It’s called “Want To Hear Something Embarrassing About Me?” and if you’re my friend, you get to play it with me every day (and sometimes witness said embarrassing moments). Today’s answer is…
I have eaten the same dish from the same Thai restaurant for dinner three days in a row.
Three cheers for variety!
(Although, in the grand scheme of my life, or even this semester, it’s just a blip. Just ask the two people I had dinner with tonight.)
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under adventures, food, random
Great, great song:
I wish I’d realized sooner that Ben Harper has a little more to offer than “Steal My Kisses.”
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under music, pop culture, YouTube
I’ve been on campus for an hour, and haven’t done any work yet. Why, you ask? Because of the Top Five Favorite Foods Game. I’m not sure if I have talked about this game on the blog yet, but today I played with my “bosses.” The rules vary from game to game, but for the purposes of this game, categories (i.e. Mexican food) and drinks were forbidden. So here’s a peek into my life (or just my Gmail):
Subject: i want to play!
————————From: Jen
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 AM
To: Mallory, Go
Are these foods discretionary? i.e. Are all of my nutritional needs already met? If so, then my list is as follows:5. Broccoli is tied with Soy Sauce
4. Macaroni and Cheese
3. Garlic
2. Bacon
1. Krispy Kreme donuts———-
From: Jen
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:38 AM
To: Mallory, Go
Crap. I forgot coffee, beer, and mayonnaise.———-
From: Mallory
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:38 AM
To: Jen, Go
Yes, totally discretionary. There is a different game about which foods you would eat if you could only eat five for the rest of your life. Go and I think you cheated because you can’t have a tie. Other than that, good choices.———-
From: Go
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:40 AM
To: Mallory, Jen
HAHAHAHAHAHA, broccoli and soy sauce?!? Ok, just to update you, these are Mallory and my top five favorite foods as of this morning:Mallory
#5 Stuffing
#4 Goat cheese
#3 Pizza
#2 Salsa
#1 Breakfast sandwiches (e.g., sausage, egg and cheese on toast, bagel or English muffin)Go
#5 Chicken wings
#4 Thanksgiving turkey
#3 Choco chip coffee ice cream
#2 Steak
#1 Sushi———-
From: Jen
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM
To: Go, Mallory
Go,You are so predictable. I expected more. Sushi, steak, and ice cream???
———-
From: Go
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:58 AM
To: Jen, Mallory
Predictable?!? PREDICTABLE?!? At least I listed REAL foods! Broccoli? Soy sauce? Garlic? These aren’t even side dishes! BLAH!———-
From: Jen
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:02 AM
To: Go, Mallory
Fine, I’ll remove soy sauce and garlic. But broccoli stays. And I get unlimited beer and coffee.5. Broccoli
4. Pot stickers
3. Mac and Cheese
2. Bacon
1. Krispy Kreme Donuts
Perhaps this is why I’m still not done with my paper.
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under food, humor, post-college depression, random
The harassment continued today in a group email, this one sent by SWTCTW operative “Fannie”:
p.p.s. Forget “grad school” and “finals” don’t you think Mal should get back with the program and start updating her blog with the frequency we who troll the internet have come to expect?!?!
Sigh. The public shaming worked. I only have three more days of papering (hooray!), but in that time I will try to maintain my blogging duties. Just to prove to you all how exciting my life has been the past few days, here is a random list of what I did today:
1. Woke up, ate a bowl of cereal and a peanut butter ball for breakfast, and danced around in my underwear to “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
2. Ate 14 cookies. (I’m serious. We have a thing called “Cookie Fest” going on this week. Be jealous.)
3. Listened to this song, um, a LOT:
4. Tried to figure out what that song means. Consensus from the Internets is that it’s about love lost/broken hearts/an ending relationship/etc. etc.
5. Read a lot about youth and peacebuilding.
6. Was loud in the quiet study room.
7. Ate 14 more cookies.
8. Cried while watching a NYTimes video analysis of It’s a Wonderful Life.
MY LIFE IS BORING AND MY SNARK IS GONE. I blame the cookies. The cookies have stolen my snark.
