Grammy and NAACP-nominated breakthrough singer-songwriter Melanie Fiona will serve as the official ambassador to Music Unites’ Empowering Women Through Music initiative. She’s kicking things off with a private acoustic benefit concert on March 16 at The Cooper Square Penthouse, the evening before she kicks off her tour with Alicia Keys at Madison Square Garden.

You should totally get your butt there if you’re in NYC. Tickets can be purchased for $50 at: http://www.musicunites.org/events.html.  Proceeds will benefit the Music Unites Youth Choir.

RSVP at  rsvp@musicunites.org

For more info on Music Unites, go to: http://www.musicunites.org/

The film comes out June 30. Can. Not. Wait.

This looks exactly the same as New Moon, so one can only hope/pray/make sacrifices to the Vampire-Werewolf Gods,  for more Taylor Lautner ab shots. In fact, can the Twilight people just make a film call Jacob Shirtless, plot eponymous to the title?

After that little recommendation to Hollywood, it’s pretty obvious who I am supporting. What about you:

Survivalists have always been around and are always harkening the ultimate end of civilization for some reason whether it be nuclear winter or peak oil or big government or computers not having the ability to surpass two zeros.  And there worry is usually right, albeit way, way, way too extreme and their methods of averting disaster sort of pointless since you can’t shoot an entire angry mob or your way out of a terrorist bomb. 

This time, the groups seem to either be gaining momentum or just getting more press, which is usually focused on stock-piling supplies and buying lifeboats, or studying Will Smith movies.  I’ve never really seen them advertise though. Yet, as the time for ultimate fate looms nearer in the heads of doomsayers, they have taken to the airwaves to promote their wares on Insane Fear TV, also known as The Glenn Beck Show.

Survival Seed Bank, which also advertises on Drudge, sells  non-hybrid seeds that can be used to plant an acre wide ‘crisis garden,’ and can also be sold (for those, one can only assume who live in urban areas where concrete rules), since like Jack’s beans, they will someday be worth more than either silver or gold. Which, um..really, I’m as scared about the meltdown as the next person, but this fear-based advertising is over the top. From their website:

You don’t have to be an Old Testament prophet to see what’s going on all around us. A belligerent lower class demanding handouts. A rapidly diminishing middle class crippled by police state bureaucracy. An aloof, ruling elite that has introduced us to an emerging totalitarianism which seeks control over every aspect of our lives.

As the meltdown progresses, one of the first things to be affected will be our nation’s food supply. Expect soaring prices along with moderate to severe shortages by spring. If you don’t have the ability to grow your own food next year, your life may be in danger.

I don’t know which is freakier-that people buy this shit, or that I may have to garden?  I’m pretty sure it’s that people buy this crap and buy it because they think this day of empty store shelves is around the corner.

Talk about going rogue. The anti-socialist, anti-public option, death panel scare-startin lady stated while speaking at an event in Canada that she and her family used to “hustle over the border for health care.”

She then noted that this was ironic, making the fact that she used a complicated-ish word correctly almost as amazing as her actual admittance.

Lego’s are no longer just for toddlers and grown sci-fi geeks creating battlestar galacticas in their parent’s basement. Artist Jan Vormann has been using the colored blocks to fill in holes in buildings throughout NYC. It’s pretty freaking cool.

Check out his work at DispatchWork—New York and fingers crossed for some affordable housing made of lincoln logs.

And trust me, this is all 100% true.

It was interesting to read the “Eyes for Lies” guy dissect the video and the facts.

I will be out for the next day or so so my posts will be limited. Enjoy your 3-day weekend!

“My parrot is 2 years old. I don’t have any pictures, but he looks like a typical parrot.

We are getting rid of him because my wife does not like him. My wife and I argue a lot, and the parrot seems to have picked up some of the things I have said and just shouts them at my wife when she walks by. I think the final straw was when the parrot called her a “stupid fat twat.” She takes it personally, even though I tell her that she shouldn’t be self-conscious just because a parrot thinks she is fat. Now I will admit that I trained it to say “nice cellulite, bitch” whenever my wife walks by, but the parrot pretty much just curses at everyone now. Whenever I walk in the door, it calls me a “cocksucking grundle licker.” It kind of gets annoying when it is the first thing I hear after working all day.”

Check it out.

http://www.dontevenreply.com/index.php