Twitter for 2008-03-19
March 19, 2008
- Idol is over and well what can I say but more WTF… #
- Off to bed. This where someone is supposed to say, "Good night, Bradley. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning. " #
What The Hell?!?!
March 18, 2008
Type in “Hell” in the iPhone’s Weather app and first on the list is New York City
WTF that is completely inaccurate, I have lived in LA and know for a fact Hell is a 90012 zip
Social Hypocrisy
March 18, 2008
In what I can call another case of social hypocrisy, the laws of the land are flaunted and abused to create niche crimes.
Charlene Green was arrested this week after toxicology results revealed that Green’s daughter, who was stillborn at 27 weeks, had died as a result of Green’s cocaine use. Read more
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The Power of Social Networking
March 10, 2008
A BRITISH teenager has made Corey Worthington look like an amateur after her internet advertised party got so out of hand her dog was comatose and her house completely trashed. 15-year-old Gemma Anscomb told her parents she was having a few friends around for a video night. But instead she had advertised a party on social networking site Bebo…
There are a few things we can learn from a party gone wrong. One, passing out at your own party, especially while it is still early is a really bad idea. Two, nothing says kegger faster or louder than social networking sites. In many respects I keep wondering when the pictures of the girl after she passed out, the video of what was done in the little sisters bed, or the dog getting drug will start popping up. While this is no doubt a great example of how badly things can go, it is a great example of how fast distributed information can be for the tech savvy. Here is hoping the dog is ok, and wondering where girls like this were when I was fifteen!
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Today’s Yahoo News Round Up!
March 5, 2008
On the Election front, McCain clinched the republican nomination, which is no surprise. Hillary and Barack are still slugging it out which is worrisome to me. Too many democrats seem to be holding grudges and if the queer the deal in for us in the fall I don’t care if the are man or woman; black or white; gay or straight; young or old; if they can’t unify and screw the rest of us we need a great big old fashioned lynch mob to take care of the problem. Come on folks there is enough back biting in the party right now to get Marv Albert all hot and bothered. Get with the fucking program and remember what we are really fighting for, a win in November.
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Today’s Yahoo News Round Up!
March 5, 2008
On the Election front, McCain clinched the republican nomination, which is no surprise. Hillary and Barack are still slugging it out which is worrisome to me. Too many democrats seem to be holding grudges and if the queer the deal in for us in the fall I don’t care if the are man or woman; black or white; gay or straight; young or old; if they can’t unify and screw the rest of us we need a great big old fashioned lynch mob to take care of the problem. Come on folks there is enough back biting in the party right now to get Marv Albert all hot and bothered. Get with the fucking program and remember what we are really fighting for, a win in November.
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Today’s Yahoo News Round Up!
March 5, 2008
On the Election front, McCain clinched the republican nomination, which is no surprise. Hillary and Barack are still slugging it out which is worrisome to me. Too many democrats seem to be holding grudges and if the queer the deal in for us in the fall I don’t care if the are man or woman; black or white; gay or straight; young or old; if they can’t unify and screw the rest of us we need a great big old fashioned lynch mob to take care of the problem. Come on folks there is enough back biting in the party right now to get Marv Albert all hot and bothered. Get with the fucking program and remember what we are really fighting for, a win in November.
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Look Mom, Idiots!
March 3, 2008
WOODINVILLE, Wash. (AP) - Four large model homes are burning at a multimillion-dollar development in a suburb north of Seattle. An official says a sign found at the scene had the initials of the Earth Liberation Front.
Fire official Rick Eastman says the blazes are suspicious because they were set in multiple places in separate houses. No injuries have been reported.
Eastman says a sign reading ELF was left at the scene of the fires north of Woodinville. He says some of the houses were still under construction.
The ELF or Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for other arsons in the Northwest. A woman is on trial in Tacoma for one of those fires that was at the University of Washington in 2001.
