Words To Live By, Rachel Style...

No, not Rachel from Glee, as much as we love/love to hate her...though it was amusing to learn on last night's Gaga-themed episode (stellar) that Rachel's two dads were huge Friends fans, thus she was named after Rachel Green.

In a brief mid-week interlude leading up to next Friday's big T.I.D (brace yourselves...start playing this on your car stereo with the volume cranked WAAAY up to prepare), we'd like to offer a little wisdom from the one and only...Rachel Maddow:










We'll most certainly be keeping this quote in mind for years to come:

"…Get smart and get smart fast...take the opportunities that you've got very seriously... continue your education, not necessarily in a grad school way although that's awesome if you choose to do that, but in a LIFELONG way. Be intellectually and morally rigorous in your own decision making and expect that the important people in your life do the same if they want to stay important to you ."


Excellent advice. Words to live by.

And now, we are reveling in the glory of knowing all about one of history's craziest women, Carrie Nation:
Though Carrie will not be getting her own T.I.D anytime soon.

OK, fine, a teeny, little one:

Cailey: Carrie grabs her hatchet.
Liz: She hisses like a cat, thumps her Bible, and adjusts her widow veil.
Cailey: She stomps all over a glass bottle of moonshine with her bare feet.
Liz: Then does a "hatchetation" in the general direction of the flag.
Cailey: Midway through, she decides she actually agrees with Hitler as he was anti-booze, anti-cigarettes, and anti-Jews. She can get behind all that.
Liz: She sits back on her bloody heels to mend the flag she just hatcheted with the needle and thread she keeps in her satchel at all times.
Cailey: Then takes the flag with her as she rides to the next town, the next saloon, to wreak the next wave of moral destruction.

La Maddow will, of course, have her run in with the hated flag on the otherwise perfect house in due time. We're saving her for a special post, savoring daydreaming about how she'd Tear It Down.

Oh, and naturally, if you've forgotten what it is that we're doing here ("What is all this Nazi flag tearing, Sound of Music nonsense? What are they on about?") May we suggest a brief refresher...

And now, back to your regular Wednesday schedule.