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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Future

I've made quite a few posts about dinosaurs, now I want to post about some of my favorite animals of the future. Yes, I do have some faves, even though most of them are my own ideas. These are the animals I do sculputres of. Currently, I am working on a giant relative of today's armadillos. I call it Dasyventris. It is a true relative of today's armadillos, but it is about 20 feet long, with specialized armor, coated with short, stubby spikes all down the back and sides, 5 long, sharp horns on it's head and 4 long, sharp spikes on the end of it's tail to swat at predators. Not only do these provide the armadillo with protection, they also have huge claws on the forefeet to also swat at predators should one manage to flip Dasyventris on it's back, exposing the soft, furry underside. The main predator of Dasyventris is Deinognathus. Deinognathus is a giant, predatory relative of today's deer and antelope. They get up to 25 feet tall and stand on 2 legs. The forelegs are greatly reduced, and are built like a bear's paws, with huge, sharp claws. The hind legs are long, and they don't have feet, they have hooves, like a cow, built for short persuits of their prey. The head is huge and looks like that of a camel, with a bigger mouth and sharp teeth. The tail is long and thick, counterbalancing the huge head. And today felines prey on deer and antelope!! LOL! They'd be in for a big surprise if they tried to attack this animal! I actually have several stories where some large feline attacks one of these deer-like predators and gets a surprise when the "prey" bites them back!

Another favorite is actually a critter that I found in another book about future evolution. I call it Ophiuchus. It's a tiny squirrel. Where it lives there are many species of birds and bats that will feed on these squirrels. In turn, the circle of life continues, and there is a variety of snake that will prey on the birds and bats that feed on the squirrel. Ophiuchus has developed an interesting way of defending it's self. The tail has markings on the end that resembles the head of this bird and bat-eating snake. When a bird or bat attacks it, the squirrel will duck under a branch and move it's tail akin to how the hunting snake would move it's head. Ophiuchus even hisses when necessary, further mocking the hunting snake. Here is a pic I made of the squirrel in 2004:






This is the animal at work.

Of course anyone who knows me knows my favorite animals are lemurs. Yes, I've even thought of a place for them in the future World. There are some of course who inhabit the trees, as all lemurs should. But I've also thought up one who has taken to the seas and oceans. I call it Oreolemur. They are related to today's bushbabies. Even today, there are prosimians that are very good swimmers, and one variety that even feeds on water reeds. Oreolemur goes a step further and feeds on fish, squid and crabs. They swim very well propelling themselves like modern sea lions, and catch fish and squid in "mid-flight". Their swimming habits are very un-primate-like. Unlike other primates when they swim, Oreolemur does not use their arms to stroke. But rather they use their huge, flat, fully-webbed feet. The arms and tail are used to steer the animal on a dime. They are so fast in the water, they can even leap directly out of the waves and onto the rocky cliffs that make up their land-based roosts. The reason they are so fast is sharks and giant sea-genets take these lemurs in the water. Yes, even the future will have sharks! They were here before us and they will be here when we are gone! Anyway, here's some drawings I did of Oreolemur in 2005.

Here's one resting on the cliffs.


This one caught a fish.
These are some of my favorite animals. My Metazoic site goes into detail about the lifestyle of these animals.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

New Respect

I admit, as someone who never liked lions as a species, I was very moved by the story of Christian!! Now there was a sweetheart!! Before I saw his story, I always thought lions were brainless, mindless, unfeeling murderers! Christian proved me wrong! I guess it just goes to show you never really know what a wild animal will do. Animals can be just as unpredictable as humans, sometimes in a good way. I'm still not a huge lover of lions, but I like Christian! He's given me a new respect for lions. Watch his story for yourself.

Teenage Crush!

I was watching the movie Amadeus the other night and I saw the extra bonus disc I got with the movie. There were interviews with the creators and directors and some of the actors. I was remembering how I had an enormous crush on Tom Hulce, the man who played Mozart, when I was a teenager. A lot of other teens did in fact, I found that out much later. I saw him in this interview from 2002, and he's put on weight!! But yet, I find I still had a bit of a crush on him even now. Especially now! Since I love men who are a bit chunky.

