I'm in song love

I stumbled across this song in a totally unrelated podcast about an hour ago, and between replaying it in the podcast, looking for videos of it on youtube and finally downloading the mp3, I've heard it at least ten times since then...and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon. so yeah, in true me style, it's taken me months to realize that a musician who was recommended to me (by you, matt?) is truly awesome, and now I'm seriously considering canceling my existing plans for march 30 so I can go see him (with paul and storm!) in NYC. who wants to join? (^k^, don't you need to look for apartments/drink at mory's sometime this spring? hm...)

the object of my obsession:

c'mon c'mon

have we all seen this?



My verdict? AWESOME.

either the world keeps getting funnier or my standards are lower than I thought

neuroscientists rock out

*snort* oh, I tried so hard to say that with a straight face.

this is fairly amusing, too

it doesn't beat a hilarious almost-war, but it's still worth checking out...

only in europe

I am highly amused.

swiss accidentally almost start itty-bitty war

Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager

If you think this one is funny, there are 5 more episodes... I spent half an hour today watching them when I probably had better things to do.

a public service announcement

to all men worldwide:

when one's hairline begins to recede, one has several options. one can

(a) grin and bear it

(b) grin and, uh, bare it (that's jack nicholson, btw)

or


(c) glue in some extra hair and hope no one notices.










for the love of God, don't pick (b) or (c). (b) scares the children, and (c) just makes everyone laugh.

you're welcome.

for a livelier discussion of britney-related stuffs...

...check out the results of Stereogum's Photoshop Britney contest. ha!

huh.

maybe she *did* have a compelling reason for shaving her head. a stupid reason, and one which only serves to prove why she needed drug testing in the first place, but still a reason. there's hope yet!

Belated story to share

... even though I have many other things I should be doing, and this is old news by now, I figured I'd let you all know I was alive and blogging by relating the following dialogue from the recent recruitment weekend for my neuroscience program.

I am pretty sure this constitutes the absolute high point of my life thus far. It occurred last Saturday night at Barcelona between me and a female recruit whose name I never learned, but whom we shall call Reasonably Attractive Asian Recruit (RAAR) for the sake of the dialogue:

Me: So, then there was the summer that I spent in Winston-Salem working for the Hanes underwear catalogue...
RAAR: (COMPLETELY SERIOUS) So, were you, like, an underwear model?

This actually happened. I have witnesses.

...what?

"the mathematics of love" was stuck in my head and it made me happy, so I thought I'd share the happy, but I couldn't find it on youtube and had to settle for this instead. meh. it's almost as good.





update: OMG. I LOVED THIS SONG. I STILL DO.

uh, matt, care to comment?

can you *honestly* say she's still hot? yes, the ratty uncombed hair is gone, but...it's GONE. as is she. completely gone. she also threw up in her car last weekend and then WENT OUT TO PARTY SOME MORE. if guys can look at that and still find the vomiter (and then partier) even remotely attractive, there is no f-ing way I should be single.


PS -- I am totally digging this post-label thingy.

update: cnn.com has the whole sordid head-shaving story here.

the internets have created and/or codified a number of new interjections

to which I say:

meh.

or possibly feh. I'm not sure.

also...

this has been a ridiculous news week. when will it end???

is anyone else following this?

I just think this is the perfect blend of tragic and awesome. people are CRAZY...and so creative about it!

astronaut flips out, voluntarily wears diaper

OMG squee!

FINAL Harry Potter coming July 21!

ahh, cat washing

It amuses me:

OK...

... per the request of ^kat^, we have switched to the new Blogger. I have yet to really investigate what the benefits of this might be, but I assume they are legion.

Donny Osmond rocks hardcore

The first take of Weird Al and Donny Osmond dancing together for the "White and Nerdy" video:



I, for one, am rather impressed with the level of Mr. Osmond's (presumably) improvisational dancing skills.

crossposted from my other blog for matt's benefit

It's official. Music class = the best law school class ever.

Why? Because my reading for tomorrow (portions of Rockonomics) contains an extended quote from (Semisonic drummer) Jake Slichter's masterpiece, So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star.

