Bill Maher's New Rules - Osama Edition

couldn't have said it better myself!

making her famous

totally forgot that tomorrow is mother's day and didn't even send a card! but you can all help me by making my mom famous because there's no better present than that. if you wouldn't mind - forward this link to everyone you know + 10 people that you sort of know + 5 people that you really don't know, but are hoping to get to know better and ask them to leave a comment on the blog telling my mom -

how pretty she is
how famous she is
how nice her hands are
how you never seen a better picture of someone sticking out their tongue during a professional photo shoot

i will then forward her all of the comments and it will be the BEST mother's day present ever!

thanks for your help. by the way, nothing will happen if you don't forward this on in the next 10 minutes - no death, destruction, bad luck etc. but, you will help me dig myself out of the procrastinator's hole. oh, and not to make you feel guilty, but i'd totally do it for you :)

back yard baby birds

spring has sprung and the eggs are all hatching. we have 4 little somethings living under our air conditioner and they're very loud!


but even cooler is the little something that was learning to fly today and he was sitting right next to me while i picked spinach out of the garden - while mom and dad watched from the tree above.

welcome to america

today was a day of confusion and clarity -


riding the bus home today and a woman looking rather clueless boarded after me. she mumbled something to the driver and he told her to just sit down. what she, clearly a tourist with limited english proficiency, said was - "is this the bus to georgetown?" what he she should have told her is what a horrified middle-aged woman barked -"honey, you couldn't be going more in the wrong direction! you're headed over the bridge and there aint no georgetown over there. you need to go back the other direction!" she still look confused and a young boy put his hand on her shoulder and said - "welcome to america ma'am!"


yes, osama is dead; or as the newspaper seller hawking the evening edition of the examiner at eastern market was yelling -

"extra, extra! it took obama to get bin laden!"

"we got him," obama stated emphatically, but i don't think it's as easy as that. bin laden, while despicable and detestable, was not the root of all evil and it would be presumptuous and dangerous to think that we're safer now than we were yesterday. i think that the most disturbing part for me have been all of the stories about the college students celebrating in front of the white house early into the morning. many of those students were from george washington university, my alma mater. at first i was perplexed as to why someone would go to celebrate that a person, again no matter how despicable and detestable, was shot twice in the body and once in the head at close range. it seems beyond explanation. but then i became even more dumbfounded as reports emerged that some of these kids were engaging in debaucherous behavior under the guise of celebrating the death of a man, no matter how despicable and detestable, who was shot twice in the body and once in the head at close range. petula dvorak sort of felt the same way.

but then i got home and the world started to make sense again. why, you ask? because i was greeted by pictures of pippa middleton that i inadvertently left on my screen last night. come on - woman, man - it doesn't matter. that dress is inspirational!






so welcome to america and god bless the flipflopfed! after all, where else could you get a story from the bus, commentary on bin laden and a gratuitous shot of pippa middleton all in the same blogpost?