Happy Birthday Tim Farriss!!!!!!
Today the most wonderful and beautiful man in the history of rock n roll celebrates his birthday, and as a part of an annual tradition, I am posting this everywhere to assure he will be blessed for the year! hehe!
I want to say thank you to Tim for being the sweet and kind man he is, and granting his time to me that one cold, dark night in Seattle when I was alone and unsure of walking down a dark alley. His smile was like a light in that tunnel. I momentarily forgot I was alone in a big, unfamiliar city.
I also want to thank him for the music. I know he doesn't want to be considered the best guitarist, but to me he always will be. Not only do I enjoy his remarkable talent, but I also enjoy his facial expressions as he is having fun on the stage. I love him for that too!!
I also want to say he is looking good at 51, just like he did at 30!! Some things never change, and the beauty that is Tim Farriss is one of those things.
GOD bless you Tim Farriss! Love ya lots, lots, LOTS!!!!!! I still think you are the GREATEST!!!!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Happy Birthday Jon Farriss!!!!!
Happy Birthday Jon. I think it may already be the 10th in Oz, not sure, but whether it is or not, I just wanted to wish you a wonderful birthday!! Thank you so much for being the kind-natured man you are!! And good luck in becoming a father for the first time too!!!! I'm still very happy for you. :)
I do so love Jon! I love everything about him. His talent, his personality, his beautiful face, that Kerry is a lucky girl. Boy! I wonder how many other "Jonettes" have said that before me? I don't know the woman, but I envy her. In a good way of course. I used to know A Kerry from Oz, Melbourne to be exact. She was a sweet person. I don't think she's the same one though. I met her in the old INXS chatroom. I remember our road was rocky at first, but that was because of a stupid misunderstanding on my part. I had no idea "Simple Simon" was an INXS song at that time. When I asked her how long she'd been a fan, she mentioned that and I thought she was calling me names. LOL!! Yeah, dumb I know! I should have asked what she meant exactly by "Simple Simon". All that time I wasted thinking she was a rude person, when really she was not.
One night I remember she and a woman named Jan were frolicking with each other in the chatroom. I had no idea at the time they were best friends. I said Kerry was a rude person and Jan damn-nearly bit my head off!! If we had been standing in the same room with each other, she might have gone so far as to kill me!! That's what she sounded like anyway!! She attacked like a wolverine. After she left the chatroom, I began to feel bad because of the way I attacked back and for saying disrespectful things to her. That was when another poster calling herself "Brat" took me aside and told me I got the wrong ideas about Jan and Kerry. The real reason I attacked that night had nothing really to do with Jan or Kerry, I was simply having a bad day that day. I wasn't angry at them, I was angry at the one who made that day such a bad day. My ma! Long story there. Brat and I stayed up chatting for hours about various things. She was my comfort that night. It was due to her advice that I decided to confront my ma with my problem and not take it out on anyone in the chatroom anymore. So I did. After that, from that day on, my mission was to get back in the chatroom with both of them and apologize for being such a disrespectful ass! I finally did. Kerry was very sweet about it, Jan well she was a little indifferent. Jan, BTW, was a friend of Michael's, and he wrote the song "Jan's Song" for her. But anyway, I felt better. I always wanted to hear that song, I never had. I wanted to see exactly what kind of a song Michael would write for a woman like that. In 2005, I finally heard it. Not bad. As for Kerry, she did turn out to be as sweet a person as everyone said she was.
Well, I don't think Jon married the same Kerry I speak of but that came to mind as I was writing this. As for Brat, I wonder what ever happened to her? Last I heard from someone who knew her, she moved from Canada to Australia and married the man who called himself "Kick" in the chatroom. He and I used to be friends because he called himself "Kick" and I called myself "Kick87". At first I wanted to take the name "Kick" myself because it was my favorite INXS album, but then everyone told me the name "Kick" was already taken, so I settled for "Kick87". That became my nickname for the whole time I was in that chatroom. Until I took the name "Bambi" after a dog that belonged to my cousins. The name "Bambi" angered everyone though. Back then I was a sweet, innocent young thing, who got along with everybody!! Had lots of chatroom friends! But then again, those were the days before INXS fans started forming "cliques". I try to stay away from cliques. They're usually full of nothing but ass-kissers and followers. And if you say one little thing against what they believe in, you're then OUT of the clique. So I purposefully stay away from them. It may have made me the most hated person on the internet, but I'll worry about that when the fans that hate me start paying my bills, my rent, or my way into the INXS concerts. Until then, they can eat shit!!!
