Shana Tova!

May the new year bring happiness and health. The two big H's!


Updated: So wrong but so right.

Someone says what I've been thinking.....

I love the internet:

When it comes to the bailout here's how I feel:
"You can try to prevent a financial meltdown or you can teach Wall Street a lesson, but you can't do both at the same time."

I would be against the bail out if there was time and better alternatives. However, there is neither. My little moron brain sees it as something that needs to be done now. I hope the idiots on the hill actually do what they are paid to do and make a fucking decision.

I Laughed.....

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

I think it's cute when comedians care. I also think it's cute that Sarah Silverman is trying to make a difference. Whatevs. However, I still found it funny in parts, predictable and mostly false (awesome foreign policy recap) but still kinda funny.

What I Learned This Week

It's not bad taking a percacet while at work. It will make you slightly delusional and make you type incoherent e-mails, thus leading to a much more entertaining work day than usual, which is always a bonus. In short: drugs are good. Especially strong drugs.

Fool Proof

Thoughts from a Sunday Evening Viewer

- I wasn't planning on watching the Emmy's tonight, in fact I by mistake found them while channel surfing. It strikes me as watching a kind of high school spectacle, where the same five popular people get mentioned, fawned over, and win awards. It's very self-congratulatory and incredibly insular community. It's a bit boring, to have to see the same acceptance speeches mention "truth to power" and "community organizers." It seems that people really do think that making a speech at an obnoxious event like the Emmy's about their political beliefs is some kind of achievement. This is one of the many reasons why these award shows are so unbearable to watch.

- Jessica Simpson looks really odd in the Macy's commercial, the one with the speed dater make-over, when she winks.

- I'm impressed Josh Groban's medley. That was not facetious. I specifically liked the South Park re-interpretation.

- Kathy Griffins hair was horrible, seriously what was she thinking? It looked like an orange hurricane hit her. Also Jennifer Love Hewitt hair was horrible. Some hairstylist are getting fired tonight.

-Christina Applegate's dressed made her look like she still has breasts. Reconstructive surgery? (I know it's wrong, but I was thinking it.)

-I liked Sandra Oh's dress.

-Cynthia Nixon looks like a chicken, her dress color (light blue) totally washes her out.

- Mad Men actually wins an Emmy! Yay, whatever makes AMC keep the show, the awards are totally meaningless at this point.

- That Dove commercial is a total subliminal ad that makes you think of orgasms when you eat a piece of chocolate. I went looking for it on youtube, but couldn't find it. Instead I found this endearing one.

I love all the different outfits she wears in the commercial.

- Hey it's Betty White! It's amazing to see her next to Mary Tyler Moore...she actually looks her age, unlike Moore.

- How does The Office not win? Seriously? How?

-It's hard not to like Tina Fey. She plays humble, but not in the annoying SJP way. She's funny and gets to the point!

- I love Mad Men's music score! Betty is cute on screen, not so much off screen. January Jones needs to consult a stylist stat!

Seriously?

I don't know how I came across this site, but I hope it's a joke. Otherwise it's just a bunch of assholes choosing to wanker on about their lifestyle choices without any consequences except letting people on the internet know how horrible they feel about liking to earn more money or using their car. It's pretty pathetic.

Here's some pathetic examples:

# Volkslover from Austin, TX takes responsibility for:

I have failed to change my commuting habits. I enjoy the act of racing around in my car, even when I know riding my bike is better for everyone.

# Holland from Nashville takes responsibility for:

I own not only the failure of my generation, but the failure of generations before me that allowed pop culture to take over and make us all sheep, content with the substandard, sensationalized triteness the media gives us. ba-aa-aa-aa-aah!

Ahoy!

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Delicious Cheeks

My sister and niece left yesterday and I didn't realize how hard it would be to see them go. They were here for a little bit over two weeks and the whole apartment is filled with baby smells, baby clothes, and A LOT of baby stuff. Seriously, it's amazing how people take care of babies now days with all the things they need, makes my head dizzy.

Golda is incredibly calm baby, a huge plus to not hear an infant's cry in the middle of the night. When she did cry it was a matter of minutes before she would stop and it was incredibly sad when she would cry. I always thought I was quite stoic when it came to babies crying, not so much with my niece.

It's incredibly satisfying to see my sister as a tender and loving mom. Let's just say I got the outwardly emotions genes, whereas my sister tends keep her emotions to herself, at least most of the time.

So ya, I have gorgeous niece and a loving sister, who I already miss.

Punk Republican

I remember reading somewhere (a while ago) that being an open Republican on a college campus was akin to being anti establishment way back when. So it was nice to read Trey Parker's rationalization/motivation for being "Republican." It's kind of cool because I definitely associate myself with being a "South Park Conservative" or more like a conservative with a libertarian bent.

