this thing is now friends only.

that means you gotta be on the list to see it.

because there are some things work people just shouldn't know about.

I am 100% convinced that I live in the greatest city in the U.S.

Two nights ago, three people were shot literally a block and a half from where I was hanging out with my best friend and her husband. One fatality: a 16-year-old boy. The gunman: a 17-year-old boy. If I'm not mistaken, this is murder number 105 so far this year.

Cognitive dissonance is cognitively dissonant.

Enjoy.

Hijacking the community for my own selfless reasons, haha
So I got an email from the woman I bring the stuffed animals to. Apparently, there's a few other things you can donate now. I'm copy/pasting some parts of the email with relevant info (I took out the personal info and conversation). This is actually the first time she's sent me a link to the woman's blog, and I see that if you want, you can actually donate money. I'm a broke douchebag, though, and this week I already donated 25 bucks to someone who's doing the Multiple Sclerosis ride this year, so yeah, I gotta hold off on donating money for a couple of weeks. But I can still get the word out on this, so here goes:

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....thanks for dropping off the toys; she won't be shipping her last box off until September so there's still time for them to get down there. She's already shipped 7 big (stove sized) boxes of shoes and toys - can you believe it?
Now I hate to even mention this, but since you seem to have such a generous circle of friends and acquaintances - she is trying to fill at least a box or two w/ OTC medicines (Tylenol, aspirin, cold meds, basic stuff) and toothbrushes/toothpaste (she has a bunch of one and not much of the other, if I remember correctly - I'll be talking to her tomorrow anyway so I"ll ask). It is always needed and much more expensive there than here, weird though that is (same w/ toys, which is why she feels it's worth the expense of shipping them....Anyway, if you want to put the word out it would be fantastic....
Vanessa goes to a church in Des Allemands, which is where she also lives. I don't remember the name of it, but I'll ask tomorrow.....

Jane - don't remember if I've sent the link before, but Vanessa's blog is
http://www.heart4children.blogspot.com/

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(Yes, all of the kids in Guatemala really ARE that beautiful; they didn't just pick out the cute ones to photograph--when I was there I couldn't believe how freaking cute they all were.)

Ahhhhh, ok. So it looks like the woman has lots of toothbrushes, but still needs TOOTHPASTE. And, of course, you can still keep the stuffed animals coming.

Thanks again for helping me/her/the kids down there out with this!

Hey all,

I'm still collecting stuffed animals for that lady whose church goes on a mission trip to Guatemala. her goal is to have a plush toy for every child in every orphanage they visit. Specifically, she's asking for plush toys from Mardi Gras parades that anyone might not want (they're relatively small, and lots of people have them around the house and don't know what to do with them). I've been to Guatemala, and I've seen the orphanages there. It's really sad--the kids in orphanages are there sometimes because their parents didn't have enough money/resources to support their children, or because both parents died of a simple illness or as a result of the violent crime problem, or because some people down there still believe that deformed or disabled children are a curse or a punishment from god. Something that small can be really special to a kid who really has nothing else. You can either get them to me or I'll come pick them up from you, though that's really hard because my car is dying and I only have one contact so my depth perception is shit right now. So I really can't pick them up from you if you live far from me (I live in the Marigny).


Thanks!

Jane

This video was produced by LSU in an attempt to convince taxpayers that the damage sustained by Charity Hospital during Hurricane Katrina makes it unrepairable. However, all of the photos used in this video are from the basement of the hospital. Doctors and nurses were able to get Charity Hospital in working order less than a month after Hurricane Katrina but were told by LSU representatives to shut its doors forever. Now LSU is trying to spend $1.2 billion on a new hospital that would destroy 249 homes in downtown New Orleans. Learn more at www.savecharityhospital.com

Yall better have answered more of these by the time I get back from gettin ice cream.


1. Go to IMDB.com and look up 25 of your favorite movies.
2. Post four official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for each.
3. Have your friends guess the movies! No Googling!