I remember one girl from my school, named Joey, saw a pic of him as Mozart and giggled saying "What a dork!" LOL! When I heard her say that I just had to burst out laughing!!! He did look a little dorky in that movie, but I guess that was what made him so cute! Those big, boggly eyes and goofy grin to me for some reason seemed attractive. It's funny to look back and see the movie stars and such that I loved so much as a kid. He was just one. When I was 12-years old I remember I wrote to Bob Hope asking if he'd like to do a picture exchange. I didn't tell him I loved him as such, but I told him I thought he was the greatest comedian and he was kinda cute to boot! I told him I would send him a pic of me if he'd send me one of him. Silly I know, but Bob Hope graciously complied! He sent me a pic of him and I sent him my picture. He told me I was cute!! hehe! I still have the pic, it's got his autograph and everything!! Unfortunately I threw the letters away when I briefly got out of old movie stars and looked back and thought what a corny kid I was!! It wasn't until Bob Hope passed away in 2003 that I really began to miss those letters!! When ma first saw the autograph I got she thought it was from a stamp, but I never believed her. For one thing, the ends of the letters, you can see the actual pen-line as it slid off the picture.

I remember writing to like 4 more movie stars I liked and only 2 wrote back. Some may have moved from their original address, while others may not have had the time or even the desire to write back. Some people don't like their fans. Why I don't know. If I were a movie star, I would adore my fans. They would be the ones who got me where I am. Or would be. I would imagine I would treat my fans the way I treat my friends, I'd treat them like equals. But that's me, and like I said in my previous post, I'm not like other people.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Sandpipers Piping

Well, I did it. I took the dogs and walked back down to the ocean today. This time I took my camera with me. There was just one problem, there were too damn many people there today, there were not as many birds there today as there were on Friday when I went there. I knew I should have started bringing my camera with me!!!! Oh well. I got a few pics of some birds I managed to get close enough to to take some pics. I didn't see any terns today, nor did I see the dolphin gulls again. Just adult and juvenile western gulls. But I know what I saw on Friday were dolphin gulls!! The red beaks and legs gave that away! No other gull has both with the gray body and white head and mantle, with black wings and white eyes!! So I know what I saw!! I wish to GOD I had my camera with me on Friday!!

I got a few shots, not very good shots though. In order for me to get the really good close-up shots, I'd have to purchase about $2000 worth of digi-scoping equipment and I am not good enough in photography to invest that much in it!! That's the one art I have trouble with. But anyway, here is the pics I managed to take.




These were the group of little sandpipers piping in the surf.





Here's a closer view of them.


These are the curlews.



Here is an interesting pic of sea slime! hehe!


Vegas's little teeny paw on the right next to an enormous dog paw on the left.

This is a boat I caught going to Westport. You can barely see it way out there.

Well, some came out not too bad, but like I said they could have been a bit better, if I had better equipment and a better understanding of this hobby. But that's OK. Not all of us can be expert photographers. Personally, I think people like that are born, not made. I wish I could be like this one guy named Mehd H. that I met in a bird forum once. He took the most beautiful bird pics I ever seen in my life!! He had a damn good camera I bet to capture all the colors he did!! I wish I could do that but I cannot.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Good Bye Yellowstone!

Well shoot! Today started off cloudy and rainy, but now it seems to be clearing up. A little too late to go on my walk and now I have other things on my mind. Anna is coming back home from Yellowstone. After all the trouble we went through to get her to the position she's at now. She was doing so much better after getting that one supervisor fired. Now she has to come home. I know it's no fault of her own, she's not adjusting to the 10,000-ft. high altitude there. Well, I am happy she at least got to see Old Faithful. She informed me that she has been there a month, and has only made $300. Not hardly worth it staying there. But I knew she wasn't going to make that much, she has to pay for her dorm room and meals and stuff, they take all that out of her pay! And she doesn't work every day. We knew all that though before she even left for there. Now she says she has a doctor bill there too for $75. It's NOT worth staying there!!!! She could have made more money staying here at home and working at one of the hotels down here on the strip. And I wouldn't have to keep sending her money from home and DVDs and other things and she would never have gotten sick. Well, at least she had a taste of being out on her own, and living it up in Yellowstone National Park. And I had a taste of being on my own too. Sometimes it has been fun. Sometimes it has been somewhat lonely. But there are some things I enjoyed doing while I was here by myself that I will have to re-un-adjust (if there is such a word) to when Anna gets back. For one thing, kitchen duties every night. I did them like once every week since she's been gone. Now I will have to get used to doing them every night again. It kinda sucks, but it's nothing I cannot handle.

