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I'm still trying to catch up. I'm on book 19 right now, but I should be at 25. Eep! I can do this. Now let's talk novel ideas ;)

You know how it goes....you start watching one video, then find that another looks interesting. So you watch that. Then another video catches your eye! And another....and another...

Wall-E is fantastic! The short is hilarious! If you haven't gotten a chance to see the movie yet, I highly recommend it. It's as good as the rest of the Pixar films. Keep you eye out for something that was first seen in Toy Story....
I can't wait for the movie to come out on DVD =)

There were people handing out surveys at the theater I went to, which was a first. I've never filled out a survey for a movie before. Has anyone else ever done that?

Taken from the website:

The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve (SIWR) is being threatened by strip mining. Cape Alumina Pty Ltd has lodged mining lease applications which include approximately 12,300 ha of the Reserve. Cape Alumina company documents indicate an intention to mine 50 plus million tons over a 10 year period commencing 2010. The greater part of this mine is on SIWR

The proposed area for mining on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve contains the head waters of irreplaceable waterways and unique biodiversity which will not recover after mining operations are finished.

The site also links to a more in depth article as well as photos of this reserve. Please go look. Even though most of you are US residents, you can still pass this around. We need to keep these "locusts" off undeveloped areas. They're already disappearing daily.

My favorite cartoon cat had a birfday today =)

Wow, 19 already?

Ok, my weekend was fairly busy, so this one is going to be somewhat modified.

Once upon a time, there was a young black bear named Licorice. He and his brother Sandy had very active imaginations (and large costume boxes). They would dress up as hippie bears, SuperBears, Hawaiian bears, whatever sounded like fun at the time. Eventually, they had to go their separate ways (like most animals when they grow up). Licorice left his wonderful person and also his brother to move in with me.

He wasn't able to go outside as much as he used to (probably for the better because he'd get cranky in the sunshine when he got hot), but he had plenty of other animals to socialize with. There was one in particular that he got to know fairly well. She's the grey bear named Elizabeth. She has known me for a long time and helped me get through lots of kid stuff. So they get along well. They got to meet some other bears at the annual Teddy Bear Picnic. Who knows what they discuss?
After the picnic, the bears climbed back in the hot car. They were stuffed with berries, so they dropped off to sleep. Suddenly, Licorice heard a strange sound coming from under the front seats of the car. "What could that be?" he wondered. He saw two fuzzy ears and beady, red eyes looking at him carefully. In an instant, Licorice knew what the creature was. A dust bunny! "How could a dust bunny get in a car?" he thought. "Either way, I need to wake everyone else up!" Licorice frantically ran around trying to wake up another bear, but they were too deep in sleep. "Oh no, what will I do?" he wailed. Suddenly, he thought back to his days as a SuperBear. He went and grabbed a bungee cord and opened all the windows in the car. While his back was turned, 5 dust bunnies leaped out from under the seats to try and hold all the other bears down. They wanted the back seat. With a tremendous roar, Licorice raced around, smacking dust bunnies and flinging them out the car windows. Licorice looked around to find one left. "You think you can get rid of me that easily?" asked the bunny.
"Watch me," he retorted. And with one swift movement, he grabbed the last dust bunny by the ears, swung him around like an Olympian doing the hammer throw, and watched the dust bunny fly out the window. The other bears woke up to the last bunny's shrill angry squeaks. "Wow, what happened?" asked Elizabeth. Licorice related the whole story (and perhaps embellished one or two details). "Thanks, Licorice!" everyone cheered. Then all the bears got out of the car to run around the mountains before the humans came back to put them in their former places.

If you automatically know which book I'm referring to, good for you. You get a gold star! If you have a vague idea, you still get a gold star! If you haven't read this book, YOU MUST!
Which book am I talking about? The one and only 1984. Honestly, it's the creepiest book I've ever read, but it's also one that everyone needs to read. This was actually the second time around, so it wasn't quite as creepy as the first, but I was still caught off guard when I read the line that is the title of my post. Here's an excellent article on the startling similarities between the book and the government right now.

Erich Fromm poses two questions in the afterward: Can human nature be changed in such a way that man will forget his longing  for freedom, for dignity, for integrety, for love -- that is to say, can man forget that he is human? Or does human nature have a dynamism (that is a great word, btw) which will react to the violation of these basic human needs by attempting to change an inhuman society into a human one?

What do you guys think?

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I just happened to go to an air show today at one of the airports...

I've been to a couple of things recently...A hot air balloon launch 2 weeks ago and then went to Crazytown for a creek festival on Saturday.

Then the Creek Festival went on all weekend

The little Irish step dancers were so cute!  The guy in the t-shirt was a busker. He goes by the name The Zip Code Man and he knows all the zip codes in the US. The people in the yellow chain (outline of the 48 contiguous states) were from somewhere other than CO. I had always heard of this particular performer, but never saw him until Saturday. I bought the hummingbird and the last pic is all the free stuff I got, including the bag