The Soap Box
A place for me to dump my brain and you to pick thru it

Just Stuff
9:52pm

Hi. I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico which is approximately 680 miles from Los Angeles. Well, the smoke from the fires out there are making my city all hazy and ugly! Ugh! Hello? I live in a no smoking house, please. There's no odor, just looks like smog.

I'm sugar-sick. I ate the better part of a bag of Hershey's kisses and I'm borderline hypoglycemic. Pretty dumb of me huh? We have a TON of candy left over. Anyone want it?

I gave a lecture today in an Abnormal Psych class. I gave them a quiz during the second half of the class (I didn't make the quiz, I just administered it.) and two people in the ABNORMAL psych class asked me what psychosis meant! OMG! The semester is half over people! Try cracking open that text book!

Crazy Tracy has removed her photo blog of the life of some feral kittens she helped take care of after they were born in her basement one cold winter night. Wahhhh! I LOVED those pics! They were adorable! I understand though. It was time intensive and she's a full time nurse and full time mommie and all. I will miss those kittens!

The Psychology GRE is a week away! ACK! Is it time to freak out yet? I'll be studying this weekend obviously. I could really use a day where I do absolutely nothing....barring doing nothing, I could use a day just sleeping! Ahhh, that would be heaven!

Movie Quote of the Day
12:43am

This one is in celebration of Haloweenie. From what movie is this quote?

Oh, that's great, blame it on the little guy. How original! He must've read the schedule wrong with his one eye!!

To Answer Your Question...
12:21am

For some bizarre reason it seems that someone gets to my website every month with the question, "how do you pronounce opioid?" Well, I'll tell ya. OH-pee-oyd. Was that so hard? Next time you need to know how to pronounce something, go to Merriam Webster's site. It's free and they have audio files of how every word is pronounced.

Dedicated to Buzz...
2:58pm

...who loves strange facts.

In 1999, 2 women died from lightning hitting their underwire bras.

12 people die a year in stapler related accidents.

In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year. (Thank God! Imagine if the law weren't in place!)

In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder. (And rightly so!)

If I Had a Million Dollars
9:29am

It's been a hard week. Hell, it's been a hard year! I woke up early today, much earlier than I would have liked, and was feeling a bit down. I thought I'd go get a fresh bagel for breakfast and on the way home, I heard the one song that can always makes me smile. It's "If I had a $Million" by Bare Naked Ladies. I'm not a big BNL fan. I don't even own one of their CDs but damn that song is funny. With all the personal, national and global bad news, we need more humor in the world, don't you agree?

If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a monkey. Haven't you always wanted a monkey?

Movie Quote of the Day
12:09am

I think this one is harder, but I might be wrong. From what movie is this quote?

Actor 1: I wish to check the position of the Nile. My sister tells me it is in South America.
Actor 2: No! She's quite wrong, for I believe it is in Belgium.
Actor 1: You must be thinking of the Volga.
Actor 2: Of course, the Volga! Which, as you know, starts in -
Actor 1: Vladivostock, and ends in -
Actor 2: Wimbledon.
Actor 1: Precisely. Where the coffee beans come from.

O. M. G.
10:34pm

This story is just sick and wrong and any doctor who took part in this ridiculous plan should be disbarred (or whatever it's called when a doctor can no longer practice medicine) and required to take care of the child that will be born to this 69 year old woman once she dies.

Hate
7:04pm

Why are there people who hate so much? I just don't get it. And I really don't understand why a "man of God" feels the need to spread his hatred in the name of God. Reverend Phelps wants to display a 6 foot granite monument in Casper WY to help spread the word that God hates gays by using Matthew Shepard as an example. As quoted from Newsday:

His $15,000 display would bear a bronze placard with Shepard's portrait and an inscription reading: "Matthew Shepard entered hell October 12, 1998, at age 21 in defiance of God's warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22."

If anyone is going to hell it's Reverend Phelps.

Movie Quote of the Day
6:49am

This is another one of my all-time favorite quotes. From what movie is this quote?

You know, Mrs. Buchman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.

Movie Quote of the Day
12:03am

From what movie is this quote?

Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf... Well, that passed. Now I'm hungry again.

