what are you doing at that bus stop? via @ebertchicago
30 June 2010
bad move starz
you had a gem on your hands in party down. now youve gone and cancelled it. there were plenty of ways i could imagine a third season, even with the loss of adam scott and jane lynch and many many others to bigger projects. it is so rare to find a show that literally makes you laugh out loud, and party down did that for me. rip.
verizon = iphone, soon.
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with the plans said.
The device will be available to customers in January, according to the people, who declined to be named because the information isn’t public. Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman, and Jeffrey Nelson, a Verizon Wireless spokesman, declined to comment. (via)
thx ktv.
let's talk about eclipse.
what was with bella's wig? k-stew's hair is her one redeeming quality, and a twilight star on it's own. it looked just terrible. and i never want that to happen again.
jasper, i didn't know you had a confederate southern accent. that's because you've never spoken that way before. and actually, you didn't break it out until you started rehashing your civil war stories. and when you were done talking about that, you dropped the accent again.
taylor lautner is one terrible actor. i lol'd pretty much every time he spoke. but he's a crowd pleaser. he won "most hollers at the court street theater" by a landslide.
riley was a really great addition.
bryce howard was a terrible victoria. i want old, better victoria back.
the wolves looked so much meaner. but still cute as hell! FLUFFZ!!!
ummmm.....what else? well, what did you guys think?
oh, one last thing. next time you watch it, mentally replace the word 'imprint' in the dialogue with 'come', and you'll have lolz4dayz! (as in: bella: how do you know when you've imprinted on someone? jacob: when it happens, you just know.) you're welcome!
29 June 2010
i forgot to tell you
That I saw Eclipse last night and of course I loved it. I am sure that all of you who are going to the midnight show will feel the same. I won't spoil anything, but wanted to tell you my favorite part. RILEY!
I wish he wasn't dead. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - 11 biscuits.
scuzi.
"do you mind if i? i jsut need to... no, no. don't. stop it. i just want to get this right in...there. ugh, get out of the WAY, plz. and i can just. and....ok, it's in, whew. ok, we won."
c2e.
lou ann, that's racist!
jicydak, murfreesboro's current representative, bart gordon, is retiring after 13 terms, exposing middle tennesseans to a world of hurt. namely, self-proclaimed teabagger, lou ann zelenik.
lou ann made national news this week when she denounced the building of a mosque in murfreesboro, calling it "an islamic training center."
OMG LOU ANN, YOU CAN'T SAY THAT!!!
here's a great quote:
"Until the American Muslim community find it in their hearts to separate themselves from their evil, radical counterparts, to condemn those who want to destroy our civilization and will fight against them, we are not obligated to open our society to any of them," Zelenik says in the statement.
um, yes you are. it's in the constitution. and the declaration of independence.
now she's reporting that she's recieving "threats" to the police. the DNJ, a wonderful publication, went on ahead and jumped to the conclusion that they might be coming from the muslims, a skill they probably picked up at the
everyone in district 6, be careful not to accidentally vote for this lady. i BUILT things!
two of my favorite bear jokes.
i was reminded when i heard that the supreme court just ruled to extend second amendment rights, overruling local handgun bans. i wish they hadn't've done that. ;(
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28 June 2010
fart of dixie
yes, in fact we did shed a lot of blood to end slavery. wait, no...we didn't? i thought the south likes to insist that the civil war was fought over states rights? p.s. is anyone else totally distracted by that AC diffuser behind "lincoln's" head? i bet once you spot it you won't be able to look at anything else.
speaking of....
one memorial day back in 2010, joel treated an empty jack in the box parking lot to some country hip hop dance moves when this came on the 90s xm station.
vaudeville!
hey lauryn hill, why did you quit music?
"There were a number of different reasons," she said. "But partly, the support system that I needed was not necessarily in place ... As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment — and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the [music] industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society, or at least some aspect of society ... Oftentimes, I think people are forced to make decisions prematurely. And then that sound radiates." via.
worldcupdate!
welp. brazil won 3-0. no surprise there. except maybe for g.animalz, whose reign has finally been interrupted. congrats to our new co-leaders starla and melissa. enjoy it while it lasts!!
c2e.
no no no. jennifer capriati what have you done
she took too many drugs and had to go to the hospital.
when i was a little boy and i would hit tennis balls against the garage door, i used to pretend to be jennifer capriati. now look at what a mess we have made of ourselves. i mean you of yourself.... :(
oooooooh susan.
SCISSORS!
jump!