Coincidentally, I read that book nearly two years ago, while visiting the law school for Admitted Students Weekend. It's a phenomenal piece of work about the music industry and you should all read it yourselves, if you haven't already.

And *I* should finish my reading for tomorrow. But seriously? I LOVE THIS CLASS. It's like getting class credit for doing the stuff I do normally.

I'm totally pulling one over on the administration. (Shhh, don't tell.)

I'm in ur manatees, stealin ur buckets...?

pix from last night

A selection of photographs from last night's Bible trivia extravaganza. Sorry for the lame captions; trying to do this quickly and surreptitiously at work, so no time for cleverness...

The brain cake

Some elderly gentleman holding said brain cake

Remainder of the casserole

The Bible trivia game board

Dani is amused by her email

I play with the "everything black and white but one color" feature of my camera

I'd just like to note...

... that TV on DVD is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever. Damn you, Season 2 of Scrubs, for eating my entire Sunday! Why must you be so deliciously entertaining???

In other news, I have purchased a home version of Dance Dance Revolution on the Intarwebs... so when it arrives, you are all welcome to come over and try it out.

holy crap!

wow! it, uh, blends!

it's no Lazy Sunday...

...and Dick in a Box has better one-liners, but it's still worth watching:

The Harry Potter Rap

Did people already know...

... that actor/musician Jason Schartzman (of Rushmore and Phantom Planet fame) is the son of Talia Shire (Adrian from the Rocky movies)? And that Talia Shire is the sister of Francis Ford Coppola? Making Jason Schartzman the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, as well as the cousin of Nic Cage and Sofia Coppola? I did not know that.

In other news, I wish I had some tidbit of trivia about one of the stars of Fame, so that I could refer to them as So-and-So, of Fame fame.

But I don't.

(In fact, looking at the movie's page on Wikipedia, I don't actually recognize the names of any of the actors. Seeing as the movie is in fact called Fame, I'd say that's what we call irony.)

I meant to post this...

...pre-NYE gathering, but Blogger was slow the night before I left, so here it is:

Cows With Guns

BEAT YOU TO IT!

Look what Brit's up to now!

merry christmas!

Hope you all had a lovely holiday and are gearing up to shop shop shop tomorrow morning (in which case, you should be asleep and not still up, like me). I do wish I were getting a prize for not visiting a prostitute, though. Would make the holiday season that much merrier. Maybe next year.

teaching them to inseminate and freeload, the Federline way?

ha! I didn't realize Weird Al had interviewed K-Fed...

hooray!

this TOTALLY makes me want to reread HBP over break...

JKR reveals title of final Harry Potter book

Also, I went ahead and did the cutesy little steps on her homepage to reveal the title... fun!

did I subject you guys to this last year?

these christmas lights are c-raaaaaazy. I must have watched it for like half an hour straight at a christmas party last year. it's *that* mesmerizing. enjoy!

Dead fish!

Look! Someone created an Internet game based on my life as a fish owner! Check out Insaniquarium!

P.S. The fish make a particular hysterical noise when they die!
d

l'chaim!

my goodness. there's fun stuff all over the internet.

happy hanukkah!

more holiday fun on the internets

okay, so it's a corporate attempt to take advantage of all the "blogging" and "electronic mailing" we kids do...but it's funny!

kid stuck to a pole talks, sings


edited to add: I hadn't realized that good old dubya was the source of "internets." thanks, wikipedia!

this is so infinitely cooler than 3rd-grade arts and crafts

make your own snowflake

I have no idea what this website is or where it came from, but you can design your own "paper" snowflake and watch it float by. for every 1000 snowflakes created, this website will donate $1 to the salvation army. you can also look at everyone else's snowflakes -- mine is the most awesomely awesome one...or I suppose you could also find it by searching for #3602508. off to make more!

I'm very busy right now...

... and I promise I will look at all the lovely 80s commercials after Friday... but for the moment, I just wanted to let you know something I recently learned: that the stock symbol for Southwest Airlines is "LUV."

In the words of Church Lady: Now, isn't that special?

just because...

