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There is No Such Thing as Dumb Weapon

posted by Jon

08.09.11

Photo: U.S. Army

After reading this great article on Wired by Noah Shachtman about lasers being used to to defeat "dumb weapons" fired at U.S. Helicopters, it occured to that they have finally gotten to the heart of the problem.

There are no dumb weapons, because dumb weapons are fired by smart people.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Pizza and Martinis

posted by Jon

04.15.11

Cynthia's Friday afternoon email: "I am beyond pissed off on so many levels I can't even begin to download. I will have pizza and martinis."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - My hobby

posted by Jon

04.01.11

It's nite, we're spooning.
Cynthia says, "Oh don't touch my stomach, I swoll up."
"Why?" I reply.
"Because I started thinking negative thoughts about myself."
"Why honey?"
"Because, it's my hobby."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - BUTT

posted by Jon

03.10.11

We're out for morning coffee. It's raining hard and we're getting wet. As we're leaving Cynthia drawls, "I either need a bigger umbrella or a smaller butt." The guy having his morning coffee at the donut store cracks up laughing.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Half My Body

posted by Jon

02.27.11

Cynthia is peppering me with emails about what she's doing.  Then, "I feel like half my body is missing. I realized why. You're not here."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Smoke

posted by Jon

02.23.11

It's cold out. A lady is walking her dog who just pooped, wisps of steam rise. "You can tell it's cold out here, the dog's butt is smokin."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Oh look

posted by Jon

02.01.11

"Oh look." That's code for me to bend down and pick up the mittens the wife dropped.


Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize Winner, Takes Homeopathy Seriously

posted by Jon

01.30.11

Luc Antoine Montagnier, Nobel Laureate

Via Huffington Post:
By Dana Ullman M.P.H.

Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the AIDS virus, has surprised the scientific community with his strong support for homeopathic medicine.

In a remarkable interview published in Science magazine of December 24, 2010, (1) Professor Luc Montagnier, has expressed support for the often maligned and misunderstood medical specialty of homeopathic medicine. Although homeopathy has persisted for 200+ years throughout the world and has been the leading alternative treatment method used by physicians in Europe, (2) most conventional physicians and scientists have expressed skepticism about its efficacy due to the extremely small doses of medicines used.

Most clinical research conducted on homeopathic medicines that has been published in peer-review journals have shown positive clinical results,(3, 4) especially in the treatment of respiratory allergies (5, 6), influenza, (7) fibromyalgia, (8, 9) rheumatoid arthritis, (10) childhood diarrhea, (11) post-surgical abdominal surgery recovery, (12) attention deficit disorder, (13) and reduction in the side effects of conventional cancer treatments. (14) In addition to clinical trials, several hundred basic science studies have confirmed the biological activity of homeopathic medicines. One type of basic science trials, called in vitro studies, found 67 experiments (1/3 of them replications) and nearly 3/4 of all replications were positive. (15, 16)

In addition to the wide variety of basic science evidence and clinical research, further evidence for homeopathy resides in the fact that they gained widespread popularity in the U.S. and Europe during the 19th century due to the impressive results people experienced in the treatment of epidemics that raged during that time, including cholera, typhoid, yellow fever, scarlet fever, and influenza.

Montagnier, who is also founder and president of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, asserted, "I can't say that homeopathy is right in everything. What I can say now is that the high dilutions (used in homeopathy) are right. High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules."

Here, Montagnier is making reference to his experimental research that confirms one of the controversial features of homeopathic medicine that uses doses of substances that undergo sequential dilution with vigorous shaking in-between each dilution. Although it is common for modern-day scientists to assume that none of the original molecules remain in solution, Montagnier's research (and other of many of his colleagues) has verified that electromagnetic signals of the original medicine remains in the water and has dramatic biological effects.

Montagnier has just taken a new position at Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China (this university is often referred to as "China's MIT"), where he will work in a new institute bearing his name.

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Lord's Prayer from the original Aramaic

posted by Jon

01.18.11

 

O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos

Focus your light within us - make it useful.

Create your reign of unity now-

through our fiery hearts and willing hands

Help us love beyond our ideals

and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.

Animate the earth within us: we then

feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.

Untangle the knots within

so that we can mend our hearts' simple ties to each other.

Don't let surface things delude us,

But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.

Out of you, the astonishing fire,

Returning light and sound to the cosmos.