Yum Yum
11:25pm

For reasons I won't go into (but it's all Swirlspice's fault), I found a Mormon recipe site and just HAVE to share a few observations with you. First of all, there are 2 salad recipes on the site (one called frog eye salad. UGH!) in which there are no vegetables in them! Hmmm...maybe Mormons have a different definition of salad. Second of all, I found a recipe in which the ingredients in total are some sort of mystery meat, BBQ sauce and grape jelly...that you then cook in a crock pot for 2-3 HOURS. If you have any sauce left over after eating the meat, you can use it for gravy on mashed potatoes! I am NOT KIDDING.

In comparison with these recipes, I'm a friggin' chef extraordinaire.

Questions from mike
3:42pm

1. What was the best decade for rock and roll and why?
70's because it was pre-hair band/pre Milli vanilli era.

2. Hip Hop is _______________________
  a. horrible
  b. great
  c. like any genre; some good, some bad.
C

3. What band do you wish would reunite? (ignoring all constraints - i.e. ok to pick dead folks)
ummm...Talking Heads probably. They were creative and funny and didn't take themselves so seriously.

4. What never fails to make you laugh?
My husband and the Simpsons...but in good ways.

5. Why are reality TV shows so popular?
It's like the train wreck. You don't wanna look because you know it's going to be bad, but you just have to look.

Movie Quote of the Day
11:23am

From what movie is this quote?

Aristotle was not Belgian, the principle of Buddhism is not "every man for himself," and the London Underground is not a political movement! Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

Shopping
7:27pm

OK, still no heat. Who wants to go with me to Walmart on a Sunday night to get a space heater (which I'm terrified of. I"m always afraid they are going to catch on fire), when all the psychos are there? Buddha?

Funny Lady
5:40pm

While procrastinating before diving in to the final step of making my genogram (read: dysfunctional family tree) for school, I came across "Strange Things About Me" on CrazyTracy's site. The first one cracked the hell outta me. It reads:

Sometimes when the image of the woman's face pops up when I open Paint Shop Pro 7, I poke her in the eye with my cursor.

OK, was does it say about me that I'm so incredibly amused by that?

Movie Quote of the Day
12:05am

From what movie is this quote?

Actor 1: Doctor, I'd like to kiss you goodbye.
Actor 2: All right, but you're so damned ugly.

WTF?
11:47pm

Thursday it was in the eighties. Today when I woke up it was 46. Right now it's 39 degrees and guess what? I don't know how to light the pilot light on my furnace! ARGH!!! It's going to be one COLD ASS night. Time to put on the flannel sheets and pile the cats on me to keep warm tonight. Hubby is a furnace all by himself but he's in Utah playing with his friends for the weekend! Wahhhh! If you dont hear form me by noon tomorrow, assume I've frozen soild.

PS: WTG Fish!

Movie Quote of the Day
11:07am

From what movie is this quote?

You've got no imagination. You couldn't even decide how to spend 35 million dollars on your own. You had to get what everybody else wanted.

Movie Quote Bonus
8:54pm

From what movie is this quote? (It's a hard one! Betty, I bet you saw this movie.)

Well, here it is: that time they told us about in high school when math would save our lives.

Movie Quote of the Day
12:20am

Today's is an easy one but it's one of my favorite quotes. From what movie is this quote?

Actor 1: Ho-ho-hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
Actor 2: They can *bill* me.

Boobs
10:00pm

So tonight in ER, they showed an elderly woman's boobs as they tried to resuscitate her. My question is, if they were young perky boobs instead of old sagging boobs, would they have shown them? My guess is no. I figure that older sagging breasts that belong to a woman who is no longer capable of having children are, evolutionarily, less attractive and therefore deemed acceptable to put on prime time TV. There is nothing that is considered sexy about them. They are just another body part now, like a knee or a scapula. So, what does this say about women as a whole? Is the lack of attractiveness what makes older people in our society less important? Is a woman past her child bearing age dispensable? What are 80 year old women with fake boobs gonna look like? Do I think too much? Am I just plain nutz?

Coincidence? I Think Not
12:00pm

Jim Caviezel, who plays Jesus in Mel Gibson's new movie, was hit by lightning while filming in Italy. The Assistant Director was also hit, for the SECOND TIME while filming this movie. Do you think someone is trying to send Mel a message?

