in the middle

Happy Songs!!

2008-12-12T12:47:00.000-05:00

Happy Songs!!

2008-10-31T06:50:00.003-04:00

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!

Happy Songs!!

2008-09-19T09:38:00.001-04:00

Happy Songs!!

2008-09-12T14:21:00.002-04:00

Happy Songs!!

2008-09-05T17:14:00.000-04:00

A friday tradition...

Is this furreal??

2008-09-04T08:02:00.002-04:00

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.

Happy Songs!!

2008-08-29T12:11:00.002-04:00

This rainy gray (grainy?) day needs something, and that something* is mummies.

*is not a triumphant return to blogging.

Unfortunate songs stuck in unfortunate heads...

2008-07-30T15:35:00.001-04:00

SOR - E

2008-07-27T19:01:00.003-04:00

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.

To mock or not to mock...

2008-07-16T10:24:00.004-04:00

That is the Baraquestion

A roll in the cliche...

2008-07-14T22:16:00.002-04:00

[via: a-parnz]

Some e!

2008-07-07T19:09:00.002-04:00

Easily the best thing I've heard today...

2008-07-07T19:01:00.002-04:00

My niece Esther thinks the 4th of July is "the 4th of vagina."

News to me...

2008-06-30T12:19:00.009-04:00

"Oates, Mustache Make Cartoon Crime-Fighting Team"

I CAN go for that!

[via: billboard]

Where my dachs at?

2008-06-30T07:26:00.009-04:00

[via: noisebot] (via: Ashley)

Laughing Liberally...

2008-06-28T12:37:00.003-04:00

[via: College Humor]

Happy Songs!!

2008-06-27T15:50:00.001-04:00

Queesy With Love: SYTYCD Edition

2008-06-27T08:13:00.005-04:00

Hopelessly addicted, sorry!

I'm not proud but...

2008-06-23T20:46:00.003-04:00

It's likely I have wheat or gluten allergy. Or both.

Happy Songs!!

2008-06-20T17:09:00.000-04:00

Let me take it to the max.

The Wedding: The Music Video

2008-06-18T07:26:00.003-04:00

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.

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-06-17T08:14:00.001-04:00

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right."

2008-06-12T10:56:00.000-04:00

Just...

2008-06-11T13:19:00.005-04:00

Nice peeniata.

[via: Jay's g-status ]

Tats crazy!

2008-06-05T10:06:00.006-04:00

ratatEWie...

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]

Cool as ice

2008-05-30T09:05:00.006-04:00

The Japanese have some balls!

[via: midnight sun]

Sprit Fingers!!

2008-05-29T14:36:00.001-04:00

"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."

News to me...

2008-05-29T10:21:00.002-04:00

Not good.

Thanks for the heads up, Joshie!

Photomg!

2008-05-28T08:22:00.002-04:00

The Shlee and me

Happy Songs!!

2008-05-23T15:38:00.004-04:00

This Friday's happy song is dedicated to Smit...

A 'unique' visitor indeed.

News to me...

2008-05-23T09:25:00.005-04:00

Girdlymen everywhere: hold in a great sigh of relief and rejoice!

The Mirdle (brodle? mandle?) has arrived.

[via: college candy]

Thanks owl lot!

2008-05-21T22:25:00.004-04:00

neato!

[for: Asie ]

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-05-20T16:17:00.003-04:00

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit."
-Socrates

2008-05-20T11:41:00.000-04:00

Uncannesy

2008-05-20T10:43:00.012-04:00

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.

Who says port calls aren't any fun?

[via: my big sis ]

Spirit Fingers: "Radio Radio" Edition

2008-05-18T22:21:00.006-04:00

wowee.

This is so well done.

[via: Speaking of Faith]

Happy Songs!!

2008-05-16T16:45:00.002-04:00

Friday's are happy song days now.

Deal with it.

Queesy with love...

2008-05-16T11:48:00.001-04:00

[via: NY Press]

News to me...

