Never send Chinese Food to do a Cincinnati Chili job...

SO, two nights ago we went out to have chinese at Formosa, as my wife reminded me that that is where we ate before our two girls. Well, no luck. So last night I made CIncinnati Chili and we are off to the hospital to have a baby. WIll post on facebook later. Here is a picture of our new baby with our girls, kind of...

Utah's Pornicopia

If you don't know the culture, it just doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, if this is a hot button topic for you, scroll on down to a different post because this is just gonna make you angry... and I don't want anyone committing one of the Seven Deadly Sins all because of my two cents...

For those not privy to Utah Headlines... In the entire United States of America (and Puerto Rico...) Utahns get the dubious bragging rights as the NUMBER ONE downloader of SUBSCRIPTION Online Porn Sites. (IE, I pay for pornography!)

I quote the Deseret News... "That's the conclusion of a Harvard economics professor who tracked subscriptions to online porn sites. Utah ranks No. 1 in subscriptions, according to Benjamin Edelman, who reported his findings in the article "Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?," published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives."

This is a published article. I think a Harvard statistician knows what he's doing... especially before publishing a paper with his name and his institution's name on it... especially on a hot-button topic like this is. Correlation does not imply causation, but the fact remains that Utahns are paying for porn at a higher rate per capita than any other state in the nation. Not just viewing all the loads of free stuff out there, PAYING for it. We can also conclude this. Regardless of whether the payment of online porn is higher in "red" or "blue" states, the state with the highest LDS population is also the highest for paying for porn online. No statistics class can tear that data apart, and someone who has not taken a college level statistics class might try.

That same article states that Deseret News reporter Lee Davidson in 2007 found that Utahns were more prone to search for words like "topless" and "pornography, " as well as "Jesus" and "home storage."

One more tidbit, as I continue to quote. "Subscriptions are slightly more prevalent in states that have enacted conservative legislation on sexuality," Edelman writes. In the 27 states where "defense of marriage" amendments have been adopted, there were 11 percent more porn subscribers than in other states, he reports. (So when do I get to vote on their marriages?) Use is higher also in states where more people agree with the statement "I never doubt the existence of God."

Side note... more polarity but it just popped in my head and I think it interesting... One of the highest inventory shrink items at Deseret Books is the Scriptures. That's a fact.

It's no newsflash and I fully own the fact that I'm not perfect. I just don't have a problem being human... Besides, the way I see it, we aren't human beings trying to have a spiritual experience. Rather, we are profoundly spiritual beings just trying to have a human experience... ITNOJCAmen.

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VIDEO: Jesus and The Terminator Parody.

If you've not seen this and you both a) saw Terminator 1 and b) know who Jesus of Nazareth is... you'll get a great laugh. (For those who may be concerned, it's in good taste and respectful.)

VIDEO: The WATCHMEN Movie Trailer... AMAZING!

The only 'comic' (graphic novel) to make Time Magazines Top 100 Literature Novels or something like that. I was SO ahead of the game on this one... by like 10 years... (Is it geeky to brag about knowing your graphic novels? Probably no more than reading blogs.)

I decided I have a thing for lists...

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I think I must have missed my calling in life... I should have been in a profession where I had to organize and categorize stuff... Like a librarian or something. Anyway, here are 5 characters, both from the TV and the Big Screen, I can't go the week without quoting a line from. So here they are... with my favorite line. (Again, no particular order.)
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George Castanza, as he is being fired, on Seinfeld.

"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time."
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Agent Smith, interrogating Neo, from The Matrix.

"It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not."
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Pee Wee Herman in Big Top Pee Wee.

"There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand. You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie... A rebel…”
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Marv. Sin City. After the first jolt of electricity, sitting in the electric chair...

"Is that the best you can do, you pansies?"

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The Grandfather in The Princess Bride. I've watched it many, many times... and it can still make me teary...

"As you wish."

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My Personal Favorite Women in Music... the Top 30-ish... with an INTRODUCTION by me, Jonathan, here at The Ocean Is Deep.

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I couldn't keep it at 20, so I've expanded to 30-ish...

When I say my Favorite Women in Music I am talking about the women that I think created... brought... revolutionized... (use whatever descriptive word you want) a sound. Anyway, as I was introduced or exposed to these artist, they moved me inside, and if I were ever stuck on a desert island, they would all have to be part of my song selections inside my ipod.

Anyway, about my list. I wasn't even sure how it would evolve. I guess I'm really not sure how it did. I did think about it a lot, when I had some downtime to just think. I felt I could put together a really solid list of 30 people that I thought were tops. I did NOT want a list based on who's won the most Grammys or who is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a lot of people with Grammys that just don't sing to me...

In this blog I've broken a list of 30 up into six parts, and they aren't in any particular order. I did start my list with Carole King because my first memories of hearing songs were all sung by either Carole King or Karen Carpenter. From there, I just clicked whoever I saw next in my pictures folder as I uploaded them, and Blogger only allowed me five at a time... but it actually worked out better that way, looking back.

There is one individual that didn't make my list but she deserves to be recognized here. The only reason I didn't keep her on my list is she's a country music singer... and that's really not my first choice in music to listen to. Maybe in the Official Rule Book for Making Lists, that shouldn't exclude her but I'm just making this up as I go. So even though I usually steer clear of country music as a matter of personal preferences, I could listen to this woman's songs over and over... In fact, she originally was in my list of 30, (actually she was WAY in before 30...) but I took her out and put someone else in... I don't have a better reason than that.

Even so, I admire her and her work, so before I dive into my Top 30 Favorite Women in Music, I want to give her an EXTRA VERY SPECIAL HONORABLE MENTION as one of my favorite female artist of all time... and I think is probably the most talented female artist alive today... Dolly Parton.


Dolly Parton is a stand-out... (no, not because of those things...) She's truly a notch above the sea of talent that is out there. She can sing a wide range of songs and she writes songs for herself and for others. Whitney Houston's hit, I Will Always Love You, was first recorded by Dolly Parton. (And not to change the subject, but what a gracious personality... doesn't she have the BEST nature about her?)

VIDEO: Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You -LIVE

She sounds great live... but as I was looking at her, I started laughing because I remembered her once telling a talk show host that, "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap." She wrote this song to Porter Wagoner; they had broken up... so I heard.

My Favorite Women in Music... Part One of Six...

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I want to start here... Most of these are of no particular order but when I was a kid my sister brought home an album and played it over and over and over. I think I still know all of the words to every song. So here I go...



This is Carole King. I think her album, Tapestry, was the first album that... in it's entirety... to be an anthem for an entire generation of women. For the life of me I can't think of an album you could point to and say, 'You know what,' that album spoke for an entire generation of men.
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This is Alanis Morrissette. About two decades after Tapestry, Alanis Morrissette debuted with Jagged Little Pill, which accomplished what I believe had only been done only once before... She had an entire album that spoke for a generation.
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.This is Crissie Hynde of The Pretenders. To me, she is the perfect representation of Rock and Roll... and the Last of the Independents.
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This is Bjork, and she is so unique I can't even put her in a category. This is a weird comparison but she's kinda like Joe Cocker. You either 'get it,' or you don't. By 'get it' I mean they either resonate with you or they don't...

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Debbie Harry of Blondie. I think she was a pioneer of sorts... Blondie experimented with several styles of music and as the face of the band, she pulled it off.

VIDEO: Chrissie Hynde ... Angel Of the Morning