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.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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Here is your crazy story for today! (From the AP)
HEBRON, Ind. — Police say a northern Indiana woman who wasn’t invited to her sister’s wedding reception showed up anyway and attacked the bride, pulling out clumps of her hair.
Twenty-three-year-old Annmarie Bricker of Valparaiso faces a misdemeanor battery charge for last Friday’s attack outside a Porter County home.
The Porter County Sheriff’s Department says a friend was hosting a reception for Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes — Bricker’s sister — when Bricker attacked Kappes on the front porch.
Police say that after the attack, Kappes had smeared makeup and clumps of hair missing from her head but sought no medical treatment.
Bricker told police she arrived at the home to confront her sister and parents and “just wanted to talk” about family problems. She says she never touched her sister.
She “just wanted to talk”? HA! Liar, liar, pants on fire!
I sense a Lifetime movie script in the works. Toss in a stripper, a pregnancy, and we’ve got ourselves a nice little Sunday afternoon. Maybe Kate Hudson is available?
[Posted by Kathleen]
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Remember that Iraqi reporter who threw his fancy footwear at the (former!) leader of the free world’s head? Ahh yes, Muntazer al-Zaidi! That silly prankster!
Now, as you could have gathered from my liberal bleeding heart wimpy sappy Obama obsessed blog, I wasn’t W’s biggest fan. But, to quote Austin Powers (and I will NEVER EVER quote it again, by the way. I promise.), “Who throws a shoe? Honestly?!”
To commemorate the Muntazernator’s horrible aim (or W.’s cat-like reflexes, which no doubt are a result of his frequent cat naps), the Iraqis in Sadaam Hussein’s hometown, Tikrit, have unveiled a six-foot statue of a shoe. Cool?
Now that is CLASSY. One and a half tons of pure class with a tree sticking out of it. Just in case you are dumb like me and can’t read Arabic, the inscription says “Muntazer: fasting until the sword breaks its fast with blood; silent until our mouths speak the truth.”
Ah, now that is poetry.
Muntazer, by the way, is in jail. He is facing charges of assaulting a visiting head of state.
And please note about the title of this post, I KNOW that you can’t hear a shoe around the world. I’m only making a nerdy historical reference to “the shot heard round the world”. It’s a line from a poem written by Emerson about the start of the Revolutionary War. WOOO LIBERAL ARTS!
[Posted by Kathleen]
Having been accused of only seeing things as a Democrat, I’d just like to announce that I transcended party lines today (take THAT, Mike.) and voted for a Republican. This was a very serious and thoughtful vote that I took, and I stand by my decision. I voted for Republican Congressman Aaron Schock as the hottest Congressional Freshman.
The choices?
Glenn Nye of Virginia, Aaron Schock of Illinois, Jim Himes of Connecticut, Tom Perriello of Virginia, and Jared Polis of Colorado. Nye has solid good looks, and Himes is pretty foxy. But Aaron Schock? RAWR. Very, very…pretty.
See?
And he’s only 27. True story, he’s the first member of Congress to be born in the 80s. Thanks, Huffpo, for the factoid.
Vote for yourselves!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/29/whos-the-hottest-congress_n_162076.html
[Posted by Kathleen]
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This video is taking over the world wide webs! No but seriously, people are loving this. It is slightly hilaaaaaaarious. When the girl whips out the balloon? HA! But it’s weird too. Perfect for SWTCTW, no? Now all I can think about is Cadbury chocolate. YUM.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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I’m back. I’ve come back from an unsuccessful foray into the real world (read: no place to live or a job…but I might have found a place to live. But still no job. That should be interesting. That’s another post.) and I’m back to the la la land of blogging where I can do what I love and pretend I’m getting paid! (Barack, could we speed up that fixing the economy business? I know it’s not going to happen overnight…but I need it to get better so people want to hire me.)
So. Much. To. Talk. About. So we have a new president. AWESOME. (If you don’t want to read one more freaking word about inauguration then just skip to the next paragraph.) Yours truly was there in the throws of things. I got to spend some quality time with Jessica Alba and her husband, Cash Warren. Cash, by the way, was much nicer than she was and not nearly as much of a jerk as Perez Hilton makes him out to be. If I had taken a picture with Jessica, I would have posted it, but I was trying to keep my cool and pretend like I didn’t care that she was a celebrity. Maybe it worked but it was a HUGE mistake on my part, because now I have no actual evidence. Whatev. Barack’s speech was perfect. It was HOPEy, CHANGEy, alluded to our new style of diplomacy, and presented a strong national image and showed he was not going to mess around. RAWR. I made it to a couple balls, but never got to see B and Meesh dance. Wahhh. We arrived just as Biden did, so they wouldn’t let us in. They were going to let us in between Joe and Barack, but guess what. They didn’t. I stood in the cold for forty minutes waiting. You know what made it better though? Walking in and James Taylor was playing. Niiiiiiiiiice. Okay, that’s all I’m going to say about the great inaug. Nope it’s not. I would wear everything Michelle Obama wears. Foxy. Hell, I’d wear Sasha and Malia’s clothes too. Too cute. ENOUGH! ENOUGH.
Barack is going to sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act today. It will now be law that women deserve the same pay as men. I cannot believe it took this long. If you want to read the stories that prove we need this legislation, read this NYT op-ed. Hooray!
