I stopped reading after he bludgeoned the songbird to death.

But let me back up.  

I first heard about Manny Howard when he was a guest on The Colbert Report.  Howard turned his Brooklyn home and yard into a farm, with the challenge to live off it for a month.  


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With back to school in full swing... this is a great time to learn about printing your own paper. This in itself might read as a little confusing because your not making paper - you are just printing a design on it. Yes, my friends, you can now create your own notebook paper, graph paper, or really any kind of specialty paper - absolutely free. No strings attached. How is this a good deal? Well, for most people, even the least expensive notebooks you can buy have so much paper and then inevitably it gets lost, or you go to a keggar and spill beer all over it, or the only use for it after that semester is to hold your milk crate coffee table level - you get the gist of what I am saying, right?

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Okay, so Tapi might not be the BEST deal ever but thanks to the wonders of marketing - it kind of appeals to me! It is also one of those things that I stop and think "Why am I not the inventor of Tapi" - whomever did must be making a killing!

 

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Miss Philippines-No Mistakes

No mistakes at 22. Or so claimed Miss Phillipines during the Miss Universe pageant last night. Pageant pundits believe that this may have cost the very talented and beautiful young crown-holder the chance for a title as Miss Universe.

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Bronze Mask: © 2003 Teri ThomasSchool starts in a little over a week, and I'm packing to move. Time for a major purge. I'm getting rid of all my "bad karma" art projects - things that I either never liked, didn't finish, or that broke somewhere along the way.

Getting rid of them is a huge relief, actually. Frees up my energy to make new things rather than worry about what to do with all the old things.

I made this bronze mask a few years ago in foundry class at another school. I can't even say why I don't like it, but I don't. I never even photographed it until a few minutes ago. However, I think it will make a nice garden ornament for my friend Jacque. It will be interesting to see how its patina changes from being out in the weather.

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We have all been there. A restaurant outing with friends and family is made disastrous by bad service. I am talking about cold food, snotty servers, waiting what seems like years for a refill... you can set the scene I am sure. What is the right thing to do in this situation? What is the proper etiquette? Is it okay to just stiff that guy slinging out your food and drinks who is obviously having a bad day? Well...

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Halloween is right around the corner and as such I figured everyone deserves an early little food scare. I'm not talking about razor blades in the candy, or rat poison in the popcorn balls - I'm talking about genetically modified food - the stuff we eat every single day, without even knowing it.

What is GMO (genetically modified organism) food, exactly? Well as I am not a scientist I can not tell you EXACTLY what it is but I can tell you a little bit I learned about the creation of such food. The food is first taken to a lab where they take it and infect it with viruses or bacteria that have a special DNA sequence they would like to infect the plant with. They then "activate" this DNA to have the spliced properties that were previously selected. The whole things is kind of complicated and creepy.

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MurdochJust got an email from Media Matters concerning the $1 million donation the News Corp, parent company of Fox News, donated to the Republican Governors Association, "to help defeat Democrats this November."

Media Matters reports that while the news of the donation was covered "extensively," by national media outlets, it was barely mentioned on Fox. Media Matters says, "Fox devoted 37 seconds of air time to the story." Media Matters figures -- because, the "Fox viewers have been left in the dark, as to the (Fox) network's direct involvement in the political races this fall," it needs to take action to remedy this. So the folks at Media Matters' solution is to put a commercial (see the video) about the Fox donation on Fox, by buying a national ad, at the cost of $35k, to air next week during The O'Reilly Factor.

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To preface this, I don’t mean that if you are a Republican you can’t be green—though, obviously, there are more green folks on the left than the right. What I mean is if you profess to have such high eco-friendly standards, you shouldn’t be serving stuff like red meat, bottled water, and bulls*** on your menu. It makes people who do strive to be green see red.

I was reading about a restaurant in St. Louis that professed to be one of the first “green restaurants” in the Midwest. Intrigued, I checked out the menu—only to find that more than half of it contained meat items, as well as bottled water. It even had hotdogs on the menu. Hotdogs, really?

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Everyone's favorite online Megastore, Amazon, really does have you covered from A - Z, even in death! That's right folks, you can even buy a burial casket from Seattle's very own Amazon.com. They have many different options for you to choose from in regards to burials on the cheap - different sizes (in case you need one for your pet), shapes, and even a DIY option - for the undertaker / craftsman in us all!

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