Pajiba

A keg of beer.

It's not a Snuggie (yet) but my wife did make me a kick ass Denver Broncos blanket last year which I'm about to wrap myself in to watch TV.

I, too, love my Snuggie more than anyone should. I mocked the commercials until I got one...now it's a permanent fixture. Oh well.

While shopping tonight, we saw and thus had to buy...a pirate puppet. A muppet level deal, with an eyepatch, hook for a hand and a giant Van Dyke beard. I am of course bringing this to work, because who needs to be promoted?

Someone once gave me a pair of awful, 70s-era bright candy apple red plates with the phrase "You are special today" stamped on the rims. They're tacky and cheesy and, God help me, if I don't laugh my ass off at them every time I set them out to use them.

They complete me. They goddamn complete me.

I was unreasonably excited about receiving one of those tools that opens blister packaging. I mean, really, I've got utility knives, scissors and a mess of razor blades. But this thing was designed for packages. Kind of like Harris.

I don't know if you'd call it a gift, more of an inheritance, but these hospital socks Pap doesn't need anymore cause he's dead?

Are these things great. In bright red.

Someone shameful and disreputable and wonderful sent me a hoodie with their fave team logo on it for Christmas last year. I sleep in it most nights. I love it.

I don't know if this counts, but I have a light blue leather, padded, quilt stitch, hello kitty wallet. It...is the best damn wallet I have ever had. I used to be gaga for retro coin-purse wallets and this was a modern take on the same deal. It has been going strong for over 11 years. I look like a candy-ass tool using it though, and I do, every single day.

Other stuff? Dr. Pepper bonne belle lipsmackers, and my Costco membership card. I cringe and die at the last one, but c'mon! Double nutellas and reasonably priced brie!

Hospital socks are awesome.
My dad used to bring them home for me from work, and I stockpiled them. My friends used to make fun of me, but they are comfy and non-slip! Who could resist.

TylerDFC wraps himself in a shroud of shame.

...Spice World on DVD.

I don't have an Eagles Snuggie, but the boy bought me the world's softest robe last year with the Eagles' logo. Close enough.

Hmm...I got a pair of pink socks last year from my dad. It sounds lame, but they're thick and soft and have those little grippy things on the bottom. Since I am She That Falls Down Too Much, they come in handy.

you earn cred by owning more ridiculous team-branded crap

The FUCK you say that it's crap. Team-branded is more popular than Team Jacob and Team Greaseball combi... shit. Is that Carly Simon I hear?

And by extension...kindly go fuck yourself with a rusty claw hammer for looking down your nose at any Eagles fan. Local professional spotrs franchises do a lot more for people than just making them root for the team. They provide a release, a break from reality.

Shitty economy. I have my Phils.

Job not going so hot. Thank god for Iggles Sundays.

Bills hitting me hard. Let's go Flyers.

You judge Vick because of past transgressions...well fuck you for YOUR current lack of humanity and understanding of the human spirit. WOOF!

Do you people actually realize what he did? What he DID - not just let happen, as he's so fond of saying. He didn't just stand by while those dogs were beaten, electrocuted, hanged and drowned. He HELPED. With his own two hands. The swimming pool at that place had CLAW MARKS in the CONCRETE where those poor dogs tried in vain to claw their way out. They hung them from trees and attached electrodes to watch them jerk and struggle. Michael Vick did that. And he's never owned up to actually getting his hands dirty. It's always, "what I let happen" - what somebody else did. And for your information, he did time for the gambling charges. He's never done time for the cruelty.


So no, as long as Michael Vick remains in the public eye, I will NEVER shut up about him. He's a sadistic bastard who's ever so sorry he got caught but who really doesn't think what he did to those dogs was wrong. He had an elaborate system set up to give blood transfusions to the winning dogs so they would live to fight another day. You think he couldn't have set something up to humanely euthanize the others? He could have - he just didn't WANT to.


So Merry Fucking Christmas to you, too. At least you get to have one. Those dogs Michael Vick tortured to death just for the sake of torture will never see another one.

The ASPCA refused to work with him after his release from prison because of their doubts about his remorse so he (or his PR team) shopped it around and finally found a taker in HSUS. Wayne Pacelle will do anything that gets him more press and money. I've seen the interviews and what comes across most is that he's so very sorry about what HE lost. He hurt his family, his career, his coaches - all those people. Not too much about the dogs, though. And everything he's done since has been so much in the public eye and designed to let us all know exactly how much he's changed. He's at least getting some good PR coaching on what to say.


Somebody who's really sorry for what they've done and really made a change doesn't go around beating their breast yelling, "Look at me, look at me, I'm different now!" He's still making excuses for it, too. He learned it as a child. He didn't want to tell his friends "No". Excuses, excuses, excuses. He's all about rebuilding his image, not really making amends.


You can justify anything and you probably will because by God, we have to have our sports. Anything for a winning team. But Michael Vick had to know even while he was doing it that you do NOT kill an animal by torturing it. If you have to kill it, make it quick, clean and as painless as possible. He didn't live in the back end of nowhere. He knew what was right and what was wrong. So do you. What he did can by no stretch of the imagination be called simply "killing". He hanged those dogs. He held their heads under water to drown them. He electrocuted them. He beat them until they died. He did it with his own two hands. What you're calling "destruction" and "just killing" was torture, pure and simple.


But your Eagles are winning so you go ahead and justify that in your little pea brain. He's done what he had to do to get back in the good graces of the simple minded who will forgive anything to see their team win. So I guess that much of his PR campaign is working.

ANYWAY, I got an A&M snuggie for my birthday and I LOVE it.

Wow...pea brained huh? Who's really the pea brain Carrie. Re-read my comments. Not once do I say I have forgiven him. Not once have I said anything about how awesome it is to have him as the quarterback of my favorite football team. I'm merely presenting the case to give someone the benefit of the doubt, and try and have a little faith that they just might be turning around. So take your little pea brain and ponder on that. Your entire arguement is based on YOU.

"Finally found a 'taker' in the HSUS." Wow...the Humane Society must be SUCH a shitty organization to stoop that low huh. Fuuuuuuck you. I'm proud to have volunteered for them many times.

I didn't call anything "destruction". My entire above post is directly from the public documents of the case file and from his indictment record. Not once do I say "just killing" anything. That's what your little pea brain is thinking it's seeing. And if I have to say so myself "Destruction" is a hell of a more powerful word than "kill." Look it up. Destroy. Much more descriptive and painful a word.

And as far as he learned it when he was young, not telling his friends no, blah blah blah. Where the FUCK are you getting this? As a Philly local I am inundated with Michael Vick interviews, comments, commentary, reports, etc. And in NONE of them has he ever tried to justify why he did what he did or how he got into it. So go ahead with your pea brain and keep pretending you hear it all and know it all. You haven't made one good point in your entire effing arguement. And have failed to respond in any type of reasonable though or couter arguement. It's nothing more than SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT, grumble grumble grumble, how dare you how dare you. How dare YOU judge anybody. Not once have you tried to make any sense greater outside of a gorilla pounding it's chest saying "

Go suck on the unfriendly end of anything filled with double-aught and put us all out of your bullshit misery. I doubt you bother having 1/10th of this fury when it comes to people. It's pointless to even try will thickheaded zealots like yourself and I'm sorry I even wasted my time. By the way....T thinks your a dick as well.

What exactly are some really good cd players for kids? My cousin is 5 years old and for christmas I'd like to see to buy her a ipod, she loves my nano but I think it might be difficult for her to apply it. Are there give ones for kids?