...my first attempt at promulgating these ads was met with thunderous silence doesn't mean I won't try again:

50 MORE Great Commercials from the 80s

This one has I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up, Where's the Beef?, and a bunch of those gum ads whose jingles I still remember ("your fresh breath goes on and on--while you chew it!"). You've got nothing better to do for the next hour, do you?

oh, no.

well, there went any hope I had of getting work done for the rest of the semester.

sissyfight is still around, yo

the site's running kinda crappily -- only two schools are open, and it crashed my mozilla, and then it wouldn't let me sign back in until the game I'd initially entered was over, and *then* in the one game I've played so far the other two girls decided to gang up on me because they SUCK (and my lolly only helped so much). but we HAVE to meet up for a rumble -- not tonight, but sometime this weekend? let's email...

ericat13, recalling fond memories of playing (and pissing off fellow students) in CT hall senior year

sad news

jennifer aniston's back on the market

but think about it: married to brad pitt...doing it with *vince vaughn*?? that just screams "rebound relationship."

if only I knew the stuff I will be tested on tomorrow half as well as my celebrity dating histories...

I've only gotten through 10 of them, but...

...I knew this was too good not to share:

50 Greatest Commercials of the 80s

here we go!

enjoy:

boo.

I was going to try to post a clip of barenaked ladies on last night's leno (I didn't even try to stay awake for it -- I was in bed by 11pm), but it's either not on youtube yet or NBC's already cracked down. I'll keep an eye out for it, but in the meantime here's the first video from their new album:



happy friday!

MJ's uninterrupted blog trifecta is now complete

I thought you all might enjoy this collection of reviews for K-Fed's album:

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/federlinekevin/playingwithfire

Averaging across many different reviews, the overall score is 15 out of 100, which Metacritic equates to "Extreme dislike or disgust."

blerg. eat kitty litter.

I'd just like to announce that the cat litter cake is no more.

I can't believe I ate the whole thing. Or at least, what remained of the whole thing after Thanksgiving dinner, which was still a buttload of kitty litter cake.

I think this proves once and for all that I simply cannot be trusted with junk food of any sort in the house.

Off to moan quietly to myself....

Booyakasha

Eat my shorts, Stephen Meek! Nice to know you, David Hastings! There is a new top settler in Oregon now, bitches!

And no, in fact, I do not need to see how points are earned. I think we've established that I'm pretty clear on that already.

the bestest dessert ever

remember this? well, today we experienced its awesomeness in person:

preparing the poo:



























the presentation:




















...and it's a hit! seriously, kat, it's really yummy once you get past the it-looks-like-cat-poo thing. mmm.

I feel all warm and fuzzy (albeit bloated -- there's a LOT of cake in this thing) inside. let the holiday season commence!

to follow up on a previous post...

...this one's a little creepy. the caption?

IM IN UR SHOWER

WATCHIN' U SCRUB

cats are funny.

happy thanksgiving, all!

this is really, really disturbing.

Michael Richards's racially insensitive remarks at the "Laugh Factory" last weekend.

A disappointing corollary: I'll never see Stanley Spadowski in quite the same way again. Wow.

it's always nice to confirm...

... that there are folks in the world WAY nerdier than me:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/11/19/nintendo.wii.ap/index.html

Sure, I may be nerdy in the extreme... I may be whiter than sour cream... I may have been in A/V club and Glee Club and, yes, even the chess team... but I feel confident that I am still way more functional in society than this guy:

"The first buyer, Isaiah Triforce Johnson, had been waiting outside the store for more than a week. He wore a Nintendo Power Glove, a wearable controller that came out in 1989, while shaking hands with Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. Johnson said he had legally changed his name to include a reference to Nintendo's 'Zelda' series of games."

or this guy:

"The first to buy the system at midnight was Jonathan Mann, 24, who was dressed in red overalls and a cap like the Mario character from 'Super Mario Bros.'
'I'm a little delirious. I've been up for about 40 hours straight. But I've got it in my hands now and it feels good,' said Mann, adding that he has written more than 40 songs about the console for his gaming Web site, gamejew.com. His song titles include 'Wii Means You and Me' and 'The Wind Whispers Wii.'"

