A disturbing headline in avian current events caught our attention yesterday morning. You may have heard about this on your own but for those who don’t keep up with the news, somewhere in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve, 4,000 red-winged blackbirds rained from the sky, blanketing President Clinton’s backyard with dead bird carcasses. We’re not sure if bizarre completely captures the essence of that headline, but it definitely freaked some folks out ruffled a few feathers here and there. Ha. Ha. Haaaa.
First Natalie Portman announces she’s pregnant by AND engaged to the dude who choreographed Black Swan. Interesting, no? THEN the Seattle Seahawks win the NFC West and make the damn playoffs with a 7 – 9 record. Hmm. And now we have 4000 dead birds falling from the sky? Now, normally after looking at the calendar and realizing 2012 is right around the corner anyone would half a brain would fully grasp that the world is coming to a close JUST how the Mayan homies warned us it would. BUT a well-trained yuppie eye might’ve noticed some clarifying details in the follow-up reports that throw a wrench in this theory.
ultimatum to the Food & Drug Administration: Loosen up your regulations on oysters, or lose the support of the entire yuppie population of the United States. Yeah, I have the power to do that.
feeling like being so egalitarian right about now. I’ve been hearing some things lately that I don’t appreciate, and it’s time to set the record straight. People have been talking about how yuppies are all soft, pretentious, privileged, college grads who think they can move into any neighbor…’hood, and gentrify the whole block up. Well. Most of that may be true, BUT for those who think we’re soft, we got 
privacy in the digital age ::drumroll, cymbal crash:: It’s definitely a hot topic as of late, so kudos to the luckily employed writers of NPR for catching it at it’s crest. The first article I read (and one that seems the most culturally relavant) is about “the book”. And no, not The Good Book. The bad book. The vampirical book that sucks the productivity out of each and every one of us on a 
