Detroit Diva

Ok, so last week I rolled through a stop sign. The same stop sign, on a little side street with NO traffic, that I roll through all the time. This time, I was pulled over by the pigs police who were sitting a little ways down the street watching the corner for idiots like me. The cop even told me that his boss had him sitting at the corner all day looking for people rolling through the sign.  I fully admit that I rolled through the stop sign but what really pisses me off is that the ticket is for $115.oo, which is f**king outrageous.   Of course, I stupidly thought it would be something like $35 so I didn't bother to schedule a court date to fight it so now I have to pay the money.  I think I'm going to wear a kick me sign on my back today since I can't kick myself.

Lindsey Lohan got busted for driving drunk early this morning.  One word for you Lindsey: Chauffeur.  Why do these people even bother to go to rehab they should just hire themselves babysitters.  Or better yet, they could just grow up. Yeah, there's a thought.

The new rule in Hollywood  - When Victoria Beckham comes to town, you must cut your hair like hers.

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I've been holding it in for weeks.  I didn't even comment (until today) when Frecs said she had never read them.  But, I just can't conatin myself anymore.  HARRY POTTER comes out in less than 6 hours people!!!  I reallly want to go get my copy at midnight but I know that once there I would be annoyed by all the people and the line and the chaos so I'm going to wait until tomorrow.  It's going to be bittersweet but I can't wait to read it.  So, if you need me I'll be laying on my couch all weekend reading.

Cat and I are going to NYC in October. Airfare is cheap but what is up with the hotels? I'm talking in the range of $300 plus tax.  Of course, there are cheaper alternatives but I'm not going to New York so that I can stay at a Super 8 in Long Island City and quite frankly, am insulted that Orbitz even gives me that as a choice.  We're not asking for much - clean, relatively inexpensive (by NYC standards) and in a central location, by which I mean Manhattan.  Any suggestions?

First we had the blame the victim mentality when it came to rape, now we have the idiot judge in Nebraska who has banned the words rape, sexual assault, victim, assailant, and sexual assault kit from a trial where the defendent is on trial for RAPING a woman.  The judge will allow the words sex and intercourse.  What the fuck??????  Hey dumbass, maybe at your next murder trial you could ban the words killed, murdered, and dead and replace them with oh, I don't know, asleep, life challenged, and resting.   But of course, banning of words would never come up at a murder or other trial.  I truly see this as just another way to blame women.  By banning words it takes away the severity of the crime especially when you use non-violent replacements like sex and intercourse.  Rape is a violent crime and it should be described using the appropriate words.  We don't sanitize murder trials and we should never sanitize rape.  This judge has made a mockery of rape, women, and the justice system.  He should be ashamed!  The Yarn Harlot is ranting about this on her blog as well.

Check this out! Go to Google, type in Google Gothic and hit the first link in the search results (it should say Googoth, the search engine with real bat chunks in it).  How cool is that?

Please don't send in the clowns

I was reading an interview with the following exchange:

First person “Do you like clowns?”

Second person “Why would you ask me that?”

First “Because I find clowns really divide people.”

Second “I hate them.”

I think people either fall into the I love them or the I hate them category when it comes to clowns. I don’t think that there is any in between.  I hate them and have since I was a kid. I don’t think they’re funny and I find them creepy and no thanks to Stephen King (see the book It), I’m pretty sure they’re evil.  My nephew Ben feels the same way.  When he was about 3, my sister, my niece Anna, Ben and I went into a store that had a clown handing out balloons.  Anna went to get a balloon but Ben wouldn’t go near the clown – wouldn’t even look at it. He didn’t say word just sat in the cart looking the other way.  Later, when we were in the car my sister made a comment about the clown (he had hit on her in front of my niece and my sister thought it was very inappropriate and it was) and Ben said “ Aunt Kris, I don’t like Clowns.”  Turned out that we were lucky that he hadn’t screamed hysterically, which was what he did when a clown approached him at the July 4^th parade that year.  So, we’re a family of clown haters.  What about you?