We can't stop the drugs and drunk driving and violence, but mark my words, we WILL put an end to silly string this halloween.

I just saw a commercial for Guys Gone Wild. It features half-naked guys chugging beers, yanking down their pants and being general jackasses. I think it should be called Guys Gone Normal. I don't know for sure but I believe the catchphrase is "Show us your testicles." I understand the appeal of the Girls Gone Wild series. It features supposedly good girls who, through a combination of sweet-talking and free booze, agree to lift their shirts and/or kiss other chicks. Your average guy gets off to it because the girls seem attainable- as if that could transpire in front of him if he just knew enough about women to make that happen. But surely the Guys Gone Wild series is ...

I've always laughed in the face of superstition: I've flown several times on Friday the 13th (flights are cheap and the planes are usually empty). When I had to choose a number for a new cell phone (which I'd purchased on Friday the 13th), I jumped at the one with the prefix "666." And I had the coolest black cat ever. With the luck I have, I'm starting to think my disregard for superstitions ain't so smart. Last week's Friday the 13th started out with an email from my poker site stating that because Bush was set to sign the Internet gambling bill later in the day, they were ceasing business with their US customers and all accounts would be closed ...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of my first real blog entry. I'm pretty proud of myself for sticking with it this long since the longest I ever kept any sort of journal in the past was about three weeks on a trip my family took around the country. And since I still get a kick out of reading about pranks I pulled at the tender age of 11 and how I rated each campground based on its arcade, perhaps when I'm 80 sitting in the house of the Lord with my "Bush III For Pres" bumper sticker on my mini-van outside, I'll get a chuckle out of how silly I was way back in 2006. I had planned to write ...

For months people have been asking me what I would do if the online gaming bill (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006) passed and I said I wasn't going to worry about it until it happened. Well, barring the immediate discovery of naughty emails sent from George Dubya to underage male interns, it's a done deal. So now it's time to worry about it. The fact that it's soon to be law is not a reason I would stop playing Internet poker. There are moral laws then there are the intrusive laws of people with their own agendas. In case there's any question as to which kind the online gaming bill is, let me point out that state-run lotteries and ...

I am a happy, happy woman today now that Lost is back, albeit temporarily. Some comments on last night's episode that nobody else will care about: -- First and foremost, could there have been any more commercials??? At first I thought, "Wow- this show is so great the time is just flying by." Then I realized, no, there were actually commercials every 6-7 minutes. I think this was the first time I ever watched the show live and it will most likely be the last time. -- LOVED the opening. I tried hard to figure out who's backstory that woman was from and never saw it coming that she was an Other. Seeing the plane break up from their perspective was awesome. ...

I just read this in the news: Madonna arrived in Malawi on Wednesday on a mission to help AIDS orphans "and may leave with a child adopted in this impoverished southern African country. Apparently the hip new accessory for celebrities is adopted children from third world countries. I can see the t-shirt now: "My mom went to Malawi and all I got was this lousy sister." [tags]madonna, adoption, aids, orphan, malawi[/tags]

This is bad. It sounded like it was raining outside so how did I find out for sure? I checked the weather online. That's right- rather than stand up and look out my window, I turned to weather.com to tell me what the conditions were five feet away from me (and of course it said nothing about rain even though it clearly had rained). It's only a matter of time before I start viewing pictures of myself online rather than looking in a mirror.