January 2010
81 posts
Oh yeah! Tonight's a blue moon!
Crazy!
(thanks for the reminder Mizzchelle!)
December 2009
69 posts
My Horoscope For Today:
Your vacation is heading toward the end, and it would be good to take a moment today to reflect upon and appreciate what you have. To live in a world like this is a blessing, if we can learn to live together. This, more than anything, is the planet’s ultimate plan.
Don't Forget To Pump Up Your Basketballs
With all this talk about positivity floating around, I’m reminded of a Feist concert I went to about 4 years ago. At this concert, before one of her songs, she launched into a little spiel about how human hearts are like basketballs. She said that we bounce them around and play with them until they start to deflate and that we need to remember to pump some air back into our basketballs...
“There’s no problem with women that can’t be solved by money or the...”
– My hilariously sage father
“Can we leave the snarkiness in this decade as we move on? It’s exhausting and it...”
– Daisy Rosario
Here, here!
Or is it “hear, hear?” I have no idea.
Either way, this is a sentiment I’m completely on board with.
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories →
Wanna know more about the basic sameness of all story-telling? Then check out Peter Booker’s magnum opus, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. Sure, it’s excessively detailed at 700+ pages, but it’s very insightful (if overly Jung-ian) and it’s free to read on google books!
James Cameron tells the LA Times why it's okay to...
GB: With this movie, it feels like a classic going-native film, if that doesn’t sound too flippant. In the half-hour of footage I saw I was reminded at certain points of “Farewell to the King,” “A Man Called Horse” and “At Play in the Fields of the Lord.”
JC: Yeah, yeah, “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” was among the videos that I used as a reference. Yeah, absolutely. Tom Berengerdid...
about last night
areyoucallingmefat:
some remnants from the monday night that just passed:
tried the new craft beer bar/restaurant stout and really enjoyed it
had the stout burger, which was messy, delicious and REALLY messy
byrnes had the shu burger, which he also enjoyed
he and i both secretly wanted to get the goombah burger but didn’t
met the manager and owner AND scored free beers because of it
now...
WatchThe 100 Best Videos of 2009 In 135 Seconds
It ends as it should.
Los Angeles, California – Seven DUI Checkpoint...
Not that I condone drunk driving, but here’s when and where the DUI check points are this weekend. I’m particularly eyeing the one on Highland, just north of Melrose.
West Bureau DUI Checkpoint
WHEN: Friday, December 18, 2009 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.
WHERE: Western Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard
Central Area DUI Checkpoint
WHEN: Friday, December 18, 2009 7:00...
holy crap super earth →
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Holy shit! Alien water world!
WatchAlternate endings!
WatchHoly shit. Just when I thought I could find any more “Who Shot Mr. Burns” shit, I found this: a video in which someone cut together clips from the two parter as if it were a “Previously on Battlestar Galactica” episode recap that kicked off each episode.
“Oh it’s you, what are you so happy about? I see. I think you’d...”
– C. Montgomery Burns
Senor Burns - TITO PUENTE (from The Simpsons)
Two...
technically, i work for universal studios
areyoucallingmefat:
which means i get free universal dvds. guess what arrived today? INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS! looks like i’ve got wednesday night plans…
I want one too!
“I thought you were 36 or 37 until I read the news today. A 33-year-old man who...”
– Ron Artest’s Open Letter to Tiger
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Don’t Become the Thing You Hated by...