The residents of Blue Bell must be thrilled not to be known as Pigeontown any longer. It was originally known as Pigeontown, Pennsylvania, after the large flocks of wild pigeons that once gathered there.
Luckily, I don’t even think they have a single statue in the community.
Hilary Shepherd, a Northern California Kathy Griffin fan and local notary public diva, had this to say about seeing the redheaded comedienne perform live in Concord, California:
“Let me start by saying that Kathy Griffin is friggin’ hilarious. She’s also quite crude and makes absolutely no apologizes for it; my kind of girl, indeed.
Attacking everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Miley Cyrus, Celine Dion to Barbara Walters and even poking fun at herself, Kathy swings a sword of quick wit, dipped in deep rooted D-List bitterness.
But through it all, I could see that Kathy was being genuine and truly herself – not some character the world wants her to be. Somehow, knowing that the cruel jokes came from a place of true heart and love for making people laugh, they didn’t seem cruel at all and were just downright funny.”
She is hugely popular among a fan base of gays and lesbians without being lesbian herself.
Griffin executive produces and stars in Bravo’s “Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List” reality TV show. Check out her official website of KathyGriffin.Net.
Team Griffin consists of Mom Maggie; tour manager Tom Vize, and personal asistant Tiffany Rinehart. Oh, and don’t forget Kathy’s two dogs, Chance and Pom Pom.
Tom sometimes has that crazed “Jack-Nicholson-from-The-Shining” look to him which is sort of creepy but he seems about as harmful as a ladybug munching a leaf.
Tiffany is known for her unique laughter which is overheard at nearly everything Kathy says or does. Her good-girl-next-door charm just glistens through on the small screen.
Gone and noticeably absent from the troop is Jessica Zajicek, former number one personal assistant. Information on her departure is pure conjecture. All that Kathy Griffin stated on her reality television show was a quick blurb about Jessica deciding not to return in order to pursue other interests. (Maggie impression) “Jesus Christ, Kathleen, that’s hardly enough juicy gossip that we expect from you!”
My own unproven theory as to what really happened to Jessica Zajicek? Publicity-hungry Kathy Griffin was getting exceedingly jealous of the younger, hipper, blonder assistant’s rise to fame from the TV program and, in an “All About Eve”-evil maneuver, she axed her from the Southern California comedy compound before you can sing “She’s Got Bette Davis Eyes!” Nice, huh?
It rained the other day. As the mist was coming down, the sun was still shining so my friend and I were looking around outside – wondering if there would be a rainbow in the sky. Sure enough. We spotted it.
The defraction of light was stunning – like a prism projecting its beauty across the heavens.
A meteorology professor at Penn State once declared that every rainbow is personal. The rainbow that you see is your own specific rainbow – stimulating your retina and no one else’s in the exact same manner.
At the conclusion to the biblical story of Noah’s Ark, God placed a beautiful rainbow in the sky as a reminder to all living things that he would never flood the Earth again.
The rainbow is God’s covenant with the world. Like the calm after the storm.
The United States has a bat problem. And soon, a bigger bug problem. In a USA Today posted story, originally from the Nashville Tennessean, a mysterious illness has been killing bats in droves and the scourge is widespread throughout the Northeast; not just in the South.
You see, these nocturnal creatures are part of nature’s bug control system. A half-million bats can annually consume 2.4 million pounds of bugs. I find it amazing that we can even quantify something like that.
No time to lose. Better call out for the Bat Signal, Commissioner Gordon. This has serious global insect implications.
Two of my favorite eats: Swedish Fish Candy and Rita’s Water Ice. Unfortunately the combined effort, which launched July 31st, missed the mark.
The featured frozen dessert flavor doesn’t taste anything close to the gummi red candy version. It’s almost like an extra sweet cherry flavor.
I give it “one fin” out of a possible five. Very disappointing.
Rita’s banana water ice is still number one. Tastes just like a real banana. Not artificial-tasting like other water ice versions.
