Hypocrite The anti-drug commercials are finally improving. No more images of little jimmy smoking a little pot and blowing his friend's brains out - somehow that didn't resonate with the forty million pot smokers of yesteryear who are still in good touch with all of their very much alive pot smoking friends. Today, instead, there's the image of the guy in a button down, he's wearing khakis (at least in the DC segment) and the announcer is commenting on how just because he did it as a kid, just because saying to his kid, "don't smoke pot" makes him a hypocrite b/c he knows he used to, it's no excuse not to be a parent now. Hypocrisy - finally something we can all relate to! [ Posted by: Onika , June 30, 2005 ] Training Training at WFM: 16.5 hrs Training at CW: 0 Feeling like a company cares about its employees: priceless. [ Posted by: Onika , June 01, 2005 ] 30 Dishes for 30 Years We got to 23 dishes - not b/c I have age issues! - and I think that's pretty impressive. Here they are: Turkey Burgers Pancakes Salad Crabcakes Pan Tomaquet Prosciutto & Melon Beet Cichetti Fava Bean Crostini Grilled Red Snapper Bread Crab Curry Green Chicken Curry Mussels Eggplant Dip Chicken Meatballs Edamame Arugula Crostini Ginger Pork Chocolate Chip Cookies Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Almond Puff Pastry Expresso Martini [ Posted by: Onika , May 12, 2005 ] $20 and the wrong friends Things to do with $20 when you don't have a car: 1. Go to the movies. Take a friend. 2. Buy herbs, plant a garden. 3. Purchase caramel frappacinos for you and two friends. 4. Treat a friend to lunch. 5. Buy crack cocaine. Episode of Cops 05/03/05 Cop: You couldn't think of anything better to do with $20 than buy crack cocaine? Arrestee: What else are you supposed to do with 20 bucks when you don't have a car? Who not to travel with when you're purchasing drugs before going into rehab: 1. The friend who gets nervous at the neighborhood you brought him into, freaks out, speeds, runs a red light in front of a cop. 2. The friend who, when pulled over, proceeds to list all the places on your body where you're hiding you're recently acquired purchases. 3. The friend who, when pulled over, lists the places in the car where you've stashed other recently acquired purchases. And I normally turn COPS off after Buffy! [ Posted by: Onika , May 03, 2005 ] Gratuitous Girl on Girl Action American television has become a 14-year-old heterosexual male wet dream. I don't purport to have an elite taste in television shows (note: addicted to Charmed), but if I have to view another set of young, taut and fiercely beautiful women looking longingly into each other eyes while their lips begin to quiver with desire...It seems that everywhere I turn beautiful young (often teenage) women are going at it on screen. What's even worse is that half the time they're not gay - they're "experimenting" or "exploring" - like women - often are with each other - drug free - in the heterosexual male mind. Men still don't seem to experimenting - no scenes of Ryan and Seth just falling for each other. And gay men? They're still expressing their affection for each other with deep meaningful...hugs. Having been raised within gratuitous naked bosom of Hollywood, I'm accustomed to women ripping off their clothes to recite the pledge of allegiance more comfortably. Which gratuitous naked body parts will raise my children? [ Posted by: Onika , May 03, 2005 ] looking my faults in the face I just sent two of my friends to an empty baseball stadium. Yikes. Eek. ugghhh. For crying out loud! He called and asked if the Nationals were playing tonight, so I looked it up - on the OFFFICIAL website no less - and discovered that, yes, indeed at 7:35 the Nationals would not be playing. Checking "home" or "away" isn't the kind of detail I would look for. Not to be spiteful or lazy. I just wouldn't look for that detail unless someone asked it of me. Not that they should have to ask b/c "is there a game tonite" implied "at home." He's not some avid fan that needs to cover every Nationals game out there. It's just such a classic mistake of mine that I'm mortified to stare this fault in the face. Sorry... [ Posted by: Onika , April 11, 2005 ] Read more in the Archives