Here are among the true selfless candidates who should inspire us all.
Baltimore Sun: Donations for Haiti have poured in to the American Red Cross of Central Maryland from a range of sources. Nothing, though, has stood out like the coins and crumpled dollar bills that spilled from one envelope.
That gift – $14.64 – came from the pockets of homeless people at a downtown Baltimore shelter.
New York Magazine painted Elizabeth Edwards as an unruly control freak with a hot-headed temper who may have cinched her husband’s presidential campaign (I can concur to that) had it not been for John Edwards’ puppet aides and a hedge fund company that allotted a lump sum of cushion to keep certain folks quiet and cozy in Southern mansions. John Edwards may have had to repeat a Bill Clinton’s televised confession to the public the 2008 style. And that would not have been a bad move at all.
So what’s the matter? Wouldn’t you be ill-tempered if your husband was John?
Having said so, my previous entry on Sept 23, 09 I stated that Elizabeth was the victim who stood by for good press while keeping her family in tacked. Nevertheless, Elizabeth, the matriarch, and the desperate mistress Rielle Hunter were badly played by the ever-so contradicting man. This is the same John Edwards who amplified a self-made logo as “Made in USA”, and yet snickered his hatred for hillbilly red-neck supporters shoving greasy fries down his throat in Southern fund-raisers. This is the man who promised his mistress a Dave Matthews Band wedding and a cinderella dream in a McMansion after his current wife passes from her cancer. The same man who then called Hunter a “crazy slut” after he impregnated her, then vehemently denied the paternity test, and so on and so on. An imbecile + without a vertebra = coward.
The positive outcome from this four year shameful saga is that Elizabeth wants her life back and is moving forward without her soon-to-be ex-husband. Let’s hope there is no relapse. As most readers would agree, I believe there would have been a better ending for Mr. & Mrs. Edwards had John came out immediately and owned up to his two-timing infidelity. Had he claimed his accountability, his wife and the public would have forgiven him and his life would be smooth sailing by now. But no, John played filthy with more lies and denial for years which pretty much exhausted people’s trust, patience and loyalty to him.
A lot of men go astray, yet most do not know how to play like a man. A real man should know that honesty is a virtue, and that my friend is the art of redemption. We will further explore this topic in my future entry.
The lesson: If you are going to boink around, then do it clean and wisely. If you get caught, admit it like The Wisely Dave Letterman. Watch his classy confession on Oct 1, 09, because I bought his speech whole heartedly with a standing ovation. Let’s hope he will turn it into a Self-Help DVD for $9.99 coming soon.
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Starting in mid Jan through Feb is when people seem to get a little funked, then gradually stir crazed and blue depressed. What is left when the holiday season and New Year have been spent? Another year of deja vous in hopes that the recycled resolution won’t disappoint this time around.
To be honest, a modest resolution is all I can ask for: good health, family and happiness.
My daughter brought me the prettiest yellow Primrose for $3 from the Farmer’s Market at Union Square today (supposedly, they last up to 5 months indoors without much lighting). These flowers were one of the best gifts I’ve received for obvious reasons.
And we all should be content and thankful for what we have right now, now.
So for those who would like to extend more help to victims in Haiti, you can give donations earmarked for specific goods such as medical supplies, water purifications, protein bars, and even school-in-a-box kits that helps set up a temporary school for up to 40 children during emergency crisis.
Huffingtonpost has setup The Goods: Help Send Relief To Haiti where you can select specific donations to organizations providing them and will directly translate to a product that helps someone else.
Aforementioned, additional organizations for Haiti’s relief effort are: yele.org has been a long standing supporter of Haiti, and One.org. Also, American Red Cross, UNICEF requests donations for relief for children in Haiti via their Haiti Earthquake Fund. You can also call 1-800-4UNICEF
One of my all time favorite TV viewing in the mid 80′s was Dave Letterman’s Late Show. We had just moved to Massachusetts and I was the 17 year old asian punk/new waver living in a rural pasteur land with no where to go… I would often stay up past midnight altering my Salvation Army outfits on the sewing machine (didn’t you know New Wavers never wore mall cloths?) while watching Dave’s Stupid Pet & Human Tricks, classic.
Even though I used to detest his Oprah bashing, Dave has been my religious late night buddy for over two decades. Plus he is the only man whose infidelity was properly owned with dignity on Oct 1, 09, (like he should turn it into a “self-help” DVD for $9.99). Then the 6 foot 4 red headed Conan O’Brien came in to steal the side-thunder, earning my attention since the 90′s.
