Kraft Introduces New Kraft Doubles For Couples

NORTHFIELD, IL—In an effort to reach out to a segment of the population completely ignored by the company for more than a century, Kraft Foods unveiled Monday its new line of Kraft Doubles—jointly wrapped slices of American cheese specially designed with couples in mind.
"After years of catering exclusively to depressed, lonely men in their 30s, Kraft is proud to present a product for people who are capable of experiencing love and happiness," Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld said at a press conference. "No longer will couples who have a mutual craving for processed American cheese have to endure the hassle of unwrapping two individual slices."

Kraft's newest cheese product has mended troubled relationships.
According to Rosenfeld, the Kraft Doubles will be packaged side by side in the brand's iconic twice-folded cellophane sheath. Once the rectangular orange product has been removed from its wrapper, lovers can easily separate the slices into two equal portions by carefully tearing along the perforated line in the center of the Double. At this point, it is recommended couples gingerly roll up the slices and feed them to each another.
"Kraft Doubles are the perfect snack for any romantic occasion, including picnics in the park, moonlit strolls along the beach, and sexual intercourse," Rosenfeld said. "Finally, the great taste of Kraft American cheese and the feeling of warmth that comes from tender affection with another human being can be enjoyed simultaneously."

it is a conspiracy

This is the proof Clinton was the WRONG choice. Get over your selves. She lost.
Some of Hillary Clinton's most fervent supporters are taking their enthusiasm – and their campaign contributions – to John McCain.
More than a dozen of Hillary Clinton's fundraisers have contributed to John McCain's campaign in the last few months.
More than 85 of Clinton's fundraisers, including Donald Trump, Univision chief executive Joseph Uva, cable mogul Charles Dolan, philanthropist Norma Hess and one of Florida's biggest lobbyists appear to be skipping Barack Obama when it comes to writing checks for the general election, according to an ABCNews.com review of campaign finance records.
These Clinton donors have contributed at least $200,000 to McCain's campaign in the last few months, an amount which doesn't include larger contributions to the Republican joint fundraising committees.
But the defecting donors, along with a significant segment (20 percent) of Clinton fans who have expressed support for McCain in recent polls, could present a problem for Obama in the general election.

This is from January
Machinists Union Prez Tom Buffenbarger about Obama supporters:Give me a break! I’ve got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies crowding in to hear him speak! This guy won’t last a round against the Republican attack machine. He’s a poet, not a fighter.
Okay, I drink the occasional latte, if i have the money. and, boy! would I love to own a Prius, who wouldn't? but the hell about Birkenstocks? I mean, if you’re gonna make fun of my generation correctly, you should at least use something that we wore, like Doc Martens. I mean, maybe there are hippy-dippy kids wearing Birkenstocks, but they’re far more likely to vote for Kucinich or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Obama is my generation and younger, not hippies from the 60s, which is apparently what ol’ Tom there is fighting.And trust funds? OMG. I’d like to take a look at the average salary of Clinton’s supporters versus Obama’s. I wasn’t really an Obama supporter, but I did think he’d have a better chance against McCain than Clinton. But it’s this type of talk that makes me really, really despise Clinton and her campaign.
Which is why she lost. Good Riddance Clinton, you are scary. Go away.

enchantment

Sophie Mai is turning 5 on September 12th. For the big day she decided on enchanted forest.
It's a small theme park located just outside of salem. Offering thrilling attractions for the whole family. from the icy peaks of Ice mountain Bobsleds and the thrilling drops of Big Timber Log Ride (largest in the northwest) to the mind boggling dead ends of the Alice in Wonderland Maze and the scream inducing scares of the Haunted House (named the #1 walk-through Haunted House in America) this park has something for everyone at an affordable price unlike other "big" theme parks. And new for 2006 is an exciting new interactive dark ride "The Challenge of Mondor" in which family's get to ride togeather and fight animatronic evil wizards, dragons and creatures to save the kingdom. Along with the great rides the park also offers walk-through depictions of fairy-tales and nursrey rhymes at no additional charge such as Old Woman in a Shoe Slide, Hansel and Gretel, Sevn Dwarfs Mine, 3 Bears House, and more. Also the park offers several other attractions such as the water and light show in Old World Village and funny re-tellings of fairytales at the comedy theater. I am so excited. I can't wait. Sophie is going to be so juiced. She loves all magical stuff too. So did i sell this place or what? See you there September 13th. 11:00 am.

