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I am the saver of the tree!
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oh wait. I suppose if I really look at this realistically,
If I looked at this from the point of view of the tree, it would probably think that I was the saver of the tree if it was still out there somewhere in the forest, holding up squirrels and loving the feel of the sap flow in the springtime not propped up here in the living room trying to forget the day of the chainsaws, trying to forget that bumpy ride stuffed on the back of that flat bed with all of its neighbors crammed in tight beside it, tied up tight,
Buuuut, Id rather not look at it that way. I prefer to not think about the fact that I simply took something that was already quite dead and simply prolonged the morbid display of it's demise while prettying it up with shiny baubles.
I guess that's the magpie in me -- dead trees and shiny baubles.

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No, Im not going to look at it realistically, because
I am the saver of the tree!

NONETHELESS, after bribing the dog to get up and step away from his new bed (he was actually laying on it when I got home from work), after propping it back up and filling it's little cup with water till it runneth over, it came back.

man I'm kickin myself for not taking a photo as soon as I walked in the door. That would have been a beautiful shot with Morgan's face lookin all
"ruh roh"
like that when I came into the living room. But damn, I was too flabbergasted to think about taking a photo at the time.

Anyways, it's up and stretching out into it's former charlie brown splendor, and now that I have rearranged the living room furniture, its in protective custody behind the coffee table, some chairs, and the couch.

Ah HA! Foiled again Morgan!

/end tree update.

I finally broke down and watched The Grinch last night. No, not the wonderful original, I mean the new one with Jim Carrey.

Way to go Ron Howard. Way to totally fuck up a beautiful thing.
Since WHEN were the whos all about shopping maniacally? Since when were there mean whos, superficial whos, and police whos??

Since WHEN was the Grinch once a little ugly baby who?
Since when were there little ho whos, drunk whos...

(What, no crackaddict whos? no serial killer whos?)

Its not even just that the Grinch sneaks into the mayors room while hes sleeping and dreaming of kissing Martha May, and the Grinch holds the dogs butt up to the mayors mouth and WHAT?
Gives the dog a rim job?? They animate the dogs eyes bulging out?????

The scene where the Grinch is trying to find something to wear to go to the awards ceremony, pulls the table cloth off and puts it on.. looking like a dress
The dog tells him it looks like a dress, and the grinch says
its a KILT! Not a dress! SICKO then rips the thing off,
and WHAT? Hes wearing a pink garter around his left thigh?
Trying to say that the Grinch is a cross dresser?
The green belch thing in the guys face. Oh man I could go on and on.
Dont get me wrong, I like sick humour. But dont fuck with Dr. Suess.

I read up a bit since watching this atrocity, and apparently Dr. Suess denied request after request to remake the original.
After he died in (91?) his wife finally relented and allowed this.

Reports were saying she was quite happy with the results.

(Same reports didnt mention that she was probably strapped in a wheelchair, hooked up to an oxygen tank, drooling a little bit and smiling off into the distance when they showed her the final screening)
OH! I think she likes it!
Come along Mrs. Suess, time for nappies.