Archive for the ‘seriously?’ Category

red,white & blue is the new black

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Our friends at Brightest Young Things went to Glenn Beck's WhiteStock this weekend dressed as a pregnant demon with an "I want a sandwich" sign and posted some commentary and lots of good pictures. They also posted this excellent little video of David Cross talking about conservatives:

The feet are the foundation of the opossum

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Pearl is a deceased squirrel who channels prophesies and advice through her (former) human caretaker. Pearl has an extensive website that features more than just her caretaker demonstrating the proper way to give an opossum a pedicure, but it's the pedicure video that originally caught my attention, so that's what ...

Are you kidding me?

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

In what possible universe did BP Chief Tony Hayward think that attending a yacht race would be okay while his company destroys the Gulf of Mexico? The whole thing leaves me speechless. I thought Rahm Emanuel's assessment was brilliant. “To quote Tony Hayward, he’s got his life back,” Mr. Emanuel said. ...

When I was 4 all I wanted was a pony

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

los angeles craigslist > central LA > gigs > talent gigs Ensturzende Neubauten Covers Band Wanted (Brentwood) Date: 2010-02-05, 8:45AM PST Reply to: gigs-qcscr-1587216337@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Ensturzende Neubauten Covers Band needed to perform at my daughter's 4th birthday party. We already have a Faust one and an Amon Duul one. You ...

Plan B

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Plan B is the trademarked name for a drug more commonly known as "the morning after pill." I mention this because I almost scalded my nasal passages with coffee this morning when I started reading Petula Dvorak's peppy article about part-time adventurer's searching for missing light aircraft: One of the best ...

Maybe if your bridesmaids are 12 years old…

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Today's Washington Post Style section "Shopper" column is "The To-Do Before the 'I Do'." It's a lot of blahblahblah, until the bit about bridesmaid dresses. This is what it says: The days of cringe-worthy bridal party frocks are over as more designers turn out options worthy of donning post-wedding. This is ...

I’m not sure what this says about the human spirit, but it must say something

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Last year we had a close call with a McDonald's iced coffee while on a road trip. It was undrinkable, and that turned out to be okay. Recently, while checking out coffeerama, Husband ran across a link to a review which can be summed up with the words explosive diarrhea. ...

I knew we were making a mistake naming the kids Herodotus and Ivan

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

The study in Social Science Quarterly that correlates boy's names with the likeliness that they'll commit a crime seems flawed. Nevertheless, Sarah Palin, they might just be talking to you

people make me sad

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Dog frozen to Wis. sidewalk; fat helped it survive" SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A dog weighing more than 120 pounds survived being frozen to a sidewalk overnight, probably because he was insulated by layers of fat, authorities said. The Sheboygan County Humane Society says the "morbidly obese" dog, an aging border ...

This is what it must feel like to go crazy

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

I hit Martha's site to link to the segment where Keith Olbermann makes triple chocolate pumpkin pie with Martha, but I immediately got derailed by this: "Snoop Dogg and I Make Mom's Mash-Potatoes" I have to say that my life is very interesting and also kind of weird. I’m so fortunate in ...