Hitting the High Notes 3/1

From time to time I come across stuff that I want to blog about but have no real place to put it... they aren't random thoughts and usually aren't big enough for a single blog post so I save them up and post sort of a smorgasbord of interesting stuff and I call it "hitting the high notes"... Here goes:

-Maxim Magazine is pretty embarrassed after admitting that they gave the Black Crowes a lukewarm review on their new album - Without even listening to the whole thing... Uhh Maxim I know your goal in life is to be Playboy lite but come on at least have some shred of legitimacy.

-Boy George denies imprisoning Norwegian man at his London home - I am sorry but I just find that headline funny as heck.

-Students at Chapel Hill high School were recently busted in a HUGE cheating scandal. Now I know you say this kind of thing happens all the time but the ironic thing is that this particular high school is supposed to be the toughest most academically prestigious high school in the entire state of North Carolina. They are a public high school who thinks of themselves as a private school. If you get a chance read the article these kids were apparently passing a master key to the school around for years and getting tests ahead of time. It's a big mess and couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of stuck up elitists.

-Did you guys know that the states of Georgia and Tennessee are apparently about to go to war with one another? Apparently somebody in the 1800s messed up and part of Tennessee is actually Georgia's and they want to annex a good portion of the Tennessee river... It may turn into a mini civil war... what do you think about that MickyT ??

-You have got to be kidding me. It's a doggone chartbuster -- a song audible only to dogs has topped New Zealand record charts, and is looking to go global. A Very Silent Night, recorded at a frequency only dogs can hear, was so popular among owners it hit number one at Christmas I don't make these things up folks I just report them. And please don't tell me that you would actually pay money to download this song that only your dog can hear... Yeesh

-I hate to say I told you so but... remember that guy who got mauled at the San Fran zoo by the tiger. I blogged about it here. Well sure enough I was right and the "victim" was drinking an taunted the tiger... Once again I say this is just nothing more than Darwin's natural selection at it's finest.

-And finally there was an incident in Arlington Oregon recently where the Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist was forced from office because there was a racy picture of her posing in bra an panties on a firetruck. Where was this picture found? You guessed it On her Myspace page. Now granted I guess the residents of Arlington Oregon (all 500 of them) have the right to recall their Mayor for whatever reason they want to but I will show the picture here so you can decide for yourself how "racy" it is. But the moral of this story is this... ADULTS SHOULDN'T USE MYSPACE - NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OUT OF IT. The only exception is if you are just checking up on your kids...because not much good can come from them using it either. Here is the picture:

From Myspace

From a town council meeting

Your thoughts?

-Doc

It's a Tiger and Tigers DON'T PLAY

Ok people listen up. I was saddened to hear about the recent mauling of patrons at the San Fransisco zoo by a 300 pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana but I kept thinking to myself that something is not quite right about this story. My instincts were as usual correct.

Follow along with me here folks. Now first of all the name of this cat alone should have tipped these folks off that she was not to be messed with (my own personal philosophy is never mess with anything whose name sounds like a female Russian spy) I can understand if her name was Snuggles you may think aw how cute but dadgum folks IT'S A TIGER ! Tigers don't play.

So still this is looking like a tragic lost of human life and the hands of a wild beast, but based on the news reports that the tiger habitat had a huge wall as well as a moat and was basically inescapable I still had an uneasy feeling about this one. Then today I read THIS It turns out that they are investigating the guy that was killed may have taunted because "police found a shoe and blood in an area between the gate and the edge of the animal's 25- to 30-foot-wide moat, raising the possibility that one of the victims dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of the moat."

This little bit of information has changed my outlook on this situation. Yes I still consider it a tragedy however I think the tragedy it that Tatiana is dead. If the "victim" in this case was stupid enough to taunt a 300 pound Siberian tiger then he should not be surprised when Ms. Tatiana takes him up on his offer of a juicy leg and comes after him. You cannot blame the tiger here. It is a shame that others were hurt and that the tiger was killed but dadgum people if there is any lesson here it is this: IT'S A TIGER AND TIGERS DON'T PLAY.

-Shane (doc)

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This story reminds me of an old American proverb:

'So many times, it happens too fast.

You change your passion for glory.

Don't lose your grip (or dangle your leg) on the dreams of the past.

You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight, (yada yada yada).'

(Many thanks to Frankie Sullivan & Jim Peterik for letting me paraphrase their lyrics).

- The Mountain Tig...er...Cat