Friday, December 12, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Songs!!
Hello abandoned blog and neglected blog friends! Here's a happy song for Friday, this one is dedicated to my brother Charlie. While it may not be a traditionally happy song, it reminds me of happy times singing at the top of my lungs with my big bro, whose wedding in Connecticut I'm off to right now. XOXOBAMA!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Is this furreal??
I don't know what to believe on the yubetubes these days, but something is just fishy about this. It's amazing. But, like, is that a tranny?? Is that what's throwing me off? It's also hard to know when falling in love with 'tubers if I'm like totally behind and this all "went around" three months ago. Just saying, if this is real, it's fucking pretty incredible.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Happy Songs!!
This rainy gray (grainy?) day needs something, and that something* is mummies.
*is not a triumphant return to blogging.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
SOR - E
Hi interfriends!
I have been on a blog-atus lately, too much to do! Work explosion! Excuses!
See the movie WALL-E, kay...
You will LAAAHVE it.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Easily the best thing I've heard today...
My niece Esther thinks the 4th of July is "the 4th of vagina."
Monday, June 30, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Wedding: The Music Video
My cousin married a neat lady in Macon, Georgia last weekend, and I'm not gonna lie, it was a magical affair*
From the bride:
"We’ve promised to wean off the email 'blast', but there are simply things we feel we must share with you. In time, however, 'the waldenfeld' email group will no longer be in use, and you will miss it, those simpler times. In any case, as you make a point to ply our flikr account with photos, we thought you may enjoy this video. Micah sent it us yesterday, and we’ve had it on loop. It captures the vitality and love of that weekend we shared perfectly. At least for three minutes we can relive what will undoubtedly be the one of the most fun and important occasions of our lives."
*Warning: white people be dancing all up in this.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Tats crazy!
I go back and forth about tats. Mostly forth. Diana cracked me up with this one . But this one has forehead acne, so it's an EW for me.
THE BACKSTORY:
"My wife likes to tattoo portraits, and I wanted her to do portraits on me, but couldn't think of anyone's face I wanted on my body for the rest of my life. Then one day she comes home and complains, 'Eliaz [her co-worker] won't let me tattoo Bill Murray on him.' I replied, 'Hell, you can tattoo him on me.' Two days later, I had this. I figured I may as well dedicate that arm to other comedians I like, as well. A few months later, I came into her shop looking to get a Phil Hartman tattoo. We couldn't find any decent pictures, and she said it would be funny if I got a David Cross tattoo but only if it was as Tobias. And that's how that happened." --Schwa Love
[via: the apiary]
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Sprit Fingers!!
"Something has happened to you I don't understand. But you had better hang on to it. Anything is better than the way you were."
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Uncannesy
My adorable "in the navy" brother-in-law, who as many of you know has been deployed FAR TOO LONG, returns home from the danger zone in June. Thank GAWD. Check him out chillaxing at The Cannes Film Festival last week. Kind of.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
News to me...
Dum dums remind me of the pediatrician's office.
Fav flav breakdown = cherry, butterscotch, cream soda/root beer, and later, blue raspberry.
Flavs that make me go EW = pineapple, watermelon, sour apple.
And "mystery" is all the flavs smooshed together, right?
[via: Thaneeya McArdle ]
WRONG!
"Dum Dums are made in about twelve different flavors; nine or ten of these flavors are classic flavors; two or three are cycled in and out. The "Mystery Flavor," present in every bag of Dum Dums, is a combination of two flavors in the bag. The combined flavors are random. This combination occurs because the production of Dum Dums is continuous--there is no stop between flavors. This practice results in the flavor combination."
[via: wiki p.]
Owner of a lonley heart, and other tchotchkes
"Unlike the destructive self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers every individual the chance to overcome the emotional collapse through creation, i.e., by contributing to the holdings of the Museum. The individual gets rid of controversial objects , triggers of momentarily undesirable emotions, by turning them into museum exhibits, i.e., artefacts and thereby participating in the creation of a preserved collective emotional history."
Friday, May 9, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
The way back...
There’s a pool in the backyard of the rental house my family occupied for a year in 1984. This song reminds me of that pool.
It’s one of my happy songs.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Self Esteem Room
Grab your insecurity blanket and relax, loser. High self esteem is totes overrated.
"Increasingly, psychologists are looking at such behavior and saying out loud what may go against the grain of how many people act: high self-esteem is not the same thing as healthy self-esteem. And new research by a psychology professor from the University of Georgia is adding another twist: those with “secure” high self-esteem are less likely to be verbally defensive than those who have “fragile” high self-esteem..."