 

Amen.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Url Shortners

posted by Jon

01.13.11

I recently taught the wife about url shortners. Here's what she did with it. http://amzn.to/ForCynthiaTheBunny


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Marriage Cert

posted by Jon

01.07.11

Email from the wife: "I just ran across our marriage certificate. I am feeling very loving. Leave the crap outside"


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Psychic Banking

posted by Jon

12.22.10

People often ask me what it's like being married to a "psychic." A few weeks ago my unusually talented wife Cynthia Chauvin walked into the bedroom and said, "Jon, I want to close our B-of-A account. Something's not right there." I just said, "okay." I've long since become accustomed to going with the flow of her intuition. These type of psychic edicts are just a part of my daily life. "Don't go that way to work - We should check on the cats - Call your mom." My favorite example was one morning when I was commuting to NYC from DC. The tone of her voice changed slightly and she said, "Don't rush, just take the 8:30am shuttle." That 30 minute decision put me safely on the ground in DC as opposed to New York airspace on September 11th. It took her a few days to get over to B-of-A, but we have since closed our account. Now I know why.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - THAT'S LOVE

posted by Jon

12.19.10

It's our anniversary. Cynthia looks at me, "I'd marry you again tomorrow knowing everything I know." Now THAT'S love.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Hair wash

posted by Jon

12.17.10

Cynthia eyes me as I'm washing my hair. "You have a piece of conditioner on the top of your head that looks like a booger."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Pay Attention

posted by Jon

12.13.10

I'm a little distracted. Cynthia looks at me across the couch, "Pay attention, you're being loved."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - A Fur for Christmas

posted by Jon

12.11.10

"Look! You bought me a fur for Christmas!" Cynthia exclaims as she points to our cat Fred who just returned from a pricey trip to the vet.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Cow Charge

posted by Jon

12.05.10

Cynthia has her antlers on. We're parking next to a pasture full of cows. "Don't park near the fence, the cows could charge."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Wagoneer

posted by Jon

12.04.10

We're at the xmas tree farm. "It's too cold to cut a tree and ride in the wagon. Besides, I'll need my wagoneer outfit."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Girls can't wait

posted by Jon

11.22.10

I'm awakened at 4am. Cynthia and Corie are talking boy strategy. Cynthia rolls over,  "It's girl stuff, you know girls can't wait."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - #Harry Potter Song

posted by Jon

11.19.10

Cynthia called singing a #HarryPotter Song of her own invention. Popcorn, a hotdog, nachos and a #coke all nefariously woven in.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - #The Town

posted by Jon

11.17.10

We are watching "The Town." Cynthia has Million Dollar Baby sad ending heebie-jeebies. "If this has a sad ending I'm going to hit you."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - It's in a church!

posted by Jon

11.13.10

"Our book is in a church!" Cynthia called. Apparently a client showed The 10 Ways to the Pastoral Counselor at her Church and he wanted a copy. Too fun.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Squirrels gone wild!

posted by Jon

11.12.10

As we round the bend there are two squirrels in the road kibitzing. I slow down veering to one side expecting them to follow proper rodent etiquette. Suddenly they go wild eyed and dart in opposite directions giving us little option but to stop. Cynthia pipes up at their antics, "Squirrels gone wild!"


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Magic

posted by Jon

10.24.10

I'm acting a bit the neaderthanl. "Why in the world do you love me?" I ask. "I don't know...it's magic!" she replies.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Costco fruit lifecycle

posted by Jon

10.24.10

"I'm not buying anymore fruit from Costco." Cynthia and I are bemoaning the Costco fruit lifecycle. She does a robot voice. "Not ripe. Not ripe. Ripe for a nanosecond. Rotten."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Gateway drug

posted by Jon

10.18.10

The Bunny just emailed me. "Buying a pair of shoes is a gateway drug. It leads to a new outfit and then dinner."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Then I Can Play Tennis

posted by Jon

09.24.10

"I had a dream you and I started playing tennis." I say. The Bunny has never played tennis. "I started hiking, I guess i can play tennis." she replies. "Do they have outfits?' she continues. "Yep." "Then I can play tennis."

 


10 WAYS BLOG - Clear Your Mind, Not Your Refrigerator

posted by Jon

09.16.10

 

The problem is not weight. It's not behavior. It’s not emotions.

It's your thoughts.

