Aug
20
Somehow Jim and I had this conversation last night: If you got a tattoo when you were fifteen, what would it have been? And how much would you regret it today?
I can’t think of a band or a movie or something that I liked enough at 15 that I would have made it into a tattoo. The only thing I can think of is that maybe I would have gotten something volleyball related, or something really lame like a treble clef. Um, no offense to anyone who has a treble clef tattoo, but I am not a professional musician and hardly even an amateur one.
Jim claims he would have gotten an earring instead, which made me laugh. I secretly think he would have gotten something written in Elvish, but he claims I’m wrong.
So what would you have gotten tattooed at fifteen?
Aug
5
I wish there were some sort of alert for when Anderson Cooper is going to substitute on Regis and Kelly because I would watch it every time. This is just one clip — hunt down the others on YouTube if you can.
Aug
5
You guys! Katie Holmes is totally tight rolling her jeans! Is it making a comeback? Because I am a CHAMPION tight roller.
Aug
4
Jul
23
This whole post made me smile today, but the paragraph I clipped made me giggle out loud.
– Chris Klein scatting “shoobie doobie doo wop” while the choir sings “Do You Believe In Magic” should be on the American Film Institute’s List of the 100 Greatest Moments In Cinema. It actually should be on its own list of The 1 Actual Greatest Moment In Cinema and the other list should have “Besides Chris Klein Scatting In American Pie” added to its name. |
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Jul
20
Jul
19
We went and saw Dark Knight tonight, partly because we were interested and partly because it’s been hot as balls here today and we wanted to sit in some AC for a while.
Good news: it was a really good movie (with a few problems) and Heath Ledger’s performance lives up to the hype and then some. Every time he was off screen, I was wondering and hoping he would be in the next scene.
Bad news: the AC either stopped working or never worked in our full to capacity theater so for the last forty-five minutes of the film, I was wiping sweat from my brow and wondering what the F was up with that. Usually I’m freezing in movie theaters, and I was looking forward to it.
So I’m not sure if the lack of AC made me feel like the movie was about 30 minutes too long or what. I thought all the performances were good, but everything felt a little sloppy towards the end. The opening sequences were so amazing and so well directed, but by the end it kind of felt like things were just thrown together and the movie was trying to accomplish too much, plot-wise. I also didn’t really need all the philosophizing on the nature of Batman and whether or not he’s a hero, but maybe that’s just me.
So in conclusion, go see the movie if you’re one of the 10 people that didn’t see it opening day (based on projections). But try to find a theater with working AC and let me know if you thought the movie was too long or not.
Jul
16
This is an interesting video and transcript about sign names in sign language — people who use sign language typically don’t want to finger spell their name, so they are given a shorthand. I know Jim’s sign name is the sign for J and then the sign for “can’t” because when he was a little kid, he apparently said, “I can’t” a lot. His sister is deaf, so she gave him the name. I wonder what my sign name would be? Do you have one?
Have you ever thought about changing your name? Well, if you started hanging out with sign language users you will soon find they change it for you … but it won’t be the kind of name you might expect. Charlie Swinbourne explains the secret world of ’sign names’. |
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Jul
15
So why was the lead singer of BNL:
A. Hanging out in a suburb of Syracuse less than 5 miles from where I live.
B. Doing drugs with someone in a suburb of Syracuse less than 5 miles from where I live.
C. Dumb enough to get busted, although the whole story sounds a bit fishy to me, and I wonder if it was a legal search and seizure (I am not a lawyer).
Would it be weird to go to his next court date and ask if he remembers me from when I hosted them at an in-store when I worked at Borders? My mom always got a big kick out of it because she would say, “Remember when you hosted those totally naked ladies?”
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“Barenaked Ladies” singer faces drug charge in Fayetteville
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Jul
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