Charming...isn't it?

Hi fellow bloggers/visitors! I want to tell you about a little jewelry business my wife has been doing on the side for a while. She has been making jewelry for as long as I can remember, but just started two little stores on Etsy.com, where she is selling her own hand-made jewelry.

Lavender Moon's emphasis is on vintage style beaded jewelry, and Lucindas Charms concentrates on vintage style charms and filigree. She just started a blog: http://www.lucindascharms.blogspot.com
She makes some great stuff! She works hard at it! I hope that you stop by her blog and her stores and check our her designs! Thanks!


This is pretty funny-a "mash-up" of the Gibson Palin interview with a famous interchange that occurred at the Miss Teen USA competition in 2007. Enjoy!





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Some Oldies but Goodies... and maybe you hadn't seenies?

Back in June 2007 when I first started out on this blog experience, I had really wanted to start posting some of these hilarious cartoons I had seen on this really cool site called Camp Chaos Camp Chaos . When the time came around when I wanted to post them, the site was down, undergoing changes or something, and if I remember correctly, they had taken a few of the best 'toons down!

They had these 'toons drawn, written and animated by Bob Cesca, (who, by the way has a cool blog: Bob Cesca's Goddamn Awesome Blog! Go!) about the Metallica vs Napster controversy. (see: About Camp Chaos) Metallica-especially bandmembers Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield got ripped for their stance against Napster music downloading, and I, being a proponent of downloading (not with Napster specifically, but just the premise of the whole thing-ultra-rich rockstars complaining about a few high school and college kids downloading some of their stuff for free) was happy about that. I didn't like Metallica then at all so those clips were all the more funny. Those cartoons were probably some of the funniest shit I had ever seen! In fact, I don't know if I have seen many 'toons that funny since. You have to know who Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield are, their personas, and how they speak to really get it, although with the dialogue and the visuals alone, it's still pretty funny. Lar's eyes are crazy! You have to see the way those eyes and the way they move around, and those great voices!


I also hadn't been able to find this really funny Toby Keith clip, but I found that one too! See way down below! I think that clip has run into some trouble from either Toby Keith's legal team or maybe Cesca felt it was a little too inflammatory (for post-9/11 feelings) at the time-either way, believe me-that clip is hard to find!

Guess what!? I found some of those cartoons that were the funniest! Here are a few of them! I am posting a Lars Ulrich interview so you can get a "feel" for his mannerisms!









That crazy Toby Keith clip: Toby Keith Hates Terrorists:





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Trying to cover all the bases...

Seems like people coming to this blog are looking for SNL stuff, music stuff and maybe the hot sweaty photos of Ashanti or just plain hot photos of America Ferrara! Well, here is a funny clip from SNL alum Dana Carvey that's about music-that's two out 4-50%!

Carvey gives some observations about guitar players, and music!



WTF?! Is this one of them there "other movies" or what!? Those girl sounds are nasty-sounding!

http://view.break.com/575179 - Watch more free videos

I love Keith Olberman, but this little parody is just too funny!



*update: I found that Viacom had the Dave Chapelle black KKK guy/white supremacist videos taken down-but I found another link Hey kids! Make your own damn comics! so that you can laugh-I always have liked Chapelle's racial humor-makes you think!
I also fixed the Celebrity Deathmatch link (I had a funny Stephen King vs JK Rowlings-but it got deleted) I now have a funny Mike Myers vs Dana Carvey match that's pretty good There will be blood and crap like that Hope you enjoy those links!


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From wolverines to threats of gang-related shootings

Hi! How's it going!? Long time no see! I know, I know! I've been busy alright!? No, really, I have been busy with work and dealing with personal issues and professional issues and "other stuff"!

Well anyway, last night, I had to get away from all that other stuff, and where did I go? To that otherworldly sanctum of video ecstasy called Youtube! You see, Youtube can take me away, Calgon-it has all the necessary guitar/music videos I need to escape. It also has most of the comedic clips I need for a laugh, and it sometimes blows me away with stuff that I really don't expect!