OOPS! I got sidetracked. I'm sorry Jon! This message went in all different directions that I didn't want it to! LOL!
I do so love Jon! I love everything about him. His talent, his personality, his beautiful face, that Kerry is a lucky girl. Boy! I wonder how many other "Jonettes" have said that before me? I don't know the woman, but I envy her. In a good way of course. I used to know A Kerry from Oz, Melbourne to be exact. She was a sweet person. I don't think she's the same one though. I met her in the old INXS chatroom. I remember our road was rocky at first, but that was because of a stupid misunderstanding on my part. I had no idea "Simple Simon" was an INXS song at that time. When I asked her how long she'd been a fan, she mentioned that and I thought she was calling me names. LOL!! Yeah, dumb I know! I should have asked what she meant exactly by "Simple Simon". All that time I wasted thinking she was a rude person, when really she was not.
One night I remember she and a woman named Jan were frolicking with each other in the chatroom. I had no idea at the time they were best friends. I said Kerry was a rude person and Jan damn-nearly bit my head off!! If we had been standing in the same room with each other, she might have gone so far as to kill me!! That's what she sounded like anyway!! She attacked like a wolverine. After she left the chatroom, I began to feel bad because of the way I attacked back and for saying disrespectful things to her. That was when another poster calling herself "Brat" took me aside and told me I got the wrong ideas about Jan and Kerry. The real reason I attacked that night had nothing really to do with Jan or Kerry, I was simply having a bad day that day. I wasn't angry at them, I was angry at the one who made that day such a bad day. My ma! Long story there. Brat and I stayed up chatting for hours about various things. She was my comfort that night. It was due to her advice that I decided to confront my ma with my problem and not take it out on anyone in the chatroom anymore. So I did. After that, from that day on, my mission was to get back in the chatroom with both of them and apologize for being such a disrespectful ass! I finally did. Kerry was very sweet about it, Jan well she was a little indifferent. Jan, BTW, was a friend of Michael's, and he wrote the song "Jan's Song" for her. But anyway, I felt better. I always wanted to hear that song, I never had. I wanted to see exactly what kind of a song Michael would write for a woman like that. In 2005, I finally heard it. Not bad. As for Kerry, she did turn out to be as sweet a person as everyone said she was.
Well, I don't think Jon married the same Kerry I speak of but that came to mind as I was writing this. As for Brat, I wonder what ever happened to her? Last I heard from someone who knew her, she moved from Canada to Australia and married the man who called himself "Kick" in the chatroom. He and I used to be friends because he called himself "Kick" and I called myself "Kick87". At first I wanted to take the name "Kick" myself because it was my favorite INXS album, but then everyone told me the name "Kick" was already taken, so I settled for "Kick87". That became my nickname for the whole time I was in that chatroom. Until I took the name "Bambi" after a dog that belonged to my cousins. The name "Bambi" angered everyone though. Back then I was a sweet, innocent young thing, who got along with everybody!! Had lots of chatroom friends! But then again, those were the days before INXS fans started forming "cliques". I try to stay away from cliques. They're usually full of nothing but ass-kissers and followers. And if you say one little thing against what they believe in, you're then OUT of the clique. So I purposefully stay away from them. It may have made me the most hated person on the internet, but I'll worry about that when the fans that hate me start paying my bills, my rent, or my way into the INXS concerts. Until then, they can eat shit!!!
