Archive for 'Things I’m Not Okay With' Category
From the Ministry of the Needlessly Obvious & Upsetting
22 December 2008Brought to my attention by the Fee: Let’s take a closer look at that CNN headline: Really, CNN? REALLY?? (In case you are squinting at my iGoogle page to see what news feeds I can’t live without– because my life is that interesting–those boxes are: Pitchfork News {since they know more about my brother than [...]
Facebook, the musical!
15 December 2008I take it back– book publishing is going to be just fine. The guy who wrote Bringing Down The House, which got turned into the movie 21, is going to write a book about Facebook, which will be turned into a movie by Aaron Sorkin. Every once in awhile I get a piece of news [...]
bite me
21 November 2008I fully intend to see the Twilight movie sometime after the screaming teenyboppers have left it (so, circa 2010), despite not being what anyone would call a Twilight Enthusiast. Until then, I’ll just keep replaying new york magazine’s 28 reasons why the movie is better than the book and laughing maniacally. Particularly this one: Okay, I’m [...]
My family will have used up all of the irish names by the time I get around to assigning one to a person, anyway
15 October 2008A few years ago Maggie tried to convince our book club that it wouldn’t be too hard to raise a child at our age. Her general thesis, which none of us bought, was that having an infant at that time, when none of us had particularly important or stressful jobs, would be easier than it [...]
love to hate or hate to love
30 September 2008I have such a complicated relationship with Katy Perry. I like her voice, I just wish she would stop using it to sing such enormously crappy songs. I never got into that I Kissed A Girl song (at least, not so much as Cousin Erin, who ran around her office singing it for weeks on [...]
Alma Mater, Hail
25 September 2008Oh, Luke Russert. You’ve been through a lot this year, and I really don’t want to hate on you. And then you go and film a segment of the Today show at The College of William & Mary in which you say that “the smartest kids in the state” go to UVA. Oh, Luke. Luke, [...]
Day 9: Nevada
1 July 2008I thought it would be at least a little hilarious to be at a casino in Reno at 10am on a Sunday. Over the course of the day I made at least 14 jokes via various means of communication about shooting a man just to watch him die, so I suppose I got my money’s [...]
mashed
20 June 2008I really hope that at some point in my life, someone will give me a Mr Potato Head as a gift by sending him to me piece by piece in the mail (one day, a hand… the next, a moustache…), but I don’t think that works very well as a PR campaign, Disneyland. via Jen!
if you don’t know me by now you will never never never know me
16 June 2008I spend a lot of time and money on Amazon. More so than any other retail site or store, easily. Which is why it’s so upsetting that they haven’t figured out which email blasts would work on me. (Click picture to enlarge). So, let me get this straight– you’re trying to sell me a device [...]
the week in pirates
28 May 2008Check out Latvia’s contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest. I hope they’re making it the new national anthem.