Whew! I don't know where the rabbles have gone let me assure you, the lack of rabbling lately does, in no way, mean that I have run out of subjects that make me rabbley. Mostly it's just that summertime means more stuff to do outside and some things get set aside. Now I could rabble about not having time to rabble but that would be rabbling about sunny days, lemonade, fishing, boating, Montana, 70 degrees at 11pm and whatnot so I won't rabble about that cuz all those things are rad! But I'm settling back into the rabble saddle and well, giddy up!
On that note, my first rabble in a couple weeks is a most exciting un-rabble. My friends Randy and Renee got married last Saturday. They are rad and their wedding was rad. I wish them a long and unrabbley life together, and Bode the lab too. I'll be back with more rabbling soon. Yea (yes I do mean yea, as opposed to yeah, cuz it's not a full yeah, it's more of just a yea. So yea.)! Un-Rabble-B
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Quote of the Week
"Do you know who I am?! I am worth hundreds or dollars!" - Unknown, drunken friend of a friend while being escorted out of a bar. So awesome. Rabble-B
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Seafair
So every town across America (ok, I guess only above the Mason-Dixon maybe) has some sort of summer festival to celebrate sun and heat and long days while they can before it snows again or in my case turns wet and gray for 9 months. Seattle has the lovely Seafair celebration. Actually Seafair sucks and I wish all the budget shortfalls and the shit economy would force the city to cancel it, permanently. What a clever name for a festival too right? Sea-Fair, a funny play on the city name. Just like the Seahawks, our crappy football team in our non-sports loving town that won like 6 games the last two years combined.
So the Blue Angels can kiss my ass. They shut down the freeway twice a day so they can fly around. It's not like they're landing on the fucking I-90 bridge, why do we have to close the bridge and clog up the rest of the the surface streets and the 520 bridge so they can do some cute barrel rolls up in the air? Planes for air, cars for pavement.
The Torchlight Parade. Hey, lets build a bunch a floats and drive them down 4th Ave really slowly and wave to all the people watching on the sidewalk. What?! People start lining up for this thing at like 10am and it doesn't even start until like 6pm. And what's even better it doesn't get dark until like 9pm and it's over by then. Why on Earth is it call the TORCHLIGHT parade?! For fuck's sake. And the Seafair pirates, they aren't scary or lewd like pirates should be. They're smiley and jolly and dressed like they'd be more at home in a gay nightclub called Shiver Me Timbers. Give me those ostrich feathers on your hat, I'll do something useful with them, like tie flies.
Aaahhhh, the hydros, NASCAR (Non Athlethic Sport Causing Adult Retardation) on the water. "Oh man, here they come. Wooooohhhoooooo! Look at that rooster tail. Oh, they're turning left again." Except it's not poor, Southern trash or a bunch of festys watching them. It's rich, business people in bikinis and banana hammocks unwinding on their yachts on Lake Washington. Give it up already! And you, guy in the car in front of me on the I-90 bridge. Watch the road, not the boats, I don't like driving 15mph under the speed limit. Rabble-B
So the Blue Angels can kiss my ass. They shut down the freeway twice a day so they can fly around. It's not like they're landing on the fucking I-90 bridge, why do we have to close the bridge and clog up the rest of the the surface streets and the 520 bridge so they can do some cute barrel rolls up in the air? Planes for air, cars for pavement.
The Torchlight Parade. Hey, lets build a bunch a floats and drive them down 4th Ave really slowly and wave to all the people watching on the sidewalk. What?! People start lining up for this thing at like 10am and it doesn't even start until like 6pm. And what's even better it doesn't get dark until like 9pm and it's over by then. Why on Earth is it call the TORCHLIGHT parade?! For fuck's sake. And the Seafair pirates, they aren't scary or lewd like pirates should be. They're smiley and jolly and dressed like they'd be more at home in a gay nightclub called Shiver Me Timbers. Give me those ostrich feathers on your hat, I'll do something useful with them, like tie flies.
Aaahhhh, the hydros, NASCAR (Non Athlethic Sport Causing Adult Retardation) on the water. "Oh man, here they come. Wooooohhhoooooo! Look at that rooster tail. Oh, they're turning left again." Except it's not poor, Southern trash or a bunch of festys watching them. It's rich, business people in bikinis and banana hammocks unwinding on their yachts on Lake Washington. Give it up already! And you, guy in the car in front of me on the I-90 bridge. Watch the road, not the boats, I don't like driving 15mph under the speed limit. Rabble-B
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Then don't...
have a Twitter dipshit. Isn't the whole point of Twitter to have other people know what you're up to? Come on man! Rabble-B
August 4th, 2010
04:10 PM ET
Looks like Kanye West and Steven Holmes don’t see eye to eye on the subject of fame.
The prodigious rapper and tweeter randomly selected Holmes as the solo person to follow on Twitter and let’s just say that Holmes is less than flattered by all of the attention.
Initially, Holmes seemed excited by the connection, tweeting , "Holy [expletive] bro thx for following!" But the Brit quickly changed his tune once the full glare of the limelight hit.
Speaking with his local paper, the Coventry Telegraph, The Nottingham University student sounded far from enthused by the global attention he says has led to him turning down interview requests from media outlets around the world.
“I didn’t want to talk to any of them,” Holmes is quoted as saying. “Fame has never appealed to me. It’s vacuous.”
He went on to say that “Before this weekend I thought it would be cool to have a celebrity following me on Twitter but now I think it’s really not worth it.”
Holmes reiterated that stance on his Twitter page when he tweeted “This has been completely surreal and I really have no desire for this attention i'm just a normal person” and later added that he will not be speaking with any other media outlets.
