I am a nerd and rarely listen to music on the radio because I am either listening to Francene, Terry Miners or everything on NPR. I was on my way home from work sometime last week and Terry had some entertainment writer from here on his show. They started to talk about Tom Cruise's new movie (the Nazi movie) and I will, in my own way, describe the conversation from there. I don't remember her name so I will call her "Girl" for the sake of the story.
TM - Who won World War II?
Dead air
TM - Do you know who won the war?
GIRL - Oh, are you talking to me?
TM - Yeah. You know, it's kind of like the Olympics. You forget who won a few years after it happens.
Dead air
TM - Did Germany win?
GIRL - I don't know, I must have slept through that class.
Really. Really? WTF? It went on for a little after that but that's the meat and taters of the conversation. I could tell in his voice he really wanted to laugh. I was. She sounded like an idiot who really concentrated hard on who knows what but decided to check out when it came time to store relavent facts while she was in school.
I don't know.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Sarah's Greatest Hits
Dammit I can't put youtube videos on here. Here is the link anyway. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
This just in from Daily Kos
Palin's Debate
by Hunter
Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 05:00:14 PM PDT
To be non-snarky about it (as opposed to, cough, my last post), I don't really expect this debate to be the car crash that her interviews with Couric have been. In the Couric interviews, she was asked a lot of questions, and had little way to prepare for them other than, you know, actually knowing what she was talking about. A debate is different. In general, you know what's going to be asked because you know the moderator doesn't have much time to spend on anything but the most essential points. And you're able to prep for those questions by spitting out the memorized phrases your advisors have drilled into you, and praying to God nobody asks a follow-up.
Biden, I think, needs to all but ignore her presence -- unless she makes a gaffe so egregious that he feels he really has to point it out. There's a real danger in coming off as overly aggressive and patronizing towards McCain's delicate flower of the Arctic, though heaven knows she might just deserve it.
Palin, on the other hand, will likely be as belligerent as possible, primarily going after Obama and fervently ducking the specifics of any and all questions. That's all she's got to work with. The danger to Palin is not that she will be a beginning-to-end catastrophe, unless she's much shallower than we've even been expecting in our worst suspicions. The true threat is that every question is opportunity for a Couric-style gaffe that would be repeated on television for days. To avoid that, I expect she's going to keep to painfully trite generics as much as possible.
This will cause spasms of ecstasy from the Republican base, since generic right-wing platitudes are exactly why she was added to the ticket, and exactly what Republicans seek in their leaders. They'll love her no matter what: she could trip and knock herself unconscious for the entire debate, and they'd still be thrilled with her performance. For other observers, it's an open question as to whether or not her usual word soup can manage to sound competent, or just silly.
Pre-debate thoughts from other Daily Kos editors:
DemFromCT: The usual pundit standard of "the aggressor always wins" is just wrong, and failed in the first Presidential debate. What the GOP base thinks does not matter, and what independents think does. She can't just go after Obama/Biden as liberals. Whether Palin gets off a zinger or not, what really matters to people is whether they can get a college loan for next semester. If she can't address that convincingly, and look Presidential, she loses.
BarbinMD: It's a sad day when the conventional wisdom is that the candidate to be a 72-year old heartbeat away from the presidency only needs to not come off as an idiot to "win" the debate.
Georgia10: Palin will be at her most brilliant, Limbaugh-esque best tonight. She'll toss out the facts and figures she learned at Camp Cramming on Cliff Notes Hill (a.k.a. McCain's ranch), and she'll at least sound like she at least thinks she knows what she's saying. Biden's goal? Have her defend McCain's policies. Repeatedly. Over and over again. And if he wants to go for the jugular? Ask Palin to name one substantive thing that the McCain-Palin ticket disagrees with President Bush on. One thing. As Couric would say...specifically. One striking moose in the headlights moment like that and the Biden-Obama camp can chalk it up to a win.
by Hunter
Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 05:00:14 PM PDT
To be non-snarky about it (as opposed to, cough, my last post), I don't really expect this debate to be the car crash that her interviews with Couric have been. In the Couric interviews, she was asked a lot of questions, and had little way to prepare for them other than, you know, actually knowing what she was talking about. A debate is different. In general, you know what's going to be asked because you know the moderator doesn't have much time to spend on anything but the most essential points. And you're able to prep for those questions by spitting out the memorized phrases your advisors have drilled into you, and praying to God nobody asks a follow-up.
Biden, I think, needs to all but ignore her presence -- unless she makes a gaffe so egregious that he feels he really has to point it out. There's a real danger in coming off as overly aggressive and patronizing towards McCain's delicate flower of the Arctic, though heaven knows she might just deserve it.
Palin, on the other hand, will likely be as belligerent as possible, primarily going after Obama and fervently ducking the specifics of any and all questions. That's all she's got to work with. The danger to Palin is not that she will be a beginning-to-end catastrophe, unless she's much shallower than we've even been expecting in our worst suspicions. The true threat is that every question is opportunity for a Couric-style gaffe that would be repeated on television for days. To avoid that, I expect she's going to keep to painfully trite generics as much as possible.
This will cause spasms of ecstasy from the Republican base, since generic right-wing platitudes are exactly why she was added to the ticket, and exactly what Republicans seek in their leaders. They'll love her no matter what: she could trip and knock herself unconscious for the entire debate, and they'd still be thrilled with her performance. For other observers, it's an open question as to whether or not her usual word soup can manage to sound competent, or just silly.