I like my WeatherBug. It gives me my local weather on my desktop. Bottom right-hand taskbar displays the current outdoor temperature and I get automatic severe weather alerts. That’s one bug I don’t mind bugging me.
Such sibling rivalry must have existed between her and Charlie, the foil to Edgar Bergen’s ventriloquism.
I always knew Candice Bergen as being a beautiful and talented actress, but she was simply stunning in her youth. Hands down.
What is Mozilla? (I like their mission statement…)
They’re a global community of thousands who sincerely believe in the power of technology to enrich people’s lives.
They’re a public benefit organization dedicated not to making money but to improving the way people everywhere experience the Internet.
And they’re an open source software project whose code has been used as a platform for some of the Internet’s most innovative projects.
The common thread that runs throughout Mozilla is their belief that, as the most significant social and technological development of our time, the Internet is a public resource that must remain open and accessible to all. With this in mind, their efforts are ultimately driven by their mission of encouraging choice, innovation and opportunity online.
To achieve these goals, they use a highly transparent, extremely collaborative process that brings together thousands of dedicated volunteers around the world with their small staff of employees to coordinate the creation of products like the Firefox web browser. This process is supported by the Mozilla Corporation, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
In the end, the Mozilla community, organization and technology is all focused on a single goal: making the Internet better for everyone.
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The Mozilla Firefox Logo is pretty cool, too. I love how the fox has a flame-like tail and is wrapped around a neutral-looking earth (no recognizable continents). Simply superb!
Seems like people, like myself who are set in their ways, cannot adjust to demoting Pluto from being the ninth planet in our solar system…. Here is a variety of viewpoints:
Pluto is no longer a planet, according to a new official definition. Instead the icy sphere will be considered one of more than 40 “dwarf planets.” http://www.news.nationalgeographic.com
Why is Pluto Not a Planet? The story of how Pluto lost its status as a planet. Pluto is no longer a planet, according to a new official definition. Instead the icy sphere will be considered one of more than…. http://www.universetoday.com
Space.com: Astronomers approve new guidelines under which distant Pluto is no longer defined as a planet — but the icy world’s advocates … www.msnbc.msn.com
Pluto is still a planet. Only four percent of the IAU voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. One reason the IAU definition makes no sense is it says dwarf planets are not planets at all! That is like saying a grizzly bear is not a bear, and it is inconsistent with the use of the term “dwarf” in astronomy, where dwarf stars are still stars, and dwarf galaxies are still galaxies. Also, the IAU definition classifies objects solely by where they are while ignoring what they are. If Earth were in Pluto’s orbit, according to the IAU definition, it would not be a planet either. A definition that takes the same object and makes it a planet in one location and not a planet in another is essentially useless. Pluto is a planet because it is spherical, meaning it is large enough to be pulled into a round shape by its own gravity–a state known as hydrostatic equilibrium and characteristic of planets, not of shapeless asteroids held together by chemical bonds. These reasons are why many astronomers, lay people, and educators are either ignoring the demotion entirely or working to get it overturned. I am a writer and amateur astronomer and proud to be one of these people. You can read more about why Pluto is a planet and worldwide efforts to overturn the demotion on my Pluto Blog at http://laurele.livejournal.com ~Laurel Kornfeld
PLUTO is not a planet,but its far better to be a Dwarf PLANET,and there are hundreds of Dwarf PLANETS in the solar system which does not resemble PLANETS. www.conradaskland.com/blog
Suddenly Pluto has been demoted from being a true planet to being a dwarf planet. Discover why the solar system just got smaller, how Pluto differs from the… www.school.discoveryeducation.com
Pluto Demoted! Not a planet anymore? by Chris Frantz … A dwarf planet does not meet the third condition of a planet, but it must meet a… www.infoplease.com/spot/pluto-demoted.html
