Music, Movies, Tv, and Holiday 2008 Coke.
June 24, 2009 at 8:46 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: media, movies, tv, trailer, zooey deschanel, m. ward, the good life, brother to brother, anabella sciorra, 12 and holding, in plain sight, listener, coke
A few film and music recommendations.
What I did on my summer vacation.
Film.
12 and Holding. 5 stars.
Directed by Michael Cuesta. 2005.
Anabella Sciorra
Marcia DeBonis
Conor Donovan
Zoe Wiezenbaum
Jesse Camacho
“After his twin brother is accidentally killed by vengeful bullies, a disfigured 12-year old boy and his friends face the harsh realities of death, hormones, and family dysfunction.” – IMDB
So many layers in this film that after the end you’ll want to watch it again for the brilliant acting and great story telling.
An open letter to book publishers everywhere.
June 22, 2009 at 7:57 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: books, god, opinion, pet peeve, publishing, sex
Dear Publisher,
I’m someone who blows a lot of money on books. Books I buy because I’m in the aisle and on either side shelf upon shelf offers me hours of insight into a new world for $7.99. Those short sexy blurbs on the back like little black things seducing the reader to open the spread and jump right in. But, see, Publisher if you leave that little black thing out there’s nothing to entice me into bed. I have to thumb through the pages looking for a taste of what’s to come, reading the actual product which is like revealing whats in the box inside the box inside the box inside the box no unwrapping necessary. Continue reading An open letter to book publishers everywhere….
Millie the cow suffers from Turrets Syndrome.
March 29, 2009 at 5:17 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: art, cartoon, comics, cow, humor, paint, turrets
Brought to you by YouSillyGoose comics and Microsoft Paint.
My great-grandmother is a zombie. There is no way to vanquish Alzheimers.
March 28, 2009 at 9:46 pm | In health | 2 CommentsLast night while on the phone to my mother an image struck me of my great grandmother. She was pointing to the traditional M&Ms bowl she kept on her coffee table when my sister and I were kids. We called her Nanny and a visit to her house meant candy (naturally), card games, and small ceramic clowns that decorated furnature around the house.
She was a jump-roping woman even at the age of 80. Wrinkles in her eyes, in her face, in her hands. I have a picture in which I am about 6 and have covered Nanny, who is sitting peacefully in a chair, with beanie babies. On her head, shoulders, and lap beanie babies abounded.
I was lucky to know my great grandmother while she lived.
By the time I was old enough to appreciate how awesome my great grandmother really was, Nanny was diagnosed with Alzheimers. She had a heart attack when I was 12. Hospital visiting hours; this was the first time she forgot my name.
While her memory wasted away, Nanny’s spunk remained quite intact. My mother, sister, and I visited her at her daughter’s house (my great aunt). Nanny asked how we were getting home and insinuated that she’d drive us. My mother said, “No, Nanny you can’t do that.” to which my great grandmother responded “Don’t give me that shit Kathrine, where are my keys?” Continue reading My great-grandmother is a zombie. There is no way to vanquish Alzheimers….
Here, have my belly button. Organ Donation.
March 17, 2009 at 10:31 am | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: health, medicine, opinion, organ donation, science
So a belly button’s not exactly an organ, but you can have it anyway.
I’m officially a registered organ donor in the state of California. I’m a little unclear on the reach of the registry: if I die in state other than California does the donor registry still apply?
Currently in the United States one must opt in to become an organ donor. Usually this is done by checking a box when you get or renew your license. You can also go to organdonor.gov for information on organ donating. Almost all 50 states have state donor registries. This page lists links to state registries.
I believe very strongly in organ donation and think that the United States should adopt an opt-out policy, where at birth every person is registered as a donor with the option to remove their name from the registry at any time. Continue reading Here, have my belly button. Organ Donation….
i recently discovered my disturbing inability to draw a frog.
March 15, 2009 at 10:51 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: art, comic, drawing, frogs, humor, paint, random, tadpole
the fuckit tadpole.
i’ve a snuggie. now, for cultish doings.
February 20, 2009 at 10:29 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: comic, dollhouse, movies, snuggie
My stepmom got me a Snuggie for Christmas. It’s a blanket with sleeves – or as some prefer: a bathrobe worn backwards. The snuggie is in the minority of late-night and early afternoon commericials selling “buy now and get X added for free!” products that made it big. How did a blanket with sleeves, originally marketed as a Slanket according to Wikipedia, make the jump from an absurd commercial to real life?
Good question.
This is a product whose commercial lauds it as a substitute for those pesky blankets that “tangle up your hands” when you’re reaching for the phone.
Snuggies look more suited for couch potatoe cults, Halloween, sky diving. This parody commercial (of what they call the “WTF blanket” ) plays off the Snuggie’s wizardly structure.
When I tell people that I have a snuggie I get one of three reactions:
The WTF blanket: “I think you just lost status points.”
Hmm: “I don’t know how I feel about you having a Snuggie.”
Opposites Attract: “That’s so fucking dorky. You’re AWESOME.”
I’ve worn my snuggie on a few occasions. Ultimiately, it’s as a simple blanket. I don’t need the sleeve upgrade. It makes things complicated and now I sure as hell do get “tangled up”. At least it came with a book light.
My hallmates want me to wear it around town for a day. They want to document the day in a Snuggie. It has its uses.
My vagina speaks for itself.
February 13, 2009 at 7:42 pm | In opinion | Leave a CommentTags: dollhouse, drawing, Dylan, media, opinion, sex, tv, virginity, whedon
Natalie Dylan, San Diego native, college student, virign, is selling her deflowerment. So far she’s got a 3.7 million dollar vagina.
Dylan – her pseudonym – claims she needs the money for grad school. The Bunny Ranch in Nevada (where prostitution is legal) is brokering the deal. Her virginity has been up for sale since September 2008. (Why she is using a pseudonym when her picture and hometown – tools it would seem any determined net surfer could use to find her real name – is a mystery).
The plight of Dylan’s viriginty has Americans and the media eagerly tossing out labels: this is a stunt, ingenious, entrepreneurially ballsy, degrading, illegal.
On January 23, 2009 Dylan spoke out through a letter published by the Daily Beast. Essentially Dylan asserts that this is a social experiment. Womens studies classes and college professors got her thinking that virginity is another concept invented by a patriarichal society to keep women in their place. Here is an excerpt:
Like most little girls, I was raised to believe that virginity is a sacred gift a woman should reserve for just the right man. But college taught me that this concept is just a tool to keep the status quo intact. Deflowering is historically oppressive—early European marriages began with a dowry, in which a father would sell his virginal daughter to the man whose family could offer the most agricultural wealth. Dads were basically their daughters’ pimps. Continue reading My vagina speaks for itself….
I married a girl last night.
February 3, 2009 at 8:11 pm | In humor | Leave a CommentTags: dream, humor, lesbianism, wedding
I woke up this morning heart beating out of my chest, anxiety whipping through my brain.
Pre-wedding jitters. In a short time I was going to marry my long time neighbor, Nicole.
I woke up from this dream like a drowning swimmer breaking water. I opened my eyes just long enough to take a breath of reality and then the dream pulled me back under. Continue reading I married a girl last night….
the sexiest music on the net.
January 14, 2009 at 2:05 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: article, family, grandmother, humor, iTunes, music, review
I owe this new niche in my life to an enlightening post by djhaley. Specifically this post.
Despite its simple (some might say unfortunate) name, LaLa.com seeks to deliver you from the iTunes powerhouse and its unendearing ways. LaLa users have access to the website’s 6 million song catalog and can listen to any and each song once all the way through. For Free. Continue reading the sexiest music on the net….
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