Tell me the name of the Song and the Artist. Each answer is worth 10 credits, but don’t do more than three.  K, thanks.  :-)

1. What heroine attracts a suprsing number of adolescent boys her to Grotto in Fantasyland? Ariel Miss m got this one right!
2. What city adopted the motto Laizze les bon temps rouler, or “Let the good times roll”?  New Orleans Miss m got this one right!
3. What creatures do caribou try to escape, by seeking out Alaska’s coolest and windiest spots?
4. NAME THIS MOVIE : man 1: You’re rich and women love you, and I’m from Ohio and I’m drunk. Can I tell you the truth?
   man 2 : Everybody does.
   man 1 : I dig her, and I’ve never said this to you before about any girl. But she could be, could be, could be, could be the girl of my fucking dreams.  Vanilla Sky. Laci got this one right!
5. NAME THIS MOVIE : Girl: You’re my replacement, thank heavens you’ve come! What’s the “S” stand for?
   Man: It stands for… sitter! Yeah, sitter. I was originally going to have the initials for babysitter but then I’d be going around with a big BS and you can understand why I couldn’t do that.  Jack-Jack Attack Meli got this one right!
6. NAME THIS MOVIE : Man 1: Check this shit. You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!
   Man 2: What’s a “Nubian”?
   Man 1: Shut the fuck up! Chasing Amy. Laci got this one right, too!
7. Artist AND song title : Cause the joke that you laid on the bed that was me / And I’m not gonna fade / As soon as you close your eyes and you know it Alanis morissette - you oughta know. Neo got this one right
8. Artist AND song title : Ain’t my job / To fuck you on your birthday anymore / If i want to be repeatedly shit on i’ll go make dutch porn / When roughly translated even your naked truth means squat and what’s more No Hard Feelings - Bloodhound Gang - Neo got this one right.
9. Artist AND song title : I am moody, messy / I get restless, and it’s senseless / How you never seem to care / When I’m angry, you listen / Make me happy it’s your mission/ And you won’t stop til I’m there Pieces of Me by Ashley Simpson.  This was Laci‘s third correct answer!

I just cant win with this blog thing. First I try and fix the htaccess myself cause I was just so sick of the spam. I though I’d fixed it. But I blocked nearly everyone. Now I’m trying to fix it a little manually and I’ve blocked real people AND I’ve made the spam just that much worse.  For every ONE real ref hit I get 10 fucking spam ones. It’s enough to make a girl wanna change her URL and start over. Fucking A. I can’t win. I either have so much spam I can’t see straight or I block people who actually DO want to see the site! Gah! On top of all my broken Feeds. The ones that I changed the URL for, and then the ones that went down when I took mysite offline the other day to upgrade it. (Which ALSO didnt help the spam.) I’ve still got some errors on the CP site of my site too. Damnit. I fucking hate this blog right now.

updated to add : I decided to uninstal the referal module.  maybe that will make em stop, at least for a little bit, and then maybe they’ll get the hint and stop forever.  we’ll see.  at least this way ive stopped obsessively checking for more spam.

All righty. The Blogathon is coming up in about a little over a month now.  I’ve been reading through the forums getting some ideas for scthick during the thon. See - my plan this year, is to focus a LOT on my monitees and other participants in the event.  I will be blogging for a charity (currently* it’s The Arc of Greater New Orleans) though.  During the thon I’m going to combine my own posts with psots about/for other Thon.  Since I need to have a plan for my OWN posts, I figured I’d steal an idea I saw on the forums.  Alphabytes.  I’m asking for suggestions.  One or two word suggestions.  Example

• A : an anorexic athiest
• B : bunnies
• C : catharsis
• D : deadend dangers
• E : .....
  