OOPS! I got sidetracked. I'm sorry Jon! This message went in all different directions that I didn't want it to! LOL!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Anti-PETA
I've recently joined this group of anti-PETA activists. I love animals for sure, but PETA really SUCKS!!!! At first last night, I was beginning to wonder if I joined the right group because I looked in on some of their posts and I notice they acted like the people of the delusional fans forum. They copied and pasted things from the PETA group to their site and made degrading comments about the people. But then I thought long and hard about what PETA really does to animals and what hypocrites they are, and then I thought "Well, this isn't anything like the delusional fans forum!" The DF forum takes posts of innocent people who simply love the band and band members and twists the posts to take on meanings of their own on their forum and put words of their own in the fan's mouths. Then they talk nothing but BS. These people twist nothing, and speak from facts, and they don't seem to put words in the mouths of PETA supporters. Besides everyone knows PETA is nothing but a bunch of jerks anyway!! I always knew that!! They are not as innocent as they portray themselves to be.
Not too long ago, I found an article about how PETA jerks (this group calls them "PETArds") raided an animal shelter and put to sleep a lot of innocent, very adoptable animals. That made me MAD!!!! I also looked in at some of the "hate-mail" some of the members of this group has been getting from the PETA jerks and boy! Do they ever get vicious!!! One threatened to find the owner of that site's residence and kill him with a gun! Then that person's friend e-mailed the owner of that site and actually cheered that friend on. That friend wrote, "As soon as your life is over, which thanks to my friend should be very soon....." That's one thing you cannot say about me, I never threatened the people of the delusional fans forum with death!! I warned them when I first went into their forum that they could get sued for the kind of stuff they say, and they were the ones who attested their right of free speech. Well, I cannot argue with that!! But I feel they should at least get to know the fans they spoke of before making the kind of assumptions they did the way they did. Which is why to this day, I say they wrote nothing but BS. Someone on this forum stated that PETA is not a non-profit organization, but a business. They are in this for the money, which I think is what makes them so hypocritical!!! I did notice a lot of INXS fans switched to supporting PETA because JD Fortune did, but I think even JD would have given up all association with PETA if he read about the things they do behind the scenes!! I never liked PETA and I never will, no matter what! Even if Timmy supports them, I still will not support PETA! I don't believe in their beliefs! I'd just tell Timmy he has a right to support whomever he wants to.
They also have a list of celeb hypocrites, Olivia Newton-John is one of them because she supports PETA and also founded a cancer-research center. Cancer-research centers almost always use laboratory animals, and inflict them with cancer. The very thing PETA is supposed to be opposing! Well, I used to be against hypocrites until I found out that hypocrisy is actually a part of normal human nature. Every person is to some extent. If we weren't, we'd be perfect and no human is perfect!! I'm not blaming Olivia Newton-John, I just think maybe she didn't make the connection. Now, she'll have to stop supporting PETA!! Or else she will find out about them the hard way, when PETA jerks raid her cancer-research center and tear it to shreds to save every laboratory rat, pig or monkey in the facility.
Also the thing about eating meat. I've got to have meat!! Otherwise it ain't a meal. I was brought up that dinner is supposed to consist of meat, with a SIDE of veggies and bread. Notice I said SIDE!! Veggies are merely a side-dish to me. Not the full meal. I could never go veggie because of that. Besides, there are some veggies I will not touch! Like broccoli for example. I tried to learn to like it but it was just too disgusting!! Made me puke!! As for meat, the only meat I don't like is liver (as well as other weird things like the tongue and brains). But you're looking at a girl who loves gorging in a good rib-eye or porterhouse steak or broiled or southern-fried chicken!!! Eating dogs and cats I will admit would be criminal to me, like eating a baby. But some animals were meant to be eaten, like cows, pigs and chickens. Animals like dogs and cats eat animals like cows, pigs and chickens even in the wild!! How do the PETA jerks explain that?? And don't give me that argument that people were not meant to eat like that!! The earliest human ancestors even fed on meat once in a while. Look at modern chimps. They hunt monkeys, antelope, insects and small rodents and they are the closest living wild relatives to humans. If they weren't meant to eat meat, they wouldn't do it at all. Nature wouldn't allow it. Shoot! Even nowadays there are deer and antelope eating meat!! Duikers (a type of antelope) have been known to eat birds, lizards and mice. And in the Scottish coasts, European red deer have been known to eat sea birds. Their primary target seems to be Manx shearwaters, which are small petrels. The deer eat off the heads for the nutrients in the birds' brains. So no animal is meant to be strictly vegetarian!!