Last night I was watching something about tyrannosaurs. For several years now I've been hearing Jack Horner, one of the leading authorities on Palaeontology, saying that tyrannosaurus rex was actually a cowardly scavenger. It's obvious T. rex was a meat-eater, but Horner thinks they were scavengers, not actual hunt-and-killum predators. Personally, I think he's wrong! T. rex was maybe a part-time scavenger, but I whole-heartedly doubt they were full-time scavengers. In today's world, no mammalian meat-eaters are full time hunters or scavengers, with the exception of maybe 2 species. Those are African wild dogs and cheetahs, both species built for running. They never scavenge, they only eat prey that they themselves capture. But look at lions and hyenas, and they will sometimes scavenge and sometimes kill their own food. It's about a 50-50 split with them. That is what I believe T. rex was like. There is so much more to prove this. Although one of the biggest arguments I have heard is that T. rex's arms were so tiny they could not have been able to grasp the prey they were taking down. Well, I believe that is why their head and jaws were so big. They needed them to be able to hold on to struggling prey. However we will never really know unless someone clones an actual Tyrannosaur. But do we really want to do that??

What do you think of that? Sure it would be nice to see a live dinosaur. But how would we know how one will respond to us? Or how will we know how to respond to them? Ever seen the movie Carnosaur? I picture it being similar to that. Besides that I think it would be disrespectful to nature. Nature selected dinosaurs to go extinct. Extinction is a natural process of elimination, akin to us cleaning out our closets and throwing things away that we don't need anymore. While I will admit today many animals are going extinct because of human encroachment, some animals are being eliminated naturally through selection even today right under our noses. Look at cheetahs, the felines built for running. They are dying off because of a low sperm count, it has nothing to do with the invasion of humans into their habitat at all. Nature is obviously trying to naturally eliminate cheetahs. Probably to make way for some new species to take it's place. Now, if humans were not here to intervene, cheetahs would have died off a long time ago and by now we'd see some new species beginning to emerge gradually to take it's place. Maybe lions would develop sleeker bodies, or maybe African wild dogs would get bigger and faster with better weapons. Who knows? But humans will not allow the natural course of evolution to take place because we insist on saving every last cheetah there is. Nevermind that they have a very low sperm-count and will probably die off in about 50 years anyway.

Now animals that are dying off because we have begun to build on and pollute their natural habitat, or are over-hunting them, that's a different story. Those animals should be saved. A great example are mountain gorillas. Farm lands are pushing into the natural range of the gorillas and replacing their natural food sources with cultivated crops, which mountain gorillas will not touch! One of the reasons it's nearly impossible to keep a mountain gorilla in captivity. Besides that, humans are hunting these rare apes for the sake of trophies. Just recently, I heard of poachers who mauled 6 adult mountain gorillas and cut off their heads and hands! Dian Fossey would turn in her grave if she had seen that!!! I do imagine though she is up in Heaven looking down and is extremely PISSED!!!!!!!

Well, those are just my views. Oh yes! Anyone who loves dinosaurs there will be a story available on my site called "Celina and the Tyrannosaur". It's about a lemur named Celina who finds a tyrannosaur egg and hatches it, and decides to keep the tyrannosaur chick as a pet and names him Rex (of course!) If you have kids, this is a great story!!! It's by a woman named Keisha Simpson, who was in our little "group" in 1993.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Today on the Beach

I just came from my walk. Today I decided to walk down to the ocean. Why I don't go there every day is beyond me!! I guess it's just no fun going without Anna, but today the dogs and I walked down there and headed into the surf. The only real thing I hate about going to the beach is walking on that dune sand!!! It makes it tough!! But I think if I keep doing it, I will get ready for mountain climbing again. And every route has it's downs. I cannot walk anywhere without coming across some obstacles! Anyway, I think I am going to do it more often. hehe! I love the ocean, and it is practically right out my back door! Anyway, the dogs and I went and walked about a mile down the surf, turned and came back home.

The best part of today's walk was going along and seeing huge flocks of birds!! I think I must have seen about a half dozen different kinds of birds today. I saw royal terns, western gulls, dolphin gulls (which I didn't think were even found here!), curlews, american golden plovers, killdeer and what I believe to have been least sandpipers. I think they were least sandpipers!! They were tiny, but I came home and looked them up and the colors were all wrong. These were light tan in color, almost grayish-tan, with black legs. The color more matched the little stint. A close relative, but not found in this country. Not even on migration. They are strictly an old world species. As for the dolphin gulls, I thought they were only found in the southern hemisphere, definitely not here. But there they were plain as day!! Blackish wings, gray body, light mantle, red beak and legs!! How they got here I don't know. They've never been seen in this area! They traveled a long way from the Antarctic circle! There was a small flock of about 10-13 of them, among a small flock of the larger western gulls.

I kinda wonder how killdeer got their name? LOL! They have nothing to do with deer. They're tiny plovers. Well, either way I want to go back, see if I can see all those wonderful, beautiful birds again. Maybe next time, take a camera and see if I can get some snap-shots. Pretty soon here we should start seeing pelicans. They are enormous!! They kinda scare me! Especially with the dogs being so tiny. They might mistake the dogs for rats and try to eat them!! EEK!!

