It's far too much work to type up the 30+ songs that are making up my current "pity party" playlist, so here I am, again showboating that fact that I actually know how to screengrab. Nothing says productivity like two solid hours of sad bastard music!
Also, I'd download Anna Nalick's "Just Breathe" if you get the chance. Yes, they used it on Grey's, which everyone with a penis seems to loathe, but it's a really addictive song. Not like "Gold Digger"-addictive ... but still great.
Since the draft is quickly approaching, I've been thinking about what I'll buy with my first professional paycheck. A lot of people are probably expecting me to say that I'd buy a big house, and that's partly true. But it's not what you think. The first house I buy will be the one with the blue roof on it that says "IHOP." It has been a dream of mine to own my own International House of Pancakes, and someday I will. Just last week I ate there five or six times, and about every time I got the same thing, pancakes and shrimp. It's a cool feeling to know that someday I'll get to eat at my IHOP whenever I want.
I dunno about pancakes and shrimp, but how cute is that?
Waffle House, which for more than 50 years prided itself on serving the "poor ol' cash customer," is now trying to help diners who use credit cards.
By the end of March, Visa and Mastercard will be accepted in all of Waffle House's 713 company-owned restaurants in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.
Now there's one less thing to worry about when you're just trying to get some food in your belly/go home and go to bed.
Mystery Blob Eating Downtown A mysterious black blob attacked downtown Los Angeles on Monday with a tar-like goo that oozed from manholes, buckled a street and unmoored a Raymond Chandler-era brick building, firefighters said.
About 200 residents were forced to flee as a hazardous materials team and dozens of firefighters worked throughout the day to identify what was first deemed "a black tarry substance" and later morphed into a "watery mud."
I cannot even tell you how much i would pay to see a panda "lose it completely" because of the snow. February 14: Snow Day!
After snow fell throughout the night, the yard became a brand new world on Sunday morning! Tai Shan experienced his first significant snow. After a brief taste of the powder, he plowed right out into his wonderland. Climbing a snow-covered limb took several tries before he figured out that if you slide up with your belly, while hanging on with all fours, you can make slow progress. Later, Mei Xiang and Tai had a good play session involving lots of rolling and sliding, as well as bouncing and falling off of the deadfall repeatedly. With their thick snow-frosted fur, pandas neaten up again after a good shake. Pandas both young and old really love the snow. The most sedate panda will lose it completely over a little snow. It really makes us wish for our own snow machine.
"Chancho, when you are a man, sometimes you wear strrretchy pants in your room. Is for fun."
Because I love movies based on video games (that i've never actually played) -- here's the trailer for "Silent Hill," which looks pretty damn creepy. which is good, bc the game itself is damn creepy. (I was going to post a picture/screen grab, but the best one i could find was wayyyyy too uber-scary, so nevermind. If you know nothing about the game and are truly curious, you can check out the basics on wiki.)
This should be terrifying. But it could suck. Let's give it the benefit of the doubt, shall we? "Silent Hill" trailer
And if you haven't seen it yet, the trailer for the sure-to-be-awesome "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (i.e. the nascar movie that is the reason for will ferrell being in charlotte.)
And the new Jack Black vehicle is *probably* going to be super fun ... even if it's because i have a soft spot in my heart for mexican wrestling masks bc my dad loved the surf band Los Straightjackets (and they... wore mexican...wrestling masks.) Done by the Napolean Dynomite guy so... same type of irreverance, but perhaps not as drawn out this time? We'll see.
And, AND! Apple has a bigger version of the HAPPY FEET trailer up. :D
FUN! Except for this. This is not fun. -->
rhymeandreason72: in the list of things to get pissed off about, this is SO low rhymeandreason72: BUT ALL OF MY INTERNET BOOKMARKS ARE GONE rhymeandreason72: DELCHEATED rhymeandreason72: WTF bananafish38: hahaha! bananafish38: well THATS a fucking first world crisis if i've ever heard one. bananafish38: right up there with your entire ipod library vanishing. rhymeandreason72: i have NO IDEA how it happened bananafish38: or it taking $75 to fill the tank of your urban attack vehicle as opposed to $50 because people are throwing petrol over cartoons somewhere "over there"
[Anyone know how that can happen? Instantaneously? Fucking sucks.]
I really hope this whole Jack Bauer phenom never jumps the shark.
Fonvielle Zone 5: I'd like to think that's how Jack Bauer would have handled the situation, although he would have also shot the dude in the thigh for good measure. Fonvielle Zone 5: It wouldn't be an insult, though Fonvielle Zone 5: That's just how he says goodbye
hrk2003: meredith grey doesn't hold a candle to jack bauer hrk2003: he would kill her hrk2003: and then screw sandra oh and katherine heigl at the same time hrk2003: AND kill 5 terrorists while doing it hrk2003: that's just how he rolls
A Pakistani cleric announced a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad as thousands joined street protests after Friday prayers.