PIIIIGGEEEOOOOOOOOON!!!!
this reminds me of one particular recent evening on the roof. xtra special thx 2 lillywhitefish! and thx michael k.
R = rare, N = never
i smiled a lot while reading this story.
The W was one of two subway lines (the other was the V) to be axed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which began major cuts to transit service this weekend to help close an $800 million financing gap.
...
But on Friday, hours before commuters had to face the consequences of the cuts, the city’s subway enthusiasts decided to send the doomed trains off in style.
...
The W’s valedictory journey took on the vibe of a New Orleans funeral. Ms. Carames, the conductor, took the troubles in stride: the twentysomethings who piled into the back car with piña coladas and acoustic guitars; the hipster who screamed, “Murderer!” in her face as she made her way along the car during her last inspections. Perhaps it was a joke, but given public attitudes toward the transportation authority, it did not strike Ms. Carames as particularly funny. “I knew it was going to be a bit of a madhouse,” she said.
...
Quietly observing this bacchanal was Renee Alexander, who stood in the far corner of the car and assumed the studied stare of a subway rider who finds herself inches away from chaos. “I am feeling like my train was hijacked,” she said.
Ms. Alexander, a stage manager who commutes most days from a theater at 59th Street, said she was sad to see the W go. Its replacement trains, the R and the N, do not impress her. “The rare and the never,” she called them. (via)
...
But on Friday, hours before commuters had to face the consequences of the cuts, the city’s subway enthusiasts decided to send the doomed trains off in style.
...
The W’s valedictory journey took on the vibe of a New Orleans funeral. Ms. Carames, the conductor, took the troubles in stride: the twentysomethings who piled into the back car with piña coladas and acoustic guitars; the hipster who screamed, “Murderer!” in her face as she made her way along the car during her last inspections. Perhaps it was a joke, but given public attitudes toward the transportation authority, it did not strike Ms. Carames as particularly funny. “I knew it was going to be a bit of a madhouse,” she said.
...
Quietly observing this bacchanal was Renee Alexander, who stood in the far corner of the car and assumed the studied stare of a subway rider who finds herself inches away from chaos. “I am feeling like my train was hijacked,” she said.
Ms. Alexander, a stage manager who commutes most days from a theater at 59th Street, said she was sad to see the W go. Its replacement trains, the R and the N, do not impress her. “The rare and the never,” she called them. (via)
lando's pregnant
joel's not going to like this.
His team crashed out of the World Cup this weekend, and now Landon Donovan faces a personal crisis: a forthcoming report from a U.K. newspaper in which a British woman claims she is pregnant with Donovan's child.
Donovan, 28, is separated from his wife, actress Bianca Kajlich, but they are not divorced – a fact the U.S. soccer star emphasized last week, after he and Kajlich shared an emotional phone call following his winning goal against Algeria.
Regarding the pregnancy report, Donovan did not deny it might be true, telling Sports Illustrated's Web site: "I was informed of the possibility during the World Cup, and if I need to take responsibility, then I will provide the appropriate support. This is a private matter, and I will refrain from further comment at this time." (via)
thx g.
Donovan, 28, is separated from his wife, actress Bianca Kajlich, but they are not divorced – a fact the U.S. soccer star emphasized last week, after he and Kajlich shared an emotional phone call following his winning goal against Algeria.
Regarding the pregnancy report, Donovan did not deny it might be true, telling Sports Illustrated's Web site: "I was informed of the possibility during the World Cup, and if I need to take responsibility, then I will provide the appropriate support. This is a private matter, and I will refrain from further comment at this time." (via)
thx g.
kylie minogue
kylie told me that npr is streaming the entire keeks minogue album from now until july 6th. APHRODITEyou can also go here to see her performing with the scissor sisters at the glastonbury festival. thats a natural collaboration if there ever was one.
from npr:
The World Cup matches, continuing this week, have given us a useful analogy to explain Kylie Minogue around the office. The Australian pop superstar is like soccer: worshipped everywhere in the world except the U.S.
click here if you want to hear locomotion. i know i do. everybody's doing a brand new dance now.
robyn | interview
robyn gives some really insightful answers to questions about her music and her new album.
jicyww.
i was just perusing around, and all you LOLsoccer-ers might be interested to know that there are still a TON of points to be handed out in the overall bracket scoring. see below:
3. Scoring. From all eligible entries received, the 1st Place and 2nd place Prize winners will be determined based on their ability to use their skill and knowledge of international soccer to accumulate the most points during the Promotion Period. A correct answer in a given round is shown below:
•Group Stage - 1 point per correct pick
•Group Stage Bonus - 1 point per pick if team is in correct slot
•Round of 16 - 2 points per correct pick
•Round of 16 Bonus - 2 points per pick if team is in correct slot
•Quarterfinals - 4 points per correct pick
•Quarterfinals Bonus - 4 points per pick if team is in correct slot
•Semifinals - 8 points per pick
•Semifinals Bonus - 8 points per pick if team is in correct slot
•Finals - 32 points per pick
Maximum Points Breakdown
•Group Stage: 32 points
•Round of 16: 32 points
•Quarterfinals: 32 points
•Semifinals: 32 points
•Finals: 32 points
Total Max Possible Points = 160
anybody's game, really.
3. Scoring. From all eligible entries received, the 1st Place and 2nd place Prize winners will be determined based on their ability to use their skill and knowledge of international soccer to accumulate the most points during the Promotion Period. A correct answer in a given round is shown below:
•Group Stage - 1 point per correct pick
•Group Stage Bonus - 1 point per pick if team is in correct slot
•Round of 16 - 2 points per correct pick
•Round of 16 Bonus - 2 points per pick if team is in correct slot
•Quarterfinals - 4 points per correct pick
•Quarterfinals Bonus - 4 points per pick if team is in correct slot
•Semifinals - 8 points per pick
•Semifinals Bonus - 8 points per pick if team is in correct slot
•Finals - 32 points per pick
Maximum Points Breakdown
•Group Stage: 32 points
•Round of 16: 32 points
•Quarterfinals: 32 points
•Semifinals: 32 points
•Finals: 32 points
Total Max Possible Points = 160
anybody's game, really.
tracy morgan and me
in case you dont follow me on twitter, i should probably tell you about tracy morgan last night. i went to a comedy show he was headlining at zanies with @ripleypickles and chip. i can tell you without reserve that he is a self-described deviant, and holds nothing back. he is raunchy and sexist and racist and gaycist and above all hilarious. all in all, it was a totally appropriate way to get drunk on sunday.
27 June 2010
what is phyllis doing?
I don't know. But she doesn't seem to be enjoying whatever my brother is doing.
well, would you look at that.
c2e.
i fell. and i fell hard. good thing i have g.animalz winning in my 2pz bracket bracket!
i'll be back. don't you worry one bit.
26 June 2010
ryan mcginley | entrance romance (it felt like a kiss)
"I knew it was going to be wild when I signed on," says Carolyn Murphy, who stars in Ryan McGinley's exclusive short film Entrance Romance (it felt like a kiss). "Next thing I know, my manager is telling me that they're going to break glass on my head and my leading man's a dog. I'm like, 'That's it?' I was so sure I'd have to take my clothes off," she says, laughing.
25 June 2010
LOLsoccer just got hilarious.
spain defeats chile 2-1, switzerland blows it completely 0-0 against honduras, the 2Pz bracket gets a bit shaken up...
c2e.
finally, someone caught me. and i couldn't be more pleased. g.animalz, the only one of you suckers whose soccer expertise can rival my own. welcome to the top.
let the countdown begin.
5 days! here's a photo from the premiere last night in LA.
you guys look ridiculous.
cremaster cat.
talk about damaged goods.
what is starla doing tonight?
what are you doing july 28?
jealous?!?
joel told us about this earlier:
Followers of both Kelis and Robyn on Twitter saw some playful back-and-forth between the two artists this morning, wherein Robyn asked the “Acapella” singer, “Hey mama, I´m bored. U feel like doing something?” Kelis replied, “Love to. Thinking it’d be fun 2 hit the road together?” Eventually all their teasing led to the playfully coy announcement of the two singers’ All Hearts tour (which we’re adamantly choosing to believe is real and not a joke). (via)
its not a joke, its real and we're going!
bonus links:
i was just discussing the creepy parallels in timing between these two ladies' careers. both had minor hits in the late nineties (see links), and now both are having huge reinventive career surges over the last 2 years. go girls.
kelis - caught out there (1998)
robyn - show me love (1997)
best friends
The baby elephant, orphaned at six months old when his mother fell down a cliff, chased his new friend Albert until the sheep took refuge in a shelter -- for 12 hours.
But since then, the animals have been "inseparable," say observers, napping together, walking together, and even picking up habits: Albert (sheep) figured out how to eat thorny bushes by following Themba's (elephant) lead to avoid the spikes. via.
holy crap, that's adorbs.
The cub was born June 16. Officials also said two other panda cubs were born June 14 at the Zoo's Front Royal, Va., conservation center, but only one survived.
The parents of the new zoo cub are Tate and Shama, who were introduced in 2009. Tate was brought to Washington from the Nashville Zoo.
According to Tony Barthel, curator of the zoo's Asia Trail exhibit, the cub weighed 6.5 ounces as of Thursday and appears healthy. He said Shama is proving to be an attentive first-time mother.
The Zoo has temporarily closed off the red panda section of the Asia Trail to ensure that mother and cub have time to bond. However, visitors may be able to catch a glimpse of the pair from the upper viewing area. (via)
from P to A
the dutch strike again.
john isner, that dude that spent the last 3 days of his life playing the longest tennis match in history, just lost in 3 real quick sets to an unranked dutchman. some sources say he lost the first set in 16 minutes. the full match only lasted an hour and fifteen.
final score: 6-0, 6-3, 6-2.
guess he was real tired. how emBEARassing.
final score: 6-0, 6-3, 6-2.
guess he was real tired. how emBEARassing.
just leave me alone, ok?
it all takes place in a small village of 1800 people in the northern region of the netherlands known as friesland. anyone who knows anything knows that that's where the dutch keep their crazies. so it was no surprise that this happened there. anyway, so this old guy was living with his 4 old siblings (their ages ranging from 50 to 75), and he got his feelings hurt or something one day four years ago, and told them all that he was going to his room, and to leave him alone.
four years passed, and three days ago, while renovating their home, they needed to get in there to do some work. yep, you guessed it. there the old man was. well, there his corpse was. just laying in bed. for four years! or something.
anyway, that's all the info that was available, and i just couldn't make heads nor tails of any of it. some theories included that 1) dutch people are stereotypically literal, or 2) that he had a bad temper, and no one wanted to p him o by bothering him.
today, there's some new info. like that the family was real religious, and never left the house anyway. contact with outsiders was discouraged. they have really good rules, like: if god wants you to be sick, you just have to deal with it. no doctors!
other than that, no one knows anything. hopefully, the rest of the story will find its way out.
hey pervs!
i'm lookin' at you, starla...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the U.S. government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net.
It has in recent years repeatedly rejected a request by U.S. company ICM Registry Inc. to sign off on the .xxx domain.
But members of ICANN's board have argued that in order to maintain neutrality in dealing with domain name assignations, it should create .xxx and allow websites with sexually explicit content to start using the suffix on a voluntary basis. (via)
It has in recent years repeatedly rejected a request by U.S. company ICM Registry Inc. to sign off on the .xxx domain.
But members of ICANN's board have argued that in order to maintain neutrality in dealing with domain name assignations, it should create .xxx and allow websites with sexually explicit content to start using the suffix on a voluntary basis. (via)
computer tv
ESPN said 1.1 million people watched at least some of the USA's 1-0 win as it was streamed on ESPN3.com Wednesday. The match, which was also watched on ESPN by 6.2 million people, lasted from 10 a.m. to noon ET, during working hours for most of the United States.
The network says it was the biggest online audience for a sporting event, beating the Duke-Butler NCAA championship basketball game on a Monday night from earlier this year. (via)
Exercises in good parenting
I support children breaking records, I support the troops, I support underpants, but there is something about this that rubs me the wrong way. I think it's the way that his birthday party was focused on his parents pulling up his underpants, and the fact that this looks like maybe it wan't a jack-driven idea, AND if someone was in the process of putting 215 pairs of tighty-whiteys, I wouldn't want them to slap me repeatedly in the back and chest while they were doing it.
via my friend Martha and thedailywhat
david guetta ft. kelly rowland | commander
their last collaboration was five stars. this is more like three and a half. maybe i'll feel differently once i hear it on the dancefloor.
24 June 2010
bocanegra + bill + buds
us footballer carlos bocanegra shares a cold one with the former president following our thrilling victory the other day.
dont forget to cheer for us again on saturday.
robyn | dont fucking tell me what to do
go to this website to participate in robyn's new music video for "dont fucking tell me what to do" via
what is phyllis doing?
She is hiding out under the table. Since she is blind, chances are she doesn't even know she's hiding, though. Regardless, her peeking around the table leg pose is h2d.
too bad ke$ha doesn't have any R's in her name.
those crazy indians decided that using a simple R for their currency, the rupee, isn't quite sophisticated enough. they want a dollar / pound / yen sign. so they're just making one up.
here are the finalists. they're supposedly choosing today, but it's gotta be like 2am over there so im not sure if / when they're going to tell us.
which is your favorite?
here are the finalists. they're supposedly choosing today, but it's gotta be like 2am over there so im not sure if / when they're going to tell us.
which is your favorite?
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