Happy Autumn Equinox!!

I have to say, for my part I'm leaning towards blue body paint and bonfire dancing.  Okay, knitting and hot chocolate are probably what's going to happen, but a girl can dream, can't she?  Anyway, enjoy the day and the evening!

I miss the old Disney

I just watched High School Musical for the first time and I gotta say, I miss the old Disney.  Ya know, the one that wasn't constantly shoving feel good messages at you with every movie.  And the cast is so obviously ethnically politically correct that it's annoying.  But back to the feel good messages.  It just seems like Disney has gotten so saccharine sweet that their movies are nearly intolerable.  I mean, Disney has always been about escapism, but their movies and cartoons have gone to the point where I'd rather gag than cheer when the heroes win.  HSM itself isn't overly bad, I mean, it is a musical about a high school musical and Zac Efron likes to sing through his nose and the actress who plays Gabriela does that glottal stop thing that irritates me to death, but the tunes are catchy and there are some fun moments.  But I've noticed that even if bad things do happen in a Disney flick, like someone dies, now it feels overly contrived, whereas before it seemed like part of the story.

Perhaps this is what happens when I go from watching Buffy (admission: am partially in love with Angel, much to my dismay.  Curse you, brooding men!!!  Hope to be in love with Spike soon, because he's just so bad.) and Fast and the Furious to kids' movies.  .......  Or maybe not.  I don't remember the cartoons I grew up with constantly pushing a message at me, albeit usually positive message.   I wonder what Walt would say.  Especially at the ridiculous number of sequels that keep coming out.  Blegh!  I think I may need some Pitch Black or 10 Things I Hate About You to cleanse my palate.  Except I have to go, cause I'm about to be late for church!

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So before we get to the title, I just called this customer service line for some info I needed for work, and the guyI talked to had this fabulous British accent (not your BBC accent, either) and he called me "my love" twice and it was so charming!!  I know I'm supposed to be all offended that he was sexist and everything, but I'm totally not.  It may have repaired my day, in fact.  Also, I have started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon's version); I'll let you know what I think.

On to the title.  Apparently the end of the world has been put off another month or so, since right now the collider is only shooting particles in one direction, but yesterday as I was driving around I was thinking how strange it would be if the scientists did create a black hole (very highly improbable) and the planet (and, therefore, humanity) were sucked into it almost instantaneously.

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And we would never know.  Every one, every thing, just ... a black hole!  Just think, all of our wars, all of our pollution, reduced to the very atoms of the weapons and smog that form them.  In one way, it is beyond ridiculously depressing, but in another way.... it just kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?  All of our anger, our petty jealousies, hatred, racism, the Internet, things that exist solely because humanity exists, would simply *poof* into non-being.  And the elections would be over.  Hmmmm...... 

But for those of you who are wondering has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet, click on the link, or come to your own conclusions!

Con-nec-ti-vi-ty

Remember?  The old Police song?  No?  Hmmm, perhaps I have the wrong word.  Anyway, just a quick note to let you all share in the joy, now that I have my Internet connection back.  Apparently my anti-virus software's firewall was blocking my access to the web and I didn't figure it out until last week.  But now I have, which means my music collection may grow a little more substantially than it ought!

Also, if anyone can even find me right now, you need to change any bookmarks or links to gringaenguadalajara.blogspot.com.  I tragically have not had my address purchased again for the year, so leaving out the "blogspot" portion of the address leads nowhere.  Bry, if you're reading this, drop me a line, baby, we need to talk! 

Anyway, hope you all had a lovely weekend.  I went to Klamath Falls with my mom and had a wonderful time hanging out and going to the Tulelake County Fair, which is all that a fair should be, instead of the ridiculous monstrosity that some have becomeJacksonCountyFairahem.  I also got the dates for this year's Mexican adventure to oh-so-friendly Tijuana with Uncle Jim's church, which I'm totally looking forward to, even if I'm not allowed to use handsaws anymore.  But the week stretches before us now, and so I will also hope that you all have a lovely week as we begin to ease into autumn.