Picasso’s Top 7 Creative Tips For Artists

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor and creator in many creative fields. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is (perhaps) best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Aside from having a hand in every art movement of the 20th C, he also had some interesting things to say about creativity and life. Here are 7 enlightening tips (via the positivity blog) that are sure to inspire creativity from different levels.
1. You have to believe to be able to do.
“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
This is a great quote because it doesn’t just say that you should “believe in yourself!”. It explains why you need to believe in yourself and your ability to do something to actually do it.
The funny thing is that it’s hard to see how much your beliefs control your performance and how you see your world when you are used at looking at things from just one perspective.
When you think you can do something instead of not your perception of that thing changes. And your perception of yourself too. Without those changed perspectives it will be hard to find the courage, motivation, enthusiasm and whatever else you may need. And then there are self-fulfilling prophecies.
If you think you’ll fail you are likely to hold you self back or even trip yourself up (sometimes unconsciously). If you on the other hand think you can do something your mind will start to find solutions and focus on fixing things instead of whining about them. From all of the stimuli around you things, solutions and opportunities will just start to pop up. Without that focus on the right thing, on your ability to do, your mind may not find the resources and solutions that are needed.
2. Push your limits.
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pushing yourself and stretching is necessary to grow. And the more you push yourself the quicker you can grow.
But it can be scary. My best tip so far: stay present as much as you can while doing something you cannot yet do.
This can greatly decrease possible negative feelings that are holding you back. And with those feelings out of your mind and body it becomes easier to focus, to feel positive feelings and actually perform well and learn to do whatever you have set your mind upon.
For tips on that check out 8 Ways to Return to the Present Moment. My three favourites among that bunch are at the moment: focus on what’s right in front of you, pick up the vibe from present people (I listen to Eckhart Tolle cds very often) and focusing on your breathing.
3. Don’t wait for inspiration or the right moment.
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
Inspiration can show up on its own, waltzing in through a door or a window. But doing things that way makes work inconsistent – both in quality and quantity - and you spend a lot of time waiting.
I find that it’s better to follow Pablo’s suggestion and just start working. For the first minutes what you do may suck quite a bit and it’s hard going. But after a while inspiration seems to catch up with you. Things start to flow easier and your work is of a higher quality.
If you feel inspired one day that’s great. Use your inspiration. But don’t limit yourself to the moments where you feel inspired or you feel like the moment is just right to do something. Act instead. A lot of the time you can find inspiration along the way. Or accomplish whatever you want to do despite the moment not looking just as you would like it to.
4. Act.
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
I know. If you have been reading this blog for a while you may have noticed that taking action is included in a lot of the articles. But that’s because, as Picasso says, action is the foundation. Without taking action any information – no matter how useful – will be pretty useless. This is also the part of personal growth or just life that is often forgotten or perhaps avoided.
It’s scary. It can feel difficult to do it. Or you may not feel like it’s the right moment now. But developing a habit of taking more and more action can make a huge difference. Have a look at How to Take More Action: 9 Powerful Tips for help to develop such a habit. My favourite tip among those is the same as for when pushing your limits: stay present to decrease inner resistance to taking action.
5. Ask the right questions.
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
It’s easy to ask yourself the wrong questions. To ask yourself questions that just will give you answers that confirm that you are incompetent, foolish, wrong and tell you that your future is limited. Questions that will sink you instead of help to lift you up.
So instead, ask yourself empowering questions.
* When having a seemingly negative experience ask yourself: what is good about this? What can I learn from this? There is always something you can learn and have use for to create positive experiences later on.
* When interacting with others ask yourself: How can I bring even more value (understanding, help, practical solutions, fun, excitement etc.) to this interaction?
* In just about any situation you can always ask yourself: what’s great about this situation/experience? This is a quick way to shift your mood and thoughts into more positive, resourceful and empowered forms through gratitude.
There are of course many more empowering questions you can ask yourself. I think the main point is to reframe the questions you ask yourself into positive questions that open up - instead of closes – the door to opportunities and possibilities.
6. See the hidden beauty by not judging.
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
One of big advantages of becoming more present in your everyday life is that you decrease the amount of analysing and labelling you do to the things/people in your surroundings. You don’t judge as much.
This might sound strange but in the moments when you are present the ordinary world becomes more interesting and wonderful. Colors can seem brighter. Your see more aliveness in trees, nature and in people. You see the wonder of all your man-made gadgets and stuff. Things that most often seem common, routine and boring become fascinating and something you can appreciate.
It’s like you are observing your world with more clarity and curiousness. Like a little kid again, discovering things while they still feel fresh. Before they have just become walking, talking and growing labels with years of associations and thoughts attached.
This is a bit like the first tip in this article. Before you actually use it – if you just think about it in your mind – it may not make that much sense. I highly recommend reading/listening to Eckhart Tolle to gain a deeper understanding of being present. He and Oprah are doing free 90 minute talks about his book A New Earth right now. Check out the book and those webcasts.
7. It’s not too late.
“Youth has no age.”
Don’t let social conditioning tell you what you can or cannot do just because you are of one age or another. Age is most of the time just in your head anyway. Take tip #1 into consideration and choose for yourself what you can do. And use tip # 6 and ask yourself the right questions instead of ones that limit you.
And, remember, the present moment s all there ever is anyway. So don’t get caught up in the past too much. Most of the time you really don’t have to act consistently with what you have done before. If you do, then that’s your choice. And you can decide to do something different too. Right now.
It is really only too late to change if you look at your life as a time-line. If you learn to become more present, if you learn to live more in the now, much of that thinking just falls away. You realize that you can consciously choose and do pretty much whatever you like in the present moment and built a future with new possibilities.