If you ask me, PETA is fighting a losing battle. One way or another.
Not too long ago, I found an article about how PETA jerks (this group calls them "PETArds") raided an animal shelter and put to sleep a lot of innocent, very adoptable animals. That made me MAD!!!! I also looked in at some of the "hate-mail" some of the members of this group has been getting from the PETA jerks and boy! Do they ever get vicious!!! One threatened to find the owner of that site's residence and kill him with a gun! Then that person's friend e-mailed the owner of that site and actually cheered that friend on. That friend wrote, "As soon as your life is over, which thanks to my friend should be very soon....." That's one thing you cannot say about me, I never threatened the people of the delusional fans forum with death!! I warned them when I first went into their forum that they could get sued for the kind of stuff they say, and they were the ones who attested their right of free speech. Well, I cannot argue with that!! But I feel they should at least get to know the fans they spoke of before making the kind of assumptions they did the way they did. Which is why to this day, I say they wrote nothing but BS. Someone on this forum stated that PETA is not a non-profit organization, but a business. They are in this for the money, which I think is what makes them so hypocritical!!! I did notice a lot of INXS fans switched to supporting PETA because JD Fortune did, but I think even JD would have given up all association with PETA if he read about the things they do behind the scenes!! I never liked PETA and I never will, no matter what! Even if Timmy supports them, I still will not support PETA! I don't believe in their beliefs! I'd just tell Timmy he has a right to support whomever he wants to.
They also have a list of celeb hypocrites, Olivia Newton-John is one of them because she supports PETA and also founded a cancer-research center. Cancer-research centers almost always use laboratory animals, and inflict them with cancer. The very thing PETA is supposed to be opposing! Well, I used to be against hypocrites until I found out that hypocrisy is actually a part of normal human nature. Every person is to some extent. If we weren't, we'd be perfect and no human is perfect!! I'm not blaming Olivia Newton-John, I just think maybe she didn't make the connection. Now, she'll have to stop supporting PETA!! Or else she will find out about them the hard way, when PETA jerks raid her cancer-research center and tear it to shreds to save every laboratory rat, pig or monkey in the facility.
Also the thing about eating meat. I've got to have meat!! Otherwise it ain't a meal. I was brought up that dinner is supposed to consist of meat, with a SIDE of veggies and bread. Notice I said SIDE!! Veggies are merely a side-dish to me. Not the full meal. I could never go veggie because of that. Besides, there are some veggies I will not touch! Like broccoli for example. I tried to learn to like it but it was just too disgusting!! Made me puke!! As for meat, the only meat I don't like is liver (as well as other weird things like the tongue and brains). But you're looking at a girl who loves gorging in a good rib-eye or porterhouse steak or broiled or southern-fried chicken!!! Eating dogs and cats I will admit would be criminal to me, like eating a baby. But some animals were meant to be eaten, like cows, pigs and chickens. Animals like dogs and cats eat animals like cows, pigs and chickens even in the wild!! How do the PETA jerks explain that?? And don't give me that argument that people were not meant to eat like that!! The earliest human ancestors even fed on meat once in a while. Look at modern chimps. They hunt monkeys, antelope, insects and small rodents and they are the closest living wild relatives to humans. If they weren't meant to eat meat, they wouldn't do it at all. Nature wouldn't allow it. Shoot! Even nowadays there are deer and antelope eating meat!! Duikers (a type of antelope) have been known to eat birds, lizards and mice. And in the Scottish coasts, European red deer have been known to eat sea birds. Their primary target seems to be Manx shearwaters, which are small petrels. The deer eat off the heads for the nutrients in the birds' brains. So no animal is meant to be strictly vegetarian!!
If you ask me, PETA is fighting a losing battle. One way or another.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Surgery!
