Happy Birthday, W.B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
~The Second Coming

Tiny Superhero!!

Who: Punto the Piranha.
Why: Because he arrived in my mailbox today.
No really, WHY?: Ok. So my husband has turned me into a Twins fan. And me being me, I don't normally go in for the big superstar players. So when Ozzie Guillen, coach of the White Sox, labeled some of the Twins players "Piranhas" last year (because they get in there, get little hits, get on base, steal bases, and just sort of pick at you) I was a fan. And then, as a promotion, the Twins created these little guys. And I just HAAAAD to have one. Now, thanks to eBay, I do! His name is Punto. Punto the Piranha. Named for my current favorite Twins player and the de facto "Head Piranha" himself, #8, third base, Nick Punto.

Isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen?!

I need a hero!

Who: Donald Faison.
Why:


Honorable mention to The Fug Girls, who posted this link, and really, are my heroes every day.

Today's hero(ine)

Who: Sarah Silverman.
Why: Do you even need to ask? For slamming Paris Hilton (I mean slamming) at the VMAs last night. With Paris in the audience. I'm not going to post it, but the video is everywhere (TheSuperficial, TMZ, etc.), and you might want to turn the sound down if you're in a more public area. Honorable mention goes to the audience at the VMAs, who practically went into a standing ovation when Silverman said "Tomorrow, Paris Hilton is going to jail." Woo, indeed.

Perhaps someday we'll have enough sense to stop caring about what these people do. Or just throw 'em in a cell with all the other inmates as opposed to giving them special treatment because they've got lots of money. Bastards.