I can't get over this story out of Richmond, California:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33499936/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

If you haven't heard about it, a 15 year old girl was gang raped after a homecoming dance for a period of 2 hours. Up to 20 people were watching and/or participating and nobody called for help for 2 HOURS!!! This girl is destroyed. The police found her unconscious. It's one of the most disgusting incidents I've ever heard about.

This is one of those incidents where I wish the public could administer the punishment.

So for the past few weeks, I've been thinking "I wish I would have started a blog when I started crossfit." The other day I figured that I'm almost three months into it, I have a good memory, we have the workouts we've done on our main crossfit page, I might as well start a blog. so I started one:

http://crossfitfoxygen.blogspot.com/

If anyone could check it out and tell me if it's remotely interesting, that would help me out. I'd like to share it with people, but I don't want it to suck. I wish I had more pictures. Anywho, it's there. I'm up to September and working my way up to the present.

I should be grading papers. Blarg.

This is a burpee



Do 20 of those and tell me how you feel.

Variations:

Whoever invented eyebrow plucking is a jerk.

Before, like a month ago:



Tonight:





Jealous, neighbors?



**Yes, I know the other bed is overgrown and ugly, but it looks a lot better with our garden next to it. And when those peppers grow, we're going to sit in the yard and spit the seeds at our shitty neighbors.**

And in case you didn't see it on fb, this is the lovely rosebush next to our lovely carport:

Here's a story for my Bear Blog:

http://www.kval.com/news/local/43628922.html

Any kind of appreciation of Toby Keith is an automatic dealbreaker.

Life After God - Douglas Coupland
Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (I've started it a million times and can't get past 80 pages)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume (I gotta pick something Sawyer read on the island)
Eyewitness Travel: Hawaii - to get me to explore whatever island I'm left stranded

Duh - LOST. (yes it says 5 DVDs, but that includes sets, right?)

So the first 4 seasons of LOST and the first season of Mad Men. I'll laugh when I get off the island (or just put me in the hatch).

A question for my fellow LOST fans (Carey). I'm looking around on lostpedia and watching the end of season 2. I just found this tidbit on Desmond's page:

"Despite both characters being around since season 2, the first dialogue spoken between Desmond and Ben occurred near the end of the season 5 episode "This Place Is Death". "

Does Ben even know how intimately connected Desmond is to Widmore? Why didn't the Others ever show any interest in Desmond?

For me, there were three great movies in 2008 that really stayed with me. "In Bruges" came out earlier in the year and everything about it is unexpected. It was both funny and meaningful and surprising. Above all, it's entertaining.

"Milk" was so completely relevant and Sean Penn was brilliant. I usually don't like biopics but there was something about the joy and determination in Harvey Milk that affected me.

If you had told me 6 months ago that I'd be rooting for Mickey Rourke at the Oscars, or that his name would be mentioned in the news at all, I wouldn't believe it. In that case, if you told me I'd enjoy a Darren Aronofsky film after 'The Fountain', I'd be even more surprised. 'The Wrestler' is amazing. It captured a world that is dreary and dangerous and a man who lives for that world. It is one of the saddest and one of the best movies I've seen in a long, long time. Mickey Rourke has made the comeback of the decade.

28.

Here's some Golden Girls!

I just can't say anymore. It's almost over. This is funny and painful at the same time.

more animals

I don't know how many of you have seen this (if you read the Huffington Post you probably have), but this is one of the funniest clips I've seen in a long time. Live TV + Kathy Griffin = Awesome.

As the year is winding down, it really seems like 2008 is the year of the Asshole. And I'm well aware that a lot of great things happened this year, but have you seen the news lately? Geez! I've narrowed it down to 4 who I think are deserving of this award. And Sarah Palin didn't even make the list. That's saying something.

Blagojevich - Really. He should win just because he's so brazen about the whole thing. 'What? It's politics!' No excuse. You're an asshole!

Kwame - Poor Detroit. I'm not even talking about the Tiger's dismal season. Detroit's in a depression, and what does this guy do? He continued, for well beyond his welcome, to be the mayor, even though everyone wanted him out. The mayor of what? Own up to what you did, Kwame! The Lions should blame their season on you.

Casey Anthony - Yeah, it won't look suspicious if you don't bother to report your dead child missing for a MONTH after it happened, while you go out and party and your car smells like dead little girl. You're going to fry for what you did.

This Madoff guy - He's a late entry, but his asshole-ness has shut down foundations. From someone who works in philanthropy, this guy is at least a douchebag, at worst an asshole.

Your thoughts? There were some pretty terrible people in the news this year. And I think 'brazen' is a big quality in determining who is the biggest asshole of 2008.