more VT violence

So there are still things happening in the Virginia Tech community that are sort of disturbing. VT cannot catch a break. News broke late last week about a couple that was murdered while camping just outside the city/campus. It is very sad.

This is an addition to the April 2007 violence, and other smaller incidents in the last two years. It makes it so difficult to get a community to heal and build when these things continue to happen, especially in a rural college town.

Thoughts and prayers to all VTers.

the song in my head

This song has been in my head for days:



Previous to a little trouble, I had this song in my head too:

no talent ass crown duet

So Michael Bolton, the no talent ass clown (can you name the movie? if you can't I'm disappointed in you), did an amazing duet / collaboration with Lady Gaga. This is more evidence that Ms. Gaga is here to stay as she does more and more cross overs. You have to love that no artists stays in there own genre anymore. Taylor Swift & T-pain, and Nelly and Tim McGraw....this is just crazy and I love it!

I sort of like it:

staring at goats

I just found out there is a new movie coming out called: Men who stare at Goats!!!! This is GRRRRREAT!!!

(insert: for those who don't know I used to have a nickname regarding goats and being a goat girl, long story, not that interesting really)

And so this looks like a great movie to me!!!! Great actors (might be better to say hot actors), funny, and goat mind control. There could be some more goats in this movie though....

I too scat in the woods

Thanks T, check out the funniest news segments of all time.

Did anyone see how most of these are FoxNews? I'm just saying.

I like the "sagging pants in Louisiana" where the guy says sagging his pants helps with his swagger. I agree.

fruit humping

Haribo, the German candy maker, is taking some heat lately for a new visual on one of their candy wrappers. Apparently, an overly excited lime is getting busy with some other fruit which is causing some upset parents in the UK. Look his tongue is even hanging out:

I would totally buy this candy!!!! It would be like an infused citrus zitrone (that means lemon lime) and kirsche (cherry-lime).

There is definitely some fruit humping going on here.

just buy a bottle

OK I don't get this invention. If you can't finish a can of something perhaps you shouldn't start it. And if you want to drink out of a bottle, why don't you just buy a bottle?

Perhaps I can get these and put them on my Bud Light cans sporting my favorite team's colors.

fox alert

So I got an email from UVA about an alert in the area:

Please be aware that we have received reports from the Charlottesville Police Department of a fox acting aggressively in the Lambeth Field, Rugby Road and University Circle areas. Please avoid these areas if possible. Police advise that if you see the fox do not approach the animal but call 911 and give the operator your exact location. Humane traps have been set up to catch the fox and allow for routine tests to check the health of the animal.

And of course I found this completely humorous and sent it around to some friends....I've seen foxes around my place! I don't try to approach them but I would if they didn't scare the crap out of me. Here are some great responses:

1. Set George (my groundhog/beaver/gopher) on them!
2. I think they are talking about a crazy chick. If it had been a older crazy chick, it would have been a cougar. This is a public service announcement intended for the guys. :)

Foxy!

bud light promoting football drinking

Bud Light recently announced a new campaign to promote drinking during football season....apparently this is a new thing this year! Locate football fans can show their "true team colors" by purchasing specialty made cans of Bud Light which are in the colors of their favorite team. For example, at MSU you can get green and white cans at your local East Lansing drive in boozery. There are over 27 different colors they are going to be producing and sending out this fall.

Don't worry though, Anheuser-Busch has been careful to say that this new marketing campaign in not targeted towards underage college students. I mean if they say that then it has to be true right, because what only 25% of college students are actually of legal age to drink. It is not like we have had any problems previously with underage drinking in this country!

Some colleges are already asking Bug Light to remove the products from their towns because of trademark issues and because the colors don't truly represent their school. Because yes there is a major difference between maize and blue.