Thoughts are very powerful. They manifest themselves as habits, emotions, lifestyles and even babies. All of these started with a thought.  Your body is the result of processing your thoughts into matter and when you grow in your consciousness you integrate new information into your body. It's the thoughts themselves that are taking up room.

It goes something like this: You get a new idea, one that resonates with your mind and soul.  Your consciousness goes to work making this new information into your body. Your body begins to hold your old concepts and new concepts at the same time. Your body becomes enlarged like a suitcase that was not unpacked from your last trip now trying to be stuffed with what you need for our next trip.

Excess weight is simply a form of information indigestion - old thoughts not yet released from your body and new thoughts not yet intergrated.

Once you remove the thoughts that no longer work in your system and integrate the thoughts that you want to be the magnet for your life, you will naturally decrease in size.  And the more ease with which you do this, releasing the old and integrating the new, the less your ass needs to grow in order to change. This goes with your personal thoughts as well as our collective thoughts.  So beware what you watch and read - the news and the internet can be fattening.

So if you were wondering why you can diet, fast, walk, swim and not get thin, think about your thoughts. Examine them closely. Which ones are you holding onto? There is likely an old thought taking up room in your body making your new thoughts and awareness harder to integrate. So while bad habits will get you fat, it is the thoughts behind them that are the cause.

Clear your mind, not your refrigerator.

In order to facilitate this clearing of your thoughts do the following: Drink a lot of water during the day, meditate and clear your thoughts, never go to bed without taking a bath, never ever fall asleep with the television on and instead read something enlightened before bed. Also plan for and make sure you sleep 9 to 11 hours per night, get out in nature for nurture and most importantly never criticize your size that is an old thought taking up room making your new thoughts harder to intergrate.

Self-criticism is the most fattening of all thoughts.

 

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Restaurants on Fire

posted by Jon

09.13.10

We've just had dinner at Mokomandy a new local eatery who's tag line "Modern. Korean. Cajun." scared us a bit. We were afraid to like it because everything we like tends to suddenly close or literally burn down. It turns out the meal was stellar (I suggest the fried pickles to start) and as we're driving back to our home I'm over the moon yammering about finally getting good food into the neighborhood. Suddenly Cynthia says under breath, "Jon!...Be quiet." I pause and reply slowly, "Oh...you're afraid that we'll burn it down?" She holds her index finger over her mouth. "Ssssshhhhhhh..."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Jesus resignation

posted by Jon

09.01.10

Cynthia and I are eating dinner at Bazins in old town Vienna, she's had her vodka, dirty with olives. She's relating to me that one of her clients has lived all over the world. She really likes that. My wife is truly a giving women, tending to sacrifice her wants for the good of the whole. Then she blurts it out, "If I don't get to live in Europe for an extended period of time this life I'm sending Jesus my resignation letter."


10 WAYS BLOG - Why do you have criticizing people in your life?

posted by Jon

08.22.10

You have criticizing people in your life because you write them into your life.

As the playwright, director and producer of your life story, you write criticism into your stage play. Then you put out a casting call for the part.  The characters in your life are the characters that have answered your casting call.

Anyone who is critical in your life is someone you have put there to play the part and even though these characters are outside of you, it’s important to remember that all criticism is self-criticism. 

So how do you write these people out of your life story?

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LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - I thought you were nuts

posted by Jon

08.12.10

The Bunny just had a recent psychic reading client call her with an update.

"Hi Cynthia, I don't know if you remember me but I came in to see you several months ago. When I saw you you told me I was going to get a big promotion in August, and I thought you were nuts."

She replied, "Well there are a lot of people that think that."

He laughs, and says, "I was one of them but I just had to tell you I got a big promotion today and I just had to share it with you."

This is life with my wife.

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Donald Trump vs. The Cajun

posted by Jon

08.04.10

The Bunny is railing at Donald Trump. We live next to Donald Trump's Country Club and Golf Couse and they were blowing their leaves into our garden. She got so excited she called the GM and let him know her thoughts.

As I'm leaving she says, "Don't mess with the Cajun! Donald's goin' down!"

Update: The Bunny just called. The General Manager came by and gave her a tour in a golf cart of the entire course, complete with waterfalls. Smart man.

Meet the wife

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Drive Thru Daquiris

posted by Jon

08.04.10

We're talking about New Orleans. Cynthia loves her home town, but for different reasons than most would think. She sips her coffee briefly, "It's just like drive thru daquiris, they're practical."

