The Simpsons

This is the month of pink.  Everywhere I look there is pink.  So, I think, what is the reason? Why is it at this time of season? Who thought of this marketing technique? Who could have been so clever to think?  We see this special color and open our wallets to give money, to research, to help to families, to women who know only to well that it is the opposite of funny, but, perhaps, we will find a cure, so in the future, to be sure, we all, if we are lucky, can laugh together.....

 

I am reminded we all need to find laughter, especially after reading the very sad news that Marcia Wallace, the voice of Edna Krabappel a character on The Simpsons, passed away because of breast cancer. 

 

Lets keep walking, for reaearch, for a cure, so that we can all find......... laughter...........

 

 

do the simpsons link here

 

 

 http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/10/26/marcia-wallace-dies-voice-simpsons-edna-krabappel/

sushi

Sushi!! Sushi!!!! I am having sushi for dinner!  I have a lot of school work to get done, and have been neglecting my SAT work, so I am in tonight.  Feeling sorry for myself, I talked my mom into getting any sushi (NO ONE WANTS HER TO MAKE THAT)  What type of sushi should I get? Yellow tail? Dragon roll? Alaska roll? Edamames? Just give me everything on the menu put me in front of my computer and watch me go eat a roll, type a paragraph, eat a roll, annotate a chapter, well you get the point. 

(Luke, this is my first blog about food this year, so cut me a break.  I REALLY do like sushi)

Ok now I am feeling guilty, so, Luke, I added this for you: 

According the to unadulterated full proof, perfect source on everything in the universe, Wiki, sushi started in Japan in the 8th century to preserve fish in fermented rice, bla bla bla, where it is served today everywhere from gas stations to sushi bars and you have to hope that the fish is not radioactive or bad (although bad fish will immedidately feel worse that radioactive fish but later on you may have a lovely sushi "glow").

Does Crime Pay?

I read an article called "10 impressive Art Heists"(ok it was in How Stuff Works, but it was about art so don't judge me).

For example, number 1 was about a guy who worked in the Louve, hid in a closet, and stole the Mona Lisa. A simple, easy, no force or trouble heist.  He was caught, but his excuse was that he was returning it to Italy.

Number 10 was about a few guys who tunneled into the National Fine Arts Museum in Paraguay and stole  paintings by Coubert and Piots.  These clever thieves were never caught.

What is the purpose of this article, I wondered?  Was it to encourage an academic life of figuring out the statistics and odds of locating famous works of art and then figuring out a full proof way to steal them? Perhaps it was about crime sometimes pays? Or is it crime does not pay, unless it does, but it should not?

Whatever the moral of the article is (if there is a moral) it is a fun article that inspires script writing ideas about art and intrigue.

Comic Con Withdrawl ep 1

It has been about a week since I last dressed up like a goofus and pranced around with other gufusses (goofuss, goofi?) getting over priced stuff I do not need and waving to Stan Lee, who does his classic move, where am I again and how much am I getting paid? I am currently rocking back and forth with my comics in hand chanting only 355 days till the next Comic Con. The comics which own I already have read about as many times as there are days left until Comic Con. I have not eaten anything else except my Comic Con diet of fiber bars and Elmo juice boxes which has made my immune and digestive system grow muscles and improve 500%. Why you ask?  I need muscles to hurdle over nerds to find Stan Lee and overcome the virus nerditus. Is it Comic Con yet?

oreos

 I feel like a lab rat.  I read an article (you see what I get for reading) about Oreo's.  Oreo's, simply, are the best cookie ever (well, maybe not next to Mallomars, but that is not the debate here).  The article is about a study that claims that Oreo's are addicting.  Great!  We needed scientists to do an actual study on this?  "Our goal was to design a study to explore the hypothesis that high-fat, high-sugar foods have the same addictive potential as drugs or abuse".  No offense to these "scientists" but instead of wasting these delicious treats on rats, all they needed to do was bring in a few boxes of the Oreo goodness into our high school cafeteria and watch the "scientific magic" happen.  Have I found my calling?

 

article

 I read an article about Amelda Marcos's (you remember her- the wife of Ferdinand Marcus, ruler of the Philippines forced into exile-- the lady with a lot of shoes) ex aid who is on trial for selling A Monet "Water Lilies" series painting. Obviously, the painting was not hers, but was stolen  by the Marcoses as they looted the Philippines of treasures worth billions.  Art, intrigue, deception, trial, error, ....STAC!

 

 

http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/ex-marcos-aide-on-trial-in-nyc-case-of-monet-work-1.6265912

 

 

blog

What exactly is a blog? Wikipedia, the leading, extremely reliable, leading source on everything there is to know on the planet, no, in the universe, states, ” A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries (“posts”) typically in reverse chronological  order….”

I thought you should know……..

blog

Ok, I left you hanging on my last “blog”, but it was to prove a point.  A blog does not really have to be about anything at all.  Blogging about blogging counts as blogging, but is it really a blog?  Until my next blog…….

Here is a link  (it is a Wiki one by the way, and if information is on Wiki, how can it ever be wrong) on how to make money blogging.  Need I say more?

http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Making-Money-Blogging