hip hop hippdy hop

Well Jimmy Fallon is growing on me....especially after this random performance with JT last night which totally rocked me world (worth 4 minutes of your time):



Hip hop history right there

hidden dance party

So I was able to go Easy A last weekend, and it totally cracked my shit up. Pretty damn funny. Both McBetty and I laughed in between shoveling butter popcorn in, then we ran to eat Sushi (and green zits--bad choice) off of a conveyor belt. In the movie, there were all these great little scenes which were very very well written--sort of like watching Juno (silenceo old man). Anyways, one of them TOTALLY reminds me of me and my weekends. Here is a good video example of the little dance parties I talk about:



Notice the nail painting, singing, and sewing....classic.

two-wheeled machines of death

Well it's official, Segways really are two-wheel death machines. I declared this last spring when my gay husbands and I were speeding around DC. Note to self, don't wear sweaty flip flops on machines which are controlled by your toes!! Now we have more evidence....it was announced today that the owner of the Segway Company died in a freak accident. How, you ask? Guess....just guess...here is a mathematical hint from my one of my favorite bloggers:



Yes, the man drove his segway off a cliff in his England Estate. Seriously? Maybe that man needed to read his own owner's manual. Wowsa. That sucks and probably did nothing for your company's trading today. In honor of the Segway owner, I think we should all review 20 people/situations where Segways should NOT be used. My favorite "to NOT do" looks to be somewhere in the frozen tundra, and something I would do only when with B or Ev after doing some shots:



(insert mohhahahaha evil laugh)

music of the moment

So there is a new band out there that makes me sort of want to dance around the room (remember how this song used to do that for me??). Well the new band is called Neon Trees and they will probably suck in the long run. They look alittle too hipster for me currently, but I'm diggin it because they like to hang christmas lights in cars:



Ohhhh OOOOO, what are you waiting for?

makes me want to join facebook

Well I can't believe I'm saying it, but today I might have had a small inclination (which was immediately squashed) to join Facebook. The reasoning??? First, the CEO announced he is donating 100 Million dollars to the NJ Public School System. HOT!!! I love that. Although I do think it might be that the "social networking" movie, which happening to shed some pretty poor light on you and your website, is coming out later this week. Nothing like joining up with some local elephants and going on the Big O to talk about how amazing you are. Well, I like you supporting education, especially in NJ school system who is only graduating 40% of students.

Second, apparently Facebook went down for two hours today. That means the world had the most productive afternoon in the last 8 years!!! Oh wait, I bet everyone just starting tweeting their thoughts. Yep, that is exactly what happened....check out one of my favorite tweets, once again showing creative and maximizing the situation (wtg, boston zipcar):

Space Junk PICTURES: Space Debris-Monitoring Satellite Set To Launch

#BecauseOfTwitter: The Good And The Bad (TWEETS)

SHORT AND TWEET: Top 7 Tweets Of The Week From The Fringe And Famous (PICTURES)

Astronauts' Spectacular Twitter Pictures From Space (PHOTOS)

Nokia E7 Smartphone Hands-On (PHOTOS): 'Wow' To 'Weird'

Google Instant Blocks Sexy Searches: See What Basic Terms Google Thinks Are NSFW

PS, did I really read that the Facebook CEO is now worth more money than Steve Jobs? Wowsa.

getting closer to HP in Nov

Sooo the first installment of the new HP movie is coming out in November, around Gobble-Gobble-Gobble day, and things are starting to leak more regularly now. Some of the podcasts I subscribe have been to the pre-screening in Chi-town. They say that these movies are closest to the book, and just as good as the second one. Yeah!!!

I posted some pictures of when they were still filming and I have to post one more which just came out yesterday. This is the 7 Potters scene where everyone changes into Harry near the beginning of the first book. Brilliance:



UPDATE: Here is the newest trailer, released today bitches:

DC luppie update

Well here I am in DC being a Luppie rockstar and during the first two day I've already got a number of observations:

1. Most Lupus researchers are short, tiny little Asian men, whose names I cannot pronounce. I'm not even going to try either.
   
2. LL tall white lady with short Asian men = AWKWARDness
3. Lupus researchers are some serious people, they don't laugh, and they don't smile. If I was that serious about my disease I would have killed myself 3 years ago...
   
4. There are a number of foreign dudes who I swear can talk without opening their mouths. They would be amazing puppetry people. This one guy has an France accent and even though I am listening very hard I'm about 2 sentence behind on comprehending what he is saying...
   