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Five Major Food Groups

posted by Jon

08.01.10

We're at a party in Old Town Alexandria. We're sitting outside on the patio talking about eatiing healthy.

Cynthia chimes in, "If you're from New Orleans, you know that alcohol and sugar are part of the five major food groups."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Washing Machine

posted by Jon

07.24.10

"For the love of God Bunny, please be quiet." Cynthia has woken up chipper, chipper beyond compare. I'm dragging my butt from the car to Dunkin Donuts. She's prancing along side of me. I'm in my cave. She doesn't care in the least, "I'm like a washing machine....on agitate!"

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Q: Do you love me? A: Velcro

posted by Jon

07.23.10

The wife and I are getting ready. I randomly ask her, "Do you love me?" She stops what she's doing, walks over and gets in under my arms, body to body.

She looks at me and says, "Velcro."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Bad Wolfman

posted by Jon

07.07.10

Cynthia is railing about "The Wolfman" which we've just seen on pay per view.

"Somebody must have stayed up at night and come up with ways to make that movie bad. With all those good actors and actresses, they had to go out of their way to make that movie bad."

I had barley paid attention to it. "You didn't even look up from typing on the computer, that's how bad it was."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Cussing is like iambic pentameter

posted by Jon

07.01.10

The Bunny has just used some earthy language in our conversation.

She looks at me and drawls, "I'm from the south. Cussing is like iambic pentameter to us."

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - 10 Ways teenagers

posted by Jon

06.27.10

I've just checked the 10 Ways Facebook page.

"Honey, we already have a bunch of fans, and they are all teenagers. I thought we'd be skewing higher age wise."

She's holding a coffee and she drawls, "That's perfecto. I'd love to reach women before they get all effed up."



LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Alexander the Great

posted by Jon

06.25.10

My wife is sitting close. Too close for the moment. I'm fidgeting. Cynthia continues to skootch next to me. "I'm invading, and conquering, your personal space," she smiles and winks, "I'm like Alexander the Great."

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Maybe I'm not...

posted by Jon

06.18.10

Cynthia is quering me extensively about something technical I'm doing. She likes likes to know every last little thing.

Then she says it - the most revealing comment of our entire marriage - "Maybe I'm not answering my questions properly."

I just start laughing.

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Never give up the stairs?

posted by Jon

06.02.10

Cynthia is walking down a long set of stairs at BEA. I'm not wearing heals so I'm slightly ahead of her as usual.

She lightly grabs my arm. "Never give up the stairs."

"Ah yes, Gone With the Wind."


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Opera Diva

posted by Jon

05.30.10

Cynthia and I are milling about in the Javitz Center at BEA before a meeting with a publisher.

Cynthia walks up to me, "A big handsome black man just told me I looked like a beautiful opera diva." 

She continues, "I was sitting there kvetching about how I looked. Just goes to show you what you're thinking on the inside is not what people are seeing on the outside."


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Knight in Shining

posted by Jon

05.28.10

We're at a Hampton Inn in Maryland on the way to New York. We're sitting in the lobby getting ready to leave.

"Are you going to get the car?" she askes.

"Honey the car is right there outside the door pratically." I said.

"I'm going to forget that you said that and live in my illusion." she replies while fixing her dress.

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - David Bowie and my wife. No really.

posted by Jon

05.26.10

One day I looked at my yet to be wife, "You know you have two different colored eyes?"

She looked at me and dead-panned, "Really? I never noticed."

I told her that David Bowie has two different colored eyes as well.

"Strange things come in strange packages" she replied.


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - James Cameron onset

posted by Jon

04.17.10

James Cameron walked on set today for the Riz Khan show. I got him to sign my MacBook with a Sharpie. I tell Cynthia he's coming and she chirps naturally, "Tell him I said hey."  More here.

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Tender Classes

posted by Jon

04.16.10

My wife wrote me an email, expressing her love and telling me what she needed. She calls to follow up and askes, "Did you get my email?" We discuss for a bit.  She concludes, "I need tender. Do you know how to be tender?" Before I can finish she instructs me, "Go take a class." Wink.