You get the picture. So, Those letters are just examples. I’d like suggestions for A-Z.  First come first serve, but I may put in backups just to be sure. The more the merrier; multiple suggestions will give me options. Options are good! :-) I’m gonna make the whole list in the extended entry, so you don’t have to go in alphabetical order! :-) Thank ya. Your suggestions will really help me. (Just leave em in the comments!) Having these little slugs to sort of focus the entries on makes it more fun to write, more fun to READ, and most importantly, easier to write! :-) Trying to do 10 bazillion things in every 30 minute period can make a person go crazy! :-)

*I say currently because I may need to change the charity. One of the rules about charities during the Thon is that they must offer online donations. This charity only does via the Network For Good, and as of yet I’ve not gotten confirmation from THEM that they allow donations via that system.  Unless I know for sure that they do I will need to change the charity. I wrote a week ago asking, and I wrote today telling them it was time sensitive.  If the one month mark comes and I’ve not heard, I’m gonna pick a new Charity.  Which makes me sad, but whatya gonna do?

Oh. My. Goodness.

See, the other day, I changed the name of a fairly important folder here in my EE system.  I did it to help with referral spam. It didn’t, until I did some other things. So, the change in the folder name : among other things it changed the URL of my feeds.  Today, after days of trying and researching, I set up a permanent redirect.  On my own. And I didn’t break my blog.  I f’ing rock!  Lemme know if you got here via a feed.  From what I understand, the feedreaders should pick up the permanent redirect and pick up the new feeds.  And since I’ve only just figured out how to do this, I need reassurance I did it right.

*I’d have done better to call this one something like : the one where I do smoothing stupid to get you to do something stupid.  I saw this one http://www.loquaciouscurmudgeon.net/ today and decided to copy. He played nice and didn’t tag anyone.  But I’m doint it anyway. I’ve actually done this before. (And I’m not going back to look for it until I rewrite this one. Originality is good).  I guess I didn’t do THIS one before. Whoo!  Also, I’m gonna tag some people at the end. I sure do hope they comment if/when they’ve done it! 

5 things in my fridge:
1. bbq roasted (stuffed with beer) chicken
2. pizza hut pizza
3. miracle whip
4. Budweiser
5. white wine

5 things in my closet:
1. hangers
2. skeleton (ha ha)
3. dirt. no, really.
4.  keepsakes
5.  sonority letter sweater

5 things in my purse:
1. no fewer than SEVEN lip gloss’
2. two lotions: clinique happy heart, and gold bond triple action relief
3. my wallet
4. two faced lip injection lip plumping treatment. *drool* You will covet. 8th lip product
5. 1 pen, 1 pen/hiLiter, posit book

5 things in my car:
1. client files
2. client checkbooks
3. bank of America deposit slips
4. jumper cables. and why YES, I did use them last week.
5. plastic cherries.  cherry scented.

5 people I tag: ‘cause I’m a bitch like that.
1. http://www.dizzyscorpio.com/
2. http://www.joyunexpected.com/
3. http://lunastone.blogspot.com/
4. http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/
5. http://www.myspace.com/dinerdar

Uhm, I changed something with my blog and now my feeds addresses are different.  You might have to change your subscription.  Should have told people BEFORE I changed it, Oops!  If you read via feedburner Ive already changed it there so you should be good.  See, I didn’t even realize that when I changed that blaawgg to blaawgg it would change the feed address. I was just trying to stop the referal spam.  (And so far it hasn’t worked.) Ugg.  The Atom Feed is now here and the RSS 2.0 Feed is here.  I’m sorry I’m such a pain in the ass!

Tell me the name of the Song and the Artist. Each answer is wroth 10 credits, but don’t do more than three.  K, thanks.

