Today’s Tweets
- Visiting the VA job center today to see if they can spark some life into my job search. #
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Today’s Tweets
- Visiting the VA job center today to see if they can spark some life into my job search. #
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Today’s Tweets
- Still getting slapped by this cold. Hoping to get over it so we can go visit the family. #
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Today’s Tweets
- The Kleenex hanging out of my nose is interfering with my coffee drinking. Looks like another bout of the cold season has hit our house #
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Thinking Out Loud
I just listened to the hottest new pop singer, who happens to have the number one album out this week, and the number one and number two song on the Billboard Top 200 for the week. With stats like that you would think the music would be phenomenal. No. It is not. In fact, you know what it sounded like to me? It sounded like Caligula in the form of a twenty something female singer. It sounded like the end of morality. It sounded like maybe, just maybe the terrorists have won, because we have gone so far in the opposite direction of their right wing religious extremest ways that we now allow an album that is nothing but musical pornography, filled with the foulest of language and sexual context typically found in gentleman’s magazines to be recorded and sold to children as legitimate music.
OK, maybe I have gone too far. Maybe it isn’t the marker for the beginning of the end of civilization. It has to be close though. What scares me, is this is the digital age and parents who used to be able to look at the CD cover and see a sticker warning them that this contains lyrics they would not approve of no longer know what their kids are listening to. These songs set records for highest digital downloads in a week. It seems too easy to let kids download an album that is on the top of the pop charts, with a little Brittany-esque girls face on the cover of the album. Click, it is downloaded, click, it is loaded onto the Ipod, and click, it is played repeatedly by kids all over the country without parents even having a clue as to what evil, vile, perverted words and ideas are downloading into their kid’s brains.
Mommy can I downlaod this album?
Want to hear it for yourself, you can listen to it for free at Grooveshark.com Just search for Ke$ha and her songs come up. See how long your stomach can take it, I dare you.
Oh man, have I gotten old. I remember the older generation saying the same things to the music I liked when I was younger. All kids go through the same things, have the same feelings and desires when they are teens and early 20’s. There had always been limits on how songs portrayed that stage in our lives though. Artists have always tried to push the envelope on that line, but at what point do we just say, “That is just too far. We refuse to go this far beyond our moral values as a society”? Or, we can just ignore it. I am sure YOUR kids and their friends don’t listen to this kind of music…
Today’s Tweets
- Both kids at home, just need Linh home and the week end can begin! #
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Lowes Build and Grow continues
This past week end T and I went to Lowes again to build a new toy. This week we built a garage for the #48 Lowes car. It also came with the #48 car so he would have one to park in the garage. T was very excited to go this week. We had other things to do this week and tried to persuade him to miss this week, but he just kept talking about the race car. So, off to Lowes he and I went. We had to rush it a bit to make it to our next stop, but that was not a problem. I had T put the sticker on the car to make it the race car, and he was pretty much done. he just wanted to play with the car, and left me to the job of assembling the garage. I tried to get him to help, but the few hits he attempted with the hammer were a little less than enthusiastic. I wasn’t about to do any forcing, so I just finished the project and we were on our way. Here is what it looks like:
#48 car and garage from Lowes
Lowes #48 car and garage
We Elfed Ourselves
You all know you want to do it too. Go ahead and put your link in the comments if you do so I can go check them out!
Enjoy our awesome dance moves!
Even Elmo Needs to Eat
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Have a safe, fun and HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Mario and Luigi!
Photos courtesy of Stylized Portraiture.