MY LIFE WITH THE WIFE - Marriage Defined

posted by Jon

04.01.10

The Bunny is being particularly chipper this morning. "Close the windows, it's cold. Open the shades. Turn on the water. My feet are cold." she chatters. I'm grumbling as a wake up. She continues to tell me all the things required to make her happy this particular morning. Some are standard, some are new additions. I'm preverbal but manage an exacerbated sigh. Sticking her feet on mine she says it, "Don't worry Honey, I'll tell you rules as we go along."

 

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - The Ninth Gate

posted by Jon

03.31.10

My wife loves Johnny Depp. We're watching The NInth Gate for the umpteenth time. Then the line she loves so much comes up on screen. Boris Balkan looks at Dean Corso, "There's no one more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash." My wife beams, "Ooo, I LOVE that line."

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Ambience

posted by Jon

03.26.10

My wife and I are eating at Virginia Kitchen in Herndon. It's a favorite hangout that serves breakfast and lunch only. Cynthia notes one of the booths has a piece of it's covering coming off. It's a homey kind of place and the people are all characters. She finishes a bite and laughs, "They didn't waste a penny on ambience here."


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - It's all in the hair

posted by Jon

03.25.10

"We have a rodent infestation," I say as I watch a cadre of squirrels bound around our deck. My wife has thrown out a bag of pistachios scattering them all over the deck. "They're not rodents," my Bunny chimes in. "Yes they are dear. Rabbits, squirrels, rats, they are all rodents." i respond. She points to their cute little mohawk emulating tails, "It's all in the hair dear, it's all in the hair."


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Nap then Supervise

posted by Jon

03.23.10

"Fred supervises then naps for a bit, then supervises and naps some more."  Cynthia is talking about our cat Fred. Anyone who's met Fred likes him. I even occassionally tweet as Fred. He has more followers than most people.

"You should aspire to be Fred." As she walks off I realize she's right.  

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HFCS - Can you trust any sweetner with an acronym like that?

posted by Jon

03.22.10

A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. 

In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.

More here


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Paradise Adult Video

posted by Jon

03.16.10

My wife and I are driving to the New Orleans airport and we pass a billboard that says, "COMPLETE HERBAL AND DETOX CENTER, PARADISE ADULT VIDEO" She looks at me and says, "That's why we're all demento down here."


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Nasty Bug

posted by Jon

03.08.10

"That Nasty Bug. That's the only thing I'll kill." My wife is expounding her views on the stink bugs that have plagued the east coast now for several months. Literally everyone has them in their house and we have one on the TV. She says this, but it's always me who has to dispatch the poor little creatures.

 

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LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Goldfish

posted by Jon

03.05.10

"You want more Goldfish?" I ask the Bunny, as I point to the empty papel towel which only moments before was piled with Goldfish. "They all swam away.." She laughs out loud.

Meet the wife

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Blue Cross Blue Satan

posted by Jon

03.03.10

"Did you hear that? And you wonder why I'm half crazy all the time." My wife and I are sitting in the office. She is on hold with Blue Cross Blue Satan. We are listening to endless commericals about sleep apnea, how they'll be right with us, and how they give to the community. "I don't want them to give to the community! I want them to lower my rates! These people have more money than dirt!"

Meet the wife

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Altered Bunny

posted by Jon

03.02.10

"Great movie." The Bunny is making a comment about Altered States. We've been on a kick recently, watching it three or four times in as many months."It's a great movie." She continues, "It only took me twenty years to understand it."

 Meet the wife

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - 3 foot Tsunami

posted by Jon

02.27.10

My wife is puttering in the ktichen. I'm watching the Tsuami coverage waiting for something to happen. "I don't trust the press. They try to make something out nothing, and nothing out of something."

Meet the wife


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Shoe Remorse

posted by Jon

02.26.10

We're in the office finishing up the most recent book. "What do you think about these, they're a little strange..." Cynthia is looking at shoes on Amazon. The Bunny had just taken a tumble on the ice breaking the heal of her favorite shoes. "Don't buy something just because you have..." I start. "Shoe remorse?" she replies.

Meet the wife


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Get a Tomato

posted by Jon

02.24.10

My wife walks out of her office after doing a hypnosis session with a client. "It blows me away what sticks with people. I'm going on about spirituality, using big metaphors, and you know what sticks in her head?" "What?" I ask. "Plant a tomato, get a tomato."

 

Meet the wife


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Mexican Fizz

posted by Jon

02.19.10

"You know that Mexican coke you bought?"my wife intones. "Yes, they keep their fizz over night" I reply. She continues, "American cokes lose their fizz too fast. I think it's so we have to open a new one to get more fizz. I think it's a plot."

