I found this on my new fave Facebook group, Saved by Zero: Who the hell asked "Zero" to save me?. I think we can all agree that this commercial is the worst thing to happen to the football season, ever.
It's a good thing I'm not the administrator for a Toyota focus group web site anymore, huh?
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Inspired x 64, 521,172
The victory is still sinking in. It took me a day to compose my thoughts (and get over my hangover) and I'm still not sure I can articulate how inspired and overcome with emotion I am by Barack Obama making history.
So I will just say this. I'm trying to think of a time in my life when I was more proud to be an American. I cannot. Its just so exhilarating, such an amazing time to be alive in this country. And I hope that all the people who didn't vote for OB recognize this sooner than later.
Borrowing from my latest Huff Post guest blogger John Cusack:
The world looked to America... we showed our best.
For one night at least, the world was sane.
The planet sighs in relief and deserves a righteous party.
Yes We Did! Now who wants to go to the inauguration with me? :)
Monday, November 03, 2008
Fall 08 Highlights and Lowlights
Considering my joblessness, I should really be posting more. There’s no excuse and there is def a ton going on. I knew it was time to log on when my sis started to nag me. So now I gottta cram it all in. Are you ready? I'm going to make like a sitcom "Last Season on the Shaps Show" montage and catch you up:
GOT LAID OFF
If you haven't heard or deducted from the first sentence of this post, Drillteam ain't my homeboy. I'm cool with it tho, frees me up for more pilates, MSNBC and fiiiiinnnnally eBaying all that shit thats been piling up in a corner of my bedroom since 2005. But seriously, if you know of a job, don’t hold back – send me deets!
ACL
The trip to Austin went a lil something like this: Hangin with Delaney, Migas, Tubing, Salt Lick, Migas, Cool Kids, 90s Dance Party, Migas, Chicken Cone, Spiritualized, MGMT, Allison Krause, Beck, Nicole Atkins, Mega Concussion, Chillin on our very own plantation. More Migas.
THE ELECTION
Obama inspires me to tears. I've become a crazy Huffington Post junkie. I think I have a lot of OB’s stump speeches memorized. I wake up in the morning (at 10, its fine) and race to the brontosaurus laptop to check out the latest Obama slideshows. “Another B and Michelle Greatest PDA moment?” “What ARE the candidates eating on the campaign trail?” “I wonder what Sasha and Malia were for Halloween.” I’m shamelessly obsessed. Like Dana and Pearl Jam or Dana and Wolf Parade or Dana and Sharks.
Here's me nerding out on some Barack show tunes:
RIP Toot, it makes me so, so sad she didn’t get to see her grandson win the presidency. Don't worry Madelyn, I'm votin for your boy tomorrow. EVERYONE VOTE!!!!!
FALL ADVENTURES
Dane’s adorable VW Golf, Scoots, goes back home to Wisco at the end of the month so to get our inflated gas-money’s worth, we’ve been cruisin’ upstate on all kinds of awesome autumnal adventures. New Paltz was bountiful with fall color, apples, cider, pumpkins, goats and chili. Mountainville offered us acres upon acres of majestic sculptures at Storm King. Sleepy Hollow spooked us out with a special “Legend Weekend” where Dana found romance with the Headless Horseman. And last but not least, Hackensack, NJ provided us with Cheesecake Factory indigestion. Mmmm, pumpkin cheesecake.
MSG SCREAMFEST
Not in a frightened way, in an excited teenage girl way. As promised, we rocked American’s Best Dance Crew Live (thanks Kell Perk) which featured the ridiculously badass Jabawockeez (Dane’s mind was blown) and my faves, Supa Cr3w.
Check out em battling each other in Boston, is this shit right out of Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo or what?
Also popular: Joey, the deaf Asian dancer from ASIID. The uber-hyper high school chicks behind us screamed in vain “I love you Joey, I want to be your girlfriend!”
Not but a month later, I found myself screaming the EXACT same thing, but to Joey MacIntyre at the oh-so amazing NKOTB show. Imagine if you will, being surrounded by thousands of screaming women (not 12 yr olds) in side pony tails and vintage neon t-shirts, waving their hands in the air to “Hangin Tough” like it was their job. I reverted to my middle school self and did whatever the boys told me to. I had no say, I was under their spell. They're all still playing their 1991 roles: Donnie is still thuggish, Joey is still boyishly adorable, Jordan is still the sexy lead man with a falsetto that could crack glass, Jonathan is still shy and awkward (and apparently gay! I had no idea!) and Danny is still the one no girl fantasizes about. Although he did do some sweet breakdancing. (Huh??) For Dana’s take, read here.
UNFORTUNATE COCKTAILS
Ice luge-chilled Espresso vodka, Halloween's "Witch's Brew" (it involved Midori, pineapple juice and gummy body parts) and that weird strawberry-basil beverage Sarah made me over the big b-day extravaganza in the Hamptons = Hangover Hell.
FLORIDA FOOTBALL
We're #4 in the AP and we’re crushin the SEC right now. Tebow broke Emmit Smith’s career RUSHING touchdown record on Saturday. And he’s the quarterback!!! If we can keep up the momentum, I predict an SEC Championship berth and possibly an Alabama upset. In Tebow I Trust.
