Mouths

Moi (texting Nick): It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are? Nick (texting back): Yeah in Nevada gambling, spending my college fund for drugs and sex. How about you? How’s your night going? (FYI, he’s spending the night over at his friend’s house.)

The nation of Zmbabwe is supposedly having a run-off election to determine who will be the next president. In an earlier ballot, Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, gained more votes than incumbent President Mugabe. However, Mugabe is using the full force of his police and military to ensure no such defeat [...]

1) Spent the morning at the spa.2) Joined a dear friend for our last luncheon.3) Need nap.So I'm referring you to The Perlman Update to read about Jill's children. They're spending the summer in the US, the country of their citizenship but not the country they know. I think it's a fascinating look at expat children and the challenges of expat parenting.

MÖTLEY CRÜE's Crüe Fest tour begins just over a month from now, but the band has yet to reveal any details about their plans for the show's production and staging, according to The Pulse of Radio. The CRÜE have always been known for over-the-top live shows and bassist Nikki Sixx said in a conference call with reporters this week that they want to keep this one a surprise as long as possible. "

“People tell me, ‘Oh, you just drink to escape your problems.’ Well, no shit. I’d eat rat heads if it let me ditch my problems.” “That jerk is the ugliest, smelliest, assholiest fuck-face on the planet. I would never sleep with him again.” “Alcoholism is the only disease they [...]

Nick: Don’t let me forget, I need to wash some clothes tonight.  My jeans smell like yesterday. Moi: Smell like yesterday? What does yesterday smell like? Nick: I don’t know. Yesterday. Moi: Okay then.

For full review/similar artist, refer to older post HEREArtist - Set Fire To FlamesAlbum - Telegraphs In Negative Mouths Trapped In StaticYear - 2003Genre - Instrumental, Experimental, Post-rockDISC 1 DISC 2Password - SirensSound.blogspot.com---------------------------------Tracklist CD 01---------------------------------01. Deja, Comme Des Trous De Vent, Comme Reproduit (6:43)02. Small Steps Against Inertia/Echo Of A Dead End (3:01)03. Measure De Mesure (4:45)04. Holy Throat Hiss Tracts To The Sedative Hypnotic (3:38)05. When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts (3:11)06. Kill Fatigue Frequencies (1:28)07. In Prelight Isolate (15:11)08. Tehran In Seizure/Telegraphs In Negative (5:56)---------------------------------Tracklist CD 02---------------------------------01. Your Guts Are Like Mine (2:15)02. F

While out to lunch, discovered that Jenn’s going to Bamboozle this weekend.  Nick’s going Saturday - so I texted him to let him know (he was at lunch, too) she’d be there.  The two started texting, discussing the lineup.  45 minutes later, I know his lunch is up - so I had to be the [...]

Yesterday (Monday). Ms A: Hi, Ms. M, this is Nick’s gym teacher. Moi: Hi. What’s up? Ms A: Just wanted to give you a heads up Nick now has 3 “unprepareds” in gym. (loosely translated - he doesn’t have gym clothes) Moi: 3? Didn’t the new cycle just start last week? Ms A: Uh, yeah. About that. Last week, he [...]

Amy Winehouse has fuelled reports her brief marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil is over after she was photographed cuddling up a new man. The troubled singer, 24, and Fielder-Civil, 25, have spent over half of their 11-month marriage apart after he was remanded in custody in November on charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Before handing herself in to police for questioning over

Out of the Mouths of Grandbabes: Bedtime Stories for Grandparents (Paperback)By Donna Vander Griend Buy new: $9.9937 used and new from $4.35 Customer Rating: First tagged “grandparenting” by Marilyn Casebeer “Marilyn Casebeer” [...]

It’s the last day before Spring Break kicked in at Nick’s school.  Him and his friend, Chris were talking - plotting on how to get out of going to the last class of the day and start their vacation early (’cause that’s how they roll). Nick:  I really don’t want to go to period 9, but, [...]

Last night, Nick met his dad in the city for the Lifehouse concert over at Roseland Ballroom. He took the bus into the city, and was one of 8 - yes EIGHT !! people on the bus. Nick’s sitting on the bus, one of only 8 - yes EIGHT !! people on the bus (repeated [...]

