They Should Change Her Name From Sophie to Savage

Sophie the dog went on a vacation with her family last year and was on a boat on the Queensland Cost near Australia when some big ass wave dumped her overboard! Her family thought she was lost forever and, of course, were devastated.

However, Sophie the dog went on to swim five miles (doggy paddled, no less!) to safety on the shore of some nearly uninhabited island, where she survived on a diet of baby goats! Side note here: AWWW, THOSE POOR BABY GOATS!!! :(

WHAT A SAV! Savage Sophie lived for about four months this way (that's a lot of baby goats!) until one of the three people who live on the Lost island and aren't ghosts (sorry, throwing in the pop culture theories) found her ass, which was promptly returned to her family... yay for Sophie! And for the goat population on Lost!!

(no, it wasn't really Lost island, and if you believed me, you're silly)

Take a Stand for Women's Reproductive Health!

I can't go because I'll be working for the Man, but if anybody can make it (this is for Bay Area folks only) it would be a great show of support...

See below:

Hey everybody,

as you may know, i work for the women's choice clinic, an abortion and
reproductive health clinic in downtown oakland. we just lost our lease
and are closing down after 37 years of rad feminist work because the
state hasn't paid for approved medi-cal and family pact services for
months. there is going to be a press conference this wednesday (the
8th) at frank ogawa plaza from 1 to 1:30 and i was hoping that you or
anyone you know could attend. we need hella support right now cuz
we're like bankrupt, evicted, and somehow need to store medical
records for 7 years. sorry for the short notice, i just found out
about it today.

thank you!
nicole

Kumar Goes To White... House?

If you're like me, then you've probably drifted off to sleep to dreams of licking honey (or some such naughty, sticky something) off of the pillowy lips of Kal Penn. I'm not joking when I say that the first time I saw Harold and Kumar is the first time I decided I love Indian men. Mmmmm!!

Which is why I almost started watching House again when he became a cast member. But, sadly, I just don't have the time...

This is also why I actually watched last night's episode, but to my dismay, that was the episode where his character decided to blow his fucking brains out! Seriously, what kind of shitty ass luck do I have? Geez.

Apparently, the reason Dr. Kutner (that's my honey's name on the show) had to be given the Big Sleep was so that Kal can go work for the White House. No, not some West Wing knockoff bullshit. The ACTUAL White House. He worked at the DNC, and now he's an official bitch boy for Obama (that lucky bastard President!)

His official position will be associate director in the White House office of public liaison.

Mr. Juicylips says of his new job:

“They do outreach with the American public and with different organizations. They’re basically the front door of the White House,” Penn said. “They take out all of the red tape that falls between the general public and the White House. It’s similar to what I was doing on the campaign.”

Hot, funny, and politically active (although perhaps a bit misguided, working for the White House and all...) Damn it, he's one sexy bitch!

Introducing: The New Freddie Krueger!

This man looks pretty creepy, so he might just be able to save yet another potentially awful remake of what I consider to be a classic film.

Nightmare on Elm Street litterally scared the piss out of me as a child, so when I heard they were remaking it I was a bit torn. Part of me was freaked out because I'm still (legitimately) afraid of Freddie, and another part of me was excited because if the movie sucks ass, maybe I'll be able to get over my insane fear of that burnt up psycho. I wasn't really sure how to feel...

But now: Rorschach himself is going to play Freddie, and that scares me! This actor (Jackie Earle Haley) played not only Rorschach in Watchmen (which I haven't seen but I heard he was perfect) he also played the Mr. Molester in Little Children. Okay, that wasn't his name, but it should have been! Fucking CREEP!

And now he's here to haunt me, 22 years after I saw Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time. After all these years of thinking and hoping I was over the nightmare, they're going to fucking scare me again.

Well fuck you, Freddie. Bring it! Not really. I'll never go see this film. MARK MY WORDS.

My Boyfriend Got Skinny!

Now if we could only do something about his laugh...

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This Gave Me Chills

I'm not one to get all serious on my blog (barring a few political rants), but as a woman who was at one point a victim of domestic violence myself, I found this commercial to be extremely disturbing -- and important.

Keira Knightley (whom I generally HATE, but today...) plays the role of herself coming home from a day at work, only to find her angry boyfriend yelling at her about kissing someone in a movie script. He then throws a towel in her face, pushes her to the ground, and starts kicking her in the stomach repeatedly. The camera pulls back to show they are still on set... (showing women are degraded and objectified at home and at work... not sure if that was part of the point, but it's a nice by-product.)

While this is clearly in response to the recent Chris Brown/Rihanna attack, it's also a really great way of expressing that this type of violence can happen to anyone, regardless of age, race, or even beauty and success.

It's often very difficult for women to come forward and admit what's going on in their relationships. The embarrassment, the guilt (yes, we feel guilty for telling), and the love for the person hurting us is sometimes too much to bear, so we stay quiet and allow ourselves to be degraded, humiliated, and physically and emotionally harmed.

But hopefully with ads like this (it is graphic, but that's the point) women will see that they are not alone, and that they can do something about their situations. Hopefully this will anger victims enough to take a stand, seek the help they need, and get out of their violent relationships...

Okay, sorry. Next post will be funny, I promise!!

Miss Universe: Making Us Ladies Look GOOD. Or Not...

Well, now we know why she's Miss Universe and not Miss Rocket Scientist...

If we all listened to Miss Universe's most recent blog posting (which was quickly taken down by her handlers) we'd all be booking our vacation to Guantanamo right now! Because when she went it was just beautiful, and so relaxing... what an idiot!

Here's some awesome quotes from her blog (taken from my idol blog, Dlisted. com):

This week, Guantánamo!!! It was an incredible experience.
We also met the Military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills.

We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how they recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting.

The water in Guantánamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable, we were able to enjoy it for at least an hour.

I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.


WOW. WOW.
What else can you say to that?

I'm really wondering what kind of demonstration the lovely Military dogs gave... maybe eating detainees' genitals or something? She probably thought it was a fun play the detainees had planned for her as part of their 'recreation' time.

And if she really never wanted to leave all she had to was threaten to bomb something... or, better yet, just dress like a Muslim and try to mind her own business... she'd have a one way paid ticket to the Guantanamo Resort in no time!