(Edit, to draft, Slurp)

Copy this whole post to another site

cancel

select site advertising consumerist deadspin defamer fleshbot gay fleshbot gawker gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop sploid

news of the week

1. My laptop is in MAC repair land, everyone say a prayer it doesn't go to MAC heaven.
2. Less laptop time means less blogging opportunities.
3. After a great afternoon of riding motorcycles through rural GA last weekend, I've decided I want a motorcycle.
4. I almost wet my pants pushing a burnt grass colored Taurus down the street in Bremen, GA when Bernice's transmission went out. Yep, I pushed the shit out of that car into a parking lot, all by myself. Muscles baby.
5. I saw a grown women wet her pants due to extreme intoxication.
   
6. I had an amazing vacation renewing friendships and spending time with family. Lots of good food, laughter and booze.
   
7. I got some new dress clothes and shoes from the shopping center that was Ann's closet. Sad and grateful all at once.
   
8. I made it successfully back to Cville and am already all settled in without any major problems after traveling through 5 airports and dragging my shit for over a week.
9. My garden is still looking but slowly dying. Got a good 3 months of out of that beast! Eating the last of the tomatoes in the next couple weeks.
   

music of the moment

The new Paramore album is out soon and the singles are being released:



Been so much more into alternative rock music these days...

it's official...pissed off at Favre

God damnit Brett, can't you make up your damn old mind. You're starting to piss me off now!

Favre is now officially a Vik. Yeah for MN. Brett can suck it.

welcome to the dark side

This one is for Claire...welcome to the dark side of tween sensations:

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

a little funny

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Even Better-er Know a District - Colorado's 2nd - Jared Polis
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Protests

FL update

1. There are freakin lizards all over the place! (I forgot to mention that yesterday)
2. Bernice has a respiratory infection so I'm officially airborning myself in preparation for my arrival in hot-lanta tomorrow. My damn immune system.
3. There are some killer clouds floating around FL today from Bill, Claudia and Ana. Here's hoping that this season of hurricanes bring a Leslie for the letter L. They could just call it LL. Can I vote for that somewhere???
4. Today was a good training but a little more stressful.
5. There is dried moss hanging from most of the trees, it is like WA but all dried up and not as green mossy. I love it!
6. I've been running my balls off while in FL. Probably will die for the rest of the week. Normally I'm not a runner, and I agree with Bernice's comments today "I only run when being chased" and then I add "I only run when being chased and not wanting to be caught!"
7. I have this damn Black Eye Peas song in my head. Another great vacay song.
8. Look out hot-lanta, I'm coming!!!!

vacay day 2

News of the day:

1. Lightning storms = airport delays = LL lateness and lots of book reading
   
2. First 25 Head Start teachers were pretty smart and a good group today
3. Running in 90 degree weather and humidity makes it hard for LL to breath
4. Running in 90 degree weather makes me sweat balls
5. Everyone in FL has tinted windows darker than the plastic pinto
   
6. Spinners are still hot
7. My hotel is right next to an amazing southern BBQ place, and the owner and I are already friends (free beers for LL)
8. My suitcase is already 47 pounds without any GA stuff yet
9. The MAC computer gods do not like me this week
10. So far Sahara the novel isn't that much different than Sahara the movie. Damn you Clive Cussler!
11. Ben Folds Five Live is great vacay music
    

peeing

OK I've made two posting today about peeing or urinating.....not sure what that is about!

Just stating the obvious here.

another note from where I've lived

Soooo a couple weeks ago I ran across a note about a restaurant in Cville on one of my favorite blogs. Now I read about a posting from someone in Pullman, WA!!! Well holy balls. All the cities I've lived in are making the rounds lately.