1 Jewish | Italy | Tank | 1930s |    Life is Beautiful   coffeebeanben 
2 Funeral | Suicide | Fake Suicide | Junkyard |    Harold and Maude  zeldakitty 
3 Goblin | Baby | Castle | Goblin King   Labyrinth    coffeebeanben 
4 College Graduate | Neurotic | Berkeley California | Gorilla
5 Hollywood | Lawyer | Star | Adopted Daughter |
6 Mathematician | Headache | Stock Market | Genius   Pi    coffeebeanben 
7 Wall | Rock Star | Drugs | WWII    The Wall notorious_mar    
8 Gangster | New York | Mafia | Robbery |   Goodfellas  skramamme 
9 Hand | Inventor | Suburb | Teenage Girl   Edward Scissorhands   chandrielle    10 Ghost | Yuppie | Car Crash | Attic |      Beetlejuice   [info]notorious_mar 
11 Scientist | Experiment | Teleportation | Mutant |   The Fly    coffeebeanben 
12 Dignity | 19th Century | 23rd Psalm | 1880s
13 Friend | Writer | Dead Body | Railroad Track      Stand By Me (butliz )
14 Cyborg | Post Apocalyptic | Eye Gouging   Terminator   fisme_nasu 
15 Detention | Principal | Jock | High School       Breakfast Club   (notorious_mar  )
16 Recruit | Vietnam | Tet Offensive | Sergeant     Full Metal Jacket      coffeebeanben 
17 Time Machine | Time Travel | High School | Rube Goldberg        Back to the Future   (notorious_mar)
18 Internet | Sister In Law | Brother | Delusion 
19 Friend | Male Prostitute | New York City | Hustler
20 Dream | Neighbor | Bed | Dream World
21 Caesarean Section | Horseback Riding | Doctor | High School
22 New York | Prostitute | Pornography | Loner   Taxi Driver   skramamme 
23 Spain | Fairy | Faun | Princess   Pan's Labyrinth   skramamme 
24 Skinhead | Racism | Violence | Ex Convict  This is England frenzyg1 
25 Love | Mask | Nightmare | Psychiatrist | Suicide
26 Vampire | Lesbian | Sex | Doctor    The Hunger  mrxero 

SAVE THE MIDCITY BONFIRE!!!

This is one of my favorite things about New Orleans, and it takes place in my favorite neighborhood :(


http://savethebonfire.blogspot.com/

Please spread the word and this link



The City of New Orleans' Park and Parkways Department, Police Department and Fire Department are trying to block the century-old tradition of a New Year's Eve bonfire of Christmas trees on the Orleans Avenue neutral ground.

Long-time residents report that the bonfire, traditionally held in the 4200 block of Orleans Avenue, has been a continuous celebration for going on 90 years.

Please call your local elected officials and tell them to stop trying to kill New Orleans traditions. They've tried it with Second Lines and the Mardi Gras Indians. Now it's our turn. Remember how hard it was to get the city to return to traditional Mardi Gras routes including Endymion?

What will they try to kill next?

Please call or email your councilmember and at-large members jackie Clarkson and Arnie Fielkow and tell them to leave our traditions alone

Shelly Midura:
Phone: (504) 658-1010
Fax: (504) 658-1016
SMidura@cityofno.com

Arnie Fielkow:
Phone: (504) 658-1060
Fax: (504) 658-1068
AFielkow@cityofno.com

Cynthia Hedge Morrell:
Phone: (504) 658-1040
Fax: (504) 658-1048
CHMorrell@cityofno.com

Cynthia Willard Lewis:
Phone: (504) 658-1050
Fax: (504) 658-1058
CWLewis@cityofno.com

James Carter:
Phone: (504) 658-1030
Fax: (504) 658-1037
JCarter@cityofno.com

Stacy Head:Phone: (504) 658 -1020
Fax: (504) 658-1025
SHead@cityofno.com

Jackie Clarkson:
Phone: (504) 658-1070
Fax: (504) 658-1077
jbclarkson@cityofno.com

If you have any of these items that you're willing to part with, or you come across any of them on craigslist/at garage sales/for really, really cheap, let me know. Thanks!

Bookshelf to hold lots of books
Table lamp
Floor lamp
One of those freestanding coat/hat racks
smaller shelves for inside my closet
COSTUME BOX (big)
FABRIC BOX (big)
A futon or small couch for my room
plants for the backyard
milk crates or something similar to put in the shed and use as laying boxes for the chickens
microwave
crock pot