The Importance of a Blog Post

Eureka! I’ve figured out why I have put this stupid “every blog post has to be of a certain length and high importance” thought into my head: the frame. I made every blog post have a freakin’ picture frame around it, and apparently this has caused me to not be able to post quick little unimportant blog posts… which is what I would like to do. The frame makes each post stand out. It makes each post an island. Alone. Scared. Paranoid. Not a part of the greater blog eco-system.

I want my blog to be a stream. Yes… some items can be long and more serious… but I want there to be a place for all of the little “Holy crap! Today I watched a movie and played with my rats and watched Mad Men with Heather!” posts.

Well… the new theme should fix that. It’s radical. It’s free flowing. It’s wooden. Yeah… kinda going for a Grand Californian / Arts and Crafts / Craftsman theme with it. Can’t wait to finally get it up. Should be soon. Hopefully.

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What is Matt Drudge Trying to Say?

Okay… what the fuck? This is what greeted those who visited The Drudge Report on 08/30/2010:

You suck, Matt.

The text just linked to a Yahoo Image page of the picture of Obama on his bike. No story. Is Drudge trying to make fun of Obama for being safe while riding his fucking bike? Is that too girly for an American president? Would he rather have a semi-dictator in charge because he is totally badass and manly and shoots shit and takes his shirt off a lot? What does this mean???

Okay. Must. Calm. Down. This is just one more reason why I cannot stand Republicans. Sexism. If you don’t think the Republican party is anti-woman, you’re not using your brain.

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Bill O’Reilly is a Clueless and Ignorant Sexist

Here’s what Bill O’Reilly says about single mothers: “I want to be fair about this because there are millions of single mothers who do a great job with raising their kids. It’s possible, but it’s not optional. And that’s where Miss Aniston makes her mistake. She’s throwing a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, ‘Hey you don’t need a guy. You don’t need a dad,.’ That is destructive to our society.”

He also said: “Dads bring a psychology to children that in this society is underemphasized. Men get hosed all the time.”

God… when are all of these old, white men just going to go away. Stupid dinosaurs. Go back to the fifties when sexism was completely acceptable and fully integrated into all aspects of society. I’m sure you loved it back then when white men were kings and everyone else had to bow down to you.

This is why all of these conservative bloggers and Fox News pundits pine for “the good old days” and think we need to “restore honor”. We haven’t lost our god damn honor. If we have, it was George Bush who did it. Under his watch, America tortured people and wire tapped its citizens without a warrant. Our own government lied to us to start a war that we did not need to start. Bush refused to actually act like a mature adult and talk to our enemies and show the world that we are not ignorant little children who say stupid things like “You’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror”. Yeah… that’s a real productive and gown up mentality. These guys probably watch Mad Men and wish America was still like that. I watch that show and am disgusted by that behavior (as any rational person would be), even if it is a great show.

Oh well… things always get better as the old generations die out and take their backwards thinking with them. Just gotta wait it out.

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I Believe in God, Only I Spell it Nature

I am writing this post on my iPhone underneath My Favorite Tree. It’s in a big grassy area near the house Heather and I were married in. It may be hot as hell outside at the moment, but there is a beautifully relaxing breeze rustling the branches (and my shaggy hair) that is making the heat a non-issue.

You can find beauty everywhere. Here I am in shitty Chandler, Arizona yet I feel completely relaxed and happy. I see green all around me and the only noises I hear are the steadily increasing breeze and a few skaters having some fun at the nearby skate park. I’m currently writing a post about atheistic spirituality that will cover most of what I am feeling right now so I won’t go into much detail, but I don’t see how any experience anyone can have in a church could even come close to rivaling the beauty of even this shitty little park and all it represents. I may not believe in a lot of the ridiculous stuff that those Sedona and Flagstaff new agey types are into, but they are definitely spot on about the benefits of connecting to nature. I love my gadgets, but this far surpasses any shiny new toy Apple can ever throw at me.

Don’t forget to SMILE!!!

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This is THE Scariest Ride I Have Ever Seen…

And I will NEVER go on it. Not ever. No no no no no no no!

The 301-foot-tall WindSeeker promises to change Knott’s Berry Farm’s skyline when the spinning swing ride debuts at the Buena Park theme park in 2011.

WindSeeker will carry 64 riders in twin-seat gondolas to the top of the tower, where the ride’s metal arms will extend out at a 45-degree angle and spin for one minute at 30 mph.

The $5 million WindSeeker thrill ride replaces the venerable but aging Sky Cabin, a 225-foot-tall gyro observation tower built in 1976 and painted in patriotic red, white and blue. In recent years, the sedate observation deck has become better known for getting stuck in mid-ascent than for its commanding views. Knott’s removed the nostalgic Sky Jump parachute drop from the tower in 1999, leaving only the Sky Cabin.

