Do you like cake? Do you like yourself?

Then why not have a wedding cake modeled after yourself? No joke, this bride had it done. She makes Texas proud.

Misuse of Myspace.

Just read this article about a teenage girl and a misuse of Myspace gone terribly wrong. It’s a long article, but it gets so twisted the longer it gets I actually read through it all.

You always hear about Myspace being full of creepy sex predators (which there are), but you never hear about people creating fake accounts that were bad ideas turned into terribly awful ideas. There’s no doubt that myspace and facebook are just the beginning of online social networking, so it’s futile to ban it or rile up against it. I imagine for parents these are unchartered waters because a lot of them don’t even know how to use a computer to begin with. Given Myspace’s lax policies about creating an account - how hard is it for a 13-year old to fudge their birthdate? or for some 60-year old dude to create an account like he’s a 21-year old girl? - I’ll admit I am a little squirmish about who crosses my profile.

As for now, the best advice I can give to parents and kiddos is not to befriend people online who you don’t know. Consider it the modern day “Don’t take candy from strangers.”

To end on a good note…

I really feel like I have been paddling upcreek for the past month or so. No, actually, maybe more like swimming upcreek. With no arms.

However, instead of airing out my dirty laundry, I will end the day with this article that I just stumbled upon that made me laugh out loud in my quiet little apartment. I don’t know if it’s funny or if I’m just ridiculous tired. Maybe both.

After Fight, Airport Embraces SUX Code

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - City leaders have scrapped plans to do away with the Sioux Gateway Airport’s unflattering three-letter identifier — SUX — and instead have made it the centerpiece of the airport’s new marketing campaign.
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The code, used by pilots and airports worldwide and printed on tickets and luggage tags, will be used on T-shirts and caps sporting the airport’s new slogan, “FLY SUX.” It also forms the address of the airport’s redesigned Web site — http://www.flysux.com.
Sioux City officials petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to change the code in 1988 and 2002. At one point, the FAA offered the city five alternatives — GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY — but airport trustees turned them down.

I’m disappointed in the site redesign, but stoked that there are FLY SUX shirts available. Way to embrace who you are, SUX!

Wait, more morning news!

I check Relevant Magazine’s site daily for their news slices and sad to say, my alma mater actually made it up there today for being the classy clowns they are.

Vick ‘Em Shirts: Too Soon?

In an effort to poke a little fun at the Michael Vick scandal and irk rival Texas A&M, students at Texas Tech created a t-shirt depicting a football player hanging a dog with the slogan “Vick ‘Em” across the front.
A&M and Tech play this weekend. The “Vick ‘Em” slogan is in reference to the A&M slogan “Gig ‘em” and the dog being hung in the photo is A&M’s mascot. The player doing the hanging is wearing a number seven jersey — that’s Vick’s number.
Amazingly enough, the shirts were created by the Theta Chi fraternity at Texas Tech in an effort to raise money for the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. According to the Daily Toreador, Texas Tech’s student paper, the t-shirts are no longer being produced, and the frat was kicked off campus as a result.
“We realize the shirts shouldn’t have been printed,” Geoffrey Candia, the creator of the shirts, told the AP. Hindsight is 20-20!

Morning news.

Although break-ins and assaults are not funny, it’s still hard to believe this happened.

Clown kicks in door, punches resident

A man in white and black clown makeup kicked in the door of a Marion man’s residence and punched him Friday night, police said.