| Celiac Awareness Month |
[May. 14th, 2008|01:52 pm] |
Happy Celiac Awareness Month.
For Celiac awareness month my body has decided that it would be awesome to be secretly "glutened" and spend a whole week in stomach pain and problems.
HOWEVER I shouldn't post this to bitch because I think Celiac Awareness is a sort of big deal. One in a hundred people have celiac, but the majority of sufferers are never diagnosed. Prisons don't offer Gluten-Free meals, and millions of homeless people who have no way of being diagnosed are getting sicker and sicker. Undiagnosed, Celiac is pretty much the worst thing ever. Undiagnosed Celiac can lead to cancer, severe (SEVERE) immune system problems, osteoperosis, type 1 diabetes, and any immune disorder linked to Malabsorption.
It usually takes people years to get properly diagnosed, and the stories of people taking so many sick days because of celiac symptoms and thusly losing their jobs are numerous. I'm one of them. I took too many sick days when I worked at GM because of what I know now as severe "gluten" attacks and because of the fact I always had the cold (because my body couldn't absorb vitamins).
Those hardest hit by lack of diagnoses are the poor and the homeless. When your food options are those given to you at the soup kitchen or the food bank, you can't be choosy. So many undiagnosed celiacs are being fed meals that just make them feel sicker and sicker because there's no other option. Children, especially children, are hurt by this the most since malabsorption as a child can lead to a host of horrible disorders and diseases.
Celiac awareness is pretty good on the internet and in middle/upperclass families. However, millions of people are suffering with it and have no idea. There's NO education programs for those who live below the poverty line, and some of the cheapest and easiest food to find in the world is filled with gluten. I was going to try to find a charity that donates gluten-free food to poor people but I can't find any. |
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| Ghost Ride: Grandma |
[May. 7th, 2008|01:52 pm] |
I can not believe I've finally found a combination of my two favorite things ever. It even had the Longhorn Grandma sticker on it, which I also have somewhere.
This was made just for me I fucking swear |
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| THE BIG SALE |
[Apr. 16th, 2008|03:21 pm] |
Money's really tight around here, so I'm gonna try to sell a bunch of my old comics and shit that I don't read anymore to help pay for health crap and dumb specific expensive medicine food and all that jazz.
COMICS:
Box Office Poison (paperback): $10
Crayon Shin-chan Volumes 1-8: $4 each or $25 for all of them
Even a Monkey can draw Manga: $8
Lupin III volumes 2, 4 and 5: $15 for all
Clamp Detectives Volume 1: $4
Rumic Theater one or nothing: $4
Little Lit: $10
BOOK books:
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends: $10
I'll see what else I can sell, but here's a good start! Comment if you're interested in anything |
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| MULTIPLICATION AND JOKES |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|02:15 pm] |
I posted the rest of the hip hop multiplication videos as an entry in Pacific Novelty. It's great, check them out RIGHT NOW
Also oh my goodness I don't think any of you aside from two or three clicked on the link in my last journal on April 1st. You really, really should have |
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| Some thoughts on Ducktales |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|05:21 pm] |
SURE Launchpad is REAL STUPID!
How many of the following statesments are true?
He knows how to fly a plane ( including jets- including one he couldn't SEE- the flight suit must of allowed it's pilot to see the invisible jet and Launchpad wasn't wearing it)
and YOU don't.
He knows how to fly a helicopter (which I hear is VERY difficult.) And was that huge helicopter in "Treasure of the Golden Suns" that Launchpad flew a VTOL? A Vertical Take- Off and Landing craft? Launchpad is also flying a VTOL in "Ali Bubba's Cave". If Launchpad knows how to fly one of those babies, no way is he anything remotely resembling stupid. Sorry, wrong number. Wrong area code. Wrong PLANET.)
and YOU don't.
He knows how to steer a speed-boat, pilot a sub, and fly a rocket ship.
And YOU don't.
And NOT ONE WORD ABOUT CRASHES DO I WANT TO HEAR BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IT! We're talking about Launchpad McQuack , who once landed a plane on top of an train (Armstrong) , who in "Ducktales" comic # 5, landed a plane on an ordinary rooftop!!! Which is hard enough in a helicopter, let alone a plane!
And I'm supposed to believe he can't land safely anyplace he likes? SURE. Like the world's richest duck is going to hire a pilot to fly himself and his heirs around if said pilot ain't the best there is. OF COURSE!
He can fix a plane. He can even build a plane. Even Disney admits Launchpad build the Thunderquack.(And it only took him a year to do it. I suspect it takes Beoing a year to build a plane from the time it's designer gets the idea till the first one rolls off the assemble line.)And the Thunderquack is a very impressive (if stupid looking) piece of hardware. Not to mention the Sunchaser- which now hangs in a museum as the FIRST PLANE TO FLY TO AND FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!!!! And how can you build a plane without first designing a plane? At least inside your own head, if not on blueprints? And using blueprints is probably easier.