Weekend Project

Well, I have a choice, I can either spend my weekend here or in Grayland, across the harbor. Someone is having a bit of a chihuahua match and I'd at least like to see it. Could be fun.

I'm getting OLD!!!!!!! Really!! I can't even turn my head anymore. When I do it creaks, like rusty old door-hinges! I think my body is out of that collagen. LOL! I worked a little more on my sculptures last night. I basically just smoothed out some rough edges on the one that I completed the night before and put a couple of others on a platform of sorts. They kept falling over and breaking, then I had to go and repair them. Fortunately this clay I work with is easy to repair. I think tonight I am going to create another. I have such fun doing these. It almost brings these animals I've been writing about for years to life. I like to do the animals from my Metazoic site. They're more exciting than today's animals. This one I completed the other night is a giant, groud-dwelling prosimian descended from today's bushbabies. I've been told my ideas are great, some are a little bit out there (some people have said) but most are likely to occur.

Though I am a firm believer in GOD, I also believe in evolution. Well, my ma is a mormon and she said that evolution and creation are the same thing. Of course, I thought that all along. Even on my Metazoic site, I said that GOD was the one who got the ball rolling, and adaptation and change took care of the rest. I still get hate letters from those who firmly believe in creation because I said that. But the biggest contradictors of the theory of creation are the dinosaurs. I look to them mostly. There are so many things about the dinosaurs that directly conflicts everything I ever learned about creation. Some examples are:

1. There is no mention of the dinosaur era anywhere in the Bible.
2. Before Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the Bible says all was peaceful and there were no meat-eaters. But we know there were meat-eating dinosaurs.
3. The theory of creation would put dinosaurs and large mammals like mammoths in the same time frame. Yet, if you go to a place like Dinosaur National Monument, you won't find any mammoth, rhino or saber-toothed cat bones anywhere among the jumble of dinosaur bones.

How does one account for these? So far no one has been able to convince me of the theory of creation because of all this because these things have been proven.

Some people think the dinosaurs went extinct because of the Ice Age. But that is not so. The Ice Age as we know it, did not come until a good 60 million years after the dinosaurs were already extinct. So that could not have killed them. One guy named Robert Bakker said dinosaurs went extinct because of diseases picked up from their migrating habits, but I don't believe that either. I never did. Of course I believe he has a right to his own theory and I admire that, but I just have a hard time believing the one thing that wiped out an entire race of animals was the simple spread of disease. My problem with that theory was that dinosaurs were not the only creatures to die off at that one particular time, many sea creatures also died off. They couldn't catch the diseases dinosaurs did. The most believable theory of why the dinosaurs went extinct is an impact by a comet. I'll stick with that theory myself. Though we may never really know for sure, it is the one theory that has the most proof to back it up. Another man, Jack Horner (who I think was the inspiration for the character "Alan Grant" on Jurassic Park) believed simply that dinosaurs turned into birds. While I do believe dinosaurs turned into birds for sure, I don't think that was the only reason they are not here. Birds evolved during the Jurassic period, well before the end of the dinosaur era.

I kinda wonder if Bakker still believes that dinosaurs died of diseases? Or if he too has shifted the blame to the comet theory like everyone else? His disbelief came from the fact that frogs are still here today. In one program I have he compares frogs with elephants, he said a frog would freeze long before an elephant would if a comet were to strike the Earth today. So he said what does an elephant do that a frog doesn't? His answer was elephants spread. When they spread, they carry diseases that can be transmitted to other animals in another part of the world that didn't have natural immunities against those diseases. Personally, if he still believes that, I think the more appropriate question is what does a frog do that an elephant doesn't? The answer...Frogs go underground when times get tough. Elephants cannot do that. Besides the obvious fact that elephants are huge, they need to eat and eat and eat constantly and drink lots of water in order to survive. A frog, or an alligator, or a small mammal, can bury it's self and stay underground, not needing to eat or drink anything for as long as a year. Even 2 years in some cases. When Mount St. Helens blew up, every living creature within 6 miles of the mountain died. With the exception of one animal: gophers. Gophers were found within days after the eruption within the blast zone, and they survived because they were buried underground. Note the connection.

Last night I heard one man say we (humans) are the ending result of evolution. But I don't believe humans will be the "end-all" in evolution!! That's what my Metazoic site is there to introduce. As soon as I can get my behind going to make-up some more of those little flash movies, I can get the site finished!!!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

I'm Just Glad Tim is Still There!!

