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As a postscript to last night's post of foodie love, after class I stopped off and got some Chinese take-out and when I got home I proceeded to eat it faster than I've ever eaten anything before. I was just that hungry and it was oh so very yummy. I topped it off with some marzipan ice cream from Ben&Jerry's. It is delicious and I would eat it all the time if I could, that and their cinnamon bun ice cream which is quite possibly perfection in icey creamy form.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for non-fat tofutti dreamsicle. nom nom nom nom

However, the point of this post is not food. Sad, I know. However, nearly as great as tasty food is former presidents being awesome. First off, Jimmy Carter wrote a fantastic op-ed piece that, amazingly, makes me love him even more. It is entitled The words of God do not justify cruelty to women and I kind of want to print it out and nail it to a number of eclesiastical edifices, Luthor-style. Jimmy Carter, you're my hero (which sounds facetious but is still true).

Also, Bill Clinton is a P-I-M-P PIMP. Bill Clinton has his problems but, man, you can't help but love him. ( Behold! )

Last but definitely not least, yesterday was President Obama's birthday. Happy belated Mr. President! ( Cupcakes! )

Some days it's good to be a political fangirl. =D

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I watched Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan over the weekend and was happily surprised at how well the New!Trek characterizations hold up when compared to the originals. The New!Trek writers really knew what they were doing. Fans at work really is a happy-making thing.

Plus it's always great to wallow in that Old!Trek goodness. And I was highly amused by the special f/x which seemed so extraordinary to me when I was a kid but now, well, yeah. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

That reminds me! Last Friday I took my Star Wars dvds to FGC in order to indoctrinate the Baylor Nephew (at the baylorsr's request, of course). He's still a little young to sit through the whole movie so around the halfway mark he and I started playing 'Shoot Darth Vader' using the dvd cases as guns (his parents don't approve of toy guns but, as I learned as a child when my parents had the same restriction, anything'll work at a pinch). And then he got out the Baylor Sister's Star Wars action figures and we played with those until his mom came to pick him up. It was a lot of fun.

I do so love corrupting the rising generation.

BTW, was just watching Scrubs on MTV and the showed a commercial for the upcoming VMA's. It was all about 'Best New Artist' or whatever and, OMG, I did not know any of the people they presented. I just, wow, I'm really not hip to what the kids are listening to. *boggles*

I don't know if they make this in other parts of the world, but when I was last at the grocery store I saw Blue Moon ice cream which is something I remember liking as a kid so I picked up a carton of it. The crazy thing is that it actually tastes blue, just like the carton says it does. It's crazy. Though I don't think I need a whole half-gallon of it.

Randomosity, thy name is Lipton. Etc, etc, blah, blah, blah