TP: When we were growing up in Colorado, the way to be punk rock was to be kind of liberal, basically because we were surrounded by a bunch of rednecks. But I think both Matt and I kind of grew up being these rebellious kinds of liberals. But then we came to college and it was all those people, a bunch of hippies that we couldn’t fuckin’ stand, and then we go to L.A. and we’re like, “How the fuck do you be punk rock in L.A.?” So we figured, “What the fuck, let’s be Republicans.” It was the only way we could just say, “Fuck you, we think this way.” So I think that really confused people. It wasn’t until Team America that people got this Republican message—actually I don’t think it’s Republican at all, but more just this anti-super-liberal message—and that was the most anger we’ve ever got out of people. The thing was, it came out just before the election, and people were telling us that we might be encouraging people to vote for George Bush again, and we were, like, “Well, we don’t really care, the other option is just as bad.” And anyway, really, if you’re going to base your vote on what you saw at a puppet movie, seriously, dude, you shouldn’t be voting.

MS: The funny thing is, almost always in American entertainment, when a show has as much, like, cussing on it as South Park, those shows are almost always left-wing or whatever you want to call it. But we’ve done it from both sides and I think that’s just what freaks people out. Like, they don’t know how to react when we do something that isn’t exclusively left-wing. Then we get labeled right-wingers or conservatives. Even if you’re a liberal person, or a Republican, both sides, it’s like, if you can’t find some funny shit with your own stuff, then you’re just as humourless as some fundamentalist Christian that can’t hear shit and get offended. But it’s just as funny when we’ve done shows on the smugness of hybrid car owners. And people get really mad about that, going, “Can’t you see that hybrids can save the world?”

(emphasis added.)
They also trash talk Family Guy, which I've come think of as way too formulaic. The whole interview is worth a read if you are a fan of South Park.

Vinnipuh Takes Photos

You have to understand that he has a pretty shitty camera and yet his photos come out incredibly stunning.

My favorite from the batch:

New Blog On the Scene

A anon. conservative director has started an new blog. First entry was linked by Insty about the different camera techniques ABC used when interviewing Obama vs. Palin.

I'm kind of excited to read more:

Since this the first blog, let me give you a glimpse of what's in store for future articles. I'll be giving you a first hand account of such stories as puppeteers chanting to Satan behind-the-scene of a kids film and self professed co-workers of tolerance and diversity launching in to fist-pounding-on-desk, veins-bulging-in-forehead tyraids over soft spoken questions asked of them.

This is your inside look at the real Hollywood and those you give your billions to in ticket sales.

Best Bumper Sticker (of the weekend)

I went shooting again this weekend. And though I know jack shit about guns, I enjoyed myself immensely. I'm going to write about the experience tomorrow (I hope), but I just wanted to post the funny bumper sticker I saw at the range. You know those people who cling to guns and religion, they seem to be pretty funny to boot.

Google Scares Me Sometimes

"How can you adapt your business model to Google’s specs if Google won’t tell you what the specs are?"

The problem with monopolists, of course, is that they just can’t help acting like monopolists, even supposedly benign monopolists like Google and even when they are not consciously trying to rub out the competition. They are always right and everybody else is wrong. They have disdain for their own customers, knowing those customers have nowhere else to turn. They tell small fry like Mr. Savage to stop bugging them.

That is how Microsoft acted a decade ago, and that, increasingly, is how Google is acting. Half the time, the company doesn’t even realize how egregious its behavior has become, which is why it feels so misunderstood when it is criticized.

I think most of the time Google tries "not to do evil," but I think it has become (at times) the "evil" that it purports to not be. It not only knows what is good for you and me, it has the power to impose those good intentions on you and me. Power ruins. Always.

via Insty

Weekend Song

I'm in love with the Bat for Lashes' song "Whats a Girl To Do." I heard it a while ago and have been obsessed with the Donnie Darko video for a while. Today feels like the first day of fall, and this song is a nice reminder of the early days of summer. Even though autumn is my favorite season, I still feel a bit nostalgic for summer. Especially summer nights with friends - a glass of wine, delicious food, and gorgeous music streaming through the balmy summer air. This summer I didn't get as many of those nights as I would have liked, but there is always next year to look forward to.

Affair Matt Damon

Rachel Lucas sums it up best, when after completely owning Matt Damon, she writes, "Thanks for showing your ass, though." I guess it's not only what you say, but how you say it. Karol and PN also do a good job of covering the dummy.

Guess who is going to be parents?

The Gibs! Lots of love to the soon to be parents and their baby!

I Can't Believe It's Been Seven Years.......

9/11 still not a distant memory.

My boyfriend is funny.

Email exchange today:

Me (about some personal stuff): I guess cancer and babies help families stay together.

Peter: Unless you're John Edwards!

Oversaturation

Rachel Lucas sums up my feelings about politics, especially the Sarah Palin coverage.

