A Little South of Sanity

I guess we all have our phobias. I know that mine is spiders, so when I saw this article at the Fox News website, I thought I’d share with y’all what some of our favorite celebrities had to say about their own phobias.

I’m only going to share five, but the rest you can read by visiting the link at the end of the entry.

• Johnny Depp-                   Fears Clowns
• Nicole Kidman-                Fears Butterflies
• Orlando Boom-                 Fears Pigs
• Billy Bob Thornton-      Fears Antiques
• Christina Ricci-                 Fears Houseplants

For more information and to see the entire article, click Here

Sometimes I find that the people who leave these spam comments that will never be allowed to see the light of day on this page can be quite entertaining. Some leave comments in languages that I couldn’t begin to dechipher, while others leave comments totally off base. Someone attempted to leave a comment on the “eye”phone entry that asked if I needed some fat burners. Yes, I probably do, but I’ll burn my fat the good ole fashioned way, thank you. Makes me wonder if they can see me. Just kidding. I do find it entertaining though. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve deleted in your comments?

I just read (again on FoxNews) where a 30 year old Dallas police officer lost his job after an investigation proved that he had sent nude photos of himself to a high school student. The investigation started when he and his wife were going through a divorce and she turned in several items to the authorities, including the memory card from his cell phone.

Bravo to his wife!

I don’t know about y’all, but I am thrilled that the weekend is upon us. If I smoked, I would be ready to light a few Acid cigars and kick back and relax. Instead, I’ll drink a cup of coffee, watch a good movie and hopefully get caught up on a few things around here.

This weekend is going to be a busy one, and promises a week of fun with the holidays knocking at our back door. Can you believe that it’s just a little more than a month until Christmas? I can’t. I’ve got to get some shopping done, so I’d better add that to my things ‘to do’ this weekend.

I don’t know what is going on but I logged in over here to find that I had more than 25 Spam (not the kind you eat) comments from very odd sources. Granted, they’ll get deleted, but it’s weird that I go for ages and don’t get any, and then poof- they are everywhere.

Well since the latest ‘rage’ seems to be allowing the highest bidder on Ebay to name a persons unborn child, I decided what a great way for us to earn some extra cash by allowing the highest bidder to name the dog we plan on buying early next year. This little venture has the potential to line our pockets with thousands of dollars, which we can use to buy ‘doggie bags’ and vacations with ‘doggie’ when he/she is feeling a little stressed and needs to get away.

When the ‘puppy’ is actually born, I’ll place my ad, and YOU can get in on the bidding. Remember, you could even be the highest bidder AND name our future pup, so get creative, and send in those dollars!!

I’d say something like this makes the ‘freaky’ list on any day, including Friday, but truth is- I think I’m seriously going to try it, just to see if someone actually bids on the ‘opportunity of a lifetime’. Granted, IF anyone does bid, I won’t accept the cash (although I should, if someone has cash to toss away like that) , but I’m curious how it will play out.

So watch this space- When the time comes, I’ll be doing just like this woman, but instead of our unborn child, it will be the newest 4-legged addition to the family.

Call it a social experiement, call it curiosity, or call it plain crazy. You decide.

Earlier I was sitting here tap,tap,tapping out a few words to a friend, when I heard an odd sound coming from the hall. I assumed that it was Mister M. since he and I are the only ones home at the moment, and expected him to come strutting into the computer room at any moment. When that didn’t happen, and the noises continued, I found myself wondering what on earth he was up to, so off I went to check things out.

I saw Mister M. standing by the bathroom door, ‘standing guard’ over something. I flipped on the light, and all I could see was that it was something black, and it looked like a small ball of lint or something. When I approached him, Mister walked out of the way so that I could get a full view of what it was. I leaned closer and it MOVED!!! It then proceeded to flip over and I saw it was a spider, and NOT a small one… Ok, well probably small to most of you, but ‘small’ to me in spider terms is just hatched, and anything else is huge in my eyes. In reality, it was probably about the size of a dime, but that’s BIG to me.

I screamed, and with one quick spat, Mister M. put his paw on the spider and whooosh.. it curled up in a ball again.. Probably trying to protect itself from imminent demise, but I grabbed a peice of toilet paper, flattened it against him, then picked it up and flushed him.

For the rest of the weekend, Mister Mistoffelees is king of my world, as he saved me from the spider. I can’t even stand the thought of where that thing could have ended up if he hadn’t caught it… maybe crawling on me while I slept… EWWW perish the thought!

I am a person who tries to understand and respect the differences that we all share, and try to embrace the fact that just because it’s ‘different’ than what we’d call the ‘norm’, that it doesn’t make it wrong.

With that being said, I was a little surprised this morning when I read about a ancient ritual in India, which is now being blasted by rights activists, because Muslim and Hindu’s are dropping babies 50 foot from the top of a Mosque onto a ‘sheet’ below being held by parents and other believers.

The ritual of the fall and ultimately being ‘caught’ in the bed sheet is believed to insure good health and prosperity to the families. The children, on the other hand, are upset.

Do you blame them?

What do you think? Personally, I think it’s crazy- but then again, maybe we have things in the good ole U.S. of A. that they would deem crazy.

More information on this and other news can be found at FoxNews

I’ve decided to start doing a Freaky Friday entry on Fridays, which will include things that I (or YOU if you send them into me via email) come across in my travels both online and off that I find to be just plain freaky.

With that being said- it seems fitting that the first Freaky Friday installment would be about none other than the King of Freaks- or King of Pop depending on how you look at it- Michael Jackson.

Now before you start sending me comments and email hatin’ me, know that I did like some of his music, and I do believe that he’s a definite POP legend, but I still think he is (or was) a freak. Yes, I do think he died too young, and I think it’s sad, but I’m also getting a little tired of other, more important news taking back seat to whatever happens to be taking ‘center stage’ with Michaels death.

Forgive me for shaking my head when I saw the latest NY Post article titled “Jacko’s Fake Nose Missing“.

Ummm, seriously??? Apparently so.

According to the article, Michael wore this prosthetic to ‘mask’ the effects of decades of plastic sugery, and the fact that he apparently had no ‘real’ nose left.

Personally, I have no idea if this is true, and truth is- I don’t care, but there is someone out there who does. If you are that person, keep your eyes peeled on Ebay- who knows, for the right price, you could actually own a ‘piece’ of the King of Pop, or then again, maybe the person who cleaned up after the autopsy thought it was a ‘toy mask’ and tossed it in the trash.