SLUT-O-WEEN
We’re so clever. TPB represented on Halloween as slutty ex-presidents aka “Mount UsMore”: Boobraham Lincoln, Whorge Washington, Teddy Ho-sevelt. We’ll probably never get pics back of this eve (Jack?), but this clip pretty much describes our costume concept to a tee:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY OLD BUDDIES
All my best G'ville pals aged and because I couldn’t afford gifts (remember bullet #1? I don’t have a job! Get me one!), I figured they at least deserved a special blog shout out: Happy, happy b-day to Sarah B-D, Bri, Mere Phipps, Ilanis, Steph and tomorrow, Noah P!
GOT LAID OFF
If you haven't heard or deducted from the first sentence of this post, Drillteam ain't my homeboy. I'm cool with it tho, frees me up for more pilates, MSNBC and fiiiiinnnnally eBaying all that shit thats been piling up in a corner of my bedroom since 2005. But seriously, if you know of a job, don’t hold back – send me deets!
ACL
The trip to Austin went a lil something like this: Hangin with Delaney, Migas, Tubing, Salt Lick, Migas, Cool Kids, 90s Dance Party, Migas, Chicken Cone, Spiritualized, MGMT, Allison Krause, Beck, Nicole Atkins, Mega Concussion, Chillin on our very own plantation. More Migas.
THE ELECTION
Obama inspires me to tears. I've become a crazy Huffington Post junkie. I think I have a lot of OB’s stump speeches memorized. I wake up in the morning (at 10, its fine) and race to the brontosaurus laptop to check out the latest Obama slideshows. “Another B and Michelle Greatest PDA moment?” “What ARE the candidates eating on the campaign trail?” “I wonder what Sasha and Malia were for Halloween.” I’m shamelessly obsessed. Like Dana and Pearl Jam or Dana and Wolf Parade or Dana and Sharks.
Here's me nerding out on some Barack show tunes:
RIP Toot, it makes me so, so sad she didn’t get to see her grandson win the presidency. Don't worry Madelyn, I'm votin for your boy tomorrow. EVERYONE VOTE!!!!!
FALL ADVENTURES
Dane’s adorable VW Golf, Scoots, goes back home to Wisco at the end of the month so to get our inflated gas-money’s worth, we’ve been cruisin’ upstate on all kinds of awesome autumnal adventures. New Paltz was bountiful with fall color, apples, cider, pumpkins, goats and chili. Mountainville offered us acres upon acres of majestic sculptures at Storm King. Sleepy Hollow spooked us out with a special “Legend Weekend” where Dana found romance with the Headless Horseman. And last but not least, Hackensack, NJ provided us with Cheesecake Factory indigestion. Mmmm, pumpkin cheesecake.
MSG SCREAMFEST
Not in a frightened way, in an excited teenage girl way. As promised, we rocked American’s Best Dance Crew Live (thanks Kell Perk) which featured the ridiculously badass Jabawockeez (Dane’s mind was blown) and my faves, Supa Cr3w.
Check out em battling each other in Boston, is this shit right out of Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo or what?
Also popular: Joey, the deaf Asian dancer from ASIID. The uber-hyper high school chicks behind us screamed in vain “I love you Joey, I want to be your girlfriend!”
Not but a month later, I found myself screaming the EXACT same thing, but to Joey MacIntyre at the oh-so amazing NKOTB show. Imagine if you will, being surrounded by thousands of screaming women (not 12 yr olds) in side pony tails and vintage neon t-shirts, waving their hands in the air to “Hangin Tough” like it was their job. I reverted to my middle school self and did whatever the boys told me to. I had no say, I was under their spell. They're all still playing their 1991 roles: Donnie is still thuggish, Joey is still boyishly adorable, Jordan is still the sexy lead man with a falsetto that could crack glass, Jonathan is still shy and awkward (and apparently gay! I had no idea!) and Danny is still the one no girl fantasizes about. Although he did do some sweet breakdancing. (Huh??) For Dana’s take, read here.
UNFORTUNATE COCKTAILS
Ice luge-chilled Espresso vodka, Halloween's "Witch's Brew" (it involved Midori, pineapple juice and gummy body parts) and that weird strawberry-basil beverage Sarah made me over the big b-day extravaganza in the Hamptons = Hangover Hell.
FLORIDA FOOTBALL
We're #4 in the AP and we’re crushin the SEC right now. Tebow broke Emmit Smith’s career RUSHING touchdown record on Saturday. And he’s the quarterback!!! If we can keep up the momentum, I predict an SEC Championship berth and possibly an Alabama upset. In Tebow I Trust.
SLUT-O-WEEN
We’re so clever. TPB represented on Halloween as slutty ex-presidents aka “Mount UsMore”: Boobraham Lincoln, Whorge Washington, Teddy Ho-sevelt. We’ll probably never get pics back of this eve (Jack?), but this clip pretty much describes our costume concept to a tee:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY OLD BUDDIES
All my best G'ville pals aged and because I couldn’t afford gifts (remember bullet #1? I don’t have a job! Get me one!), I figured they at least deserved a special blog shout out: Happy, happy b-day to Sarah B-D, Bri, Mere Phipps, Ilanis, Steph and tomorrow, Noah P!
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