SURE Launchpad is REAL STUPID! NOT!!!!!
By the way, Launchpad can sure think up jazzy names for planes, can't he? Like the Joyrider, his favorite bi-plane. And the preformentioned Sunchasher and Thunderquack. And you do realize it had to be Launchpad's evil counterpart from the Negaverse who designed the fancy chopper Negaduck flew? (Not to mention teaching him to fly silly thing!)Designing and building a helicopter has GOT to be harder- and require even more brains- than designing a plane. If Launchpad's "evil twin" has that kind of brains, so does my Launchpad.
What Launchpad is:
Disorganized- YES!
Scatter-brained- Definetely!
A little flakey- Yup.
And if you haven't figured out by now that I know what it's like to be disorganized, scatter-brained and a little flakey, BOY, are YOU slow on the uptake! |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|03:34 pm] |
It's perfectly OK with me if YOU like any of these. Or all of them. You're entitled.
1. Pokemon, Yoogeoo, that sort of thing...You'd think with the flash cards and the names and dates and stuff to remember it would be too much like school. Kids love it. I don't get it.
2. The Simpsons. Wildly popular. Also vulgar, stupid and in very bad taste. Don't get it.
3. The x-men . Lots of human-bashing going around, I happen to be human. Lot of fuss about them being able to do things most people can't. My sister, Julia can touch her nose with her tongue: does that make her a mutant? Don't get it.
Stuff that is very popular that (in my humble opinion) was only funny ONCE:
Honey I shrunk the kids
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Shriek |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|01:00 pm] |
I've invented a new game: the Woman who would have a BETTER chance of becoming President than Hillary Clinton game. Try to think of woman who would have a better chance than Hillary of getting into the Oval Office.
Just About Anybody
Judge Judy
Mary Tyler Moore
Sally Field
Don't you GET it, Hillary? It's NOT because you're a woman. We don't LIKE you. |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|11:12 am] |
50% of all marriages in the US end in divorce- or do they?
Judge Judy and others have quoted the much-quoted statistic that says that 50% of all marriages in the US end in divorce. I feel compelled to point out how misleading and meaningless this statistic COULD be.
I DO NOT KNOW THIS FOR A FACT, I'M JUST ASKING
DOES IT COUNT:
1. People who got married in 1990 or earlier. A group of people MOST LIKELY TO STAY MARRIED.
2. Immigrants who got married BEFORE moving to the US. A group of people MOST LIKELY TO STAY MARRIED.
3. People who live in US but got married elsewhere.
Descendant of Immigrants who got married in the 'old country' so friends and relatives left behide could attend.
Armed Service people who married overseas because that was where he/she/both were serving.
Anybody else who married outside of US because it was cheaper, easier, romantic, whatever.
5. Religious People, who because of their beliefs married without a license. (Which is probably illegal, but I bet the authorities look the other way, sometimes.)
A group of people MOST LIKELY TO STAY MARRIED.
6.People who live in small or mid-sized towns where the local county or district issued the license. SHOULD have been counted. Did the snobs doing this survey bother? I, a city dweller, know how most city dweller look down on people who live in more rural areas. A group of people MOST LIKELY TO STAY MARRIED. |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|09:28 am] |
DVDs vs. VCR Tapes
I have both a DVD player and a VCR.
I LIKE THE VCR BETTER! It records. I'd need a DVR to do that, and they're expensive and the discs are more expensives than tapes.
And I don't CARE what the DVD people say, the tapes last longer. I have 15, 16 year old tapes that work just fine. I have 15, 16 MONTH old discs with parts I can't watch due to skips.
Discs have some advantages. The DVDS are easy to mail (and cheaper), easier to store and carry.
I'm in no hurry to give up on my VCR, thank you very much. |
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| Mister X |
[Mar. 24th, 2008|03:54 pm] |
WRONG
ALL WRONG |
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| Brief internet hiatus and a Pacific Novelty Teaser |
[Mar. 14th, 2008|11:41 am] |
I've got a bunch of stuff goin' on lately so I'm gonna take a brief internet sabbatical while I get some things together. Don't worry, I'm not going to be gone for like forever and I'm going to still be working on commissions (jesso, I sent yours and icarus I need your address!)
HOWEVER: I will not leave you guys empty handed! Here's part one of what is going to be the most hilarious, most completely goddamn AWESOME Pacific Novelty update in the history of the internet!
