Monday Meanderings 8.22.2011

Seen recently on Facebook:

• The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
• CEO's are now playing miniature golf. 
• Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. 
• Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America. 
• Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore. 
• A picture is now only worth 200 words.
• They renamed Wall Street "Wal-Mart Street"
• ...And finally, I called the suicide hotline; I got a call center in Pakistan and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck!

I don't mean to play the "My city is hotter than your city" game, but tomorrow Austin will tie the number-of-triple-digit-days in a summer record of 69 days, set back in 1925, and there is no end in sight. I'm seriously considering doing the rain dance out on the front lawn, but then, of course, we would probably have to move. Even if it brings rain, there are some things the neighbors just can't deal with.

School starts today for much of the area. Yesterday in church we blessed the kindergartners... Mr. Adam made a big deal about how the kids would meet new people, and be in a new place, and it will all be new and diffeent, and a toddler piped up and said, "Nuh huh. I'm going to home school."

So. Governor GoodHair has announced his bid for the presidency and every. word. he. says. is now subject to the utmost scrutiny in the media. I am going to be so sick of this campaign! This past week someone ran a full-page ad in the Austin Chronicle, the alternative, free newspaper in Austin. The 40-point bold-face headline said,

HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH RICK PERRY?

It went on to say. "Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a 'young hottie' impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas? Contact CASH and we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian-buzzword-spouting 'family values' hypocrite and fraud."   

However, KLBJ Radio voluntarily took down their big billboard that said, GOD, GAYS & GUNS along with the names of the talk jocks on the station. They said the billboard was intended to show that the station did not avoid controversial subjects, but it had been widely interpreted as "God is going after Gays with Guns."

You gotta' love this town!

More quotes from friends on the Internet. this from Trey Morgan: "Why are there never any good side effects to meds? Just once I'd like to read a medication bottle and see "May cause extreme handsomeness."