'Twas The Morning Of Monday...

...and all through the house, not a creature was stirring- except blogbrit.

i was laying in my bed with the baby and the girl cat (poe). we were petting the cat, and she was purring, and it was a currier and ives moment- and then we heard the plunk plunk plunk of cold blogbrit feet thunking across the floor. he got out of his nice warm bed, crawled out from under his soft snuggly quilt, walked across the room, picked up the formerly comfortable cat, and tossed her into the hallway.

i waited for the punchline, but when none was forthcoming after a reasonable wait, i asked him, "why did you do that?"

his response: "she sounds like a barge."

he then made some unintelligible noise that i have never heard eminate from man nor beast, i assume in a somewhat misguided attempt to illustrate such a noise, crawled back into bed, and went to sleep.

so now i'm curious- in 50 words or less, can you describe what a barge actually sounds like? and if a barge purrs in an empty forest, will it still wake up the blogbrit?

Welcome Soulmate Junior!!!!!

just wanted to let you all know that the world got a little better today with the birth of anysara and soulmate's first yummy baby!!!

soulmate jr. was 9lbs 8oz- way to go anysara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hard to tell who he looks like yet, but everyone is fine, and this blogblond could not be a prouder aunt!!!!!!!!

Jimma Carter Drinks The Koolaid, Smokes The Crack, and Loses What's Left Of HIs Small Small Mind

so, notorious peace, love, and habitat for humanity saint jimma carter has once again thrust his pathetic self into the spotlight. i can only hope that he has some type of serious degenerative dementia, or possibly a gigantic brain tumor, and that is the reason for his complete and total lack of any rational thought.

i heard him read an excerpt from his book mein kampf- oops, no, it is actually called something like "why the jews are satan's spawn and the arabs are completely righteous in every way". i think the prologue is about why it is taking so darn long to push those stinkin' jews into the sea already, and it pretty much goes downhill from there.

he defends his choice of calling isreal palestine- clearly his brain has not yet embraced the sad fact thet it is not 1947- because really the israelis/jews/zionists are on the palestinian land in that part of the world. that's why they are blowing each other and everyone else up all over the globe every chance they get- because the jews are trespassing on arab land in the middle east.

and just when you think it couldn't get any more trainwrecky -or ignorant- he compares the jewish state to south africa during apartheid. the small minority abusing the majority, etc. i guess if he consideres the whole middle east arab territory, then the jews would indeed be a minority. never mind all historical fact about israel winning territory in defensive wars which the arabs started- and which has been given away for nothing except meaningless world opinion (which has not gotten any more favorable for the jews since they gave up a good measure of their security to pacify the ignorant masses...). never mind that the jews treat the arabs in israel better than the surrounding arab countires treat their own citizens. forget that, in every measure of a civilized society- from environmentalism to women's rights to democracy- israel is by far the best developed place in the region. put aside that the arabs who still choose to live in refugee camps do so of their own volition and because of the using of them by their holy arab brethren. forget all fact, all history, and all common sense, and then you may actually agree with a single sentence in jimma's book.

can't wait until he receives the nobel peace prize for his work in bringing people together.

zig heil.

The Fine Line Between Empathy And Contempt

as teenagers, many kids laugh at the misfortune of others. whether it's the homeless guy on the street, or that geeky kid with the pocket protecter who brings his lunch in a bill nye lunch box, their reaction to the discomfort of the situation is to laugh. it's very self-protective to snicker at the outsider, lest you may yourself become one. it's much easier to join in the laughter over someone being teased than to stand up to the mob and possibly become the next target.

usually as people get older, they develop a tougher shell. it's not so much that they develop empathy; rather, they become okay enough in their own skin to let their emapthy come out. they become less involved with what the perception of themselves will be, and more concerned with how to lessen the inherent discomfort of any given situation for all concerned.

but it seems like today, people are just failing to grow up. the kids are getting nastier and meaner, and the adults are staying those same self-centered, self-involved, self-protective brats. watch any court TV show, listen to any call-in radio, observe much of the behaviour that people are, shockingly, not embarassed to display on the street. listen to the rude mouthy person on their cell phone in a public place, not caring about what is overheard, actually thinking they sound cool when they curse and talk about inappropriate things in front of my kids. watch the jerk in traffic who not only cuts people off, but then gestures angrily and yells at other drivers who dare to be on the road. check out any small claims court docket and witness the shear number of folks who want to profit from what we would have called in the old days, a simple mistake from an innocent person. what the heck is up with people?

everyone thinks they deserve everything. everyone feels entitled to everything. usually, the amount of consideration any given person feels they deserve is inversley proportional to the amount of respect they are earning. that's the key to why this irritates me so much- it seems like the loudest, rudest, most obnoxious people are the ones who assume they should be served up the world on a golden plate. who taught these hellions that it's all about #1?

in an age when all the schools want to teach is environmenall terrorism instead of real terrorism, and global warming gloom and doom, and that every child should skip lunch and forego birthday presents to send money to aids victims in africa, it seems odd that society as a whole is getting meaner and more cut-throat. the more we try to sensitize and feminize society and tie the hands of our soldiers and emasculate anything strong and masculine, the more people seem to be coming up nasty and hostile and "all about me".

we are trying to breed empathy and compassion, but more and more people, from the scummiest ghettoes to the ritziest hollywood parties , are becoming non-emapthetic and anything but compassionate. scoiety is turning into a sick place where the meanest and cruelest and most expolitive win, and the rest of us just stand idly by, too cowed into fear to say or do anything.

when did growing up into empathy become wallowing in contempt?

Let's Talk About Katherine Moennig

the burning question of the moment has to do with the "wow!' factor.

some women are pretty, like kate winslet or christie brinkley.

some women are beautiful, like halle berry. they are just so lovely that you want to stare and stare.

but some people just have that certain something that is above and beyond. they are so compelling, so spellbinding that you just can't look away. you are blown away by this mystical quality they exude- seemingly without trying. it is rarely the most objectively beautiful women who have this magic. the question is, what exactly is it?

i googled katherine moennig yesterday, like a teenage stalker fan hoping for a signed poster for her locker. considering that i wasn't actually like this when i was a teenager (okay, there was the billy idol thing...), it was kind of bizarre. but i just wanted to know about her. i just wanted to find out what makes her so above and beyond. and in spite of the fact that many of the pictures of her for sale on ebay are like soft core lesbian porn, the photos of her just standing around took my breath away.

so, i am wondering from all of you- what is it that some women just have? can you ever nail down something specific, or is it too ethereal?