Mash-ups, alter egos, and spending freezes

DUDE(TTE)S!!!!! What it do?!
I have multiple topics to address this afternoon, in no particular order but all of critical importance.
1) I'm not a huge Chili Peps fan, nor do I usually love mash-ups (they're just so Glee) but this Busta Rhymes + RHCP track is growing on me.
Also, since we're on the subject, this young music teacher feller Tom Caruana recently produced an entire album of WuTang vs. The Beatles mash-ups called Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers. It's catchy business. It's also free (!)
Listen to and download the highlights or the entire album below:
WuTang vs. The Beatles - Uh Huh
WuTang vs. The Beatles - Got Your Money
Full album




2)Our next assignment in drawing class is to draw our doppelganger or alter ego. We have to sketch 5 different ideas for tomorrow and then choose one to do for reals. If you had to choose 1 alter ego for me out of the following 5, who would it be?

• Lucille Ball
• Julia Child
• Chiquita Banana
• The Jolly Green Giant
• A 6 year-old playing dress-up

The 6 year-old might be a non-starter because that's pretty much what I do everyday anyway...

2) This article by Slate's Fred Kaplan about Obama's proposed spending freeze and the military's exemption is by no means mind-blowing, but I think contains some important stuff that everyone should at least read. The Rip Van Winkle thing about halfway down the page is good:

"Most of this $382 billion consists of weapons systems—combatant ships, fighter jets, submarines, heavy armored vehicles—that the individual branches of the military have been cranking out for decades. If some Rip Van Winkle had fallen asleep in 1982, woken up in 2009, and looked at the U.S. military budget as an indicator of what was going on in the world, he would assume that the Cold War were still raging."

Speaking of fighter jets, my homework is sulking in the corner. It needs some attention.
Love, Franny