bumper stickers

The other day I was having a conversation about road rage. A friend was telling me about an article he read that concluded if you had bumper stickers you were more likely to have road rage.  The reason was that by putting stickers on your car it became an extension of yourself, therefore any incident involving the car was a personal affront.

Made logical sense.

SIDE NOTE: Because today I am not being lazy here is the article.

For the record I do have a sticker on my car but I've never had road rage. I've had road frustration or road annoyance but never rage.

this is my sticker. BROWNCOAT!!

I'll pause for you to try and fit that into your world view. I know it's weird. Like finding out the pope likes hunting. Some how it doesn't seem right.


I agree about the sticker making your car more personal. It isn't as permanent as a tattoo but it certainly isn't easy to get off. That is why political bumper stickers confuse me.

Beyond that though is the people who put them on crooked.

You love this candidate SO MUCH you are going to drive around town announcing it to everyone else on the road but you can't be bothered to make sure the dam sticker is straight?

I find this unsettling.

So here is your PSA:

I don't care who you vote for or whether or not you want everyone to coexist (in a religious or sci fi way) or maybe you want to let everyone know Timmy loves soccer. Whatever.

Please, for the love of god, just take 2 extra seconds to make sure you are putting the sticker on straight.

This message has been approved by the committee to stop stupid. Our work is never over so we can never rest.

Binging (I checked. That's how you spell it.)

I want to add an 'e' so it doesn't look like I'm talking about BING. Cause I'm not.

This is not a post about poor eating habits either. Although I could do that.

I'm going to talk about Netflix.


It's summer so most regular TV is on a break. It's the perfect time to drown yourself in an entire TV series. I love Netflix. It is an amazing thing to be able to watch a movie whenever the hell you want.

Remember when I was a kid we had to wait until it came on TV and it would be "modified for content" or butchered for language and worse still it was cut so it  would fit on the screen. Remember I'm old and TV screens used to be a different size than movies.

It seems like this should have been fixed a lot sooner but alas we were forced to only see half the movie. Sometimes it wouldn't mater and others it would seems like the cinematography was a big fan of panning back and forth.

WOW. sorry but that was some serious rambling.

Back on topic. I love Netflix but I can't binge watch it. If I know a whole season is available I'll watch 2 or 3 episodes then I will want to cut to the end. This is especially bad if I know Netflix has the entire series.

I'm not saying I wont go back and watch the rest of the show at some point but I just want to cut to the chase.

Hmmm sexual tension between the two main characters on a show that ran for 6 seasons?

You know they aren't getting together till at least season 4 and then they will break up in season 5 and finally end up back together in season 6 to make the fans think everything ends with a happy note.

How about I just cut out all that drama and get to the good part?

Next episode? No thank you. I like to watch them out of order.

Maybe that's why I loved Firefly so much?

Hmm that's something to think about.

Something else to think about is the TIME SUCK that is pinterest I just spent 15 minutes looking for a simple poster of Firefly and instead pinned 4 movie quotes and 3 cross stitch patterns for Jayne's hat. Like I can cross stitch? 

Why I Love Doctor Who

An ode to  my nerdiness.

We all have TV shows we like. Shows we consider 'must see'.  Maybe we even get a little upset about them changing a major character, about a story line, but at the end of the day we move on.

Sometimes though we fall in love with something. We get sucked in. We go down the rabbit hole and hope we never have to come out.

There was a TV show called Firefly. It lasted one season. 13 episodes. That's not even a real season.

Gone in a blink but the fans weren't happy.

They wrote letters and staged protests.

You can get this at ThinkGeek.com

3 years later they got a movie made.

One barely half season and the fans somehow turned that into a movie.

Hell, this crazy show still gets a top billed panel at Comic Con TEN YEARS LATER! (I was going to explain to you what Comic Con is but I'm guessing if you don't know you stopped reading after the title.)

I love Adam Baldwin on this show.



It's still entertainment news when the characters from this show meet up again in their new shows. Not that I pay attention to that sort of thing. I just picked this show at random. I had to look these facts up on Wikipedia. My text alert is most certainly not a quote from the movie.

If it was it would totally be "I'm a leaf on the wind." But it's not cause that would be crazy.

Wasn't I talking about Doctor Who? I just checked the subject and it appears that was what I was going to talk about. Got a bit sidetracked.

I'm so shocked!

I never watched the original series. I was aware of what it was. Knew that giant multicolored scarf meant someone was a huge sci fi nerd. I might have been able to hum the theme song but I had never actually seen it.

Like a lot of things though it was brought back. The BBC decided that while we were stealing all their shows they would bring back an old one.

I wasn't going to watch. I certainly wasn't part of the group that was freaking out about a re-imagining of a beloved character.

But it was a Sunday and there was a marathon. The first episode was a weird one with gas masks and creepy children and The Doctor wasn't wearing some old scarf he was wearing a leather jacket.

I was LOST. It was seriously weird but there was nothing else on. Or I was checking facebook or the remote was hidden in the couch. I'm not sure. What I do know is that by the third episode I was hooked. I watched the rest of the first season and found the episodes I'd missed online.

I loved #9 and Rose. There was a promise of romance and adventure and with time travel on the table there really was no limit.

It's been 7 seasons and 2 more Doctors and I couldn't love this show more.

9 10 and 11

It's insane. Funny, smart and the twists and turns lead you to places you never saw coming. Plus it folds back in on itself over and over again and leaves you amazed you didn't see that coming.

SPOILERS (You can stop judging me if you read this in a British accent)

This is the only show on the planet that could have a reverse love affair. I don't mean May/December I mean one person's first kiss is the others last. Plus River Song is amazing.

She's BA.

Just when I think I can't love it anymore something happens to prove me wrong.

If you're not watching may I suggest starting? Everything is on Netflix. Seriously. Give it three episodes and if you don't agree well...... I was going to say something about everyone being entitled to their own opinion but forget that. YOU'RE WRONG.