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Hey guys. I wanted to bring to light Falling Whistles. Falling Whistles is a campaign for peace in the Congo. Those children who are to small to carry rifles, are sent to the front lines armed with only a whistle.
Check out the Falling Whistles website for more information. Also, you can buy whistles from their shop. 100% of the proceeds go to help those affected by war in the Congo.
You can thank those amazing folks over at SpiritHoods(specifically Mr. Alexander Mendeluk) for telling me about this. Such a great cause.
Our friends over at @SpiritHoods tweeted this out today:
Of course I tried it, I'm an animal nerd to the max, and I totes magotes already know what my spirit animals are. They ask you some awesome questions - l like your hair style, the size of your heart, and the places you like to live. Look what they came up with for me (I was totally totally honest, not even a little bit of cheating in there, and I honestly had no idea what they would come up with.
Dude, not even joking, hippos are my #1 spirit animal. I LOVE hippos, and totally totally relate to them. They look slow and awkward on land, but it is misleading - they are actually pretty fast. They are soooo amazingly graceful and beautiful underwater, like ballerinas. And they are insanely aggressive and territorial when needed. Literally, the hippo kills way more people along the Nile River every year than crocodiles and snakes combined. No joke.
*sigh* Aaaah, hippos, you and me, we are practically the same. Except I have nice teeth and yours are super scary. Take the quiz and see what they come up with for you! Post it on Facebook or Twitter, and let me know if it’s a good fit!
Alrite ... I have to figure out a way to get this done, and I'm hoping you all can help. Spirithoods are awesome. Clearly. We have all established this fact. I want to do a shoot topless in one. It covers the lady bits just enough to be sexy, without being too over the top.
I want the spirithood on with bikini bottoms ... and then find an artist to do the body paint to finish out the animal on the legs. I think this could be INSAANNEELLYY awesome, I can get a handful of my local LA tribe together I'm sure too for it. The owner of 'em is a big big big photographer, so I'm sure he can take it ... and So So SOOOOO many of you now have spirithoods, this could encourage more of you to even try it at home, and we can create an album for it on our Facebook like page.
Again, totally PG-13 ... everything is covered as the spirithoods are naturally very long ... but I'm kinda thinking this could be perfect.
Putting this out to the community before I approach the owner. Thoughts?
PS. I want all the chicks in nerdy glasses too ... like these ...
I woke up this morning with a few links posted on my Facebook wall referencing the animal hat trend. Me being me, I got SUPER SUPER SUPER stoked thinking you all were like sending me to your blogs where you had pictures of you in @spirithoods ... but oh no ... oh no ... instead, this is what greeted me ...
... and ...
Now, we're all smart peeps round these parts ... do either of these scenarios REALLY look like the physical manifesation of the unapologetic awesomeness?? I mean really ....
Just so we're clear ... these are @spirithoods and they are FUCKING AWESOME!!!
I don't take mine off ... like at all ... like even in the shower ... dude, you can totally get these things wet btw ... and don't forget to brush 'em periodically. I LOVE SPIRITHOODS!! BAHHHHHHH!! I just wanna grab 'em and pinch their cheeks. CANT STAND IT!!!!
My car is no longer registered or insured - so I had to walk over to the bank. Not a problem normally, but this is the valley. I'm staying in a super super superrrrrr nice house - dude, there's a hot tub here, a cuddle fort, a fooseball table ... nerd heaven for sure!! ... but its in a not so nice neighborhood.
I've been without a car now for a month, and oddly enough because of Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare this was the very first time I actually had to walk to get an errand done. (Totally awesome, btw - thanks again for all the support. You guys ROCK!)
I was walking down Sepulveda in my leopard spirithood, glasses, super torn slightly odd looking boyfriend jeans, vans, an old sweater, and a hard rock cafe shirt. My usual, hipster meets I very genuinely just don't care ... and this dude in a Range Rover pulls over and says something to me with this BIG shit eating grin on his face. Not wanting to remove my headphones because it was so cold and my hands were nice and toasty in my spirithood - I replied, oh! It's a spirithood ... find 'em online at www.spirithoods.com! I'm so used to getting stopped all day everyday, that I work with it. He shot me this stunned look of, wtf are you talking about - and sped away. I just went about my business, again, not really thinking it was anything.
Left the bank, started to walk back, and noticed this truck totally checking me out ... HARDCORE. Again, being in a spirithood, I was totally used to it. I noticed he then rounded the corner, came back parking a half a block in front of me. He waited for me to walk past him. I thought this was too weird ... what's with this guy? Then it hit me ... omg this dude totally thinks I'm a prostitute! BITCHINNNN!!!! HAHAHAHAA I kept walking, laughing my ass off.
Walked one block down, another truck came by - this time with two dudes in it. They did the same thing, totally checked me out ... rounded the corner, then pulled over.
Dude, for real - I'm a smart chick. If I were going to sell my body ... I would sell it up RIGHT! Hot dress, nice heels ... pump up the boobs, stick out the ass ... I have nothing against hookers; whatever makes people happy, more power to ya! I was just a bit insulted that considering my choice of attire 3 cars in a 1.5 mile radius assumed I was hooking in said ensemble. Totally not awesome ... but nice to know if things with the pilot and this whole website don't work out, I can make quite the living.
Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 2:53PM
