Sight; The Onion is back from it's holiday hiatus today! Hence the format of today's entry.

Sound; It's raining, there's no sound like it. It never fails to make me calm and blue.


Taste; Coffee coffee coffee.


Touch; I'm wearing my fuzzy topped leopard print socks today, very very soft. I'll try to get a photo before the day is out. Alright, in the photo, I'm pulling up my pants leg, you can't see the sock top if I don't. I'm not that tacky folks.

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January 14, 2000
Tongue Work/Martin Luther Who?

I'm feeling trashy and low brow...

Here's a few of the latest lingo that the kids are slinging today. See if you can guess what they all refer to. To make it a little easier, I'll even use it in a sentence.It's all the same thing.

1) Yodel down the valley: Gunter was too tired to talk, having spent most of the day yodeling down the valley.

2) Dine at the Y: Despite the dinners men bought her Jen preferred dining at the Y.

3) Go pearl fishing: Gorton refused to go pearl fishing, saying he never liked the taste of oysters.

4) Eat mutton: "He bit his tongue while eating mutton," Christine told the surgeon as blood poured from Rick's mouth.

5) Talk to the canoe driver: "I wanted to explore Venice," Justin said forlornly, "but I spent most of the trip just talking to the canoe driver.

My favorite
6) Sneeze in the basket: "I didn't mind that he was a midget," said Mrs. Whelan, "because he could sneeze in the basket without bending down.

I'm doing a little happy dance right now. Maybe because today is my Friday for a three day weekend, or maybe I just want to shake my bon-bon. That's right, we have Martin Luther King Jr's birthday off. It's nice to live in the town where he did himself, for this reason amongst others.

I heard that the last state that finally proclaimed it as a state holiday was Connecticut...and this was just last year. Welcome to the 80's Connecticut, have you heard anything about Iran Contra lately? You'd think that it would be a given that we celebrate the fact that this man was born.

Now his family on the other hand...jesus christ. They were recently involved in jury tampering here during the case against Abernathy. You've heard of him right? The dumbass state rep that came back from Jamaica with an ounce of marijuana in his underwear and got busted? Then his qualifying check to the state bounced when it was time to run again. Then he got hit up with 30 some odd different charges including fraud and misuse of state funds. MY money. That bastard.

So the story goes, his case was being deliberated on by the jury, and Mrs. Coretta Scott King and her sons just followed the jury around praying. Don't tell me this doesn't tamper with the jury because they could see them the whole time...they followed them from one room to another like a flock of sheep. It ended up being a hung jury, then just retried a few weeks ago.

Guilty.

And they added the charges of jury tampering to the list. There does happen to be justice in the world after all.

By the way, if you don't know why Coretta would care, Martin Luther and Ralph David Abernathy Sr. were close friends and were working together during the civil rights movement. Because of this fact, even with all the evidence against him, CONCRETE evidence, Coretta and her family still said he was innocent and this was because he is black in a white man's world. Deliver me from a world where we give these types of people sway over our lives.

But all of this aside... he's guilty, and so I can release all the anger I have over the entire situation, even though it's a hoot to feel so self-righteous.

He was an overwhelmingly important man and achingly moving in his speeches...he remains untarnished in my eyes, however, it's difficult to not look at his families actions as demeaning to everything that he'd worked for.

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1958: Arrested for "loitering" and being manhandled by Montgomery, Alabama police.
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