Raise Your Glass

 I have beef with Pink's party anthem Raise Your Glass. Sure, it's sort of irresistibly catchy. That actually might add to the resentment. Here's my issue: the lyrics are stupid, but even worse, it's essentially just a conglomeration of stupid, slangy, cliche little sayings. "What's the dealie-yo?" It's just so dumb. I'm not even sure if anything makes sense, other than, "raise your glass."

And incidentally, I thought Pink was Sober?

Right right, turn off the lights,
We're gonna lose our minds tonight,
What's the deal, yo?

I love when it's all too much,
5am turn the radio up
Where's the rock and roll?

Party Crasher,
Penny Snatcher,
Call me up if you want gangsta
Don't be fancy, just get dancey
Why so serious?

Slam slam, oh hot damn
What part of party don't you understand,
Wish you'd just freak out (freak out already)
Can't stop, coming in hot,
I should be locked up right on the spot
It's so on right now (so fuckin on right now)

Party Crasher,
Penny Snatcher,
Call me up if you want gangsta
Don't be fancy, just get dancey
Why so serious?
(oh shit my glass is empty, that sucks)

So if you're too school for cool,
And you're treated like a fool,
You can choose to let it go
We can always, we can always,
Party on our own

So raise your glass if you are wrong,
In all the right ways,
All my underdogs,
We will never be never be anything but loud
And nitty gritty dirty little freaks
Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass,
Just come on and come on and raise your glass

Fug the Fromage: Mean Girls 2 AKA TINA FEY WEEPS - Go Fug Yourself: Because Fugly Is The New Pretty

Fug the Fromage: Mean Girls 2 AKA TINA FEY WEEPS - Go Fug Yourself: Because Fugly Is The New Pretty

I almost cried while laughing. For all you Mean Girl fans!

Cincinnati.com Snapshot

1. Oh Mayor Mallory.  Look at you all fly and cool, and in disguise on a TV reality show! Fabulous.
2. I would be sad if my murder was given the name: "Meatball Sandwich Death."
3. Nice work, Hamilton County Sheriff.  As usual.

Arts district in uproar

Apparently Covington Arts district is in uproar. They don't want this substance abuse and counseling service in their neighborhood.

In other words: We are scared of poor poeple, and clearly only poor people have drug problems.

Give me a break.

Police: Burglar claimed to be cop

I mean, you have to give him credit for trying: Police: Burglar claimed to be cop.

Blueberry Imposters!

 photo from NPR.org

NPR reports that there are fake blueberries masquerading as real fruit. Blasphemy! But then again, why would you want anything but fresh or frozen blueberries?  Mmmm.

AKA NOT NEWS

Boy, 2, outside briefly in cold

Really, Cincinnati.com? Really? This is when you just make the intelligent choice NOT TO POST ANYTHING.

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

My facebook has suddenly become cluttered with links, and my anal-retentive side just can't handle it!  So here is the my breakdown of the past few weeks.

The Good:

• Sara Kruzan, a girl who was sentenced to life without parole at the age of 16 for killing her abusive, adult pimp, will have a chance to live some of her life outside of prison.  This is huge.  Why wasn't this a bigger story?
• Jon Stewart, my hero, makes some of the most sane and wise comments I've heard about the Arizona shootings.  Thank you.
• Sudan is voting to recede the South from the North, which would separate the Christian south from the Muslim north.  Will this finally put an end to the years of civil war and genocide?  Here's to hoping it's a start to real change.... 
• A nice spotlight on the embodiment of a real, true believer public defender: Judy Clarke, who will represent Jared Loughner.
• A man with an IQ of 46 was wrongly convicted and executed 70 + years ago.  He was just pardoned.

The Bad:

• The term anchor babies, code for we hate immigrants, hits the political spotlight.  Kentucky is trying to pass a bill that is even worse than Arizona.  Just what we need our politicians to waste their time on instead of making real, positive change.
• The Arizona shootings.  It's a sad story about the failures of our mental health system and innocent lives being taken.  
• Or the stupid: Palin throws out the term "blood libel" to lash back at criticism against her rhetoric and it's possible implications that it helped incite the Arizona shootings.  Typically ignorant, since the term is generally used to refer to the false accusation that Jewish people murdered Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals.  That is wonderfully helpful, Sarah.  Please refer to Jon Stewart's comments.  Of course it's not her fault.  But would it be a good moment to stop and think about how it is a problem that crazy people's words are reflecting the dialogue in politics?  YES. There just is no need for angry responses right now.
• Haiti is still majorly struggling.  It's been a year since the earthquake.
• A man with an IQ of 46 was wrongly convicted and executed 70 + years ago.  He was just pardoned.

The Weird:

• Dead birds dropping from the sky??  Arkansas.  California.  New Zealand.  Kentucky.  Italy.  Uh. This isn't like, a few dead birds.  It's hundreds.  Thousands. Does it not seem like the beginning of an M. Night Shyamalan movie?  But allegedly, this is not weird?

Wasted Opportunity or Seriously Lucky?

Girlfriend shoots at 'other woman,' cops say

Is shooting at your boyfriend's baby mama a good idea? Of course not. Can I understand the urge? Of course. That being said, ok, you decide to take the low route and shoot at her... and you don't even hit her once. And you mar your spotless record by getting caught. On one hand, if you're going to do it, make it worth the charges, on the other hand, thank goodness you avoided a homicide charge, though it seems to be you will be brushing up against attempted murder if you run into the wrong district attorney. Hmmm.