tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62226842011-05-24T07:31:26.424-07:00MsGeek.Org v2.0The ongoing saga of a woman in the process of reinvention.<br>
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<a href="http://msgeekdotorg.blogspot.com/">http://msgeekdotorg.blogspot.com/</a>Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comBlogger7761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1160009023328825572006-10-04T17:40:00.000-07:002006-10-04T17:43:43.333-07:00Last post here...for future posts, please visit my new home on the updated Blogger:http://msgeekdotorg.blogspot.com/See you there!Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1159902675428497702006-10-03T12:00:00.000-07:002006-10-04T17:41:40.490-07:00In transition...I will be moving this blog to space using the Blogger Beta system. I want to move everything to Blogger Beta but apparently I'm not eligible for that yet.I will also be taking this time to figure out what I'm going to do with this blog. I've moved a great deal of my writings to other places, and this general-purpose place has sort of languished.BTW this is post #776 here...maybe Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1159508867815330882006-09-28T22:40:00.000-07:002006-09-28T22:47:47.900-07:00Two reasons to vote November 7th:1.) The House of Representatives passed the Torture Bill.2.) The Senate passed the Torture Bill.There were too many Dems on the Yea side (12) in the Senate to sustain a filibuster. So Howard Dean didn't even try to get one going. Call 'em the Dirty Dozen. Neither Boxer nor Feinstein was one of them, thankfully. It will make pulling the lever for Evil DiFi a littleMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1159244538907490432006-09-25T21:15:00.000-07:002006-09-25T21:24:55.960-07:00OMG WTF BBQ-ed Thinkpad 600x....Linux kernel hacker Alan Cox has always sworn by his ThinkPad 600x. I have one myself, and one 600e with a screwed up LCD that an acquaintance gave me from the pallet of ThinkPads he bought from the Enron bankruptcy auction. However, all that love went up in smoke, quite literally, on September 22nd.According to Alan Cox's wife, this was the scene she saw right Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1159160158537894442006-09-24T21:50:00.000-07:002006-09-24T21:55:58.563-07:00The sooner I can get this moved to beta.blogger.com, the better. Going back to this interface and this look is like getting a vanilla ice cream cone when you asked for Jamocha Almond Fudge. Isn't beta.blogger.com ready to go gold yet??? C'mon Googleplex, hook a sista up!Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1158774814446165642006-09-20T10:45:00.000-07:002006-09-20T10:53:34.483-07:00Now I know why I'm having a hard time getting into the groove...I'm fighting off a cold.I hate it when I'm sick. Really. It sucks.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1158469836018730032006-09-16T22:00:00.000-07:002006-09-16T22:10:36.433-07:00It's weird...I've updated some of the other blogs I keep, but not this one.OK, time for Geekback, where I just throw out observations in random access mode.1.) It's time to rename Pope Benedict the 16th or whatever number he is. He's now Pope Maledict the Nothingth. If you know anything about Latin root words you would understand the appropriateness of the name. What a fucking dick. He did Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1158023095188026152006-09-11T18:00:00.000-07:002006-09-11T18:57:34.316-07:00ABC and Disney deserve to lose.The bastards did it. Looks like The Big Dog will sue soon.Until then, have a laugh...at ABC/Disney's expense.UPDATE: Read this Keith Olbermann essay. He's on fire tonight. Un-freakin'-believable. Send this to your friends.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1157412220937141452006-09-04T16:15:00.000-07:002006-09-04T16:23:41.286-07:00Crikey indeed.I think some of my Aussie friends are breathing a sigh of relief that Steve Irwin has snuffed it. Certainly Irwin has done almost as much as Paul Hogan in feeding stereotypes about people from the Great Southern Land. However, the guy did do some decent things for wildlife preservation over there, so he deserves some credit. It was, however, pretty questionable to bring your 1-Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1157346357070938712006-09-03T22:00:00.000-07:002006-09-03T22:06:46.353-07:00Vault kicks, Ralphs sucks.This is an actual message I sent to Ralphs Supermarkets, Inc., about an actual incident. There are many good reasons why people shouldn't shop at Ralphs. They pulled some evil shenanigans during the supermarket strike, for instance. But this was the last straw for us. There are not a hell of a lot of supermarket chains left in LA and even less that I will patronize. Now Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156899393576082182006-08-29T17:50:00.000-07:002006-08-29T17:56:33.610-07:00Never, ever, EVER forget.