Politics & Pop Culture. Also, episodes of squirrel-induced rage.
I haven’t been able to form any coherent thoughts on Israel, Gaza and Hamas. Luckily, Jon Stewart came to my rescue and said it all for me:
I haven’t gone to any demonstrations because I always end up wedged between some neo-con guy advocating that all Arabs be rounded up, inventoried and exterminated and some jackass (invariably a white guy with dreds yelling that Israel has no right to exist.
Sat for a portrait for local painter Todd Gardner.
My face is so pink because I kept saying “pet jellyfish” and laughing hysterically.
Has anyone seen The Spirit? We were actually looking that one up yesterday when we were waylaid by the badness of Seven Pounds. The Rotten Tomatoes pull-quotes are no doubt a thousand times more entertaining than the actual movie.
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This movie appears to be so ungodly awful that even the trailer is a confusing and befuddled mess:
OK, possible spoiler warning for Seven Pounds, click at your own risk:
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I haven’t seen the movie Seven Pounds and I have no desire to, but I’ve found some of the reviews hilarious and entertaining.
Husband and I also read a bunch of spoilers for the movie because they were much more entertaining sounding than the movie itself, and probably have more artistic flair. Remember - I don’t have any idea if this is in any way true, but just in case I’m going to tuck the spoilers away as a matter of form.
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I was going to post about how I was taking the day off from posting, but that was simultaneously absurd and meta, so instead here’s five randomly chosen blog365 bloggers for you to visit and admire:
Ramblings by Reba features a concept not exactly alien to my own readers: ramblings, by someone named Rebecca. Seriously, Reba doesn’t really ramble, that’s just her blog title. What she does do a lot is share her lifestories through photo-essays. She also wrote the first blog365 roundup I came across and I swiped some links from her. :-)
Suzanne Sez starts out the new year with a hilarious post about lucky underwear. She does have a couple kids, so I was going to make a joke about how she knows of what she speaks, but, no, she doesn’t mean that kind of lucky.
Small Reflections is written by a marathon-blogger who blogs at more sites than I can keep track of!
Ari of Beyond My Slab almost made me snort coffee out of my nose with her summary of the blog365 saga:
Ever the productive one, Jennifer has already issued a new challenge for the new year to knitters with UFOs (UnFinished Objects): finish or frog it. (with the related ravelry knit-along group, of course.
I think this post undersells the achievements of these 5 uber-bloggers, but perhaps we can pretend a link is worth a thousand words today. Happy Friday!
This just landed in my inbox:
Artomatic and Playa del Fuego are excited to announce
The Art of Change :
An Inaugural Celebration
of DC’s Creative CommunitiesDowntown DC, January 20, 2009, 8 pm until … ?
Save the date (because there’s nowhere you’ld rather be on a
Tuesday night!), and look for full details this Friday, January 2nd!
The website is at artists-ball.org and will have all the details as they emerge.
Blog365 ends today and I haven’t got anything momentous to say.
It was a year of posts about squirrels and Huckaphobia and Artomatic and Frankenstein and coffee and lolcats and movies and politics and pop culture. So, basically the same as every other year.
I just tallied up my posts for the year: 533. Plus this one. So that’s 534. I don’t think those automatically generated twitter summaries should count, so let’s subtract 5.
That leaves me with 529 posts for 2008, if I can resist coming back to post again today. For a moment I thought 529 was a prime number, but it’s not, it’s a square number. The square root of 529 is 23, which is itself a prime number, so that makes 529 interesting by association, I think. 530 is much less interesting than 529, so perhaps I should leave it at that and just say, “See you next year!”
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