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Serious ridiculousness.

My Quest to Become Less Single.

I want an animatronic dinosaur in a Santa hat!

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I was sucked into an article that has nothing to do with my job, but it was pretty darn interesting. The magazine "New Scientist" compared dogs v cats in a variety of areas to see which would come out on top.

The comments are pretty good, too, with people weighing in on their pet of choice. The most humorous comments are in the 'Cat Among the Pigeons' thread.

Fight!

Thanks to Desert Jeff for sending me this link. 

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I don't see one Christmas related item in this photo titled CHRISTMAS STORY I found at one of LOC sites, but it sure is the sweetest thing just the same.

Perhaps they're saying their prayers on Christmas Eve?

Christmas Story

Nostalgic moments since Andrea G. said she's coming to visit in January:

Andrea and I (as NAZIRECTIONS) playing in Portland at Reed College.

In retrospect, it really was just drunken noise.
Later that same night I remember falling on my face (not because I was drunk) because I jumped from the top of a staircase (because I was drunk) and waking up with a fat lip. I deserved it.

In other news, last night Ben and I were interviewed (videotaped) and photographed by these young local filmmakers wanting to talk to young designers (I think---it all happened so fast). There were all these cameras positioned around me and people looking at me while I worked. It wasn't unpleasant, just unusual.

Anyway, one of the questions they asked me was if I had any advice for someone just starting out (as if I'm not).

Well, first of all, I had all my words together and basically said that you need to have a plan and goals in mind. And that you need to stay focused and keep good records. You need to know where your money is going! OKAY.

And then I finished it off by messing up my words...
Instead of saying "you need to hang in there", I said: "You need to stick it in."
I guess I was trying to say, "You need to stick with it."
I don't know. But it keeps playing over and over in my head.
I'm not really embarrassed. I just keep thinking how dumb I was. Dumb!

In OTHER news, we shoot our look books on Sunday, which is cool.
We're both really (very) busy with getting samples ready for this AND getting holiday orders out. I leave for Texas on December 16th. So, the last day to order anything from Cubist Literature until 2010 is December 13th!

I see President Obama as another Jimmy Carter.  Unfortunately, President Obama is a reflection of the Democratic Party's quest to defame America and install an Cuba Lite government.  The following is a partial list of poor decisions by President Obama and his administration.

Here it goes:

Constant apologies abroad for everything from slavery to Hiroshima

Bows to Saudi royalty, the Japanese emperor, and Chinese autocrats

The on-again/off-again Guantanamo shut-down mess

The fight with the former CIA directors

The public show trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed

The reach out to Ahmadinejad Castro, Chavez, and assorted thugs

The Honduras fiasco

Czars everywhere

The serial “Bush did it”/reset whine abroad

The Queen of England/I-pod fiasco

Gordon Brown gets snookered in his gift-giving

Unceremoniously shipping back the Churchill bust

The end of the special relationship with the UK

The New York on-the-town presidential splurge

Anita Dunn and her Mao worship

Timothy Geithner/Tom Daschle/Hilda Solis and their taxes

What ever happened to Gov. Richardson?

“No lobbyists” = gads of them

The Podestas’ insider influence-peddling empire

Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” chauvinism

The Special Olympics silly quip

Trashing Nancy Reagan

The Skip Gates/police acting “stupidly” mess

ClimateGate is upon us.  President Obama is being used by those that want world wide domination of human affairs. 

It is amazing that intelligent people can be hoodwinked into believing that a world wide body should have control over the productive activities of people all over the world. 

President Obama and his administration bamboozled America in 2008. 

However, the 2010 and 2012 election cycles will prove disasterous for Obama, because Obama will not be able to deliver on this campaign promises. 

Americans will realize in 2010 that Obama and his administration do not have the leadership skills to create jobs and deal effectively with the financial crisis. 

(Oct. 16, 2009) — One world government, ruled by heartless and godless Marxists might be here sooner than you think. And the objectives of international Communists might explain all the money and power behind putting Obama into power.

But the mechanism for establishing this one world Marxist government has only recently been revealed:  The Copenhagen Treaty on Climate Change.