The Human Race

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28873370/?GT1=43001

Things like this make me want to cancel my membership with the human race. A company wants to sell a doll named and modeled after 2-year-old slained Caylee Anthony. How can anyone want to profit from a poor little girl's murder?

The company defended the doll, saying "in addition to raising money for a national missing and exploited children's organization, the doll would help promote awareness. We want to give … we're not trying to get rich. We're putting ourselves at a whole lot of risk... She'll be a banner for missing and exploited children, and people will know and have a better idea how to handle those situations or stop those situations from happening."

That's a bunch of BS. Money, not social awareness, is what they're after. They've suspended the sale of this doll for now. I hope they downright take it off the market for good.

On top of that, this company has been rated with an "F" by the BBB. This pretty much sums up the poor business practice and/or ethics this company has. If this doll does end up getting back on the market for sale, I truly hope no one buys it. The idea is just disgusting and disgraceful.

BATS Improv
Last night we went to see the BATS Improv show at Fort Mason. The tickets were one of my two anniversary gifts to RF. Since the 1st anniversary is symbolized by paper, my paper gift to him was the tickets to the Improv show.

RF had told me about BATS Improv a long time ago. He had watched it once before many years ago and he really enjoyed it. We’ve been talking about catching a show for quite some time now. At one point we even asked our friends if anyone was interested. But we didn’t have any takers. I figured we would go on our own this time on a date.

BATS has been performing in SF since 1986. Besides improvised performances, they also offer improv workshops training improvisational performance to individual or groups. The current run is from January through February and have performances every Friday and Saturday nights. Called the Rock & Roll Theatresports, it divides the BATS cast into six Rock & Roll-themed teams to compete for the Theatresports championship. Each night, two teams compete in performing improvised games, songs, and scenes inspired by audience suggestions. At the end of each challenge, judges award points to each team and the audience screams out the name of the team they think did better in that challenge. That team gets to throw a big dice for extra points. The team with the most points wins and moves on to the championship round at the end of the run. The teams lastnight were Rockness Monster and The Swensen 5. The winning team was Rockness Monster, who won by a score of 100 to 83.

We both really enjoyed the show. It was very much like “Whose Line Is It Anyway” but a tad bit more amateurish. But that’s exactly what we expected. These are local actors doing a small intimate show for the local audience. The theater itself is small, which was perfect for the small audience of about 50. But the atmosphere was intimate, as if everyone knew everyone else. The cast asked members of the audience to participate on stage in a couple of skits and people were eager to volunteer. At $15 per ticket, this is an affordable show for two hours of fun and laughs. I will definitely be back for more. I highly recommend it to others as well.

Their website is www.improv.org

Mystery Solved?
My husband has been sick the last 4 days. A very bad case of the flu knocked him out for 3 days and finally today he was able to get up and go to work. I've been trying very hard not to catch it from him. But we all know how hard that is when you are living in the same house and sleeping on the same bed.

I'm not sure if I'm just paranoid, but this afternoon my head felt a little woozy. It's been like this on and off since about 2pm. About an hour ago I felt my forehead to see if it's warm. It did feel a little warm to the touch. Again I may just be paranoid but to be safe, I took out the thermometer to take my temperature. It read 97.9. That's lower than normal. I think I'm ok...right?

Yeah, I think I'm ok. I think that's my body's core temperature. Several times in the past, at times when I was sick and took my temperature, I often got these below-normal readings. In fact this might explain why I'm always cold. It takes a very warm day to get me to wear a t-shirt. Even hotter to get me to wear a skirt or shorts. If there is any science to this, I believe that due to the fact that my core temperature is lower than usual, I tend to get cold easier than most people. That explains why I can be in a long sleeve shirt and a sweatshirt when my husband has only a t-shirt on. Mystery solved.

Nisei
After MOMA we went to Sakanabune for dinner. We haven’t had sushi in awhile and were both craving it. Again Sakanabune lived up to its “cheap and good sushi” name.

After dinner we went to a nearby aquarium to buy more fish food. (Yes, after we ate fish for food, we went to buy food for our fishes. Ironic? Yes.) Well, besides fish food, we walked out of there with a new Betta fish and a new fish tank for me. That was not in the agenda at all but I saw the tank, liked it, bought it, and bought a fish to go in it. Impulsive buy? Totally. So ladies and gents, introducing Nisei, my 2nd fish. Nisei means 2nd generation in Japanese. Since this is my second fish since Hikari, I named this one Nisei.

MOMA
RF and I went to the Museum of Modern Arts otday. We talked about visiting the MOMA for a long time. Randy had never been there before. I had been there once about 6 years ago. To be honest, I think we may NOT revisit MOMA again. No disrespect to the artists and people who appreciate their work, but frankly, they were too abstract for us. We didn’t appreciate/understand most of the “arts” we saw today. We understand modern art tends to be abstract but this was too much. We scratched our heads to most of the pieces and asked often “how is this art?” The exhibit we appreciated the most was probably the collections of microscopic and telescopic photography. Those at least were things (1) we understood and (2) we thought were hard for the normal person to do. Unlike some of the other abstract pieces which frankly could’ve been done by anyone but because a certain artist did it, it’s art. The one I found most ridiculous was one of 4 black bolts bolted onto a white canvas to form a square. Where’s the art in that??? If I bolted 4 bolts to a white canvas to make a square and submitted it to the museum, would they have taken it and displayed it as “Modern Art by ITF”? I think not. So where’s the art in that???