Yikes.

I [heart] my celebrity gossip column of choice

this is why:

"I'm no theologian, per se, but I heard after a wretched case of constipation, God bent over the edge of a cloud and took a giant dump on our planet and that was how Paris Hilton was born."

read the rest of the post here (hint: tina fey hates paris as much as -- heck, maybe even more than -- the blogger does!)

it's drivin' me balls!

Ben Folds's new video for "Learn to Live With What You Are":

you sure about dollywood?

Because we can always trek down to the world's first Creationist Museum instead, just minutes from lovely Cincinnati (but IN Kentucky, thank God).

oh, Jesus Christ.

OJ Simpson: "so...let's say I DID kill them. wanna know how I would've -- WOULD, people, this is totally hypothetical -- done it?"

good lord.

im in ur blog, cloggin ur RSS feed

So, in an effort to discover where the "im in ur x y-ing ur z" meme came about, I encountered this link. And though I still don't know where the phrase came from, I feel content to stop looking, because I doubt it could be any more awesomer.

I must admit...

...it took me the entire article to figure out that they weren't talking about, like, Savannah:

U.S. rejects referendum for rebel Georgia region

after a brief moment of clarity, britney reminds us that she's still not quite all there.

newly single spears went ice-skating after filing for divorce

well, no, that's not fair. were I in her position, I would probably go do something fun to celebrate having finally dumped 180 pounds of dead weight. then again, were I in her position, we would be in an alternate universe where I had failed to develop a normal human capacity for common sense, or else I wouldn't have the dumb schmuck to dump in the first place.



hey, there was an election, wasn't there?

som question for erica

Has SOM received any medium-sized accolades recently? Because if so, and I were writing a news article about it, I would give it the headline "SOM: Kind of Wonderful"

Don't blame me for this joke; I think my brain is forcing spontaneous bad punnage on me as revenge for trying to kill it with beer last night.

for those of you who missed the video...

I present a wiki article about the kid with the i-banking video resume. heh.

shoot! missed another deadline.

kat, you have six weeks:

businessweek's list of the best entrepreneurs under 25, or, young whippersnappers insist on making the rest of us feel old...now, get off my lawn!

awwwwwww.

another couple bites the dust...but after 7 seven years, which is about three lifetimes in hollywood years.

ryan phillippe is now single, and one of these days he will accept my calls

Mmmmm... cake....

... but with a twist:

https://www.dvo.com/newsletter/monthly/2004/october/jest.html

Perhaps this can be my contribution to Thanksgiving this year? I'm sure Greg will love/hate it.

Chocolate and porn, part deux

And a hearty two thumbs up I give to Weird Al's latest effort, Straight Outta Lynwood, which arrived in my mailbox today. Sure, we all knew about "White & Nerdy," but unexpected (to me) bonuses on the disc included "Pancreas," a brilliant style parody of Brian Wilson's already brilliant Smile album, and "Close But No Cigar," a style parody of Cake. Don't you just love it when your favorite artists create humorous imitations of your other favorite artists? I thought so.

yeah, I could be flawless too, with the help of makeup artists and liberal use of photoshop.

a-HA! this is PROOF that ads and magazine covers are not at all rooted in reality. it may be a shameless marketing ploy, but darn it, it's a *clever* shameless marketing ploy.

no WAY!

small freaking world:

<<6. The bass player in "Booze Cruise," Hal Cragin, played in a band in NYC with which Office actor?
a. Melora Hardin
b. Rashida Jones
c. Kate Flannery
d. Creed Bratton
e. Ed Helms

Answer: c. Hal and I were in the band Mono Puff with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants fame. We were in his solo band (you can hear me sing on the song "Extra Krispy" on the album, It's Fun to Steal). >>

find out more trivia about The Office at this quiz on Kate's blog. Wow.

Country Music at its, uh, bes, uh, worstt????

Woah friends, check this out.

And please don't judge country music by it!
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Like chocolate and porn...

... Weird Al on the Bob and Sheri radio show delectably combines two of my favorite things.