Movie Quote of the Day
12:45am

From what movie is this quote?

There are no utensils in medieval times, thus, there are no utensils AT Medeival Times. Would you like a refill on that Pepsi?

Quality
11:31am

This is one of the saddest stories I've read in a long time. When will this country deal with the "death with dignity" debate with TRUE compassion? (True compassion means what is best for the patient, not the family or the government.) Please, doesn't the government meddle enough in life and death issues? How many innocent people have been put to death for crimes they haven't committed? (I contend that if only one innocent person dies, that is too many.) Then we could get into the issue of abortion but I'm not sure I have time for that can of worms. Now, those whose quality of life is zero and are being kept alive with medical means can't die? HELLO? I hope by the time I'm decrepit and ready to check out that the quality of life will be more important than quantity.

And now to find a lawyer to write up a living will...

Movie Quote of the Day
2:27am

Yesterday's was apparently too easy. Let's see how long it takes someone to get this one...what movie is this quote from?

I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable! I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is! I've gotta get outta here!

Movie Quote of the Day
4:53pm

What movie is this quote from?

Actor 1: So, what have you been doing with your life?
Actor 2: Professional Killer.
Actor 1: Oh...you get dental with that?

Best Diet Ever!
7:22am

Hey! David Blaine isn't dead! He finished his 44 day hunger stunt in London and apparently lost around 54 lbs in the process. He's not out of danger yet, as they say if eh's not careful in the way he starts eating again he could still drop dead. If I were him, the first thing I'd eat is a nice B&W frappe, or milkshake, as non New Englanders call them. Mmmmm...frappe...

Movie Quotes
12:04am

OK, I don't have a lot of time to blog between now and November 8th (the date of the Psychology GRE) so I'm gonna start a little movie quote contest. The prize is your own personal gratification for getting the right answer first. So, what movie did the quote below come from?

Hey! I have never had any complaints in the poonani odor department!

Where Have I Been?
2:27pm

This Thursday and Friday were "Fall Break" at school, whatever that means and I took full advantage of it. I noticed I hadn't seen a movie since July and I'm a HUGE movie fan. So this month I decided to rectify that. We wanted to catch some of the smaller independent films which, for whatever bizarre reason, are only playing during the day, not at night, here in Albuquerque. So Thursday we saw The Magdalene Sisters, a movie that the Catholic church tried to ban. Well, that's all the advertising I need! The church doesn't like it? I'm THERE! Friday I drove up to Santa Fe and shopped and stuff. I don't remember yesterday. Sad, huh? Oh yeah, I actually had a business meeting for 2 hours yesterday morning then did more shopping :)  Then this morning, we saw American Splendor because 11:40 AM was the ONLY showing of this movie in town! WTF? It's rated R! Maybe it's so you can drop the kids off at Good Boy and then see an adult film. (Adult in content, not in the porn sense). So now we've seen 5 movies this month. We're finally catching up. Actually, if the Red Sox had made it into the World Series, I wouldn't of had time to catch up on movies, so thanks losers! Now to study for that Family Psych test I have tomorrow night...after a nap...

Waaaaaaah!
10:30pm

All my lilfe, ALL MY LIFE, the Red Sox have let me down. Why should this year be any different?

PS: did anyone else notice that NBC replaced all their new programming with repeats for tonight? They ain't stupid.

Funny!
12:17pm

How Would YOU Take Over the World?

(Feefed from Betty)

What Tha...
12:38am

According to imdb, Roy Horn, of Seigfried and Roy fame, underwent a radical operation in which part of his skill was removed and stored in his stomach! OMG! How is that possible? Wouldn't his stmach acid eat away at his skull? How did they get it back out? Forget it. I don't want to know.

Say What?
3:11pm

So I'm watching the Sox game on FOX when a commercial comes on about the second installment of Joe Millionaire where FOX now dupes some poor European women into believing some schlub is rich so the women will kiss his ass, leading to some sort of ratings, I suppose. The commercial ends with sound bites from 2 different women/contestants. I really don't know what the last woman said but it sure sounded like "his sex is teeny." Well, if his sex is teeny, no wonder they had to tell the women he was rich. (Wow, that's not catty, is it?)