missing friends

as I've gotten older i have realized my friends are so precious to my heart and my soul and even my mind. which is hard to locate lately. and even though i don't get to see them as much as I'd like to they are still with me. in my heart, my thoughts and through music. i totally cried today listening to a bill withers song with my oldest friend carla, who's here visiting from italy. and it was awesome. she's one of those friends you can pick up where you left off. even if it's been 2 years. and it's not at all awkward. also she's sophie's god mother. and Sophie just loves her to death. she lives in italy and i miss her. but when i see her it's like i am 12 again. she is one of the great "loves" of my life time and i feel, can i say "blessed?" with out sounding too religious. i am grateful for our friendship. we had a great time. it was also one of our best buddies here in corvallis birthday. she created a feast of indian foods to die for. and luckily she made too much so we've had it twice now. indian is our favorie too. i am lucky to still be making new friends. one's i can see my self with in 20 years. just like carla. who i am missing once again. and probably won't see again in 2 or more years. it is hard to make "good" friends. the ones that last. the kind you feel are family.

I was thinking of another good old friend of mine, Meghan. we have lost contact with each other a lot. she is still the same old good loving friend i fell in love with way back when. and i will probably be friends with her in 20 years too.i remember all the music she introduced me too. she has awesome taste. this was one of the reasons we became such good friends. i remember her giving me this CD. she told me i would be into it and i was. and now i think back and i am sooo thankful she gave it to me, it is still one of my favorites.

pictures

This guy grows giant cabbages
in his Staten Island backyard.

honest celebrity

A friend of mine told me about roseanne barr's blog so i checked it out. remember roseanne? anyways it is hilarious. here are some examples. you must go look for your self.
go roseanne!