Did I mention this before I LOVE Tim Farriss!? hehe!! I really feel sorry for Michael fans. They cannot seem to let him go. Then they get angry and say all kinds of insulting things about JD and INXS. Personally, I am just happy to see Tim is still with the band!! As long as he is there, INXS will always be INXS to me. I was thumbing through some real cool pics of INXS by a woman named Karine on Facebook. Nice pics. But the problem was she only had 2 pics of Timmy. I'm thinking "Is that all she has of him??" I don't know this woman at all, even though we do share quite a few friends, and being she knows the band INXS, she's probably a DonnaG supporter, so I would be uneasy around her. Yes, I must be cautious!! VERY cautious. Most of her pics are of Michael and Kirk. Hah! My 2 least favorite band members!! Kirk isn't even on the list anymore, and Michael, well like I said, he's too skinny for my taste!! There are a few of Garry, and I do love Garry!! But only 2 of Tim :( Oh well, I snatched the one pic I didn't have. I like the pic, Tim looks especially HOT!!!!

One of my friends says Tim only looks hot when he is fit and thin. LOL! I told her I wouldn't care if he's fat or chunky, he's beautiful to me either way. But I love the fact Timmy is a bit chunky and cuddly. I don't like skinny men!! Even this guy I am currently dating is chunky! I like men with some meat on their bones. Not necessarily muscular, but some meat makes a guy look good, I think!! I remember one girl in the Rockstar forums said Timmy needed to lose weight, and I told her No he doesn't. He's beautiful the way he is!! I don't understand some people! But then again that's me. A man like Michael or even JD, with no meat, I could not bury myself in him (if I lost weight), and I wouldn't think he could defend me against attackers, and he wouldn't be any fun to hug or cuddle. But a man like Tim I would feel would be all that and more!! But it is no fun hugging a skinny man. I'd probably feel nothing but his ribs sticking out!! YUK!! To me, that is even more disgusting than feeling a bit of flab on a guy.

I joined this one group on Facebook, only for a minute, they want to eradicate JD from INXS because they say he will never be like Michael. I only joined long enough to remind them that Michael is DEAD!!!! And to get over it!! No amount of belly-aching from the Hutch-fans is going to bring him back. And it isn't INXS's fault Michael died! Really, it's all Michael's own fault he is dead. Just being realistic here! He made the choice to try something unnecessary and potentially dangerous and take his own life. I see INXS as just a group of talented musicians who want to do nothing more than make music and please the fans. I like that too. Anyway, I left that group. I was only a member just long enough to tell them that. So, I don't want JD to leave INXS!! If it makes JD feel any better, there are only 7 members in that group. So, it says JD still has a LOT of support!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Never-Ending Battle Continues!!

LOL!! Looks like there will never be an end to who is better, JD Fortune or Michael Hutchence. Neither one I think is better than the other. But people need to get over Michael. I am sorry, but it has to happen! INXS have moved on, so why can't the fans? Well, I guess that is just plain human nature to fear change. Like when my Groucho died, I had a hard time learning to really love Vegas. It took a lot of thinking, talking, coaxing, and learning to get me to love Vegas as much as I did Groucho. Some people don't want to learn to accept change though. Some people just want to live in the past. I remember my grandma was like that. She didn't like change either. Nothing anyone can do about it. But I just hate seeing former INXS fans drop the band completely because they decided to take in JD Fortune. I admit Jon Stevens was a big mistake, but I like JD. I hope he stays with the band for good. Jon Stevens, as I understand it, was too full of himself. That's what I used to think of JD. But the guys seem to have whipped him into shape.

The problem with figuring all this out is do these people hate JD Fortune because he is with INXS now? Or because they see him as a replacement for Michael? Or really, because they didn't like the way he was nominated into INXS---by a reality show? In all fairness it was INXS's choice. I think (this is speculative) the reason they nominated JD through a reality show is because they wanted to get the fans (you know, the ones who buy the concert tickets, CDs, etc) to help INXS do the picking. There have been some rumors that JD was picked LONG before the end of the series, and some are now saying that Mark Burnett himself picked the contestants, not INXS. Whether those statements are true or not, I don't know. We may never know the whole truth. Only INXS knows. But I'll tell you I personally have seen things that might conflict these rumors. For one thing, Timmy looked genuinely sad to let Suzie go at the taping of Rockstar I attended. Sorry to embarrass you Tim but it's true! You could not hide that from me. I was standing right by the band's panel, I saw him. I felt bad for him. I remember wanting to do something to help him feel better, I know his job was tough. But anyway, you cannot fake that! If the men didn't like Suzie at all, and a lot of people seemed not to think she had enough talent, they wouldn't have felt so bad letting her go. So INXS obviously had some hand in nominating her to become one of the contestants. I don't believe Mark Burnett did it all by himself! Personally I thought Suzie had some talent, I just did not like the idea of a woman fronting INXS!!!! Especially singing songs written from a man's point of view!! I just don't tend to take to female singers. So I was not one of Suzie's fans. She'd more likely do better in her own band. I was going either for Marty or JD. Not Mig! He may have had the talent, but he didn't have the sexual charisma!!