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under blogging, food, music, post-college depression
Have mercy! John Stamos, also known as “Uncle Jesse,” has approached a few of his Full House co-stars about doing a “semi-remake” of everyone’s favorite sickeningly sweet family show, “Full House.” Candace Cameron Bure told OK! Magazine that the show “would involve me and Jodie Sweetin. We would revive our characters, but today as young women.”
Interesting. Will Uncle Jesse still be living in the attic with Aunt Becky and the twins? Will DJ and Stephanie still be there with their own families? Who will keep that place clean with Danny Tanner gone? Whatever happened to Kimmy Gibbler, the biggest geekburger of them all? There are so many questions . . . and I don’t think I need the answers. “Full House” was a memorable part of my childhood and I’m okay with leaving it that way.
There’s no word yet on whether any network is interested in this “semi-remake” or if any cast members other than DJ and Stephanie are interested in reviving their roles. Something tells me the Olsen twins are screening their calls this week. How rude!
[Posted by Madeline]
Filed under celebrities, family, pop culture, TV
Santa has made a visit to Herald Square, the tree in Rockefeller Center has been lit, my father and I have spent a full day yelling at each other while hanging the outside lights . . . it’s officially Christmastime! The best part of Christmas is definitely the music and I have listened to nothing else since Thanksgiving. Bing Crosby, Harry Connick Jr., U2, Elvis, The Irish Tenors, it’s all so good!
What’s funny about Christmas music is that there are maybe 30 songs in total but 700 versions of each song–and everyone prefers a different one! In the spirit of Christmas let’s play a little game à la High Fidelity. I’m requesting, dear readers, that you share your top five favorite Holiday songs with us. Don’t be shy, this isn’t so much a window to your soul as “favorite books” or “desert island movies” might be, but a representation of your traditions so we can’t really judge you. I’ll start . . .
1. Ave Maria (Luciano Pavarotti)
2. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Bruce, duh)
3. O Holy Night (Bing Crosby)
4. Baby Please Come Home (U2)
5. When My Heart Finds Christmas (Harry Connick, Jr.)
I know that Ave Maria is not really a Christmas song. I have five versions of Ave Maria on my iPod that I listen to year-round. However, that particular version reminds me of Christmas Eve and therefore gets a spot on the top five. Okay, your turn! While you’re thinking please enjoy this fabulous version of “Joy to the World” by Sufjan Stevens. Unfortunately, I have to link to it; I tried every way possible to embed the song in the post but it just wasn’t working. It’s worth taking the jump for though, I promise.
[Posted by Madeline]
Filed under family, music, pop culture
Put a little boogie in it! Ha-that one will never get old. Unless, of course, you pick your nose so much that you bleed to death. Which is exactly what happened to Ian Bothwell who passed away in September at the age of 63 as a result of too much nose-picking. I imagine that booger jokes lose their appeal at that point–for a variety of reasons.
The Manchester, England coroner who examined Bothwell determined that, “”There is no explanation for this death other than he died from a nose-bleed, consistent with picking his nose. I do not think for a moment he knew what he was doing was going to cause his death.” According to the UK Telegraph, the death was recorded as a “misadventure.”
I have to lay off the snark a little here because it’s actually quite a sad story. Poor Ian Bothwell fell into a life of alcoholism after suffering a brain hemorrhagewhen he was 20. He couldn’t keep a job and had only one living relative, a sister who he had only seen once in 30 years. And then . . . he died from picking his nose. So let’s all do Ian Bothwell a favor. Let’s learn from his mistake and memorialize him by blowing more often than not. If you absolutely cannot fight the urge then please, pick with caution–it could be a matter of life and death.
[Posted by Madeline]
Filed under adventures, definitely not politics, news, random, RIP
On a scale of one to Vampire Weekend, I love(d) Selena. How great is this song?
And just FYI, when you are looking to buy Selena stuff on iTunes, Genius also recommends that you purchase “Lean Like a Cholo.” I realize that they are both, um, Latino, but I just don’t think that’s the same genre. Way to be culturally insensitive, iTunes.