Meet the wife

 

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Valentine's Day Hat

posted by Jon

02.14.10

I woke up this morning to my wife singing "Celebrate" by Kool and the Gang while wearing a hat she made made out of tin foil. I gave her a goofy Vday card with a duck. 

Meet the wife

 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Signs

posted by Jon

02.12.10

There's tin foil hanging on the wall. We've had some roof leaks after the snowpacalype. I've channeled the drips into buckets using an ingenious combination of Reynolds tin foil and scotch tape.

My wife grabs some water bottles that have accumulated on the nightstand. "What do you think, we're in the movie Signs here? We have like six bottles of water up here..."

"And tin foil," I respond. "We could make hats."

She walks off, Sonic toothbrush whizzing away in her mouth,  "Swing away Merrill...Swing away..."

Meet the wife


 


LIFE WITH MY WIFE - Polite Squirrels

posted by Jon

02.12.10

"I think I like squirrels because they are so polite," my wife explains. She's expounding on her animal husbandry philosophy as she feeds her herd of squirrels peanuts in the morning. "They just stand there with their little hands folded patiently waiting. Dogs jump, cats whine, squirrels are so polite. I like them."


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Sub-titles

posted by Jon

02.09.10

"That movie should have sub-titles" says my wife. "You can't understand a thing he says." When she makes this comment, I know it's code for me to speak more loudly and clearly.

My wife and I, like all couples, have developed some serious shorthand in communicating. We have a running joke about Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, and the quasi-guttaral mumble that qualified as dialogue throughout the movie. We call him, the "hashusmsheumsshumssshmm" man.

 


Why Did He Change?

posted by Jon

02.03.10

We're busy cutting the new episode of Girlfriend - Relationship Radio Rebooted.  We will post later today on the website, and on iTunes. This episode - Why did he change?


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Verizon

posted by Jon

01.31.10

"When I go on the radio next week I'm going to say Verizon sucks," my wife says to me as we come back from Giant. "No dear, you can't say that. That's libel. Or slander, I forget which."  "It's just my opinion," she replies. Pondering for a second, "Well then I'm going to pose it as a question like this - Can I say Verizon sucks?"

 

 


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Secret Club starts

posted by Jon

01.29.10

This morning my wife announced we should start a secret club. Under the covers we inducted each other, our cat Fred, and then came up with a secret handshake.


LIFE WITH CYNTHIA - Explaining

posted by Jon

01.20.10

My wife woke up this morning an announced with a smile on her face, "I just realized you're not an a-hole. You just explain things badly."


Natalie Portman has Died (and you can too)

posted by Jon

06.30.09

Natalie Portman, has fallen from a cliff in New Zealand and died.

After a brusing week with the loss of Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and TV pitchman Billy Mays - reports are circulating that Natalie Portman has been killed in an accident while filming in New Zealand.

These are the same treacherous cliffs that took the lives of Jeff Goldblum and Tom Cruise.

They have also taken the life of Jon Miles, that's me, and any of your friends that you want to prank.

The celebrity death hoax has a certain resonance considering the headlines of June 2009, however all of this is courtesy of Fakeawish.com - an increasing popular way to kill of celebrities with plane crashes, cliff diving and yacht explosions.

The old adage - Don't believe anything you hear, and only a small percentage of what you read - continues to hold true.

Check out Fakeawish.com to get in on the fun.

Check out all the recent dead celebs!


Sticky Plastic Cancer Bottles

posted by Jon

05.26.09

 

A friend recently sent me the following email:

(I have abbrieviated the email for time. You can read the whole stupid masterpiece here.)

Subject: Cancer Update
PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE - READ IT ALL!!
This is not just for women:
From Johns-Hopkins
Bottled water in your car is very dangerous!
 
On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said this is what caused her breast cancer.  It has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels of dioxin in breast cancer tissue.

Sheryl Crow's oncologist told her: women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car. The heat reacts with the chemicals in the plastic of the bottle which releases dioxin into the water.

Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue. So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.   Pass this on to all the women in your life. This information is the kind we need to know that just might save us! 

Use a stainless steel canteen or a glass bottle instead of plastic!

LET EVERYONE WHO HAS A WIFE / GIRLFRIEND / DAUGHTER KNOW PLEASE!

