Monthly Archives: March 2009

by | March 5, 2009 · 3:13 pm

dear readers, i present food porn.

My officemate Erica (who has her own fabulous food blog called Bacon Concentrate — check her out and make her famous!) introduced me to Tastespotting, the most wonderful blog ever. It just has lots of pictures of food! Basically, any food-lover can send in their own handiwork and have it displayed on le blog. Which is both wonderful and really, really torturous. Just ask my keyboard, which is now covered in my saliva. I feel like this site shouldn’t be safe for work. Here are some samples:

bagel

(Originally from kitchenmischief.blogspot.com)

toast

(Originally from voodoolily.blogspot.com)

pork

(Originally from latimes.com)

cake

(Originally from spicyicecream.blogspot.com)

Yeah, you’re welcome.

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by | March 4, 2009 · 8:46 pm

you went to school for what?!

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I always hated when you’d ask someone what their degree was in and they’d say something like “procrastination” or “drinking”.  Oh, haha, good joke, you are HILARIOUS.  But imagine if you asked someone what they got their Master’s in and the response was “The Beatles”–and they weren’t making lame attempts at wit!  That’s awesome!  No seriously, you can get a Master’s Degree in “The Beatles, Popular Music and Society” at Liverpool Hope University in England.  Ummm.  Sign me up! 

Here is the AP story:

 

LONDON — The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four.

Liverpool Hope University said Tuesday that its new master’s program, “The Beatles, Popular Music and Society,” would give students the opportunity to analyze music and culture through the band’s work.

“There have been over 8,000 books about the Beatles but there has never been serious academic study and that is what we are going to address,” said Mike Brocken, who is directing the program at the university, which is in the band’s hometown in northwestern England.

Brocken said students would be expected to study the Beatles’ songs, stardom, hometown and cultural impact through four 12-week courses and a dissertation.

Brocken said studying the band was really a way of examining society as a whole.

“If popular music is about anything, it’s about people,” he said. “If we look at popular culture, it simply provides us with a very complex mirror of ourselves.”

 I think I just found the answer to the quarter life crisis.  

Paul McCartney, no joke, was my first celebrity crush.  Of course, I was smitten with the young Paul McCartney.  I was also devasted when I realized the pictures were in black and white because they were taken 40 years earlier.  Wahhhhhh.

Imagine the classes you could take!  Please leave comments with your wittiest/best effort Beatles inspired class name.  (I won’t judge you as long as it’s not like “Drinking and Procrastinating to the Beatles!”  But–side story– I did, in fact, have a Beatles pregame once.  Or thrice.)

[Posted by Kathleen]

 

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by | March 4, 2009 · 5:18 am

denver: last frontier of…unusual sculptures?

As I’ve mentioned a few hundred times on this blog, I’m from Denver. I’m pretty obsessed with my hometown and am quick to brag about it. Until recently, and besides Tom Tancredo, there wasn’t much about Denver that I was ashamed of. 

Then last year, “Blue Mustang” made its way to the entrance to Denver International Airport. If you’ve ever flown into or out of DIA, you’ll remember this mustang, although you may only remember its “I-will-eat-your-soul” red-eyed death stare:

In that picture, it may just look ugly, but take my word for it: those eyes are downright terrifying when it’s pitch black outside and you’re on your way to a 5 a.m. flight.

As if the basic aesthetics of the mustang weren’t bad enough, there’s a horror story behind the making of it. The artist DIED when the mustang’s TORSO fackin’ FELL ON HIM:

Haters of this work say that “Blue Mustang,” as it is formally known, by the artist Luis Jiménez (killed in 2006 when a section of the 9,000-pound fiberglass statue fell on him during construction), is frightening, or cursed by its role in Mr. Jiménez’s death, or both. [NYTimes]

That mustang is a murderer! It’s even spawned a Facebook group supporting its removal. I mean sure, you could argue that the sculpture gets people talking, and that it’s bold. But in a city that’s not exactly, er, known for its art, do we really want this to be what people associate with Denver? (Not to mention one of the first or last things they see in the city.) I’d much rather my beloved Mile High City be known for one of its less creepy — but equally wacky and conversation-starting — sculptures. Here’s “Dancers,” which sits outside our Performing Arts Complex:

And my personal favorite, titled “I See What You Mean,” which is outside the Convention Center:

So, dear readers, what do you think?

[Posted by Mallory]

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by | March 3, 2009 · 6:48 pm

when our work’s done for us.

In case you hadn’t heard, your favorite libtard crook politican is writing a book!

Thank you, Chicagoist (via Wonkette, obviously) for this gem:

blago's book

I’m counting darkside as one word, which makes this a phenomenal six-word memoir (literally! ba-dum ching!). 

Blago, I hope your memoir is exactly as successful as Joe the Plumber’s “book.”

[Posted by Mallory]

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by | March 3, 2009 · 3:25 pm

happy square root day, you nerds.

