An infant as big as a six-year-old

In Hunan province, in southern.China, a ten-month-old baby boy, who was born at normal weight (around 7.7 lbs) has grown to be as big as a six-year-old in a matter of months. ITN News reports, that the kid weighs around 44 lbs, equivalent to the weight of normal six-year-old child.

What does this mean? I'm sure that kid and his mama both will be studied. The fears are that he may have been exposed to tainted food. But his mother said, "I feed my son with my breast milk. I've never had him take any milk powder or anything that contains hormones."

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Everyone's favorite online Megastore, Amazon, really does have you covered from A - Z, even in death! That's right folks, you can even buy a burial casket from Seattle's very own Amazon.com. They have many different options for you to choose from in regards to burials on the cheap - different sizes (in case you need one for your pet), shapes, and even a DIY option - for the undertaker / craftsman in us all!

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Just four months into the making of this film, the funding for our first year of research and photography ran out. Part of that was my fault. I had been a bit too optimistic about how far we could stretch each Euro because I wanted so badly to get this project off the ground. The rest of the extraneous spending came from unexpected costs. Pricey hotel rooms, exorbitant taxi cab fares, unmarked tolls, bribes, taxes, equipment registration. Key lime pie. Even with my tiny crew the idea of taking on the entire former United States in one go seems, well, naive. Reluctantly, we packed up all the footage and equipment we hadn't already mailed back to England and boarded a plane for home.

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In the off chance you missed my post about the $100 per way pet fee Alaska Airlines charges you can take a gander here. Wasn't that a pleasant, thought out letter to asking for a meaningful address my issue? Did my letter look like I used a "form letter" or a "bulk response"? It is a shame that a "bulk response" is what I got back! They must have missed my other post about How to Make it in Customer Service. I can tell they did because of the use of a "bulk response" - and if your going to use a "bulk response", Alaska - it should not take 12 days to copy and paste it. Just sayin'

For your enjoyment, my response from Alaska Airlines Customer Service:

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Recently, I had to make a very important purchase - a new dining set for my small, urban, one bedroom apartment. There was a lot of thought to go into it but price was (as it always is) one of the biggest factors I had to consider. I wanted to stay as close as possible to $100 for the purchase of a sturdy table and four chairs - while at the same time also getting what I purchased delivered directly to my apartment. Impossible you say? Not so when you have Walmart.com on your side (for better or worse). I found exactly what I needed - a table and four chairs - delivered free to my apartment for $129.00 (plus tax).

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I did this because the animal owed me moneyWhen I heard that Rod Blagojevich escaped conviction on all but one measly charge, my life changed forever. There are so, so many things I'll finally be able to get off my chest now that I know the system won't throw the book at a famous politician with enough money for good lawyers. Oh, American judicial system, I love you! I love the way you rely on juries full of people who weren't smart or busy enough to get out of sitting in that stupid box all day. I love how you reward the rich for having huge sums of disposable income they can throw at crack legal teams of unscrupulous careerists. I love how you ignore crimes that are commonly known as having factually happened just because of wormy little technicalities. God bless the USA and its corrupt, broken, mostly meaningless sense of justice!

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During the fifth grade, I went through what my family calls a “little goth phase.” I wore lots of black makeup, pewter jewelry of things like skulls and bats, and even took to wearing a Morticia Adams dress my mother had made herself for Halloween as a teen. (Yes, it was completely awesome.) Back then, it was pretty early for me to go through such a “phase” (and I put it in quotation marks because I still like to wear such jewelry and black nail polish—and would continue do the rest, probably, if I had the time and energy just because I like it), and I don’t remember anyone else dressing in such a way until junior high and high school. By then, I was in a more “earthy” phase (which I suppose I’m also still “into,” though today’s choices usually stem from whatever is sustainable, cheap, and used) and digging into my mom’s old bell-bottoms (which, unfortunately, did not fit—though they did inspire!).

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Recently, Sarah Palin used her common tactic of simple metaphors mixed with animals and third grade vocabulary words to highlight her presence and that of her soccer mom followers, whom she now refers to as “mama grizzlies.” She says that when their cubs are threatened, mama grizzlies attack—which, I think, is a valid point. Unlike many of the other strange things she’s tried to claim as fact, this is true; if you mess with the cub, you mess with the mama.

However, if translating said metaphor toward a more developed species—in this case, humans—it doesn’t work the same way. If a mama bear’s cubs become human boys and girls, bringing out the claws and teeth get trickier.

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So I am not sure how ya'll feel about a little doggy dress up but I can tell you me and my little girl - love it! She can not wait to get in her clothes and prance up and down the block showing off her designer duds. Seriously... she gets really excited when the clothes come out - pawing at them, "laughing", and sitting very still so I can put them on. She has t-shirts, dresses, bows - and we are working on the shoes. How cute would little (sensible) heels be to go with a fancy little dress? Crazy cute, right?

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Well, this is an oldy - but a goody... well grossy...

Im a huge fan of Amy Winehouse. In fact I aspire to be like her someday. honestly, who wouldn't want to be under the infuence, semi-conscious, out of control, and rich? I guess I do not want to be exactly like her though - I mean she does do and say some pretty bizarro things, but I like to think of them as British and "charming"... sometimes.

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