Does Right Wing arrogance and cynicism have NO boundaries?
Now they're inflating the big Fear Machine with all their "Be afraid.....Be very afraid" talk. Cooking up the BS Fear factor makes McCain look more "presidential" Translation? "Presidential" under the new Fascism now means: "Ready to attack another non-Christian country like Iran because they're "threatening us" (and Israel) and someday they MAY have one half of 1% as much firepower as we do. Who cooks this crap up? What kind of slimey weasel tells Americans that they're "threatened" and need to be afraid?....of a country with 1% of 1% of our firepower? This is what passes now for patriotism. Iran has an economy the size of Finland. How many Americans are stupid enough to believe this "threat" crap? We'll find out in November. http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/index.php

tattoo goodness

TV lovin peeps, At 10PM EDT, The Works on the History Channel focuses on, well, how tattoos work: “From a 5,000 year old tattooed mummy to the latest in flash tattoo technology, get an inside look at how tattoos are designed, applied, and where the latest inks and hardware are being developed.”
Too bad we don't have cable.

The 9-year old tattooist, Lilly Hibbs, daughter of tattooist Stephen Hibbs of Suffer City Tattoos in Dallas, has sparked some controversy as she’s now taking on her own clients — for $5 a pop — after this video went viral on line two years ago.

our little sophie has had her face posted all over this town. now it's for the kids day for conservation flyer. i can't find a copy to show but she is right in the middle of it. looking cute and sweet of course. her face is very square. she has her great grandma's face, hilda de la montanya. pats mom and pat has it too. but not as dramatic like sophie. the huge eyes tiny nose and mouth. she looks like a japanese animation character.

maybe we could write a comic book and she will be the hero. she loves to draw and she loves art. this is her passion. she has a network already of artist. yesterday they asked her to come over and draw with them. she was there for 7 hours. wow! i was a little jealous. i want to hang out and draw and make crafts. with cool people. but i was happy for her to have that time to her self. she is the artist of the family for sure. go sophie!

weather alert

sophie and i were watching arthur on pbs (opb here) and we had an interruption. a stay in your home don't go outside this isn't kansas any more interuption. bring in your livestock. which i guess is our cats. and secure all loose tarps and stuff. then they proceed to tell us lightning strikes kills more folks in oregon then anything else! what? is this true? lightning? this was all a recording with arthur still playing in the background. 50-65 mile winds? first it was 102 now it is 62! thunder storms and weather warnings and extreme heat all in the same week! wow. is this what al gore was warning us about?

BFF for a week

Sophie has a new besft friend. And now shes back home in Mt. Vernon Washington. boo hoo. Our good friends and neighbors Gavi and Christina had them staying with them. Gavi is the god mother to Zoe (pictured with Sophie). Sara and Cub, the parents have the two little girls, Zoe and Odessa. They arrived the same day Aunt Katie and Effie departed. So sophie has been very busy. Today was the first day we got back to "normal" She's had a lot of love all month. Zoe's mom has agreed they can be pen-pals. They were inseparable all week. 6 hour play dates. Never faught or nothing, just hours of fun. Except when Sophie had her first BEE sting. We now know she's not allergic and very brave, she didn't even cry, kind of, so i'm told since i wasn't there. My poor baby! They went to the fountain downtown. There is grass with clover flowers. And a lot of bee's. She was running with Zoe and stepped on a big bee. Next week her god mother is coming from Italy. August is turning out to be the best for friends.

favorite band all time

They were a phenomenon. Not necessarily the kind that plays to stadiums or fills MTV's timeslots or even sells millions of records. Rather, the kind that quietly causes a fundamental shift in perception, exerting a seminal influence that is universally felt if not always seen.
they were founded in Grangemouth, Scotland, in 1979.
they were originally formed by guitarist Robin Guthrie and bassist Will Heggie and later rounded out by Guthrie's girlfriend Elizabeth Fraser, an utterly unique performer whose swooping, operatic vocals relied less on any recognizable language than on the subjective sounds and textures of verbalized emotions.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

"Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Oh, your daddy's rich
And your mama's good lookin'
So hush little baby now
don't you cry

One of these mornin's
You're gonna rise up singin'
Then you'll spread your wings
And take to the sky

But til that mornin'
Ain't nothin' can harm you
With your daddy
And your mammy
standin' by."
- George Gershwin and Dubose Heyward, Porgy and Bess

summer has hit us like a hammer and today got up to102. this is still oregon right?
the kids, they just don't understand, it's not OK to go outside. no! it's not ok. it's like the holocaust outside. the day after. there is no life. just heat. you will die if you peek out that curtain! at our house we always have the windows open, i like the breeze, fresh air is soooo good for you. even in the winter. i have a heightened sense of smell. and i hate stale and dusty.
but not today. it felt like death ever time you opened the front door. our friends just moved and they have air conditioning. i think tomorrow we will be there all day. there is an awesome fountain downtown all the kids can play in. but i think it will be too hot. air conditioning here we come.

i love traditions and superstitions by the way.
August 1st is Lammas Day, and was Thanksgiving time (Harvest time) in Britain. The festival of Lammas marks the beginning of the harvest, when people go to church to give thanks for the first corn to be cut . This celebration predates our Christian harvest festival.
On Lammas Day farmers made loaves of bread from the new wheat crop and gave them to their local church. They were then used as the Communion bread during a special mass thanking God for the harvest.
Lammas Day used to be a time for foretelling marriages and trying out partners. Two young people would agree to a "trial marriage" lasting the period of the fair (usually 11 days) to see whether they were really suited for wedlock. At the end of the fair, if they didn't get on, the couple could part.

Lammas Superstition
To bring good luck, farmers would let the first corn bread go stale and then crumble it over the corners of their barns.

family visits

pats family have been here all week. it's such a wonderful thing to have family.
i grew up with just a handful of relatives. pretty much one of everything. 1 uncle, 1 aunt, one grandma etc. now all i have is my dad, 1 step-mom, 1 uncle, 1 cousin and 1 aunt left. oh... 2 half brothers that have never said more then 10 words to me ever! their still young though. i guess? or maybe they think i'm super uncool. if only they knew me. because i rock!
pat has 3 sisters and 4 brothers. hundreds of cousins, aunts and uncles by the dozens. even more. his family are so nice and loving too. they like to talk and play games and go shopping. we cook together. it's awesome! his mom has visited us 2-3 times this year alone. she drives all the way up here from central california. this means soooo much to pat too. he feels so alone here sometime. his sister katie just moved to arizona and she and her daughter effie came up for a visit too. just to see how beautiful the pacific north west really is. her daughter is 6 months mac's junior. they have been super cute together and mac can be quite a little fire cracker at times. it's been hard having all these folks in our tiny home. but it works. they don't mind the mess. of course the kids don't either. our kids have gone to bed at 10-11:00 pm every night. wow!

the hammock

OK we have the best yard ever!
1/2 acre of trees, blueberry bushes, grapes, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries,
apples and cherries. We tried some peas and tomatoes not too successfully but were still learning so... it will be hard when we do find that special house of our own. we will find it hard to leave this tiny place (930 sq feet) it's really all about the yard. There are over 20 trees in our yard which is good and bad. Good when it's hot for the shade but who are we kidding this is Oregon. The sun is just too precious to block out.
It only gets over 100 here once a year. 75-85 is our norm for the summer. our friends come to our house when it's hot. sun dresses, lemonade, sprinklers and the hammock. we haven't eaten in the house all summer. this is what Oregon summers are all about. oh and lots of fruit! Blueberries are the number one choice. Mac and Sophie are in love with the hammock. they have created over 5 different games and fun activities. they play more with the hammock then most of their toys. swinging is the number one choice, pirate ship, even tea parties happen on our hammock. it is used as a boat mostly. monster vessel. even a magic carpet. if you don't have a hammock, get one. pure gold.

