January 2009
32 posts
Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ to Become a Movie →
A movie directed by Roland Emmerich. Good grief…how can a sci-fi fan even try to be optimistic about how this will turn out?
Miss America: Does anyone care? →
You can be damn sure that Tim and I won’t be giving much time to anything written by the pitifully misinformed and spiteful Chris Nashawaty anymore. Neither of us has ever been angered enough by a silly post on the EW blog to respond to it…until now.
Miss America! →
Tim is liveblogging Miss America. Just sayin’. (Read from the bottom up. )
Emoji! →
Kris has a link to a site that will show you how to enable emoji on your iPhone. I love it (Tim’s setting his up as I type this)!
Amy(s)
Tim: So this girl who got the Oscar nomination is not the one who was on The Office?
Me: No, that's Amy Ryan. Amy Adams got the nomination. She was Ella Enchanted. No, wait--just Enchanted.
Tim: And this Amy Adams has had a nomination before?
Me: Yes, for Junebug.
Tim: But the one from The Office has had a nomination too, right?
Me: Yes, for Gone Baby Gone.
Tim: Well, I can't tell them apart. I think one of them needs a new name.
(Sadly, this is not the first time we have had this exact discussion.)
Nude Yoga
Tim: Nude yoga? Is this real?
Me: We have had this discussion already. It's real!
Tim: Why does it exist? Why would you want to do it?
Me: To feel free and unbound. And to feel your balls touch the mat.
Tim: And because you're horndoggy.
(Thanks for the conversation starters, Craigslist Missed Connections!)
The Daily Otter →
dyfl:
It’s a picture of an otter (sea or river, they go both ways) every morning. For some reason I can’t quite bring myself to follow this blog, but I sure am glad it exists.
Hey, whatever gets us through the day, right? These otters are cute, but jeez, don’t you know they stink to high heaven?
The Inauguration of President Barack Obama at The... →
Some amazing and touching pictures here. Find your new desktop background! (Related and bittersweet: The final Get Your War On comic. Fun while it lasted, but I’m glad it didn’t last four more years…)
The Best “As Seen On TV” Product Bracket →
I love a bracket (seriously, I do them in class all the time) and I love stupid TV commercials, so I am loving this bracket. Go vote now! (It’s not easy—should I pick Tater Mitts or the Big City Slider Station?)
Update: Unfair! Pitting the Buxton Bag (a commercial that Tim and I love) vs. stupid Girls Gone Wild videos just seems wrong. Also, looking at some of the results, I wonder if...
“I wish I had my phone with me right now so I could twitter my despair to the...”
– Me, after driving with Tim to our favorite Dairy Queen (they mixed great Blizzards, y’all) only to find it boarded up. This economic downturn just hit home!
"Is my husband trying to kill me?" →
Kim is right: this may be the greatest Ask Metafilter question ever. And the answers (many of which boil down to “go see a therapist,” thank goodness) are sometimes more intriguing than the question (which reads like a bad Lifetime movie synopsis). My favorites—also the most dangerous, I guess—are the ones that totally try to feed and intensify this poor woman’s...
F*** Yeah! Ryan Gosling →
The next LOLCats? Probably not, but the whole “Hey Girl” intro thing is cracking me up.
Good grief...
I am totally down—super-jazzed, even!—with rediscovering long-lost friends, acquaintances, and classmates on Facebook but I swear to whatever, if I have to read “Conservative” and/or “Republican Party” on their info one more time, I’m gonna start projectile vomiting. Couldn’t they just put “scared of the world outside of a ten-mile radius of my...
WatchStar Wars Retold by Someone Who Hasn’t Seen It
Hilarious. I played it for Tim (who hasn’t seen the entire original trilogy either, to my everlasting horror), and he said, “Well, at least I know that it’s Han Solo, not Hans.”
via Boing Boing
“I am not a racist! I’m just culturally insensitive.”
– One of my students today. To his credit, he was being pretty truthful.
Book Club Food Chat
Me: Hey, what are you bringing to book club tomorrow for dinner? I'm making some bread, I think.
Jenn (friend and coworker): I'm going to bring an Israeli salad.
Me: What the hell is that?
Jenn: My mom gave me the recipe--it's like tabbouleh without the grains. Chopped up vegetables and olive oil and stuff.
Me: And you eat it like salad?
Jenn: No, you actually scoop it with pita chips.
Me: So essentially, you're bringing Jewish salsa?
Jenn: Um, okay. Sure.
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WatchMost of the time, I think Mittens is…well, just a little bit retarded (albeit in a sweet, adorable way). But then she goes and discovers this way to get to the yogurt in the bottom of the container, and I think, “Dear lord, this cat is on the verge of a huge evolutionary leap!” What do you think? (Quick, before she learns how to use tools!)
Stephen King fan publishes Jack Torrance's novel →
Interesting, I guess, but I would be more impressed if he had tried to write the play (The Little School) that Torrance was writing in the novel The Shining, not the excellent-for-shock-value-but-little-else manuscript in the film version.
Don't Forget! →
There are three quite good (if I do say so myself) mixes waiting for you a few posts down (or click on the title of this one). I worry that they slide into obscurity once they drop below the bottom border of your screen…
(Also, Tim’s own informative and entertaining series of posts leading up to Miss America has begun! Go check them out.)
“All of her profile pictures are of cats!”
– Tim, trying (in vain) to figure out the identity of a mysterious “friend” on Facebook
My Favorite Remixes of 2008! →
I’m finally delivering on my promise of a year-end wrap-up of my favorite dance tracks. Yeah, I’m a little late getting this in, but I promise there’s a lot of good stuff here, so it might actually be worth the wait. A lot of the songs from my “Best of 2008” list show up in remixed form (and yes, my number one song of the year shows up three separate times in various...
Gizmodo's Best Lego Stories of 2008 →
The one at #2 was my personal favorite, but that’s hardly a surprise.
The Waistband Stretcher →
Yeah, I could use this after yesterday’s feast. SkyMall comes through again! Click on the picture for leftover annotations!
New Year's Day →
In case you can’t tell from Tim’s post, transitioning into a new year around here means food, food, food. (Guilt comes later, of course, but so be it…)
Today’s Menu (all homemade, with ample help from America’s Test Kitchen and the Neelys):
Meatloaf
Black-eyed peas
Cornbread
Mac n’ cheese
Mashed potatoes
Braised collard greens
Apple crisp with homemade...