Emotion Breaks My Silence

This blog has been on near hiatus status for some time now. But the travesty of yesterday has forced me to speak out. I am overwhelmed with emotion. Hurt and confusion have marked the past thirty hours of my life. When you lose something foundational, as we all have, how do we not get emotional? How do we act as if nothing has happened?

Pluto is no longer a planet. Pluto is no longer a planet.

In what I can only call The Pluto Seminar a bunch of "astronomers" gathered together in Europe to cast a bunch of marbles to decide upon the planetary destiny of the small orbital we all love so.

And just like that, Mickey Mouse's dog isn't a dog anymore, he's a cat or a pluton or something.

This atronometric snobbery must be put to an end. We must stand up for the little "planets" that cannot stand for themselves. What has Pluto ever done to anyone? What's next...Jupiter's too big, Mars and Venus make corny books, Neptune is too blue.

I haven't felt this much loss since the XFL folded.

And they best leave Uranus alone.

Diction.

Words and phrases I like:

Edited it.
Erlanger
Avoidantageous
The blue crow flies at dawn
Munfordville
Ten animals I slam in a net.(read it backwards)
Graeters Black raspberry Chip
Free _________
Shasta
Pickled Eggs
Herbivore
Get in my bellay
Shwag
Spritzer (Say it with the z as a soft s, it's fun)
Polysporin
Desmond Tutu
Duchy
Bovine
That marking device is encapsulated in a celophanic membrane.
I have many leather bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
George Pataki
Salisbury steak
Alejandro
Fah-ooo-ooo-dah
Juggernaut
StarWars/Powerstick
Chef Daddio (That's right, I cooked Christmas breakfast)
Audi 5000