"One of the ways in which high self-esteem can turn bad is when it is accompanied by verbal defensiveness—lashing out at others when a person’s opinions, beliefs, statements or values are threatened. So Kernis and his colleagues designed a study, reported in the current article, to see if respondents whose self-esteem is “fragile” were more verbally defensive than those whose self-esteem was 'secure'.”
[via: Jezebel ]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sprit Fingers!!
“ No matter how upside-down it all may temporarily appear, we will have no fear because we know this secret: Life is crazily in love with us—wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it."
[via: On Her Way]
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Googlegängers
PH's post today reminded me of this recent NYT article about the phenomenon of 'google twins' and self-similarity.
"...human beings are unconsciously drawn to people and things that remind us of ourselves...It’s what we call implicit egotism,”...“We’ve shown time and time again that people are attracted to people, places and things that resemble their names, without a doubt...Social psychologists have found that people are more attracted to others with similar faces or identical birth dates.... people’s fascination with their Googlegängers might be an adult expression of the common childhood wish to be an identical twin."
[via: NYT]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Today's Special: Nostalgia
Some of the first memories I have of life are the tv shows "Pinwheel" and "Today's Special" that ran on Nickelodeon in the 1980's, approximately, in the morning.
An observation: my nostalgia cravings increase along with my work load and anxiety. Digging through the internet attic for magical mittens and
orphaned mullato half-animals soothes me. Maybe these past blasts remind me of a simpler time.
Or maybe they remind me I exist, period.
I'm in my twenties, I dunno!!
While I'm figuring stuff out, please enjoy the delightful, pinwheely breeze coming off this precious cupcake waltz .
Monday, April 14, 2008
It's That (Mr. Show) Time Again!
A Special Thing indeed: Bob & David's new HBO pilot got picked up!
It's taping in May.
I wish I lived in LA.
Sigh.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Spirit Fingers!! (Requests and Dedications Edition)
"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is inevitable."
Friday, April 11, 2008
Sketching Out
No idea when I wrote this that THIS was going on...wow...catching breath. More proof there's no such thing as too much nick in my life.
Back soon with my "Top 50 Top 10"
See ya later, work-load!!!
PR-eport: Family Ties Edition
Touching feature on Salon.com penned by a total stranger.
Don't skip the comments/letters...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The eyes are the windows of your face
It's official. I'm nerding out on this video. What else do you call watching it every day?
I think it's one of my favorite SNL skits of all time. Which begs the question, what are my favorite SNL skits of all time?
Off the top of my head...
Land Shark ("Candy Gram...")
Chopping Broccoli (told you I was nerdin' out)
Happy Fun Ball
Star Wars
The Prince Show (w/Steve Martin)
The Synchronized Swimmers
Dick in a Box (the color me badd-ittude kills me)
So there you have it. I'm a Saturday Night Live fan and I've been one for a long time. Ever since the 20th anniversary special aired in the 90's. I went out and rented every "Best of..." tape I could find at "Video Village" and "Erols*" (Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Dan Akroyd...)
People love to hate on SNL. Haters say "oh, Saturday Night Live isn't good anymore, blobbity blah." Not cool people like me who stay home on Saturday nights. Really though, just think about it, try being hilarious for thirty solid years, every week, in front of a live studio audience. Try it and see if you don't have a few extended awkward periods. It's pretty impressive they're a) still on the air and b) fresh and hilarious, albeit intermittently, after all these years.
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*That for a short time was located in the back of CVS, which looking back, seems so queer. I can't possibly be the only person** who remembers that.
**Besides you, Josh.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Things that make me go EW: #147
Imagine if fruits could pee. Now picture a warm melon taking a piss in your mouth right after brushing your teeth with a mint-flavored glue stick. Gross, Orbitz. EW.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Chick Lite
Hey Radar,
The Atlantic totally copied your amazing paparazzi expose, like, a year later. Haters.
Sometimes you're like the New Yorker on crystal meth with your deep investigations and searing profiles.
And I heart you.
xoxo,
HITM
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Bet You Think This Blog Is About You
Swore to myself I'd start working immediately when I got the office today. But here I am compulsively google imaging my boyfriend Cat Stevens . It's Vanity Fair's fault. I Missed my metro stop last night because of complete absorption in this excerpt from my new favorite book* . What a soap opera!! These legends playing musical chairs with each others private parts!!
Pre-occupied
with
soft
folk
rock
icons
today.
*that I haven't read yet.
