planning to shoot a moose

Sooo I've officially booked my trip to Alaska for the 4th of July weekend. I get to go visit my good friends, Bridawg and Rhino and there little Cooper the pooper (really I seriously do make up names for everyone in my life to use!). Last time I saw them was during this amazing wedding weekend in the frozen tundra. Soon after that, they moved to Alaska where my Bridawg is now a legal drug dealer.

Turns out they maybe moving again soon so I needed to haul my sorry bootie up there before I lose that Alaskan opportunity. On my list of things to do whilest in Alaska are:

1. Shoot a moose--Apparently, moose wonder around all of Anchorage and through my friend's yard. THAT is going to be great!
2. Shoot Sarah Palin--This might be slightly more difficult than the moose.
3. Shoot #'s 1 or 2 from an airplane--I hear this is all the rage in AK, shooting things from airplanes. I'm down.
   
4. Go crabbing--insert obvious joke.
5. See some fireworks over mountains and water and all the amazingness that is AK.
   
6. Eat new things that might include moose or moose balls, etc.
   
7. Learn how to speak with an Alaskan accent.
8. Get knocked up by Levy Johnson. Actually that might be taking it a little too far....
   

a good night

So last night was a good night full of 3 good friends, booze, amazing food and live music. It started at a local burrito place which fiercely reminded me of Austin and the hippie church with the atmosphere and the really good mexican food. I was eating a tequila soaked salmon burrito, drinking fresh pureed drinks, and singing along to the music surrounded by christmas lights. I was constantly bouncing in my seat as VW, Regina, and a little Journey just to piss M off.

Next we made it over to see Drive by Truckers, which were really really good. The only downside where the 3 doucheballs in front of us who were standing the entire time. M and I were trying desperately not to get all up in arms, or do some ass kicking. I had to take my glasses off just in case we got into a fight :) Seriously, east coast jholes are all over the place with their khaki pants and no socked penny loafers....if that douche had a popped collar I might have lost it!

You know you are having a good night when I swear you've said "badass" 15 times within the last 6 hours. Either I'm a badass or he is a badass or that guitarist is a badass. You also know you are at a good concert when your ears are ringing afterwards and your throat is sore the next day.

Here is alittle live BBT action:

here is the birthing video

I talked about this video three times tonight, this will continue to horrify me:

oh those figure skaters

Gosh I only ever watch figure skating to see what music they will dance to, what type of crazy outfits they will wear, and what type of nasty positions they will get in. Luckily, the Olympics thus far have satisfied those needs with a wide range of nutty performances. Here is a quick run down of my favorites:

Let's call this one "ride 'em" (look at the female's expression) and I bet they are skating to Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy:

Let's call this one "george-of-the-jungle-ish" with some type of Jungle-themed song (ideas???):

And finally, let's call this one "too many body parts" because seriously I don't know wear heads are or whose limbs belong to whom:

new freddy and a little batman

So the sneak peeks of the new Freddy K./nightmare of Elm St. movie have come out and they are scarey as hell. Seriously, this is a Michael Bay movie so it probably isn't going to be too cheesy. I was trying to hold my bladder together while watching this and realized that Batman's voice is Freddy. You know, that deep graspy C. Bale being scarey and not yelling at people on the set. If I was around Betty we would now start talking like this until my throat hurt:


A Nightmare on Elm Street Trailer 2 in HD

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a new olympic sport

So apparently some people are advocating for some other "sports" to be included in the olympics. I guess this depends on how you define a "sport." I've debated this many times with my male friends, like if cheerleading is considered a sport or other events like "log rolling" in the red neck games. Should the criteria be if you have to practice? Or if you have to sweat? Or if you can earn money playing???

If we say the latter, that means that yes, pole dancing should be in the olympics. The headline read "from strip clubs to the metal podium." Some women have been practicing up to 5 hours a day, and it takes lots of strength and agility to be good. Stay at home moms now take suburban classes to learn how to pole dance and celebrities make exercise stripping videos. Up-side-down and twisting....

Anywho I like the idea, it could be on ESPN or the olympics. I'd watch. I probably wouldn't cry like I do during the normal olympic competitions though....

more olympic drama

There was some homophobic remarks made about ice skater Johnny Weir by the commentators of his program this week. Johnny held a press conference to address the remarks and I thought he sounded pretty good, intelligent and well-spoken. Amen:

the conan effect

So you have to be living in a hole to NOT know that Leno and NBC screwed our beloved Conan, and now he is jobless. Life and a bitch, I know, but luckily Coco can sleep better at night know that others are hating on Leno too.

