I’m feeling ever-so-slightly like I might be getting sick, and I have eaten enough this weekend to feed a small country for a month, but instead of resting up for work tomorrow, I’m dicking around on my computer and listening to music. The other day I downloaded a bunch of self-pitying emo songs about being lonely, but in the iTunes frenzy I accidentally bought a really ridiculously adorable song:
Bonus points for the beginning of a beard.
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I know I’ve been posting a lot of YouTube videos lately, but I’ve also been watching a lot of YouTube videos lately. Apparently those things are related.
Try to watch this with out falling even more in love with Jason Segel and Paul Rudd:
I don’t care if you’re both married or way older than me or whatever. I want to have your babies and sing vampire songs and recite scenes from Clueless. Is that too much to ask?
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Um, hilarious:
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I am in a MAJOR Van Morrison phase right now. Which maybe sounds lame, like “Oh, hey, way to be a few decades late.” But whatever. Van Morrison is summer music for me, and so the second it was nice out, I was cranking that shit up. Maybe if I keep listening for the next few weeks, I can trick myself into thinking it’s not still see-your-breath weather. I’ll let you know how that works.
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Filed under music, pop culture, thoughts, YouTube
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:
❤ Ellen!
[Posted by Kathleen]
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]
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]
Filed under blogging, definitely not politics, humor, pop culture, random, weird, YouTube
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.]
Filed under blogging, celebrities, crushes, definitely not politics, humor, music, pop culture, rando, the arts, TV, YouTube
If you’re in D.C. on this lovely Monday, happy snow day! At the very least, the federal government and my school got a snow delay, and I’ll take it. I woke up this morning around 7 a.m., looked outside, let out a “yippee!,” checked my email, and promptly fell back asleep. I’m impressed, actually…this is a legitimate snow storm. Normally when people are freaking out about snow here in the mid-Atlantic region, I get up on my high Colorado horse and am like “Pssh, you call this sprinkling a snowstorm? In Colorado we put on our swimsuits and call this summer!” (Which, of course, is a huge lie. Colorado is not the frigid tundra that some people think it is.)
Anyway, my morning classes and appointments are cancelled, so hooray! I’m quite happy to snuggle up in my apartment and watch entertaining YouTube videos like this one:
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Filed under adventures, animals, humor, news, YouTube
I just got a belated Christmas gift, and it was the best kind of belated Christmas gift: an iTunes gift card. Poking around on iTunes and finding random stuff that I like is one of my favorite activities, and it’s even better to get to do it for free. (And not get the random bill emailed to you where you’re all “Damn…I’m just going to delete that and pretend those 25 songs at 3 a.m. did not happen.”)
I found some good stuff today, and I’ll probably post more of it later, but for now here’s a cheeky and all-too-appropriate little song for Sunday night:
Right on target, Meiko.
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six words to change the world. 