5. So not only do these people mumble, they also talk fast and by using very big words. Seriously, I am sooo dumb. Not only am I bringing down the average age but also the IQ range in that room...
   
6. There was soooo smrt talk happening for 11 hours today that at lunch I had to run back up to my hotel room to read celebrity gossip and watch ET lunch edition. One of the little asian men asked me if I ate lunch and I was like "yes, but in my room" hahahaha, away from you people.
7. We worked for 11 straight hours today discussing 19 proposals and my emotions ranged from "I think I'm going to cry" to "I'm mad as hell" to "This totally sucks my balls." As always with these Lupus-related events, I'm on the fence whether I am doing something meaningful versus pushing me into a deep hole.
   
8. I don't know if I'm needed. Anything I have to say about how this idea would help Lupus patients, it is always trumped by the poor science. And on top of it, the Lupus research is so in its infancy that rarely things are actually getting to the patients.....SO FRUSTRATING!!! I have to just sit there and discuss my own humanity.
   
9. I did talk. I did tell one of them how I didn't appreciate him making fun of the sun symptoms--he said "Well this idea isn't novel, we know there is sun exposure problems" and I said "Well yes but because we know that is common doesn't mean we have solutions for it. It is one of the most common symptoms and one which affects alot of patient's lifestyles" and he goes "It is not like the army folks are going to be sun bathing in Iraq" and I said "Well no one with Lupus goes to the beach or sun baths" What is your damn point????
   

Done with this all tomorrow and maybe in a week I'll feel like it was worth it.

get in the kitchen and open my beer

Sooo I ran across this website with the top 31 youtube videos on how to creatively open your bottle of beer. Who knew that youtube had such a plethora "how to" videos...I mean I could have imagined but I just hadn't done the searches myself.

I have had this problem when in hotel rooms or at conferences where I excitedly go off to buy me some booze and get back to the room to realize I can't open any of it. I remember once in San Fransisco I jury-rigged my hotel bed frame to open a non-twist off bottle of beer! That was creative. Now I tend to buy twist off bottles of wine when traveling!

But here is my favorite and most creative way of opening a bottle of beer, because I always have one of these laying around the house:

starsucks sucking me in

Well the last two days have been ripe with work stress in the world of LL, and nothing makes me all warm and fuzzy inside like a Pumpkin/fall spiced latte. As I've mentioned previously, I'm ready and willing for the season of fall to come and rock my world. In preparation for cooler weather, I like to walk around naked more (nakeville, population of 1) and wear sweatshirts and frolic in the leaves and drink fall spiced caffeine drinks.

I've been to two of my favorite locally owned coffee shops recently and had to talk the bar chick through how to fall spice up my life. The only place I can get a good pumpkin spice cup of crap is Starsucks. And we all know how I truly feel about the Seattle corporation--I heart my favorite fish throwing city but tend to support small local businesses more. Starsucks, totally sucking me in. So here's hoping that some places get their pumpkin spice up and running, and soon!

trading treadmills for genius dogs

Well OK GO has done it again. They are becoming legendary artists who create music videos which are fun and fascinating. First came the treadmill video, then came the Mouse Trap video, and finally they just released what I coined the genius dog video. They have traded in their treadmills for cup staking and well-trained dogs:



Brilliant. Shear brilliance.

I have to admit this video makes me so happy. Smiles, all around. Happiness.

what, ABC news, what?

Really ABC, really? Don't you have anyone with common knowledge watching how you post on your twitter account??? I think you mayyyy need some better proofreaders:

Nope, I think I'll take a pass on that one. No thank you.

a little weekend visit

I had this amazing weekend with some company this weekend. She blew through Cville, stopped in, drank some wine, ate some food and totally rocked my world. We sat on my patio for hours visiting, and then woke up the next morning to a big LL B&B phattie breakfast. There were potatoes, and omelets (which totally stayed together), fruit, coffee, and juice. Shit. That meal would have cost some dollars else where, but at my personal B&B all you need to do is just relax, max, and drink.

Thanks for the good visit, so good to see you. Ready for me next weekend? Good.

Who is the next Cville visitor????

a shoe update

Well every once and awhile I need to make some comments about fashion and women's shoes. I just can't keep my damn mouth shut when things are just sooo out of my realm of possibilities. Case and point, these new women's shoes. Can you guess which ones I love the most????



OR these ones:


Now there is some creative!!! I like it. Stuck on gum shoe. Rockin.

a little country break

So Friday night Ash and I took a little country break and walked our sexy asses over to hear Sugarland. We bought these damn tickets about 6 months ago and they have seriously been burning a hole in my kitchen table. We met up, made some din din, drank a bottle of wine, and Ash did my hair is an a-mazing updo. Yeah she is a secret hair stylist.

