Politics & Pop Culture. Also, episodes of squirrel-induced rage.
Don’t you love that little coughing fit during the introduction?
I’ve been meaning to blog this forever and Husband reminded me about it while reading the hilarious article, “Songs About Pot: A Proposition 19 Playlist” at The Atlantic.
tags: lawrence welk, music, one toke over the line, pot humor, The Atlantic
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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:
tags: brightest young things, david cross, glenn beck, whitestock
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I’ve learned to compensate for a certain degree of chronic illness in my daily life, but fortunately I rarely catch colds and things of that rather pedestrian ilk. When I do catch something that’s going around I’m a terrible sick person, especially if it escalates rapidly into something like pneumonia that really wrings me out.
I’m on a shitload of drugs and they’re working. I think. As much as I can think. See also: shitload of drugs.
Unfortunately, the only thing I feel like eating are ricola coughdrops and fresca.
Basically, Husband is living with a fever-addled meth-head with a nasty cough and the attention span of a very sharp cheese.
I’m too feverish to be bored, thankfully, so I just sleep most of the time. I’ve coughed so much I can barely talk, which cuts down on the amount of conversation I normally have with myself during the day. I wonder if the me that listens to me talk all day is also sick, or if that me is lonely and bored without this me to babble to me all day?
This is where you all pause and have a moment of sympathy for Husband.
I was just emailing Beth, who was helping me out with something, and I happened to glance over what I’d written her and realized that I should not be communicating with the outside world right now.
So what did I do after deciding I’m not lucid enough to communicate with the outside world? I promptly started blogging about how I shouldn’t be communicating with the outside world. I think I had some funny things to say at my own expense, but I’ve already forgotten them. How sad – I’m only able to stay awake about 3 hours a day so I’ve already lost the momentum to mock myself. Luckily, I can crib from the aforementioned email to Beth.
This week I’ve been on netflix streaming all 31 episodes of Terminator: the Sarah Connor chronicles with my trusty Tivo, Overlord II. This is a bad idea. Now when I do get out of bed I walk around the house saying “I’m from the future. Come with me if you want to live,” to any foods I’m about to consume. I find it hysterically funny, Husband just looks afraid.
Interestingly, iphone insists on auto-correcting “netflix streaming” to “nervous streaming” – it’s never done that before, which makes me wonder if it’s intuitively reacting to the previous comment about meth. On the one hand, that’s interesting. On the other hand, that kind of native intelligence in a device makes me paranoid about Skynet, which may or may not be related to all those drugs I mentioned earlier. Or maybe that’s what Skynet wants you to think.
It’s definitely naptime. Perhaps later we’ll tackle the phenomenon whereby I email someone that my throat hurts too much to talk and I just need to sleep and they promptly call me and wake me up and then try to talk to me. Maybe future me can send a robot back from the future to explain to them – and by “them” I mean “my mom” – why this is annoying.
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I laughed so hard at Lewis Black’s piece on Eat Pray Love that I couldn’t catch my breath a few times. (I have a nasty lung infection and the air quality is really horrible so breathing is a bit challenging anyway, but I’d think this was hilarious even if I didn’t feel like Death’s Daughter-in-law).
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tags: Daily Show, eat pray love, lewis black
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DC Central Kitchen founder Robert Egger posted a response on YouTube to Rush Limbaugh’s assertion that non-profit workers are “lazy idiots” and “rapists in terms of finance and economy.” Media Matters posted Limbaugh’s original clip, if you want to check it out.
Here’s Eggers excellent video:
Let me take this opportunity to mention that tickets are on sale now for DCCK’s annual fundraiser, The Capital Food Fight. You should go, it’s an amazing event. I’m not just saying that because our friend organizes it, either. Really.
tags: capital food fight, DC Central Kitchen, dcck, robert egger, rush limbaugh is an idiot
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We had one hell of a storm on Thursday.
(That’s not our tree).
We Love DC went on a little wander around my neighborhood and posted some pictures of tree damage. I just sifted through some of the storm coverage and WTOP had the best summary of the immediate aftermath:
Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille described the storm as “the worst storm I have seen in my life. This is worse than Hurricane Isabel.”
In Del Ray, “there is not one street that you can go up or down and not see damage. It’s just unbelievable,” Euille says.
“That area was impacted tremendously with trees down across almost every street in the City of Alexandria in the Del Ray area,” says Dominion Virginia Power spokesperson Le-Ha Anderson.
Alexandria declared a State of Emergency to make clearing storm debris a priority.
The storm contained an outrageously high number of lightning strikes for a storm in this area, but for the life of me I can’t find the statistic.
It’s been in the 90s every day (98 today!) and we haven’t had trash pickup in 5 days, so you can imagine the smell of all that spoiled food in everyone’s trash cans.
Recently, we had 5 trees removed.
It was the best money we ever spent. Here’s a close-up of the tree in the center of that picture – the 100 footer with the double trunk:
It wouldn’t have taken much for any of those trees to come down, removing them was complicated and expensive as they were at the back of our property line and hence menacing several of the neighbor’s houses (seen in the background of the picture). I can’t imagine the havoc this storm would have caused if those trees hadn’t been removed.
Husband and I consider ourselves very, very lucky.
tags: ents, terror of the trees, trees
filed under: true life 2010 | 2 Comments »
EvilAgent sent me this video of dolphins at Sea World Orlando’s Dolphin Cove blowing bubble rings. It’s pretty darn amazing:
Are they playing? Communicating? Getting ready to pack their bags and leave the planet? No one knows, but I think we’re okay until they break out into song.
tags: dolphin bubbles, dolphins, sea world
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tags: big cat rescue, catnip, leopards, lions, oh my!, panthers, tigers
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Immortal Dog! from Peter Atencio on Vimeo.
tags: immortal dog
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Searching for a dimly remembered oral hygiene video is a terrible idea and I don’t recommend it to anyone. I’m surrendering. Instead, here’s something Husband sent me from Andrew Sullivan, “I wanna Spock you like an Animal.”
Enjoy.
tags: Andrew Sullivan, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, star trek
filed under: humor, music, television | 1 Comment »
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