1. I remember we were driving driving in your car/ The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk/ City lights lay out before us Fast Car - Tracy Chapman Bonnie got this one!
2. And the lightnin’ strikes/ Another love grows cold/ On a sleepless night ‘/ As the storm blows on/ Out of control/ Deep in her heart The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks Luna got this one.
3. You found a girl that you could truly love again/ Will you still call for me when she falls asleep/ Or do we soon forget the things we cannot see Tori Amos - Happy Phantom Laci got this one!
4. They say the first time aint the greatest / But I tell ya / If I had the chance 2 do it all again / I wouldnt change a stroke/ cause baby Im the most Prince Raspberry Beret Beth got this one! 
5. I’m not a prude, I just want some respect / So close the door if you want me to respond / Cause privacy is my middle name Nasty by Janet Jackson miss m got this one!
6. Your friend apologizes, he could see it my way / He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking / Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding
7. You’ll be the only one / ‘cause no one can deny / This love I have inside / And I’ll give it all to you / My love Endless Love - Diana Ross/Lionel Ritchie. neobluepanther got this one!
8. You shouldn’t mess with me / I’ll ruin everything you are / I’ll give you television / I’ll give you eyes of blue / I’ll give you men who want to rule the world David Bowie - China Girl Laci got this one!
9. I know just what you’re saying / So please stop explaining / Don’t tell me cause it hurts Don’t Speak by No Doubt Laci got this one!
10. Why do you lie about love? / I saw the light go out / And should I go you won’t say so I know its true New Favourite by Alison Krauss neobluepanther got this one!

I think tomorrow I will go step outside my back door naked. The upstairs door, very early in the morning. Full on naked. Porch lights off. Stand there with my eyes closed for as long as I can. Maybe sit down and breath it in. The heat. The silence. The fear.

A bill of mine was mispayed this last month. And not because I mispayed it. I went into the local ScotAm place, wehre money order and free and bill pay is a 1.50.  I requested that they pay my Eclectic bill, and I handed the person my id and the bill.  Instead of paying my Electric bill they put the money toward my LightMouse cable bill.  (Which did show up, cause it caused some confusion with those bills too.) So I double paid my cable bill and missed an electric payment.  Now,i should have checked the receipt, but I didn’t really think I needed to. She used my id to pull up my info. Stored in my info are my account details. The girl must not have scrolled down to make sure it was the electric company. When I paid my bill today, I asked AND checked the recipet.  It’s all goign to work out in the end. It’s all just a shuffle of money and time. It’s just weird it happened that way.

I don’t see my concerns as either political or religious in nature. My concern is that there needs to be a sort of accountability we share as participants in the Blogathon. I feel. Now, I speak as an individual; while I am a monitor my only role is during the event and I am not speaking for anyone at Blogathon.

I feel that if an organization/charity/mission uses lies to “help” it’s intended population; if it practices misinformation and disinformation to “help” it’s intended population; then the organization/charity/mission isn’t really helping anyone. Lies only hurt; in whatever the situation.  Helping people make INFORMED decision is paramount.  The minimum for support can’t just be that it has 501 (c)(3) status. That’s just a tax code and hardly says anything about the quality and the validity of the organization.

Now, I cannot stop anyone from raising money for whomever they wish.  But, this isn’t just on her own.  The Blogathon serves as sort of a support network for bloggers raising money.  I feel as a collective we have a duty to everyone involved to take an interest in the validity of organization we choose to represent.  We’re a collective because we’re not only working for our own Charity; we’re working as a whole to cross-promote the event and get lots of people to donate to lots of different charities.

I personally feel that if Prairierose whats to participate in the Blogathon, she should choose another charity to blog for. If she feels so strongly that she must blog these two particular organizations ( http://www.timtodd.org/ or http://www.thetruthforyouth.com/standard/main.htm) then I wish her luck on her own and I’m sorry she won’t be a part of this really cool and fun event.  While it’s not in the rules, I feel as though there is a minimum ethical standard for behavior of organizations we all support.  Lies should not be enforced. Differences of opinion are birds with other feathers. I speak of direct unthruths. Lies to manipulate and control. Hiding information doesn’t make it go away; it just makes it hidden. What we cannot see hurts us the most.

I know I’ve rambled a lot; but I am sure I am not the only who objects to this “charity”.  I don’t make the decision for the Blogathon organizers, and whatever their decision it won’t chage my participation in the Blogathon. Giving back to the world around us in incredibly important and I won’t be swayed, by anyone or even myself, from participating.  I hope that my objections don’t dissuade anyone else from participating.  While I may object; other may support you.  I just could not remain silent.