We had a great time watching Little Big Town, singing Boondocks, and then rocking out with Jennifer and Christian. Love them:



After the show Ash and I decided to try to sneak back stage, not realizing that since the Morgan Harrinton abduction last year, the entire after concert scene in Cville has been on lock down. I didn't factor the fear of drunken abduction into my plan to sneak back stage. Needless to say, Ash and I waited and chatted it up with some security guards, telling them their business about how to raise their children. But we ended up just getting picked up without any Sugarland sightings. Damn.



Have to admit there isn't a bad seat in JAPAPAJAAPA. Pretty sweet concert.

save betty white

I'm half on board with the campaign to save Betty White....I don't want this lady to get over worked and start having problems. She is our golden gal:

guess the hat

So I ran across this mugshot last week of a model father in FL. He was arrested for shooting at the feet of his son so that he ran more around the yard. This father of the year wanted his son to get in better shape for football season, and why just shoot your gun at him....good idea, genius. So anywho, he got arrested and his mugshot is classically trashy FL southern sun fried:

So can we take a moment to think about what type of hat this douche ball was wearing whilst shooting at his son and baking away in the sun??? This is going to be an a-mazing guess game...here are some options:

1. Bud Light hat
2. Nascar hat
3. FL gators hat
4. Naked mud flap girls
   

picture of the day, part 2

So here is the second picture of the day that made me giggle....not that any of us think the guys who hang signs at Wallie World are masters of typography. I wonder once they got these hung if they stepped back and said "ahh screw it, no one will notice." I mean W's and M's do look alike, I make those types of grammar/English mistakes all the time.

picture of the day

Well this made me giggle...cocky little organic egg, rubbing in our faces....

music of the moment

Listen to this new One Republic song with this cello in the beginning....I love the beginning piece of music and it gives me human bumps:

changing a luppie's future

Well I've mentioned previously about my volunteerism with the Lupus Foundation in raising some money, drinking at their galas, and meeting with our senators to tell them their business. The newest addition to these efforts was being nominated to review Department of Defense (DOD) grants for the future of Lupus research. How freakin awesome is that???

Earlier this spring I was nominated by LFA, went through application process and interviewed with the feds. Luckily, they deemed me an acceptable/passing/OK "consumer reviewer." This means I speak for the entire Lupus community....you know all 1.5 million of us Americans (no pressure, you idiot). Well me and my millionaire mentor are representing, big time.

So at the end of last month, you know with all my free time between spending two weeks in NC and burying my grandma, I got my Lupus proposal assignments. Last weekend I finally sat my f/phat ass down to read through all 10-15 of my full DOD grants. I sat on a conference call last week and one early this morning, and am feeling like I can now actually confidently rate these applications.

I actually got to a point this weekend where I went from feeling overwhelmed to feeling very excited about the potential of some of this work. I can't tell you about it because I had to sign my life away and my first born child to the government--sort of like my sister who gets electronically shocked if she talks about her work on the "dark side" of building military satellites (oh wait, did I just say too much?).

BUT one exciting thing had to do with creating a Lupus pee stick, sort of like a preggers test but for figuring out if my kidneys are rejecting me quicker. I was all about this effort. When I visit my 30 doctors every 3 months I have to pee in cups, and I'll be the first to admit that my aim isn't very good. I think I can confidentially speak for me and all the lab technicians, that a pee stick would be much more appreciated....I'm on board with it. Sign me up for the luppie pee stick and artificial silicon cell coatings to trick my crap-ass antibodies not to attack my body. Sounds good to me!!!

I will be in DC next week for 3 days of meetings to debate the good, the bad, and the ugly in the future of all Luppies....no pressure....better be professional LL. On it.

no chicken dinner

Well god damnit...I was NO winner winner, and got no chicken dinner this AM. As I mentioned previously, I was signed up to compete in a segment on a local D-town radio station this morning. In preparation I was reading even more celebrity gossip this weekend, and got up early to make my 6:30 AM wake up call.

All I had to do was answer 5 celebrity BS question and bet the radio DJ. I ended up tying her because I made some fatal mistake. During a simple Lady Gaga question I said "let's dance" instead of "just dance." What a douche! Stupid mistake. Also, I was frantically trying to google f-ing big O's decorator, but I couldn't spell it right!!! Damn English language, kills me every time.

