tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26314840621338135192024-03-19T14:07:31.326-07:00Sorry, wrong blogmidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-26771975966608295502009-07-30T22:01:00.000-07:002009-07-30T22:04:01.987-07:00what do you say alanis, is it or isn't it?our dog ate our entire catnip plant.midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-35732217954643201892009-06-30T19:48:00.000-07:002009-07-03T13:24:18.261-07:00as soon as i finished this i thought of the word 'fine'so it isn't exactly the half-way point of the year. frankly, i have no idea what the exact half-way point is, for all i know this is actually the exact half-way point, i mean, february is a short month after all. anyway, it is time for a little progress report on my new year's resolutions. i know you all (read: joe and maybe casey) have been DYING to know how things have progressed. i would midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-24199516718719046572009-04-29T19:18:00.001-07:002009-04-29T19:28:28.917-07:00if a tree falls on your honda odyssey and no one's around to hear...if they stopped making minivans would people just find a different type of car to universally drive badly?midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-49506992669989060532009-02-24T14:08:00.000-08:002009-02-24T14:24:43.422-08:00nacho majority partywhat do the republicans not get? when the country elected barack obama they also made a choice about the direction they wanted the country to go. it's not like we all got confused and thought we were voting for american idol and the way we want the country run is wide open. obama ran on a very specific platform: helping the middle class, transparency, accountability, green jobs, stimulus midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-36312425691865362642009-02-23T17:38:00.000-08:002009-02-23T18:02:22.484-08:00ok honestlyi want to be a mac. of course i want to be a mac. don't get me wrong, i love john hodgeman but macs are slick looking and they make a really nice clacky noise when you type on them. i love all the random programs that i don't really use and the ones that i do use (stickies!). i like that it has a matching mp3 player and a matching phone. what can i say, i like when things come in sets. and midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-75472883882654635122009-02-23T17:35:00.000-08:002009-02-23T17:38:42.570-08:00nobody puts baby in a corner"it's a midwestern thing...I don't think we can control it" William Fisherfrom the gmail chat identity of baby throckmorton.how true it is.midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-40880916116983295692009-01-29T22:33:00.000-08:002009-01-29T22:56:34.071-08:00townspeople, townspeople, a wolf is attacking my sheep!when the republicans voted down the financial bailout on it's first run through the house of representatives, despite all of that party's conviction that it's immediate passage was crucial to the survival of our country's entire economic framework, house minority (ha ha, you're the minority) leader john boehner (ha ha, looks like boner) knew exactly whose fault it was the republicans didn't pass midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-86016507210781683072009-01-06T11:20:00.000-08:002009-01-06T11:57:22.941-08:00resolution revolutionwell it is a new year. time to change our lives. time to decide that this is the year we become everything we have ever said we want to be and secretly think we want to be. i was listening to the radio yesterday and there was a woman on giving advice that doesn't really need to be given about picking realistic goals for the new year (as if we are all confused about WHY our resolutions fail. imidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-85305632348445935342008-12-19T11:16:00.000-08:002008-12-19T12:19:19.172-08:00what can i say, i'm a librai am of two minds on the choice of rick warren to lead the invocation at obama's inauguration. this is terribly convenient for me because there are 2 mindsets to have: it is a good idea or it is a bad idea. i choose both.warren has been very vocal against gay marriage and oft offensive, not to mention illogical, in his comparisons of it to incest and polygamy and pedophilia. he was an midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-47630436505800399382008-12-09T13:38:00.000-08:002008-12-09T14:17:43.437-08:00another one bites the dusthere's the thing about the latest political scandal. and when i say latest i really mean literally the latest because maybe i am just paying closer attention, but it seems like there is a 'scandal of the day' as of late. every time i turn around someone is being forced to resign or indited or unseated in shame and i know that politics is supposed to be corrupt but what good is corruption if it midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-14648019206060858582008-11-17T12:59:00.000-08:002008-11-17T13:13:54.893-08:00let's get literalso it is destroying marriage, is that right? people wanting to get married is destroying it - do i follow you so far? and the reason that gay marriage is so destructive is that the bible defines marriage as between a man in a woman so anything that goes against that is destructive and wrong. have i got it so far? okay, so i can't help but wonder:how much time do you spend trying to stop peoplemidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-72961839428431484292008-11-10T10:12:00.000-08:002008-11-10T10:36:54.798-08:00who ya gonna call?a couple weeks ago, in the middle of the night between sunday and monday, our shower door spontaneously combusted. one of the 2 sliding glass doors just exploded safety glass all over our bathroom; in the bathtub, covering the bath mat, in every container and out into the hall. everywhere. it was so bizarre. i had to take everything out of everything; i completely emptied the bathroom. midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-26871624973838233862008-11-09T21:47:00.000-08:002008-11-09T21:49:29.970-08:00seriouslyhey remote- i do not want to have to ask you again. where are you? it's almost more about principal now than convenience. well, honestly, it is also a lot about convenience. both, really. midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-33504255108867157752008-11-07T14:55:00.000-08:002008-11-07T15:21:49.271-08:00love