Early birdFollow

He's a male, you have too many shoes and purses... he's helping remedy that problem.

This deck does.

This was my old one. ;; Gorgeous.

And @ Thumb:
That's why I'm glad our big dog is the ***** and our little dog is the male. He's a little teddy bear and she's very maternal and sweet. A friend of ours has a pit bull version of what I imagine Butters would be like if he was 4x his size, and that dog is too much. Once Dexter is through with her puppiness she will be a very wonderful dog, if not a bit timid for a guard dog. >_>

Indeed. Damn puppy. I'm probably just gonna buy it again, unless another catches my fancy even stronger next time. The Amano one seems a bit pricey on average from what I've seen, I think it's out of print possibly. Or imported. Or something along those lines.

I find theme decks interesting, but I'm much more interested in Tarot decks with traditional imagery, but done in an uniquely stylistic way. I still feel like such a new student that I don't want to deviate from traditional symbolism in my early learning, because I feel I should build on that, plus it's more interesting and in depth to me than Fairy/Goddess/Totem decks and the like.

Unless they mean this breed, bred bearing the recessive gene for a white coat?

Yup. It's a color combination that is outside the breed specifications for German Shepards as accepted by virtually every kennel club in the world (and all major ones in any case), and has not yet been qualified as a breed on its own. It's an admittedly kneejerk response of mine, but when your mother has been a registered AKC breeder of German Shepards for 50 years, you just can't help it. When you grown up learning how to detect disqualifying faults in a breed (and color combination is a biggie), it's hard for me to not say something whenever someone talks about their "all white German Shepard".

Lollapalooza report:

Soundgarden - Awesome. Everything I hoped it to be. They played some of the hits (Outshined, Spoonman, Black Hole Sun), but also mixed in a few lesser-known songs (Jesus Christ Pose, Get on the Snake, Superunknown). Chris Cornell is getting so old, he looks a little like Mickey Rourke minus 30 pounds.

Wolfmother - Fantastic. Like Zepplin on speed. Probably my favorite performance of the day, not including the above. Definitely worth checking out if you like that early 70's rock sound (Zepplin, Cream, etc.). After some post-show research, it turns out that the original line-up won a Grammy, but then broke up due to "irreconcilable personal and musical differences," which can only mean that one of the members slept with another's girlfriend.

Minus the Bear - Surprisingly good. Fairly chill groove music, probably best suited for sexy time. I plan to buy the CD, so I'll know more once I hear their studio sound.

Violent Soho - Ack. It feels like they tried to mix latin metal (Ill Nino, Nonpoint, etc) with a dose of Offspring/311, but lost all of the melody and artistry somewhere along the way. Fairly poor in thrash metal standards.

Yeasayer - Meh. Kind of a faux-trance jam band feel, but overall pretty lackluster. The band members themselves look like the cast of a live-action Captain Planet movie.

The Dodos - Interesting. They consist of a guitarist, a drummer, and a "percussionist" who mostly plays the xylophone, but also does parts on a snare and symbol. Also, I couldn't understand a word the singer was saying, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't due to poor acoustics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqJh_uMAYIo

I lounged around the land o' lakes this weekend - and last week. Pop is cancer-free:D

I have to say that I'm being eminently entertained with with Guenny and gbaji's exchange.

I seriously need a weekend to just relax and it looks like that isn't happening until at least the last weekend of August, at the earliest. And even then, that's my dad's birthday weekend and I'm really really hoping that he is going to Las Vegas with a few of my aunts and uncles so Ray, the kids and I can relax.

Your mother fUcking a police dog doesn't make her a German Shepherd breeder. Seriously, I've bred them and I know how to spell their name properly, you fUcking ******** so I am an authority.

Hell, next gbaji will claim that albinos aren't technically humans.

Oh ****, I edited my post with the exact same thing. Lawl