Image from Octoloan.
Just in case you want financial help from a woman who has fourteen children but spends her money on plastic surgery, Octomom will now arrange a quick cash loan for you.
My sincere thanks to Screenwriter, Prince of Prose, and Bacon Connoisseur Ryne Douglas Pearson for this tip. You can find his best selling books at his web site, Ryne Douglas Pearson.
Blogs and Articles in No Particular Order
Writers in the Storm hosts some outstanding writing bloggers. Among them is Best Selling Author Kristen Lamb who tells us What Star Trek Can Teach Us About Great Writing.
An “underwear” theme has been blazing across the blogosphere lately, probably started by Jenny Henson over at More Cowbell. K.B. Owen joins in by telling us some fascinating facts about corsets in Fashion Friday: Corsets.
Condeleezza Rice and Darla Moore First Two Female Members at Augusta National
Rob Mahan captures the emotions of parenthood. A Day is the Life of Charlie O’Malley
Renee Schuls-Jacobson shows us how to seriously throw a theme party in What it All Looked Like: The Last Bar Mitzvah Post. Probably.
From the Bar Mitzvah of the Year
In all of the Akin kerfuffle, El Phoenix Farris has some level-headed observations. Confusing Science and Politics: What is Legitimate Rape?
Angela Orlowski-Peart shares some great fashion tips that every young woman should practice in order to avoid the ‘high heel hunch’ so common with women in stilettos. One Badass Antagonist Teachers You How to Walk in Stilettos. Be sure to check out the excellent video by Kassandra Brooks and AMIClubwear.
Scientists are Building Face Hugger-Like Robots that Can Camouflage Themselves via Jason Myers.
I love travel pictures. Emily Cannell takes us to Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Japan–Add It to Your Bucket List.
I’ll be the first to admit this is incredibly juvenile, but it made me laugh anyway. Reminds me of a dear friend from Mexico who used to mispronounce the word “focus” in the most inappropriate ways.
And now for the all-important political campaign style question of the week . . .
All the best to all of you for a week of avoiding all things “Octo.”
Piper Bayard–The Pale Writer of the Apocalypse
Thanks for the mention, Piper! That party practically killed me. My post today is rather bleak and dark in comparison, but this is the stuff of life.
That “focus” video is awesome. Thanks for these great mash-ups! Jenny Hansen also has a great exercise (borrowed from Sharla Lovelace). Worth looking at!
Ugh. This women makes me want to slap her. Why is it so many good couples can’t have kids and she has fourteen? I sincerely hope they have some decent adults in their lives. Great links, and LOL at the video.
Octo-ninny and a sitting congressman who’s really a time-traveler from the 12th Century… Yep. No question about it. The Apocalypse is nigh.
Well now that I know Ocotloan is out there, I can finally live the financially reckless lifestyle I’ve always wanted…
Oh please let Octomom and Montel Williams find one another! CLEARLY there is a profession of Money Lending advertizing for people whose brief fame dried up like forgotten orange peels caught between the sofa cushions…
Thanks for the fab shout-out, Piper! You always find the best stuff…Octoloans. Wild.
Oh my gosh I think I just wet myself laughing at the coke video. This is fabulous. I will be pimping out this post, willy-nilly.
Myndi: You must really want some Coke. IYKWIM.
Piper, your Friday posts always crack me up. Loved the *cough* Coke video. It reminds me of an inverted sort of humor – I have a very close friend who just couldn’t seem to get through his head that in Chinese, the verb “to play” is also slang for another, more “adult” kind of “playing” when used in certain contexts (particularly when used by adult men in reference to any kind of activity involving a woman). He used the verb with some regularity, because as a jovial sort of person he liked to respond to “what’s up” with “just playing around.”
Except the actual translation of what he was saying was …. well, we can leave that to the imagination. Watching our very polite Chinese clients try not to react was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
I`ll be stomping around heel to toe all day. The current ad running here- and a must have for the vitamin cabinet- consists mainly of placenta. The origin of which I`ve yet to determine. Thanks for the mention! You know I feel like a star now!
By the way- I love the line up top “If you`re in a fair fight….”never noticed it before. I`m going to have to adopt that. Pronto.
Thanks, Emily. I just put that up today. You’re the first to notice. That’s one of Holmes’ sayings. He’s got some great ones. Adopting that one as our motto.
LOL. I brushed up on my heel-toe technique just this evening, myself. I’m going to have my daughter watch that.
As for the placenta . . . Uuuu . . . No. Whatever benefit it may give, I’ll live without. Really enjoyed your travel pics.
…Octoloans? And here I thought things couldn’t get any more insane when I learned what a Honey-Boo-Boo was this evening (in case you don’t know, it’s a malignant narcisist in the making). On a related note, Toddlers and Tiaras should be outlawed, period.
I’m with you about the Toddlers and Tiaras! And I had never heard of a Honey-Boo-Boo. What a name!
Aw, Piper, thank you so much for the mention! I’m still giggling over Octomom! “Seeemple!! I wanna Cock . . .”
LOL. I know. Like I said, juvenile, but it made me laugh.
Some form of commercial leveraging was bound to happen, wouldnt you agree? Anyone this controversial would probably have been approached by cheezy opportunists looking to ride the wake of her fame. And speaking of opportunists… isn’t this what this lady appears to be be from the get go? Sad really. I hope life takes a good path for her and her kids.
I certainly hope her kids have some blessings in their lives. In all fairness, I suppose all of her dubiously moral money-making schemes are still more respectable than tossing up her hands and living on the public ticket entirely. Good to see you, Chaz.
Ya, I suppose it would be hard to argue that she isn’t being entrepreneurial. Odd, but entrepreneurial.
ROFL. Thanks for this great start to my day.
So glad I could give you a smile.
I can only roll my eyes when I hear about Octomom (and I can REALLY roll them). Oh, and snort.
Thanks for including my humble attempt in the stiletto wearing education