Do these people have any idea or even care how much more pollution they put into the atmosphere every time they burn down one of these homes? Not only that, there is the environmental cost of rebuilding these homes, and they will be rebuilt. How many more trees will be cut down to build the next one? How many tons of pollution will be produced for the ext one?
When I see this kind of waste done in the name of making a statement I cringe at the lengths some loser college guys will go to to get laid. Come on is, “Hi, my name is… I am a terrorist,” really a good pick up line?
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Fat People Must Weigh Before Eating??? WTF
February 1, 2008
In an blog post from Junkfood Science shouted out by Katy I must ask the serious questions of why and WTF.
From Mississippi
HOUSE BILL NO. 282
An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the state department of health; to direct the department to prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese and to provide those materials to the food establishments; to direct the department to monitor the food establishments for compliance with the provisions of this act; and for related purposes. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi:
SECTION 1.
(1) The provisions of this section shall apply to any food establishment that is required to obtain a permit from the State Department of Health under Section 41-3-15(4)(f), that operates primarily in an enclosed facility and that has five (5) or more seats for customers.
(2) Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management established under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. The State Department of Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese, and shall provide those materials to all food establishments to which this section applies. A food establishment shall be entitled to rely on the criteria for obesity in those written materials when determining whether or not it is allowed to serve food to any person.
(3) The State Department of Health shall monitor the food establishments to which this section applies for compliance with the provisions of this section, and may revoke the permit of any food establishment that repeatedly violates the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2008.
Yeah these guys are serious about passing this bill, but I have to ask why and what the motivations really are. Do they want people to be healthy? Not on your life. this bill if passed will wind up in front of the courts so fast it isn’t even funny. This is an attempt to get the supreme court to say state laws using the guise of health to declare what consumers can and can’t consume in public are unconstitutional. This of course could backfire on them and it be upheld which will doom the politicians responsible. However if the courts say the state can’t regulate what legal products consumers can use in public, then they will also effectively overturn public smoking bans. Which ever way this train wreck goes, it ought to be a good show for bloggers.
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New Year Babies
January 2, 2008
The number of people on the planet Earth is now…
6,641,114,623 (1/1/08)
Yes folks, the new year is upon us and the population is still growing out of control, and unjustifiably so. What good is it for us to pursue life saving medical treatments when the end result is over-population? What good does it does it do to find new sources of energy when we are unwilling to reduce the demand for it? We are in trouble people. With a current net growth in world population of 6.1 million people a month and rising something must be done, and done soon.I know there are those of you whose first thought is one of horror that the heretic is challenging christian doctrine by suggesting mass birth control and abortion, and of course you would be right. On the other hand it is simple easier to suggest that secular institutions preach common sense since religious ones can’t seem to do that effectively nor do it without violating their own hypocrisies. While by no means the only group of hypocrites Christians are the worst when it comes to environmental balance. By preaching the the out of context and mistranslated “thou should not kill” commandment and the the “go forth and multiply” passage they have done more in modern times to over tax the environment than anything else. Where does the modern Christian think the food to feed an ever growing population is going to come from? Will there be mana falling from heaven? Will the Messiah come around from a daily feast of fishes and loaves? I say unto thee, what is the purpose of teaching a man to fish so he may feed himself for a lifetime, if there are no more fish to be had?
Happy New Years!
BTW: How will you know when the Messiah is here?
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Ooops, I said it first.
December 21, 2007
A few days back I happened to mention here and on other message boards mentioned there were serious legal implications for the Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy. Low and behold. now everyone is on the bandwagon beating this drum. A few of them are actually on the right track though. They noticed that the laws governing such acts have a wide disparagement of enforcement. Is there a solution? Sure, but there isn’t going to be anyone happy about it.