Now, I have nothing personal against Michael. I'm not a humongous fan of his anymore, and he was too skinny for my personal taste. But he was a good singer. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think so. The only time I thought Michael was ugly was when he straightened his hair! I hated that look on him!!!!!! He just didn't look like himself anymore. I "met" him in 1991, thank GOD he still had curly hair then. Well, we touched, almost the same as meeting him! hehe! Oh BTW! Lily's birthday was this past week, Happy Birthday Lily Hutchence!!! She is 12-years old now. I know it's late but anyway!! I saw her pic, and I didn't think she looks sad or sick at all. I think she looks like a normal, healthy, beautiful little girl!! I still see Michael when I look into her face!! She has his eyes, hair, nose, lips, face, everything!! Thank GOD she looks nothing like Paula!! Now, Paula was definitely UGLY!!!! But it's just like Michael to throw only female sperm. LOL! I was kidding, BTW! Not surprisingly, Peaches overdosed on drugs on Lily's birthday!! Ruining the whole day for her!! Those mediocre Paula-genes obviously!! I hope to GOD Lily does not pick up that habit!!!! But I would not be surprised if she did. It's sad just to think of that!!

Ya know, all of INXS's children are beautiful! They obviously have great genes. Though I have not seen Garry's or Andrew's kids, you all know I think Timmy's boys are beautiful!! I'm sure Jon's children will be beautiful. Michael's little girl is beautiful. Even Kirk's daughter is beautiful. But please, don't tell her!! I heard she's uppity and I don't want to contribute to a huge head-swell on her!!

Monday, July 21, 2008

JD Fortune Sporting a New Look!


I don't know, I think he looks better! I hated it when he was bald!! But it seems the JD fans (they call themselves "Fortunettes") liked that bald look. I don't know what it is with me, I never fell for bald guys. But I do like this new look of JD's. To me, a man with long hair looks powerful!! That's what I think a man should look like. Bald men look vulnerable, and some how that just doesn't do well with me. Odd huh! And I don't normally like men who are too powerful. I like a man to be a little bit vulnerable, not too much but a little bit. But I think JD looks good here. My sis Anna fell in love with him because of this. And I never thought she'd like JD!! She's always been one of those types that thought INXS would never again be INXS without Michael! But she saw JD in person in MI and she thought he was cute. But one time we were jabbering in the car together as we sometimes do, and we played a game. I asked her if she was an INXS fan which band member would she adore most? She said flat-out JD Fortune!! It was a surprise answer considering she hated him on Rockstar: INXS!!!!! (as I did). She asked me if I wasn't so stuck on Tim, what other band member would I love most? I told her my second choice would be Jon!! Not only is Jon one of the more handsome members of INXS, but whenever I've met him, he was always a very nice and kind person. I remember taking to him right away!! Surprising the band members I took to right off were Jon, Garry and Andrew (in no particular order). I did not take to Tim right away as one might expect. Oh he was beautiful to look at, I couldn't take my eyes off him! I felt like I was looking at a god!! But there was a subtle coldness in the way he shook my hands. That's basically just me looking at the person on the inside.

Well, none of this means I didn't like Tim, I still like him a lot. Always will unless he gives me a reason not to. After that, he's always been very nice to me. That was in a high-stress situation as well, and that could have been the reason he felt so distant and not into the fans as I'd always heard he was before. Before that first meeting, I always heard from those who had met him before that he was a gentleman and he adores the fans. That's why it was so easy to look past that incident. He wasn't hostile at that first meeting at all, and that made it much easier to believe the other fans and still hold on to that adoration I felt for him. And he didn't snub me either!! He seemed very nice considering it was a high-stress situation for him (elimination day on Rockstar: INXS). I remember during a break, the guys left the stage. Donna wanted me to grab Tim when he came back by and I said I wouldn't. She said she'd shoot me if I didn't (I didn't think she meant anything by it!) I still said I wouldn't do it. Just then Tim came on back and headed up the stage. I watched him with adoring eyes, but I didn't grab him. I didn't want to, I have a tendency not to know my own strength. I couldn't have lived with myself if I had grabbed him as he was going up the stairs and hurt him in some way.