Well, I don't know if this is all true or not, but according to a friend, someone on inxs.com said Tim Farriss will again be having surgery on his leg. I hope it's true!! If it is, then GREAT!!!! I am so glad he is finally taking care of that now. My prayers are with him, along with hugs, kisses and well-wishes!! The surgery is actually the easy part, the therapy is what is difficult. My ma had that same surgery a couple of months ago, and she is now going through therapy to re-learn how to walk. But Timmy is a strong man, I know he is! He will recover very soon. My prayers will remain with him in hopes he can swiftly recover.
As I was told, nobody is allowed to talk about the band's and their family's medical problems. I don't know who it was that reported Tim having surgery soon, but if it's true that .com has that rule now, I wonder how it was this person got away with mentioning it? Unless it was said by one of the site's favorite posters? I think sometimes the .com owners could really learn from Pluba. The owner of that forum is not a breeder, but it is a breeder's site. He has a manifesto that he goes by and when someone breaks it, they get banned. Yet it is a fair manifesto for all. He doesn't have any "favorite" members that can get away with just anything at all. Though one person who calls herself "radical", keeps getting banned and coming back and hardly anyone likes her, LOL!! I think she's a bit strange, but I gotta say though, I admire her grit and guts!!!!
Ya know I bet if I went back to inxs.com I'd find everyone there would hate my guts!!! hehe! Well, like I said I lost a lot of acquaintences when I announced that I don't like Kirk, and today I found out someone I used to think wanted to be friends with me actually does not want to anymore! Well, she was a Bittertears supporter! I think I saw this coming a long time ago. I lost a lot of acquaintences when her friends found out I didn't like her either. hehe!! Let's face it, I never got along good with people. Nothing can change that. I always got along better with animals, they are my real best friends. But animals don't judge you by your opinions or who you like or what you like. If you love them, they love you back. Few people have the capacity to do that. For example, I've heard this over and over, people say a person has a right to their own opinion. But how many people say that and actually mean it? So far, myself and only a handful of other people have, that I personally know of. Those people you can actually count on the fingers of one hand! That's why I put that little quote under my blog title now. And my grandma always said that if you make at least one good friend in your life, you are doing very well. I actually have several real good friends that aren't animals. hehe!! But most of them I'd known for many years. Some of them helped me temporarily get over my dislike for people.
Oh yes! As for Kirk, I got one more comment to throw into the "no" bucket. Someone who posted yesterday said that comment made on here was not by Kirk as his grammer is far better than what was posted in that comment. So that's 4 "no"s, 0 "yes"s. I left the comment up anyway, maybe someone else has something to add? Personally, I don't believe Kirk's grammar is better, but I would imagine he would not make as many typos as that individual made. Kirk seems to write in short-hand when I look at his diary. I never wrote to the man at all. I don't even have him in my MySpace friends, even though I know he has a MySpace. I never asked him to become one of my friends! I was never interested in adding him because by the time I found out he had his own MySpace page, I'd already made up my mind that I didn't like him at all!! I'm still not interested in adding him. Like I said before, I still believe the main reason he snuffed me was because he doesn't like fat people. I like Kirk's fans, I have a MySpace buddy who is a huge fan of his, and I still think his daughter is a beautiful young lady, but Kirk himself if he thinks what I think he thinks, he's not worth it anymore. But if it's any consolation to INXS, Kirk is the only band member I don't like. The rest of them, I adore!!! Especially Tim, and he still has my sincerest prayers with him as he goes in to surgery! If inxs.com doesn't like me talking about Timmy's medical problems, I am sorry, but if the man is going to be operated on, I'm going to want to send him well-wishes!! Anyone know where I can send flowers?? Does 1-800-flowers deliver to Australia?? I'm also going to want to know how he is doing.
Ah well, I wouldn't worry! He'll be back up and on his feet in no time flat!!
Edited to delete a certain comment that was so bad I even offended myself!! I've NEVER told another human being to "drop dead" and I hope I never do again! No matter how much I dislike someone, it was a comment so beneath me!