Apparently the girls dorms at WSU have been experiencing some problems with male guests and their bathroom privileges. First of all who the hell wants to live in a gendered dorms anymore?? And second, who the hell allows their guest to pee in bottles and throw them out the window??? If I was walking across campus and this business happened to me, I would have been pissed! OK poor choice of word use there :)

I like how it says, "be sure to clean up your guest's urine" OR perhaps you shouldn't have guests who urinate around your personal items. Wait, I guess I had friends in college who did things like that too.....anyone remember that FOX report from the neighbor on 12th Street and Como who had college student peeing on her lawn light up christmas figures??? I would like to officially state that I did not know those people.

care about the environment? pee in the shower

So I'm definitely not a linguist and I don't speak Portuguese, but I can see the message in this commercial: You can save water if you just pee while showering instead of wasting a flush! All tree hugging liberals out there, if you really truly cared about the environment, you too would save your pee for when you shower. For some of us we would be saving for days!

Although many of my friends and family have a problem with it, I don't normally flush until it's brown or at least a couple visits. T has some saying about this that I can't remember. D, a little help??? We're saving water folks! But what I find funny is when someone is over who this bothers, so they flush first, and then use the bathroom. That is at least two flushes!!!

Take a que from my Brazilian friends, just pee in the shower!

I get to see Muse

Well I am officially excited now for the U2 concert in October here in Cville. M & A got us all some wicked 4th row tickets through their connections!!!! And for months I forgot that I had already paid them for the tickets, and for some reason I kept thinking I was going to see The Boss (Bruce that is). Then a couple weeks ago I realized I needed to get this concert on my calendar and figure out that business.

Turns out I'm seeing U2, bitches. And my happiness continued when I heard that my new favorite band and slight addiction, Muse, would be opening for some dates for U2. Turns out Cville is one of them!!!!!!! Yeah!!!! I hear they are great in concert.

I'm soooo freakin excited!!!! Bring it Bono!

(I've been going a little more alternative lately, and Muse and this song really fits that need...except the video is a little freaky)

UMN getting a light rail

My future backup husband, currently in MSP, keeps me up to date with things happening around my home at the Univ. of MN. Check out the possibilities to update transportation for the horrid traffic problems around the U and in Minney:



(someone tell that guy to make a damn point and quicker!)

WOW, this is great, we need this....especially with the new stadium now back on campus:

a little saturday flash mob

This is hot:

yum, is that a pork product of some kind?

Can you name the movie line????
"Hmmm, I definitely smell a pork product of some kind."
Gold stars for the person you can name it.

Betty forwarded on a new invention called Wake n' Bacon. Let me do the infomercial for you.....Tired of annoying alarms? Need to get motivated in the morning by another force? Then try to wakey wakey bacey alert clock! You can wake to the smell of bacon cooking from your clock. And then the smell of bacon can sneak into your sheets and bedding and clothing. You could be like a walking slice '0 bacon, who doesn't want this?????

Why don't you just try getting your sorry ass out of bed out of sheer willpower....yummmm bacon!

Billary is hot and bothered

So Hillary is in the Congo sweating her balls wearing her normal pantsuits, and encountered a mistranslated question from a student, which she over reacted to. She made it clear to everyone that SHE is the sec. of state and not Bill!!! Yikes!

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

It is possible that the traveling and hot weather is getting to her!!! Perhaps someone should put her in a dress or skirt to help cool her down. If that happens though we will have to see her Cankles, and remember apparently the world is trying to eliminate legs that go straight into ankles.

you need a job

OK these guys seriously need a job....who the hell goes around in wrastling gear catching laptops in their butt cheeks???? The economy is worse than I thought!



Those are some strong butt cheeks. Seriously, I wonder what else these guys to grab, catch, or stop with their ass??? I'll need to ponder this for awhile longer....

more on the townhall

G forwarded on this article to me about the townhall meeting we went to on Tuesday night. Apparently the meeting went past 11 pm (yep folks that is 5 hours), and there was not 300 people there (like I was estimating) but closer to 1300. I've never been known for my off the cuff measurement ability! So that is a good turn out, but thank god I left after the first hour and a half. I enjoyed my time watching all the different people....as I told one of the old ladies last night, it was like people watching at a county fair!!! Ahhh good times.

no blood but lots of people

national healthcare

So I've been meaning to post some thoughts about national healthcare lately, but haven't had the time to articulate anything meaningful (this not having internet thing is sort of inhibiting for blogging). BUT I am going to a townhall meeting tonight for my local representative. I'm going to hear what the man has to say about BO's health policies, and to hopefully see some people fighting.

