outlook with Jackson and Hunter, I noticed Karen, out beloved female kitty going a bit nuts around the front window of our house. I turned to the left to see what was what, and there, sitting just inches from the window was a smallish, grey cat. It scared the living beejeezus out of me, as the cat was lit up by the lamp in the window, and I really hadn’t expected there to be a cat, or really ANYTHING staring in the window at me.
Immediately, the cat-naming gears in my head started turning, and I deemed that this cat should be known as “Stoop Cee-Aye-Double-Tee” (Stoop Catt), as he/she was found upon our stoop after a no-doubt harrowing night livin’ on the streetz. I put out some water and food for this newly-favored kitty, and called it a night. Perhaps he/she shall show up tomorrow? I just don’t know.
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i figured it’s my duty to keep you, gentle reader, in the know about the movies i watch. First off, on Sunday, Hunter, Kelly and I watched the Cowboy Bebop movie. I have a deep, deep love for the Cowboy Bebop series — which is odd, because most anime I don’t really care for. Yoko Kanno‘s music is just perfect (another thing I never thought I say when it came to Japanese music of any sort. Sorry, Gary. Most of the music in Anime is just atrocious to me.). It rocks when it needs to rock, and is soft when it needs to be soft. The movie itself is very stylish, and well directed. So well, in fact, that I think Hunter was stunned. I’m not entirely sure. I think he’s a Bebop fan now more than ever.
On Monday, we went to go see 28 Days Later. At first, I thought it was just going to be some post-apocalyptic tale, but then there are the ZOMBIES! Hah. Zombies? Yeah. I know what you’re thinking — “My, that’s just stupid.” Well, listen up buck-o. I liked this movie in much the same way I liked Sling Blade. Both of them have touches of horror in them — but often most of the most horrific of images aren’t spattered with blood. Both films had me near tears at times, and yelping with fright at others. Who says you can’t have an intelligent zombie movie? The music in 28 Days Later is also fantastic, and the gritty cinematography is wonderful as well. According to the UK movie site, there is an alternate ending to the film — and it will be on the DVD when it arrives over here (hopefully in time for Halloween). Oh, I can’t wait. I was completely rapt with this film. Danny Boyle, I forgive you for “The Beach” and “A Life Less Ordinary“.
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Apparently, Dusty Baker, the manager for the Chicago Cubs baseball team, made a comment about race and heat and is, um, catching heat for it. Now, I don’t know about you, but his comments — or at least the gist of the idea — make sense to me. People brought up in warmer climates are going to be used to higher temperatures. The reason white people are white is because over many, many generations, they lived in the colder areas of the earth where the sun was not as direct, hence not needing the melanin in their skin. Blacks and latinos lived closer to the equator in hotter areas of the world. Luckily, ol’ Dusty is sticking to his guns and not apologizing.
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Clicky for a transcript of Will Ferrell’s Harvard Class Day Speech. Found by m@.
Dust in the wind, you’re shiny little very smart pieces of dust in the wind.
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