This is why I love Southwest! Okay, is it just me, or would this be even better with the Fresh Prince music playing in the back?
My grandmother is actually the cutest person in the world and LOVES to watch the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on Nick at Night before she goes to bed. She’ll inform us that she is watching “The Prince” and then retires to her room. Haha. Though recently she’s developed an addiction to Keith and Rachel, which conflicts with “The Prince”. Such is life.
And now that the Fresh Prince theme song is stuck in your head for the next week, I should just help you out/make it worse:
As much as I hate to contribute to it by writing about it, I’m always interested when Joe the Plumber manages to extend his 15 minutes of fame– even if only for a millisecond. How on earth does he do it?! Well this new JTP blip on the media screen is fairly hilarious. Thank you WashPo’s The Sleuth for the important news! Joe recently spoke at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards”. I know you’re DYING to know what that is; it sounds gripping! Apparently all the people who hate democracy get in one room to slam the liberal media. Doesn’t that sound fun? Umm…boooooooring. So good old Joe the Plumber/Journalist gets up there to accept some bogus award about really sticking it to the socialists. Naturally, the neocons are clapping for this pure paradigm. He eloquently expresses his humble appreciation:
“God, all this love and everything in the room – I’m horny,” declared Joe, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher.
And cue the chirping crickets. Rawr?
When you get that special feeling, Joe, you should just go on home, slip into something more comfortable (but really, is there anything more comfortable than the JTP flannel shirt? I don’t think so!), light some cheap smelling candles, pour yourself a fine glass of boxed wine and run a nice bubbly wubbly bubble bath for yourself. But for the love of all things holy and sacred, DO NOT tell your sexually oppressed conservative friends how you feel!
I was going to go off on a HUGE multiple-paragraph tangent about the so-called liberal media but I’m going to keep this as short as possible…aka one paragraph. Guess what, folks? The liberal media smear is spin concocted to protect the Bush Administration and its followers from the press. By turning the American people against the press, the news stories– which contained the truth — were seen as biased and became irrelevant. But reporting on the horrors of war and unveiling the lies of the government is not liberal bias, it’s the job of the press. Take Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann out of the equation now, please, because they have equal and opposite forces named O’Reilly and Hannity. We’re talking about the journalists whose names you do not know. There is an unspoken vow among journalists to bring the truth to the people– a sort of Hippocratic Oath, if you will. Challenging and questioning a president, Congress, the government, or taking on the rest of the media? That is their function in society. If the media were so liberal, we would have had a Democratic president years ago. Trust me. I’m appalled that the liberal media excuse and tactic is still being used and people are still buying it. (McCain lost. Sarah Palin sucked. Get over it. It was their fault.) Now that Obama is president, the press will do its job to report everything that goes on. In fact, Obama seems to be losing the media fight when it comes to selling his economic plan, is he not? Not so liberal afterall…And I’m spent!
Now back to the important stuff. A most appropriate music video in honor of JTP:
And one last uber-serious thought: Has Akon ever sang about something other than sexytime?
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! I’d say something cool and witty in Gaelic, but guess what, I’m too lazy to look it up! Anyway, St. Patrick’s Day is being celebrated at the White House this year Obama style. Meeeesh had them dye all the fountain water green! Love her.
And now, perhaps for the first time ever, a SWTCTW repost. Dearest Madeline found this gem and posted it awhile back, but I think today’s as great a day as any to show it again. I present to you the song “There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama”!
It’s no “Danny Boy”, but I think I love it. Have a fantastic St. Patrick’s Day! Do something Irishy! Drink something Guinnessy! Get lucky…in the Irish sort of way.
PS- Found this article to make us all sophisticated while celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. (It’ll tell you what Erin Go Bragh actually means, so maybe you should check it out.)
Now I know all you Snuggsters are going to take issues with me on this one. But the Hawaii Chair informercial is WAY better than the Snuggie.
The “Oh my gosh! This is amazing!” girl…is she serious? Does she realize that she sounds like she’s…well, whatever. Honestly I could go on for ages about the hilariousness, but I’m going to let the master handle this one:
Naturally, I think B looks fantastic. While the article makes it seem like it wasn’t necessarily a campaign decision to let him go gray, I think it was. Every detail of that campaign was discussed and analyzed. They wanted him to have a more experienced look, and it works for him.
Who is this Walt Frazier “No Play for Mr. Gray” joker anyway? Pssh. B is still foxy.
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.)
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.
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.
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?
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.
six words to change the world. 