Why am I concerned about this?  I don’t actually care that much but haven’t we reached a point yet in our society where people can just quit being so fucking up tight about anatomical depictions of the human body?  Sorry, if your kid is asking what that is hanging between his legs, clearly you’ve failed as a parent and never taught him how to pee.  I’m not a parent but I’m no fool to believe some kid is going to need to be lectured about sex as a result of seeing a naked statue.  What’s to blame for this repression?  Religion.  Remember, the world ends on May 21, 2011.  Nuff said.

Cache Rules Everything Around Me from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

The 12-story building, designed by Philadelphia-based architecture firm Kieran Timberlake, will use its surrounding natural setting to protect it from potential terrorist threats — a meadow, woodland and a moat will buffer the embassy the main road.”

Just takes you back to the middle ages dosn’t it?  I’m hoping that the meadow will be populated with sheep, the woodland inhabited by dragons, and the moat filled with sharks.  That should keep just about everyone out, except the gays who will be naturally attracted to the massive disco ball in the middle of London.

Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer drove up and said, ‘Sorry Chuck, but I have some bad news, the donkey died.’

Chuck replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money back.’

The farmer said, ‘Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.’

Chuck said, ‘OK, then, just bring me the dead donkey.’

The farmer asked, ‘What ya gonna do with a dead donkey?’

Chuck said, ‘I’m going to raffle him off.’

The farmer said ‘You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!’

Chuck said, ‘Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.’

A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, ‘What happened with that dead donkey?’

Chuck said, ‘I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898.00.’

The farmer said, ‘Didn’t anyone complain?’

Chuck said, ‘Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.’

Chuck now works for JP Morgan.

So here then is a list of the other things I am thankful for.  This year they tend to be somewhat political.  You need to think about some of these to understand them.

1.  I am thankful that once again another state has joined the dark ages and successfully told me that I’m not worthy of marriage by popular vote and that my humanity has been reduced to the viewpoint that I am somehow a threat to your bratty children.

2 . I am thankful our current President is indeed a liberal socialist because I truly enjoy watching tea baggers “teabag” themselves.  It’s quite a feat to be able to do that to yourself and it fascinates me that FOX news has turned from news to hardcore porn…and their viewers have no clue.

3.  I am thankful for Sarah Palin because without her the conservative right would be direction-less and none would have any idea why they support the policies they do.  After all, Sarah certainly knows and understands her positions….and so do her supporters.

4.  I am thankful for Adam Lambert because he had the audacity to expose and highlight the ridiculous double standard held by people in this country regarding sexuality.  You know it’s quite fine for 2 women to suck face on national TV but god-for-fucking-bid 2 men try it.  Keep telling them to fuck themselves Adam, maybe someday they’ll get it.

5. Finally I’m thankful for Carrie Prejean and her wonderfully large melons.  If she had not tried to inflate her ego in the same manner she inflated her chest, we might not have ever had the opportunity to watch a rising star fall so fast and so quickly.  Keep cranking out the porn Carrie, at least you’ll be able to pay your bills legally.

So, there you have it.  5 things I’m thankful for (I think) in a year that has been quite interesting politically.  Remember folks, this blog isn’t just for your reading pleasure, this is written documentation of a time in my life….that’s right, do you think we’d remember any of this in 5 years if I had not just written it down?

Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

When you are done, take a look at Disbeliefnet.com.  Wow.

So anyhow, I’ve built a campfire and I’m trying not to get burned up as the wind blows directly into my face.  Gavin is asleep behind me.  We had quite a busy day today.  We hiked Pyramid Point today.  It was quite busy, lots of people around.  Gavin did well.  I have to practice waking with him on a leash lately, he’s so used to not having one and now that the Parks have started issuing tickets rather than just warnings, I have to keep him on one when we go anywhere in the park…(unless it’s completely deserted).  It was quite a nice day for a hike.  Low 70′s and a little overcast.  I got some great pictures that I will likely upload later on tonight once I go back inside for the night.  After that we went down to the beach for some stone hunting.  I found one Petoskey today.  They are getting harder and harder to find up here.  I think the tourists must have figured out what they were and they are taking them all.

After the beach we went home where I promptly fell asleep on the couch for 2 hours.  I was rudely awakened this morning by someone powerwashing my garage doors.  Apparently those are going to either be cleaned now or painted.  I don’t know which one but they could have at least waited to start that noisy shit until 8am don’t ya think?  Anyhow, that pissed off the dog and I just decided to get out of the house as soon as possiable today.  What I was getting as is that I was still quite tired.

