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by | March 24, 2009 · 12:44 pm

youtube clip of the day: airplane rap.

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:

Happy Tuesday!

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by | March 17, 2009 · 7:56 pm

the white house goes shamrock green!

 

White House fountains run green for St Patrick's Day at Michelle Obama's request

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.)

[Posted by Kathleen]

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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.)

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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.

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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.  

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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 · 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.

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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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by | February 1, 2009 · 5:23 pm

odds and ends for sunday afternoon.

Greetings, earthlings.  After the most exciting Saturday night ever (I ate half a block of cheese, apple slices, 3 pickles, a piece of pizza, BBQ chips, and a bowl of chili.  Don’t act like you’re not impressed.), I find myself slothing on the couch of fellow blogger Mal and dear friend Ms. Potter.  Naturally, I have been catching up on all the interesting news that I missed whilst stuffing my face with high sodium foods.  Here we go:

*Michael Phelps smoked a bong, oh my!  AND THERE IS PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE!  I’m not surprised.  He swims fast but in his spare time, he likes to move slooooooooooow.  Here’s the best quote from the story:

“He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool. He was the gold medal winner of bong hits. Michael ended up getting a little paranoid, though, because before too long he looked like he was nervous and ran out of the place.”

Haha.  Five bucks the kid who said this quote was stoned out of his mind and giggled for hours after saying “the gold medal winner of bong hits”.  Here’s the picture.

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Whoopsies!  But in all honesty, this guy takes six drug tests a day, I hardly think he’s a pothead.

*Lisa Loeb got mawwwwwwwied!  She married Roey Hershkovitz, a teevee producer.  You can read the cute NYT announcement here.  Oddly enough, there’s no mention of her E! show, “#1 Single”, which chronicled her miserable dating life and her never-ending, desperate quest to get married.  Funny they didn’t mention it.  Eek.  Here’s a video of her actual number one single, “Stay”.  LOVE THAT SONG.  It’s so 7th grade angsty.  But congrats to LL and her man!

* If you watched the inauguration, you saw Aretha Franklin and her [insert adjective of choice] hat.  Her hat is historic enough on its own, apparently, because the Smithsonian Museum has requested it.

“I am considering it. It would be hard to part with my chapeau since it was such a crowning moment in history,” says the Queen of Soul. “I would like to smile every time I look back at it and remember what a great moment it was in American and African-American history. Ten cheers for President Obama.”

And then she went on about being a natural woman and all that jazz.  What do you think about her hat?

Inauguration Arethas Hat

So no SERIOUS news, just things I find interesante (that’s Spanish for “interesting” FYI).  I need to go eat sodium free foods.  I’ll post more exciting things later, I promise.  Happy Superbowl Sunday!  GO CARDINALS!  Honestly, I don’t care, but I’m rooting for them because running back Tim Hightower is a RICHMOND SPIDER.

[Posted by Kathleen]

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by | January 30, 2009 · 8:57 pm

youtube clip of today: wtf blanket.

If you hate the Snuggie commercials on teevee as much as I do, you will find this to be humorous.  Honestly, I think they make people look like Jedi knights.  Which, to some, might be cool.  McStarWars, yours is in the mail.

And just for funsies, here is the actual Snuggie commercial. VOM.

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