As I was told, nobody is allowed to talk about the band's and their family's medical problems. I don't know who it was that reported Tim having surgery soon, but if it's true that .com has that rule now, I wonder how it was this person got away with mentioning it? Unless it was said by one of the site's favorite posters? I think sometimes the .com owners could really learn from Pluba. The owner of that forum is not a breeder, but it is a breeder's site. He has a manifesto that he goes by and when someone breaks it, they get banned. Yet it is a fair manifesto for all. He doesn't have any "favorite" members that can get away with just anything at all. Though one person who calls herself "radical", keeps getting banned and coming back and hardly anyone likes her, LOL!! I think she's a bit strange, but I gotta say though, I admire her grit and guts!!!!
Ya know I bet if I went back to inxs.com I'd find everyone there would hate my guts!!! hehe! Well, like I said I lost a lot of acquaintences when I announced that I don't like Kirk, and today I found out someone I used to think wanted to be friends with me actually does not want to anymore! Well, she was a Bittertears supporter! I think I saw this coming a long time ago. I lost a lot of acquaintences when her friends found out I didn't like her either. hehe!! Let's face it, I never got along good with people. Nothing can change that. I always got along better with animals, they are my real best friends. But animals don't judge you by your opinions or who you like or what you like. If you love them, they love you back. Few people have the capacity to do that. For example, I've heard this over and over, people say a person has a right to their own opinion. But how many people say that and actually mean it? So far, myself and only a handful of other people have, that I personally know of. Those people you can actually count on the fingers of one hand! That's why I put that little quote under my blog title now. And my grandma always said that if you make at least one good friend in your life, you are doing very well. I actually have several real good friends that aren't animals. hehe!! But most of them I'd known for many years. Some of them helped me temporarily get over my dislike for people.
Oh yes! As for Kirk, I got one more comment to throw into the "no" bucket. Someone who posted yesterday said that comment made on here was not by Kirk as his grammer is far better than what was posted in that comment. So that's 4 "no"s, 0 "yes"s. I left the comment up anyway, maybe someone else has something to add? Personally, I don't believe Kirk's grammar is better, but I would imagine he would not make as many typos as that individual made. Kirk seems to write in short-hand when I look at his diary. I never wrote to the man at all. I don't even have him in my MySpace friends, even though I know he has a MySpace. I never asked him to become one of my friends! I was never interested in adding him because by the time I found out he had his own MySpace page, I'd already made up my mind that I didn't like him at all!! I'm still not interested in adding him. Like I said before, I still believe the main reason he snuffed me was because he doesn't like fat people. I like Kirk's fans, I have a MySpace buddy who is a huge fan of his, and I still think his daughter is a beautiful young lady, but Kirk himself if he thinks what I think he thinks, he's not worth it anymore. But if it's any consolation to INXS, Kirk is the only band member I don't like. The rest of them, I adore!!! Especially Tim, and he still has my sincerest prayers with him as he goes in to surgery! If inxs.com doesn't like me talking about Timmy's medical problems, I am sorry, but if the man is going to be operated on, I'm going to want to send him well-wishes!! Anyone know where I can send flowers?? Does 1-800-flowers deliver to Australia?? I'm also going to want to know how he is doing.
Ah well, I wouldn't worry! He'll be back up and on his feet in no time flat!!
Edited to delete a certain comment that was so bad I even offended myself!! I've NEVER told another human being to "drop dead" and I hope I never do again! No matter how much I dislike someone, it was a comment so beneath me!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Hmmm... Interesting
Well, I was told to look up a few things at dictionary.com by one of the posters on this site. Usually, I save that site from when I am writing and I need to look up a word. But anyway, I took the person's advice and looked up the 3 words, lover, ignorant and racist. hehe! I must say looking at all the descriptions, I found out some things I think even she didn't know or understand.
First of all, the word "lover", she said if I didn't sleep with this guy, he wasn't my lover. HA!! Young lady, now you must be kidding there, right?? Look at the definition I found for "lover"...
1. a person who is in love with another.
2. a person who has a sexual or romantic relationship with another.
3. a person with whom one conducts an extramarital sexual affair.
4. a person who has a strong enjoyment or liking for something, as specified: a lover of music.