This un-named four-day-old baby girl was born with two faces, two mouths and four eyes.To some she may seem an oddity, but to one Indian couple their newborn daughter is simply a God reincarnated. Their as yet un-named four-day-old baby girl was born with two faces, two mouths and four eyes in the rural Nagar [...]

I'm a MySpace snob. I don't add most people and I do weekly friend deletions to weed out those who aren't contacting me enough. I've deleted family members and real life friends. I don't care - if you don't talk to me via MySpace you won't be on my list for long. *shrugs*My profile is public, with the exception of a few photo albums and many blogs written there. It's probably because of the fact that my page and my 'Me' photo album are public that I get so many messages. They make me laugh. They make me roll my eyes. They piss me off and they sometimes give me the vain lift I need. I've noticed that I get the most messages when I have this picture set as my default. Maybe I just look so gangsta with my organic headscarf that they can't help themselves. Maybe it's that you can see all. up.

Whoa, I haven’t seen this “write a post” tab in awhile. I told you there was a good chance of me becoming a drifter in this here blogging land. Guess I wasn’t joking. What does one do when she isn’t inspired to write posts? Well for starters, she starts making more wholesome and hearty meals, [...]

Before the start of Monday night's game, you wouldn't be able to convince anybody that the New England Patriots could end up as victims by the end of the year. They were supposed to be the villains; the ones who ran up the score and wanted to embarrass you. But if any of their remaining opponents act half as disgraceful as the Baltimore Ravens did, then it could very well happen. Oh, where to

JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister. After a while he asked: “Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?” MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn’t remember any more. Melanie said, “If [...]

A few weeks ago, Elliot had this vocabulary explosion, where he seemed to pick up everything said around him. I could hardly keep up. One morning, still half-asleep, I was getting ready for the day and Elliot was playing on the floor with some cars. Suddenly he looks up, points to me and starts shouting what sounds like, 'WHORE! WHORE! WHORE!' I could not believe it. I was thinking 'what on earth did he just say to me?!' and 'who said 'whore' in front of my child?!' starting to get a little worked up, when I glance down and realise what shirt I'm wearing. Yep, this green one with a HORSE on the front.

News/political junkies like me will have heard interviews with linguists on NPR or such since the dark days of King George began. These segments, for those of you unfamiliar with them, focus on the use, or mis-use of language by Bushists and their supporters. Somwhere along the way, while pining over the heroic figure of Big Brother in their well-worn copies of 1984, Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld discovered that, by changing the words people use to think about the issues, they could change the people's feelings about those issues. This type of callous manipulation of the truth (the black and white truth of the dictionary, for the record), is exactly why neo-cons are so damn dangerous. Love is hate, hate is love. One of the most effective, and mis-leading, examples of this bait and switch technique is to substitute a similar sounding word into a common phrase. The new phrase will tend to have a substantially different meaning than it did before hand but, because the masses are busy wit

For the work-stressed of the world who are challenged daily to produce biting retorts but sometimes can come up with no more than an “oh yeah!?” I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce. How about never? Is never good for you? I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate [...]

Did anybody else hear a news story about an afterschool program that allegedly (don't I sound all legal?) taped a child's mouth shut as some form of discipline? Was this as a personal sanity saver or what? If I heard correctly, it was judged that taping a child's mouth shut is not a crime and the case was kicked out of court or some such nonsense. My thoughts on this are that while it might not have been a crime for the daycare worker to do the taping, the tailkicking I gave HER for doing such a cruel and heartless thing to my child probably would be prosecutable to the full extent of the law.What do y'all think about this mess? What would YOU do if a person left in charge of your children taped one of their mouths shut? I suppose this hits close to home because I'm the mother of lots of little jabber jaws and while I've been pretty close to snapping and sticking cotton in MY ears at times, I would never do something like that to my own child or anyone else's! Come on, tel

I believe respect is something earned, not given. And even if I don't have the same beliefs as another person, I certainly respect someone for standing up for what they believe in. I do this with corporations too. If a company earns my respect I'm more likely to give them business and to recommend them. If you are looking for a UK based credit cards from a company that puts their money

