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a spring affair

2010-04-25T18:58:00.003-04:00

Total washout or rain out on the gardening party theme for my daughter's birthday. Will try again soon because I have all these awesome plants that need to go in the ground. I'm doing all sort of household improvements, namely landscaping the front and backyard is kicking my butt

what what

2008-11-21T18:28:00.003-05:00

I am so late about everything because I just came across what was evidently last year's YouTube sensation, Samwell. Let's just say that this shit is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU
I didn't know what I was getting into when I pressed play, call me slow. I turned it on and walked away and only to run back in horror because I heard my kids singing "you wanna do it in my butt, in my butt." They thought it was the funniest thing ever, oh the innocence of youth. Pay close attention to the brown heart that turns into a brown star.

It's raining fairies

2008-11-19T22:47:00.002-05:00

It's the Year of the Fairies.

The New Bond

2008-11-19T22:37:00.004-05:00

I am a big Bond fan and I have to say that I am very dissapointed with "Quantum of Solace". The only redeeming thing about this film is that it has Daniel Craig in it. They got a new director and wrote the script on the fly and I must say it shows. "Casino Royale" was awesome why did they have to stray from formula. Within the first few minutes I knew something was wrong (besides standing in line for 20 minutes like I was going to a NKOTB concert) when I got a headache from the first fight/chase sequence. The jumpy camera thing that is supposed to make you feel a part of the action is really not my thing. I had a really hard time following what was going on aka when Bond was kicking ass because I really couldn't see it. This was overall stylistically not what I expected, the script was crap (which is kind of okay because it's supposed to be about Bond and not so much the plot), the 2 chicks banged per movie was not reached, and Craig's ability to do snarky was really underutilized. As sad as it makes me feel I have to say that I didn't really like this one. I will drown my sorrows in a Bond marathon minus Brosnan and Lazenby the two worst Bonds ever... Actually I respect Lazenby for being so utterly aweful that even he knew it. I think he gave up about halfway through the film. On the other hand I detest Brosnan because he actually thought he was good.

The new welfare state

2008-10-17T21:37:00.003-04:00

So how messed up is this little food stamp image. It was thought up by some republican genius, probably the same person who thought up the Obama pancakes--looking a bit aunt Jemima-ish. Anyway I would like to stay that this representation is inaccurate at the moment since people no longer get food stamps, we've moved into the age of technological innovations so now there are EBT cards that they put the food stamps on. I miss the days when you would have the book of food stamps and your mom would send you to the store. In retrospect what was a source of humiliation really didn't matter b/c the boy laughing at you just spent his mom's last food stamp on penny candy. If my memory is any good, the brown food stamps were 1 dollar, the blue was 5 dollars, green 10 dollars. I can't remember any more.

My final comment about the Obama buck is, at least was red and not purple kool-aid. Keep it real you it's the color and not the flavor that's important.

harold and kumar

2008-10-07T13:23:00.005-04:00

So I'm kind of late talking about this but in august i met kal penn, star of harold and kumar, one of the best smoker movies after half baked and the classic, cheech and chong.

I was at an obama fundraiser at Church Brew Works, thus the crappy phone pic. He was totally cool and sniffed me during the whole picture taking process (my cousin couldn't figure out how to take a picture). I was relieved that I had taken a shower that day. I smelled like beer and flowers.

kal penn was also in one episode of one of my favorite shows "angel" and in the totally awful superman movie.

Church Brew Works has great beer and the pierogies are not to be missed.

I spent the rest of the evening drinking in celebration of Harold and Kumar

inbreeding and politics

2008-10-07T08:26:00.004-04:00

" Deliverance" is my new favorite movie. I watched it for the first time yesterday and the banjo playing inbred boy is scary. I think I want to school with someone related to him (Sorry Joe). I remember there was some Appalachian organization that was all upset because there was a casting call for a Hollywood film where they were looking for people who looked inbred to play the part of mountain people. It was awesome, the news station interviewed this woman in a bar with like 3 teeth who claimed that the stereotypes weren't true.

I'm not going to argue. I'll just say that one time I was in a parking lot in West VA and there was a woman with three kids, drinking a beer and cussing them out. You can draw your own conclusions.

I think that these presidential and vice-presidential debates have been awesome. Not for the depth of genius anyone has shown but for what it reveals about the American political process. I think that this has been an exercise in pageantry and I'd rather vote based on the SNL skits. If that were the case Tina Fey would win.

Also how awesome is my ten year old daughter with her Obama poster and party hat...it's kind of scary.

????

2008-05-27T09:47:00.000-04:00

This blog is to inaugurate an overall inability to do crucial work in 6 months. I'm not a lazy person, very goal oriented and happy to be that way. However, it feels like in many ways my life is falling apart. What better thing to do at this point than blog. Anyway for an obsessive compulsive type A personality the fact that I didn't make my bed this morning (and don't plan to) is living on the wild side...
I feel like so many people have given leeway to kind of feel and do what I like. I'm trying to balance this need to go on with my life with the feeling that it's pointless. I wonder if this is one of the seven stages of grief, I should look it up.