Briefly. The newly reelected president just appointed the first women as the Minister of Defense. And she is 7 months pregnant. All I can say is "Viva España!"

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1730927,00.html

It's really terrible outside. The University cancelled classes after 3:30. And our class got out about an hour early only because one of my classmates had checked her email during the class and told him. I'm going to give her a cookie. I walked back to my apartment since the buses were taking forever...and man, I feel like I've climbed a mountain ( Read more... )

I saw the Oscar Mayer Wiener truck. It was everything that I could have asked for. It was shining, beautifully orange in the snow. Music called me to it, as a siren to a sailor.

"The Latin American experience in the decades prior to the end of the Cold War is a good example of what happens when security issues become the only prism through which politics and international relations are observed"
_Democracy in Latin America, UNDP, 2004, 194

I had a fantastic thought: Alice in Wonderland Carmen Miranda. I found goth Hello Kitty Alice in Wonderland on a t-shirt so anything is possible.

Just a thought.

www.zombiepinups.com

Yes. You read the address right.

The best thing is that I can actually critique them. Like some are obviously parodies of famous pinups (like Rita Hayworth lying/sitting down)

Teehee.

Sometimes I love where my Carmen Miranda class takes me (or um...where I go inspired by my class).

Are Christmas decorations camp?

Stolen from Radrac.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

New webcomic: Socks and Barney. Yes, it's based around presidential pets (or non-pets). According to the website, "Rudy Giuliani has a pet rat named Vinny and Denis Kucinich has a martian proto-glompulus named Gremphylogumot ( Read more... )

Can anyone remember the episode where Stewie dresses up as Carmen Miranda?

Love you forever... :-D Also, I may or may not dress in a Carmen Mirandesque tinfoil hat to present my final paper...