You know? It has nothing to do with how awesome the whiskey is, which it is, but everything to do with simple physical limitations. Maybe you don’t drink. Fine, compare it to cheesecake or the delicious dessert treat of your choice, let’s not be judgmental here. It’s really good for the first several bites, right? Then you go too far, take one too many mouthfuls, and bam! You want to lay down on the bathroom floor. That’s where I am with “the politics” right now. Bathroom floor.

Suddenly being Jewish doesn't seem that bad....

Jewish community in Alabama offers $50,000 for families to relocate.

Intelligence and Politics

Dead Serious addresses the common misconception that Republicans are dumber than Democrats. He also points out that Bill Maher is talentless, unfunny hack.

An Israeli Filmaker on Palin

When asked about Palin's past support of Pat Buchanan, whose anti-Israeli views are common knowledge, Frank said that Palin's support of Buchanan stemmed from his positions in other issues, and that she did not agree with his views of Israel.

"She had an Israeli flag, of all the things, mounted on her office wall, and I have that on film" he said. "I was very surprised to see that and when I asked her about it, she said that she loves Israel and the she had friends who visited the country and brought her the flag."

via Ace

Bemused Tone Instead of an Angry One

Is now a trick. Seriously? That's how we are going to hoodwink the sheeple, by gently guiding them to the evil side with a "bemused tone?"
via ace

One of My Favorites

Girl on the Bridge is finally out on DVD. Seriously, when I start having a disposable income this is the first thing I'm going to buy.'

P.S. The link I posted above asks what is your favorite sex scene in the movie. I don't think mine have changed. But I still think it's a great topic and would like to know of more sex scenes to check out. Let me know.

Political Brain Candy

I love Cindy's canary dress. The color was beautiful and it's nice not to see her in a suit.

Gawker Makes Fun of Liberals

Here's the thing that I find quite annoying while attending parties. Usually people don't know my political views and I don't try to broadcast them too much. This leads to friend's of my friends to assume I'm liberal. Which is annoying, since most of the time I don't want to talk about politics but liberal platitudes and generalizations often make me cold. Most of the time I don't say anything wanting to keep peace and leave my hosts inviting me back. However, one of the things that I found to be a trend among my liberal acquaintances is sheer hypocrisy about how they "see" Republicans/conservatives and how they "talk" about conservatives. For example, I've been meaning to join a gun club, so I was delighted that a girl at a party was also a gun enthusiast. However, right off the bat she told me, "she is not one of those second amendment nuts....like most people in her club. Also, she decided to share how awful those conservatives are - posting a bumper sticker making fun of Hillary with a cunt joke and basically letting me know how horrible conservatives are. I let her know that I like the 2nd Amendment and I support it. Later on she went on and on about how closed minded, bigoted, and stupid conservatives are. It was late in the evening and I did not want to point out that she just said exactly what she accused the conservatives of doing: being mean spirited, ignorant, and unreasonable. However, the evening was otherwise very pleasant and I did not want to end with me accusing the sister of the host of being the kettle that calls the pot black. So I left and instead ranted to my boyfriend about the whole thing.
To my surprise Gawker has written a more funny and eloquent appraisal of liberals being hypocrites on the aspect they pride themselves most: open mindedness. Whatever their intentions are (higher traffic)of covering and sort of defending Palin it's quite refreshing.

How will the chattering classes of the blue states respond to the family saga of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin? Why, with the same flinty-eyed suspicion and close-mindedness that we profess to hate in the "God, gays, and guns" country of rural Americans. The Palin family background gives otherwise intelligent people the chance to indulge in the basest and most cartoonish of regional and rural stereotypes.

Update:: the photo is fake, but still hot. Plus they accompany the article with a very hot photo of Palin and make fun of the term "baby daddy" to boot:

I Found This Funny

via ace

Related: New Mcain ad comparing Palin's record with Obama's could have been a stronger. Like highlighting that Obama keeps referring to Palin as "mayor" not as governor when discussing her and his experience.

An annoying term I've seen recently

I hate when I see someone's girlfriend refereed as "gal pal." I'm not sure why, but it screams "demeaning" when calling someone "gal pal." Demeaning and unprofessional.

Update: Close second "Baby Daddy" - what happened to saying "the baby's father", why has this entered the acceptable, established lexicon instead of being confined to the ghetto where it came from in the first place?

The More Russians Change ....

The more they stay the same. A prominent anti-government blogger, Magomed Yevloyev, was shot in the temple by Russian police "accidentally." You know because guns go off all the time and shoot people in the head. Another countless example of Russia's thuggery. Disgusting and tragic - business as usual in Russia. Stalin like politics than never really went away.

A lawyer for the website -- which survived repeated official attempts to close it down -- said police met Yevloyev at the steps of the aircraft after he flew in to Ingushetia's airport, put him in a Volga saloon car and drove him away.