Prison is fun in the Phillipines

This is the coolest. I hope you all haven't already seen it. From "About the Video":

1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! just a teaser.

The transvestite is their choreographer. I hear tell that if you look close, you can see prison guards with large guns on the towers above.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

I start work at Panera Bread Co. in 45 minutes. My brother got me the job, which is weird. Apparently they call it "St. Louis Bread Co." in St. Louis, but nowhere else. Hmm.

ALEX IS ALIVE!

http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/do_todays_youth_have_what_it

Home!

I don't have a digital camera, so enjoy this internet picture
Well, it's been at least seven months since I've been in St. Louis, and while things have changed, the luxuries of living in a city are so much more apparent now that I've lived without them for so long. Firstly, movies. I'm going to go out and see a movie tonight. I have choices! I want to see the Cohen Brother's new movie, but I promised my parents I'd go see it with them. So my friend and I have to choose a movie. We have sooo many options (eat it Lakeville.), and I hope we go see the Bob Dylan documentary. That'llbenice.

I went to my friend's new apartment yesterday night. His whole life is completely changed. He's working at QuickTrip, and soon he'll be a salaried employee. His apartment is empty. We lead completely different lives, except he had an X-Box. It was the one detail of familiarity that created in my mind an entire connection between his life and mine. For a moment, it was completely possible in my mind that playing Halo would lead me to his life. Hopefully that's not true. And besides, he really likes playing ultra-realistic racing games. Yuck. It was good to see him even as he 'grows' up.

Why the quotes?

Who knows.

NB:
St. Louis has the highest rate of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea according to the CDC. It is also the most friendly city to cigarette smokers according to Forbes magazine. Random facts about my fair city.

SNOW!

Well, I guess since we're on break again, I'll post on the blog again. I looked out the kitchen window this morning, and this is what I saw:
COLORADO: Welcome home, Tom. I brought you some snow.
TOM: Thanks, Colorado. That was very thoughtful of you.

Here's what happens to my dog when she goes outside in the snow:
And here's a closeup with my mom warming her butt by the fire in the background:She'd kill me if she saw this on the internet. For all you Jackson Fry fans out there, here's his senior picture. It turned out way better than mine. I photographed it badly out of jealousy. Either that, or I'm a bad photographer. Neither reflects well on me:
My mom took him out to take pictures, "like, four times," by my bro's estimate. She neither confirmed nor denied this figure.

One more shot o' the backyard. Winter has arrived! Did I mention that it's sunny out, and half of this has melted already? Don't care. Snow is only necessary in the morning and at night, anyway.
Much merriment tomorrow. I am eating at least half the turkey. Perhaps I'll post some photos of my grandparents' classy-ass house, which is the kind of house I want to own. I should probably start looking into more lucrative career paths...