If you want to hear my performance, check out this link. If it doesn't work check out their podcast page and search for "Smarter than Shannon" on 9/13/10. You can hear me tie the host which is basically losing. No D-town prizes for me. Maybe next time!

Good fun either way....

things that haunt me

Sooo there are two things today that will continue to haunt me for the rest of the week:

1. A story about a nasty TX club dude with the biggest white head on his face rubbing up on my girlfriend. Reminds me of this horrid video.
2. Thanks to JB for sending along this horrid picture, which further confirms my devotion to the hatred of cats. I would like to stamp a big helllls no on that one, grossss:

a laundry experiment

So I've been conducting a laundry experiment which apparently is now entering into my 5th week. Whilst on the phone with my lovely Helga tonight, I realized that I haven't been in the office for 5 days straight going on approximately 5 weeks (and going to be out for 3 days next week!). And with all the traveling I haven't had the time nor energy to do my laundry. We have now entered "the pile of dirty laundry is as tall as your already full laundry basket" status.

I started speculating how much longer I could go without committing the ultimate clothing cleansing. Remember I'm a clothes whoure. Well I pale in comparison to T and still have wayyyy more than A, but really it all relevant to the size of your closet. For example, now that I have this VA bigger apartment, compared to the studio shithole in WA, I can have more articles of clothing. Case and point, the overflowing 12 drawers and 3 rod walk in closet in my bedroom.

So perhaps I will just continue this laundry experiment until I run out of fundies (aka fun undies/underwear). Want to take bets on how long it will last??? Remember, I'm not opposed to going commando....so you may need to consider that in your calculations. I do believe the last act was committed on August 14th. I wonder if I could make it to October....

PS, anyone remember when I used to do these types of impromptu experiments with cleanliness in college??? My sister sent me shampoo (and booze for that matter) in the mail (when it was legal) because I was too cheap to shower!!! I'm so special.

beer for everyone

So I mentioned last week that we were all headed out to the first annual Cville Beer Fest last weekend. We came, we saw, we drank....I was starting to lose my enthusiasm when I found everyone I know was going to be there, including many people I would rather not hang out with sociably. But fortunately there were soooo many people there and so much beer to be drunk that I really didn't end up having a problem with this. A tip of my small cheap plastic mug to you all:



Luckily, the weather was amazing perfect, not too hot and not too cold--just perfect for a light fall jacket (can you name the movie line?). Luckily for us Luppies, it was all under a gigantic tent so there was no sun exposure. Good thing I came prepared with layers of white beaters and cover-ups. Yes and yes. Good times were had by all, including 4 cases of free paint bottle for future home brewing.



Ahhh, you sexy bitches!

music of the moment

So this week Sara Bareilles, the Love Song chick ("I love the way she pounds the keys"), released her sophomore album. Reviews are in and they are good. The first track off of it totally get in your head. I'm digging it and also like the second song, Uncharted, which she claims broke her writers block. She is looking strong and sweet. Play me the piano all day lady:

a little jab from the governator

Wowsa, the CA governator totally just ripped on Ms. Palin via technology. Ouch:

I had a number two bigger than that

Recently the Guinness World Book of records announced the newest "world's shortest man" measuring in at a whopping 22 pounds and 27 inches. Just to make a statement of fact, I believe I've had bigger number twos then 22 lbs. Seriously, I may have taken a poo bigger than this dude just this morning....

You may be thinking that this dude could be super young--well you'd be wrong--he is 24 year old. That is like a couple years older than he weighs!!! If we are using that as our unit of measurement, I'm 8x bigger/fatter (/phatter) than my age. Sad. Apparently I need more anal suppositories in my life!

Poor guy. Maybe being a giant isn't such a bad thing??? That is just too small, I would probably step on him...accidentally, of course!

radio rockstar (and not getting paid)

So many you know I started, and then shortly quitttted, a local radio show job. I got recruited by my good friend, B, to help out reading and writing the morning news. I figured, well this shit will be fun and easy....turns out it totally sucks my balls. Seriously, lots of work and no where near fun. So I've tried to professionally get myself out of that the last month between work travels and funerals. I think the news director thinks I hate him or the station--really I don't, I just am not down with volunteering for 6 hours a week at 5 AM while being brow beaten by various people...

Anywho, on the radio front, I am a technology/podcast fan. I podcast the shit out of various radio shows, tv shows, the white house, and other things that exponentially enhance my life. Case and point, the Detroit (aka d-town) local radio show. In my mornings and evenings, I listen to these 5-10 minute shows and one of my favorite sessions is called "Smarter than Shannon." This is where listeners try to beat this morning DJ on 5 celebrity BS questions. It is great, I play along and mostly beat the contestents but rarely beat the DJ.