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156829380363988392006-08-28T22:20:00.000-07:002006-08-28T22:29:40.403-07:00Yep. I called it. A sick fuck, a serial molester... ...but not Jon-Benet's killer.This guy John Mark Karr who has confessed to the Jon-Benet Ramsey killing is awfully suspicious but for the opposite reason people on the news are talking about. It is clear that Karr is a serial child molester. It is clear that Karr has some very sick obsessions. What is not clear is that Karr is a murderer. I Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156625213017756892006-08-26T13:40:00.000-07:002006-08-30T18:04:26.440-07:00Fully booked...but at what cost?Today I bought the last of the books I need for Fall 2006 semester at Woodbury University. I was able to cut a lot of my costs through buying most of the books at Half.Com, but I still went into debt at a sick-making amount.Eight books for four classes. $260.12, including shipping. The books for Stats for Behavioral Science, First Semester, don't even show up on Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156567815620506902006-08-25T21:45:00.000-07:002006-08-25T21:50:15.833-07:00Rejuveniles in the pre-apocalyptic zone: Is anyone surprised?Today someone basically gave a name to people like me. I'm a "Rejuvenile." w00h00. Someone's got my number. Someone's been watching me for the past 30 some-odd years. Yeah, Chris Noxon, preach on. You're preaching to the choir here.A "Rejuvenile" is a person who's supposedly too old for things like toys, comic books, anime, cartoons, Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156380511215467822006-08-23T17:40:00.000-07:002006-08-23T17:48:31.263-07:00I tried to write something intelligent here earlier but kind of petered out.However, I can give a gist of what I was trying to write about. Apparently older and older people are being re-activated by the armed forces to go to either Iraq or Afghanistan. Up to and including a 70-year-old dentist who just finished a hitch in Afghanistan. Ominous parallels time: during the last waning days of World Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156211855183765002006-08-21T18:56:00.000-07:002006-08-21T18:57:35.216-07:00Soy una perdidor...George W. Bush, picture taken during today's press conference.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156092247052873462006-08-20T09:35:00.000-07:002006-08-20T09:44:07.076-07:00OK, I can't get to my Blogger beta blog again. I suppose this is why it's in beta.19 years ago I married Richie Hass. This is the anniversary of the wedding done for legal reasons and for the benefit of my family. We usually count our anniversary from the other ceremony, the one we could invite friends to, on the 23rd.The relationship itself is still on a good footing. Our circumstances might be Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1156005025647742622006-08-19T09:25:00.000-07:002006-08-19T09:30:25.683-07:00Book 'em, Dan-o...I have all but two of my books for Fall 2006. $180 all told, on a credit card. More debt, bad; almost all my books, good.One of the books I have absolutely no info on. Gotta visit the Woodbury bookstore to take down the ISBN number on that book. Another book was over $60 on Half.eBay.Com. This is not including shipping which would prolly boost the figure to more like $70. Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1155659205611272072006-08-15T09:20:00.000-07:002006-08-15T11:19:41.880-07:00OK Blogger...can I move all my sites to the new and kewl Beta version???I just built a new version of my blog using the new Beta of Blogger. And it's like night and day. It's got the best of a lot of features I've seen places like LiveJournal and maintains all the Blogger/Blogspot goodness that's kept me here.Too cool for school, baby!Update 11:15am: now I can't log into the beta. I think I mightMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1155542725363133642006-08-14T00:55:00.000-07:002006-08-14T11:07:29.656-07:0025 computers in 25 years or less: what I think of PC World's list.OK, PC World joined the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the first IBM PC (Five-slot, 5150) with their list of the 25 Greatest Personal Computers.When you put the word "greatest" on any list, you are begging to have people take pot shots at you. So here are my shots at their list.First off, I agree with their number one. The Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1155153528820833452006-08-09T12:50:00.000-07:002006-08-09T12:58:53.920-07:00Two words for Joe: Buh-bye!I am damn glad that the Democratic Party seems to be uniting around Ned Lamont. My biggest fear for Connecticut was that the DLC Dems would rally around Lieberman if he lost by a hair and decided to run as an indie. However, they seem to have backed away from Lieberman too. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a major DLC-ite, has come out in support of Lamont, as has Sen. Hillary Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1154974873692812312006-08-07T11:15:00.000-07:002006-08-07T11:21:14.936-07:00Blogosphere: We need Kos like we need a hole in the head.Ever since the primary, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, aka Kos, has been talking down the chances of one Phil Angelides for Governor. He was pro Westly during the primary and now he seems to be happy to talk down Angelides' chances at every turn.We don't need your pessimism, Kos.This is my official resignation from Daily Kos, a move which I have Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1154894146633532752006-08-06T12:50:00.000-07:002006-08-06T12:55:46.663-07:00OK, when I started blogging back in 2003, I did it primarily to document my return to college. Now I'm going back to my roots and doing a school situation update.1.) I might be delayed getting into the MSW program at Cal State Northridge until Fall 2008. Wonderful. The MSW program only admits new students in Fall semester. And if you are dual-enrolled in two places you can only get financial aid Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1154645616106959352006-08-03T15:45:00.000-07:002006-08-06T12:41:48.796-07:00Why wasn't Mel Gibson charged