October 11, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Welcome to The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
And leave my Pawn Stars out of this… they have a LOT of good history in that show, I’ve been to the store and bought a Rick bobblehead doll that is bad luck: every time I bring it to work, that contract unexpectedly comes to an end.
Also, Chumlee rocks.
1Every time I watch Pawn Stars I learn something. Punkin Chunkin comes just once a year and reveals the ingenuity of fellow humans. Honey Boo Boo is what you call train wreck TV and very likely child abuse.
2Want fun with pumpkins? This is how ti have real fun with pumpkins. Rated G.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFpNwxDdO0
3Ahhh, such a selection of Guilty Pleasures.
4Personally I like anything with paranormal: Crop Circles, ghosts, Aliens of course I always tell people that as a believer in String Theory which has multiple dimensions, it’s only one dimension crossing over into ours. And as for Psychics, I always make the analogy that just because I don’t have the ability to smell the range of smells my dog picks up , it doesn’t mean the smells aren’t there.
Can’t watch any of those so-called learning channels any more. I used to enjoy them, but gleaning any actual history or education from them has become way too much work for me. Too bad. I mean no disrespect to any customers who have fun watching them, of course.
5Yeah I was the same way about the Pumpkin Chunkin. Hey we even do that in my physics class. Lots of good physics in those trebuchets, and a lot of good engineering too. Hey the Mythbuster guys even got into that stuff one year, going out to report on all the various contraptions.
6I learned a whole lot about designing hydraulic systems, and fabricating composite structures as a result of my place on Team Tormentum. (and more than I really wanted to know about Techumseh small engine carbs).
There is a whole lot of engineering to go with the physics education on that show. (some of that engineering of the redneck variety, but most of it red meat mechanical engineering)
Yea, I have a slight bias – this year will be my 12th as a machine building entrant. (we have the machine that looks like a huge crossbow, that they always show, but never talk about)
http://www.siege-engine.com
7Please know that PBS has(d?) a series called “Scientific American” that was first hosted by Alan Alda and then by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. It was really just wondeful. You are not going to see anything like this on corporate-owned television.
Tyson is fabulous. Really, really fabulous.
Picture this: an African-American from the Bronx, with a Doctorate in Astro-Physics, mind you, who can explain the instricacies of Science in a most congenial way. A National Treasure.
Not to be found on commercial television. He is worth every dime of public money spent.
Just sayin’.
8I lost my interest in the Science channel when they put up an advertisement for Atlas Shrugged II (making it look like a sci-fi action thriller). I guess I will have to live with my covert collection of BBC science DVDs.
9@ JT, I saw the Atlas Shrugged ad on the Science Channel too and thought, “Man, they’re really missing the target audience over here.”
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