Happy Holidays!!

Just wanted to share my holiday fun facts video:



Enjoy! Happy Holidays!

Giant Squids of Anger

So.... John Green is constantly mentioning the giant squids of anger that attack innocent Youtubers in the comment section. However, I always imagine tentacles coming from the shadows to drag him into the YouTube shadows. Someone could probably do this better, but this was the image in my mind.

Also, I made the community channel joke out of love. If you watched my "your mom" video, you know that I love the mom/mum jokes!! And, honestly, who doesn't love community channel???

Hope you are all well!! Best Wishes!!

Yet another reason to love Katee Sackhoff...

So, being a huge Battlestar Galactica fan, I dressed up as Starbuck for Halloween. This was very exciting, especially since Katee Sackhoff announced that she was having a costume contest a week before Halloween. Katee Sackhoff played Starbuck in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (which is honestly the waaaaaay better one). I was all about that, so I filmed a short video and entered the contest and...

I AM A RUNNER UP IN KATEE SACKHOFF'S COSTUME CONTEST!!!!! WHOOOOOO!!!!!

Here is a link to her website showing the results: http://kateesackhoff.com/wordpress/ You definitely need to check out the Grand Prize Winner. Her costume is phenomenal. Not that I don't love mine, but hers was phenomenal... Anyway, if you can't check out her website, here is the video I made:



Thanks for watching!! YAY KATEE SACKHOFF!!!

BANNED BOOK WEEK!!!

Hey Everyone!

Banned Book Week starts Sept. 26th!!! No, put down your Nazi Fascist flags... this is about celebrating our ability to read books that have been banned or challenged. Hurray for freedom!! I made a quick video highlighting some of the reasons books are banned. Are those reasons good enough for you? Well they aren't for me! HURRAY FOR ACCESS TO BANNED BOOKS!!!



Sources: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged/index.cfm
http://www.ala.org/bbooks
Banned Books Manifesto: http://www.ncac.org/images/ncacimages/BBWManifesto%281%29.pdf
Map of Banned Books in the United States
http://bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html

Serious Love for Locks of Love

So, yesterday I got my hair cut for Locks of Love. It was a great thing. The longest pieces were about 10.5 inches, although the layers were a bit shorter. If you want to watch the process, I'm embedding the video here:



However, I was surprised how some people had a negative reaction to the organization. People talked about how Locks of Love (LoL) didn't use all the hair for wigs or deny some cancer patients wigs. I thought that the negative reaction was weird, so I did some research... and some of it is true, but taken WAAAAY out of context.

So, yes, LoL doesn't use all the hair that they get in the mail. However, they don't want to damage hair by dyeing it, so gray hair isn't used. Also, they only use the highest quality hair, so color-treated hair isn't used either. They also rarely use hair shorter than 10 inches because they make a lot of long hair wigs for little girls.

What do they do with all of this extra hair? They sell it. This outrages some people, but in my research, I discovered that hand-making human hair wigs can cost thousands of dollars. They get a lot of hair in the mail, but not a lot of people donate more than $50. So, they need donations of at least 50 people for every wig. If they don't get that, they need to make money somehow. So, they sell the extra hair that they can't use anyway.

The other allegation is that they are denying cancer patients. One problem is that the lack of finances to make these wigs makes it hard to make enough wigs for everyone. At this point, LoL wants to focus on giving wigs to children who permanently lose their hair, which happens with certain cancers. However, this means that most of the kids who receive wigs have other diseases.

I think all of their reasons are totally justified. I guess I have a lot more problems with the critics of LoL than LoL itself. Why should only cancer patients deserve to have wigs? I think a loss of hair would be stigmatizing to any young kid, regardless of what disease they have. I'm really happy that I donated my hair, and I'm sending a check to try to offset the costs of making a wig. I hope that other people can feel the same way.

Two excellent quotes!!

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ~ Frank Zappo

Phone Messages

I'm NOT feeling good and I have thesis anxiety. However, here is a recent YouTube video because I have sadly neglected my beautiful blog.



I feel like a crack monkey, and from Sandip's comments, I'm acting like one, too. Stupid allergies and colds and the medicine that allows me to breathe but takes away my ability to function in reality. BLEH.