Now that the house is on recess all the representatives have been in alot of drama lately...you would have to be living in a hole not to know this! Up to 250 people are attending these meeting and protesting with signs and their voices. I want to see some people yelling and maybe some blood. More on this later....

my new crush

Eric Bana has been making the rounds lately promoting his new movie, the Time Traveler's Wife. I forgot how damn zexy that man is and how he reminds me of my Mr. Owen or Mr. Butler. The guy is smart and well spoken and funny. He was cracking everyone up on Conan and Fallon. Love him!

a good hiding place

Sooo I read this greooossss article today about an Obese, 500 pound man who was being processed into a Texas jail. He was able to get a 9mm gun into the jail because he hid it in his flabs of fat!!!! The guy was searched multiple times before he was admitted and no security gaurd successfully found the weapon. The inmate admit to it while in the shower.....(bad images, bad, bad).

That is just greeossss. That story will continue to horrify me for the rest of the day.

the little blue pill ice cream

So a London ice cream shoppe has announced a new "cocktail" / flavor of ice cream for all those fabulous brits I love. It is packed with libido-boosting ingredients and is tagged as the little blue pill of ice cream. Boy, this is a new one....

I wonder who will be lining up for this, college students or dirty old men? Or both? I hope it is open late after the bars close because that is probably their target audience. Let's try to keep this away from the kiddies!!! Stick to chocolate or strawberry for all those under 18 (do you really think you have to show an ID to buy this ice cream? I mean it is London after all).

replacements for Paula

One of my favorite bloggers came up with some replacements for Paula on AI, and I had to pass them along:

An Old-Time Coke Dispenser. Why beat around the bush any longer, Idol producers? Just put a fing Coke dispenser in her chair.

A Punching Bag For Simon. He’ll need something to beat on.

A Sign That Just Says “Yes”. Slightly cheaper… but gets to the point much faster.

tell me lies

Three American Idol (AI) vets performed together on ABC morning show this week, and I have to admit it was pretty damn good:

music of the moment

I've been trying to figure out who was singing this song that gets in my head and doesn't leave for days....and before I know it I'd be dancing in public and shaking my hips at home....you know me and my Caribbean infused music. I'm starting to dig Michael Franti and Spearhead who are on tour with the Counting Crows this summer.

more funnies

Jimmy Fallon has been making some funnies lately...and here is another:

put your shirt on Putin

Russian Prime Minister, Putin, has been taking camera crews on his hunting trips and vacations to get a couple pictures of him shirtless. Last week they caught him doing the butterfly through some lake on a hunting trip. Is his Russian physique suppose to scare me?? What is more scarey is the fact he is fishing and carrying a high-powered gun shirtless!

Perhaps we should get Putin into some wrastling matches! Jello? I bet he could bodyslam the shit out of some WWE or MMF or POS (piece o' shit, or whatever the hell the acronym is) athletes.

Well ABC news attempts to explain the situation to us:

Elvis Week 2009

So tomorrow is the official start to Elvis Week 2009. There are 9 full days of Elvis related activities, including: Elvis Bingo (I wonder how you have to yell out Bingo), Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, the opening of the "Elvis Lives" exhibit (aren't we beyond this whole, he is still living thing?), and finally my favorite Elvis Spirit Runners (does this mean that they dress up like the King and run a marathon---you know how excited I get at races PLUS if they are dressed up fun, I may just wet my pants).

