[Sheriff's deputies] managed to rouse Juan Reyes, who was the only adult at home with the two toddlers, ages 2 and 3. The deputies said Reyes appeared extremely intoxicated.
The deputies also noticed the 2-year-old was having difficulty standing, had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol and was lethargic.
The toddler was taken to the hospital, where tests revealed he was legally intoxicated, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.094 percent, the sheriff's office said. In New York, a driver is considered drunk with an alcohol content of 0.08 percent or greater.
At the time, the children's parents were at a hospital, where the mother was giving birth. ---
I'm passing around the collection plate to get this woman a tubal ligation.
27.12.05
Alright. I've been thinking very hard about this, and I've decided that the TV show Burney and I have been developing is going to be a smash hit and make us filthy stinking rich.
Wait for it...
Ok, so the show is going to be called Eat Bugs for Money!, which is also the basic premise. It all started when Burney and I were trying to figure out the minimum amount of money someone would have to pay us to eat a spoonful of flies or a tarantula or something like that. The point being that everyone has a price, and it probably isn't even that high. You know you'd eat a spoonful of flies for $1000, and probably less, and don't even try to pretend otherwise, Chun.
Anyway, I'm envisioning Eat Bugs for Money! as a kind of game show with three contestants and maybe five rounds or so. In each round, we'd tell the contestants which bugs they have to eat and they write down the minimum amount of money they'd do it for. I figure we'll start easy, like chocolate covered grasshoppers, and move up to your more icky stuff, like a live cockroach. So everyone writes down their amount and the person with the lowest bid wins. They get the amount of money they wrote down and they have to eat the bugs and keep it down for at least five minutes. We play a few more rounds and the person with the most money at the end moves on to some kind of bonus round or something. I'm not really sure on the bonus round...maybe some deal where the person has 60 seconds to eat as many spoonfuls of bugs as they can and they win $1000 for each spoonful or something. Gross.
Man, this show is going to be so awesome. Also, at the beginning, we need a studio audience to go 'EAT...BUGS...FOR MONEY!!!' like Wheel of Fortune does. And we could have little extras, like you can choose whether you want your tarantula cooked or served with ketchup.
I figure we should popularize the idea and get some grassroots support by going around to college campuses and putting the show on. Also, we'll provide free beer, because college students like beer and drunk frat boys will eat anything. Bulletproof.
21.12.05
Chun and I had a discussion today about Johnny Damon's new contract with the (fucking) Yankees. She seems to think that he's traitor scum and...well, no argument here ("I could never play for the Yankees." he said), but it's less a question of the rivalry but a larger question of free agency creating a mercenary system in professional athletics, where player loyalty is almost nonexistant and teams like the (fucking) Yankees use their unbeatable buying power to acquire whatever player they set their sights on, sometimes for the sole purpose of keeping him off another team (see: Rodriguez, Alex). Side note: It's a good thing the (fucking) Yankees' judgement isn't better (they paid broke-down old Bernie Williams $12.3 million last year) or they'd never lose the World Series.
Do I have any idea how to fix the disparity between big-spending teams like the Yankees and Red Sox and bargain-basement rosters like Kansas City? Of course not. A hard salary cap might do it, but they've been trying to implement one for years and it hasn't worked, because the players hate it. The NFL has the "Franchise" tag, and revenue sharing has created more parity across the league, but the owners hate it. Personally, I favor across the board pay cuts for all professional athletes, but sports salaries are like entropy - once they go up, they're not coming back down.
What it boils down to is, Johnny Damon is just doing what he thinks is best for him. The Sox offered $40 mil, the Yanks offered $52. The Yankees won, and Sox fans lost.
I was going to write more, but it sounds like my cat is tearing down the Christmas tree, ornament by ornament.
Edit: It was a bird. The Mighty Hunter was chasing a tiny defenseless little bird around the house. So I put him in the bathroom until it flew out the front door. He was pissed.
I am sick and tired of hearing commercials and reading ads that are advertising specials for "last minute gifts." Christmas is still a week away. Seven days isn't last minute to me. Shopping on Christmas Eve is last minute.
Have a bought any presents yet? Hells no.
My sis is in town finally from school so I'm going to drag her out shopping with me tomorrow. Fun stuff. We're gonna hit up the CPK sometime during break so if anyone wants in then let me know.
Mrs. Kate and Nicole Hudson-Kidman are pleased to announce...
It's a girl!
Actually, it's Avril Lavigne, who has apparently found herself a stylist with a curling iron, make-up artist with a blending brush, nuclear reactor to maintain her radioactive glow, and several dogs to chew on her totally!punk ties.
I know Amanda can back me up on this. Just cause we have trash, doesn't mean I want to be constantly reminded of this fact when I see the ugly monster receptacles. Bring back the backyard collection!
6.12.05
Ever had the desire to punch a complete stranger in the face? I've been having that lately. Even people I just "sorta" know from work and school. They deserve one in the face. That is all.
5.12.05
Speaking of the radio, I'm going to be on G105 Tuesday morning as part of Bob and the Showgram. Amy does a segment called "Amy's Big Thank You" where she digs up a person from the past that you're thankful to and having difficulty locating. I submitted Ms. Lockamy, my 2nd grade teacher and first U.S. teacher, from 1990. So Amy tracked her down, and we're going to chat during the show!
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