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under celebrities, music, RIP, YouTube
Literally. They will not take his calls. Okay, it’s just the one. Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up on Obama not once . . . but twice yesterday, assuming that it was a prank call.
Hold the phones (ha). This woman is the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, not to mention, um, a congresswoman. Isn’t it part of her job description to take important phone calls? But wait . . . there’s more! Here is an exerpt from the official press release from the office of the congresswoman:
“Cong. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thought it was a hoax when President-Elect Barak (sic) Obama called her twice today and she proceeded to hang up on him, twice.”
Really?! I mean, REALLY?! So, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called the Congresswoman to tell her that she had hung up on the President Elect. Ros-Lehtinen then hung up on him and spelled his name wrong in the press release as well (not to be accused of playing favorites):
“A short time later, Cong. and Chief of Staff designate Rahm Emmanuel (sic) called Ileana and stated ‘Ileana, I cannot believe that you hung up on the President-Elect.’ Ros-Lehtinen told Rahm that she didn’t believe the call was legitimate and hung up on Emmanuel (sic).”
Obama and Ros-Lehtinen were finally able to have a chat about Cuba and Israel (thank goodness he wasn’t calling about anything important . . . ) after Chairman Howard Berman of the Foreign Affairs Committee called the Congresswoman, proved his identity over the phone by sharing a story only the two would know (creepy . . .), and broke the news that she had indeed hung up on the President-Elect. Twice.
Once, I accidentally sent an e-mail to the president of my university which accidentally said that I loved him. That was pretty embarassing but I think hanging up on the President-Elect of the United States twice in one day would be worse. When Barack calls me and offers me a job (any day now . . . ) I will be sure not to make the same mistake.
[Posted by Madeline]
When I was in elementary school I wrote a “book” about visiting the boardwalk during a storm. Except that it was actually about visiting the doardwalk because the letter b was hard to wrap my mind around. Then I wrote a book about a dog named Penny who had puppies. Both were illustrated by the author. Neither was any good (of course, my mom would tell you otherwise).
Alec Greven, a fourth grader at Soaring Hawk Elementary School in Castle Rock, Colorado, has also written a book. The only difference between his book and my book is that his is a national best seller. Alec wrote “How to Talk to Girls” when he was eight as part of a school project. Based on his life experiences and playground observations the book contains such advice as:
Sometimes, you get a girl to like you and then she ditches you. Life is hard, move on!
Tip: About 73 percent of regular girls ditch boys; 98 percent of pretty girls ditch boys.
(from Chapter One: The Facts of Life)
It should be noted that those statistics are not national figures, they pertain only to Alec’s observations of girls at Soaring Hawk Elementary. The book impressed his teacher and principal so much that they decided to sell it for three dollars at the school’s book fair, where it became the fair’s best-seller. Harper Collins published the book last month and now Alec is dispensing his dating advice to boys of all ages all over the country. Some of his best advice?
“You also have to be aware that girls win most of the arguments and have most of the power. If you know that now, things might be easier.” (Chapter One: The Facts of Life)
That is a fact of life, indeed. Way to go Alec. To enjoy all of Alec’s advice you should probably buy his book or ask Santa to bring it to you for Christmas. In the meantime, enjoy some more of Alec’s innocent wisdom:
Many boys who have crushes don’t know how to act around a girl. Some boys tease girls they like and are mean to them. Some boys say silly things to girls and act goofy. Some boys think they are acting cool by showing off.
This is not a good approach.
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Whatever happens, just don’t act desperate. Girls don’t like desperate boys
. . . . . . . . . . . .
The right thing to do when you have a crush is:
- Never show off too much
- Don’t be silly and goofy
- Control your hyperness (cut down on sugar if you need to)
- Make sure you have good friends who won’t try to take the girl you like.
I know what my brother is getting for Christmas . . .
[Posted by Madeline]
Filed under crushes, definitely not politics, humor, news, pop culture, random, the arts, Uncategorized
six words to change the world. 