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Days of Chia: day 1

Prior to moving recently, I uncovered an original Chia pet at my parent’s house and brought it with my personage to Lawrenceville. After a rather intensive and fruitless search for Chia seeds for purchase (besides through the internet), I learned from CVS pharmacy that Chias are seasonal products. Seeds accordingly are only made availible in stores as the winter holidays draw near. Sure enough, a week or so before Halloween, CVS unveiled it’s line of Chias; at which time I purchased a Garfield Chia to get both the Garfield pot and some seeds.

Day 1

The following photo-diary represts my first attempt at growing Chia. I will be updating this diary so you can see the drama unfold daily.

Day 1

Day 1

Dangerous Nuts

Here is the latest safety bulletin from the lab:

Fall Safety Hazards

With the Fall season upon us, I wanted to remind everyone that the falling leaves and acorns can cause slippery conditions on walking surfaces, including parking lots. This can create hazardous conditions, particularly when wet weather hits. Please use special care when walking on areas near trees and when getting into and out of your cars. Thanks.

Yes, you read that correctly. Watch out for leaves and acorns.

Heathcliff-O-Lantern

Evidently, Heathcliff predated Garfield by about five years. This would lead one to make the accusation that Jim Davis owes some creative royalties. However, as Joe has pointed out, Jim Davis is not a talentless hack, because Garfield‘s innovation was that he thought, while Heathcliff spoke. Hence, the subtle genius of Davis, and the archaic barbarity of George Gatley.

Heathcliff-O-Lantern
Interestingly, in the Heathcliff and Dingbat cartoon, there was a pumpkin named Nobody. We decided not to carve a jack-o-lantern of Nobody, because a pumpkin carved like a pumpkin is “as stupid as a bowl of mice.”


“Stupid as a bowl of mice” courtesy of Tracy Morgan.

BAP Update

BOB!
This just in…. Bobert A Peed supports the Hispanic folk! Meet Bobert at the Chi Chi’s on Broken Land Parkway in Landover, MD tonight at 7:00pm. Free food for all. See you there!

New Vice President (Write-In)

BOB!

I am here to officially announce the running of Bobert A. Peed for Vice President of the US of A!!! Hot Damn! We here at moveon.org have been working on this development for months! Though its late in the campaign season we are hopeful to get Bobert elected. Unlike Chaney, Bobert is in EXCELLENT health for a 57 year old American man. We will tell more about Bobert’s platform in later post but we will tell you that he is a strong advocate for employee lunches, legalized prostitution, pro-Medicare, and he lives by the saying “finders keepers – loser weepers!” He also is pro-choice, anti-gun control, pro-same sex marriage, pro-gun control, supports amending the constitution of the United States to make same-sex marriage unconstitutional, and is anti-gun control. Like I said, we will explain more of his views soon. We are also in the process of setting up a VP debate… stay tuned.