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.)