This information is also being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
No plastic containers in microwave.
No water bottles in freezer
No plastic wrap in microwave.

A dioxin chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.

Recently, Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV program t.....
 Instead, he recommends using glass, such as  Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food.. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else......

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life!
 



The Sticky Meme of the Plastic Cancer Bottle

This is a beautiful example of an internet
meme, and fits many of the characteristics of the sticky story laid out in the best seller "Made to Stick" by Chip and Dan Heath, a fabulous discussion of what makes a story like an urban myth stick in our minds. You can purchase "Made to Stick" right now at our store (via Amazon) HERE.

Memes like this have several reasons for spreading:

1. They are often spread by intelligent, educated people.
2. They have several forms of "Authority" - Ellen, Johns Hopkins and an "anti-authority" (Sheryl Crow - The Rock and Roll cancer survivor)
3. At some level it makes "common" sense.
4. Plays on the visceral fear of cancer, a very sticky subject.
5. Plays on the fear of industry.
6. There is urgency placed throughout the message - "LET EVERYONE WHO HAS A WIFE .....PLEASE"
7. They quote experts and institutions you know, as well as ones we've never heard of.

Some facts on Dioxins...

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Donald Trump is Buying My Backyard

posted by Jon

04.26.09

Donald Trump is Buying My Backyard!

UPDATE: Interview with Eric Trump! with Amy Miller Burns. You can view it HERE.

Original Story

There came a knock on the door. Standing there was Elizabeth Coe, a reporter for the Loudoun Times-Mirror.

She was writing an article and conducting interviews with people in my neighborhood on Donald Trump's purchase of the Lowes Island Country Club, which my home backs up to. Mind you we are not members - it's beautiful, but it's also $120k to join.  And strangely enough these places never have really good food - which is important for my husband Jon and me.

I told Elizabeth what I did. “What do you think about the purchase of Lowes Island Country Club by Donald Trump?”  Elizabeth asked.

I thought for a moment and this is what came to me.  “Donald Trump represents the Archetype of the Phoenix. He crashes and burns then rises from the ashes. He loses on an investment, makes another, then succeeds.”

I continued, “I see Donald moving into my neighborhood as a very powerful and positive sign. Yes, the houses in my area have gone down in value but they will rise like the Phoenix to successfully regain their value.  And just like The Donald who ultimately exceeds his previous worth, so will the houses in the area where he laid seed.“

I laughed out loud when I said that last part.

I then told her, "I can wave at him when he passes if he ever comes to play golf." Which I will. Elizabeth went on to write a nice article where I'm quoted.

This conversation got me to wondering, “Why does Donald Trump fail in some ventures and succeed in others?” Why would he literally declare bankruptcy on his casinos virtually the same week he announces he's buying my backyard?

I believe Donald has a problem with feminine energy.  Ok laugh, I know he has had several wives but that is just the symptom of having an imbalance in his masculine/feminine energy. To put it more clearly, he doesn't know what to do with women - he thinks he does, but he doesn't.

Take a think about it -  both bankruptcies filed were on his casinos - and when I look at The Donald and his casinos, I see a wife in another form. They are glitzy, glamorous and expensive to maintain, and ultimately lead him to a losing a bunch of money. It's a pattern he holds.

My suggestion to Donald is this, “Balance your personal energies and work out your problems with women. Until then, stay away from feminine investments.”

So what is a "feminine investment?"  It is something he cannot control. Here's another example.

Donald Trump is big in the pagent business and owns  Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA pageants. Some people love him and others dislike him but not for reasons you'd think. The Donald has turned the pagent business into a business. No problem with the basic idea - but a pagent is basically girls showing off for other girls.  Folks like Valerie Hayes, the Pagent Coach - see his turning these businesses into a brand and a business as a mixed bag.  In essence he is taking a very masculine approach to an inherently feminine businss. In this case I do not predict success. 

But back to my back yard.

Donald’s purchase of Lowes Island Country Club is a nice solid masculine investment and should be safe from his feminine pattern of loss and I look forward to all those predicatable men --  Tiger Woods, The Donald and the PGA Tour buzzing around my backyard.

I predict huge success!

Sincerely Yours

Cynthia Chauvin Miles

The Why Girl from New Orleans

 

UPDATE: 07/20/11

Eric Trump bought a house in our neighborhood.


