Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Just Me?

So I saw An Inconvenient Truth today with Jill. In case you're not one of the cool kids, its a documentary by Al Gore that goes over the dangers of ignoring the Global Warming problem. I gotta say I liked it. He supplies a lot of hard data supporting his case that we are faced with a very serious and very imminent problem. While there are a lot of feasible things we can do to turn the problem around I'm afraid I have no confidence that the rest of society will do anything about until its too late and we're up Shit Creek without a paddle.

That is unless P. Diddy starts driving a BioDiesel Escalade.

P.S. I've had blogger's block the past few days so blow me Shannon.

Happy 666 Day!

I've received so many "Happy 666 Day" messages today I feel like it's my birthday.

All The Fanciest Dijon Ketchups

Everybody loves cash, especially me. If I had one billion (bearded?) clams this is what I would do with it, and in this order.

1. Quit!
2. Buy a big ass condo somewhere in Chicago. I don't know if I'd rather have a high-rise with a view, or a charming vintage home in Old Town. Either way, it would be big and expensive.
   
3. Chicago is definitely the place to be in the summer, but I would need a winter home. Maybe something in Virgin Islands so I can look for Bernie Lomack's fortune.
   
4. Buy a yacht and hire a crew to take me and my gold-digging girlfriends out on the lake (see photo).
   
5. Put my money in some solid investments that will pay out dividends as fast as I can spend my money.
6. Buy the Chicago Cubs. From what I've seen on the internet its valued somewhere between $250 and $350 million so I could definitely afford it.
7. Do a lot of traveling with friends. I'd like to spend lots of time in Australia and Italy.
8. Donate money to a bunch of small charities.
   

Who says money can't buy happiness?

Holler Atchaboi!

I've been working like a bitch the last few days (months?) and I'm falling far behind on catching up with my peeps. So, if you are one of these peeps then bear with me. I'll call up your stank butt sometime soon to catch up.

On a seperate note, I'm throwing up a new Featured Flava. It's Shelter by Ray LaMontagne. I watched him perform on Austin City Limits on PBS the other day, then I noticed he's opening for Guster on their upcoming summer tour (which I will no doubt be attending at the venue shown) so I figured I'd give it a shot. Rock it out yo.

The White Man's Lies

Every advertisement for online dating services has a picture of a gorgeous women on it as if to imply that all the woman found through this service look like this girl here.







That my friend is one of the white man's lies. Women like the one shown here don't have trouble finding dates. If they wanted to be accurate they would have a picture of someone like this.

Peer Pressure Is A Mother Fucker

I've finally given in. I have a MySpace page. I held off for a long time because I thought it was just too "public." Whatever, I'm in it now.

http://www.myspace.com/waxhawrenegade

In other news, the Cubs have lost 14 of their last 16 games. Regardless, I'm still going to keep my goal of attending 15 games this year.

Check out the Cubs home game count I put on my sidebar.

Pimp and Circumcise

I went to Greenville, NC last week to see my two good buddies graduate from Graduate school. I was only able to fly out for one night, but it was worth it since we had such a good time. The one night I was there was crunktastic, and many many pictures were taken.





I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Chicago is just a few select people of my own personal paradise.

Worst Name Ever

I met someone today who's name is Latrina.

I wish I too was named after a place to take a shit. For example, my baby's daddy, Jon Redman.

Rip Dem Prease

Stick It To The Gringos!

Today, May 1st Latino immigrants around the nation will not be working, dining out, shopping, or contributing in any way to the economy. This is in protest of the new immigration law that Congress is currently discussing. They're planning a rally here in Chicago that is expected to attract over 300,000 people.

Regardless of the politics involved, I just want to say that some of the Latino workers I have worked with in my 7 year food service career are quite literally, amazing. They took a big risk leaving everything to come to this country for a better life, and now they're here working harder than anyone else. I would quit my job tomorrow if I didn't have them. Hypothetically, if we woke up tomorrow and all the Latino immigrants were gone, this country would fall apart. All the fruits and veggies would be left unpicked in the fields, nobody would cook or clean for you, nothing would be painted, and rich people would have to wipe their own mouths.