Its interesting that now that the blog is exactly how I want it - I need to step away from it for a while. Don’t expect anything grand or amazing for quite a while. …A month or two maybe? I don’t know. I just figured, when it gets to the point where I get pissy because I feel like I *have* to update on here - not only does it deteriorate from the content, but it just makes the whole thing not fun. So I’m not going to do it anymore.

I really want to devote a lot of time this summer to seeing people who I haven’t seen in a long time and hanging out with friends like Helene, my cousins in Windsor, Chatham and London and Shaneka in Bothwell… oh, and Allen. Because I miss him.

After seeing my baby cousins a month or so ago, I just really want to hang out with them more and babysit and stuff so that Will actually knows my name. Aunt Mel was around so much when we were growing up… and Mikael, Alex and I are so close because we were around each other constantly as we grew up. I’d rather not have Will and AJ end up like Candice and I where we find out we have things in common 20 years later.

I also have a feeling that in the fall I’ll be… busy. My schedual is completely ridiculous… so I’ll get used to the feel of not blogging every day now - so I can worry about it much less then. Plus, I wanna finish my book - which is taking so much longer than I thought it would. Stupid words.

I mentioned earlier the Creationist Museum and how silly it is… Well the Friendly and Adorable Atheist, Hemant has up two really fantastic posts about his adventures in and out of the museum… And really this little line from one of his posts had my “lol”ing.

And there was a dinosaur eating a pineapple.

Bwa ha ha.

In all seriousness…

His post about the protest is so great. Reading that there are people who not only have a brain, but also the drive to get out there and promote real knowledge is amazing. It’s really fantastic to know that we’re not living in countries that are completely filled with idiots.

I would really like to go to this museum. I have a feeling I’d end up crying seeing dinosaurs in the most absolute wrong time period, place, plant life… etc. I just love dinosaurs too much to see them abused in such a way.

BTW - you should all buy and read Hemant’s book. and eat pineapple. with a dinosaur.

Baby stego tracks!

Researcher Matt Mossbrucker believes four small dinosaur tracks found within sight of the skyscrapers of downtown Denver were made by two stegosaur babies, a find he says would be “incredibly rare.”

And… land dinos actually swam too?

“The place is full of walking theropod dinosaur footprints,” he said.

“It doesn’t surprise me at all that theropod dinosaurs had the ability to swim,” said dinosaur track specialist Brent Breithaupt, curator and director of the Geological Museum at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. “What does surprise me is that you’d find evidence of this.”

Neat. The area is filled with dinosaur tracks, and the size/distance of the tracks suggests a large animal. Suffice to say there is enough evidence to suggest the dinosaurs were in the water as well as on land.

Speaking of dinosaurs….. If you haven’t heard of the creationist museum you should check out this “sneak peak“. It’s really crazy stuff. I’d like to go to check out the dinosaur room, but I’d want to sneak in so that I wouldn’t support the “museum”.  It’s crazy stuff.

(I was going to make this post slightly longer - but I’m watching this show Beauty and the Geek and its so hilarious - one of the geeks just called a beauty “academically uninclined” and I nearly died laughing. It was even funnier when her response was “I’m not academically whatever you just said!” Also - one of the geeks says his job is to track monkies with lazers. It’s awesome. I love geeks.)

The Smoking Gun has some pretty messed up art…

In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like “blowtorch to the skin” and “eye removal.” Along with the images, which you’ll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters.

When I color pictures, they’re much happier. The torture methods that are drawn are really scary - especially when you put into consideration the fact that they actually do this to people. What really bothers me is the normalization of this behavior to the point where they draw pictures of it.

I didn’t go - like I had planned to… because I moved back to the other side of the continent, but the Sasquatch festival was on this past memorial day weekend. As part of the weekend Get Trashed! took part in the festivities. Put on my Global Inheritance. It looks like it was more than a blast… actually that post bitches a bit about it - but man it still looks like it was a freakin’ blast. I wish I could have gone… especially to see the Beastie Boys. (Watch this short video of them)…

I’m sure Lollapalooza looks like its going to be just amazing - too bad I’ll be in the right area, at the right time… with no ticket. Such is life! But I had to make a choice. But for some reason I had to choose Obama and Mooney over Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, The Roots, LCD Soundsystem, MIA, Motion City Soundtrack, Amy Winehouse…… shit, … okay, does someone want to buy my Yearly Kos ticket?