Day 15; Post 15: The Right-Wing.

We have been having some exciting visitors at our school lately!  First, it was Tom Kierein (maybe only exciting to an NPR nerd like myself), then Arne Duncan, and tomorrow we have some more.

Our school is absolutely beautiful.  Lots of light, bright colors, wide open spaces...and tomorrow we're supposed to be visited by some big right-wing politicians.  Among the confirmed is Justice Scalia.  

Aside from my surface knowledge of the Supreme Court, most of what I know about Justice Scalia is from my Environmental Law class that I took a long time ago at Williams.  Suffice to say, I'm not partial to Justice Scalia.  However, Jamie has met him and said he was funny and nice enough (despite being mostly misaligned with our social views), and now he's company to someone who has been very generous to our students...so I guess I'll warm up to him a little.  

Justice Thomas -- someone who I will probably never warm up to -- backed out of coming.  Even more hilarious is that I heard that DICK CHENEY could possibly be in attendance.  I am assuming that is just a rumor because I hadn't heard confirmation that he would actually come.  In short, we will be having a lot of right-wing heavy hitters coming tomorrow.  

And Barack Obama continues to forsake us.  Maybe some day...

Unavoidable Truth.

I was going to try and stay away from this whole Suri business, but I can't help it. Two things:

1) This baby is extremely cute.

2) This baby is partially asian.

Is it just me? Does this baby only look asian to me because I am asian? Is this some deep-seeded bias that I have? I cannot say exactly why she looks asian to me, but despite those stunning blue eyes I cannot deny that she looks at least partially asian. I have said "asian" way too many times in the last paragraph.

One more thing: this child is too perfect looking to be the spawn of Tom and Katie. Aren't most celebrity babies somewhat funny looking since they are the combination of very pretty parents with strong features? It's what you learn in Psych 101: the people we see as beautiful are generally the ones with the most normalized features. You add in a crazy Tom Cruise nose or crooked smile with a Katie Holmes cheekbone and platter-sized eyes and you should get some crazy-looking baby. Not necessarily an asian baby with lots and lots of hair.

Crikey.

Just read that Steve Irwin (aka: The Crocodile Hunter) was killed today in a freak accident. Apparently, he was filming an underwater documentary when a stingray barb went straight through his heart. They say it's a "freak accident" because apparently it's pretty rare for that to actually happen.

Does anyone else find it extremely ironic that after all of the deadly snakes and massive crocodiles etc. that Steve Irwin has poked and prodded in the past, he was actually killed by a stringray? I do. While I don't think I ever watched Steve Irwin outside of a few internet clips and those movie commercials from a long time ago this news really saddens me. After seeing him escape death so many times, people begin to think that he's invincible or that those animals that he loved so much would not be the ones to kill him. Crikey.

Bummed Out.

The news that Lou Diamond Phillips was arrested this morning bums me the eff out. He had always held a special place in my heart because of his role in Young Guns 2. As a little kid who probably should not be watching such an R-rated (it was actually PG-13??) movie, his character was the only one that I liked. He liked horses and I liked horses too.

Also, he was the one "celebrity" that I could see on a semi-regular basis since he lived down the street. I will fondly remember seeing LDP in his little short shorts running around the neighborhood or putting up his little Christmas reindeer.

Now I think he's a jerkface.

Follow Up.

So that's what the baby would look like. Cute.

Breaking News.

Melissa: [looking at a picture of the Jolie-Pitts]




Jamie: Is Angelina Jolie pregnant???

Melissa: [dies]

I can't explain it, but I have an almost obsessive curiosity about this baby. It's a shameful guilty pleasure. What will it look like??

I bet it's gonna be ugly.

Work Break.

Wolverines are open-minded. That is all.

Brokeback City.

Okay...this is the last one of these...but I had to link to this one because it was Jake's breakout role. Also, a favorite movie from my childhood. To this day, I very vividly remember my dad buying tickets for us at the theater ("...four for ceeeety sleeeeeeeckers" -- David knows what I mean).