5. a person who loves, esp. a person who has or shows a warm and general affectionate regard for others: a lover of mankind.
OK, I'd like to know where it says, or even implies, that a lover is someone you have to sleep with or you're not lovers? We were in love, we were romantic, we even vehemently enjoyed each other. I don't think there is a set standard for love that says you have to go to bed with the other person. We dated for a year, or close if I remember correctly. After I got used to him, we held hands at the movies, and he would whisper sweet nothings at me. But we never kissed or slept together. Well, he kissed me!!!! He understood though that I am shy about giving kisses myself.
And here is the definition for Racist......
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
My own opinion on Obama more closely fits the definition in bold. Don't worry, I meant to not highlight "discrimination" as I don't dislike Obama because he is of African descent. The person who made the comments obviously has not been reading my posts carefully enough. I've been told I am very contemplative in my writing, maybe too much so for some simple minds. Not making fun here, just saying maybe I need to write in a more simplistic manner on these blogs. But this is the same thing as Ty playing the race card on Rockstar when he was eliminated. I think some people tend to overplay the race card as well. I could play it myself and say this person dislikes me probably because she thinks I'm white, or because I am only half white, but I am not like that!! That's not my style at all. Besides, I really couldn't care less if she likes me or not!!! I have friends that I trust and who understand me, that's good enough for me.
Now for the definition of "ignorance", this is what I found....
1. the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
2. The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
3. the lack of knowledge or education
4. The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
5. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. --Book of Common Prayer.
Wow! I had to go down quite a bit on that page to gather all these as they were scattered everywhere. I found all that. And, I also found this definition:
Ignorance is bliss
Not knowing something is often more comfortable than knowing it.
Note: This proverb resembles “What you don't know cannot hurt you.” It figures in a passage from “On a Distant Prospect of Eton College,” by the eighteenth-century English poet Thomas Gray: “Where ignorance is bliss, / ‘Tis folly to be wise.’”
Perhaps this is the way I like it. Not knowing what lies ahead would be better and less stressful on me than knowing. I give my opinion on these blogs, people can accept it or reject it, I don't care. It's their choice, not mine.
Well, just thought y'all would be interested in knowing what I found in relation to what was said. ;)
First of all, the word "lover", she said if I didn't sleep with this guy, he wasn't my lover. HA!! Young lady, now you must be kidding there, right?? Look at the definition I found for "lover"...
1. a person who is in love with another.
2. a person who has a sexual or romantic relationship with another.
3. a person with whom one conducts an extramarital sexual affair.
4. a person who has a strong enjoyment or liking for something, as specified: a lover of music.
5. a person who loves, esp. a person who has or shows a warm and general affectionate regard for others: a lover of mankind.
OK, I'd like to know where it says, or even implies, that a lover is someone you have to sleep with or you're not lovers? We were in love, we were romantic, we even vehemently enjoyed each other. I don't think there is a set standard for love that says you have to go to bed with the other person. We dated for a year, or close if I remember correctly. After I got used to him, we held hands at the movies, and he would whisper sweet nothings at me. But we never kissed or slept together. Well, he kissed me!!!! He understood though that I am shy about giving kisses myself.
And here is the definition for Racist......
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
My own opinion on Obama more closely fits the definition in bold. Don't worry, I meant to not highlight "discrimination" as I don't dislike Obama because he is of African descent. The person who made the comments obviously has not been reading my posts carefully enough. I've been told I am very contemplative in my writing, maybe too much so for some simple minds. Not making fun here, just saying maybe I need to write in a more simplistic manner on these blogs. But this is the same thing as Ty playing the race card on Rockstar when he was eliminated. I think some people tend to overplay the race card as well. I could play it myself and say this person dislikes me probably because she thinks I'm white, or because I am only half white, but I am not like that!! That's not my style at all. Besides, I really couldn't care less if she likes me or not!!! I have friends that I trust and who understand me, that's good enough for me.
Now for the definition of "ignorance", this is what I found....
1. the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
2. The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
3. the lack of knowledge or education
4. The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
5. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. --Book of Common Prayer.