In other great news, PETA is still batty. I meant to blog about them wanting to change the word “fish” to “sea kittens” but I didn’t. So get over it. Hopefully, you know about that anyway. If you don’t, here’s the deal. Fish have feelings, etc. So when you eat fish, they want you to feel bad about it. Like REALLY REALLY bad. They think the best way to do this is to change the name of fish to sea kittens. I am not making that up. But that’s not even what I am talking about. PETA has a vegetable sex ad that got denied for a Superbowl slot. Vegetable sex. Yeah, I said it and yeah, I know you pervs want to watch it:
Wowie. Thank you, PETA, for grossing me out AND making me feel bad about myself at the same time. And I’d like to see their sources for their information. How do they KNOW that vegetarians have better sex?
Okay, I’m off to stalk le internets and find more goodness for you to enjoy while you work. And I do not work. Really, this is community service. Right, Mom and Dad?
[Posted by Kathleen]
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As you may have noticed, neither Kathleen nor I have blogged in a while. We go through a dry spell every so often, and I always feel incredibly guilty about it the whole time. On that topic, my roommate and I just had the following conversation:
Sarah: Um, Six Words and Drunkinarowboat are totally failing me.
Me: I know…I’m like, really conflicted. Do I even keep blogging? Is it worth it to blog if I’m not being consistent or doing a good job?
Sarah: [incredulous stare]
What she means is, she needs the distraction. She also means that blogging sometimes is better than never blogging again, if I really like doing this. And I do. Minus the fact that our blog is looking totally janky right now and I don’t know what to do about it because technology hurts my brain.
So I’m gonna keep on keepin’ on, and keep doing the best I can to blog regularly. (Kathleen will too; I’m making her promise that without her consent.)
To get the ball rolling on about a million things I want to post about right now, let’s go with a link to a series of photos that made me cry. They’re all related to Obama, obviously. Go look at them and you may never be sad again. (Ignoring the pictures of Bush, which ALMOST made me pity the sucker.)
Here’s another wonderful photo, courtesy of the HuffPost:
Here’s to you, Mr. President.
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under blogging, post-college depression, random, thoughts
Today, as many of you know, is the start of the eighth season of American Idol (and there’s a new judge, Kara DioGuardi, who seems saucy!). Funny, I can only name a couple winners…and a few losers. (Clay Aiken, I’m talking about you!) The best part of the show is seeing the auditions. Remember William Hung? Yeah, he released a full album. But my favorite audition of all time has to go to the one and only Mary Roach. Perhaps someone tonight might top it, but I seriously doubt it. Enjoy the musical talents of Mary Roach!
Mary Roach, you will always be my American Idol.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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In September, I wrote about that chick Natalie Dylan, who is auctioning off her virginity “to pay for school”. Suuuuure. While I still think she’s cheating herself, she is going to walk away with AT LEAST $3.7 MILLION. Damn, girl. Over 10,000 men have bid on her. Now that sounds like a confidence booster.
She says the original idea came from her sister, who worked as a prostitute for three weeks and paid for school. What is with these girls and not paying for school the way everyone else does?! Anyway, Natalie is confident in her decision.
“I think me and the person I do it with will both profit greatly from the deal.”
Well, Natalie, you’ll get your millions. But I’m not so sure how he’ll profit from this. I mean, he’ll forever be known as the guy who had to drop a few mil for sex. Gross.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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As Mallory reported earlier, Joe the Plumber is now Joe the Reporter, reporting from Israel. For Pajama Media, whatever that is. (I frequently blog from my bed, am I part of Pajama Media?) Essentially, after watching one of his videos, I would ever-so-kindly, but bluntly, suggest that he stick to plumbing. Let’s take a look at it, shall we? Watch Joe the Buffoon give his version of the straight talk to the media (and be a huge horse’s ass) here. Best part is how he says “I’m not the story”, (as he points to the dude with the Kenny G. hair in a ponytail. That hair is newsworthy.) but clearly, he is. And that’s how he likes it.
Somehow, this joker managed to get about two solid weeks of press attention. The first time was just chance, but every time after that, it was because he wanted it. Ooh, Joe is going on the campaign trail with McCain! Ooh, Joe isn’t ruling out a run for Congress in 2010! Ooh, Joe just got an agent! Now, if he didn’t want publicity, why would he hire an agent? After all, he’s just a regular guy! My favorite Joe moment, up until now though, was after the election when Joe decided to backstab McCain and Palin. Yup, that got him another 15 minutes of fame.
So here is the transcription of him confronting “The Media”. Dun dun dun…
JOE: The story here is people are being killed and the media’s slanting it and trying to make it Hamas is, uh, as far as, that Israel’s being bad. Do you believe Israel is bad?
Oooh! Good question, Joe! Has Israel been naughty?
REPORTER: Do I believe it?
JOE: Yeah, do you?!
Do ya, punk?
REPORTER: I’m Israeli, so…
JOE: So answer the question!
Objection! The reporter is badgering the…reporter!
REPORTER: No, I don’t think Israel is bad.
JOE: Do you think Israel has every right to protect itself?
REPORTER: Yeah.
[pause]
JOE: You do?!
REPORTER: Yeah.
It’s called preparation, Joe. It’s quite simple. You see, if you think of questions beforehand, you don’t have to stall and have awkward pauses.
JOE: Have you said that on air?
REPORTER: I’m just a reporter.
Yeah, Joe. You really nailed this one.
Ahhh, and that is why I cannot be a reporter. Because being able to have public opinions about things, such as Joe the Plumber, is just too much fun to pass up.
[Posted by Kathleen]
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six words to change the world. 