Playlist of the Week

1. Girl ~ Beck
2. Lyla ~ Oasis
3. Sunday ~ Sonic Youth
4. Your Legs Grow ~ Nada Surf
5. Good Feeling ~ Violent Femmes
6. Post Modern Girls ~ The Strokes
7. Wicked Little Town ~ The Breeders
8. Smells Like Happiness ~ The Hidden Cameras
9. The Electric Version ~ The New Pornographers
10. These Boots Are Made For Walking ~ Loretta Lynn

Chewbacca!

We Finished It!

I didn't even realize that The September Blender crossword got finished!

Thanks to Nick James for answering our hold out clue.

Also a big thanks to:

Chelly
Jessa
Amanda
Andreea

for playing this month.

Pardon?

Jeb Bush Reveals His “Mystical Warrior” Friend

Last week, after “more than an hour of solemn ceremony” swearing in Rep. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium to tell “a short story about ‘unleashing Chang,’ his ‘mystical warrior’ friend.”

Below, courtesy of the Gainesville Sun, are Bush’s words, “spoken before hundreds of lawmakers and politicians”:

“Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.

“I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.”

Bush then unsheathed a golden sword and gave it to Rubio as a gift.

‘’I'm going to bestow to you the sword of a great conservative warrior,'’ he said, as the crowd roared.

Courtesy of thinkprogress.org

I have often wondered how she has managed to be 95 pounds for the last fifteen years. Even after having a baby.

Well, I guess it wasn't healthy food and plenty of exercise.

Caitlin at Rebound Designs makes these awesome purses out of old books.

I want this one badly:




She also has some great Nancy Drew ones.
Some people's creativity never ceases to amaze me.

Happy Birthday To Me

Just when I finally adjust to being 30 I turn 31!

Unfortunately I have to work today, get my car fixed, pick up a birthday present for Bean's friend, come home and then take him to the pool for his friend's birthday party which is from 6 'til 9!
We will be leaving by 8 for sure.

Birthday's just aren't as fun as they used to be.

Guess Who

Poppy got it! ~ Lenny Kravitz

Engrish Pic of the Week

Quote of the Week ~ Lauren Bacall

Tom Cruise is 'sick', 'inappropriate' and 'vulgar', according to screen legend Lauren Bacall.

The 80-year-old star, once married to Humphrey Bogart, slammed the Hollywood hunk as 'not a great actor' and said she was outraged at his public outbursts about fiancee Katie Holmes.

Bacall had been asked why she objected last year to using the word 'legend' to describe Nicole Kidman, who she described as a "beginner".

She told Time magazine: "A legend involves the past. I don't like categories.

"The word 'great' stands for something. When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

'His whole behaviour is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

"But I think it's a kind of sickness."

Tom has been forced to deny his whirlwind engagement to Holmes was a publicity stunt to promote their summer movies.

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Related:: dna headache
   
2. Soothing:: soak
   
3. Flashback:: acid
   
4. Turmoil:: stress
   
5. Immense:: sinking
   
6. Guitar:: jimi
   
7. Nonsense:: it's everywhere, isn't it?
   
8. Blame:: it's not always bad
   
9. Childlike:: wonderings
   
10. Duff:: beer

Thanks Luna Nina

Copy and paste your answers in the comment section.
If you want to, I'd like you to but I don't want to sound bossy.

Playlist of the Week ~ School Edition

1. Weird at my School ~ Pixies
2. We Rule the School ~ Belle & Sebastian
3. My Old School ~ Steely Dan
4. School Days ~ The Runaways
5. Education ~ The Kinks
6. School ~ Nirvana
7. Hot for Teacher ~ Van Halen
8. Me and Julio Down by the School Yard ~ Paul Simon
9. Fuck School ~ The Replacements
10. Wake me up When September Ends ~ Green Day
11. Don't Stand So Close to me ~ The Police
12. School ~ Supertramp
    

He Was Given a C?

A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part of his GCSE science project.

Peter Ash, of Lawford, Somerset, attached a generator to his hamster's exercise wheel and connected it to his phone charger.

Elvis does the legwork while Peter charges his phone in an economically and environmentally friendly way.

He came up with the idea after his sister Sarah complained that Elvis was keeping her awake at night by playing for hours on his exercise wheel.