"Don't ask me. I'm just a girl"

I was watching the Simpsons with sophie when the episode Lisa versus Malibu Stacey came on.
She is excited her doll will finally have words. Lisa is anxious to hear what Talking Malibu Stacy has to say, but is disappointed with the doll's sexist phrases, such as "I wish they taught shopping at school," "Let's bake cookies for the boys," and "Don't ask me. I'm just a girl," followed by a ditzy giggle.
"Right on, say it sister!" says an eavesdropping Bart, launching Lisa into a tirade decrying sexist attitudes and their effect on young girls, ending with her throwing the doll through the window.
Lisa Simpson is a great role model for young girls with a passion for the planet too.
OK, so it does get her ridiculed by her own family, bullied at school and ignored by most of her home town, but we know that Lisa's always right in the end, and if we'd just listen to her words of wisdom, everything will work out OK.
Self-confessed nerd, she spends her playtime studiously reading up on how to save the planet and never tires of trying to educate her often reluctant family and peers.

the downside of oregon

While standing in line at a store, this weekend, I overheard a conversation in which one of the participants made the remark “One of things I love about Corvallis is its diversity.” The person on the receiving end of this conversation readily agreed.

At first I was puzzled by this exchange. True, this is a college town, and as such it has the potential to be diverse. But a walk around campus will likely dispel any such thoughts. So where did the people I heard come up with their conclusions? Do they spend most of their waking hours at OSU sporting events? Are they confusing the TV shows they watch for reality in their own lives?

Then it suddenly it hit me. How could I have been so wrong? Corvallis is in fact diverse, if one opens their eyes and just looks. Once I did so, I saw a diversity that makes any rainbow look downright dull. Here is a list of the some of the many "different" people I have seen in just the past few days:

Short white people
Tall white people
Skinny white people
Fat white people
Poor white people
Middle class white people
Rich white people
White people in Subaru’s
White people in Prius’s
White yuppies
White hippies
White yuppie/hippies
Homeless white people
Whites kids on skate boards
White emo’s
White gansta’s
White gays
White lesbians
White people of English heritage
White people of Scandinavian heritage
White people of German heritage
White people of some other northern European heritage
Very white looking people who claim to have Native American heritage (usually Cherokee)
White people who own dogs
White people walking
White people on bikes
White liberals
One white conservative
Old white people
Young white people
White singles
White couples with an adopted Asian kid (none with black kids however).
White women
White men
A white person whose sex I'm still uncertain of
White people who looked funny when they danced due to white lack of coordination
……….and a couple of Mexican people who work at that one restaurant I like.

this is the funniest thing i have ever read, posted on craigslist.

friends and voles

sophie has a best friend here in town named kosette. she is incredible silly, cute and giggly just like sophie. they boss each other around, fight over toys. play princess, frolic in the sun and the sprinkler naked doing their "rain dance"
and pick as many flowers as they can hold. mostly weeds, like dandelions. sophie is a little bit better at this then kosette, but kosette has a hidden talent sophie just can't surpass. she can fit 10 or more slimy insects in her hand all at once. snails, slugs, worms, caterpillars, dead things, a couple weeds, some sticks, bugs bugs bugs. in her tiny hands. it looks quite nasty. i think about how she is not grossed out by these things climbing down her hands oozing with organic green garden matter. not kosette, she is super excited about them! like their her pets or something she won at a fair. or a gift from nature. like it's christmas, "mrs. robinson" (she calls me) "look at all the bugs i got" "wow" i say "neat"
what else can i say. i am frightened by worms (strange, but true) and slugs are just nasty, they look like a lugie with a little extra flem from the back of your throat thrown in. way back.

so yesterday and pretty much everyday this summer our cat has caught a mouse.
cute one's too. tiny, big eyes. dead. not ripped open or anything too bloody. just dead. but yesterday there was the weirdest thing i've ever seen. i could of sworn it was a mouse, but it had this pointy nose. like it had been squashed. the kids and i scooped it up and brought it to the neighbors house. "it's a vole" she tells me. a vole??????? weird. today our cat caught 2 mice. one of them was still alive! twitching and staring at me frighteningly. and i wasn't sure what to do. should i kill it? put it out of it's misery? i ended up tossing it in the trash. i figure if it isn't dead it can atleast survive on garbage then make it's way to the dump to live some what comfortable? this town of ours is always near some grass fields. it will find a nice home.