It’s getting dark so early now.  It’s only 8PM and already it is dark…dark enough to make me look stupid sitting here outside with the laptop writting in my blog.  Oh well, at least it’s possiable to do.  Now that Dad is wireless, I can use all my toys inside and out and I can write in my blog while sitting in the boat!!…not exactly but close enough.

I’ll write more sometime tomorrow.  Look for new pictures at www.leelanauphotography.com either sometime tonight or tomorrow.

I’m off now for the long weekend.  I have 3 days off!!!!  Amazing.  Things are getting to crunch time now.  I’ve got “the letter” prepared for the landlord and ready to be sent off on the first of June explaining the situation and the fact that I’ll be moving.  I’m nearly decided on a storage unit to put all this shit and with the exception of my school loan, I’m nearly debt free (I still have a credit card out there that I’m paying on).  Things are looking good for me right now and I’m pretty happy about that.  Getting out of this house though is the biggest challenge in front of me.  There is just so much to do and I have just so little time to do it.  I’ll get there.

I’ll leave you tonight with a picture from my childhood.  Sarah, I don’t know what is going through your head here but wow, clearly your son (though me) will have easy access to LOTS of embarrassing pictures of his mother and his grandmother!!!!!  Good thing you live in Iowa.  You want to bet that by the time he’s 3, he will know how to use a mouse and will know more about technology than you and Brain???  I think I was a senior in high school before I mastered a mouse!!  Love ya.

1. You have to be against abortion, but support capital punishment on demand.
2. You have to believe that governments create oppression and businesses create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that the man wearing a turban in the airport is more of a terrorist than the white man carrying a concealed gun.
4. You have to believe that federal funding is a handout and that disadvantaged people should be able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” just like you and your daddy and his daddy before him.
5. You have to believe that someone made up global warming to scare you into not driving that gas-guzzling SUV.
6. You have to believe that being sexually confused is an abomination that God hates.
7. You have to believe that the people advocating those afflicted with AIDS should “stop whining.”
8. You have to believe that if schools don’t provide sex education and/or condoms, then kids just won’t think about sex and it will all just go away.
9. You have to believe that animal rights activists aren’t doing “what God intended,” but hunters are.
10. You have to believe that if someone has fallen on hard times it is their own fault and they should be given no help.
11. You have to believe that God lives in your own little box and that He hates all the same things and people you do.
12. You have to believe that the ACLU is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the NRA is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that the tax on your yacht is too high and that the homeless man isn’t being taxed enough.
14. You have to believe that the contributions to American history made by Caucasian men are more important than those made by women and African-Americans.
15. You have to believe that Black History Month is reverse racism, but the Confederate flag is just a historical symbol.
16. You have to believe that any war we fight is for a good reason, because the president said so.
17. You have to believe that God loves everyone, except for gay people.
18. You have to believe that this message is part of a crazy, left-wing revolution.

Some people are just irritating.  Others are just plain stupid.

The population is beginning to change now up here for the summer.  Today I pulled into The Coffee Bean to grab a cup of coffee on my way home from work and I had to park next to what I think was the BIGGEST SUV I’ve ever seen in my life.  It was the size of a small school bus, it was BRIGHT white (I hate white cars) and it was clearly driven by someone who cares nothing about how that vehicle makes them look when gas is now at $4.00 a gallon up here.  I would venture to say that the owner of that car has been made rich by the stupidity of others and is now showing off his ego. The only thing missing from this truck was a set of bulls balls for the hitch. (I don’t know who the woman is below, this is just to show you what bulls balls are).

Summer time up here brings with it some pretty crazy people.  Some even more so than the back woods meth-heads that populate the area in the winter.  These people have money, love to show it off, and care about nobody but themselves.  To the locals these people who come up here only on the weekends and then somehow think they live here are known as Fudgies…a horrendously bad nickname in the first place.  These are the folks who whistle at me at work in order to try and get my attention to help them.  Guess what folks, I don’t stop for people who whistle at me.  I’ll loose a sale before I am treated like that.  I’m not a dog, I don’t have a tail.  If you want to treat me like you would a dog than you had better have a treat for me in that fucking bag of yours or I’m going to jump on you, bite you and give you rabies you stupid fucks.  Pardon me, will you help me?.. works much better.