I'll host it here for your listening convenience.

weird al ROOLZ

slate agrees.

existential angst...again!

Oh friends, I am bored in class. And I am wondering why I am doing the things I am doing with my life.

HELP!
d

the horrible resume video may be down, but...

this birthday invite is even worse.

some of my favorite passages:

"A specially made birthday cake has also been ordered and the Ritz
waiters will kindly serve you each a generous slice with Ritz cutleries,
etc...also on me."

"STRICT DRESS CODE:
Gentlemen: Jacket, shirt, and please also bring a tie (no jeans,
trainers, flip-flops, polo-shirts)
Ladies: skirt/top, cocktail dress (no denim, min-skirts, flip-flips, bad
tastes) "

and finally,
"I will be accepting cards and small gifts between 9pm to 11pm...
wink> hehehe"

...okay, maybe the last one isn't so horrible. for my part, I will be accepting cards and gifts of any size between now and 11:59pm tomorrow evening...oh, heck, why impose a deadline? anytime you would like to give me a gift is fine with me.

...and I'm going to kick their asses.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 14 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

d'oh!

the video below accompanied the **11-page** resume this yale senior sent to the investment bank UBS. since then it's been floating around *all* of the i-banks, and methinks he's going to have a few problems getting a job anywhere. thanks, dude, for making yale the temporary laughingstock of the investment banking world. I mean, I'm not planning to actually enter this world myself, but still...you eeeeediot.

aww. Poor Hormel.

So much for their trademark suit.

I am edgy and innovative!

I also have excellent search capacities. wait, no, not like that. ew.

get your own name google-fied (and yahoo'ed, too, if you're into that sort of thing) here.

Biff from Back to the Future is funny

And in other news, who knew that Rural Hall, NC, was worthy of a Wikipedia entry?

Don't even ask me how I found this

How Many Condoms Can You Wear at Once?

Science at its finest, I daresay.

Why My Hometown Rocks

So, cf my previous comment about the top 10 most singable songs, and I decided to google my hometown. I mean, I knew it was a cool place and all, that Howard Stern went to High School there, Doris Kearns Goodwin signed her name in the same Honor Society book that I did, but did you know that ATM machines originated there?

I disagree with this top-10 list.

also -- thanks, fark.com! -- I beg to differ that "who let the dogs out" is one of the "top 10 singalong pop hits of all time." where's "livin' on a prayer"? (or, for matt, "like a prayer"?) "I will survive"? "we will rock you"? there's *so* room for more than one queen song on this list. but instead they give us -- come ON, people -- "smooth" by rob thomas and carlos santana?? load. of. crap.

so that's how I feel about that. any other additions to the list?

*tap tap* is this thing on?

maybe this'll get us talking:

finally, a restaurateur who loves chocolate as much as I do

we're talking bagels with a chocolatey center, coffee cups with a special pocket to hold your chocolate, and a 10-page dessert menu. I...I mean...it's just so (*sniff*) beautiful...

some people have too much time on their hands.

but this guy takes it to a whole new level. someone find him a hobby that requires leaving the house!


but this *is* pretty cool.

have we all seen this?

because it's freaking awesome. Chamillionaire ain't got nothin' on Al, yo'.

hideous or awesome? you decide.

I was hoping this website linked to patterns so I could make my very own bacon 'n eggs scarf, but alas, she only sells the finished products. I may be able to figure out a couple of them, though, if one of you wants to add a SuperCrazyPizzaSupreme scarf to your winter wardrobe...

OMG POE YHHABOR!!!!!

In honor of our acronymious (but not acrimonious) summer and Talk Like a Pirate Day, I give ye:

http://www.karateparty.org/content/view/419/37/

Arrrr,
MJ

Scattered musings on life and roller coasters

Okay, true to form, I am once again having a crisis of mental well-being. So I'm eliciting your help. I am currently unnerved by the following issues:

1. My looming age and the fact that I really want a baby;
2. My sagging income and the fact that I really want a house;
3. My doomed good looks and the fact that I really want a husband.

