Beneviolent Anarchy!

I'm back!
Time to share some great ideas in beauty, anarchy and freedom!

Have you noticed how the whole idea of what's beautiful and tasteful is packaged and crammed down our throats like a grease ball hamburger?   I'm tired of it and adore the creative, graffiti artists and street performers who add a bit of beauty and whimsy to our urban jungles.

http://urbanprankster.com/

http://improveverywhere.com/

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ 

Bringing Smart back.

I have found something, today that got me excited.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_more_school


Forget sexy, we need to bring smart back.
Our culture does not encourage us to excell in academics. That's for nerds, geeks, dorks and loosers. 
http://householdhacker.com/

We are encoraged to be good looking, cool, thin, have HUGE breasts and be willing to do anything for our 15 minutes of fame. 
What happened to having pride and dignity?
http://omg.yahoo.com/

My son jokes about wanting to develope a vaccine for stupidity.  I think it's a great idea. At least he didn't tell me he wants to be on American Idol or some other "reality" show.
http://www.earthsky.org/

http://www.scifun.org/


As a culture, we need to appreciate our FREE education.  Why is education the first thing on the budget, chopping block?  Do the politicians not want smart people voting? We might make some informed decisions instead of falling for the misleading sound bites.
We have become a nation of people with the attention span of a ferret on speed. We are so busy multitasking that we probably don't understand half of the information that we just absorbed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_span

What is up with Twitter? Who has the time or desire to know every little detail of their "friends" lives? 
I get a twitch in my eye when I see so many people walking around with their attention glued to a small, electronic device. 

The evil twin wants to trip them.  Do they realize that LIFE is happening all around them?

Wake up and smell the text books kids.
Your chance of becoming famous are painfully thin.
That is, unless you can come up with the vaccine for stupidity.


http://www.thinkgeek.com/




 

Sustaining Autumn fun!

Pumpkins, autumn leave falling, apple pies, candy corn, costumes, haunted houses and Trick or Treating! I love Autumn. Harvest festivals and time for baking, warm, hearty soups and lets not forget.. Oktoberfest!
Alright, enough of my giddy, Autumnal ranting. I wanted to bring attention to Halloween. One of my favorite holidays. Well, it used to be before the damned, greedy retail monsters took over and tried to make us buy stupid, made in China costumes, candy that is filled with HFCS and what is up with these stupid, Halloween trees? I remember having so much fun making decorations and costumes. Once, my family even made our own haunted house in the barn and invited neighbors over. It was great.
I'd like to challenge everyone who reads this to try and have a Green Halloween.
http://environment.about.com/od/greenhalloween/ss/green_halloween.htm

Bake goodies for friends, have a jack o lantern carving party, bob for apples and make your own costumes.
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=1141369282006

http://greenliving.suite101.com/article.cfm/green_costume_ideas_for_halloween

I'm planning on dressing in black and scaring trick or treaters. I like tricks over sugary treats.
If that doesn't work out I'd like to have friends over for good food, beer and swapping ghost stories.
http://www.halloweenghoststories.com/

So lets get back to simple, fun, creative holidays and spend more time with friends and family and less time and money shopping for junk that will only end up clogging the landfill.

Love your Mother!