Boy, oh boy. It's hard to believe Spot has gone from this:



To this:



In just one year.

I have the best cat.

I never thought I'd ever hear this sentence coming out of my mouth, but "I'm moving to Ohio."

Even looking at that on the screen is a little odd for me. Boy, life sure does throw you a few curve balls. Out of all the states I could possibly live, that area north of Kentucky has always seemed incredibly unappealing to me.

My mother is moving there in January, and due to some family issues, I'm going too. I start moving my belongings next month.

Perhaps it won't be all that bad. I'm considering taking the GRE and going to grad school at Ohio State University. They have a good public policy school. Now that I've gotten the nonsense with my student loans taken care of, I can go back to school if I want. God knows I don't want to stay in Montgomery substitute teaching for the rest of my life.

Maybe I'll even meet someone nice.

I still want to join the Navy, too. I just need to find a recruiter who stays out of trouble and actually does his job to get the process finished. If that doesn't work out, then maybe it wasn't meant to be after all. At least I've lost 40 lbs. in the attempt.

Hopefully this will be a good thing. I've been desperate to get out of Alabama since I left college (and most of my life, actually). Maybe this is my legitimate chance. I'll have a support system, which I haven't really had in any of my multitudinous moves.

But Ohio? I'm still asking myself, "What in the hell?"

The best reference in the history of Heroes happened last week (but I didn't watch it until tonight).

Present Hiro told season 1 Hiro to go back in time to save Charlie.

Present Hiro said, "She's the MJ to our Spidey."

Past Hiro said, "She's the Marle to our Crono."

I freaking love Chrono Trigger. Heroes kicks ass again.

I decided to go to Books-A-Million tonight. It's been a while since I've read anything new, so I picked up a few items. In my browsing, I grabbed a copy of The Bostonians by Henry James, The World According to Garp by John Irving and The Audacity of Hope by President Obama.

While I was browsing through the fiction section, I ran across a mother and daughter looking for books, themselves. The mother was gingerly thumbing through an Ann Rice novel. The daughter was buzzing around the aisles, obviously looking for something in particular.

As I'm grabbing The Bostonians, I hear the little girl walk up to her mother and say, "Mom, is Dracula a real book?"

I was dumbfounded. What in the hell?

Her mother said yes, but I half expected her to respond, "No dear. It's just a myth perpetuated by people jealous of Stephanie Meyer's greatness. There's no such thing as an evil vampire."

This is what Twilight has reduced literature to. It's fast food for a fast food nation. You can feign how you "get" Bella all you want, but it's nothing more than four (or is it five?) books of pure verbal masturbation.

Rory Gilmore



Because she's the exact kind of woman I want-- intelligence and the heart and tenacity of Hillary Clinton in a tight, compact, incredibly beautiful package.

I encourage everyone to not observe Columbus Day. Protest the villainous and destructive subjugation and victimization of the native peoples of the American continent by Old-World Colonial Powers. The Spanish wiped entire civilizations off the map in Central and South America. The French-Indian War. The Trail of Tears. Little Big Horn.

Today the rightful heirs to this land are shoved onto reservations that are encroached upon little by little over the course of development of this nation.

Anti-Columbus Day march planned in Denver

Transform Columbus Day

I almost peed myself when I saw this last night.



"You can't put your faith in these snowmen. With names like Fyrn and Blyrn and everybody look like John Denver and smell like whales."

"How you gonna call him Rush? That's a terrible name for a slow, fat man. The only place he's rushing to is Quizno's."

"When I'm playing Monopoly and I win the beauty contest, people don't yell, 'Hey, you can't win a beauty contest, Cryptkeeper! You ugly'."

The one with Kenan as Maya Angelou was pretty funny too, but not as funny as this. If I'd been eating while watching this, I would have choked and died.

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In other news, I have an interview in Huntsville this week. If I get it, stage one of my global domination will be complete.

Man, The Lonely Island gets funnier and funnier with every video. Saturday Night Live has truly hit another renaissance. The first one since the early 90s. Even if they did have that psychopath Megan Fox on the other night. I can't stand her.

America is not a country.

It is a continent.

The United States is a country.

The two are not interchangeable.

As Tom Petty put it, the waiting.