BTW, currently the sox are up 4-1

4:14pm Red Sox down 6-4 and the game is now cutting into my nap time! Waaah!

Oopsie!
1:53pm

Looks like NBC's sure-fire hit replacement for Friends, aka Coupling, is being pulled from the Thursday night lineup for November sweeps. What will be replacing it in the foreseeable future? Whoopi. Well, I guess I know when I'll be doing the laundry.

Tiger Terror
12:15pm

Found as a headline on a Michigan news site:

Are man eating tigers going to be used in the war on terror now? Or are Siegfried and Roy part of the terror? I vote for the latter.

What's Going on in Germany?
7:06am

I just thought I'd tip you off on two current cases in German courts. The first deals with a man who dressed up like Santa Claus in protest of a Nazi march. The problem is not protesting Nazis but that Germany apparently has a law against masking your face during protests. The prosecution said that his red suit and fake beard amounted to "passive weaponry." Huh? I don't get it.

The other case has to do with a man charged with teaching his mutt, Adolf, the Hitler salute! Now he has been charged with using symbols of unconstitutional organizations (the Nazi party). If found guilty, he faces up to three years in prison.

So, to recap: dressing like Santa to protest Nazis -- verboten. Marching in a Nazi march -- legal. Teaching your dog the Hitler salute -- a three year visit to the local jail. Am I the only one confused here?

Balloons!
2:26pm

Today was the last day of the 2003 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.This year there were 800 balloons from all over the world. (OK, Mostly US and Europe.) We actually got up BEFORE dawn to go to the Fiesta and brought you back some wonderful pictures!

The balloons go up in waves as there is not enough room for them all to inflate at once. While there are a bunch of balloons in the air, there are more on the ground being filled.

Check out the moon in the pic above!

Balloonists tend to have great senses of humor, as witnessed by the Bee Balloons!

The red ristra balloon is my favorite!

So long balloons! see ya next year!

Quote of the Day
12:08am

Who needs a home life when you've got a colostomy bag?   - Intolerable Cruelty

It Has Begun!
3:46pm

To the cheers of "Yankees Suck!" the benches at historic Fenway Park clear for the first time. Ahhh, that good ol' cheer. It's been a good 25 years since I've heard that. Now, not 5 minutes later, in the 4th inning, the benches are cleared again as the Red Sox pitcher throws 70-something year old Don Zimmer to the ground. I knew this series was going to be volatile but this has exceeded my expectations. My only question is, what's with the seats above the Green Monster? And how the hell do you get up there?

OMG
7:23am

The Catholic Church is now spreading the "word" that AIDS can pass through condoms. This, of course, goes against the World Health Organization and just about all other scientific evidence. Hey! Pope guy! I have news for you! As much as you want to scare teens into not having sex, they are going to have sex! See, God (goddess, whomever) created a sex drive so that we could propagate. It's all part of God's plan! It's really impractical to tell hormone crazed teens to "just wait." Granted, some people have the will power but to think that ALL people do is ridiculous Now, couple that with the "revelation" that condoms don't work and not to use them? Brilliant! I get it now! You're trying to make more good Catholics!

Questions from mike
12:43am

1. better director: tarantino or the coen bros?
Coen brothers, hands down. At least their violence makes sense.

2. what celebrity should run for governor in your state (have to pick at least one!)?
Robert Redford. He's smart (smart enough to never run) and is an environmentalist.

3. worst cartoon ever? (a favorite subject of mine)
Are you obsessed with cartoons? I can tell you what it's not. It's not She-Ra! She could talk to animals! I used to rush home from college classes to watch it. Yes, that's a sad admission, but there it is. OK, worst ever? It's a tie between Jabber Jaw and Magilla Gorilla.

4. best star trek captain?
Picard, with Janeway second.

5. best comic book inspired movie?
Lessee...not Spawn. Not Superman. Not Heavy Metal. Not Batman (although the first one wasn't bad). X-Men?

