Far Too Serious

Ladies and gents, welcome Rozie over at Far Too Serious to the fold. In honor (and because it's totally made my day repeatedly...like 80 times repeatedly), I present you with this, which she presented previously.

In Keeping with Weird Hip-Hoppin...

I present you with these. Please compare and contrast. I, being a self-proclaimed dance nerd, prefer Fosse's original vision, but hey, I suppose it's whatever makes the kids pay attention to greatness, right?

The original:


"Walk It Out":


Thanks to the Widner sisters for the Unk-y link.

wha!?!?

as they say on boingboing: "Cosplayas, crunk juice, and spinnin' rims. This video needs not much more in the way of a description."

damn cute

i know, some people are getting sick of seeing pictures of cute animals all over the place, but i don't care. cute fuzzies make everything better. over at let's be friends, they've gathered a bunch of pictures of "unusual animal friendships", like the monkey and dog over there <---, lamb and dog, and cat and turtle buddies. sweet! oh, and there are more pics/info over at the digg story.

did you vote yet?

no, i'm not talking about saturday's mayoral race -- you can get enough coverage of that crap over at nerver's day job. instead i'm asking (telling? begging? take your pick...) you guys to go to vote for sweet dominic "the birdman" oduro as the mls sierra mist goal of the week. he's way behind at the moment, so everyone should vote (lots) for the bestest underpaid fc dallas player. i know i totally dork out about the guy, but seriously, you should totally do this. for me. pretty please? thanks!

let's take a moment of silence

mr. wizard died yesterday. i am sad now.

Who Has 19 Grand to Thrown Down?

Oh, yeah.

thanks for the tip, michael.

i love lists

lists are a good thing -- i'm a list maker myself. grocery lists. to-do lists. and damned if i'm not all over those lists afi puts out every year. if there's a list, i want to know about it. and i want to know how much i agree with the damn thing.

so leave it to the folks of 43 things/places/people and all consuming to make this super-site, listsofbests.com. with categories like people, places, movies and music, you can find award-winning lists, definitive lists, and must-haves. so now everything's in one place, and you can sort through the mess of all of your shoulda coulda woulda's. me, i'm only 46% of the way through afi's 100 years...100 movies, but damned if i'm not 82% of the way through the bbc's "50 things to eat before you die" (not so sure i want to nosh on some guinea pig though).

Weekend, Schmeekend

Tonight:


Tomorrow:

Get your ass to the Double-Wide again and buy a drink for Sam Machkovech. The ginger-headed bastard is leaving this fair city for, admittedly, an even fairer (is that a word?) one next week and this is his big blow out. Good thing then that he's doing it to the tunes of Pleasant Grove and Dove Hunter. Good choice, Sammy. Wouldn't have expected anything less. Toogans, good friend.

Oh, and Speaking of Game Shows

Dueces, Bob. Dueces.

totally going to new york

i know there's lots i should see and do in new york, but if i went, i would probably just wander the streets the whole time looking for the cash cab. it's the best game show idea ever. for those of you who haven't seen it, it's a show where unsuspecting people get into a cab to make a cross-town trip and then they find out they've stepped into a game show. they get money for answering random trivia questions, but if they get three wrong, they get kicked to the curb. and then at the end they get the double or nothing video question, if they're brave enough to go for it. my favorite contestants so far: the guy who was into pirates and his friend. and their $1700.

i didn't even know this show existed until it started it's recent prime time run, but now i'm hooked. and ben bailey could totally kick trebek's ass.

another vs.

this time the guys at stylus have pitted "the office" uk vs. "the office" us, and they make some very good points. dwight schrute could totally take gareth keenan, no question. deciding which is a better show is just too hard for me though -- i know a lot of people favor the uk version, but by this point they're two totally different shows now. i'm going to have to play switzerland on this one.

and there's the fact that i could never pick between my two boyfriends...that would just be wrong.