I'm surrounded by damn dirty hippies.

[apocalypsos]

My mom made my brother and I go with her to a local garden/greenhouse store where they had all sorts of Christmas decorations and, at this time of year, they have a lady who brings in a few abandoned young deer she's raised for you to take your picture with. So you get to sit on Santa's lap and pet the deer in your picture.

For the record, we were the only group of adults there to pet the deer. And coercing my mom out of the fenced-in area and away from the deer was a job of work.

But then we went to Sam's Club, and while wandering around stumbled upon a display of Palin's new book.

Me: I can't read that right now. I don't have crayons to color in the pictures.
Mom: Are there pictures?
Bryan: Yeah, they're pop-ups.
Me: If that's the case, I bet you really don't want to open to the death panel page.

There are pictures, by the way. One is of Palin standing over a dead deer. You can imagine based on what we'd been doing earlier in the day just how well that went over with my mom.

Comments

[mike-smith.livejournal.com]

I knew there'd be pictures, but I was just expecting a bunch of baby photos of her kids or something. I forgot she kills Bambi's mother for sport.

The ultimate would be a picture of her in the running outfit she wore on the cover of Runner's World and Newsweek, and she's standing over a deer corpse with a Rambo knife. That really should have been the cover.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

In a just world, a display for Palin's new book would be about Michael Palin's BBC-sponsored trek across Russia, or wherever they're sending him this year.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Palin killed Bambie's Mum?! >:O

Hee!

[jencat004.livejournal.com]

I love you! I just woke my sister up, I was laughing so hard.

Crayons.... hee!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Re: the Palin pic. Just when I thought she couldn't BE any dumber.

At least Mel Gibson had the flimsy excuse of being drunk for blowing giant holes in his own career.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

To be fair, not all deer-blasters do it purely for sport.

But the ones who do (Palin or no) are whackadoodles.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Michael Palin is but I like reading about Russia. Any country where the leader looks like he could karate-chop you in half automatically wins cool points. And yes, that currently applies to the good ol' US of A.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

To be fair, she does make a big deal about how they eat what they kill, which doesn't mean she's doing it purely for sport. She's just nuts either way.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Palin

Now, go out and get a copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Right now. We'll wait until you get back.