Oh sweet celebration!  Happy Square Root Day, ya’ll!  Today (incase you forgot) is 03/03/09, so mathematically…√9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.   Stop judging me, I did not come up with this and I had to copy and paste the math from my source.  I just like to keep you informed.  Here’s what the mathematical mastermind, Ron Gordon, has to say about Square Root Day:

“Square Root Days are special because they’re so rare,” he said, with enthusiasm to the nth degree. “We only get a handful of them in a century. The last one was Feb. 2, 2004, and the next won’t be until April 4, 2016. They’re like calendar comets. You wait and wait and wait for them, they brighten up your day and then — poof! They’re gone.”

Nothing significant will actually happen on this day, as far as we know.

Luck is not associated with Square Root Day as it is with, say, a Friday the 13th (which we’ll have next week). The Rapture will not occur, and airplanes will not fall out of the sky like they didn’t on Y2K. 

Now if you did the math and use your trusty TI-83 Plus, you could find out that Square Root Day only occurs sixteen times a century.  The next one? 04/04/16, duh.  And apparently you’re supposed to celebrate by cutting up root vegetables in the shape of square roots. Weird.

But in honor of all you math nerds and I suppose Square Root Day, I present to you this video of my favorite mathlete ever, the one and only Math Enthusiast/Bad-Ass MC, Kevin G.

[Posted by Kathleen]

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by | March 3, 2009 · 6:55 am

youtube clip of today: wii breakfast.

Those folks on the other side of the pond are just so witty, are they not?  As someone who does not own a Wii and does not find it as amazing or entertaining as everyone else, I found this to be particularly funny.  My typical response when asked to play Wii?  ‘We would NOT like to play!’ Followed by me laughing at my own joke.  Get it?  Like the commercial?  I am hilarious!  While goofy, the video (brought to us by Idiots of Ants) does touch on something bizarre about our culture– our need for all those pointless games and silly controllers.  I mean, if anything, don’t you just love the accents?

So don’t get too disappointed that the game is fake.  I would like to see it exist for one scenario alone: if Mallory were to play, she’d make one hell of a breakfast sandwich.  

[Posted by Kathleen]

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by | March 3, 2009 · 3:51 am

kathleen and mallory now twitter. tweet?

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Honestly, I don’t understand Twitter at all.  I’ve been wrestling with it for AT LEAST 30 minutes trying to get it to show up on this here bloggy.  Ugh.  But hooray!  Mal and I are now joining the rest of society and Twittering (tweeting?) on the Interwebs.  So follow us!  See how I’m picking up on the new lingo?

http://twitter.com/swtctwkathleen

http://twitter.com/swtctwmal

Do it.  Everyone else is.  All the cool kids are.  Peer pressure!

[Posted by Kathleen]

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by | March 2, 2009 · 8:23 pm

a picture is worth 1,000 laughs.

From the newest issue of Vanity Fair:

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And the original?

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I’ll take Seth Rogen anyday. (Especially now that he’s super duper foxy svelte for his role as the Green Hornet and my inexplicable attraction to him pre-toned up is now somewhat justified.) RAWR.

You’re welcome!

[Posted by Kathleen]

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by | March 2, 2009 · 3:38 pm

my my, dr. seuss is 105!

dr-seuss-birthdayPerhaps some of you care, perhaps you’re just looking for another reason to party– an alcoholiday, if you will.  (I came up with that on Fat Tuesday, appropriately enough.  I’m sure someone else has thought of it before.  I’d never heard it.  I want credit.)  As if a snow day wasn’t enough of an excuse, I’m pleased to tell you that it’s Dr. Seuss’ birthday!  The king of the AABB rhyme scheme, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, would be 105 today.  I’m sure if he were here with us, the Great Birthday Bird would pay him a visit.  Heavens to Betsy!  You don’t know about the Great Birthday Bird?  Well, I’ll let the good Doctor do some explaining:

The Great Birthday Bird!  And, so far as I know, Katroo is the only place Birthday Birds grow.  This bird has a brain, he’s most beautifully brained with the brainiest bird-brain that’s ever been trained.  He was trained by the most splendid Club in this nation, the Katroo Happy Birthday Asso-see-eye-ation.  And, whether your name is Pete, Polly or Paul, when your birthday comes round, he’s in charge of it all.

So now you know!  Seuss-style rhetoric is the best.  You can read more Seuss quotes here.  Even though I get older, his books never get old.  Oh, and check Google.  Their page is really cute today.  Oh, and if you want to be RESPECTABLE and not use Dr Seuss’ birthday as an excuse to drink but still want to celebrate, you should, at the very least, make yourself some green eggs and ham.

[Posted by Kathleen]

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by | March 2, 2009 · 2:53 pm

youtube clip of today: office musical.

Happy snow day for you east coasters!  Here is a clever meshing of clips from The Office into a musical.  I like it! I like it!  I mean, I LOVE musicals (just ask my musical-hating college roommate…) and I LOVE The Office.  Perfect?  Plus, you’ll remember some of the scenes from the show and laugh out loud awkwardly to yourself.  Or perhaps you are one of the unfortunate who had to go to work or school today.  (I, by the way, am still doing neither.)  Then, you will laugh out loud awkwardly to yourself around other people.  Eek.  Good luck with that.

[Posted by Kathleen.  YES I KNOW IT’S BEEN AWHILE.]

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