Hummels in the Hood


I know you've all seen them - the Hummel on your Granny's night stand, the dozen or so Precious Moments statues in your spinster aunt's breakfast nook, cutsie little porcelain figurines of cutsie little children. Adlof Hitler even said of M.I. Hummel:

"there is no place in the ranks of German artists for the likes of her. No, the 'beloved Fatherland' cannot remain calm when Germany's youth are portrayed as brainless sissies."

Yeah, he hated the cute little statues of children being children. Now, the artist Barnaby Barford has taken a whole new spin on little cutsie statues with the Hoodies in Porcelain collection! Yes, these statues feature one little boy recording another getting his ass kicked on his iPhone, a family pigging out on KFC, a little scraggly boy eatin McDonalds, and four girls with guns dancing in a circle amonst many others.

check it out here!

INTERESTING SH!T: Dolphins Name Themselves

Just to go along with with last article, here's something very interesting about dolphins. For years scientists have been trying to crack the dolphin language with little or no result. This article from 06 shows that there is a definite structure to their language, and they actually give themselves names denoting a higher form of consciousness than the typical other "beast". There's so much that goes on under the water that we can't even conceive of, and they've been existing in it for much longer than we've lived on land.

Dolphins Name Themselves With Whistles, Study Says

James Owen
for National Geographic News

May 8, 2006

Dolphins give themselves "names"—distinctive whistles that they use to identify each other, new research shows.

Scientists say it's the first time wild animals have been shown to call out their own names.

Read more here.

PIRATES V DOLPHINS!!! Sh!t is going down in Somalia.

The fight is on - PIRATES V DOLPHINS! As a Somali Pirate Ship tried to attack a Chinese merchant ship Monday thousands of dolphins came to the rescue by suddenly surfacing between the ships. The pirates soon backed off and the bizarre marine event continued and the Chinese merchants proceeded with their cargo.

BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday.

The Chinese merchant ships escorted by a China's fleet sailed on the Gulf of Aden when they met some suspected pirate ships. Thousands of dolphins suddenly leaped out of water between pirates and merchants when the pirate ships headed for the China's...

Read the full story on Xinhuanet

Drug Dealer Sexy.

When did this new fad of “occupational rap” pop up? I mean drugs and violence have always been a part of rap but here lately you can hear a reference to selling drugs in nearly any hip hop or rap song that comes on the radio.

No, I’m not being an old lady. I indeed understand the “edginess” that talking about being a crack dealer gives a rap song, and I understand how hardcore it must make a person seem when they do. I just don’t understand the effectiveness if it’s in EVERY song. It is still hardcore if EVERYONE does it? What do the hardcore of the hardcore do?

We get it. Rap says it’s cool and it’s fun to be a drug dealer sp it MUST be, but - if EVERYONE is selling these drugs, who the eff is buying them? If we’re all aiming to be as cool as the rap stars and get that paper by any means necessary, who the hell are we going to sell the drugs to? Where is the paper in this situation? What if you don’t even like drugs? Can I sell Girl Scout cookies and still be just as cool? I mean, it’s still getting paper without getting it from the white man.

I’m so sick of hearing about how much crack the guy used to sell in like EVERY new rap song. Do you hear women at the Drivers License Office rapping about selling licenses? Do you hear tax attorneys rapping about their long days pouring over Tax issues? Yeah, we get it. You fuckin deal. In fact, a lot of the people who sing about “the game” never played a day in their lives.

Maybe I should become a rapper. I could rap about eating mini donuts and watching Jerry Springer while fondling my tidbits because THAT’s the new cool.

Nope, Sorry, “I’m sorry” are not magic words.

As kids we’re all taught that when we do wrong against someone, we’re supposed to apologize. If we disobey, we’re supposed to apologize. We’ve really been conditioned into the mentalities that not only are those two little words a vital part of the English language, they’re also magical little words that have the ability to erase events from space and time.

This happens so much in relationships because more often than not that’s the only time most people pull out their bridge-burners. A good friend of mine once told me her secret for constructive arguments – NEVER go for the jugular. We all have that finishing move inside us like Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat. Prime example - I used to date a guy that every time his point started to grow weak he’d go straight for the jugular. He would drag out an obvious flaw that would have nothing to do with the argument and use it with the sole intent of causing emotional injury.

So really, if it’s direct, deliberate, and intended to hurt what makes that any different from an actual physical blow? What makes a person who is “anti violence” think that it’s ok to beat the crap out of someone emotionally?

“I’m Sorry.” People like that think that since they were just words they can be erased. If they whip out the apology everything will be smoothed over, and if the person being apologized to doesn’t accept it, they switch to the one being wrong because they’re not playing by the rules of insult, apologize, accept, move on.

It has to be realized that apologies are not a mulligan, an apology should be used as exactly what it is – a sincere attempt to make good at what you wronged. If someone isn’t receptive to your apology it’s your responsibility as a person to back off and let them absorb it in their own time – this isn’t Lord of the Rings, there are no words that heal wounds. You can’t emotionally beat another person until you feel good about yourself, it just doesn’t work that way. In fact, we as a whole should get rid of apologies all together and force people to take actual responsibility for their words and actions instead of simply hoping everyone will forget the horrible stuff you did.