The hits keep coming from Nemesisboy (who is now the proud owner of nemesisboy.com):
First there was the hilarious “Sky 5 Bitches” video
and now, the awesome “Let’s Make WKRN Cool Again” commercial.
It occurs to me that I’ve never created a post just so I could use this utterly enchanting animated gif of Jennifer Love Hewitt. Well, consider that wrong righted.
Where in the hell did this short clip come from? Anybody know?
Mr. Roboto disses last week’s Scene cover story and the Scene in general:
Now, before you Heather Bird [sic] me (note: “to Heather Bird” means to disregard any and all criticism as petty jealousy), recall that I’ve always loved the Scene, as you can tell from my numerous references to years old articles. I sincerely hate that nothing seems to be clicking over there right now, and it’s weird to watch them try so hard to get back on track. It’s like watching Year 2004 R.E.M. trying so hard to sound like 1986 R.E.M.
A move and some internet problems have kept me — quite blissfully — away from the computer for the past several days. But I have many things on which to write and I’ll get to them very soon.
Til then, I’ll leave you with this thought: You know in that MacGyver MasterCard commercial… isn’t the most unbelievable thing that he paid $4 for a tube sock?
Part of me wishes the ‘Zine were around to take the piss out of this.
But most of me doesn’t give a crap about it.
Thank God for Nemesisboy. I have no doubt the Rage is in his sights.
UPDATE: Uh huh.
So I really wanted to write about my continued reading of Lord of the Rings since I’m likely to finish tonight or tomorrow. But I am sleepy and have been in front of a computer almost all day. So it will just have to wait.
I’m so puzzled. I got ass-loads of referrals from Nashville Is Talking today but I couldn’t find a link to my site over there. Any thoughts?
UPDATE: Ah.
Christina Ricci, baby, what happened? You used to be so nutty and awesome. And then you got the breast reduction — and I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that; I understand some ladies got some extra baggage on the top floor; but it seemed to be part of a whole new program with you to be super-skinny and it’s not working for me.
And now, apparently, you’re tattooed up like some crazy stripper.
I miss the old you with the giant forehead and the ta-ta’s. (continue reading…)
I missed this when it came out last month — a geologist writes in the Telegraph:
The essence of the issue is this. Climate changes naturally all the time, partly in predictable cycles, and partly in unpredictable shorter rhythms and rapid episodic shifts, some of the causes of which remain unknown. We are fortunate that our modern societies have developed during the last 10,000 years of benignly warm, interglacial climate. But for more than 90 per cent of the last two million years, the climate has been colder, and generally much colder, than today. The reality of the climate record is that a sudden natural cooling is far more to be feared, and will do infinitely more social and economic damage, than the late 20th century phase of gentle warming.
I mention this not to raise debate on the issue of global warming, but to tell you this anecdote:
Several years ago my brother was stunned that I would even express doubt that the planet was getting hotter because people used aerosol deodorant in the 1980s. He said to me that of course global warming was real because “it’s so much warmer now than when we were kids.”