Wow! I had to go down quite a bit on that page to gather all these as they were scattered everywhere. I found all that. And, I also found this definition:
Ignorance is bliss
Not knowing something is often more comfortable than knowing it.
Note: This proverb resembles “What you don't know cannot hurt you.” It figures in a passage from “On a Distant Prospect of Eton College,” by the eighteenth-century English poet Thomas Gray: “Where ignorance is bliss, / ‘Tis folly to be wise.’”
Perhaps this is the way I like it. Not knowing what lies ahead would be better and less stressful on me than knowing. I give my opinion on these blogs, people can accept it or reject it, I don't care. It's their choice, not mine.
Well, just thought y'all would be interested in knowing what I found in relation to what was said. ;)
Dinosaurs That Survived
Well, I've heard lots of stories about how all dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago. It's true, the dinosaurs did die off. All except one group. The Dromaeosaurs, known as "raptors". I truly believe they survived the cataclysmic event that wiped out other dinosaurs. It has now been found that they had feathers, like modern birds. Thus they could have kept warm if it snowed in their world. Check out this article about them on Wikipedia. They could have become the so-called "Terror-birds" of the early Tertiary. Some early forms even had tail stubs that are much longer than they are in today's birds. They had to have come from the raptors of the Mesozoic. It's been said that Dromaeosaurs were so smart compared to other dinosaurs, that if they had survived, they may have even become what we are today. The dominant creatures of the Earth. I don't know about that personally, but I look at the raptors and what people have discovered they really were like, and I look at the Terror-birds, and I see the two have so much in common with each other. Terror-birds even have relatives around today. They are called seriemas, and they sort of resemble a miniature-version of the crane. But unlike cranes, you can even see they have the sickle-shaped claw on the foot that was found in all dromaeosaurs, it is likely the terror-birds had that feature too.
So when it is said that all the dinosaurs died-off and no new species emerged, that is BS. It is obvious that the raptors survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. They may not look like they used to, but they survived! And terror-birds were the top predators of their day, that is until the emergence of the first "proto-felines" emerged, which were not true felines. They were saber-toothed "cats" (family: Maschairodontidae). They actually branched off from the hyena family in the earliest days 5 million years ago. If you look at them closely, you will even see they resemble today's hyenas, in that their rear end is slightly lower than their front end. True felines have level backs.
I still favor lemurs. Lemurs have actually been around since the very last days of the dinosaurs. They were not the lemurs we know from Madagascar, but they were lemurs. One of the first was Adapis from Europe. Then there was the Omomyids of Europe, Asia and North America. They most likely resembled today's tree shrews, which were once thought to be primates, but now put in a class of their own.
Ya know, it's too bad at that that dinosaurs went extinct!! I am not as fascinated by today's mammal predators. It might have been kinda fun to see raptors at work capturing their prey.
So when it is said that all the dinosaurs died-off and no new species emerged, that is BS. It is obvious that the raptors survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. They may not look like they used to, but they survived! And terror-birds were the top predators of their day, that is until the emergence of the first "proto-felines" emerged, which were not true felines. They were saber-toothed "cats" (family: Maschairodontidae). They actually branched off from the hyena family in the earliest days 5 million years ago. If you look at them closely, you will even see they resemble today's hyenas, in that their rear end is slightly lower than their front end. True felines have level backs.
I still favor lemurs. Lemurs have actually been around since the very last days of the dinosaurs. They were not the lemurs we know from Madagascar, but they were lemurs. One of the first was Adapis from Europe. Then there was the Omomyids of Europe, Asia and North America. They most likely resembled today's tree shrews, which were once thought to be primates, but now put in a class of their own.
Ya know, it's too bad at that that dinosaurs went extinct!! I am not as fascinated by today's mammal predators. It might have been kinda fun to see raptors at work capturing their prey.
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!
This one caught a fish.
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.
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.
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.
OK, enough with the shameless advertising! LOL!
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.
OK, enough with the shameless advertising! LOL!
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!!
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!!!
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!
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!!
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!!
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