Unlike many pet parents, Ali and I do not allow Minou to sleep in our bed at night. We don’t leave our bedroom door open so she can walk all over bed, pillows and bodies as she sees fit, much to her dismay. Call me crazy, but she needs to sleep in her very own bed and not in ours. This makes for happier people and happier people have happier pets.I say goodnight, shut the bedroom door and go to sleep.In the morning, when she hears my alarm, the meowing starts and if I don’t open the door within a few minutes she starts to scratch at the threshold until the door opens so she can dart into the room all “What Did I Miss?!?!”.This morning, Ali was still lying in bed not really sleeping but not yet fully awake. Minou zipped into the room with her usually curiosity. I had to shower and didn’t want her to disturb the semi-slumbering lump in the bed.So I beging motioning toward the door as she flops onto her back in the middle of the rug. “Come on monkey, Papa’s sleeping.”“No

Awhile ago, my wife and I had a conversation about what to call various people that our kid will come in contact with. Of course, we have the obvious: Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt Katy, etc.   We have some difficulty in deciding the relationship of all the step-parents/SOs to our child as well, but we’ll have to sort that out in the long run, I guess.   The not-so-obvious are the friends of ours that are close to us and will be exposed to our kid a lot, as well as the other people in our lives, both strangers and acquaintances. It was at this point that my wife surprised me. Now, it’s not that she doesn’t do this on a regular basis anyway — I married her partially for the suspense of it all — but on this particular subject she trumped my ideas of formality with even more. I was raised calling my aunts and uncles by their first names, something they were perfectly comfortable with (and still are) but something that always felt a bit odd to me, so I had

  Last Updated: Jun 21st, 2007 - 19:26:58Margaret mouths offBy Arnold Wayne Jones Staff WriterJun 21, 2007, 17:45 True Colors headliner Margaret Cho weighs in on her love for Cyndi Lauper, her insider’s ‘View’ of Rosie O’Donnell and how best to punish Paris HiltonMUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY: Cho says even O’Donnell’s former “View” cohorts give her props for being one of the greatest standup comedians of all time.Margaret Cho isn’t gay. She just plays one on tour. As if the San Francisco native, who frankly talks about her adoration of gay men, weren’t enough of a queer icon on her own, she’s teamed up with powerhouse acts Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Harry, Erasure and others for the True Colors tour, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign.For the Dallas stop on Saturday, the tour also nabbed special guest Rosie O’Donnell, in one of her first public appearances since her abrupt departure following a controversial season

Who says you can’t learn anything reading the sports pages? In an effort to edify America, here’s a geography lesson on how the name of the host city for the LPGA’s second major championship, held this week in a Maryland town called Havre de Grace, is properly enunciated.   The scoreboard never lies, as the big WD by Michelle Wie’s name shows. (Getty Images)   It’s “Have-uh-duh-Grace,” which despite its auditory similarity, should not be confused with the pronunciation more…

Desperate to cover-up the increasing conservative divisions over Iraq, Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS) today blasted the Republicans who spoke to the media about their meeting on Tuesday with President Bush.read more | digg story

Neanderthal !, originally uploaded by Hamed Saber.John Yoo, Joe Klein, Jonathan Alter, and all other Beltway yammerersBizarro WorldDear knuckleheads:I'm very sorry that people like me repeatedly get under your skin. Really. If I had known that all it took to get people to notice the hack jobs that you perpetuate on the American people daily was to point out your numerous errors and cover-ups, I would have started this blogging thing years ago.Please find enclosed a small token of my regret at having caused you such untold pain.In the future, might I suggest that you pull your heads out of wherever they are so firmly planted and do your freaking jobs correctly.As for you, Mr. Yoo, you might want to try and read the Constitution before you try to dismantle it. You might find a few things worth keeping, such as the first ten amendments. I especially enjoy the first one.Regards,Steven PerezObserver and raconteur, thoughts from an empty head

There is nothing, but nothing, like Grandkids. While shopping for new jeans for Grand daughter, a lady approached us and said to me..."Excuse me, but I just wanted to tell you that I think your little girl is beautiful." Before I can say anything, grandaughter says "She's not my mom, she's my Grandma." Very nice lady say's..."Your Grandma? Goodness I thought she was your mom." Now, if the truth

Why do old people always have their mouths open when they walk? I mean like really old people. It’s like they’re trying to tell us something. Don’t ask them what it is because they’re too old to know the answer. Don’t try to get any photographic evidence either. When the ...

Why do old people always have their mouths open when they walk? I mean like really old people. It's like they're trying to tell us something. Don't ask them what it is because they're too old to know the answer. Don't try to get any photographic evidence either. When the ...