Pronounced (cal-vin-uh-lee-bru)

What’s happening my good people. So I know this is kind of old news but it’s something I felt worth mentioning. To me, there is nothing more heartbreaking than seeing a musician with record breaking history attempt to do a comeback, and fail miserably. Being a musician myself (not a very popular one but a musician nonetheless) it feels close to home for me. I watched this video (below) and it just broke my heart to hear one of the most angelic voices of our time sound the way it did. Houston hasn’t toured since the late 90′s and “rumor has it” she’s been using those illegal substances which overtime we all know can kill a beautiful voice (illegal substances can kill a beautiful anything). She said it was her allergies and sickness responsible for the voice breakdown, but people seem to think otherwise. My question is, if you’ve been out for a while, why on EARTH would you sing the hardest song on the planet (even though we know she’s responsible for the remarkable rendition of the original). I like Whitney Houston, she can get a little wild sometimes, but I like her, so I really hope that she can clean up her act and get the show on the road (pun intended).

This is definitely something to stick into my “Interesting” category. Since I was a kid, I’ve always had a fascination with Jellyfish. I had a pretty vivid imagination (and still do for the most part), when I was in second or third grade, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and I was so interested in the Jellyfish because they were like no other creature in any of the tanks. I used to think that there was some kind of spaceship that crash landed on Earth (in the ocean) thousands and thousands of years ago and all of the Jellyfish left the spaceship and were forever condemned to a life of endless floating. That’s what I used to believe. Sounds pretty silly right? It sure does, that would mean Jellyfish would have been floating around in the spaceship, I’m having a tough time picturing that right now. It makes more sense to think that they had another form and upon contact with the ocean water, the space aliens were morphed into what we now call Jellyfish. Yes, I think that makes more sense, just something to think about, which leads me into my blog post of the day.

The main inspiration of this post came from a current event I just ran across. Apparently, out there in the ocean there is a type of Jellyfish that can live forever. According to a blog post by Bryan Nelson of Mother Nature Network “The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.” How on earth does an animal live forever?? Good question, and the quick answer is, through a process called trans-differentiation, the animal is able to transform it’s cells into different types of cells. Which means during it’s adult life, it can transform back into it’s first stage of life (imagine having the ability to turn yourself into a child again). This was a relatively rare species at one point but because they continuously reproduce (and they don’t die), they’re popping up all over the place now. James Cameron should make a movie about this. War of the Worlds II perhaps?? Attack of the Killer Jellyfish(es)?? There is no way The Hurt Locker would have beat out a movie called “Attack of the Killer Jellyfish(es)”. I left a photo below for your viewing purposes.

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Photo courtesy of Peter Schuchert
Post inspired by Bryan Nelsen

Ladies and gentlemen, I just happened to run across this video and damn near fell out of my chair watching this. What we have here is a confrontation between a 67 year old man and a (I have no idea how old) ghetto a$$ black dude. Pardon my french, I try to keep it clean but when I see something this ghetto, I just can’t help myself. Now people, as a grown man, I would NEVER get in someone’s face, especially in a crowded place. It’s extremely immature, disrespectful, and it makes both parties look like a$$e$. Not to mention, if you get knocked out, you don’t wanna be the one starting the fight it just makes you look stupid and I’m pretty sure it’s a self esteem killer. If you’re not the one initiating the confrontation and you get knocked out, oh well, it sucks, but you weren’t looking for trouble anyway and that person that hit you will probably just burn in hell anyway. So just go to Starbucks, tell them what happened, and you’ll probably get a free drink.

With that said, I’m not gonna take sides and say who’s at fault because it takes two people to argue BUT, if you plan on getting up in someones face, you deserve what you get. Enough talk, see the video below and let me know what you think.

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Let this be some words of wisdom… “Never argue with fools, cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who”. Plus, you’ll never know if you’ll get knocked out and need an “am-ba-lampse”.