You're doing yourself a disservice if you just scroll past this. This is quite possibly the most awesome/hilarious thing I've seen over the past two years. |
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[Mar. 13th, 2008|08:59 pm] |
COMING SOON
EDIT: I'm not pregnant, don't worry. This is just an announcement to something AWESOME that you're all going to experience VERY soon |
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[Mar. 9th, 2008|09:41 am] |
I stayed up late last night with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zartan and we got a copy of Smash Brothers around midnight. We had to go into this terrible fucking gamestop with the worst dolts of all time. I REMEMBER NOW REASON NUMBER 3 I HATED WORKING THERE! NERDS!
So ok the two people working the register were all right but the manager was fucking NERD CITY. And I mean I'm a nerd, I have no problem with nerds and I sort of have a nerd fetish (and by sort of I mean I have one). This SUPER DUPER nerd up at the front of the line was discussing video games (and by discussing I mean talking as if he were on a gamefaqs message board) and he mentioned that he hates madden (shock!).
The manager behind the counter, this bearded little dolt with glasses, goes "MADDEN IS THE NUMBER ONE GAME IN THE WORLD, MY FRIEND"
Yes, yes he did and yes I laughed forever.
MY FRIEND
you are not on the internet you can not talk like that unless you want me to throw you through a window
We got the game and brought it home and then drank ENERGY DRINKS (ok we drank STEVEN SEAGAL'S LIGHTNING BOLT ENERGY DRINK and yes it totally exists and yes it is pretty ok)
ANYWAY here's our code!
1633-3846-8220
EDIT: our profile name is P.Nov
tell us yours and we'll set you up
(so I can kick your ass)
(the joke is that I'm not very good at this game but I love to posture) |
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[Feb. 29th, 2008|08:29 pm] |
I hope you're all prepared because it's SAPP TIME |
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| MOVIE QUOTE MEME: HARDEST EDITION |
[Feb. 19th, 2008|11:23 am] |
xposted from elsewhere, but I think you guys will be better at guessing these
1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions to answer!
also a ton of movies I love don't have quotes on the IMDB so you're REALLY gonna have to guess at some of these WEIRD FILMS (also zartan I know you know the first one but NO TELLING >:( ) I think this might be the hardest version of the meme anyone's done because my taste is so BONKERS
1) Raspara is registered in the VUE Directory as an accredited sufferer of Dreams-of-Water, Category Three, which is usually illustrated by the ripple sequence from Draining Away by Mazy Reynard and Shey Talbot. Raspara's mother drowned in a ship's swimming-pool on a VUE benefit cruise in the Indian Ocean.
2) I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. 2001
3) That's enough, Baron. Turn it off. No one's impressed with your cheesy light show, okay? The Cat Returns
4) The story of bird migration is the story of promise - a promise to return. Winged Migration
5) I'm tired of trying to segregate, integrate, and masturbate anymore! Coonskin
6) I've been up and down the four corners of this big old world. I've seen it all and I've done it all. I've fought many a good man, and I've laid many a good woman.
7) Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. Grapes of Wrath
8) If you wanna be profound, if you really gotta justify, take a breath and look around, a lot of folks deserve to die! Little Shop of Horrors
9) When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will.
10) Shep, whatthefuckyadoin'? I'm banging that girl! Fargo
11) What makes you happy? What makes you happy? Where do you go? Where do you go? Where do you hide? Where do you hide? Who do you see? Who do you see? Who do you trust? Who do you trust? Who do you screw? Who do you screw? What kills the pain? What kills the pain? Game up, game win. Bug around, set it straight. Transaction. Play it hard, hurts so bad. Gotta win. Everyone loses. Everthing loses. Gotta win big. Sick and tired of losing. Where does it all go? Where does it all go? Where does it lead us? Where does it lead us? Tilt City, Pinball Alley. Blinkin' lights shot to Hell, fuck it all! Heavy Traffic
12) Is this something negative, Priscilla? Because if it's negative, I can't even deal with it right now. I'm a broke, pissed off nigger from Chicago, and I'm down to my last cigar. How to get the man's foot outta your ass, Baaaadaaaasss
13) I suppose the life of an anorexic duck doesn't amount to much in the broad scheme of things.
14) I guess it was like expecting a million people a year to go to New Jersey to Chemicalworld, or a million people going to Valdez, Alaska for Exxonworld. Some people just don't like to celebrate human tragedy while on vacation.
15) Hold on to your butts. Jurassic Park
(ok the last one was a given but I had a HELL of a time thinking of fifteen movies I loved) |
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| HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY |
[Feb. 14th, 2008|11:47 pm] |
syntheticjesso, somehow Tesla found her way to my house. I don't know how it happened, I think she heard me pouring rice milk and came running. Santo does the same thing sometimes!
Send me your address and I'll ship this little lady back home! |
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| GOOD NEWS |
[Feb. 11th, 2008|10:25 pm] |
QUICK UPDATE: the change in dietary restrictions is actually helping and I feel healthy again and smile city
THAT IS ALL |
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