I dunno, I think when I was going to meet Tim for the first time, I kinda expected him to be more of a back-slapper that says, "Hey there! How's it going bud!" And have a firm-gripping handshake. But he was not like that at all. He was sweet alright in a gentle way. I was comparing him to what I had heard about him from fans who had met him. That's the way I always seemed to picture his personality to be like. But I was not disappointed in him at all. One thing I clearly remember other fans saying about him was that he has a photographic memory. hehe! He always remembers the fans he meets. And yes, he did remember me each time I met him and he was always good and kind. I felt good when I met JD face to face for the first time and he called me darlin'. hehe! I love it when people I like flatter me like that, makes me feel a bit closer to them, whether I truly am or not. I loved it when Timmy called me sweetheart!! It just felt comforting. I remember Catsredrum and the rest of her dip-shit friends on the delusional fans forum were implying that I took that too seriously. I also remember Catsredrum saying that she'd run and hide under the bed if someone called her 'babe'. I bet though that if it was said to her by JD, she'd fall head over heals in love right away!! Unless she's impotent, as I think she may be. To me, it just helps me to feel closer to a person to hear them address me with any sort of kind words, it makes them seem friendlier. Like offering oats and soft, gentle words to a wild horse in a new enclosure that feels no less than terrified of you. I hate it that I am that way. But my initial response to strangers is that they are all enemies until proven otherwise. It's my defensive mechanism. And it feels generally very well when you find you can get along great with someone you've seen on TV and pictures and admired and adored.

That's why I was so disappointed in Kirk. I'd heard from so many fans that he was a very nice person, but I never saw that. Remember the wild horse in a new enclosure. Well, imagine you are that horse, and someone else comes into your cage, and offers no kind words and no oats, just stands there. That is what Kirk felt like to me when I met him. So that is why if the opportunity comes that I ever meet him again, I won't take that opportunity, and just give him a really good staying away from!! Well, at least he wasn't like Jack N. the show-chihuahua breeder!! (not his real name) LOL!! Imagine the wild horse again, and another stranger comes into your cage and never offers oats or kind words, but instead of just standing there, shouts and rages at you and then takes out a rifle and shoots you. That was what Jack Nipplemama was like! hehehe!! Funny, but true!! I can honestly say that was NOT what Kirk felt like to me!!!! But just the same, I never want to meet Jack N. at all for fear of that possibly coming true! I've met too many show-breeders who were living nightmares to trust any of them!!!!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Paris Hilton A Mother????

OMG! There are some things in this world that make me just stop in a funk and say "What is this world coming to?" Gang wars being one of them. People dissing each other on the internet, high fuel prices, the threat of another great depression, the lack of jobs available, the delusional fans forum, the dirty dozen mob. And now, Paris Hilton wants to become a friggin' mother!!! Oh SHIT!!!!!! GOD send your bad angels down and make that woman barren NOW!!!! Can you imagine that stupid twat as a mother?? Stuck-up, lowly, ugly piece of shit!!

Yep, you guessed it, I HATE Paris Hilton!!! Always did and always will!! That's one dumbass who I don't mind dissing. She deserves all the bad publicity she gets! I'm not usually in the habit of hating people, but I hate her!! I hope to GOD she never has a baby! I would definately feel for that child. I would think someone like Paris Hilton would treat it like a commodity, not like something to love and cherish and teach about the finer things in life. A friend of mine on MySpace put it all so eloquently on her own blog. Here is the link:
http://thestarceleb.com/2008/06/18/paris-hilton-ready-to-be-a-mother

Write her a comment and tell her what you think. She started her own celebrity gossip blog, and this is one of the articles. She uses a bit of sarcasm in her posts, and she is funny!! She's better with the sarcasm than me. Everytime I try to be sarcastic everyone always takes me too seriously! This girl Christina also owns her own group on MySpace for those who want to look at things from a realist point of view. I like going in there because I can be who I am and she doesn't care!!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Anna Vs. Supervisor and Eva Vs. Dumbass Show Breeder

I just got a message from Anna today, I’ve been waiting to hear about some deep, dark secret about the person she called a supervisor. Earlier this month, Anna said that her supervisor was going to turn her in because he said she was being rude to the customers. He also reported that Anna has been hitting the customers with her bussing cart and we all knew that couldn’t be true. The woman hasn’t a mean, nasty bone in her body!!! And she found out that she was not the only one that supervisor had reported and told lies about! He’s done it to several other people too. Not only that, but he was also caught putting up a poster that read "women should work harder than men, instead of flirting with them." Male chauvinist!!!! And yes, he’s a PIG!!!!!!! That is discrimination against women and it’s a crime. So my sis turned him in and got his butt fired!!! Good for you Anna!!!! Don’t F*** with us dude!!! I thought there was something strange when Anna called a week ago and told me she was ready to quit and that her boss had turned her in because she was being rude. My sisters and I know Anna very damn well, and there is NO way she can be rude to anyone! The whole description is just so uncharacteristic of her!!! You should see how she is behind the wheel of a car. She’s not even an aggressive driver, whereas me I drive like a dang maniac!!