Dammit!
12:18pm

I've been looking forward to the movie Intolerable Cruelty for months now. First of all because it's directed by the Coen brothers. Second of all, it stars George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones -- mmmmm...eye candy! How could such a movie fail? Well, all the reviews I've seen say the movie has no heart and is just a flaccid romantic comedy! Ugh! What can be more disappointing than finding out what you thought would be some spectacular celluloid is a bunch of schlock? I guess I'll see Kill Bill this weekend instead, even though I dislike violence in my entertainment. However, we have Lucy Liu! More eye candy! Mmmmmm...

Bored of Monopoly?
6:14am

Why not try Ghettopoly? It has all kinds of fun properties like Westside Liquor, Harlem, The Bronx, and Long Beach City, Smitty's XXX Peep Show, Weinstein's Gold and Platinum, and Tyron's Gun Shop. How can you resist? It seems that this game has some up in arms (and probably rightly so) so if you want it, better get it quick!

It's That Time Again...
11:58am

...time to look at my junkmail! I got some real winners for ya!

Say Goodbye to Your Rubber Hose Today
uh, goodbye rubber hose.

How do you use it?
the rubber hose? none of your business!

Make it in your underwear
make what, exactly?

Let this give you the extra boost in bed!
If it's an extra boost in getting OUT of bed, I could use it

I hate my job.
I think you are better off telling someone who cares.

populousness
Is that like "popompetus" in that Steve Miller song?

"^Grow that DI"C;K,!
OMG no! I'm not supposed to have a dick, you retard. And learn how to use punctuation correctly.

fw:udve controls 50% of a 25-mile mining property in guyana be
I have NO idea what that means.

And now to hit that little DELETE button...

A Literary Quiz
8:11am

You will be sucked dry by a leech. I'd stay away
from swimming holes, and stick to good old
cement. Even if it does hurt like hell when
your toe scrapes the bottom.

What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
brought to you by Quizilla

(feefed from etherian)

Quote of the Day
7:14am

I love cameras and am getting in front of them without getting naked and having sex.
         - Mary Carey, porn actress who came in 10th in the California Governor's race.

Ahhhh...
3:51pm

Is there anything better than a warm grilled cheese sammich with a glass of chocolate milk on a rainy day? I think not.

Question
6:54am

Is there any evolutionary/biological/genetic advantage to having blond hair? I mean, if you think about it, we have two continents with people with dark/black hair. Even indigenous people of the Americas has dark hair. While I haven't researched this at all, it seems to me that blond hair was a mutation but if it's a recessive thing, it seems it would have been bred out of us some time ago. As it hasn't been bred out, does it have an advantage or purpose? I turn to you, my intelligent, curious and knowledgeable reader(s).

Quote of the Day
12:23am

"Lip my stocking"     - Lost in Translation

A Quiz That Finally Got Me Right
6:27pm

Aphrodite/Eros

Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
brought to you by Quizilla

About Bloody Time!
1:23pm

Wanna know what happens when you take one of the most beautiful, wild jungle animals on Earth and train it to perform for your amusement and/or profit? You get mauled, DUH! And rightly so. I swear, if they put this tiger down, they are gonna have to deal with me, and I'm a beeeeeatch!

This Can't be Comfortable
1:15pm

So, I decided it was that time of the year when I should vacuum. (Shut up, it DOES happen!) I put the chairs up on the dining room table and Damien immediately decided that's where he wanted to sleep. He's a nut. He's always liked boxes, especially ones that are smaller than himself. Go figure. Anyway, here he is, lounging on the underside of a chair, happy as a clam!

Rush Limbaugh...
7:12am

...is an ass. He's always been an ass. He always will be an ass. Case closed.

Repulsed
10:33pm

You know, the first time I saw the commercial for Quiznos subs where a man in a business suit is sucking on a wolf's teat, I was disgusted. Now that the ad is in heavy rotation and I see it several times a day, I just want to change the channel. OK, actually, I hate it so much that every time it comes on I want to punch something. And that is REALLY not like me. What fricken advertising genius thought of this campaign? It's not funny nor entertaining; it's just weird and it certainly does not make me want to buy a sub from them. UGH!

Quote of the Day
6:32am

Stay tuned for our report on the clitoris -- nature's Rubik's cube.    - The Family Guy

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