Before you talk about finding a solution you need to ask the question, should teenagers even be having sex? The answer is a most definitely yes, but within limits. Latest research shows that there are real problems associated with people who wait too long to have sex. That isn’t to say that those who start early also don’t have problems, nor does it address the issues of inappropriate relationships. The research shows 14 and under as early starters, and 22 or older as late starters, with an average age of 17 stated for surveyors as first sexual encounter. Too young and you have a higher risk of doing something stupid and end up throwing your life away by getting pregnant or catching a disease, on top of other emotional problems. Too late and you not only have problems enjoying sex or pleasuring your partner, you lack a lot of the emotional maturity it takes to have long committed relationships.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/19/spears.statutory.rape/index.html
So what is the solution? Well it is definitely not more laws, though better enforcement of the ones we do have wouldn’t be uncalled for, especially the ones leveled against biased prosecutors, wouldn’t be out of line. I am already sensing that there is going to be an outcry for an ill advised federal law. Not only would it be unconstitutional, any notion of the federal government dictating who can and can’t share in hide the sausage is bound to be looser than any of the Catholic school girls I dated as a teenager, or full of more pork that the fat girl who can’t even get laid by promising blow jobs afterwards. So what are my legal solutions? First the prosecution must be dealt with fairly. Too often we have outraged parents screaming for the prosecution because they simply don’t like the boy or the color of his skin. That last part is particularly true in the south, no surprise there. It is also unfair that it is the boy who is the only one ever prosecuted. I have heard many anecdotal stories testifying that despite the guy being the younger partner, he was the only one prosecuted. The biggest help in the legal situation would be to tell every boy and girl in school from the time of puberty if you have sex before the age of consent you can BOTH be prosecuted. That particular fear might keep a lot of junior high girls knees a little closer together, not that I usually find them that sensible, but just maybe.
http://ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm
In truth I find there will be very little putting the genie back in the bottle or closing pandora’s box (no matter what sort of chasity belt we give her). Sex and young people is here to stay. In the end all we can do is educate them truthfully on all the consequences and make sure we as parents do our part to keep them safe.
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Sports Day! or OH Please!
December 20, 2007
I like seeing The Dallas Cowboys lose every time they take the field, except maybe to the Raiders, who I dislike even more. Yes folks, I am from Northwest Missouri and genetically a KC Chief’s fan. However this is not about my abnormality as my neighbors who are enthralled with the Browns or the Bungles call it. This post is about the ever hardworking Terrell Owens and his candy assed quarterback, Tony Romo. After a loss which both Tony’s girlfriend Jessica Simpson attended and Tony’s mind no so much, it was well decided by both the fans and the loquaciously fair T.O. that she should just stay away. Of course they felt this way when Tony’s previously worst game was caused by his former girlfriend, Carrie Underwood. Since Tony is such a wonderful player, I mean expensive quarterback, without which no team could ever hope of winning a single game it is obviously someone else’s fault.
Let’s dissect this a bit into why it is his girlfriends fault that he plays bad.
- Carrie Underwood has a wonderful voice is extremely hot.
- Jessica Simpson isn’t hideously homely and looks like she would be a good fuck.
- Carrie Underwood is a fairly sedate normal seeming woman.
- Jessica Simpson is an OTT kid who just never grew up, even as her breasts filled out.
- Carrie Underwood is a star and doesn’t need to be around the famous to be noticed.
- Jessica Simpson is famous for needing to be around other famous people, since they are the only ones that could understand or appreciate her.
After a little detailed analysis the evidence says it all. The two women are so much alike that they bring bad luck into the stands causing total chaos. They should be slapped with a professional sports star restraining order, banning them from not only associating with people in the industry but also from dreaming about their penises, a ball shrinking activity that deprives players of enough testosterone to make winning possible.