Can you imagine the amount of people dressed up like Elvis around Memphis in the coming weeks? I'm going to start practicing my Elvis lip just for the hells of it, and adding alittle New York "How you doinnng?" Creeepy! Ohhh and I think I'll start practicing my gyrating my hips/knees too (because I need to find more reasons to say gyrating).

reasons to miss Paula on AI

So I used to watch American Idol occasionally back in the day, but the last season I fall off the bandwagon. In this last season they brought on a new female judge who apparently shook things up a little. Well now, before the next season starts---what are we on like 10 or something?---it was announced that the new female judge will be staying and good old crazy Paula Abdul is leaving. Well damnit all, now I'm really not going to go back to watching....she was all the fun! Any one remember the Paula AI drinking game?

If I watched the show still these are the things I would miss:

• Her hitting Simon or basically contridicting everyhing he says.
  
• Her random bouts of crying.
  
• Wondering if she is high or drunk that night.
  
• That the contestants without talent will just be rejected.
• Her filling empty air time with drug-induced rambling which is only 50/50 coherent.

I bet she will be on another reality show within the year!

PS, I don't think I've turned on my TV in 2 weeks....anyone proud? Do DVDs count?

twitter goes down

So you may have heard today that Twitter, the popular 140 character (or is it 180?) texting via a website social networking piece o' shit, went down today. Yep the entire site was hacked and was offline for a number of hours this morning. The Tweeters were all bent out of shape about this...because you know they might have had to pick up a phone or put their hands on an actual keyboard in order to communicate with people in the world. This must have been a big inconvenience to use all their fingers instead of just their thumbs, or to have to hold a phone to their ear. Yikes!!! That must have been a tough 2-3 hours.....I just can't imagine.

Meanwhile the rest of us were able to make it through our days....it was tough, but somehow I was able to do it :)

john c. reilly's new movie

Interesting:

amen, keep your DC

I completely agree:

forget the super soakers

Go for what the US government uses for a little summer fun:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

fart-gate

Holy balls who knew that Tiger having a little gas would turn into national news this week.....Some are now calling it "fart-gate" and every newspaper outlet in the country has picked up the coverage. So you know what that means!!!! The dumbest news headline titles: Did Tiger Woods break par ... and break wind? OR Frenzy over Woods' Wind OR Does a Tiger fart in the Woods?
Crap I could just keep looking up these titles all day!!! Makes me laugh.

Let's see how long fart-gate lasts! This is a great sports scandal, forget dog killing!

Lupus is....

A new campaign has been launched recently to raise awareness about Lupus and to educate the community about autoimmune diseases. Here are some of their campaign posters, which made me laugh!!!! Really Lupus is....unpredictable (because I have to stay in bed too much), inhibiting (because I can't go to the beach like normal people), frustrating (because I can't make it up a flight of steps and I make my friends take the elevator with me), and invisible (because no one would really know that's why I don't go to sporting events anymore, which used to be my entire life). Christ almighty they nailed that one on the head. I was just laughing and laughing about how appropriate these were.



I think we should start another campaign, which is a little more LL friendly. Fill in the blank in the comments section and please make me laugh......

Lupus is ___________:

• supporting the indoor board games industry.
• single-handedly financing the development of good sunscreen.
• promoting gangsta tinted windows for your pimp-mobiles.
  

chilaxing baby

So I've been working on chilaxing a little lately. I've got in some extra yoga classes, some swimming, and last night I slept a total of about 11 hours (with no nightmares so far this week!) This morning I got up and went for coffee before work. It totally chilled me out and I don't have 3 students everyday in my office so I have the bubble to think around my head (which has noticeably been absent this last month). And when I take a deep breath it doesn't hurt my chest or become jagged. Here's hoping I can hang on to this chilaxing baby!

a halloween wig for you

So the Halloween costumes are already starting to hit the stores and I'm predicting this year's big seller......Last year it was the Joker and this year women, particularly mothers, will be buying the Eight Is Too Much Wig. This is a great hair peice that takes the classic Kate Gosselin asymtrical spiked haircut to an extreme!!!! I would so wear it and strap like 8 children to myself. Being really bitchy and mean would probably come pretty easily too!!! I'd probably dress it up with a little booze too....always makes it better.

not sure this sign is working right

I'm not entirely sure that this sign is doing what the makers were hoping. I know this is suppose to look poorly on BO, but the marketing is all wrong.

