A Potpourri of Tuesday Thoughts

LOL. I usually hate that term. But TWOP, they are so constantly making me LOL... All the show's recaps are so funny but I think right now the Smallville recaps are my favorite. It's fun to try to guess the Gayest Look of the Episode when I'm watching... like last night was the (season 1) episode with that annoying kid who reads minds:

Clark asks why Lex is giving him a going-away gift if he's not sure he's leaving. "Keep that away from the kid," Lex says simply, and starts to leave. Lex says he's sorry the kid is gone when Clark tells him about the departure. "For what it's worth, I hope you stay," Clark says. Lex, as he's about to turn back to the limo, gives Clark a long, lingering, hot, beefy, tremendously obvious look up and down, pausing slightly at the crotch level, and then walks back to the waiting car. It is an amazingly obvious choice for the Gayest Look of the Episode, and an especially smoldering one at that. Lex, you make it so easy sometimes.

Hee. Moving on...

A lil' piece of advice: don't eat sushi over your computer keyboard. You're just asking for all sorts of problems with soy sauce spills & rice between keys.

105.7 is the best radio station to listen to when you're working. Unlike every other station, there are different songs all day, everyday. And they're all fun to sing along with... like "Summer Nights" from the Grease soundtrack.

Only 2 more hours before I get my hands on an O.C. fix. Yea!

Uh... that's it.

A Gift for Moi

I was gonna put this on my birthday wishlist but I'm O.C. impatient so I'm buying it tomorrow as an early birthday gift for myself.

The O.C. - The Complete First Season

Awesome.

You Better Shape Up

OK, so I HATE the movie Grease but I love the music... what's with that? I love "You're the One That I Want" so much that I paid $2.50 for it to be one of my ringers on my cell phone. I think I love that song especially a bunch because of the movie "The Guru" which is sooo good...

That is all.

Finally Friday

I stole this meme from Joelle's blog so that I could take a break from working...

Current state of things

Wearing: Mossimo jeans, Old navy platform flip-flops, light blue silky pajama tank top, black cardigan sweater.

Drinking: water & diet dr. pepper

Upset that: I have to listen to the same 2 bullshit campaign ads over and over and over on my radio.

Luxuriating in: the fact that it's Friday.

Reading: @ home - Elle, Vanity Fair, Living Etc. & InStyle Home magazines and a book, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil. @ work - other blogs & news, bank statements, and holiday card catalogs.

Learning: Time management. hee.

Downloading: nothing

Wanting: my heat to work everyday, to finish my birthday wishlist, to win the lottery. :-0

Listening to: 105.7, more specifically: "Hoooow loong has this been going on" by, uh, I don't know who sings it... and now, it's Candy Girl by Frankie Valli. And now, it's "I think we're alone now" by the people who sang it before Tiffany. Heh. I still know all the words...

Oh, Hi There...

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know I have a blog that I've been ignoring all week. But I'm here now and that's all that matters. So let's get down to it then...

OK, first, the Red Sox have clearly earned my respect back. Now I hope they go on to the Series and win so people can shut up about at least one of the dumb baseball curses. As for the NLCS, which I don't really care about, I hope St. Louis kicks Roger "Retired" Clemens' ass. Because I hate when people make a big deal about retiring and then they don't retire...

Second, my TV watching habits are pretty much set this season. In case you haven't heard, LOST totally rules. And it completely rules my Wednesday 8:00 timeslot - luckily America's Next Top Model is on Friday's, too. And I just started the first season of Smallville so I don't mind missing the new episodes. The ABC family reruns of Smallville are my new 7:00 obsession, it's a really good show, I'm kinda sorry I ignored it for 3 years. And the Television Without Pity recaps of it are hilarious. The O.C. is back in just 2 weeks... and the previews are looking awesome.

Um... I know I had about 93 other things to go on and on about but I don't really know what they are now. So I'm going to link to 5 places and comment on them a little:

People really need to lay off the Prince Harry bashing... the kid's 18 and has the crappiest royal life ever. I'd shove a paparazzi freak if his camera hit me in the face, too.

I agree with The Superficial - Angelina Jolie needs to have her own child so her super-hot genes can live on.

Is this the end of Bill O'Reilly? Life never works out that way but a girl can dream.

Lindsay Lohan is totally hot and now there's a song (with animated video) all about her boobs. Hee.

Say it with me "Only 12 more days. Only 12 more days. Shut up polls"

Great Quote

"The [next] priority for change - the first element of a new politics for the United States - is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem..."

Robert F. Kennedy, 1968

And One More Thing, Dumbya

The point at which I could no longer take watching the debate last night:

Mr. President, what do you say to someone in this country who has lost his job to someone overseas who's being paid a fraction of what that job paid here in the United States?

BUSH: I'd say, Bob, I've got policies to continue to grow our economy and create the jobs of the 21st century. And here's some help for you to go get an education. Here's some help for you to go to a community college.

We've expanded trade adjustment assistance. We want to help pay for you to gain the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century.

"Here's some help for you to go get an education?" Fuck you and the Daddy-horse you rode in on, Dumbya. I know people who have lost there jobs to outsourcing including the very awesome Jerry S. You're telling me, Mr. President, that he just needs to get off his 20th century ass and move into the 21st century? I'd love to see him say that to Jerry's face.

