I don't know about you, but for me, getting something in the mail that doesn't suck is a rarity.

Seriously.  The only crap that comes in the mail is bills, junk mail, and more junk mail.  It is a complete rarity if anything comes that I'm like "holy crap, how fun!"

Occasionally I order stuff, and then when that comes, it is somewhat fun, but I am expecting it.  Thus, when you get something nice out of the blue, that you weren't expecting, it is the coolest thing ever. 

I give you exhibit A:





This is me sporting a brand new Ren & Stimpy T-shirt from Lisa Haley.  She rules and rocks the free world to the Nth degree.  This was made even truer since she sent me this awesome T-shirt with a note saying she was getting ready to move and thought I would like the T more than her.  Awesome simply awesome.  Oh, since you don't feel like you know her very well, she was one of the graduating seniors, so here is her video from the project.  Shea also has an encyclopedic knowledge of oldschool trivia (from movies to cartoons (ie Felix the cat to Mel Blanc triva) to just about anything).  She does own a few cats, thus was dubbed a little bit of the Crazy cat lady.


Well, now you know her a little better.

If you'd like to be featured on the Slicy Blog, please send a fun filled package to my address and you're sure to be featured right away!  All gifts in all shapes and sizes are accepted.

My brother Chris and Laurie had a baby!!!

His name is Noah and he's supercute.

This is normally the part of the program where I'd show you a picture of him, but since my parents don't know how to use their camera, and my brother is allergic to the internet, I don't have any pictures to show you, thus, I'll try to find a similar picture of him online by googling "Noah awesome" ... and here we go:

Well, this is what I got


DOUBLE CIRCLE OF FIRE WITH GROUND FIRE EXTRAS!!!!!  GO GOOGLE "NOAH AWESOME" YOURSELF TO SEE!!!!"

Um, right.  Excellent.  On with the show.

Recently, some random guy I've never met (see the link to Edieaeaeusie's challenge here) threw down the challenge to write passionately endorsing something you are truly against.  I'll never refuse a writing challenge, so here we go.


Being an Overweight Smoker in American society, a sensitive view on a sensitive subject.

I have been a fat smoker my whole life.  That is how I was born, that is how I grew up, and that is how I am now.  There is nothing neither I nor medical science can do to change that.  Seriously, I have tried literally everything on the market, and yet I do not lose weight.  The real question is, why should I even have to?

First of all, I am an endomorph.  If you don't know what that means, go look it up since I'm not here to to make you smarter.  Wait.  Nevermind.  It means that I have a heavy-set body type.  That's what genetics is.  You are born with certain genes and you CAN'T change your genetic make-up short of radioactive spiders biting you.  Fat people stay fat.  That's life.

I can hear you skinny thin lips flapping in the breeze while you eat your rice cakes, so don't even go there.  What's that, you say?  You say that being overweight is unhealthy?  Really, are you sure about that?  Why don't you go check out this book from your local library then.  It is written by a very knowledgeable LAW professor, so it's definitely got to be true concerning science.  Oh sure, I hear you saying, it might be ok to be a little overweight, but my BMI is 48.  Yeah, I turn heads, but I'm happy and healthier than ever.  Do I have health problems?  Sure, everyone does.  But I have the exact same health problems that all the other people my age have.  Who, I ask you, at age 51 does NOT have chronic back pain?  Who has knees that don't hurt?  Who doesn't have a little bit of a cough every morning?  No one, that's who.  You get aches and pains when you get older.  That's life.  It isn't being fat and it isn't smoking, deal with it.  Speaking of which, don't get me started on smoking.  You wanna open that door? well then get out of the way cause I'm coming through.  Here's a freebee for you to start... fat people DON'T GET OSTEOPOROSIS!  You little brittle boned crybaby whiners might get it, but I'm not worried.  Suck on that.  Now on to smoking, since "it's so bad for you."

Fact 1: No one has ever conclusively proven in a double-blinded randomized control trial that smoking causes cancer.  Surprised?  I thought you skinny bastards might be.  And PAH-leease don't get me started on second hand smoking.  There have been trends and associations, never scientific proof. 

Fact 2: Smoking after heart surgery decreases the level of restenosis of the arteries.  Here's the proof!  I'm sure your little skinny, pearly clean lungs couldn't understand all that, so I'll explain.  If I ever need heart surgery, and you need heart surgery, I'll get better faster and have less complications, since the carbon monoxide levels in my lungs will be higher.  Carbon monoxide dilates blood vessels.  Hell, I think I'll light up right now... ooh, that's smooth.  But I can hear you whining "but you'll only get heart disease if you keep smoking in the first place."  You, my tooth pick friend are an idiot, so I'm not even going to answer that argument.  Instead I'll prove that I'm smarter than you with...

Fact 3: Smoking make you think gooder that non-smokers.  That's right.  Here's the proof.  Did you get that?  YOU may have to read it again, but I'll remember it, since I'm smart.

Fact 4: This is for you granola loving, tree hugging hippies... Even Disney's Goofy smoked, and he couldn't stop either.  Seriously.  Check this out!

Now quit bitching, eat and smoke!

Thanks for the outpouring of support.  As it turns out, pretty much my entire first day was training and tomorrow I will really have my first day.  Thanks though :)

I thought that since I made this ridiculous video for the graduating seniors, the least I could do for my fellow residents would be to put some of the highlights up from it.  The whole video is about 35+ minutes long, so I'm not gonna post the whole thing, but I think Tracy's was pretty much my favorite individual one so I'll post that one and the Intro.  If I get any of the other residents want theirs put up, just tell me and I'll be happy to add them on (I don't know if any of the residents ever read this anydangway, but if you do, and you want it up, lemme know).  That gives the flavor for the video.  Go team NINJA RESIDENT!  Ok.  So I think I have too many memories from residency to post at one time, so I'll just start with the videos for today.  First one is the intro.  It's 44MB long, so those of you with a dial up might take a while longer to download.


INTRO:


The next video is Tracy as "NINJA RESIDENT."  I'm kinda proud of this one since it took quite a bit of editing and re-editing and then even more fine tuning to get it to come out like it did.  I thought it was pretty funny though.  Go Kick some patient booty Tracy (and the rest of us as well  )!



Heh, I think I like the last 1 second of Tracy's vid the best wha-tcha!!