with the serious charges he so richly deserved? Note: both these charges are felonies. The charges he was brought up on were misdemeanors. Yeah right.1.) Making terrorist threats. "You motherfucker. I'm going to fuck you. I own Malibu. I will spend my own money to get even with you." This is what Mel Gibson said to the arresting officer, LA County Sheriff's Deputy Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1154401768706560062006-07-31T20:00:00.000-07:002006-07-31T20:09:28.750-07:00It's been a while. Yes, the article is up on ToonMag.Com and I'm pretty proud of it. The weather has finally gone from being godawful hot and sweaty to just being humid-sweaty like San Diego was. And I'm just marking time waiting for school to start.Richie's got some new music, and we mastered some of it this morning. I still have tons of computer shit to deal with before I have to go back to Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1153765421086964942006-07-24T11:20:00.000-07:002006-07-24T11:23:41.120-07:00Back from Comic-Con...got lots to report at http://www.toonmag.com/ but it will take me a little while to accomplish as I'm still recovering. Stay tuned for the big article.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1153274187189429812006-07-18T18:55:00.000-07:002006-07-18T18:56:27.216-07:00I'm off to San Diego tomorrow. Am I ready? I'm not sure. But ready or not, here I come.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1153065759763319912006-07-16T09:00:00.000-07:002006-07-16T09:02:39.806-07:00Had Enough?Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1152842020859020392006-07-13T18:50:00.000-07:002006-07-13T18:53:40.903-07:00Fuck. The Israelis are unleashing Hell again.I am not saying that they are not without a leg to stand on in this current conflict, but the sheer overwhelming show of force is like going after a mosquito with a sledgehammer. And no matter what I think about Zionism, any time this happens I die a little. Because I was born to two Jewish parents.I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place: I wasMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1152733025964515912006-07-12T12:30:00.000-07:002006-07-12T12:37:05.993-07:00OMG WTF BBQ...first Kenny Boy bites the big one, now this cat.A banker questioned as a witness in the Enron case was found dead in a London park.I don't think I was the only person who was suspicious when Ken Lay bit the big one. And there have been suspicious deaths surrounding Enron previously.There were several people spreading the meme of a Clinton Death List during the Clinton presidency. Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1152655863392750442006-07-11T15:05:00.000-07:002006-07-11T15:11:03.416-07:00More apropos now than it was in the '60sStephen Bosustow's Freedom River.Watch...and think.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1152485788112358552006-07-09T15:50:00.000-07:002006-07-09T15:57:15.893-07:00A few words in Italian...Congratulazioni, Italia sulla vincita della il Mondiale 2006! Sono sicuro che ci è oggi gente felice molto nel vostro paese pieno di sole. L'America e l'Italia hanno un rapporto vicino, grazie alle generazioni sulle generazioni degli emigranti italiani. Forse mangerò la pizza da celebrare stasera.If this is screwed up, don't blame me, blame Google Language Tools.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1152380140436735622006-07-08T10:30:00.000-07:002006-07-08T10:43:58.496-07:00I forgot to mention here that I got my sewing machine back from Sewing Machine Warehouse, and it sews like a dream now. Apparently the bobbin mechanism was *not* attached correctly to the rest of the machine, and it worked itself loose. It's on for good now. Basically it had gone out of the factory with problems and I was so ignorant I couldn't understand that it was not in working order.Here's Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1152200292281779672006-07-06T08:30:00.000-07:002006-07-06T08:38:12.343-07:00Desecrating our symbols, part 2006OK, let's make it simple, shall we?THIS is my flag.Not THIS.This is the Statue of Liberty.(You can click on this and print it out on cardstock for your very own Statue of Liberty if you like.)Not THIS.I am absolutely beside myself about the arrogance of the Christian Dominionist Right.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1151707330306679492006-06-30T15:42:00.000-07:002006-06-30T15:42:10.336-07:00Oy vey.With regard to religion, I'm sort of an agnostic who has a liking for the metaphors of neo-Paganism. However, I was born Jewish to two Jewish parents, and my husband was born to a Jewish mother who fled Nazi Germany in 1938. And for the Nazis and modern anti-Semites, that's enough for them. And in the case of modern anti-Semites, they are now emboldened by the current political climate to Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1151615352954660262006-06-29T14:05:00.000-07:002006-06-29T14:09:12.980-07:00Another Ms. Geek Angelides commercialOK, Phil, find a good Flash artist and run with this:Angelides commercial #2: "Running up the Credit Card"Big headed caricature of Arnold Schwarzenegger, walking down the street. He's got a super-sized credit card in his hand, with the distinctive outline of the State of California on it.AnnouncerLet's look at Arnold Schwarzenegger's record on the budget. In Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1151446578682918272006-06-27T15:10:00.000-07:002006-06-27T15:16:18.710-07:00Rush Limbaugh + Viagra + trip to the Dominican Republic = ????What exactly was the Big Bloviating One doing with that Viagra on his Dominican Republic holiday?Wired: Dominican Republic, where 'pimps' run freeMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1151373351285414032006-06-26T18:50:00.000-07:002006-06-26T18:57:02.026-07:00Rush Limbaugh. Busted again."What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1151305117128436182006-06-25T23:55:00.000-07:002006-06-25T23:58:37.156-07:00Cosplay stuffs is giving me a headache.It's not bloody likely that I'll have any of my Jedi robes number done by Comic-Con. I'll have the Over-robe because I'll be finishing that up by hand, but the rest of it is not going to happen because either my sewing machine is malfunctioning or I'M a freaking spaz and can't get the hang of how to work this right.Maybe I'll have stuff by Anime Los Angeles.