09.17.09 Thurs. "No more generic coffee!"

Who is using Facebook and Twitter the most? The answer is kind of suprising. Stay at home moms. A new study (Retail Marketing and Advertising Association) indicates that retailers who are interested in attracting moms are advised to pay close attention to social networking. Women with children at home are more likely to use Facebook (60.3%), MySpace (42.4%) and Twitter (16.5%) than average adults (50.2%, 34.4%, 15.0%, respectively). Kind of kills the argument that it takes a ton of time to do Facebook… Nobody I know has less free time to themselves than stay at home moms. My guess is because when you’re communicating with friends on Facebook you don’t have to worry about a screaming kid screaming in the background and drowning you out like when you try to talk on the phone.

I’m really trying hard to tighten up and save money when we shop. I’ve given up buying name brand stuff and am now getting more generic brands. But I think I just reached a tipping point. When it comes to coffee, I can’t buy the cheap stuff anymore. I bought this huge canister of coffee that I’ve never heard of before simply because it was really cheap. Never again! From now on I will buy only good, name brand coffee even if it means me taking some jobs mowing lawns on the weekend for the extra cash. What’s the one thing you just won’t compromise on? “Forget about the cheap generic stuff, I MUST have the good stuff!”

Big news in Everett. The City Council there is mulling outlawing those bikini barista coffee stands… or at least making them subject to the same rules as strip clubs under the city’s “lewd conduct law.” After a slew of complaints about the boom-chica-chica coffee shops the Council decided it was time to finally address the issue. Councilman Drew Nielsen pretty much summed up the fine line they are walking between free expression and concerns by the public… “Sometimes,” he said “we have to suffer some conduct from our fellow citizens we’d rather not.”

A 21 year old student at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland killed a burglar earlier this week who was stealing a bunch of electronics from his home. What makes the story weird is that the student was armed, not with a 9 millimeter, but with a samurai sword. (By the way, before you start to feel too sad for the bad guy, the burglar who was killed was Donald Rice, a lifetime career criminal with more than two dozen arrests on his record and who had just been released from prison.) Wonder what gun control advocates will make of this story…. Just remember when they outlaw samurai swords, only outlaws will be samurais.

Former Whitney Houston hubby, Bobby Brown has joined the latest cast of Celebrity Fit Club. Man, is he overweight. The only exercise he’s gotten recently has been running from his past and dodging accusations.

The Nashville Songwriters Association International has voted Toby Keith songwriter/artist of the decade. Okay, we all need to agree not to tell Kanye.

This week Congressmen from both parties showed support for NASA to return a man to the moon. The man they had in mind is Congressman Joe Wilson.