A vole is a small rodentmouse but with a stouter body, a shorter hairy tail,
a slightly rounder head, and smaller ears and eyes.

pure americana

my children love this. sophie sings it when it's not even on. checked it out from our library and it is wonderful! definitely worth a listen. i think it was the music in raising arizona? coen brothers film starring nick gage and holly hunter. pure americana as well.
with their glorious three-part harmonies and sophisticated musical arrangements, the Sons of the Pioneers more or less defined the genre known as western music. this group's rich sound never wavered, and their mournful, melancholic evocation of the Old West on such classics as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "Blue Prairie," "Cool Water," and "Riders in the Sky"

Recorded between August 8, 1934 and April 19, 1954
Sons Of The Prarie includes: Pat Brady (vocals, bass); Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer (vocals); Karl Farr (guitar, fiddle)

my dream job

My purpose is to end the age of waste by advocating and developing total recycling. I would receive unwanted things and sell them as-is for re-use. Design disposal facilities for zero waste and publish technical papers. I would be a disposal service so people can let go of unwanted but still-useful goods without wasting them, and a retail store where other people can find things they want at a low price. Many people with deep environmental consciousness are reluctant to buy new merchandise if they can find what they need used. I would also be a consultant who would design zero-waste resource-recovery facilities both domestically and abroad.
dream... I love used stuff...

WALL E

WALL-E is the most adorable hunk of metal I've ever seen. even cuter then E.T. and drew barrymore put together. (5 year old barrymore)
We saw it in Long Beach Washington. mac, pat and i. sophie satyed with aunt martha. she had a lot of fun with her. it was really sweet.
first of all there's something you need to know about mac, he does not like TV. or movies. he watches maybe 5 minutes total. we were taking a big risk taking him. but we figured it was time to try. maybe the bigger screen and the dolby sound would keep him interested. besides he's still free.

I could not stop staring at this cuter then life robot. the movie was almost special. it made me feel like a kid again. all the children in the theater saw it as a cute robot story and liked it, it had little words and fun sounds. and we saw it as a robot story and a social commentary. the message was funny. not at all preachy. silly, interesting. lonely. not sad, not disturbing. almost magical. i would say for an animated feature it was perfect. A+. and you can see, this movie has a LOT of plot; in fact, that's one of the reasons why it's so good. This movie is great, and unless you have an extreme personal hatred towards robots, the future, or good movies, you have 0 reason not to see it.
so did mac like the movie? he's the reason we went in the first place, he got a little restless. but i thought he did really well. and now he is obsessed with robots, he pretends to be one all the time. says "wall e" when he's playing with his toys. i think he would watch it again. if grandma buys it when it comes out. :)

what the youth of America think of Pixar's latest film.

"My favorite part is when everybody got to ride around on floating chairs and it was so cool and so much better than regular chairs."
-- Martin, Age 10

"I hate everything about earth! Even that little plant. I wanna live on a space ship!"
-- Kaylee Age 7

"If I don't throw my trash away like mom says it means Wall-E is gonna come clean it up."
-- Teyisha, Age 9

"I wanna plant a pizza tree!"
-- Yolaro, Age 10

"Wall E thinks earth is just as boring as I do. And I wanna go to space and have fun and drink cupcakes too!"
-- Yung-Tze, Age 8

"Big stores should be President so that we can all go on vacation and play in pools forever."
-- Rohmar, Age 12

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