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1151186231129396842006-06-24T14:50:00.000-07:002006-06-24T14:57:11.166-07:00There is no joy in Panorama City tonight. Argentina topped El Tri, the Mexican national team. 2-1.Unlike the first round, it's win or go home in the quarter-finals. And it looks like Mexico's on its way back home. So this means I could care less who wins at this point. First the US got KOed, now Mexico. Not that I cared much for sports in any event. But there's going to be bummed people walking Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1150908618553182272006-06-21T09:45:00.000-07:002006-06-21T09:53:34.120-07:00A different way of looking at "Cut & Run"The GOP CUTs taxes to the wealthiest 1% of the population, and RUNs up the National Debt.The GOP CUT funding for FEMA, and RUNs from its responsibilities to the Gulf Coast States.The GOP CUT benefits for our brave soldiers, and is RUNning away from its commitments to them when they come back maimed.In Vietnam, we didn't CUT our losses until the body count Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1150587575576358872006-06-17T16:35:00.000-07:002006-06-21T13:20:21.436-07:002500...not just a numberIt's prolly already up beyond 2500 by now, but I thought I should just stop. And think. And try not to explode from the anger I feel.Let me remind y'all of the question Cindy Sheehan asked about the death of Casey:What noble cause?Why are we in Iraq?Why are we killing?Why are we dying?2500.And Tony Snow-job had the nerve to say "it's just a number."No it isn't. It's Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1150505963420323432006-06-16T17:55:00.000-07:002006-06-16T18:00:07.886-07:00Howard Berman.Yeah, you, you two bit lame ass watercarrier for the RIAA and MPAA! You war-mongering stank ho!I am calling you out.You hear me, Howie????I am calling you out.This vote on the pointless ego-boo for Dubya resolution was the last freaking straw. It was a meaningless gesture. You didn't have to give Dubya what he wanted. Repeat after me, punk: Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1150332919848049472006-06-14T17:50:00.000-07:002006-06-14T17:55:19.886-07:00Does Phil Angelides read this blog, or Enough Is Enough 2006?Anyway, here's Angelides' response to Ah-nuld's first ad using Westly's (inaccurate!) attacks. Very good. Hit him again, Phil!Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1150297584730217802006-06-14T08:00:00.000-07:002006-06-14T08:06:24.766-07:00'The Farm' landowner to South Central LA...I got mine, fuck you.http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9360966/detail.htmlWell, he didn't say that exactly, but the quotes he gave to our local NBC affiliate KNBC 4 Burbank/Los Angeles say just about as much. "I'm not real happy with this group. Even if they raised $100 million this group could not buy this property. It's not about money. I don't like their Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1150253625549428192006-06-13T19:50:00.000-07:002006-06-13T19:53:45.580-07:00Karl Rove: Scot Free.Sometimes I just hate living in these times.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1150174691095610882006-06-12T21:50:00.000-07:002006-06-12T21:58:11.473-07:00Moving Backward vs. Kicking It Down The RoadI don't know why the new Schwarzenegger commercials piss me off so much. But they do. I guess we have Steve Westly to thank for giving Ah-nuld his first campaign meme. "$10 Billion In New Taxes." Never mind that every time Schwarzenegger has "balanced" a budget, he's either used accounting chicanery or borrowed money to do it. Never mind that he cared Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1149831331032147952006-06-08T22:30:00.000-07:002006-06-08T22:35:31.053-07:00Back on the air at last. Took you guys long enough.I'm not entirely coherent so I'm going to wait until tomorrow to write.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1149471155922772572006-06-04T18:30:00.000-07:002006-06-05T17:27:05.746-07:00An event to remember for all folks who love cartoons, comics and Rock N' Roll!Saturday! Saturday!! SATURDAY!!!! June 10th!Join Jim Smith and Freehead, John K., Frank Forte, Robert Rhine of "Satan's 3 Ring Circus of Hell," animation historian Steve Worth, and possibly even Slash (Yes! that Slash!) for the first annual Geekapalooza at world-famous Taix Restaurant's Taix Lounge!Taix Restaurant is atMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1149303108143705692006-06-02T19:45:00.000-07:002006-06-02T19:51:48.166-07:00The Rhythm Method: think of all those poor aborted blastocysts!One of the new tactics of the anti-Choice movement is to condemn certain types of birth control as actually being the administration of "abortifacients." The Pill, Emergency Contraception, and IUDs have all been condemned as preventing the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. For the hard core in the anti-Choice movement, Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1149215516933832302006-06-01T19:25:00.000-07:002006-06-01T19:31:56.956-07:00(Cross posted from Enough Is Enough 2006:)Dubya: AWOL again.'Nuff said...Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1149125632839608572006-05-31T18:30:00.000-07:002006-05-31T18:35:13.910-07:00(Cross posted from Enough Is Enough 2006:)An alternative to DINO Feinstein on June 6thHi all...Originally I was going to put a protest write-in vote for Cindy Sheehan on my ballot. However, I now see there's an alternative candidate worthy of my vote.Ladies and Gentlemen may I introduce you to Colleen Fernald, activist from Sebastopol, CA. Here's her platform:Restore Our Military for Defense, notMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1149023059603612382006-05-30T14:00:00.000-07:002006-05-30T14:04:19.630-07:00(Cross posted from Enough Is Enough 2006:)Markos Moulitsas is pissing me off.Markos Moulitsas, aka "Kos" as in DailyKos, posted a screed on DK where he talked about how he wants to "throw out my Absentee Ballot" because of the current ad warfare between Phil Angelides and Steve "Ah-nuld Lite" Westly.I know it doesn't make it right, but WESTLY STARTED IT. Right after he made a solemn, Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1148868123411866012006-05-28T19:00:00.000-07:002006-05-29T14:06:16.070-07:00Cocina Internacional: Curry CaseroOne of the funkiest, strangest things I've ever encountered in the store locally is Curry Casero, which is an adaptation of Japanese Kare Raisu roux to what House Foods America figures is Mexican-American tastebuds. House Foods is the huge Japanese food company that pretty much popularized Kare Raisu in Japan, and made it so easy that even C-Ko from Project A-Ko Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1148697220569967052006-05-26T19:30:00.000-07:002006-05-26T19:33:40.590-07:00There is a reason why I went to Universal Studios Hollywood today. There is also a reason why I left at the time I did. And that reason only became apparent on the trip back.I met up with a childhood friend whom I hadn't seen since the mid-'70s. Well, maybe friend is an awkward turn of phrase to use, because he didn't treat me like a friend should back in the day. However, he actually broached Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1148596855165330952006-05-25T15:39:00.000-07:002006-05-25T15:40:55.193-07:00(also posted on Enough is Enough 2006)An especially truthy factoid to ponder:Apparently more people voted in the final "American Idol" voting than in any Presidential election in American history. This sucks.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1148408937828987642006-05-23T11:28:00.000-07:002006-05-23T11:28:57.853-07:00Also on EnoughIsEnough2006.blogspot.comCan I get a Hell Yeah?Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1148337635684408262006-05-22T15:35:00.000-07:002006-05-22T16:57:50.426-07:00Lucas disappoints yet again: the "Original Version" movie DVD release will use the 1993 Laserdisc Masters.According to Lucasfilm this is the best they can do. I am of two minds with regard to this. I know that 30-year-old color film that has been poorly stored can look worse than century-old nitrate black-and-white film. I also know that when Paramount Home Video put together a release of Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1148233128889935112006-05-21T10:35:00.000-07:002006-05-21T10:38:48.910-07:00It's BAAAACK....EnoughIsEnough2006.blogspot.com is back on the air.Watch this space for further details.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147994230468594592006-05-18T16:15:00.000-07:002006-05-18T16:18:39.646-07:00The difference between America's animation scene and, say, that of certain parts of Europe is this: We see what the Japanese are doing and try to replicate it in live-action. It seems like in Europe, they see what the Japanese can do with animation and follow their lead in using animation as another way of making movies. I mentioned Tachiguishi Retsuden earlier on in the month. That looks like Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147836689887999282006-05-16T20:30:00.000-07:002006-05-16T20:31:30.510-07:00Apparently Dubya is a Beach Boys fan, but he heard the lyrics wrong. He thought that one song went "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran..."The British media seems to get the scoops on these sorts of things. Voila: Dubya's "contingency plan" to turn Iran into a smoking cinder.Looks like this is the "October Surprise" for 2006. Fuck.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147796435689559632006-05-16T09:15:00.000-07:002006-05-16T09:20:35.720-07:00Lee Sevilla updateThe article that Steve Lopez wrote about Lee Sevilla, the 71-year-old woman who lives in her car in Playa del Rey, has resulted in an outpouring of love and caring that has succeeded in melting this cold, callous and cynical heart of mine. She's going to be OK.However, the article also stirred up some old business in Sevilla's life, business that was the direct reason why she Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147737662633088492006-05-15T17:00:00.000-07:002006-05-15T17:01:02.670-07:00Reality check from last year:Dubya wasn't so enthusiastic about border security when he had to actually dig down in the budget and pay for it.Just a thought to think about when you hear Dubya talking about calling out the National Guard.