Over the years Conan, like Dave, has evolved his skills on branding his id through self-mockery and antithesis of macho man. They are both sheepishly clever and brazen at the same time, and their moral attributes always stick on screen. Conan and Dave both fan their loser corkiness with comic relief outside of the box that not many hosts can pull off with sincerity. No wonder the viewers are loyal to them back – like me. I heart both men.
Btw, Conan’s skit on Bird Watching at Central Park NYC is tearfully hilarious. You cannot orchestrate live bird watching into a form of comedic genius the way Conan does.
As for the ‘other’ contender, they say a man who won’t exit gracefully is a sign his time has well expired, kinda like Jay Leno…
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We’ll call it Money Divorce.
I won’t get into the details, but BoA really screwed us over this week and we are on a subject of divorce.
HuffPost and the rest of the media has been trying to speed chase on Banking monopoly for some time now and with no success have LOUDLY advised the general public to move our money to community banking. I’m doing the research as we speak and visited three banks yesterday, so far they seem smaller, gentler and kinder.
Our current bank, Bank of America is absurdly Mafia like, and after too many beatings and corruptions, we are bailing out – no pun intended.
BoA is the husband’s next legal project, sigh, more on that later…
Do a search of small community banks in your area. Try it, it’s not that hard.
Make a pledge to help out the Haitians now. Due to the nature of Haiti’s scale of poverty and their limited resources for emergency support, it magnifies the urgency for relief now.
Just to name a few of organizations to donate to: Wyclef Jean of yele.org has been a long standing supporter of Haiti, and One.org. Also, American Red Cross, UNICEF requests donations for relief for children in Haiti via their Haiti Earthquake Fund. You can also call 1-800-4UNICEF
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In brief, we had our basic cable snipped last Saturday and it’s been all good with the kids for two reasons: because for the last 6 months I have been preaching to them about my urging desire to voodoo Disney shows with needles of disappointment and Netfix. Although I miss watching my gay fox Anderson Cooper on CNN.
As for our detox remedy: X-Box & Netflix Live. Netflix offers live movies of different genres and cable shows that you can connect to via X-box and view instantly. Now the only minor problem is that our remedy died on us the next day after our cable was shut off, fried, zapped. You see, the lightening missed me by an inch and hit the Xbox, I suppose. I told you they are coming after me
So you can imagine the amount of board games my two kids and I have been playing every night. Oh yes, not much time for blogging this week either.
The National Enquirer or a novel? Uncle Ben’s instant rice or brown rice? Shitty cable or no cable?
Promise, I’m going to get zapped by the TV satellite shortly after I post this on Seedust… ( I cancelled our cable last Saturday ).
Seemingly the new wave of TV entertainment is no longer Mash, The Odd Couple, The Crosby Show or Twin Peaks… And cable used to be soooo fresh and wonderful in the 80′s, remember the real MUSIC VIDEOS on MTV?? MTV & VHS is now reserved for the likes of Tila Chiquita (DILLIGAF?) & exclusive bad girls fist-fighting show. With the exception of Sopranos, Arrested Development, and Six Feet Under on cable network… ( I cancelled our cable last Saturday )
What tipped the ice-burg for me were reality TV shows plaguing the universe with pink inflammation that keeps coming back bigger, dirtier and more lethal than ever. Did you know there is a new specie which landed on earth, called Jersey Shore SNOOKI that’s will break into your living room soon?! For those who watch these shows, please entertain me all the highlights and derailed dirt that proves to be so worthy of returning for more beatings… Why keep going back and get battered? Why bother surfing through 10,000 channels when you’ll likely find one show that is worth the time? Because for the last 10 years I seldom watched cable while pouring $80 monthly down the drain. ( I cancelled our cable last Saturday )
On the journalism arena, Linda Ellerby was one of the most diverse and outspoken female anchor of the news network in the 80′s. Now it’s Barbara Walters and Larry King enforcing the geriatric movement like it’s 1999. Sorry but how many senile interviews can one endure? In the meanwhile, Linda has moved on to beat cancer and now running her own production company as well as Nick News for kids. But I get it, if you don’t thrust and hustle or show any signs of respect and modesty, you do not matter. Welcome to the real world people…
So that’s who I’ve become, a brown rice eater with no cable. Boring, but toxic free.
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As I said before, and again, and again, this Lady is The artist of the millennium. Soaked with one-of-a-kind brilliance and talent (I kid you not, she is very intelligent – read her lyrics). Leonardo Da Vinci would have been her lover if he was available…
Here is The Lady posing a straw hat made from her own hair… Amazing.
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