November 2010
23 posts
The Weirdest Thing I Found on the Internet On My...
What I was trying to find: the answer to the question “Has somebody already started a joke-Facebook group for people who were breech babies?”
What the answer to that is: No, but there are real Facebook groups for the mothers of breech babies. Yawn.
The place to which all this led me: “You Can’t Birth Breech Twins Vaginally: Wanna Make a Bet?”
Having read the...
What's Your Jeopardy Anecdote?
You know what is incredibly hard for a person who is not married and doesn’t have any kids? Coming up with a Jeopardy anecdote! Even though I have not applied to be on Jeopardy, I’m always trying to think of what my anecdote would be. You have to give them five. It’s SO HARD because all of my anecdotes are either inappropriate: “I was raised in a Christian cult.”...
I'm now working with some really awesome people...
A little while ago, I joined Yahoo!’s new entertainment blogging team run by Courtney Reimer and Mark Lisanti, and the company announced it today. When we launch our respective sites with their own names and all that, we will be:
Will Leitch and Tim Grierson, Movies
Caryn Ganz and Daniel Kreps, Music
Erin Carlson and Josh Duboff, Celebrity
Me and Tara Ariano, TV
There’s nothing to...
This is important.
Have we decided on a way to indicate that someone is pussy- or dick-whipped in an IM conversation? Just now I used “p-chew, p-chew” to a friend who had to check with her boyfriend before making plans with me for this weekend, but then I had to say “(the dick-whipped sound)” afterwards, which kind of ruined the (completely hysterical) joke. From now on that’s what that...
Groupon's terrible writing actually has guidelines
You know how Groupon is pretty great, but the copywriting on their deals is insufferable with its annoying “humor” that stands in the reader’s way of the information he or she wants: the actual details of the deal? I was just looking at their front page and saw an ad: they’re hiring New York writers to move to Chicago where all this bad writing is taking place, AND they...
How to Not Sneeze
(I’m putting this up as a public service and because I keep telling people this trick and people keep being in their mid-30s and not knowing it!)
If you feel like you’re about to sneeze and don’t want to, place your index finger across the area just above your lip horizontally, like you’re pretending to give yourself a mustache. Then, press gently but firmly. This cuts off...
the tasteless parody, it writes itself:
This morning The Today Show had a segment on the epidemic of suicides among former reality show contestants. That is all I’m going to say.
Um, I got a cheap plane ticket! Yay.
Wow, thanks to JetBlue’s Cheeps sale and Jauntsetter for reminding me of it, I’ll be visiting my BFF Amanda in Chapel Hill this weekend for $10 each way. Follow them on Twitter for weekly Tuesday crazy sales for the following weekend. I’m just in shock that it actually worked. [Note: it might not even be sold out yet and there are other cities.]
Don't Be Alarmed: It's Just Kanye West Wanting...
Kanye West’s surprise performance on a Delta Minneapolis-to-NYC flight comes just 9.9 years after The Onion’s Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-to-Door to Shock People.
Community.
Annie: “…And all because we were insecure!”
Abed: “Everyone is. Even Tom Cruise knows he’s short and nuts.”
Freedom Confession
I’m almost done with Freedom, which I couldn’t help but cast in my head (it’s just that kind of book), and while I’m happy with my casting of Patty (she IS Tea Leoni), it’s been a source of shame for me through the entire second half of the book that I was forced to cast Mindy Kaling in a role she would and could never play, simply because she was one of only two...
Yum
Trader Joe’s has this seasonal new pumpkin cream cheese right now that is very good. It’s basically their (wonderful) pumpkin butter mixed with cream cheese, which is what I had for breakfast on toast every day last fall (apparently along with everyone else in the world!) Get it! (Also get the pumpkin butter, it’s the best.)
And while we’re on the subject of my favorite...