The WindSeeker tower will retain the Sky Cabin’s signature Knott’s “K” at the top of the ride.

WindSeeker will be just a bit shorter Knott’s 312-foot-tall Supreme Scream turbo drop ride, touted as the tallest freestanding structure in Orange County when it was built in 1998.

Cedar Fair, Knott’s parent company, will install identical WindSeekers in 2011 at Cedar Point and Kings Island in Ohio and Canada’s Wonderland in Ontario.

The ride’s Dutch manufacturer, Mondial, is embroiled in a bitter patent dispute with an Australian competitor over the ride’s design. FunTime’s Star Flyer looks like a classic wave swinger ride with seats suspended from chains while Mondial’s WindSeeker features steel arms designed for higher wind conditions.

It’s even frightening in computer generated models!

Just looking at it makes me want to cry. Make it stop!!!

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State of the Adam 2010

Adam Willis Loves You Very Much!Hey there, kiddos! It is time, once more (even though this is the first time), for my annual State of the Adam address! Yes… now you will know all about me and what I am upto. This may appear to be a normal blog post that just states my current endeavors and thoughts on my own life like any other blog post, but you’d be wrong! DEAD wrong. But you’d actually be right. I suppose you could call this a blog post that has been super sized. Are you ready? Come on, everybody! Here we go!

  • Weekends! Now that Heather is working at CPS, we have weekends off! This may not seem like a huge deal to most, but we have had the shittiest schedule for a while now. I’ve had my Monday-Friday 9-5 type schedule for a while now, but Heather had been working overnights at the child nursery she worked at. And she would work different days each week. Our sleep schedules were fucked. But now… we can get back to normal and do normal things at normal hours. Big relief. One thing this lets us do is actually start going on day trips again! Heck… I fell in love with Heather on a day trip. Many new and fantastical adventures await us.
  • Memory. Mine sucks. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before, but I have terribly bad memory. Now that I have insurance, I plan on going to some kind of doctor for this. I really don’t know if anything can be done, but it’s worth a try. I mean… I forget things within seconds. I have to write every fucking thing I want to do down on paper and even then I forget about that paper. It’s like I can’t win. It’s like I’m sabotaging myself. Hopefully I don’t have to resort to Memento style tattooing. Bah.
  • Heather. Wow. What can I say? I still feel like the luckiest guy on Earth. To go from she-who-must-not-be-named to my beautiful, intelligent, child-protectin’ wife was a change for the better that is roughly equivalent to the difference between the state fair (at times fun, but mostly frightening and horrible) and Disneyland (always perfect). Night and fucking day. Jesus. So yeah… Heather is amazing. We may not be where we want to be (Arizona) in life at the moment, but we will be soon and it will be glorious… and I know we can do it. There’s never a day when I don’t feel a rush of excitement as Heather greets me after I get home from work. I feel at home with her. There’s nothing about being with her that feels unnatural or forced. I’m not very good with accurate descriptions of my feelings, but I guess you could say that being with her has made my life feel like it’s complete. Like a puzzle that finally got finished after many years. I just don’t know of anything else I really need out of life now. Sure, there are things that I want (vacations, Disneyland, toys, gadgets, gizmos, etc.), but they really don’t seem too important. When I was with… her… I was always thinking of things I could get or do that would make me happier… that would make me feel like my life was getting better or more fulfilling. I guess I thought that was okay at the time, but I was wrong. It’s kind of like I just don’t give a fuck about what the fuck I do or have as long as Heather is with me. Yep. Ha… wow. Corny as shit, huh? It’s all true though. All you need is love.
  • Job. Still not diggin’ my job too much, but I’ll live. I make good money and it’s worth it to me right now. Can’t wait to move and have to find a new one, though.
  • Pets. Monte sucks. I do not like owning a snake as he is boring as fuck and scares the shit out of me. Hmm… what to do? Oh… I know… RATS!!! As I’ve mentioned before… I am getting two rats: Tegan and Sara. I actually built their cage myself out of hardware cloth and linoleum. It’s amazing and beautiful and can easily be modded and added to. I still don’t have them as I’m getting them from a rat breeder and have to wait until they are 5 weeks old to get them. It’s worth the wait. They’ll be much more used to humans than Petco rats because the breeder plays with and takes great care of them.
  • Team Willis. Katy just got back from France a few weeks ago and is just as awesome as ever. I’m so glad that Heather and the rest of my family get along so well. I mean… she is family now, after all. Heather motherfucking Willis. In my opinion… the BEST Willis. We’re all gonna go to Posh together in a few weeks. Fuck yeah. It’s going to be a night to rival all other nights.
  • Health. I’m trying to stay focused on my weight but it’s hard. I’m not at all happy with where I am at right now. I weigh 190 at the moment. I’d like to get down to about 165. I was down at that weight when I first started dating Heather, but I got too comfortable and complacent and stopped working out. I know I can get to where I want to be, but it’s not going to be easy.
  • Harry Potter. I know I’m like a hundred years late on this, but I am finally reading through all seven Harry Potter books. As of right now I am in the middle of the Half Blood Prince and loving it! Heather and I have been watching the movies as I finish the books. I will definitely be done with Deathly Hallows before the movie comes out so that should be exciting. My hair is getting pretty shaggy so maybe I’ll sharpie a scar on my forehead, buy some robes and circle glasses, and head on out to a midnight showing! Huzzah!
  • Soda. I drink too much soda. Diet Mountain Dew and Coke Zero mainly. I know this is a problem, but I don’t feel like tackling it yet. I will eventually, but right now is just not the right time.
  • The Netherlands. Okay. This is epic. Me and m’lady are going to The Netherlands for at least three weeks in June 2011. Yeah. I am stoked. This is our scouting trip to help us determine if we want to move there or not. I really don’t know if it’s going to entice us or not. This is very exciting as it has the potential to be a life changing event. Oh yeah… and we might (if we can come up with the money) go visit Zermatt, Switzerland!!! Why is this awesome? Oh… I don’t know… maybe because that is where the MOTHERFUCKING MATTERHORN is!
  • Disneyland. Speaking of the Matterhorn… yeah… Disneyland. Not sure I’ve mentioned it before… but I’m kind of in love with the place. Just a little. That’s why it’s so sad that I haven’t been in like a million years! That’s what happens when you become responsible and try to pay off your debt while simultaneously saving up for a grand European vacation. Don’t get me wrong… I am glad we are doing these things… but I still miss the place. I feel at home in Disneyland. Oh well. I’ll go back eventually. Sometime after Holland. And hey… even if we do move to Europe I’ll still have Disneyland Paris which is, in my opinion, just as good as the original Disneyland.
  • Politics. Blah. I’m a far left liberal who hates Republicans. Conservative ideals and free market stuff is fine and dandy, but Republicans are ASSHOLES. The party is full of stupid, piece of shit, mean spirited, ignorant, racist, bigoted, sexist, pathetic, worthless, assholes. Democrats are weak and not actually liberal, but they are no where near as bad as their counterparts. Anyway. Yeah. I belong in Europe. In a country where healthcare is not considered a privilege but a right and gay people can actually marry each other. American politics suck.

Well… there you go. That’s, obviously, not everything there is to know about me, but I think it’s a pretty good representation of who I am and what I am upto at the moment. Bye Bye.

I love you.

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Why I Will Never Again be a Republican

Okay… this is why I hate the Republican party. It’s run by assholes like Newt Gingrich. In the video below he claims that building the Ground Zero Mosque is the same as Nazis putting a sign next to a holocaust museum. Yeah.

Three words: Out. Of. Touch. Seriously… that’s exactly what explains the Republican party of today. It’s run by old, white men who just don’t have a clue. They are pompous, selfish, mean, and cold-hearted. And in the case of those like Glenn Beck and some of the tea party leaders… dangerous.

No… Obama is NOT intentionally trying to destroy the economy… no… Obama is not a socialist (try to call him a socialist to a real socialist and you will get laughed at quite a bit)… no… Obama was not born in Kenya… no Obama does not hate the constitution. Bah. I need to stop it with the politics. The whole thing is annoying and deeply disheartening. Democrats suck, too. There are maybe a dozen or so Dems in the senate and house that are actually competent and are actually concerned about American citizens. The rest, like all Republicans (except Ron Paul I guess), have been bought and paid for by lobbyists… and one of them used to be on Saturday Night Live for Pete’s sake!

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My New Friends

Well. It’s official. I am picking up Tegan and Sara on August 28th! The woman I am getting them from just sent me some pictures of them yesterday…

Super cute, right???

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My Life is a Link Wheel of Fun

So. I literally feel like screaming every second I wear nice clothes. I’m not talking a fancy suit or anything like that… I’m talking about even just business casual. Slacks and a polo shirt kill me. Even wearing nice jeans pisses me off. I was not meant for nice clothes. I want to wear mismatched shorts and a t-shirt. I want my shirt to have holes in it. I want to spend approximately 2 seconds choosing my clothes in the morning.

I feel like ranting about my job situation again, but I think I’ve covered all the bases in the past. Basically… don’t like this job, but don’t know exactly what I would like. Life is definitely a journey and I am excited to see where it takes me.

Rats! I am getting my wittle baby ratties sooooo soon! The rat breeder said it should be around the 23rd. The cage is coming along nicely. I would say I’m about half way done at the moment. I’ll post pictures when it’s done. It’s awesome. It’s epic.

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Putting Three Coins into a Washing Machie

Check out Heather showing off her green thumb!

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