Like, last night, for example. Here I am just aimlessly looking at clips about animals. For some reason, (don't ask me why) I looked up wolverines. I think I had seen a news blip about a wolverine or something, ok?! So, I'm looking for wolverine clips and I find one where a wolverine kicks ass on 2 wolves! I mean, the poor wolves had gone to all this trouble killing a moose or something-(they shoulda asked for help from Sarah P. huh?) and then this damn wolverine comes along and steals it. Not only steals it, but steals it in a very rude way! With lots of teeth gnashing and growling, yeah this wolverine didn't f$@% around! So, I want to find out more about this potentially vicious animal, but I'm distracted by the "Related Videos" link on the right of the screen. I see titles where there's fights between all kinds of different animals but with each click on the Related Videos, I get deeper into some shit I don't wanna see at all! I think the Related Videos thing is why we have banned our 7 year-old son from looking at Youtube! Hey! I really like your TTS! And More Moron music He likes to look at different kinds of machines- washing machines etc, jack in the boxes, cartoons, etc, but those damn Related Videos get him into trouble!

I finally get to this weird gangbanger shit, where some Sureno 13 gangbangers (who have unfortunately begun to set up shop around ABQ) are talking smack to some rival "Nortenos"! This one clip is getting all up on some Nortenos ass, talking all kinds of smack, maddogging it, esse! I look in the comments and, incongruously, (but somehow, very fitting!) amongst the nasty, undecipherable language and hopefully only written threats, is a spam comment that just melted all that hate away!

(click to enlarge)

I was tagged a few days ago by blogbuddy and fellow educator, Mathman When Will I Use This?

with the 5 different things- thing.

Well here goes:

1. Where was I ten years ago?

-September 1998- I was here in ABQ, beginning a tenure teaching in a special needs preschool classroom, at an elementary school about 5 minutes away from our house! I must have liked it-I stayed doing that up until last school year, when I became an itinerant early childhood liaison, working with special needs kids preschool to 3rd grade. I had taught a kindergarten special ed. classroom and the preschool special education classroom at another school for 3 years before that.

2. What was on my to do list today?

-work on some IEPs for upcoming meetings, and calling a parent about some issues. Email stuff; Pick up my son after school-(I am lucky I have my office where I write reports, IEPs, etc, at my son's school which is the same school I had taught at for 10 years-see above) to take him to his private Speech Therapist.

3. What would I do if I was a millionaire?

-I know this might sound bad as a teacher, but if I/we (ahem! says my wife!) won the lottery, I would want to quit working. (this would depend on how much of a millionaire I/we were, but, if it was a big win, I would want to finish out the year, and then resign, so that I could work on helping my son out more and advocating for him. Sometimes my (and my wife also) being tired affects how much I can do with and for him-simple things like going to the park, etc to other things like trying to implement at home some things that his therapists recommend we do, and doing more to help him deal with his autism. Being an educator is a very tough job, professionally and emotionally sometimes. I know there are some teachers who would never think of quitting but...that's their thing, and I applaud them. We should all hope that there are those teachers who can dedicate their whole lives to teaching our kids. I would probably want to help special educators with some expenses or other assistance since our state is so poorly funded education wise. I would help out my mom/family with some stuff, pay off a few things. Nothing extravagant.

4. Five places I have lived:

-that's easy-I haven't lived in more than two-here in ABQ, NM and Los Lunas, NM. Nowhere else.

5. Bad habits I have.

- not closing cupboard doors sometimes.

-not pushing in my chair

-staying on the computer for hours and hours-unless my wife gets a hold of me!

*If any of you blog mates want to do this tag, go ahead-no pressure!

Another blogmate, John from For Your Entertainment had this funny Jonathan Coulton zombie song- Your Brains: http://foryourentertainment.blogspot.com/2008/09/heavy-rotation.html. He has a link to Jonathan's site where if you drill down into Music and Mp3's you can find some good sometimes free funny songs. (This one is unfortunately not free-it's a dollar though, so what the heck)

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GYWO-animated!

I've always liked Get Your War On by David Rees. I just found this-a few GYWO strips that are animated! Cool! It is kind of neat to see it all live action and %#@&!







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Elitism at its worst!

Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin:
She might not be Vice Presidential material...


But she did stay at a Holiday Inn Express Hotel last night!


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News you can use(?)

Here are a couple of news stories that need your attention!


http://getclippings.com/image.php?id=1039601


http://getclippings.com/image.php?id=1039593

Make your own silly newspaper clippings! (only thing was there was about a 50 word limit)Create your own newspaper clippings

Hey! what can say!? I love The Onion! Home The Onion - America's Finest News Source Both the print and the Internet edition with it's great video clips are definitely more bang for your buck than a night at the local comedy club, watching some guy not make you laugh-once! I have a few of those Onion "anthologies" and I find that if I keep going back to the even the well-thumbed through editions, I always find something I missed!

This is good news! The show 90210 is back with all new actors! Pretty much the same old show as the original one it seems, according to this billboard I saw recently!

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