Pluto the planet is dead. The baby in the solar system’s familiar nine-planet pantheon, … It did not settle on an official name for the category… www.washingtonpost.com
Pluto’s Not a Planet. It’s My Home. Welcome to eightSeven music dot com … not enough stones so i gotta stay rollin. www.eightsevenmusic.com
Pluto not a planet? WTF? I’m sorry but I’ve said this before, God made 9 planets. I heard that somewhere so its true. www.blog.kexp.org/blog
If Pluto’s Not a Planet, Is Ketchup a Vegetable, a Fetus a Person, or Same-Sex Marriage an Oxymoron? www.writ.news.findlaw.com
As most people probably know by now, pluto is no longer a planet. I find this funny, and I actually made a t-shirt that says “PLUTO’S NOT A PLANET!” www.scratch.mit.edu/projects/KoalaBear/5197
A planet has to dominate the neighborhood around its orbit. Pluto has been demoted because it does not dominate its neighborhood… www.chacha.com/question/why-is-pluto-not-a-planet-anymore
“Pluto is not a planet” – well, the good people of Aschheim – a little place just outside Munich – may have known it all along. … www.toytowngermany.com
Pluto not a planet? Oh, you mean like Rhode Island’s not a state… Pluto is not a planet. The asteroids are not planets and the hundred of thousands Pluto-like bodies that swim in the region just outside the… www.kairosnews.org/pluto-not-a-planet-oh-you-mean-like-rhode-islands-not-a-state
Why I’m glad Pluto’s not a planet… This is a thoroughly stale topic, but it manages to come up again and again. www.mengbomin.wordpress.com/…/why-im-glad-plutos-not-a-planet
I think it is a horribly bad idea for Pluto not being a planet. I so totally think it is a dumb idea that Pluto is not a planet. The scientist people that… www.blogwaffe.com/2006/08/24/417
Pluto Not a Planet, Astronomers Rule -by Mason Inman. Pluto has been voted off the island. The distant, ice-covered world is no longer a true planet, according to a new definition of the term voted on by scientists today. “Whoa! Pluto’s dead,” said astronomer Mike Brown, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, as he watched a Webcast of the vote. “There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system.” In a move that’s already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten, Pluto will now be dubbed a dwarf planet. But it’s no longer part of an exclusive club, since there are more than 40 of these dwarfs, including the large asteroid Ceres and 2003 UB313, nicknamed Xena–a distant object slightly larger than Pluto discovered by Brown last year. www.pdfoxy.com/16610-pluto-not-a-planet-astronomers-rule-pdf.html
Pluto, a planet since 1930, got the boot because it didn’t meet the new rules, which say a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large… www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210275,00.html
SciGuy: Pluto’s fate has been decided — NOT A PLANET. Oh my, Pluto is not a planet. Please join me in opposition to discrimination against Pluto. I have set up an organization… www.blogs.chron.com/sciguy
Pluto: The Planet That Used to Be. Pluto is not only the smallest planet in the solar system, but it’s smaller than seven of the moons in the solar system (Earth’s moon; Jupiter’s Io, Europa,… www.wired.com/science
So Pluto’s not a planet. It’s an iceball. Deal. www.scottwesterfeld.com/blog
Robert Leroy “Satchel” Paige reportedly got his nickname in his youth from carrying passengers’ bags at the railroad station in Mobile, Alabama. He devised a system of carrying several bags, or satchels, at once utilizing a long pole and resembled a walking satchel tree.
Paige was older than forty-two when he joined the Cleveland Indians in 1948, helping them to win the World Series. According to Negro Leaguer, Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe, Satchel was born on July 7, 1900. He was forty-eight that season!
Contrary to popular belief, Satchel Paige did not win “Rookie Of The Year” honors. In 1948, that award went to the New York Giants’ shortstop Alvin Dark.
But Robert did indeed become Satchel, and Satchel became legend.
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His six rules for staying young:
1) Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.
2) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
3) If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
4) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
5) Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society – the social ramble ain’t restful.
6) Avoid running at all times.
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Trunkbunker.com named Satchel Paige to be the best athlete who ever wore Number 25.
