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I've gotten inquiries as to what the movie is/was that I was referencing in the last blog.  Someone was so generous as to upload the entire movie onto YouTube.  So here is the movie in question.  You've been warned, it's pretty bad.  And not so bad that it's good, but here it is.

Just recently, I came across a title on Netflix that jarred a long since dormant memory, A Night in Heaven.  It came out in 1983, when I was a scant age eight or nine.  We had just gotten HBO and Cinemax at some point and we had a subscription to a color printed periodical similar to that of the old TV Guide and I was thumbing through it for local listings.  MTV had just arrived as well, I cannot recall my first time viewing anything on that channel, but for some reason I did (and still do) remember seeing the ad for the movie A Night in Heaven.  It was a single photo of teen heart throb Christopher Atkins in sort of a John Travolta finger pointing up and down (you know that move, but I don't know what kind of dance move it's called) on a disco light dance floor.  Years later, I would actually see this cinematic gem (whose term I use sarcastically, of course).  It was about this guy who works nights as a male stripper who has an affair with his communi...

A Facebook friend posted this earlier today on the art of cow tipping.  That is, according to urban legend, legions of drunk men (and you would have to be in order to attempt such a feat) would sneak up on a cow, presumably while it's standing in a rural area asleep or minding it's own business, and shove it over.  Then, once witnessing the cow in complete distress, one would have a good laugh at some abusive expense similar to that of torturing a small animal or insect.  I have never witnessed this phenomenon, cow tipping nor animals of any kind being abused.  It is, as previously stated, an urban legend.  According to this online article, it might be nearly impossible to actually achieve : http://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/cow-tipping-myth-or-bullcrap/ I had not heard the term "cow tipping" in a very long time, but it reminded me of the last time I had had anything associated with the term.  A childhood friend of mine went to college in the Philadelphia...

It was time to pay the piper with the dreaded Student Loan.  It have not been feared, I knew it was inevitable.  What made me cringe was the fact that I would have to face Dad with this, and he was not a happy camper.  True, I keep in mind we are all in the midst of our own financial crisis all over the place and my family is no exception to this rule.  Mom and Dad have downsized just like the rest of us, but when your father says to you "This is the worst thing you have ever done", that makes your self esteem go right down the gutter.  I have come to realize in the last few years that is what men in general seem to like to do to women in direct or indirect ways : put down your self esteem because it makes them feel good about themselves.  Perhaps this is why women find themselves in such terrible situations with Alpha Males (aka Bad Boys), due to such mixed signals we get from our fathers.  How many times have I been at the mercy of one of his verbal ...