thy neighbor as thyself (good news neighbor, i LOVE me)dear people who supported prop 8,despite the elation i felt on tuesday as we elected obama as our president (by a landslide) it was a bittersweet victory because in the same breath california (by a slim margin) took away the rights of our citizens. basic rights, so basic that it falls under the umbrella of life (spent with your partner), liberty (to marry the person you choose) and the pursuit midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-5580682275699701722008-11-05T12:26:00.000-08:002008-11-05T14:03:00.891-08:00biden should ditch the thumbs up for the cabbage patchfirst of all, this is cracking me up. second of all this is what every car that drove down our street in oakland last night was doing. it was like new year's only this actually matters and affects our lives. third of all, i said i would apologize to america if obama was right and he was so... i am sorry and i am proud of you, of us. we are not the red states and the blues states, we are themidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-15151450992965456282008-11-03T20:57:00.000-08:002008-11-04T14:24:02.740-08:00something strange is happening in the town of stepfordfor the last 5 weeks i have been convincing myself that each episode is the season finale. it was the return of the aftershow. i thought "oh this nonsense is back, talking me through the commercials, must be the season finale". then it wasn't so i thought "must be the episode before the finale". nope. then i decided it was some big lead-up to the finale. now i half think it's that and i midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-43147380170459498332008-11-03T20:37:00.001-08:002008-11-07T15:20:43.269-08:00just decide alreadythese undecided voters. what is their deal? how on earth can someone still be undecided, it's ridiculous. the two candidates could not be more different; it is both literally and figuratively black and white. i will tell you what i think about the undecideds. they are not going to vote. if it is the day before the election and you do not know if you are going to vote for the tall, black, midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-81143262706235961582008-10-30T11:05:00.000-07:002008-10-30T11:34:24.375-07:00more-bamacan this guy get more inspirational? every time he opens his mouth the right words come out. i feel like we are all used to politicians that sound too good to be true but it's different this time. this man has been consistent and uncompromised in his message and in his campaign. i remember back in the primaries thinking to myself "you have to attack more, you have to play their game to win!" midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-8049351971633549742008-10-29T17:33:00.000-07:002008-10-30T15:17:35.937-07:00open letter to rush limbaughdear rush limbaugh,why are you suck a dick? i find it very off-putting. i wonder how you go home at night and sleep with your day's activities on your conscience. i find it hard to comprehend how you look at yourself in the mirror every morning, not exclusively because you have to look upon your doughy, sour countenance, but also because you are forced to confront yourself and the fact that midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-65525374647365317782008-10-29T17:01:00.000-07:002008-10-29T17:58:50.393-07:00when i think about this show, i don't think of anything negative whatsoeverwell that isn't true. in fact, my feelings about the the hills aren't even that lukewarm and non-committal. but then again, i am not an enormous douche-bag who would be caught dead in a sleeveless denim vest.i have 5 things to say about this week's episode of the hills:1. brody and lauren are definitely together. seriously this is not just wishful thinking, i have gathered the evidence and i midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-32394873747343233872008-10-22T21:39:00.000-07:002008-10-23T02:22:44.792-07:00well, my friends, i know my history lessonsthere is at least one phrase from the mccain stump that rings true: "they say those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them." unfortunately not all representatives of his campaign seem to have gotten the memo.there has been a lot of pro-america versus anti-america talk coming at us these days from our favorite angry mob inciter gov. palin and a slew of other repubs midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-18294738183532360822008-10-22T21:01:00.000-07:002008-10-23T02:23:18.012-07:00damn itwhere is our remote control? i am sick of standing up every time i need to adjust the volume. it was okay for a while but now i am over it. dear remote control,where are you? show yourself. regards,bridgetmidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-12982296755652216202008-10-22T13:02:00.000-07:002008-10-22T17:49:06.199-07:00ebony & ivory vs. elderly & ivory: energyhere are the candidates on the issues. drawing from the debates and the campaigns and various news sources i want to talk about the issues facing the country and where the candidates stand on them. i had been toying with the idea of just attacking the character of the 2 candidates until things got really ugly and i was leaning that way for a while but let's give this a whirl.i'm gonna be a midgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-87872677047055142962008-10-20T11:33:00.000-07:002008-10-22T13:03:45.800-07:00it's literally night and dayi hate it when people say "it's literally something" when it is not literal. literally night and day is literally nighttime and daytime. what is literally yes and no? obama versus mccain.obama: yes we canmccain: nobamamidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631484062133813519.post-13018666852164907442008-10-19T21:24:00.000-07:002008-10-23T02:20:42.321-07:00it's so bizarre and unnatural, but it... it happenswe saw michael and holly's first fight and then last week we have the ex rearing her head; that's a lot of relationship drama for something that isn't a relationship. the office is throwing a baby shower and michael takes a seat on holly's trash can to talk about his concerns for jan's feelings in the terminal stages of her pregnancy. long story short, jan's fat and holly's pretty so he will bemidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265502764361332424noreply@blogger.com1