Well, I just thought I would post this here. Anna said she was so pissed off at him, she wanted to find him and beat the crap out of him. I told her no, don't even think that (don't worry, she would never do that! She just says it). I told her just be glad you won the battle. Hopefully he will learn not to treat women as if they are brainless, mindless objects now. Apparently he's been thinking that all his life or he wouldn't have even thought about putting up a dumb poster like that one!! And Anna wondered why he made her work extra hard the way he did.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Happy Birthday Jake Farriss!!

Hehe! Just thought I would throw this in today. I don't know the lad, but I do still think he's a handsome guy! He's having some kind of party on Facebook. I don't know him, and vice-versa so I will just say this here. Hopefully he gets it! Hope it's not too late. May all your wishes for the year come true!!

Love This Place!

Well heck I love living here! My neighbors are literally the animals. There is a doe who lives in the thickets out here behind our house. She seems to always have twin fawns every year. She had a set last year and this year she has another set of twins. They were born in the thickets out here and they pretty-much stay in this vicinity. It has been a while since I've seen them, last time I saw them the fawns were really tiny and had bright white spots. I just recently started seeing them again all the time and now their spots are fading. They're both about 6 weeks old. Anyway, I've been desiring getting a picture of them since I first saw them. Today I just happened to notice they were in my front yard and I grabbed my camera and pointed it, looking out the window, and started snapping. I caught them at the tail end of their feeding in my yard on some goldenrod bushes. They LOVE that stuff!!!! They took off right about when I started clicking. Anyway, here are the pictures that resulted! They look grainy because I snapped them through the window. I didn't want to go out there and make a lot of noise and scare them all away. You can click on each pic to see them full-sized.



Here's mama and the first baby.



Here comes the second fawn. He was standing right in front of our window!



Now that she has both babies back she heads off to other feeding grounds across the road.



There they go! You can barely see both fawns, our mail boxes are in the way.


Aside from these mule deer, we also have weasels, pheasants, rabbits, chicken hawks, I've even seen a coyote once! The ponds around here have otters, beaver and muskrats too, I've seen them all. A friend out here once said he saw a black bear, but I've never seen one. Hope I never do either!! Seeing the coyote was scary enough!! I'd fear for my dogs.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Giant Rats

I was just watching a program called Monsterquest. They were doing a segment on giant rats in New York City! Most of the accounts may be passed off as exaggeration as everybody knows New Yorkers exaggerate (sorry sis!) One homeless man was poking around and thought he heard something big and huge growling at him from inside a small tunnel. He didn't really hang around to see what it was, but some exterminators who were working with him thought it may have been a giant rat, but they were not sure. It could also have been a raccoon. I know raccoons can get awful aggressive.

I do know that giant rats actually do exist. Look at this giant Mallomys rat from Indonesia:



That sucker must have a total length (including the tail) of over 3 feet, and it is one of the largest living rats. Then there are the giant pouched rats of Africa, there are several species, and they can reach 2 and a half feet in length. They kindof resemble dogs more than rats:


They are also easily tamable and are often kept as pets. Then there is the largest living rat of them all, the cloud rat of the Philippenes. They more resemble giant squirrels than rats:

Those guys can reach 4 feet long. The World is full of enormous rats living today. But no rat living in the wilds of the USA has ever reached those proportions. Though some people say different. Some on that program have claimed they have seen rats as big as cats or small dogs.
There is no doubt in my mind a rat can fight off a person given the correct opportunity. They are tough little buggers! They may can even kill babies as claimed in that program. Who really knows what a giant, hungry rat would do?
My personal feelings on this issue? I love rats! I think they're very fascinating animals!! I've had pet rats that were as affectionate as dogs. But I highly doubt there are rats as big as dogs living in New York. Some homeless people I would have a tough time taking their word for the gospel, a lot of them are homeless because they drink or drug their money away. But if I ever do see a giant Norway rat that was claimed to be seen by some of the witnesses on that program, I would turn and run the opposite way! Norway rats are so aggressive, they have even been known to kill other rats. That's why you usually won't find Norway (or brown) rats and black rats inhabiting the same space. Norway rats can easily make short work of black rats! They are not really afraid to stand and fight against a human if the opportunity arrives.