beautiful, funny, sad & true

I love this video.  The way she says, ‘BUT. . .he’s gay.’ just about made me fall out of my chair laughing the first time I watched it.  When she corrected herself, it just made me wonder where the heck that came from.   I can’t imagine how the other newscaster managed to keep his composure through that.  I would have absolutely lost it if my colleague said something that asinine and off the wall, especially in such an earnest, hilarious tone.

I find myself laughing even harder the more I think about it.

This just in:  geeks are better lovers, as are office workers and the unemployed.  But don’t take my word for it, read for yourself.   Being an unemployed geek and former office worker myself, the results of the survey practically listed me by name.

Get in line, ladies, the secret’s no secret anymore.

I came across this recently and was completely blown away by its beauty and simplicity.  Had to share it.

Be mindful of your thoughts; they become your words.
Be mindful of your words; they become your actions.
Be mindful of your actions; they become your habits.
Be mindful of your habits; they define your character.
Be mindful of your character; it defines your world.

It seems that the town in which I grew up is in the national news again, and for all the wrong reasons, as usual.

A five-year-old boy had an accident in his classroom, and it may have happened a few times before.  Let the record show that the boy spends part of his day in special education and the rest in normal kindergarten.  So what does the teacher do upon finding the accident?  She picks up the poo in a paper towel, stuffs it into the poor kid’s backpack, and sends him home with this note on it:

Nice, teach.  Way to be the adult in the situation.  Oh, and thanks for putting Yakima back in the spotlight in such a poetic and brilliant way.  My previous favorite Yakima Moment, which I’ve written about before, was the upholding of the ban on Ralph Ellison’s book Invisible Man by the Yakima School District.

It absolutely made my day to find such a hilarious picture of what appears to be one of the school board members holding the actual note in the Yakima Herald-Republic’s coverage of the story.  Here’s the story on CBS News, too.  Better yet, do you want to watch a video about it on CNN, in which the kid’s father is trying valiantly not to laugh?

Priceless story.  These things can’t be made up.

You may have noticed that BFS&T is ‘back in black’ lately.  See, I’ve been trying a few different color schemes on for size (err, color), but so far I’ve been unable to find one that’s as striking and unusual as this one is.  In fact, a friend even told me the other night that he missed this old color scheme.  I have to admit that I agree with him.  The other ones I’ve tried in the interim have paled in comparison to it.

So here’s the black and blue, back by popular demand.

You’re welcome.