Bears is a series of portraits of ordinary teddy bears that have been turned inside out and stuffed, by the artist Kent Rogowski. (Why do I feel like this is animal cruelty??)

iams hates animals.

You can buy the stickers for $1 each here.

You can find brands not tested on animals here.

Now you know. Pass it on.

Checklist

The note Michael Vick used when he made his four-minute apology speech on TV has been sold for $10,200, with all proceeds benefiting the Animal Cruelty Reward and Response Fund. The buyer: comedian/producer Carol Leifer.

So here they are, his six well thought out points:

1. Apologize for what I've done... CHECK.
2. Apologize Commissioner, AB... ashamed, Disappointed... CHECK
3. Forgiveness and Understanding... CHECK
4. Take full responsibility for my actions... CHECK
5. We all make mistakes. I've made mistakes in judgement... CHECK

mmmmmmmm.... I feel like I'm forgetting something....

- HOW ABOUT THE DOGS HAVE SUFFERED!!!??

- OK, dogs have suffered.


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(Bastard. Stupid heartless son of a bitch.)

Another movie post about movies

Yesterday I went to the movies thinking that I was going to watch Spiderman 3, which really is not my kind of film, but whatever, I figure I might as well watch it so I can see if it's really worth the buzz. And I also wanted to see what Minus' apartment looks like on screen and if it the fiction version resembles her real living conditions, but it turns out that the movie theatre I went to was not showing SP3 because it's the only theatre in the city that's got some sense.

So because I was already there and because I had already bought a strawberry smoothie that cost me 4 whole dollars, and because that theater has the most freaking comfortable chairs I have ever seen in the whole entire universe, I stayed and watched Year of the Dog - just because I really liked the poster.


The website is pretty awesome too. Turns out that it was a lovely movie, funny but very charming with a bit of sadness that made want to run home and hug my dog as tight as I could. (which I did later on in the evening, right after going to Outback and eating chicken wings. Apparently my sympathy for poor little murdered animals didn't last too long.)

By the way, I googled Year of the Dog so I could find a link to a good review and post it here, and this what I found first. So in case you were wondering about DMX latest CD, it is filled with "hyper-aggressive flow and straightforward, barklike chants". But if you want to read a review about the movie, here it is.

And oh, about that Spiderman, here's the real version from MSNBC (the video makes it extra special):
"What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy’s ear — “like Rice Krispies” — ended up as an earache, and the doctor’s diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear."