if you like it then you shoulda put an icing ring on it

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whats that song about surviving professional and personal disappointments?

please watch this.

We've been listening here in the office to different speeches throughout the day, and most of them are exactly what you'd expect, but do me a favor and take the seven minutes to listen to this address. It is deeply powerful, completely rational, and utterly correct. via

dog shoots two hunters with shotgun

probably because he is angry at them.

favorite condiment

landmine ketchup.

thomas wilhelm bear

starla has this bear that she cuddles at work, and coincidentally it looks exactly like thomas wilhelm. also, if you look closely, you can see starla's secret celebrity work emails and lotions.

how to get to brooklyn.

give it a ponder.

thx g!

sorry about forgetting about...

...onesie monday (thx g)...

...and twosie tuesday.

 i've just been so tired lately.

luckily, i did NOT forget...

...backwards wednesday!!!

this happened today.

New York lawmakers rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made their state the sixth to allow gay marriage, disheartening advocates already stung by a similar decision by Maine voters just last month. (via)

here are the 8 new york democrats who voted against...

Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr.
Sen. Darrel Aubertine
Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr.
Sen. Shirley Huntley
Sen. Carl Kruger
Sen. Hiram Monserrate
Sen. George Onorato
Sen. William Stachowski

...6 of whom are from the 5 boroughs.   ;(

(thx 2 sen. daniel squadron for stickin' to the game plan.)

i don't know if this is really the right attitude...

...but god, those southern accents are spot. on!

"they can unLOWood on the whole towyun, as long as they git uyuss. we caint doo innything like 'at. which i mean, i wouldn't do innything like 'at innyway but steeyull."

you're welx!

did y'all hear?

there's a strike on at the pompidou centre!

edgar allen poe

as joel and i discovered on our great american road trip a couple of months ago, richmond, virginia is a fascinating place with a really great history. if you don't believe me, you can just read its wikipedia.

one thing i didn't know about richmond is that edgar allen poe spent much of his life living there. they have a museum dedicated to him, and are currently hosting a bicentennial anniversary of his birthday party.

"But if you really want to feel the potency of the Poe myth, come to the Poe Museum, whose curator, Chris Semtner, also shaped the show at the Library of Virginia. The museum’s literature says that it has “the world’s finest collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s manuscripts, letters, first editions, memorabilia and personal belongings.” It is here, in the oldest house still standing in Richmond (built around 1750) and with a few of the adjacent homes annexed, that the cult of Poe may be said to have its headquarters. The museum’s ramshackle character creates a quaint aura of antique devotion." (via)

goodness gracious!

jic you missed it...

the president of these united states, barack obama, presented his plan for afghanistan from west point last night. the way he pronounces 'taliban' makes me think he might be a muslin terrorist. i think i'd like to see his birth certificate, plz.

you can watch / listen to it here.

daily ri ri

pitchfork reviewed rihanna's new album today. i think it's pretty insightful. joel, you're probably not going to like it.

"Fallouts mark Rated R as well, though they are decidedly heavier. Over the course of the album, Rihanna puts a revolver to her temple on "Russian Roulette", recalls "white outlines" on "Cold Case Love", and even threatens to crash head-on into a boyfriend on "Fire Bomb"-- not exactly the most politically correct metaphor in the age of IEDs, but it does get her point across. In a recent interview, Rihanna described the Rated R recording sessions as "theraputic," and the vitriolic, rough, raw end product is about as brutal as you'd expect." (via)

you CAN judge a movie by its trailer.

i have no apprehensions about judging this movie solely on the racist implications of its trailer and my own unwaivering repulsion toward any work featuring poorly executed southern accents. i don't intend to ever watch it, except maybe for a good laugh one day on abc family or to see phil fulmer.

as you can imagine, i was delighted to read this funny, accusatory review over on carly googlez, entitled "The Blind Side: What Would Black People Do Without Nice White Folks?"

"You're changing that boy's life," one applauds. Her response, of course: "No. He's changing mine."

i can't want to be a doyenne.