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"Whoever has done this despicable and shameful act, he has challenged the honor of Muslims. Whoever will kill this cursed man, he will get $1 million dollars from the association of the jewelers bazaar, one million rupees ($16,700) from Masjid Mohabat Khan and 500,000 rupees ($8,350) and a car from Jamia Ashrafia as a reward," Qureshi said.
"This is a unanimous decision of by all imams of Islam that whoever insults the prophets deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize," he said.
rhymeandreason72: man, my fucking jaw hurts. i think i've been clenching the right side of it in my sleep the last few nights, but i dunno why bananafish38: aww rhymeandreason72: yeah rhymeandreason72: lame rhymeandreason72: it's like, hey! subconscious! STOP IT rhymeandreason72: whatever's stressing me out can do it during the day bananafish38: i almost recommended you stick a sock in your mouth? bananafish38: why? i have NO idea rhymeandreason72: hahahaha bananafish38: but the mental image is cracking me up rhymeandreason72: NOT an ideal use for the rice sock
So, how do you kill time on a mundane Valentine's Day evening?
Amy and I grabbed a pizza and desert and hunkered down on the couch to watch some hot alpine skiers and some flamboyant figure skaters.
And all i can say is ...
I am in love with the male figure skaters.
Seriously. All of them.
I love anyone who has the audacity to wear this.
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(It's like the clothing reincarnation of a fire exit in a tetris game that this dude got stuck playing in "TRON." Kevin Van der Perren is reppin' from Belgium and *definitely* had techno incorporated into his short program. It was awesome.)
Next: Johnny Weir. (U! S! A!)
He dressed up like a swan tonight, wears Fendi and has those ridiculous bug-eyed sunglasses.
He was definitely sporting bright pink lip gloss and a lot of mascara and proudly saying that the Republican south wouldn't agree with him. He's a ton of fun to watch, and he's 2nd behind some ridiculouly good Russian, so, tune in on Thursday.
[Also: Not sure what the gridion on the arm is supposed to represent in the swan... obviously the glove is the beak...but the embroidery/beadwork was truly amazing. The sparkle doesn't show up in the pictures at all, but it was glittery and totally fucking awesome. Promise.]
This dude ... (Brian Joubert)... was definitely skating to the james bond theme song. Then he busted out the gun. And then the 007 in sequins on the back. And a vinyl-tape gun holster on his thigh. One of his skating moves also involved a "driving-the-car" move. Oh yeah. He went there.
(Notice that the outfit also has the trademark crazy-ass Bond watch.)
Did i mention this guy is French?
Anyway, i love figure skating and i hope i get off work on Thursday early enough to see how it all unfolds.
(go america!) <3.
p.s. the nbc announcer totally said that brian botano is updating on their official blog. i couldn't find it, but it exists. .
"Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."
sirokz618: seriously sirokz618: that guy has authority over the army, and he fucking can't handle a fucking shotgun? sirokz618: that's like putting a quadriplegic in charge of the track n field team
Kanye freaking West is at it again. OF course the hed twists what he says a *little,* but, seriously? Shut up, Kanye.
Cocky rap star KANYE WEST is calling for a revised edition of THE BIBLE, because he thinks he should be a character in it.
The JESUS WALKS hitmaker, who picked up three Grammy Awards last night, feels sure he'd be "a griot" (West African storyteller) in a modern Bible.
He says, "I bring up historical subjects in a way that makes kids want to learn about them. I'm an inspirational speaker.
"I changed the sound of music more than one time... For all those reasons, I'd be a part of the Bible. I'm definitely in the history books already."
Also. Not a fan of the purple suit + gloves. The only superstar who made gloves work was Michael Jackson, and... yeah. Just, no. Say no to the gloves. They make him look like he has clown hands, which isn't helping *me* take him any more seriously.
OK, so disregard anything mean i said about Kanye and the Grammys. He didn't get the award for Album of the Year, but he still picked up Rap Album and a few others. He also put on this Crazy. Ass. Performance. of "Gold Digger" that uses a marching band motif and it's quite awesome/ridiculous.
Like I said before, where there's a will, there are some more freakin t-shirts.
How long till we get our first "I got suspended from my middle school for wearing my Muhammed shirt" story? (I say two weeks.)
While we're on the subject, check out Pip's cartoon in the DTH tomorrow. I think you'll find it's in much better taste.
(Also: Our online guy promises he's working on making it so that you can click on the pic and get a larger image, but for now you'll just have to deal.)
Bauer-mania is reaching its critical mass. So is this whole chuck norris obsession, although i've never really gotten into it.
(Even though i can respect his cameo in "Dodgeball," personally, I think the Vin Diesel Random Fact Generator was the first and the best, and its awesomeness just cannot be duplicated. Sorry, Chuck.)
Anyway, this site matches up the two badasses, and is quite funny.