2008-05-12T13:50:00.008-04:00

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

2008-05-12T10:25:00.009-04:00

Museum dedicated to ghosts of relationships past ...

"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."

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-05-09T09:18:00.002-04:00

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

The way back...

2008-05-02T15:41:00.007-04:00

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.

Good Tams!

2008-05-02T11:25:00.004-04:00

[via: tampon crafts]
[thanks: shleefunk]

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-05-02T08:13:00.001-04:00

"All my past will this day be a part of me, because it is the key, not the lock."

News to me...

2008-05-01T11:33:00.003-04:00

"Comedy pilot follows a recovering alcoholic"

[via: Variety ]

(Heart) Breaking News: The More You Nose Edition...

2008-05-01T11:04:00.009-04:00

Stop leaning back, ya'll!!

*chimes*

Self Esteem Room

2008-05-01T10:09:00.008-04:00

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 ]

In-jean-ius

2008-04-30T15:40:00.003-04:00

[via: That's Punny!]

Funny Munny

2008-04-30T12:55:00.005-04:00

[via: don't know bettie via bro-ham(ilton)]

Hugely Puzzling

2008-04-29T18:27:00.005-04:00

[via: metro.co.uk]

Things that make me go EW: #261

2008-04-29T17:50:00.004-04:00

Ice cream moan.

Sprit Fingers!!

2008-04-28T10:00:00.002-04:00

“ 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]

2008-04-28T09:50:00.000-04:00

Neck me out...

2008-04-27T22:01:00.012-04:00

[via: Eclectic Eccentricity]

Queesy with love...

2008-04-25T23:31:00.004-04:00

[via: my darling Christina]

Tech me out...

2008-04-24T17:50:00.012-04:00

Hey guys!

I hate my new cell phone!

Googlegängers

2008-04-23T13:23:00.011-04:00

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]

Dear Friend...

2008-04-23T10:39:00.011-04:00

[diet iced shizzle]

"Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

2008-04-23T10:30:00.004-04:00

See "for" yourself.

WTP.

2008-04-22T21:14:00.009-04:00

What the puppet were they thinking?!?!?

[via: You: On My Blog ]

Things that make me go EW: #39

2008-04-22T11:57:00.012-04:00

This is fucking gross*

*But the salutations**are the shit.
**My favorite is "Deal Maker"

Ewtube

2008-04-21T16:02:00.005-04:00

[via: Jezebel]

(Heart) Breaking News...

2008-04-21T12:30:00.003-04:00

Okay, now I REALLY give up.

PR-eport: Diff'rent Strokes Edition

2008-04-20T21:40:00.020-04:00

My brosef on teevee!

Sedar & Char = Faithful friends 4 evz

Everybody's got a special kind of story
Everybody finds a way to shine,
It don't matter that you got not alot
So what,
They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine.
And together we'll be fine....

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-04-18T13:01:00.001-04:00

News to me...

2008-04-17T13:48:00.009-04:00

The Brooklyn Bridge is not sticking to the rivers
and the lakes that you're used to:

Thanks DIT!
I had no idear.

2008-04-17T10:27:00.000-04:00

Make-Up Sox?

2008-04-16T17:31:00.016-04:00

Antidote to heart breaking news of late:

Ted

Terrycloth Green

Professor Doverbean

For AparnatACK. Courtesy of the shlee

(Heart) Breaking News...

2008-04-16T15:07:00.009-04:00

I give up.

Today's Special: Nostalgia

2008-04-15T10:22:00.016-04:00

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 .

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-04-15T07:36:00.001-04:00

"Competitions are for horses, not artists."

It's That (Mr. Show) Time Again!

2008-04-14T19:29:00.002-04:00

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.

Funions

2008-04-14T09:32:00.013-04:00

Sugar Ray Thrilled To Be Playing In Man's Head

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity

Gerbil Growing Distant

Spirit Fingers!! (Requests and Dedications Edition)

2008-04-13T09:44:00.003-04:00

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is inevitable."

