This afternoon I died and went to costume heaven! Two ladies opened a new store downtown, one side is a fabulous vintage clothes store and the other side is the mother of all costume shops! She had a ton of costumes and then the owner said there was a whole loft upstairs full of nothing but more costumes. YAY!! I officially can't wait to pick out my costume for Halloween this year. While I was there I picked up a cool vintage guayabera for my stepdad. Imagine that, guayaberas in Augusta.
I didn't get to see many of the costumes because the lady that runs that part of the store was preparing for a show at the theater down the street but I did see a really cool saloon girl-type costume and some really pretty princess dresses and old revolution era military uniforms.
And after I wasted most of the day shopping and browsing the internet and watching TV I should get back to what I should have been doing all day: homework (yay). But I'm stumped because I just don't see what Puritan ideals have to do with "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Hester Prynne still got it on with Gary Oldman. I think I'll watch some more mindless tv.
But before I go here is another baby alex parody. I never get tired of them because an ad as idiotic as the not alex ad deserves to be made fun of:
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
TGIF
I'm so glad it's Friday. Even though I'll spend my weekend doing homework.
Check out Industry Weeks list of top 1000 companies based on revenue. No surprise big oil companies are the top 4 companies and 6 of the top 10, thanks to us.
One German man made his displeasure known in a not so subtle display.
And this is the ultimate in welfare, the price of keeping British Royalty. I love how they say that the price of keeping the royals is a bargain. Really? Actually I think that's pretty funny.
And now I'll leave you with another Baby Alex parody. We really got a kick out of this one:
Check out Industry Weeks list of top 1000 companies based on revenue. No surprise big oil companies are the top 4 companies and 6 of the top 10, thanks to us.
One German man made his displeasure known in a not so subtle display.
And this is the ultimate in welfare, the price of keeping British Royalty. I love how they say that the price of keeping the royals is a bargain. Really? Actually I think that's pretty funny.
And now I'll leave you with another Baby Alex parody. We really got a kick out of this one:
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Gas Prices and Gary Oldman is Cute (Very Random)
OK so here's my deal. There are drilling companies that say they could have oil out of these places in as little as a year as long as5 for really deep seas. I'll believe the people that do it for a living over politicians. So lets say we open up and tell them they could drill in these areas, that will at the very least give us more of our own oil that we are not getting from countries in the middle east or Venezuela which (lets face it) we are only friendly with because of the oil.
Will it drop prices, yeah probably because again we have more of our own oil and there is more of it on the market now. And to say that you only save .50 on a gallon is nuts. Not because I think we will save more but because to say ONLY .50 like it's nothing is crazy to me. If I have a 20 gallon tank that's $10every time I fill up I usually have to fill up twice a week so that's$20 a week I'm saving. At the end of the year that's $1040 I've saved on just that .50 a gallon. That's my mortgage payment for a month. I don't know about you but I'd be more than happy to have an extra $1040 a year. And I really don't think you would have to wait5 to 10 years to see savings. If the price goes up because there is the threat of violence in Nigeria it'll go down because we are about to flood the market.
I think that what we really do need is to come up with different energy alternatives because it's not going to last forever but these things are going to take time to develop. It is also going to take time to set up our infrastructure to run off these new alternative sand it's going to take time to mass produce and make these alternatives economically with in reach of most Americans. So what should we do till then? Just sit around and p*ss and moan that we are paying out the rear (because I now pay more for gas than I do for my vehicle and that ticks me off)? Do we stay at the mercy of our oil producing "friends"? Do we let our economy take this hit? All because we think it's going to take too long to get oil out of the ground or because it's not as much as what the OPEC nations have? So instead of using what we do have, as a crutch if you will, while new alternatives are developed and keeping prices down for consumers we should just do what? We need something in the short term while we are working on the long term.
On a happy note I only had to pay $57 to fill up yesterday, but I had 1/4 of a tank left.
And now on a totally random note. I'm working on my midterm for my American Lit. class and one of the questions is to explain why I think Hester Prynne is a uniquely American heroine. All I can think about for the answer: In the movie version she got it one with Gary Oldman and he was hot! I just don't think that'll do it.
Will it drop prices, yeah probably because again we have more of our own oil and there is more of it on the market now. And to say that you only save .50 on a gallon is nuts. Not because I think we will save more but because to say ONLY .50 like it's nothing is crazy to me. If I have a 20 gallon tank that's $10every time I fill up I usually have to fill up twice a week so that's$20 a week I'm saving. At the end of the year that's $1040 I've saved on just that .50 a gallon. That's my mortgage payment for a month. I don't know about you but I'd be more than happy to have an extra $1040 a year. And I really don't think you would have to wait5 to 10 years to see savings. If the price goes up because there is the threat of violence in Nigeria it'll go down because we are about to flood the market.
I think that what we really do need is to come up with different energy alternatives because it's not going to last forever but these things are going to take time to develop. It is also going to take time to set up our infrastructure to run off these new alternative sand it's going to take time to mass produce and make these alternatives economically with in reach of most Americans. So what should we do till then? Just sit around and p*ss and moan that we are paying out the rear (because I now pay more for gas than I do for my vehicle and that ticks me off)? Do we stay at the mercy of our oil producing "friends"? Do we let our economy take this hit? All because we think it's going to take too long to get oil out of the ground or because it's not as much as what the OPEC nations have? So instead of using what we do have, as a crutch if you will, while new alternatives are developed and keeping prices down for consumers we should just do what? We need something in the short term while we are working on the long term.
On a happy note I only had to pay $57 to fill up yesterday, but I had 1/4 of a tank left.
And now on a totally random note. I'm working on my midterm for my American Lit. class and one of the questions is to explain why I think Hester Prynne is a uniquely American heroine. All I can think about for the answer: In the movie version she got it one with Gary Oldman and he was hot! I just don't think that'll do it.
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