Poor Tony what is he going to do. His girlfriends cause referees to make bad calls since the instant replay cameras are trained on the famous women instead of the field. The coaches call for bad plays or dangerous offensive lines for Tony, since without him they might just score with the bereaved girlfriends. The pair cause other players to lose focus out of jealousy wondering when it will be their turn to fuck something famous. They cause Tony to show off and leave his mind in their unmatrimonial bed wondering if he will have to pay child support. The water boy gets a stiffy every time he thinks about Tony’s luck with two famous girls distracting him from duties. Last but not least they keep Terrell Owens from scoring which just makes him run his mouth. As we all know, T.O. is good at finding the right person to blame, and couldn’t be wrong here. With all that playing against Tony’s girlfriends we can only have one solution, Tony Romo should go gay! This is the solution that will improve everyone’s chance of getting lucky with Tony and keep his eyes where they are suppose to be at every snap, right on the center’s ass. The team will undoubtedly give him fully erect support for his decision to come out the locker room.
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Ooops I am knocked up too!
December 19, 2007
Yes, today’s discursive posting event is about none other than Britney Spears’s little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, also having her legs spread farther than her ears can hear or her eyes can see. The information on how not to become preggers is out there, especially if you aren’t some isolated faith bound unquestioning twit. Did anyone give her the sex talk when they handed her the starlet club pass? Didn’t any of the hordes of managers, agents, or producers, or life coaches say if you aren’t using birth control you might just end your career? Or for that matter, did she get pregnant to as a career move? I wouldn’t put it past a starlet to think that was a good idea, or any of her hordes of managers, agents, producers, or life coaches either, since new trends are so important to them all.
She says she was surprised by this whole thing. She should just wait the surprises haven’t even begun to show up yet, she is only three months along. Of course feigned surprise is not surprising to anyone. I have seen plenty of girls who tell the world they are shocked that they could actually get pregnant, and a very long checklist of boys saying saying to themselves, “I am shocked it hasn’t happened before now, glad it wasn’t me”. Sixteen years old, unmarried, and getting knocked up is nothing new. Hopefully now that it is a celeb some serious attention will be paid to the subject of how to keep air headed half-wits from serious man juice infections and why they shouldn’t be snorting celebrity stardust like so many pixie sticks. Of course my biggest fear is it will become the latest tween sensation…
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I have seen this before…
December 18, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/18/nj.jailbreak/index.html
While the notion of armed and dangerous criminals escaping from jail bothers me, I have to love the sheer cheek of it too. In a Shawshank Redemption-esque escape made by chipping a hole in the wall and covering it up with posters of scantily clad women is frankly something people can’t say nobody ever could conceive of happing. It is a plot point in a major motion picture picture, so you would have thought someone would have been looking occasionally. Of course everyone claimed that no one could conceive of using a airliner as a weapon by crashing it into a building either before it happened, yet it too was on the television show, The Lone Gunmen. I wonder if it would be best if we get rid of the so called security professionals and hire the likes of Chris Carter and Stephen King to brainstorm outside the box. Escaping was one thing for this pair of criminals, who thankfully aren’t anywhere near my family. Sorry for the luck of those who live in that area. The pair however didn’t just stop at escaping, they wrote a note wishing their jailers “Happy Holidays!” While the escape is serious and people are possibly in jeopardy, the note is still damned hilarious.
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So what have you been doing with your life? or Why I write.
December 17, 2007
I ran across an old friend today and that was the question that came up and couldn’t be avoided once it was asked. As someone who was headed for greatest, I tend to shy away from the question quite a bit these days when asked, especially by people who knew me when. It is hard to say, “I dropped out of college, made and lost more money than I care to discuss, got married, had a son, got hurt, became destitute, and am not living in mediocrity and working on a writing career.” When asked I focused on the most relevant these days, I am stay at home dad in the middle of writing three novels and editing two I wrote over the last two years. The answer of “I always thought you would be a good dad”, surprised me. As it turns out I might just be in a better position and better for sticking with it than many people I used to know are in. After 10 years of marriage to a person I originally met on ISCA I can say that I am doing far better in the marriage pool than most of the people I knew way back. Other than the one gay guy I knew in high school and the lesbian couple I met my first year of college, I hold the record for being with the same person this long. I was surprised to hear that too. I actually almost felt good about myself.
