Giving thanks.

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If Benjamin Franklin had his way, our national symbol/emblem would have been the turkey, not the bald eagle. If this were the case, would we still be buying approximately 280 million turkeys for Thanksgiving consumption this year alone? Would we be okay with the mass slaughter of turkeys if they were our national bird(s)? Would we be buying bald eagles to eat instead? ;)

Ben
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adelina:
@harshrocker Thanks. Hope you have a good one too, and that it's not too cold for you. ;)
lanemeyer:
You are adorable and awesome.

It's the simple things.

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J wears the turkey hat I made for him.

It's that time of year! Salt-dough ornaments made by the littles.

xx


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adelina:
@adobe yes, it's a skeleton.
adelina:
@adobe yes, persimmon ♥

B-I-N-G-O

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It's not just for geriatric retirees anymore.

And this was just the tip of the bingo iceberg. I would post more bingo cards, but this is probably enough for now. Why bother writing an entry with actual content? No one wants to read that shit.

xx


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bagobolts:
I enjoy your blog topics, so ya I read that shit. I did enjoy the bingo though ;)
estrada:
I reactivated!

Sh!t.

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Relationship experts insist that the most important relationship you'll ever have in your life is the one that you have with your significant other/partner/spouse. This contemporary truism flies in the face of the long-standing conventional belief that the children come first. Family comes first.

What's correct? Modern truth or the traditional wisdom of yore?

Inexplicably, we have the highest, practically unattainable standards for our partner....
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adelina:
@crazytalk So, right back where we started: which relationship is more "important?" Trying to extrapolate from what is philosophically (or otherwise) important with humans and to what is important in lower-order species is beside the point. Humans are an anomaly. We have higher cognitive abilities which allow us to think things through. And a lunatic bonobo cannot gauge importance; the "lunatic" modifier implies the impairment of cognitive faculties. Which makes it all the more astounding when truth comes spilling out of its mouth. Anyhow, I'll take your bait and discuss the workings of relationships between lower-order animals. The most interesting bond in non-human animals would probably have to be between that of mother and offspring. I can't say whether you can jump from that and make the claim that it is the case that the strongest bond is between family in every species on the planet. That is a massively colossal claim. In fact, aside from the mother/child relationship (only until the child is able to take care of itself), I don't know whether there is any relationship in the animal kingdom which is held sacrosanct. For instance, it is often the case that animals find themselves in incestuous relationships. There are also instances when an animal is a "lone animal" (as in, a lone wolf) and not a pack animal, and is actually all the stronger for it. Are there wars waged between feuding families in the animal kingdom? Do the animals really have any consideration of what a family unit is at all, aside from the inertia which leaves them in a pack or group just because that is what they were born into?Do they have even have the most rudimentary loyalty to each other based upon what they consider "love?" Do animals "love" each other as we humans have come to understand this term? I don't know. I do know that many swans have a mate for life. Also, turtle doves and some vultures do as well. Maybe penguins too? (I'm no animal expert).The point is trying to compare what goes on in the animal kingdom with what goes on in the human world is ludicrous. It's like trying to compare a porsche with a ford pinto. The queen bee destroys the drone bee after they're done mating, same as the black widow. The preying mantis bites off her mate's head when she is done copulating with him.  Should we then extrapolate from those examples? No, probably not. But how about getting back to where we started? What I find particularly compelling about the modern belief that the relationship between partners is the most "important" is that it does turn all traditional beliefs on its head.  In the non-human animal kingdom, the main point of having a partner in the first place is to mate and produce offspring. But thankfully, with humans, we have the higher cognition to be able to want something even MORE meaningful in the relationship. We can pair with each other because we truly love each other. Two men loving each other. Two women loving each other. Or a man and a woman loving each other. There is so much more freedom in being able to think things through and not be entirely guided by instinct, impulse and intuition as lower-order animals are.
adelina:
If you put the relationship you have with your mom, or with your boss, or with your best friend, or with your children, or with ______ (fill-in-the-blank) ahead of the relationship with your partner/spouse, I do think relationship difficulties s are more likely to arise. But really, what the hell do I know? To quote Socrates:  I know one thing: that I know nothing.

Hello, Hell.

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Please bear with me as I go through this nasty billboard phase. This craze was brought on by a "Jesus is the answer" billboard I saw the other day on the side of the freeway.

Anywho, Jesus. What a loser. Lord! What a huge pain in the ass. God! My major gripe with that incomparable douche is his dipshit face. What else? How about--it's fucking...
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crazytalk:
I'm into the billboards. I would also consider myself an antitheist. 
bagobolts:
I am enjoying the comments and thoughts behinds behind them

Well, I'll be damned.

