Todd Kelley’s Neighborhood

I really do make this face ALL the time...

Giraffe Leeps

I think it's when I am concentrating.

I love that song. I always just hear the De La Soul version

and it makes me want to hit a roller skating rink but anyway...

New year, new possibilities.

My kumu (hula teacher) sent me a pretty good quote this year that i posted somewhere else - So, if you clicked on the link and read it..well, basically, it's about being positive..saying "yes" instead of "no." I really liked it. I think the last couple of years have been a whole lotta of "no"s and "can't" and normally, I tend to say "yes" and am pretty much down for any kind of adventure but lately, with debts and car trouble and all those kind of shenanigans, it's been downright rough. So, a change of attitude is in order plus, I'm just plain tired of that funk and it's kind of lame being that way. Not that I'm that way a lot but more so than what I consider normal for me.

So, time to discover things. Rediscover things. Appreciate old things. and all that good stuff.

I'm not super emotional or public about my funk so right now I'm getting pretty uncomfortable writing this....

Anyway, so today will be spent with good friends, possibly heading out to Pasadena to take a look at those crazy Rose Parade Floats and then who knows what...

Have a good one peeps!

Also, if you have a moment take a listen to this awesome album 100% dynamite from Soul Jazz. Rediscovery #1.

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Everyone tries to be different, but then they gravitate toward people who share their affinity for being different in the same ways... therefore making them all the same. 

What's your New Year's resolution for 2010?

Don't make promises you cant keep.

I don't really like going out for New Years. I don't mind a house party if there is an invite - but in general I have become intolerant of drunks and screaming girls. For some reason New Years Eve is a celebratory event for lightweight drinkers and girls who run in giggling, shrieking packs. BLAH!

I thought we should try to do SOMETHING for New Years - so we decided to see a movie then find some food. We got to the Scotia Bank Theatre in plenty of time - but everyone else got there earlier so we were forced to sit on the second row from the screen. I lasted about 30 minutes into Sherlock Holmes before my stomach started to churn. It's probably a good thing that I forgot my glasses. I'm not sure if a sharper image would have kept me from wanting to projectile vomit onto the screen. I was close enough to hit it without much effort. Luckily, after that explanation to the box office attendant, we were able to get our money refunded.

We went next door to Pacifico Pizza - and after a tall glass of Sprite I was up for some good pizza. And it was Great pizza!

The buses were running for free last night, and if I had known that sooner I would have arranged to just ride the bus all over Vancouver until midnight (perhaps stopping at a few bars along the way or carrying a flask just to add to the festivity of the evening). Well, there is always next year.

We stopped at Earl's for some drinks and made it home way before midnight.

Nothing epic, but at least we got out of the house.

"From today, 1 January 2010, the new Irish blasphemy law becomes operational, and we begin our campaign to have it repealed. Blasphemy is now a crime punishable by a €25,000 fine. The new law defines blasphemy as publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion, with some defences permitted."

And, as a backlash.... Repeal the Irish Blasphemy Law

From the link:

"

This new law is both silly and dangerous. It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas. And it is dangerous because it incentives religious outrage, and because Islamic States led by Pakistan are already using the wording of this Irish law to promote new blasphemy laws at UN level.

We believe in the golden rule: that we have a right to be treated justly, and that we have a responsibility to treat other people justly. Blasphemy laws are unjust: they silence people in order to protect ideas. In a civilised society, people have a right to to express and to hear ideas about religion even if other people find those ideas to be outrageous.

Publication of 25 blasphemous quotes

In this context we now publish a list of 25 blasphemous quotes, which have previously been published by or uttered by or attributed to Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Mark Twain, Tom Lehrer, Randy Newman, James Kirkup, Monty Python, Rev Ian Paisley, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Frank Zappa, Salman Rushdie, Bjork, Amanda Donohoe, George Carlin, Paul Woodfull, Jerry Springer the Opera, Tim Minchin, Richard Dawkins, Pope Benedict XVI, Christopher Hitchens, PZ Myers, Ian O’Doherty, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and Dermot Ahern.

Despite these quotes being abusive and insulting in relation to matters held sacred by various religions, we unreservedly support the right of these people to have published or uttered them, and we unreservedly support the right of any Irish citizen to make comparable statements about matters held sacred by any religion without fear of being criminalised, and without having to prove to a court that a reasonable person would find any particular value in the statement.

Campaign begins to repeal the Irish blasphemy law

We ask Fianna Fail and the Green Party to repeal their anachronistic blasphemy law, as part of the revision of the Defamation Act that is included within the Act. We ask them to hold a referendum to remove the reference to blasphemy from the Irish Constitution."

I'm ready to join the Irish Atheists myself!

Raekwon Would Like To Wish Everybody A Happy Holiday & New Year

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