how-to:

i want to do more little things to make a less harmful impact on the planet. so what can i do? i've cut down on paper napkin usage (thanks robin!), stopped littering cigarette butts (the smoking habit itself i am working on, too), and started washing and reusing one water bottle and not buying new ones. i don't leave the water on when i brush my teeth, either. so what else? does anybody have any interesting ideas? post your thoughts in the comments. i could use a little help on this one.

UPDATE! i found this really great site with TONS of little things you can do to reduce the amount of waste you produce and reuse what you already have!

check this out! http://www.globalstewards.org/ecotips.htm

d-eye-arrhea.

what does this thing do.

thanksgiving thursdays

robin and i have been thinking a lot today about all of the things we're thankful for. we have been writing thank you notes all morning!
we have decided that it is important to be grateful, and often. it's easy for feelings of gratitude to get lost in the shuffle. so here is our solution: every thursday we will give the world the opportunity to post an open thank you letter on the blog. you can say anything you want! say thanks to your favorite elementary school teacher, or say i am grateful to be here and be healthy, or say thank you nature for making trees so tall and climbable! just go nuts!
please post your thank you letters in the comments. post fifty times if you want; there are so many things to say!

i have a crush on donald rumsfeld!

i mean, it's purely physical, but it's true. he has the most expressive face ever.
here's your chance to get political.
tell me, what is donald rumsfeld thinking?



i just want to wrap his little head up in a wonton skin and dip it in some soy sauce.

damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

http://www.ideazoo.com/things/hiphop.cfm

tell me your hip hop name. pizzle in the commizzle.

obviously, mine is King Slim Freak of the underground.

where are you going?

seriously, where are you guys going?

there is obviously some kind of holiday i am unaware of. does anybody know what these ladies are celebrating and where the heck they're going to celebrate it? post it in the comments, so that i, too, may attend this function.

i haven't seen outfits this serious since laura bryna attended the academy of country music awards.

can't place the name?

she's the founder of the texas hairdressers' association big-time family fun marching band.

i think that's cobalt blue suede.

i am filled with bitter rage.

do you want to know what i think is ridiculous?

people with too much time on their hands that sit around the house all day photoshopping pictures of members of the political party they oppose to make stupid jokes. so your job is to find one of these things (it is not difficult) and send it to us. and then we can sit around our offices grimacing and grinding our teeth.
oh, look what i found:

i mean, i'm all about wasting time on the internet when i have to be at my desk anyway, but come ON.

whatever, at least when they poorly attached hillary's severed head to another person's body they chose A BLACK PERSON.

julian found this gem:

ok genes and geniuses

my boyfriend's band is getting *REALLY* big. i need you guyses help to come up with some really great t shirt slogans for their next tour! post in comments.

p.s. my guy is the one on the left with the perm!

e=mc2 HAHAHAHA!!!!1

tell me a joke about math or science.

all about the color red.

write a little diddy. just a couple of lines. like this:

my favorite color is red.
that's because of blood, for one thing.
is it true that when it's still inside you it is blue?
i heard that once.

then pop it into an online translater, like this one here:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

and then give us the original little thing and then the translated thing, like this:

my favourite color is red

that is because of the blood, for a thing.

he is true that when it is still inside of you is blue?

I heard that one a time.

post in the comments.

wha happa?

investigate this crime scene.

here we go yo.

write a rap about what you did last night.

pizzle your response in the comizzle.

having a, robot.

if you could just go ahead and have a robot, tell me what it would do. also if it does or does not have a full mouth of teeth. see below.

piggy your answer in the ciggy

the ethnically diverse sisters.

"the white sisters" want to rename their band after discoveringtizing that sharonda (pictured center) is actually 1/16 african american. pickle your suggestions for a new band name in the condiments.

imagigiration habitatual

please tell me three things about the person who lives here, also their name. pudding in the comments.

complete the

sentence.

"Again, my eyes fill with tears. I must confess to keeping something from you: I broke all the bones in the hand you are squeezing in a puppereering mishap only hours before I met you. But joy defeats my pain! Who knew that a traveling puppeteer such as I would find happiness here with the daughter of a billionaire industrialist? I will give you happiness beyond your dreams of..."

post it in comments, obviously.

explain this to me.

post in comments.

makin' stuh' uh'

write a sentence with these initials: R.I.D.C.F.S.B.H.S.D.G.
for example, i'll begin one: Robin Invites Dead Cold Finger Shamble Binge Hat Stangle Dangle Gangitron.
okay, but you can use real words.

please tell me...

what is this animal thinking?

post it in comments.

oh no, chessie took my backpack!

some little kids (4th grade) in MD wrote this amazing chapter book. it's too long to post here, but the link is: http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Kidwriters/Mystery/Maryland/Chessie.htm
then you have to just keep hitting the next button.
one kid would start a story, someone else would take over, they would pass it on, etc. i think we should try one.
here's how the first kid started their story:

"When John got off of the school bus he followed the smell of the salt water. There was light fluffy clouds in the sky. Everywhere people were laughing and talking. It was a happy place at that time. But then John saw a duck being tortured because everyone was chasing it. Then he ran to the duck that was on the dock. He got his lunch and fed the duck. He was feeding the duck by the tour boat. Then when the whistle blew, he jumped up. Some of the passengers in a different class heard it and went running to get on the boat. The people that ran to get on the boat knocked John's bookbag off his shoulder and it fell in the water. John yelled, "HEY!"
As soon as he watched it fall into the water he said, "Oh no, my bookbag fell from the dock of Annapolis. Gee! Now Chessie the sea monster got it. "Jenny, one of John's classmates, asked, "Who is Chessie?" John said, "Chessie is the long green slimy sea monster that lives in the Chesapeake Bay. She just took my bookbag." Jenny chuckled when Chessie looked at her and said, "She looks like a 'Long green slimy worm.'"

so who wants to start? i bet it's robin!