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And this one, my favorite:


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marchinghammer:
This is fawking hilarious! Yeah so... famine, pestilence, war, disease and death? Not a problem. But too much porn? That's where the real doom of the world lies in. Rrrrrrrrrright... the world is full of sinners! Y'all perverts are going to hell! Hahahaha Histerical!
maxmohawk:
lol  awesome

So much excitement I can hardly contain myself.

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A truly unforgettable day.

-- I played keno and won $33.33!

-- I had anal sex 13 times, today!

-- I drank three six-packs of beer all by myself!

-- I ate candy corn birthday cake!

-- I slapped the rosy pink bumcheeks of the Nietzsche fanboy I live with, 23 times!

-- I met James Franco, and he's definitely not gay!

-- I read...
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gideonstargrave:
I am willing to believe all of these EXCEPT the bit about the Dalai Lama... and 13 TIMES???????!!??!!! I'm a little jealous, and I bet you're more than a little sore....
dontpanic11:
I fucking love it! 👍

Note to self: don't die.

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**click on "read more" to see 2nd pic.**

Thanks, kid. Now I know how you really feel about me.

(Yes, shitty drawing, but it's only for Edward's baby book for him to see someday.)

xo


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adelina:
@bagobolts Ha!!! I'm not so worried anymore because yesterday, which was the day after we had this little exchange, he went up to me and said, "Mommy, I'm going to use daddy's skeleton instead of yours, because his is much bigger." ;) 
adelina:
@harshrocker, @softnsweet, @midna_, Thanks, E has a quirky sense of humor.

Three Musketeers

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Knee-deep in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. He's the ideal archetype of an insane genius. It's uncanny how insanity and genius are typically bundled up together. Maybe it's because it's so hard to draw the line between the two.

Is it possible N's syphilis and brain tumor/cancer made him a little kooky? I'd say yes.

But kooky or not, what an insufferable misogynistic maniac,...
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adelina:
@lokiscoyote Good points. I heard that horse story too. Nietzsche is an extremely polarizing/controversial figure-- inspiring either much love or much hate. Yeah, I think most people who "like" him and name-drop him have never even read ANY of his works. Perhaps it's because NIN popularized him with the song "Heresy." Actually, no , Nietzsche's words have been stolen, errr --"borrowed" by song-writers for a looong time, even Kanye West has used N's lines. Maybe it's something about N's mustachioed face? Sexy fucker. Haha. I think we'll see teens wearing black tees with "god is dead" emblazoned on them for years to come.  Really though I find N to be the antithesis of cool -- it must be one of those instances where someone is SO UNCOOL that he becomes cool.  It's irritating that N is a fucking buzzword though, since the youth (not-so-counter)culture has grabbed hold of him.
memnoch666:
I like the quote about monsters from N.  Have you read others of Eggers works? I've read most of his stuff.  I can't wait to get his newest book.

The Power of Two

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Do you ever worry that there aren't enough opportunities in the day to use obscenities/profanities/vulgarities/etc?

Do you ever wish you had Tourette's, so you'd be completely justified in using obscenities/profanities/vulgarities whenever and wherever you wanted to?

I do, times two.

And here's a quick list of the ones I like to use most: asshat! asswipe! bullshit! cumball! cumslut! dickweed! dicktard! dingus! dipshit! dumbass! dumbfuck! fuckface!...
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gideonstargrave:
I NEVER worry about this. I create opportunities to cuss it up, fucker!! Granted, I don't have small (or any other sized, for that matter) children hanging about the place...
mrwaverly:
Cuntitudinous Fucktard is my favourite. I also love a record called 'John's Not Mad', by Ozymyso, which is constructed of Tourette's dialogue, from a BBC documentary. It's one of those things that is so wrong, it's right...😉

In which I am cut down to size (again).

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Or alternately titled, "How a dysfunctional relationship is surprisingly and maddeningly functional."

J: What are you writing about?

Me: The advantages of being ugly.

J: How would you know anything on the subject?

Me: I live it everyday.

J: Unbelievable. You are so full of horseshit. Why can't you just see yourself the way others see you? The way I see you?

Me: It doesn't...
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adelina:
@softnsweet Well, yeah. He's a great guy. It must be true because he reminds me constantly: "only a great guy can handle you." :)
dontpanic11:
You two should do that on stage!

5 going on 50?

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Pretend for a moment you are a child psychologist. Would these images trouble you? Is it normal for 5 year old boys to draw these freaky skeleton-alien-monster things? I don't have a good frame-of-reference because when I was 5, I drew rainbows, and little red houses with broccoli-shaped trees sitting next to them.


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adelina:
@bagobolts I feel the same way.
curioustomcat:
As Long as there is a hero it should be all right! But on the Jackass Topic... Well, aside from all I think of that Show, it is hard to make the "do not try this at home" astick with a 5 year old!
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