Yes, Your Pet Is Trying To Talk To You!

posted by Cynthia

02.10.09


Why do dogs and cats seem so human? Because they are.

Back in 1994 I lived in New York. During that time I was interviewed for a television segment featuring a psychic that spoke to animals. I was polite but a little stunned, and I became outraged inside and told the producer that until she was serious about putting on something of quality, something to help humanity, I was not available.

That was 7 cats and 1 dog ago and I am here to tell you I have eaten my kibbles. Dry, without gravy.

Now I have 5 cats and 1 dog, all of who have their individual human qualities (such as Fred my cat who likes to make out while watching television) -- and they all definitely talk.

I don't mean small baby sentences either. I mean talk, just like you and I would.

Their main topic of conversation is usually centered around - "I love you, I desire food now, Where have you been? I am fine. Get me this please, Where's the poot box? I don't like that, I don't like that person," and of course, "Leave me alone I am contemplating." 

For example, when I come home after several hours Fred greets me at the door with his stern meow, "Where were you? I was worried. You have been gone a long time."

These are just the daily ordinary conversations.

I have also had many extraordinary conversations with my babies. 

They have told me everything from where and when to find them -- Oscar, my first cat, told me where I would find my Tommy my second cat -- to when many years later Tommy not only told me he was leaving but, he also told me why. He left on the very same day of a painful event from many years before miraculously taking my fear and pain from then with him.

These are not coincidences. These people express themselves fully -- within their capacity.  (Like my husband for example.)

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Why aren't public schools good enough for the First Children?

posted by Cynthia

02.03.09

Why aren't public schools good enough for the first children?

Why is it not a requirement for our local, state and federal government elected representatives to participate in their constituents available public education opportunities?

If public officials where required to use the public school system in their district by law, we would see a fast rise in the quality of education and safety of the public schools.

I am not against private school; I am for equality in education and safety for our children.   I believe public schools should have the same level of excellence in education as any private school. 

Private schools should be a choice not a necessity.

Sincerely Yours
Cynthia Chauvin Miles
The Why Girl from New Orleans
 


The Why Girl from New Orleans

posted by Cynthia

02.03.09

Introduction To The Why Blog Post

Being a child of the south with an unbounded curiosity I asked my mother Wilma "Why this, why that, and why the other" incessantly.  I was always met with the same blessed response, Sit down and be quiet.

Now you may not think being directed to sit down and be quiet was an asset, but for me it became a huge one. My curiosity grew uninhibited by my mother's knowledge and ideas, and to this day my curiosity goes unchecked. Ask my husband.

So in my Mother's divine wisdom of no answer to questions like, Why if I went to sleep last night and I was 4 and I woke up today and I am 5, why aren't I bigger? I can't see any change." she released me from the bondage of predigested thought into the untainted world of why.

To follow is my 'Why' series of blog posts, where I hope to help free you from your predigested thought forms into the curious world of the untainted "why."  And if you are already a "why junkie" hopefully this will enhance your curiosity.

Sincerely Yours
Cynthia Chauvin Miles
The Why Girl from New Orleans


October Surprise

posted by Jon

01.21.09

October Surprise

All through the fall of last year there was much conspiratorial talk of the political urban legend called the "october surprise."  Many pundits ranted about how former President Bush was going to attack Iran, opening a third front in the WOW (war on whatever.)

This was, they said, meant to influence the public to vote for John McCain. Alas, the election came and went and there was no surprise.

But this is not entirely true. There was a surprise. But it was in December, and it was called the war on Gaza. It didn't influence the election directly, but it has changed the landscape that President Obama will have to operate in.

So instead of the United States attacking Iran, the U.S. proxy in the region, Israel, launched Operation Cast Lead on December 29th, on the Iranian regional proxy Hamas

So, we had a surprise, it just came in a different form and at a different time - just like a real surprise.


 
Jon Miles - Twodragons.com

 

 

 


Dead Psychiatrist Warns Obama

posted by Jon

11.28.08

Carl Jung PhD.

 

Dear Mr. President,

There was this psychiatrist guy, named Carl Jung, who came up with these things called "archetypes" which wikipedia loosly defines a "model of a person, object, or concept that is copied, patterned, or emulated."

You're a Harvard educated guy, so I'm guessing this not completely new territory to you, but I thought I'd point this out - as I think you're playing with fire here.

You're constantly compared to this guy.

 

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