R.I.P. Whitney Houston...and just say NO kids.

R.I.P.

So Whitney Houston is dead. Bummer. I remember hearing her music seemingly everywhere when I was a little kid in the late 80's/early 90's. Back in her prime she was beautiful (a model actually) and of course, you know, had an AMAZING voice.


my God, it's like she wasn't even trying.


Too bad that all went to shit. Whitney's career started to mimic her personal life, all messed up. If you aren't familiar with her long and tumultuous relationship with Bobby Brown, her battle with drugs and knack for insane public behavior, have fun with Google afterwards. In short, I'll just say that Whitney was like a walking D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education for you non-USA'ers) advertisement =/ Such a waste of talent. Of course she wasn't the first, and sadly, won't be the last.

At least her music will live on...through young boys from Taiwan.





*NOTE*
When news of her death broke I immediately thought of two things:
X-Men: The Animated Series


and my homie Patrick Bateman...he was a HUGE Whitney fan =p

Why I, "Just Say No"

me in 20 years

So I don't do drugs. No drinking, no smoking, no shooting up, no licking toads, none of it. Why do I abstain from such awesome recreational activities? I really don't know. I've always been rather sickly and the idea of making my feeble body even worse via drugs or illicit substances never really appealed to me. I will have an occasional drink but have never been (or plan to be) drunk in my life. I'm not trying to preach to you bloggers on some high and mighty Straight Edge/Teetotaler soapbox. I'm around drunken pot heads on a regular basis (friends, can't live with em', can't live without em') and really don't care what people choose to do with their lives, this is just some personal BS I've adhered to since forever.

My post about Russian beer regulation and the headlines from Amy Winehouse's death got me thinking about society and it's complacency with drugs. I'm not talking about the bullshit U.S. War on Drugs. Criminalizing this stuff is a horrid idea. I'm talking about people's willful desire to slowly but surely poison themselves. Why are so many people down to kill brain cells? Why does society largely ostracize those who refrain from recreational drug/alcohol use? Next time someone looks at me like an alien when I say I don't do that, I'll tell them Kermit, Tigger, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Alf, Garfield, Bugs Bunny, Huey, Duey and Louie told me not to.