FUH2.com

FUH2.com's an interesting site - i must say, when i see a Hummer parked in the Target parking lot, i have to wonder...

weird fact o de day...

According to the National Institutes of Health, the average person passes intestinal gas from 14 to 23 times a day and produces about 1 to 3 pints of the stuff.

of course, farkers had lots of comments to make about that statistic...

(that's farkers with a K - not a T) *8-)

not my type, per se, but okay...

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big sister to the rescue

spent yesterday being big sister to adam, shuttling him around town since his car died on the interstate. the doofus left his blinkers on overnight, so in addition to the gas line probably being frozen (he left the car almost empty during the big freeze here while he went off to mexico) the battery was toast as well. my jumper cables couldn't resurrect the car, so off to AAA to get him signed up - i explained that it'd cost as much as the tow and he'd have the membership for a whole year. well, they charged him an extra $25 since he needed the car towed right away. i'm not automotively inclined in the least, but i do know that when it's this freaking cold out you don't leave the gas tank almost empty and you don't leave your blinkers running for 12+ hours. so now his car's in our driveway, he's gonna get it figured out when he gets back from europe - he leaves this weekend and will be gone 3 weeks or so...

heh heh heh...

if you're looking for a gift for your valentine, check this out...

happy Groundhog Day!

Punxsutawney Phil better be forecasting a short winter - this cold weather crap is OLD.

Mystic River

mom and i went and saw Mystic River yesterday - ehhh, i don't think i quite got it. it was okay, i'd say 2.5 stars - definitely not the 4 roger ebert gave it.

guess i'm not the only one...

bro stopped by today, and he's in a funk - so i guess it's not just me. he's got a gig in mexico and he doesn't wanna go, but he knows he has to do it for business reasons. i think i cheered him up a bit byy telling him the weather's gonna be in the 70's while he's there, instead of this freezing cold snowy shit we've got goin on here.

as for my funk, i just don't have any energy - i just want to sleep all the time. i suppose all the job hunting i'm doing is the reason for the depression - i'm looking really hard for a new job and just not finding anything. it's so frustrating.

kinda weird, but what the hell...

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Today's the day...

...to celebrate the 4th annual National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!!

the golden globes...

rock on! Charlize Theron won for her role in Monster! i watched the awards specifically to see that award - hadn't watched em before...i know they're sort of the red-headed stepchild of the Oscars/Emmys, but much more laid back - a very enjoyable awards show to watch, i must say...

seeing all the awards and clips makes me want to go see a bunch o movies now....

the 2004 mitsubishi galant...

so i got a postcard in the mail on friday from mitsubishi - test drive their car, get a cd of the tunes from their commercials, and a card to mail in for a free $25 AmEx card. never one to turn down a freebie, i did it today...not too impressed with the car, but i must say, i do like the music they pick for their commercials...

woah...

just got back from a movie - mom and i went to see Monster - woah. i agree with Roger Ebert's assessment - he gave it 4 stars and said, "Jenkins, the writer-director, has made the best film of the year." Charlize Theron's portrayal of Aileen Wuornos is freakin' spellbinding - she really got into the head of this serial killer. I think Theron deserves an Oscar (a nomination at the very least) for her portrayal. i suppose i've been prejudiced against her - i haven't watched her movies, just based on her looks and what little i knew of her - being a former model and such. after seeing her in Monster, i wanna check out more of her movies though.

CBS sucks ass...

seems to me, if a group's gonna pay your exorbitant ad rates for advertising during the super bowl, it shouldn't matter what the hell's being advertised. CBS Shuns PETA, MoveOn Super Bowl Ads - they don't wanna run controversial (ie liberal) ads....hrmmm, we'll see how non-controversial those super bowl ads are on Feb. 1....

Twenty bucks...

after rebates, that's the cost of my new LASER PRINTER. now i can really crank out the resumes and cover letters!

what the hell is he thinking?!?

okay, so the economy's in the crapper, but things are supposedly getting better, thanks to all of dubya's tax cuts for rich people and all...trickle trickle trickle...good thing we've been cutting all those taxes, now we'll have more money to spend!

now dubya wants another billion for NASA and space travel (definitely a good thing, but it's on the "WANT" list rather than the "NEED" list)...even more ridiculous, dubya wants a billion and a half to promote heterosexual marriage. c'mon now, if it's so freakin' wonderful, why do we need to spent billions of dollars promoting it??!!??

it makes it very clear who dubya's looking out for - himself. he's gotta get the votes of big business (which are certain to benefit from all this freaking spending) and Christian conservatives and these are the ways to go about it. and let's not forget dubya's eagerness to make all the illegal aliens legal just in time for the elections...

ugh, what an asshole.

totally cool sidewalk art...

Sidewalk chalk drawings

music...

so, the article i read about allanah currie has sent me into a tailspin, digging up the ol' 80's music - the Thompson Twins were responsible for the best album of all time, after all - Side Kicks (as it's known here in the States) is a masterpiece...now i'm kazaaing all the kick-ass stuff from the late 80's - early 90's: The The, Erasure, New Order, Electronic, Pet Shop Boys and more...

i didn't come up with much of a Best Of 2003 list as far as music goes because i didn't hear much good stuff out there - Barenaked Ladies just sort of won by default...

not seeing the forest for the trees...

so i come across this article about Alannah Currie, from the Thompson Twins - apparently she's now leading a group called MADGE - Mothers Against Genetic Engineering - you'd think they coulda come up with a D word to stick in there, but oh well...

some of the actions they've pulled off are pretty cool, but it seems kinda weird - read the article and ya find out that while she's against genetic engineering, she's a smoker and drives a Jeep Grand Cherokee...seems like a big contradiction there...(granted, my disdain for SUV's has turned into out-and-out DISGUST after reading High and mighty : SUVs--the world's most dangerous vehicles and how they got that way, but that's a topic for another post...)

my "Tonight Show" debut...

as far as i'm concerned, there's only one reason to watch the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and that's Headlines. Perhaps it's because of my background as a typesetter, but i find that shit to be hysterical. well, a couple of months ago i was at kroger and found some rather amusing products for sale in the bakery. So, i "borrowed" the sign and mailed it in to Jay Leno, and he put it on the show:



obviously, someone doesn't watch Nickelodeon or they'd know it's SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS... *8-) or perhaps it was just printed up by a sick bastard that wondered if anyone would even notice...