Am I where I planned to be in my life when I dropped out of college for Silicon Valley Success? Hell No! I am stuck in Ohio with a foot of snow on my driveway, living hand to mouth, scrounging until the next paycheck and hoping Katy makes enough and nothing goes seriously wrong with our delicate financial situation. So why do I keep doing it? I need to. The last time I went back to work and my body gave out on me I vowed that I wouldn’t go through it again. When your knees swell up bigger around than your thighs, you get blinding headaches that make you puke, and you find yourself just too depressed to care about living or dying and you will take either so long as it doesn’t require any energy to do it, you know if you ever get right again you will never do this to yourself again. I will go back to school one day, I will likely find a real job that has insurance and doesn’t require me to abuse my body, I will show my son that he can do it if his old man can do it. Maybe I should join him his freshman year of college to show him the ins and outs of picking of girls there, I used to be pretty good at that. Strike that I am looking across the room to Katy who has an angry look on her face like she knows what I am typing. For now though, I write. Maybe this will be the break I need to get back some of my lost self worth, but for now I write because when I sit down to do it I know it is what I was born to do…
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Push Congress for No Teacher Left Behind!
December 16, 2007
There are days when you just stumble over the absurdity of everyday ignorance. I have just seen a high school kid in a class that was obviously surfing the web for information of one sort or another has just been given detention for using firefox browser instead of their normal browser. At first glance I assumed this was a matter security being setup up for a specific browser, which is possible, but upon closer inspection it became quite clear the teacher is an idiot when it comes to the web and should be the one sent to a remedial technology education class.
http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/1197784327416.png
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Random Links and Random Thoughts
December 16, 2007
Some days I wonder is random links really are as random as they should be based on the mathematical equations that govern them. I have been online before we called it being online. For those of you who remember the glory days of hours in cue to log onto ISCA, or for the hour your favorite MUD was allowed to be accessed (think of the five o’clock crash runs on Jedi MUD). Those were fond memories of days of old, and where it all started for many of us. I reminisce on those moments occasionally, usually when I think that my DSL connection is just too damned slow, but I digress to the point of this post. Back around ‘96 long after I had entered the world we now know as the web, I started playing with JavaScript and learned of the many faceted ways of making things seem random on websites. The possibilities even in simple random generators which are still controlling random inline advertising, is staggering. One should have far fewer truly funny combinations of pages and links these days, but it seems to happen to me far more often than mathematical probability says it should. Maybe I notice it more the older I get, maybe I just spend too much damned time online, I don’t know but it does happen never the less. If you have a few funny moments with random links please share them.
Last years funniest by far was the seemingly random ad appearing for an Elton John concert at the bottom of a dictionary.com entry. They were pretty much everywhere you expect them to appear, but the fact there was a big smiling picture of Elton at the bottom of the definition for “poof” still makes me laugh to this day, even though I can’t for the life of me remember why I went there or what I was actually looking for when I typed in poof (an expression my son regularly used to explain how things disappeared). Never the less it was just too damned amusing to forget.
Todays offering doesn’t seem random at all is from my Ads.click tag cloud (something I occasionally click just for the hell of it). The word Prom popped up. It seemed a little early to be thinking of that annual spring rite of passage, but never the less I clicked on it thinking of future posts to draw in traffic. What I got was certainly nothing to do with pretty young women in interesting dresses. The link took me to iVillage Total Health’s: Pregnancy Basics Center. Certainly relevant for prom goers especially since we no longer tell high school kids to insist on a rubber in sex education classes, but it certainly wasn’t expected and certainly struck my sense of amusement.
