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I've been taking meetings with Seth Green, nothing definite yet
Today is August 26. If there was a movie where some smart-mouth actor voiced
whatever Calypso was thinking, it would be called Look Who's
Awful. He's been majorly into ill-gotten hallway time lately. I guess that is
another plus in the Buy A House column: more room for Mr. Stink to run around.
Here is something else I thought of:
Names For Cats/Articles of Clothing
Dude I may have to start buying Home Movies...f'real
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Weekly Wrap-Up
Today is August 19. I'm listening to Paul F. Tompkins's album that I d/l'ed off
iTunes. It's super funny. A good investment for 9.99. He really "commits" to a
bit. I noticed I forgot to put the dates for the last two updates. Sorry about
that, guys.
Went to see the long-awaited Superbad yesterday at the Wynnsong.
It was pretty awesome. Lots of great casting. I will not spoil the surprise, but
be on the lookout for cool people. And of course every line delivery by Michael
Cera was brilliant. This is definitely one for the DVD shelf. Of course
everybody's bitching about the fact that there's no good comedy parts for chicks in
comedy movies. Those people should probably watch Reno 911 because the women in
that movie were just as funny as the men, and had great lines too. Or consider
any of the Christopher Guest movies, the women have wonderfully hilarious bits,
and the plus on that is since it was improv'ed you know they thought them up
themselves ;-)
The problem is
probably that when people try to make a funny chick-bonding movie, the result is
like, "The Sweetest Thing," which is incredibly awful and only worth sitting through
if you want to see Jason Bateman
and/or a montage where they try
on funny hats. See, now I've just saved you from watching it. And then
there's that Jenny McCarthy movie with the mascara running down her eyes,
but there's no way I'm watching that one.
I should say, Kristen Wiig was *awesome* in Knocked Up. Let's just say she puts the
Ass in Passive-Aggressive. I think she's in The Brothers Solomon, that should be a
good time. Maybe someday there will be another (actually) funny chick movie, to
rival Romy and Michele (the undisputed Queen of the genre). Until then I will be
pleased to watch movies made by co-ed sketch comedy groups (translation: Fleur
better hurry the eff up and get The Ten.
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Rachel's Famous
Bowls
I don't know who out there has either (a) Heard Patton Oswalt's latest album, Werewolves
and Lollipops, or (b) Seen Patton on a recent Conan appearance.
Regardless, he has some choice words for KFC Famous
Bowls, a/k/a "A failure pile in a sadness bowl." I can honstly say I've never
had one of these treats, thought about it several times, probably made a similar
version back in the Hy-Vee days, but never bought the KFC version. Today I would
like to talk about a bowl item that I have intvented: Steak Salad. From the makers
of Steak Strips comes Steak Salad. I put some bag salad in a cereal bowl and then
add chopped celery and ranch dressing. Finally get some nice cooked top round steak
(cold)
and cut it into thin lovely strips and place atop your salad. I find this
enjoyable. Steak Strips are basically, again, cold cooked steak cut into thin
strips, and then served with Salsa. If you feel you deserve it, you can pair your
Steak Salad with a buttered piece of whole wheat bread.
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I like singing
Today I checked my mail (mailboxes with keys, McGuirk-style) and I got a letter from
WOI Radio. I rode the elevator up singing "We just got a letter" from Blues Clues.
Unfortunately, I also got *off* the elevator singing this, and the Taurus guy saw me
and said hi. Then I made myself a snack which
inspired a song of its own. "Everybody loves celery, with the raisins and the
peanut butter, on top!"
In other news, I had a dried rose from Valentine's Day, but it apparently fell off
the TV and down to the TV stand at some point. Calypso got hold of it, knocked it
onto the floor, and was trying to eat it. How appealing can a dried, six-month-old
flower be? Maybe he just liked the ::crunch:: or something.
Tomorrow night, I get to see my friend David who is just back from Germany. Then on
Saturday, Dad, Jess, and I are going to Knoxville for the Nationals (woo!) Just
gotta get through one more day at work tomorrow. Ajax is going ok but it still is
not doing quite what I want it to.
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This just in: kitties like to wash
Today is August 4. I logged on just so I could say the following: If I were a
black person, I would burn a McDonald's to the ground. I just saw a commercial
depicting a group of African-American woman having a book club meeting, and then a
man brings them a tray of some McD's wrap item. It made me say, "What kind of ghetto
book club is this??"
I'm watching an episode of Seinf. on TV and C-po is here on the couch with me. The
explanation for the title comes from a commercial I saw on TV for Applebee's. It
made me think of the Tupac song "California Love" and so I sang the phrase
"California shrimp" to the same tune. This wouldn't have been that big a deal (I
often change the lyrics of songs, cf. catsongs) but this time I was not alone, and
was immediately "called on it." I had to defend myself that it was too a real
song.
At work I am learning ajax at work and it is
pretty cool. It makes web pages act better. Right now I am working on one of my
quarterly or so chores which is to go through my back issues of EW and clip out interesting articles and pictures.
Couple good ones of Paul Rudd. I was hoping to find the issue that had the Harry
Potter stuff b/c I remember it had a nice pic of Evanna Lynch as Luna
Lovegood.
Sadly it is not in the stack I have on my coffee table but perhaps it is around here
somewhere.
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Welcome to my lair
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Achewood
Andy
Cat & Girl
Cheezburger
David /
LJ
Diesel Sweeties
Dinosaur Comics
Faded Youth
Faith
Go Fug Yourself
Julie
Married to the
Sea
Mollyspace
Natalie Dee
Overcompensating
Overheard in
NY
Patches
Patton
Roger
Stuff on my Cat
Tavie
Tom
Toothpaste for
Dinner
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I like music
I like birds
I like reading to
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