Ok, NOW I want an iPhone

Because before, nothing had sold me. ;)

Ever since two of my silly guy friends made their own "I Am T-Pain" song, I've been really wanting an iPhone.

So imagine my obsession with the following:

Murphy's HORRIBLE Law

Remember Alli?

Well, she still has Hodgkin's lymphoma (blood cancer)...

In fact, worse than they thought.


She's up for more rounds of Chemo (imagine her horror when she thought she was done) and a stem cell transplant ... from herself ("autologous").


If you do nothing else today, please send her some warm regards and wishes on her blog - HERE.

She will greatly appreciate it.

She needs our love.
Thank you.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA

Haha!

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Where Kanye and healthcare converge

In New York City (of course, duh) subways.

Below are some new ads set to go up:

image via NY Times

And I guess some experts argue this subway marketing works- after all with the nutritional labeling and trans-fat ban, NYC is one of the "thinnest" cities in the US.

Adding my two cents to the healthcare debate (Partisan pigeonholers be forewarned, I think mine's pretty independent):
One of the most essential but hugely unspoken element of the healthcare debate is that of what Americans are eating. I don't need to regale us with all the statistics of how obese we are or how large our portions are or how much we spend on weight-loss products...it's all a mess and too much money goes towards something that is not progressing.
Maybe I am not one to talk because I am not obesity- or diabetes-inclined, nor do I work in or formally study the healthcare industry. But when you see numbers like $263 billion going toward funding the two combined, I don't think it's entirely fair in some way that I am paying into something that is, as it appears (pun intended), for the MOST part (not all- type I diabetes anyone?) entirely preventable.

Maybe I've hit a nerve, and if so, I apologize. But please, do yourself and all other Americans a favor. I don't need to tell you to get '5-a-Day' or to work out or to not drink milk and all of that ... but I guess I just did.

I really liked President Obama's speech actually ... (revoking cancer treatment halfway through IS extremely wrong) ... and we shall see if his promises pan out. Even flaming conservative libertarian Glenn Beck, who TIME accuses as a fear-marketing "Mad Man" said
"I don't know personally a single Democrat who is a dope-smoking hippie that wants to turn us into Soviet Russia."

But politics is something in which I cease to find much satisfaction, as the more I read about it, the more confused I find myself. Maybe you could argue that anything worthwhile is, in it's essence, confusing at the core. But I can't seem to catch a break from this little thing called the US political economic system.
And coming from a politically apathetic family (read: Beltway Burnouts turned Carefree Californians) doesn't help.


But I think all of us can agree that in light of the pathetic and utterly rude Kanye antics of last Sunday's VMAs...

THE jackass comment is totally justified...

and maybe you totally disagree with me above on healthcare, but below here, can see why I deemed this the best subway ad of summer 2008:



T. Swizzle: you're welcome.

NYC: You can't come soon enough.

Happy weekend.

Gorilla marketing, and other nuggets

Snowboarded Snow Basin Monday, and let's just say, I finally, truly, really understand ski/boarder junkies now.
10 runs in 3 hours due to the combination of hauling it down the mountain and fast gondolas, where we had lots of chit-chat with older people who inspired me to live well.
Glorious.

In a nutshell, from a gem of a lady from Oregon we met:
"You've got to keep moving, because as soon as you sit down, it's over!"

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Was handed one of these by a wordless ape-costumed fellow at the bottom of the 800 N 200 E ramp this morning on the way to class..

...so does this constitute 'gorilla marketing'?

(Yes that is a veggie tales band-aid, due to my pinkie crunching in the opening gondola door at Snowbasin...err, I mean, catching it in my binding going off a jump ;))

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As one of the few iPhone-less in the world nowadays, learning how to put Twitter in my Gmail was the next best thing to up and Steve Job-ing myself with one...

Learn how HERE. Takes 1 minute, tops.

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In other news, I took a nap yesterday from approximately 6:30-10:30pm.
Glorious.
I dreamed about updating my Facebook status to something about czars and scars (long story with, come to think of it, a lot of anti-war overtones...but bottom line is that, yes, I have rhythmically-worded dreams.)

being a super senior,

and that Coco Rocha blogged about me.

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Also, did you hear Al Gore met with LDS Church officials?! Read about it here.
I respect anyone who was sitting with my dad when the JFK assassination was announced (true story).

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In other news, I'm realizing the jig is up.
Namely, other people, besides me, are onto the fact that my blog is primarily a venting medium for
a) how I can't wait to leave Provo and
b) my undying love for Michelle Obama...

So I promise, fans (which apparently includes Peter now...), I promise more varied blogging is on its way. Don't believe me?
Well, trust me when I say I have about 10 half-completed drafts waiting to finish and publish...

In the meantime, I leave you chums with this article: greener pastures are ahead (all entendres intended).

XOXO,
A

Dara's not done!

What an inspiration. That 0.01 second would be killing me too...

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