So during the Superbowl the other night, when MacGyver is driving away and there's a giant fireball explodes behind him, I had a thought. And that thought was that Jack Bauer is the new MacGyver. Except he's a more violent and sexed-up problem solver. Instead of using gum, paperclips and chopsticks to bail himself out of a sitch and save the day, Bauer's proficient in every type of kung-fu and will nail your ass with any weapon he has available in order to PROTECT THIS NATION'S SECURITY. Dude could kill you with a roll of toothpaste, a fork and an avocado*.
I really, really hope Kanye doesn't win anything tonight. And it's not because I don't like his music, because i do. It's because:
a. his reaction to losing will be MUCH more hilarious
and
b. it'll make that rolling stone jesus cover look *that much more* like an asinine idea. (i'm kanye! i can do anything! i'll be the black jesus.....fuck i didn't win any awards. "I DON'T KNOW YOU!")
Ok, we do get to wallow in our pain for a while, alright?
Well.
We've always had wayyyyyyyy more than just 35 reasons to hate JJ.
Anyway, welcome to today's 2nd installment of "dan rants about basketball and becca figures other people would enjoy reading what he has to say."
schwindle: Losing to that school (I'm so angry I can't even type their name) is like making out with the hottest chick at the party and then finding out it's your sister. schwindle: It does't matter what you did before that. You could have solved the mystery of cold fusion and simultaneously developed the ultimate peace plan, finally solving the energy crisis, getting rid of nuclear waste and creating world peace. But it doesn't matter, because you made out with your sister and that just cancels it all out.
Whatever. Fuck dook. Pip's cartoon still says it all:
(now that he's out of the tent maybe he'll be able to post a higher-res one on his site soon, since the new online DTH formatting doesn't let you click to enlarge.)
[On the five-man substitution early in the second half] “I didn’t care [how well it worked]. I was so mad at [the starters] I just wanted to something so I wasn’t charged with assault. We could’ve lost by 5,000 and it wouldn’t have made any difference I was keeping them in there for a while. If you are going to play for us, you are going to compete. “Cool” stuff- I despise “cool”- I’ve never seen one person in my life that was cool that I liked.”
Schwind on the ill-planned scheduling of the Clemson and Duke home games.
schwindle: scheduling your team's whipping boy at home two days before your biggest rival is like having a date with your mistress at the same restaurant that you're meeting your wife at... your bound to be distracted and forget things schwindle: because one of those times it's going to get messed up schwindle: and you're either going to lose to the whipping boy and get embarassed or your rival is going to catch you still riding high on the previous beating schwindle: similarly, either one time the girlfriend is going to buy the lobster dinner and max out your card before you can pay for dinner with the wife schwindle: or you;re going to be so hyped up from getting nookie in the bathroom, that you forget to wipe the lipstick off your collar schwindle: disclaimer: i have done none of the above crimes and do not plan to ever do so
The Bride vs. Go-Go, set to Mario music. It's twice as awesome as it sounds. :D
Superbowl Commercials fucking sucked. Well, 90% did. You can watch em all here, and you can watch ABC's ridiculous Lost/Robert Palmer promo "Addicted to Lost." (fun fact: abc ran the promo be they didn't sell all the commercial slots.) Both versions for the junkies like myself: 1-minute version 3-minute version
Also, two things of musical note: 1. We Are Scientists. They're not gonna blow your mind, but they're hella fun to listen to. (lilly, i'm looking in your direction.) 2. Kate Earl They used her song "Someone to Love" on Grey's Anatomy last week, and after i was done with the tearing up that followed the sad ending, i went online and hunted the song down. I really love her voice, very fiona-esque, but different enough for her to carry her own style.
I can't remember if i've adequately plugged this site before, but i am in love with it. Overheard in New York. Girl: Do you ever think about us? Like, how many more of us there are than of you? Professor guy: Of course. That's why I always pack heat. --Columbia University
Also, on a less fun note, if you've been following the whole European cartoon debacle, here's a Flickr account with the 12 cartoons, since no media outlets are showing them.
So my parents put Shadow to sleep Saturday morning. I knew she wasn't doing so hot, but I at least hoped I'd get to see her again before this had to happen.
But i mean, really, even if i had known to ask for them yesterday, what would i do with the cremated remains of my dog? seriously.
My parents are trying to sell the house, and you can't really pitch "freshly dug grave" as one of the finer points of the landscaping.
I hope she's enjoying puppy heaven.
ed. note: also, still feel free to photoshop lasers coming out of her eyes. it's the best of 2 pics i have, and she does look insane!
schwindle: BUT we just came up with a big win on the road and we have an even bigger game on Tuesday schwindle: thus this is the very definition of a trap game schwindle: if I'm Roy, I'm walking around practice with a mouse trap on a necklace
Also, what we can only assume Bush actually meant by human-animal hybrid research, because i seriously doubt there are any mad scientists trying to create centaurs or half man/half tiger creations --- National Geographic _
