Some Interesting Revelations

1) Osama Bin Laden is dead.
Dude, he was dying in 2004 of severe terminal kidney disease in a freaking war-zone. There is no way this man is alive. I thought of this the other day while watching the video of Benazir Bhutto tell the interviewer off-handedly that some guy murdered Bin Laden. Then I was like, "Um, don't believe that, since he probably died like four years ago."

2) CHAAAABOOON!!



3) Life sucks, but I love it anyway.

Woo, Now I Can Update

Oh my God, I'm still alive!!

I forgot my username/password for a bit there.

Wow.

My Favorite Songs

Making a list of favorite songs is really difficult, but I think I've managed below:

1. My most favorite song ever- GEORGE HARRISON'S RUN OF THE MILL
2. The Velvet Underground- What Goes On
3. Belle and Sebastian- Fox In The Snow
4. The Beatles'- Strawberry Fields Forever
5. Neil Young- Old Man
6. John Lennon- Jealous Guy, Watching the Wheels
7. Belle and Sebastian- I Could Be Dreaming

And that's it for now. Yay!

grand buffet kick ass

Something Funny

I found this on Gawker, and I think it's hysterical and ultimately very true.



September 10th
It's a very solemn day throughout New York and the nation, as we look back on this sixth anniversary of the day before some really bad stuff happened. It seems like only yesterday that we were hanging out with friends and being ironic and worrying about shark attacks and not supporting the President, but six years have actually flown by. Please take a moment to silently mourn everything we've lost, and then share your own memories of that special Monday that took place back in what now seems like some kind of impossible golden age. Where were you, back when you were innocent and unafraid? Never forget 9/10, people. Otherwise the terrorists we weren't aware of (you know, if we weren't working in the White House) that day will have not not won.

Things That Are Not Likely To Happen

1. Osama Bin Laden's apology for ruining the lives of thousands of Americans, and his deceleration to work in the Peace Corps in his next soon to be released video.

2. The Smiths getting back together.

3. The Smiths ever being in the same room together.

4. Lindsay Lohan becoming a nun.

5. Me in the Bahamas, totally getting a tan.

Screw It..

I know what the best album of all time is.

stuff

woops, i meant king= colhquans or whatevs.

scottish ancestry is fun to look up, because if you're scottish you're bound to be related to someone who was an outlaw of some sort or some sort of odd mystical wizard.

and irish ancestry is fun too, except the part of my family from northern ireland...mallahan is a totally uncommon name, and they all seemed to emigrate in the 1700s-1800s when records were not that great. however, we do know a certain amount about the fam, like the fact that i had a cousin in the civil war, james mallahan cain was a cousin,his mom was an opera singer and a bunch of other cousins lived in massachussetts and owned bars and pubs. if you're a mallahan and meet another by the same name, you're guaranteed to be related.

i'm just thinking about family history b/c my aunt came home from ireland recently, and she found the stone ruins of the house our grandma/great grandma lived in with her fam. on the farm. how amazing is that.

The Taggarts= Ross Clan

Anything in () or in CAPS is me.

Ross Family Clan History

In 1241, the time of Alexander II, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, granted the lands of Colquhoun in Dunbartonshire (THAT'S WHERE DAVID BYRNE IS FROM!!!) to Humphrey of Kilpatrick. Humphrey’s son Ingram is the first person recorded as taking Colquhoun for his surname.

Around 1368, Luss, on Loch Lomond (I WAS THERE, HOW CRAZY IS THAT? SO DOES THAT MEAN THAT BECAUSE I'M A DESCENDANT OF THE ROSS CLAN, I OWN LOCH LOMOND? HAHA), was acquired by Sir Robert Colquhoun through marriage. From then on the chiefship has been described as of Colquhoun and Luss.

His grandson Iain Colquhoun of Luss married Margaret, the daughter of the Earl of Lennox. When James I returned from English imprisonment a few years later in 1424, one of the people he took his vengeance upon was the unsupportive Lennox. The position of Lennox was decimated and Iain of Luss took advantage of this to win the King’s favour by capturing Dumbarton Castle from Lennox. (OH, DAMN.)

By 1427 he was Sheriff of Dumbarton and by 1439 he was dead, like his King, killed by those he had treated so badly. (SHIT, MY ANCESTORS WERE OUTLAWS) By way of compensation, James II made Luss a free barony for Colquhoun’s grandson Sir Iain. It remained this way until the Rising of 1745.

Luss was raided by thieving MacGregors (SOMEHOW IRONIC BECAUSE I AM ALSO A DESCENDANT OF THE MACGREGORS)in 1603, leading to a bloody battle and defeat of five hundred Colquhoun men, three hundred of whom were on horseback, by four hundred MacGregor men at Glen Fruin. (EWAN IS SO HOT) Over two hundred of the Colquhoun men were lost when the MacGregors, who had split into two parties, attacked from front and rear and forced the horsemen onto the soft ground of the Moss of Auchingaich.

It meant the proscription of the Clan Gregor.

It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that the enmity between the clans was laid to rest when, at Glen Fruin on the site of the massacre, the chiefs of the Clan Gregor and Colquhoun met and shook hands. (HOW CIVIL)

The 11th Laird of Luss, Sir John Colquhoun, became a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1625. Seven years later, however, he vanished along with Lady Catherine Graham, his wife’s sister. He was accused of using witchcraft and sorcery to woo her and so, wisely, never returned to clear his name.

Today the family is seated in the great mansion of Rossdhu. (CAN I LIVE THERE TOO)

Clan MacPhee (Or, My Ancestors Were Mermaids or Sea Creatures?)

Anything in Bold= WTF?

MacPhee History
The gaelic name Mac a'Phi gives the English phonetic spelling Macafie, sometimes shortened to Macfie or MacPhee. However, in its original form, the name was probable Mac Dhuibh (BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THAT IS PRONOUNCED MAC DUFFY) Shith or "Son of the Dark Fairy". The "dark fairy" is synonymous with the dark stranger who must be the first to cross the threshold at the turn of the new year, bringing presents of food and drink, and symbolising good fortune.

The identity of this stranger is mysterious but legend gives the family of MacPhee its descent from this supernatural creature, who was thought to come from the sea. So the descent of the MacPhees is shrouded in legend and traditional folklore.

The MacPhees of Colonsay were hereditary keepers of the records of the Lords of the Isles. Unfortunately these records have vanished almost without trace, with the exception of one medieval charter which remains extant. This charter is written in gaelic, which shows that the administration of the Lordship was carried out both in Latin and in the vernacular.

After the abolition of the Lordship of the Isles, the MacPhees remained loyal to the MacDonald clan, and shared in the downfall of the powerful MacDonalds when the MacPhee chief was tricked, with other clan chiefs, into signing the infamous Statutes of Iona. When Colonsay passed into other hands, many of the MacPhee clansmen settled in the Cameron country of the mainland, while others resettled on other islands.

The clan became so completely rootless that today the name MacPhee is equated with the profession of itinerant tin-smiths known as "tinkers".