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147624879758369322006-05-14T09:30:00.000-07:002006-05-14T09:41:57.546-07:00Danke schoen, T-Mobile...While my landline company (Verizon) gleefully sold me out to the NSA, it looks like my mobile phone company is hanging tough and telling Uncle Sam NEIN! T-Mobile is my cell phone company, and is owned and operated by Deutsche Telekom AG. It's ironic that a German company is more vigilant about protecting my rights than an American company, but good on them nonetheless. 'Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147543431022702772006-05-13T11:00:00.000-07:002006-05-16T15:45:42.100-07:00It's all over but the posting...Social Psychology 3 units B+ 3.33Self And Society 3 units A 4.00Developmental Psych 3 units A 4.00Scene And Story 3 units A 4.00Early Mod Pol Phil 3 units A- 3.66Total for S2006 3.80 GPATotal GPA 3.73 GPAI know this because Prof. Johannsen sent me this note today in my email box:Michelle,You got an "A"RegardsMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147495995961736372006-05-12T21:50:00.000-07:002006-05-13T17:04:14.956-07:00Immigration debate, part 2 of 2Point: Kara WildIn response to your points:1) I completely agree that political/economic reform has to happen in Latin American countries before the demand of their citizens to cross into our country will die down. I think that the United States ought to be giving aid toward their infrastructure, as well as the infrastructures of other undeveloped counties that Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147311544542889532006-05-11T11:00:00.000-07:002006-05-11T12:53:19.043-07:00Scoreboard: Spring 2006Social Psychology 3 units B+ 3.33Self And Society 3 units unkDevelopmental Psych 3 units unkScene And Story 3 units A 4.00Early Mod Pol Phil 3 units A- 3.66Total for S2006 3.66 GPATotal GPA 3.66 GPAAnd I think I have a good sense of where the other two grades will wind up. Both Self and Society and Developmental Psych Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147330028020937712006-05-11T00:00:00.000-07:002006-05-11T00:13:09.203-07:00Point/Counterpoint: ImmigrationPoint: Kara WildI read your most recent blog about the Minutemen and felt compelled to respond. Since the e-mail function only allows 300 characters, I'm responding via regular e-mail.All right, I ain't for the Minutemen and I ain't against them. However, blogs like the one you've linked to won't convince me one way or the other, given how clearly biased they are Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147305098315393642006-05-10T16:45:00.000-07:002006-05-10T16:51:38.373-07:00You might not have seen this series on Orcinus' blog. However, I think it's high time everyone got a look at it, because this is the naked face of who the Minutemen really are.I don't mean these guys:I mean these guys:Yeah, these guys:Siggy siggy sig heil, baby.If those pictures don't prove it, read Orcinus' reportage.IntroPart 1: What's in a name?Part 2: Their leadersPart 3: Their followersPart Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147209803824790032006-05-09T14:20:00.000-07:002006-05-09T14:23:23.856-07:00The land of Kawaii and Sugoi vs. Japan: an interesting perspective.If you look at the right-hand column of my blog, you will notice a new link. I'm now linking to the blog of Patrick Macias, a Mexican-American expatriate living in and writing about Japan. It is concentrated Ota-kool. The guy's got a podcast, "Hot Tears of Shame" which is half his own whacked out stories and half conversations Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147138541826849032006-05-08T18:30:00.000-07:002006-05-08T18:35:41.893-07:00This story will break your heart.According to the article, she lives in her car and it's parked somewhere near Playa del Rey. Someone fucking help this woman, please! I can't, but someone who's got enough money to get this woman on her feet please fucking help her! OK, I've checked the original LA Times article and here's her mailing address:Lee SevillaP.O. Box 5484, Playa del Rey, CA 90296She isMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147025124233061322006-05-07T11:00:00.000-07:002006-05-07T11:05:24.256-07:00Scoreboard: Spring 2006 SemesterSocial Psychology 3 units B+ 3.33Self And Society 3 units unkDevelopmental Psych 3 units unkScene And Story 3 units unkEarly Mod Pol Phil 3 units unkTotal for S2006 3.33 GPATotal GPA 3.61 GPASo making that extra effort and sending in a revised version of my final paper actually goosed my grade up a little. Good.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1147023379593754942006-05-07T10:30:00.000-07:002006-05-07T13:46:08.253-07:00A little digression from the Sports Page: hubris goeth before a fall.The Lakers are history this year. Say bye-bye. Gone. Hasta la vista, baby.I have always thought that when Kobe and Shaq had their very public spat a few years ago, the Lakers should have fired both of them. Cleaned house. It would have meant that the Lakers would have been in "rebuilding mode" for a few seasons, as a teamful of Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1146971085902728542006-05-06T20:00:00.000-07:002006-05-06T20:04:45.923-07:00OMGWTFBBQ??? More defections from the nutjob Right wrt Dubya:Doug McIntire ApologizesThis guy is still a crackpot and an asshole (vide his nativist bullshit in other places on his site) but this is just fucking breathtaking. When you've lost the caveman right wing radio hosts, you've lost America. w00t!Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1146961718153808092006-05-06T17:25:00.000-07:002006-05-06T17:28:38.173-07:00Apple is being retarded.They are suing SomethingAwful.Com because of this picture: (SFW)(click for a better view)Anyone who has built computers knows that YOU DON'T USE THAT MUCH FRICKING THERMAL PASTE ON A FRICKING HEAT SINK!!!! These instructions are the reason why the MacBookPro is toasting laps and ruining men's chances for fatherhood as well as possibly SHORTENING THE LIFE OF THE CPU AND Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1146872553078347542006-05-05T16:40:00.000-07:002006-05-05T16:42:33.180-07:00Update-o-rama from Miller Hall Computer Lab, beautiful downtown Woodbury.1.) It looks like I'm *not* going to be able to graduate until the end of Fall 2007. After Spring 2006 and Fall 2006 are in the books, there will still be 21 credits to go. Which means I have to attend Spring 2007 and Fall 2007 semesters. The good thing is this: I can take a couple of classes that are "want to take" rather Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1146704097275117262006-05-03T17:50:00.000-07:002006-05-03T17:54:57.296-07:00Beginning to see daylight...I have one more piece of writing I need to do before Spring 2006 finally goes into the record books.A word of warning: I will have a 16 UNIT COURSE LOAD this Fall. I am hoping to get the fsck out of Woodbury after Spring 2007. This *will* include a math class: Statistics For The Behavioral Sciences. Hopefully the heavy reliance on SPSS will mean that I will be spared aMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1146615223194529832006-05-02T17:10:00.000-07:002006-05-02T17:13:43.216-07:00Voting rage flares in Ohio during FUBAR-ed Primary Election.Daily KOS discussion.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1146586098379425192006-05-02T09:00:00.000-07:002006-05-02T09:08:18.400-07:00I will be back and blogging by this weekend, because this is FINALS WEEK and once this is over I have a few months of liberty before I go back to school again.However, I do allow myself a little time to slack off even now. And this has got to be the ultimate answer to the ultimate geek question: who would be the last man/woman standing in a battle royale between pop culture heroes?Here's your Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1146011596221879602006-04-25T17:30:00.000-07:002006-04-25T17:33:16.266-07:00Back to VINYL!!!I have a whole bunch of old vinyl, including a few 78s, in my collection. However, it's been at least a decade since I've been able to enjoy them. Teac is now satisfying throwbacks in Japan with this new CD/LP/USB player. If this beautiful '50s-styled bookshelf system can record from LP to USB, I'm sold. I suspect this will make it over the Pacific in time for holiday gift giving Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1145928767960585642006-04-24T18:30:00.000-07:002006-04-24T18:32:48.003-07:00Strung out on heaven's high...hitting an all time low.Dubya is now down to 32% approval rating, with 60% disapproval and 8% "dunno" in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll. I think that Dubya's down to the Koolaid drinkers now.And yet he still remains in office. Dammit, why can't we have a vote of no confidence and kick his smelly ass out?!?Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1145721725737164182006-04-22T09:00:00.000-07:002006-04-22T09:02:05.750-07:00Anime Los Angeles 2007: It's all happenin'!Ganked from A-LA founder Chaz Boston Baden's LiveJournal:Anime Los Angeles 3: Membership cap of 180026-28 January 2007, at the Airtel Plaza Hotel, one last time. (In 2008 we'll be in Burbank.) We'll be using the entire hotel, both sides, all weekend. Pre-register so you don't miss out -- we expect to start turning people away some time on Saturday. Make Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1145664597896310802006-04-21T17:05:00.000-07:002006-04-21T17:09:57.906-07:00Just taking a Boop boop a doop break from my studies. Yes, this is the first Betty Boop cartoon, ever. And Betty wasn't human in this...she's a POODLE! With floppy dog ears. Bow wow wow yippie yo yippee yay. Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1145313336693848772006-04-17T15:31:00.000-07:002006-04-17T15:35:36.720-07:00I think I'm going to survive this semester. It's going to be tough, but I'm going to.Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday I'm going to be doing the survey for Social Psych. I have a literature review to turn in on Wednesday. Then the final paper will be due on Monday. I also have lots of work to do for Self & Society. I still have to plan the time to take the final for Developmental Psych, and I willMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1145033497452480422006-04-14T09:50:00.000-07:002006-04-14T09:51:37.466-07:00I'm feeling quite a bit better and this helped: "Furry Happy Monsters" -- REM and The Muppets (From Sesame Street)Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1144863261686839562006-04-12T10:30:00.000-07:002006-04-12T10:34:21.780-07:00I picked a truly WRONG time to be sick. Not that anytime is the right time, but this is the totally worst time, man.The reason why I haven't posted much is because I've been struggling mightily with a stomach flu that became a full-on flu. I've never had that happen...stomach bugs usually stay stomach bugs, and flus usually stay flus. But it happened to me.I think that's why I was so addle-pated Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1144787332677156702006-04-11T13:26:00.000-07:002006-04-11T13:28:52.686-07:00!Somos todos los Americanos!Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1144480341567450292006-04-08T00:10:00.000-07:002006-04-08T00:12:21.580-07:00It might be my addle-brained state, but this made me laugh big time:Star Wars (The Original, aka Episode IV) in 30 Seconds, acted out by sarcastic bunnies.The bun-buns also rip Brokeback Mountain a new a-hole, plus Resevoir Dogs (watch the unbleeped one unless you are under Mom 'n Dad's roof) and Pulp Fiction gets really good lagomorphic deconstruction as well. Watch and enjoy. Oh yeah, you need Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1144476609300247862006-04-07T23:05:00.000-07:002006-04-07T23:10:09.316-07:00My brain is not functioning tonight.I need to finish two presentations due Sunday afternoon for Developmental Psych, do some serious thinking about how to do my research assignment for Social Psych, and write a psycho-autobiography for Self & Society. I also need to write a first full draft of my script for Scene & Story. (it's for a short, not a full feature, thankfully) There are other projectsMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1144357888942335942006-04-06T13:21:00.000-07:002006-04-06T14:11:29.066-07:00A dispatch from Bizarro World, as the facade begins to crack:Facing down the Evil Empire: Quicktime video here as a scripted Bush event goes off-script. Courageous Carolinian Harry Taylor stood up and asked the questions many of us want to. Amazingly, Taylor was not hauled off to Gitmo after this.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1144253268860079112006-04-05T09:05:00.000-07:002006-04-05T09:07:48.880-07:00Episode Zero of The Cartoon Geeks podcast is finally up. Enjoy.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1144015008753833722006-04-02T14:55:00.000-07:002006-04-02T14:56:48.766-07:00Here it is...the ad the GOP does NOT want you to see.Doesn't Russ Feingold look downright Presidential in this ad? No wonder the Red Team canned it.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143920146144543492006-04-01T11:30:00.000-08:002006-04-01T21:31:50.186-08:00BREAKING NEWS: En masse resignations in the Bush Administration!!!!Dateline: Washington, DC, 4/1/2006, 9AM EST APGeorge W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and his Vice President Dick "Darth" Cheney, have jointly resigned following the frogmarching of the brains of their operation, Karl Rove, out of the West Wing. Condileeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and many other cabinet-level aides Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143769356463619632006-03-30T17:40:00.000-08:002006-03-30T17:42:36.486-08:00OMFG this is so good...Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143695496303570692006-03-29T21:10:00.000-08:002006-03-29T21:11:36.316-08:00Green! Green! We swear we're green!Or at least that's what I made this Chevy Tahoe commercial say.Click here if you have Flash.You should try it too...the worst thing that can happen is that you win a Tahoe.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143507090560685952006-03-27T16:45:00.000-08:002006-03-27T16:51:30.576-08:00Dear Goddess, please tell me I hallucinated this. Please.The Paris and Nicky Hilton Cartoon Show. OMFG.I don't want to see this done unless John Kricfalusi does the character design. And it looks like he wasn't anywhere near this project.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143304385162813542006-03-25T08:30:00.000-08:002006-03-25T08:33:05.236-08:00Just say "protect yourself."I thought I hallucinated this back in Junior High (what we call Middle School now) but no, The Walt Disney Company made an anti-STI educational flick back in 1973 that was quite frank even for those liberated times. Here it is, thanks to Google Video: Here's some background on it, from Other Cinema.Of course, such frank, educational, science-based information, told in Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143176122079474572006-03-23T20:45:00.000-08:002006-03-23T20:55:22.093-08:00I love me some Dixie Chicks. Totally.I made my bed and I sleep like a babyWith no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach herDaughter that she ought to hate a perfect strangerAnd how in the world can the words that I saidSend somebody so over the edgeThat they’d write me a letterSayin’ that I better shut up and singOr my life will be over......Forgive, sounds Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143168911309822632006-03-23T18:50:00.000-08:002006-03-23T18:55:11.386-08:00From the "Why do they bother" department.Scuttlebutt says that there will be Yet Another Star Trek series.They're anticipating there will be at least 3 new Superman movies.And there will be not one, but TWO Star Wars series.Folks...have you ever heard about doing something ORIGINAL for a change? Original stuff, folks. It's a scary concept, it's risky, but it's how classics are made. And who knowsMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222684.post-1143030727216060872006-03-22T04:30:00.000-08:002006-03-22T04:32:07.230-08:00The troublesome class may cause me yet more trouble today, and this is why I am up at this hideous hour.Today three other students and I give our group presentation. After a flurry of activity on it over the weekend (inclusive of Friday) I have been hearing crickets chirping in the direction of my fellow students yesterday and the day before.I am afraid that this presentation is going to suck, Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com