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Let’s hear it for the A/V Snob
December 16, 2007
I recently have been visiting the the A/V forums looking for both information and sometimes deals on equipment lately and I have noticed something. Even more so than self proclaimed artists, home theater and audio enthusiasts tend to walk around with their heads shoved so far up their asses that they can actual see over their shoulders, even if it is only a limited view of what’s in front of them. Secondly I have noticed that according to these people you can’t really love music if you are in love with your video equipment. Their debates on this crap is even worse than Mac vs PC or Windows vs Linux. They will also tell you if you claimed to like them both equally, that you are a confused idiot who knows nothing and should go back to watching fuzzy porn on channels you don’t pay for and load up on eight track tapes. This is my first posts on how to get the best sound out of what you have and how to buy your new audio equipments over the coming year. It will probably not be the last time I rant about the A/V snobs out there. What’s your gear?
JVC 32″ TV (NTSC)
Yamaha HTR 5960 7.1 Reciever
3 different integrated amps to power 3 sets of speakers taking the load off the receiver)
- Sansui powering by 4 ohm center channel speaker
- Sony Powering my mains
- Technics with Graphic Equalizer between pre-in/out fed by the receiver, my PC, or my secondary receiver so I can listen to the radio while playing xbox. It also drives the rear surround speakers
Phillips DVD Player
Xbox with Hi Def Cables
Technics Reciever played through the Technics receiver
Speakers
- Main: 15″ Pioneer 3 way floor standers
- Center: Custom built 4 ohm Cerwin Vega built from a kit (4 - 6 1/2″ drivers and 2 hard dome tweeters)
- Surround: 15″ Optimus 3 way Floor Standers
- Surround Back: 12: Technics 3 Way
- Subwoofer: Custom built dual 12″ Elemental Design EHQS 2ohm speakers wired for 4 ohm in series ported with 4″ flared port powered by a Rhythmik Audio 380 watt Amp in a 14 CF box (I am still playing with volume, porting and batting to get the rights sound)
- Presence Speakers: Yamaha 6 ohm 2 way speakers
All speakers save the sub are fed on either 14 gauge speaker wire from Wal-Mart’s (in the automotive department for cheap) or 18 gauge lamp cord. Another post will deal with the fraud perpetrated against consumers over specialty speakers and audio connectors. get good ones, but don’t get over priced ones. Since I have been drinking don’t get me started on Bose, or as I like to refer to them, “What the fuck were you thinkings.”
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Environmentally Friendly Families
December 15, 2007
Do you think you are environmentally friendly? Well not likely. How many kids do you have? How many kids do you plan on having? I hear every sort of answer here, but I must question your answer to the first few questions if you answer more than one. The hot topic of the moment is the looming energy crisis. Is it real or not? of course it is, even neocons doing fuzzy math should be able to figure out if we live longer and produce more children we have a growth in resources consumed. Even if they can’t rationalize it out on environmental concerns, surely at least one in their numbers can rationalize it into fiscal conservation. If anyone wants to save the environment and I mean truly save it, they should be advocating legitimate population control, by any and all means, along with energy conservation.
This doesn’t just mean brown, black, yellow skinned people in other countries either. This is something that must be advocated right here at home to white voting Americans. I don’t devalue the pleasure one gets from children, but like anything we have for pleasure there comes a point when enough is enough, just like the sex that produces them (or so I am told on that one). Sure, we will always have people who have no kids who help keep the population down, but any population growth is bad for the environment and the economy. if you want more than one child adopt, if you can afford to have one, you can afford to adopt.
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A Crazy Week
September 21, 2007
Tomorrow is my birthday and I can’t really say I feel anything. The last time I got excited about a birthday was when I turned thirty and my car insurance went down again. Nearly everything is moved in. I finally got an exercise bike and if I am tomorrow i will either buy a grill or a big subwoofer. Both of my other blogs are nearly online and I think I am getting the hang of theme arrangements and working with style sheets so look for a new look here very soon. Look for the Valley View blog to open up early next week and Fat No More to begin regular posts on the first of the month.
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