So this AM, say 7 ish this morning, I was listening and they had a "what I hate about the show" segment, which I had some to add to. I decided, on a whim because I never do this, to email the show to tell to to stop saying "GOOD LUCK GURRRL" during this celebrity gossip knowledge competition (it would annoy the hell out of me). Turns out in the 5 minutes it took me to walk from my house to work before 8 AM the chick (aka, Shannon) emailed me back from d-town!!!! HOLY BALLS.

After a couple rounds of emails she asked me to participate with her next week in the celebrity BS competition. Well this sounds like something WAYYYY more up my alley. So my D-town radio rockstar show down is officially scheduled for 6:30 AM on Monday morning. Here's hoping I'll be the 5th person in over 90 attempts to beat her....don't hold your damn breath though (she knows way more useless shit than I do)! I'm going to have to bone up on some BS news this weekend and pray for questions I know that she doesn't know!

More info to come....

beer in cville

So I'm happy to announce that I, and 90% of Cville, will be attending the first annual (anal?) Beer Festival in the big Cville this weekend. How damn exciting is that??? Will I be drunk? Will I run into too many people who I don't want to see me drunk? Yes, and yes.

This event is a throw back to those a-mazing road tripping weekends in NC with my best buds/family the last couple years. These are events where you get 3 ounce shot glass-y cup for beer samples. You have to come with a plan. You need to keep moving your ass from booth to booth in order to really get a good buzz going, and you really get to try alot of different beers.

I'm looking forward to the event, as a good fun thing to do besides going to funerals and working. Yeah! Booze for everyone.

historical D-town concert

Ohhh man I wish I was in Detroit last weekend. Last Thursday and Friday nights were the first round of the Home and Home tour with Em and JZ. Here are some of the highlights from my d-town friends:

• There is going to be a DVD of the show released later.
  
• The show was so hot and amazing that they ran over the curfew downtown, where they were fined something ridiculous like $1000 a minute. BUT you gotta love that Em probably put up his middle finger and just kept playing for his hometown.
  
• B.O.B opened the show and came back for the encore. Amazing.
  
• Special guest appearances: Young Jeezey, Drake, D12, Dr. Dre, G-Unit/50 Cent.
  
• Shout outs included Beyonce (who was appeared there but did not come out on stage), all those passed (Young, Biggie, Proof, Aliyah)
  
• JZ shouts out D-town from singing "Empire State" at the top of their lungs, saying "I know where I'm at". That's right JZ, D-towners gave props even if it about NYC, and I know you know that would not happen in your hometown if reversed about the big D.
• Both JZ and Em did all their classics from the last 10-20 years, including some Dre/Snoop songs. Holy balls, amazing.

I would have given my left nut to be at those concerts. I would have considered going into a flare just to be able to jam for 7 hours with the hottest in the business. I know all your songs and would have had my hands in the air. HOT, sorry to have missed it!

tennis just got a little more interesting

Well I don't mind watching Tennis but I wouldn't say I was a fan. I mean I ain't no Lil Wayne writing Sports Illustrated from jail about the upcoming US Open. But I may need to start watching more tennis or going to the game if fan fights are going to be break out. Last week at the US Open two fans got into a fight in the upper deck of the stands, and many people caught it on tape. I enjoyed this version with some guy giving commentary in a NY/NJ accent:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

But if you want to hear what the douche is really saying you can watch this video which includes the first slap from that lady. Yeah the lady first back handed him with her pimp hand:

fununion

Fam pic of all the in-laws and out-laws from this weekend...

headline of the day

• "Homeless Man Calls 911 From Hot Tub, Seeks Cocoa"

I really enjoyed this headline and story. Apparently some homeless man in Beaverton, OR (BEAVER!!!) was chillin in a suburban hot tub. After about 10 hours he was hot tubbed out, or probably was about to have a stroke from heat, and called 911. He identified himself as the Sheriff, but the dispatcher quickly realized that couldn't be true. Next the man ordered some dry towels, a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows, and a hug. Who doesn't need a hug??? I wish I had enough balls to call up 911 to order a hug. AND this dude knew exactly what he liked....marsh-menlows.

I bet whoever these owners are were not happy when they got home!!! Homeless man hot tub soup with hot cocoa. And to the owners, consider locking up your shit.

picture of the day

Yeah, yeah that is about right:

Good way to wake up in the morning....