2008-04-11T23:07:00.000-04:00

Sketching Out

2008-04-11T11:03:00.010-04:00

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

2008-04-11T10:12:00.007-04:00

Touching feature on Salon.com penned by a total stranger.

Don't skip the comments/letters...

The eyes are the windows of your face

2008-04-09T23:45:00.030-04:00

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.

Dead, again.

2008-04-09T08:47:00.006-04:00

Hmm. Didn't he die already?

4-3-2-1

2008-04-09T00:36:00.010-04:00

DANCE BREAK!!

Things that make me go EW: #147

2008-04-04T10:31:00.015-04:00

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.

Chick Lite

2008-04-03T22:44:00.008-04:00

Classic books get a chick-lit makeover

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

You Rock My Squirrel

2008-04-03T13:26:00.005-04:00

I Just found out that Twiggy would like to be added as one of my friends!

Thanks for the scoop, NPFC!

Not hating just saying...

2008-04-01T17:24:00.006-04:00

This is a hilarious new bee-log!!

My favorite hate so far is ferris wheels. What's yours?

Missed Up

2008-03-31T13:28:00.005-04:00

Enjoyed this WAPO essay on Missed Connections.

The bathroom smells...

2008-03-25T18:40:00.002-04:00

Swampy today.

Bet You Think This Blog Is About You

2008-03-21T09:36:00.016-04:00

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.

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-03-20T17:10:00.005-04:00

Via diet iced tea ...and some others.

Mommy Mails

2008-03-19T22:17:00.006-04:00

date Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:34 PM
subject Fwd: My ass

UNBELIEVABLE-- A CAUTIONARY TALE. (MWAK MWAK)

Patrick Swayze Tribute Tuesday*

2008-03-19T18:04:00.002-04:00

*Wednesday

Spirit Fingers!!

2008-03-13T08:17:00.002-04:00

"Our better understanding is often rooted in the pains of our former follies...in God's economy, nothing is wasted."

Top THAT, Tuesday!

2008-03-11T23:00:00.003-04:00

Peep Show

2008-03-11T20:49:00.002-04:00

Courtesy of the shlee.

Not the altitude, dude.

2008-03-06T13:56:00.013-05:00

I dunno man. Think about it. I’m serious!! Psshh...what? Wait, shit. Nevermind.

PR-eport: The Sweetest Rejection Imaginable

2008-03-06T09:16:00.007-05:00

Sorry. I'm booked.

Love you,
Elaine*

____________________________________

*radio producer & perfect stranger.

What the end of tv might look like...

2008-03-05T15:59:00.005-05:00

"The Search for America’s Next Top Reality Show Judge"

"So You Think You Can Judge?!"

"Project Judgeway"

Trend Alert: Hybrid Diseases

2008-03-02T17:45:00.018-05:00

"Did you read the Aidsekemia story in Home & Garden?"

We're living in hybrid happy times. Fine by me. I love a good word smoosh. Actually, I enjoy the flamboyance of this one . But the story doesn't belong in Style & Fashion. Health maybe, or science. Not about to get worked up about issues, sister girl, but I think it's ridiculous, and so does this doodle.

I can't be undone, homeskillet.

Did you know...

2008-02-28T11:03:00.011-05:00

there's an International Sword Swallower's Day? No shame if you didn't—this is the first year it's taken place!

Says the official press release:

Sword Swallowers around the world will celebrate "International Sword Swallower's Awareness Day" by doing what they do best - Swallowing swords!

Sword swallowers around the world swallowing swords?! Try saying that real fast! Then try saying it with a knife in your mouth!

Then go to the emergency room.

Garfeelin' it

2008-02-27T21:17:00.006-05:00

Well this is just brilliant.

Thanks Josh!

Hey, but wait!

---> This guy is clever, in trouble.

---> This guy is over it, better than you.

Life in The Fast Lame

2008-02-26T11:50:00.015-05:00

We have been visited by a "shadow" today. A bright-eyed young professional burning to experience the glitz and glamour of the results-driven, done-yesterday world of PR.

And she's definitely asleep on Dee's desk right now.