Let's focus on the third for a moment. The issue isn't so much that I want a husband as that I really just want someone to follow me around all day and absorb all my memories. I'm convinced this would make me substantially less lonely. (Aside: this is not to say that I am a walking, talking pathetic lonely individual, but lonely as your average person goes). Is this totally insane? I just find it horrendously depressing that we go through life, move, change venues, meet new people, stop sharing our lives with the old ones, and the result is basically that no one really knows you over the longterm! Is anyone else troubled by this?

In lighter news: I just found out that Dollywood has an AWESOME policy whereby if you enter the park after 3pm, you get the whole next day free! Isn't that awesome? I also found out that there are discounts for military families, so that might be worth looking into also.

st

well, if we're linking to mcsweeney's today...

I present these charming updates to the obnoxious we're-better-than-you mac ads (even if the guy who plays the mac is borderline cute...and fine, here are the original ads for your perusal).

so there.

erica, whose pc may spontaneously forget how to start windows but can still be used as a lethal weapon

yes, another edit: if you haven't read the most recent YAM, let it be said that the guy playing the PC is a yalie, whereas the mac is currently starring in a movie in which he makes up his own college because he's rejected from all the real ones. who's smart now, huh? huh??

I'll stop with the hyperlinks now.

I'm blogging from NYC!

And I have for you The Complaints Choir of Helsinki.

Also, Refreshingly Honest Crate and Barrel Catalog Descriptions.

Also, if you make me be the french fries, I'm so not playing Monopoly with you. Ick.

part of me wants to cry at what this says about our society.

the rest of me calls dibs on the prius. maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get to buy LAX!

edited to add: when I grow up I want to be a media evangelist. I will exorcise the demons of stupid commercials!

smoke 'em if you got 'em, mozart fans...

...but hip-hop fans are more likely to have sex. Country music fans, not so much (sorry, Dani!).

hee.

I think I have a new webcomic obsession.


Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

unintentional comedy, part eighty-seven

discovered on my rounds 'cross the internet this afternoon:

since no one's posted in a while...

...I checked the news over at fark.com and here's what I found:

facebook's about to get real crowded

discussion question: is this a good idea or further evidence that the facebook is preparing to jump the shark?

tea partay

hollllllaaaaaaa trust fund kidz!



(I'm pretty sure it's a Smirnoff ad, but it's funny anyway)

oh, this is bad. this is very, very bad.

I did *not* need to find out this exists the night before starting a new school year. I might as well just tell my professors now that I will be failing their classes because this game will have taken over my life. it's very simple: you and an internet-based stranger are paired up and shown the same pictures at the same time, and you both type in as many potential keywords for the pictures as you can. you get points every time your words match, and google uses the results to determine the best keywords to use for these photos. each game is 90 seconds long, which is juuuuuuust long enough to make you automatically hit "start again" at the end of each game. arghh...

hey, Matt...

here's something you could do with your neuroscience skillz...

oh, crap.

you know how the big joke about the crocodile hunter was that one of these days he would get too close to a croc and that would be the final episode of the show?

uh, well, it happened. only it was a freak acccident with a stingray.

RIP, steve. we hardly knew ye.

dani looks like drew barrymore...and batman

this one took two tries -- first I tried a picture where you were wearing glasses, and the website couldn't find any matches. maybe celebrities are too cool for glasses? hm. but here you go...

OH MY GOD!

Can we rent Snakes on a Train and compare?
d

a time-wasting website about time! spooky.

I just stumbled across this website, and it seems to have a fair amount of procrastination potential. so far I've learned that I'm finishing up my 9091st day of existence, and I will turn 25 in approximately 41 days, 1 hour, 6 minutes and 29...28...27 seconds, so there's still plenty of time for you to buy me presents :-D

wait -- did we already know about this??

I just saw this on the shelves of blockbuster and nearly fell over. looks like the SoaP sequel will need to be slightly more original...

the Intarweb is strange indeed...

... and yet, it mesmerizes me:

http://macgyverpluto.ytmnd.com/

http://bradpittisended.ytmnd.com/

http://conneryhunt.ytmnd.com/

http://snakesoncosbysplane.ytmnd.com/

http://whatis88.ytmnd.com/