The prodigious rapper and tweeter randomly selected Holmes as the solo person to follow on Twitter and let’s just say that Holmes is less than flattered by all of the attention.
Initially, Holmes seemed excited by the connection, tweeting , "Holy [expletive] bro thx for following!" But the Brit quickly changed his tune once the full glare of the limelight hit.
Speaking with his local paper, the Coventry Telegraph, The Nottingham University student sounded far from enthused by the global attention he says has led to him turning down interview requests from media outlets around the world.
“I didn’t want to talk to any of them,” Holmes is quoted as saying. “Fame has never appealed to me. It’s vacuous.”
He went on to say that “Before this weekend I thought it would be cool to have a celebrity following me on Twitter but now I think it’s really not worth it.”
Holmes reiterated that stance on his Twitter page when he tweeted “This has been completely surreal and I really have no desire for this attention i'm just a normal person” and later added that he will not be speaking with any other media outlets.
Charles Taylor is a Fucking Asshole
(Another Charles Taylor related post. Scroll down for background of my hatred for this excuse for a human) Ok Naomi, you better tell the truth. I don't care that you didn't want to be involved, you have the power to help, at least slightly, give emotional relief to hundreds of thousands in Liberia and Sierra Leone so tell the whole story and bury that fucker and his dirty diamond fueled bullshit. Charles Taylor deserves to rot in prison with photos of the murdered and raped and limbless women and children suffering in the pain he caused. All with bright spotlight 24hours a day, behind plexiglass so he cannot take them down. Fuck you Charles Taylor, your not guilty plea is insulting to my very being. Rabble-B
(CNN) -- A judge in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has decided that supermodel Naomi Campbell's testimony in the case will go ahead Thursday.
The Special Court of Sierra Leone confirmed to CNN Wednesday that Campbell will take the stand at the tribunal, despite an emergency motion the defense filed Monday to delay her testimony.
Prosecutors say Taylor gave Campbell a diamond during the war in Sierra Leone, contradicting Taylor's testimony that he never handled the precious stones that fueled the conflict.
The defense said it hadn't seen a copy of Campbell's testimony, which interferes with Taylor's right to a fair trial. Under tribunal rules, the defense team should get advance access to prosecution witness testimony so it can prepare its arguments. Prosecutors said they have not obtained a statement from Campbell, but they did provide a copy of her anticipated testimony to the defense.
Prosecutors had rested their case against Taylor in February 2009, but reopened it specifically to call Campbell to testify after learning in June of that year that Taylor had given the supermodel a diamond in South Africa in 1997. Prosecutors said they also wanted to call actress Mia Farrow and a witness named Carole Taylor to testify, court papers show.
Prosecutors have said that Farrow confirmed that Taylor gave Campbell a diamond.
When arguing to reopen the case, prosecutors said Campbell's testimony would prove that the former president "used rough diamonds for personal enrichment and arms purchases," according to papers filed with the U.N.-backed court.
Campbell did not want to be involved in the trial but was subpoenaed July 1.
Taylor, 62, was president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003. The war crimes charges against him stem from the widespread murder, rape and mutilation that occurred during the civil war in Sierra Leone. It was fought largely by teenagers who were forced to kill, given addictive drugs to provoke violent behavior, and often instructed to rape and plunder.
Taylor is charged with five counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery and violence, and enslavement.
He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Naomi Campbell will testify in war crimes trial Thursday
August 4, 2010 1:16 p.m. EDT
Naomi Campbell did not want to be involved in the trial but was subpoenaed July 1.
The Special Court of Sierra Leone confirmed to CNN Wednesday that Campbell will take the stand at the tribunal, despite an emergency motion the defense filed Monday to delay her testimony.
Prosecutors say Taylor gave Campbell a diamond during the war in Sierra Leone, contradicting Taylor's testimony that he never handled the precious stones that fueled the conflict.
The defense said it hadn't seen a copy of Campbell's testimony, which interferes with Taylor's right to a fair trial. Under tribunal rules, the defense team should get advance access to prosecution witness testimony so it can prepare its arguments. Prosecutors said they have not obtained a statement from Campbell, but they did provide a copy of her anticipated testimony to the defense.
Prosecutors had rested their case against Taylor in February 2009, but reopened it specifically to call Campbell to testify after learning in June of that year that Taylor had given the supermodel a diamond in South Africa in 1997. Prosecutors said they also wanted to call actress Mia Farrow and a witness named Carole Taylor to testify, court papers show.
Prosecutors have said that Farrow confirmed that Taylor gave Campbell a diamond.
When arguing to reopen the case, prosecutors said Campbell's testimony would prove that the former president "used rough diamonds for personal enrichment and arms purchases," according to papers filed with the U.N.-backed court.
Campbell did not want to be involved in the trial but was subpoenaed July 1.
Taylor, 62, was president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003. The war crimes charges against him stem from the widespread murder, rape and mutilation that occurred during the civil war in Sierra Leone. It was fought largely by teenagers who were forced to kill, given addictive drugs to provoke violent behavior, and often instructed to rape and plunder.
Taylor is charged with five counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery and violence, and enslavement.
He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
He has pleaded not guilty.
To Pet or Not to Pet
So if you are going to pet something (or someone I suppose), does that imply the critter has fur or hair? Can you pet a fish or a Komodo Dragon or a Naked Mole Rat? I don't know. When you pet something your stroking it's fur but if you were to pet a worm it would just be rubbing it's skin right? I don't know, just thought that was kind of weird... Rabble-B
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