Pre-debate thoughts from other Daily Kos editors:
DemFromCT: The usual pundit standard of "the aggressor always wins" is just wrong, and failed in the first Presidential debate. What the GOP base thinks does not matter, and what independents think does. She can't just go after Obama/Biden as liberals. Whether Palin gets off a zinger or not, what really matters to people is whether they can get a college loan for next semester. If she can't address that convincingly, and look Presidential, she loses.
BarbinMD: It's a sad day when the conventional wisdom is that the candidate to be a 72-year old heartbeat away from the presidency only needs to not come off as an idiot to "win" the debate.
Georgia10: Palin will be at her most brilliant, Limbaugh-esque best tonight. She'll toss out the facts and figures she learned at Camp Cramming on Cliff Notes Hill (a.k.a. McCain's ranch), and she'll at least sound like she at least thinks she knows what she's saying. Biden's goal? Have her defend McCain's policies. Repeatedly. Over and over again. And if he wants to go for the jugular? Ask Palin to name one substantive thing that the McCain-Palin ticket disagrees with President Bush on. One thing. As Couric would say...specifically. One striking moose in the headlights moment like that and the Biden-Obama camp can chalk it up to a win.
I love my car!
I got her back today and she purrs like a cat. After driving my mom's car and hitching rides, I forgot how much I love to drive it.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
VW reborn
So after not having my car for a week and one day, I will be getting it back soon. I've missed her tremendously. I have the money (in a day or two) and told them to order the parts and work on it. You go McCormick Motorsports!
The Office
I was bored tonight and wanted to watch something funny. I got onto Netflix and decided to watch The Office (the BBC series) and forgot how much I loved it. The first series is much better than the second series. They're both funny but I like the first one more.
Plus I love the theme song and unlike American shows, BBC shows are 29 minutes or a full half hour instead of 21-23 minutes.
Plus I love the theme song and unlike American shows, BBC shows are 29 minutes or a full half hour instead of 21-23 minutes.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Darjeeling Limited
What a movie. It's great. Wes Andersen makes some darn good flicks is all I'm saying.
The folowing is from stuffwhitepeoplelike.com -
#10 Wes Anderson movies
January 20, 2008 by clander
White people love Wes Anderson movies more than they love their kids. If a white guy takes a white girl to a Wes Anderson movie on their first date, and neither of them have seen it, they will immediately commence a relationship that is reflected in songs by Ryan Adams and Bright Eyes.
Wes Anderson movies have this way of being sort of funny and a little clever, so white people in the audience will laugh like crazy. Also, if they don’t get the joke and other white people start laughing, they’ll all join in. It’s pretty much the case that if one dude with glasses laughs, the entire theater will be in stitches within 15 seconds.
If you find yourself in a situation with a white person, and an awkard silence falls over you. Mention any of the movies below and you will have something to talk about, and they will like you. Here are some approved comments:
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) “It’s so great to see that he’s back, Owen Wilson is just fantastic.” Hotel Chevalier (2007) “Can you believe Natalie Portman got kind of naked?”
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) “I know a lot of people said they didn’t like this film, but I thought it was fantastic.” (Note: it is acceptable to be critical of this movie).
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) “This movie changed my life.”
Rushmore (1998) “This is when Bill Murray really changed in my eyes, he’s so fantastic in the movie, and Jason Schwartzman is a true star.”
Bottle Rocket (1996) “I saw this movie in 1994″
The folowing is from stuffwhitepeoplelike.com -
#10 Wes Anderson movies
January 20, 2008 by clander
White people love Wes Anderson movies more than they love their kids. If a white guy takes a white girl to a Wes Anderson movie on their first date, and neither of them have seen it, they will immediately commence a relationship that is reflected in songs by Ryan Adams and Bright Eyes.
Wes Anderson movies have this way of being sort of funny and a little clever, so white people in the audience will laugh like crazy. Also, if they don’t get the joke and other white people start laughing, they’ll all join in. It’s pretty much the case that if one dude with glasses laughs, the entire theater will be in stitches within 15 seconds.
If you find yourself in a situation with a white person, and an awkard silence falls over you. Mention any of the movies below and you will have something to talk about, and they will like you. Here are some approved comments:
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) “It’s so great to see that he’s back, Owen Wilson is just fantastic.” Hotel Chevalier (2007) “Can you believe Natalie Portman got kind of naked?”
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) “I know a lot of people said they didn’t like this film, but I thought it was fantastic.” (Note: it is acceptable to be critical of this movie).
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) “This movie changed my life.”
Rushmore (1998) “This is when Bill Murray really changed in my eyes, he’s so fantastic in the movie, and Jason Schwartzman is a true star.”
Bottle Rocket (1996) “I saw this movie in 1994″
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Ha ha ha
I found a few pictures I took of myself post tooth removal/pre percocet and post percocet. Besides the fact the left side of my face was numb, hitting part of the trigeminal nerve really jacked up the palsy. The left side of my face looks more f-ed up than the right side and both sides have equal amounts of pain meds flowing through them. A mouth full of gauze and a pain pill later I was not feeling too bad. So while I was washing my hair tonight, I thought about a few weekends ago when I went to see my friend's band play. I had just washed my hair and put it up because I didn't want to dry it. A friend walked in the bar later on and said something about how my hair smelled. "Aveda?" she asked and I said, "No, Suave." I don't use expensive shampoo and conditioner. I don't think my hair cares that much. When it comes to the product I put in after washing I do care what that is.
That's all.
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