"I thought the wheel could be made to do something useful so I connected a system of gears and a turbine," he said.

"Every two minutes Elvis spends on his wheel gives me about thirty minutes talk time on my phone."

The teenage inventor was given a C for his project and has been awarded a D overall for the course.

Wow! Google just launched a Blog Search site.
Right here.

Blender Crossword ~ September

ACROSS

2 "American Baby" daddy Amanda ~ dave matthews

9 Velvet Revolver’s trigger man Jessa ~ weiland

10 Emo rockers My Chemical _____ Leisa ~ Romance

11 Rock’s life partner Jessa ~ roll

12 Black-eyed rappers? Chelly ~ Peas

14 Nas’s alter-ego surname, also that of drug dealer Pablo Amanda ~ escobar

18 Simon Cowell–created neo-classical quartet with the hit cover "Unbreak My Heart" (two words)
Chelly ~ ildivo

20 Bob Dylan’s Grammy-hogging comeback Time _____ of Mind Chelly ~ out

22 Shimmering guitar effect Jessa ~ phaser

23 First 50 Cent/The Game hit (three words) Amanda ~ in da club

26 Ex-Fugee who had a popular miseducation Chelly ~ Hill

28 Billy Corgan’s current tonsorial status Chelly ~ Bald

31 California town where No Doubt are from Amanda ~ Anaheim

32 1982 Pink Floyd movie Leisa ~ The Wall

33 The Boss, formally Chelly ~ Springsteen

DOWN


1 ’80s New Wave band featured in 24 Hour Party People Chelly ~ New Order

3 C&W’s Jackson Jessa ~ alan

4 Vedder or Van Halen Leisa ~ Eddie

5 Boston band inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001 Amanda ~ Aerosmith

6 The Who rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind kid Chelly ~ Tommy

7 Mrs. Federline’s maiden name Chelly ~ Spears

8 The Replacements’ college-rock anthem “Left of the _____” Nick James ~ Dial

13 “When the _____ Breaks”(Led Zep) Leisa ~ Levee

15 Eric Clapton’s ’60s outfit Leisa ~ Cream

16 One-third of a 2000 ’N Sync hit Andreea ~ Bye

17 Matchbox twenty’s front guy, lonely no more Chelly ~ Rob Thomas

19 Armenian weirdos System of a _____ Chelly ~ Down

21 Brit rockers who go at the speed of sound Chelly ~ Coldplay

24 Biggie Smalls’ widow Faith Chelly ~ Evans

25 They will, they will rock you Chelly ~ Queen

27 Pink says, “Don’t ___ Get Me” Chelly ~ Letme

29 Ryan … or Bryan Leisa ~ Adams

30 Lennon’s youngest son Chelly ~ Sean

Guess Who

Chelly got it! ~ Flea

Well, it's that time of year again. Back to school.

I always dread the first week of school. I seem to get a very nervous stomach around the first week of September, every year. Is that normal?

I love having the boys home (I'm a homeschooler at heart) and I always find it hard to get back into the schedule of constant driving, volunteering, making lunches, playing nice with the other Mom's etc etc.

We are very lucky to have them at a great school which we truly adore. I guess I still suffer from a few lingering issues from my own school days.

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Julie:: sister
   
2. Emotional:: me
   
3. Head of household:: Julie Chenbot (of Big Brother)
   
4. Diva:: obnoxiousness
   
5. Devastation:: Katrina
   
6. Business or pleasure:: hotel
   
7. Crown:: jewels
   
8. Eastern:: canada
   
9. Buzzed:: stoned
   
10. Officer:: don't trust them
    

I'd love to see what your answers would be.
Copy and paste in the comment section.

Thanks Luna Nina.

Too Little Too Fucking Late

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore

I Loved This Dress!

LONDON (AP) - Internet shoppers will get a chance to add an unusual item to their wardrobe: the flamboyant swan dress worn by Icelandic singer Bjork, which will be auctioned for charity next month.

Bjork turned heads as she graced the Oscar's red carpet in the white dress. It features a ruffled feather skirt and an imitation swan's neck that Bjork draped around her own neck, with the bird's head resting on her breast.

Online bidding will be open from Sept. 18-25, coinciding with London Fashion Week.

All the money raised will assist Oxfam's general program of aid work, Marsh said.