sigh

Rent is closing on Broadway on June 1st. I don't know if I will have the time to go see it. This adds more rain to my rainy day.

Enchanted

Steve borrowed the movie Enchanted from his brother. It was hilarious. I think it was the best Disney movie yet, mostly because it incorporated scenes from other Disney movies. Let's see...

1. Alice in Wonderland falling through the portal to another world
2. Snow White calling the animals to help clean the messy house
3. The poisoned apples from Snow White
4. The Little Mermaid's Caribbean-influenced song and the two of them in a rowboat
5. An entire musical production through the streets like Ali Babua's parade to meet Jasmine
6. The "Magic Mirror" (a tv)
7. A date in a pizza parlor with the full moon overhead, though I'm not sure who was the lady and who was the tramp because they were both pretty good looking
8. The ball, references to midnight and a fairy godmother (a credit card), leaving a shoe behind...
9. The costuming of Beauty and the Beast (also the Mad Hatter- it was a ball in New York City so obviously every extra in the cast probably had some Disney character's clothing on, of course.)
10. Sleeping Beauty's dragon
11. And my favorite... King Kong on the Empire State Building with a damsel in distress... wait... what? Was that made by Disney??

Anyway... it was a very clever movie in my opinion, despite the fact that a little over halfway through, I told Steve how it would end. Maybe I have watched too many Disney movies. Either that or my Rutgers prof David Letwin taught me how to recognize plots by studying those that have gone before. That was an amazing class. And THAT was a bunny trail. Anyway, Enchanted is my new favorite Disney movie. Everyone should go see it.

Online article: "What are you doing for Earth Day?"

Well. I'm gonna go with "The same thing I do everyday, Pinkie." Why can't we care about the earth all year round?

i love to drink!

I am in love with chocolate soy milk after dinner and orange juice all the time. Usually my cravings fade but the orange juice has been a phase that has lasted about 2 weeks now.

True Freedom

Constitutionally, legally, we have the freedom and right to speak freely, to gather freely, to print whatever we want, to follow whatever religion we want, and to petition our government about anything we don't want.

But socially, if I come out and say a certain race drives me crazy or that women are better nurturers than men, or that I believe the 1611 King James Version of the Bible is the only way to hear God's word, or if I declare my support for evolution or creation, or something in between, someone somewhere is going to have a problem with it and ridicule me, or at the very least respond with blind emotion rather than reason.

America isn't really free. I don't know that there is any place that is truly free, because humans are social creatures. We want other people to like us and being alone is torture.

Except for when you are 87 and senile. Then you can say whatever you want. Like the person who came into the bookstore today and gave me a tip (honestly... this is the third tip I've gotten since I worked there... who tips retail salespeople??). He told me about how God healed his hemorrhoids and that was somehow relevant to his story about Sid Roth. He gave me $8.33 and told me to either donate it to Sid Roth or split it with my coworker Kristen, depending on what God told me to do. God told me to split it with Kristen first and then decide how to use it. Then God told her to use it on ice cream.

I hope that someday BEFORE I'm senile I will be able to be free enough to give money away and talk to people about hemorrhoids and the 1611 King James Bible without causing anyone to react vehemently.

Freedom like that is true freedom.

new blogsite!

I have a new blog.

Never fear, this one is not going anywhere.

But check it out.

http://megcanread.blogspot.com/

two blurbs

1. I have always hated yogurt. I discovered that its not actually yogurt that I hate. I have discovered that I LOVE yogurt made with whole milk.

2. After explaining that there is a Bible verse stating that a divorced person who remarries is living in adultery and that the concept of annulment exists to allow divorced people to remarry, the reply was, "well who needs annulment when you can just kill your ex?"

growl

Gossip is the single-most annoying cause of idiocy in the United States. Best-case scenario, it will just hurt an individual. At worst, the media will publish gossip as truth when they could easily find the truth of the matter if they would get off their lazy bums and search for it. Truth really is out there, but no one is going to hand it to you on a silver platter. If you are too lazy to get up and search for the truth then you deserve to be lied to.

Americans are idiots. They will believe it if it is printed, or if a person with an authoritative voice says it is true. If Brad Pitt says in a movie that oxygen masks are useless on a plane that is no reason not to wear one when it drops from the compartment over your head. Barack Obama is not a Muslim, he DOES recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and he is NOT endorsed by the KKK (Do you even know what the KKK is? Why the HELL would you think that a white supremacist group would endorse him? Have you even seen a picture of Barack Obama?). Do not boycott one dollar coins; they DO contain the words "In God We Trust." Glade Plug-ins will not burn down your house unless you are using one from 1994. The list goes on. Why do I even have to have this rant?

Its stupid, we're all stupid, and if we stay stupid and uninformed, we will cease to live in a country that leads other nations in economy, power, and technology. Someone is going to invade, and we will be ok with it (as long as that country sends out a mass email saying that the founding fathers of our constitution wrote a clause allowing for a foreign take-over after a certain number of years). Personally, I'd suspect Canada. They're nearby, and its always the quiet ones that give you the most trouble.

EDIT: The United Kingdom's public schools STILL TEACH THAT THE HOLOCAUST HAPPENED!!!!!! Stop believing everything that hits your inbox!!!

Friends from years ago...

S just posted baby pictures on facebook, announcing she was giving him his first bath. Last week I found photos of MI with her TWO kids. S and MS are engaged. C is married with kids and a successful landscaping business. E and J and R and A have all found the One, and R is pregnant. Tonight I found MW's pictures of her ultrasound. I did not know she was pregnant. I feel like a slacker for wanting to go back to school.

Angels

Years ago, I became fascinated with angels. I wanted to see one, I wanted to know everything I could about them.

It was amazing to me that every incidence in the Bible of an angel appearing to a human started off with the words "Do not be afraid," and yet despite their seemingly fearsome nature, there is a verse in the Psalms that says "He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you in all your ways," perpetuating the belief in guardian angels.

I used to be fascinated by stories of people meeting angels and of different types of angels, some that seemed more passive and some that seemed like great warriors. For anyone who is interested, This Present Darkness is a great book about warrior angels.

Anyway... my fascination died down a little but it has just been renewed. You see, I have spent the past 8 years looking for some sort of angel figurine that depicted an angel holding a sword. In all the gift shops I went into, the angels held musical instruments, babies, or were empty-handed. I have finally found an angel with a sword. So, I'm alerting you all. My birthday is in 5 months and 12 days. You have plenty of time.

Here is the image:


The company that makes it is Roman, Inc.

One Two Three Go.

Facilitate is such a weird word.