Case and point, the Joker was everyone's favorite Batman character. The last Batman movie made over a quarter of a million dollars. And seriously the Joker gets things done!!! He will beat everyone and still end up on top. And you have to admit he was pretty bad ass in the last movie. I would take the Joker over the Power Rangers or some other villian.

So again, not sure this is sending the right message, oh wait good thing they put their point in writing at the bottom....

elizabeth is all grown up

So since I'm apparently on a baby blogging roll tonight, I thought I could give a Elizabeth update. My good friends Sammy Sam and Joshua got all preggers a couple years ago while I was still living in the armpit of the US (that is Pullman for those of you who don't know), and had a lovely little girl who is blogged about here. Here is me with her when she was all really young and cute:



And now she is growing and growing, and looking more and more like Josh (still cute though). Check her out in her new bed:



Hoping for a short visit in a month, if only to see/make fun of how big Sam is now with #2 on the way!!!!! XOXOXXO

remember this moment?

Speaking of my Bri-dawg.....I remember this exact moment, good times:



I remember it being -40 outside (I'm not sure how I ever lived in the frozen tundra) and walking down the street to get a couple shots of tequila to warm us up!

introducing Cooper, my little pooper

So I've been very very neglectful in my blogging lately as there has been so many things happening that I haven't commented on. One big one is my good friend, Bri and Rhino, had a baby. His name is Cooper, and he is officially my little pooper. Although I haven't yet met this little pooper, I'm tentatively planning a trip to Alaska to visit (and to shoot a moose) before the end of next year. Here is my the pooper, CONGRATS B & R:

news of the last couple days....

1. The plastic pinto got some new back brakes today, thus passing the VA state inspection. You zexy braking machine!!!
2. D makes the BEST homemade sushi, which I enjoyed the tuna, scallops, smoked salmon and shrimp tempura on Saturday night. Yum!
3. I've resolved to leave clues from Dirty Minds on all my friends cars. "It's long, it's hard...." Since someone thoughts I was already doing this to them!
4. I highlighted my hair this weekend with a purple/red dye. Success = no one being able to notice right away but getting a little color caught in the sun. I rubbered gloved the shit out of that hair dye.
   
5. I successfully changed the 48 inch fluorescent lights in my kitchen this weekend without shattering the tube or electrocuting myself. Points for me! This is a particularly important development since I've been lobbing off pieces of my fingers with knives and getting stung by bees in my eyeballs lately.
6. Ginny, my friend from Miami, has successfully made it to Cville, and I was able to show her a good time this weekend (i.e., taking her to the dollar store and wallie wall to stock up on things for her new apartment).
   
7. I lost my wallet this morning.....but found it after 1 hour of shear anxiety.
8. I officially bought my ticket to Austin, TX for late October!!! On the agenda: two-stepping, cowboys, booze, and sharing a 1-room bed and breakfast with two girlfriends. Ohhhh boy, look out Texasssss we're coming! (pray for cloudy weather please).
   
9. I got a letter from my cousin Everett, who is going through basic training for the US Army in Missouri (I'll show you mine if you show me yours). He is alive and loving all the push-ups he has to do everyday. Note to family and friends, please write him because it really means alot to him.
10. I counted over 35 green tomatos on my 6 foot tomato plants this weekend while tending my garden o' goodness. I had about 5 cucumbers I picked last week as well, and still one more on the vine. Those green tomatos are all going to change at one time!!!!
    
11. I did the splits tonight in yoga.....all my man friends go ahead and cross your legs, but it felt sooooo good :)
12. T minus about 1 month until UMN football in Minnie. Hells yes baby!
    

sometimes you just have gas

Everyone needs to get off Tiger's back....sometimes you just need to fart: