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I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT.
Really, this is the best SNL has been in years. And in even better news, my twin, Maya Rudolph, is coming back!
AHHHH.
[Posted by Kathleen]
Category Archives: crushes
snl: ferrell’s dubya endorses fey’s palin.
Filed under celebrities, crushes, humor, news, politics, pop culture, random, TV, YouTube
being a baller never gets old.
Ken Mink is a badass. The 73-year-old just made the Roane State basketball team. Roane State, by the way, is in Tennessee. He’s listed as a senior on the roster–not to be confused with a senior citizen (ohhhhhhhhh). Anyway, the Minkster played college hoops back in the day too. But, like I said, he’s a badass. According to the Knox news:
So Mink, whose playing career at Lees (Ky.) Junior College came to an unceremonious end in 1956 when he was dismissed – wrongly, by his account – for allegedly soaping the coaches’ office with shaving cream, wrote to several colleges in search of a place to play.
Oh man, there’s a prank that went out of style. Time to bring back soaping, ya’ll. But I digress.
Mink is nearly twice as old as the school itself, which was founded in 1971.
Damnnnn.
Look how intense he is in that picture! Sadly, in a one-on-one game, this septgenarian would probably kick my ass. And then out drink me at the bar. Whatev, he seems cool.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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just cold cry-facin’ at my boyfriend.
It’s Hump Day Cry Face time! So yesterday, my “friend,” we’ll call him “Joe,” tried to tell me that the Cry Face was really a laughing face. And I was all, “Dude, have you ever seen a human laugh? That ain’t a laughing face.” Then he tried to argue with me and I told him that I would KNOW because I am the CREATOR of Cry Face. He then continued to say mean things to me and now I hate him.
(I’m mostly kidding. I mean Joe IS one of our regular readers, and I don’t want to alienate any regular readers. )
But speaking of Cry Face, let me tell you about my friend Selia. I’m using the term friend loosely here, mostly to mean “someone that I have a creepy Cry Face-related connection with even though I’ve never actually met her.” Weird, right? We’re like secret cyberspace heterosexual Cry Face girlfriends. Anyway. Selia is one of the proudest and best Cry Face ambassadors, and she has been dutifully spreading the CF all over the world. She’s here on the right:
Here’s to you, Selia. You deserve one million whore diamonds.
Now I’ll get back to “work,” or checking my email while staring across the room at my Library Boyfriend.
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under adventures, crushes, cry face, humor
oh jesus, i am andy bernard.
So, what did you do late Thursday night? Put your passed out little Asian friend to bed at 8:30 p.m. and then stay up watching a cappella videos on YouTube? Oh and was your YouTube somehow in Spanish? That is so weird, because ME TOO!
Um, yeah. Maybe I’m becoming one of those creepy a cappella fanatics. Whatever, I just wrote a cover letter and writing a cover letter will drive a person to extremes like a cappella. My Upper East Side correspondent recommended that I listen to Straight No Chaser’s “Insomniac,” so obviously I listened to it on repeat for like a half hour. I will post a “video” that is really just audio with a TERRIBLE comic sans font title across the screen. Forgive me for that, but the audio is better than in other videos, and please know that I. HATE. COMIC. SANS.
Here’s another video of SNC (yeah, I’m using a cappella acronyms, OKAY?) singing Toto’s “Africa”:
I’ve added a new requirement for my future husband. Gentlemen: if any of you are tall and bearded and can cook, play the guitar, and sing, please email sixwordstochangetheworld@gmail.com, care of Mallory.
Finally, here’s Carrie Underwood singing the only other song I’ve ever truly loved in a cappella version. I couldn’t find an a cappella version on YouTube.
And yes, I know that 75% of you probably didn’t watch those videos, but posting them was more fun than editing my cover letter.
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under crushes, music, post-college depression, random, YouTube
some introspective music for autumn days.
This song is one of the main reasons why I wuv The Shins.
[Posted by Kathleen]
Filed under crushes, music, pop culture, random, YouTube
blog: yes we can (hold babies)
Say it ain’t so Joe, here I go again blogging about other people’s blogs. (Hardy har har) As if Saint Barack could not get any more perfect, now you can look at sickeningly adorable pictures of him with non-voters. That means babies and other mini humans. Yes, you can. Yes, you want to. Yes we can (hold babies). Love love love.
Make this man president. DO IT.
[Posted by Kathleen]
Filed under babies, blogging, celebrities, crushes, politics, pop culture, random
listen up dudes: coca-cola kills sperm.
No, this is not something I overheard at a table of 8th graders. (Do I even know any 8th graders?) This is legitimate, scientific fact. Deborah Anderson of Boston University Medical Center and her colleagues discovered that Coca-Cola makes the defenseless little spermies explode. Seriously.
In honor of their epic discovery, Anderson and her colleagues were awarded an Ig Nobel prize. Not to be confused with the Nobel prize, the Ig Nobel prizes reward research with some snark and humor. So naturally, SWTCTW is impressed.
Because the Reuters news story describes some of the other winners better, here are the best parts:
The Ig Nobel committee made up a “nutrition prize” to go to Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Britain’s Oxford University, who tricked people into thinking they were eating fresh potato chips by playing them loud, crunching sounds when they bit one.
The biology prize goes to a French team that found dog fleas can jump higher than cat fleas, while the medicine prize was awarded to a team at Duke University in North Carolina who showed that high-priced placebos work better than cheap fake medicine.
Dorian Raymer of the Scripps Institution in San Diego and a colleague won the physics prize for demonstrating mathematically why hair or a ball of string will inevitably tangle itself in knots.
How smart do you feel, knowing that dog fleas can jump higher than cat fleas? I’m feeling good. I also learned from this year’s economics winner that professional lap dancers make more when they’re most fertile. So ladies, take note. More useless knowledge that people spent lots of money on to study:
Past winners include the creator of the plastic pink flamingo, a researcher who recorded a mallard duck sodomizing a dead drake and a doctor who cured hiccups by applying digital rectal massage.
Haha.
I guarantee you that when the big time Nobel prizes are announced, they won’t be nearly as entertaining as the Ig Nobels.
And guys, Coca-Cola has been proven ineffectual as a method of birth control. Don’t get any weird ideas.
[Posted by Kathleen]
Filed under blogging, crushes, definitely not politics, history, humor, news, pop culture, random, technology
palin and biden, according to snl.
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six words to change the world. 