Yeah, what he deserves after 30+ years of working his ass off is to be told that he just needs to get with the 21st century.

Look, I don't pretend to know what the best solution is to outsourcing, globalization, etc... but I also know that it's practically impossible for someone over 50 to find a new job at all, let alone in another field. There has to be a way to protect American workers while moving forward. But we'll never get there with a President who doesn't see a problem w/giving GIGANTIC TAX BREAKS to companies who go overseas.

Debates...

Oh, Mr. Bush, don't make me throw something at my TV:

KERRY: Six months after he said Osama bin Laden must be caught dead or alive, this president was asked, "Where is Osama bin Laden?"

He said, "I don't know. I don't really think about him very much. I'm not that concerned."

We need a president who stays deadly focused on the real war on terror.

SCHIEFFER: Mr. President?

BUSH: Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations.

From MSNBC:

Bush said the bin Laden comment was "one of those exaggerations," but in a news conference on March 13, 2002, Bush said when asked about the search for the al Qaeda leader: "So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, we haven't heard much from him. ... And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I — I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."

I'll tell you what I'm truly concerned about: that people can actually say with a straight face that this fucking lying loser is the stronger candidate on terrorism. So far, he's only proven better at creating new terrorists. America's arrogance will eventually be it's downfall. And Shrub is the King of Arrogance.

Best. Show. Ever.

OK, it maybe isn't the best show EVER but it's moving on up the list with every new episode... Lost. totally. rocks. Last nights episode was SOOOO good that I literally couldn't stop saying "I love this show" over and over and out loud even though I was the only person in my apartment. Hee.

You know how you felt after the first time you watched Fight Club? It's like that every week.

Meanwhile, I'm done w/feeling sorry for "cursed" baseball teams. Go Yankees!

Radio Killed the Radio Star

I really can't wait for Howard Stern to move to satellite radio because real radio blows...

Random Thought of the Day

What's with jam? It looks like it would taste just like jelly but it don't. And it just seems a little wrong to me to use jam on PB&J. After all, it's not peanut butter and jam. For the record: Jelly kicks Jam's ass...

Wait Just a Minute...

All right, I'm over ruling my quiz results because I'm clearly an Indie Girl...

An Indie Girl's life is a Statement with a capital S, but unlike the Granola Girl, the statement is not political -- it's artistic. Indie Girls consider themselves actresses in the movie of life. Your meal needs to be constructed like an independent film. If you're bringing her over for a date, you are playing a character in her movie. If you create a setting, props, and a soundtrack that are good enough to avoid the cutting-room floor, she's yours.

You can boil the Indie Girl down to two words: cultural literacy. Or how about these two: media consumption. As the Gourmet Girl loves food and all that goes with it, the Indie Girl loves media: books, movies, music, and art. The good news is you don't have to be rich, good-looking, or famous to win this girl's heart. The bad news is she will judge you based on your music choices, the books you read, and the films you watch.

She Might Be a Indie Girl if:

(1) She drives: a classic car, a VW beetle, a Mini Cooper, or a Vespa scooter.
(2) She can talk for more than ten minutes about: obscure pop culture.
(3) She begins her sentences with: "It's like that Simpsons episode . . ."
(4) She'd never: drive a mini-van.
(5) She owns any of the following: TiVo, a mini-DV camera, an iPod, a pottery wheel, a serger, or a lava lamp.

1. I don't drive any of these cars but they're all on my wishlist.
2. Come on, right?
3. I sooo just started out a sentence like that last week!
4. I'd actually rather die than drive a mini-van.
5. Already own the Mini DV camera & (fuax) TiVo and hope to some day own a serger.

Yeah, so I'm clearly an Indie Girl... no doubt about it.

That's Pretty Fair...

Here's a fun quiz. I'm a hybrid of:



Uptown Girl

and



Progressive Girl

Take the What Kind of Girl Is She? quiz.

So Sad...

Christopher Reeve, 'Superman' Star, Dies at 52

TeeHeeHee

This is funny... the picture is funny enough as no person should wear winter boots in non-winter weather (and there's never winter weather in LA to begin with) but then you read defamer's take on it. HI-LA-RIOUS... po' little dog.

Defamer: Mukluks On Melrose

And Now, Back to Our Show...

Oh, I see how the universe works... I take my eye off that VolcanoCam for an hour and all of a sudden - BOOM! And now you can't even get to the VolcanoCam...

Steam eruption under way at Mount St. Helens

Calm It, Girl.

I need to stop watching this volcano, I'm clearly projecting my dreams of an eruption onto the pictures. So let's move on to a new topic... how about the debates. Kerry was very good, no?

Sage & I watched it at the Highland Theater Debate Party which was fun. Lots of clapping and booing... yada, yada, yada. They could have done without the sing-a-long though. I'm just saying.

Or Not...

Or maybe it is just the sun... hee. I don't know. I'm not a volcano expert, it certainly looked like lava. But now I'm not so sure. The picture is still really cool though. Very pretty and all that jazz.

Awesome...