But two days ago Conan opened an official Twitter account, and within a day he had over 300,000 followers, which is pretty high for Twitter. His first tweet was about interviewing squirrels, and his second was about being naked. I can't wait to hear more!!! The man knows what the hell he is doing....wait for it....something is coming and Leno will pay for his arrogance. Conan's got 2 tweets now, more on this as the situation develops, but for now I love his bio: " I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account."

I want to join Twitter, forget that facebook shit, I love Twitter. I read it mostly regularly.

a peta ad that I like

Well I'm generally a non-supporter of any PETA ads but this one I laughed at:

Granted it is a little Bob Barker-ish, but too much sex can be a bad thing....

the world came to an end

The world came to an end yesterday when for some reason a wonderful video on Youtube was pulled down. It was madness!!! But don't worry Youtube has restored the video and now we are officially back to all appropriate shenanigans.

Don't worry this video kept it's original number of views despite the error by Youtube....

olympic fun

Well we have been experiencing much Olympic fun lately, either allowing women to bite your metals or doing the Beat It dance!!! Turns out the Norwegian alpine ski team paid tribute to MJ on top of a mountain. OK I'll admit this is pretty lame, but they are on top of a huge mountain so I guess they can some points:

mt. chipotle

Sooo Cville has received a record snow fall this year and the town has spend many-a-week on total lockdown. School districts have been closed for up to 8 days straight, etc. Well what does a town with that much snow, only a few snow plowers, and no experienced snow plowing do???? They build up giant mountains of snow in parking lots and then leave it there (no money left for any additional snow removal).

Soooo one of the HUGE snow piles has been named and become famous. It is located in the Barracks Rd. shopping center right by Chipotle (LL's mecca). So of course it has been coined Mt. Chipotle, and some amazing UVA students have started a website to track the melting progress. These brilliant students are studying the mountain and doing experiments (which I imagine has booze involved). If you read their blog, they are accepting papers to be peer reviewed on any hypotheses related to the melting of Mt. Chipotle, and apparently working to set up a ski resort.

Got to love their creativity:

I'm an art owner

Well I suppose I've been an art owner prior to now, I guess, if you include drawings little children make me when visiting their classrooms :) I guess I do have a great canvas I bought below the Eiffel Tower, and some watercolors I did over 10 years ago. BUT as of this coming weekend, I will be an official, real, art owner and I'm so excited I could pee my pants.

One of my favorite artists, and good friend, has finally decided to sell me one of my favorite canvases that was dubbed "Leslie's painting" the last three years. I called dibs years ago and luckily someone richer than me hasn't snatched it yet. This weekend it is arriving in Cville and being officially hung on my wall.

The title is "In A Lonely Place" which I'm not sure I like. I would like something more like "ass kicker" or "floating in a red sea," etc. I need to put some more thought into what I'm going to call this painting. BUT this series is so great, and drippy, and abstract, and shear amazing. I can't wait, check it out.

This is first big purchase that doesn't include computers or cars!!! I'm an adult now.

the month of march

My month of march just got alot busier!!! I've been working on a potential work trip which will bring me to the great state of Rhode Island for a week, and turns out it is going to happen for 8 hotel nights and I'll leave next Tuesday. That, coupled with SRA in Philly and Lupus advocating on the hill (big block o' cheese day) in DC, means that I'll be away from Cville and the office for two full weeks. Apparently I know what I'll be doing this weekend....LAUNDRY!!!!

I got a wicked hotel in RI that has a full kitchen, and they are getting me a rental car so that means I can just cook and be normal in my "italian flat" in Providence. I'll be flying and taking trains. Apparently my life is going to be like a song...plane, trains, and automobiles.

In preparation I sent off my poster for printing for SRA today, and tomorrow I will be buying flights and canceling train tickets. Nothing like a half month long adventure!!!!

stuck in my head

Damn you Betty, now this is stuck in my head all day. We definitely all need more Muppets in our lives, like this too. Maybe everyone should just subscribe to their youtube channel and the world would be a better place:

The other tiger apology

Sooo last week Tiger Woods got all the media attention with 15 minute rambling apology, and awkward photos hugging/making out with his tiny asian mother. Well Jimmy K, in all his comedic genius, covered the other Tiger apology which was overshadowed by Woods:



That Tiger sounds strangely like Obama!!! Pauses at the right moments, etc.

And like you couldn't call that every b/vlogger was going to be making this mash up with Timbaland's apologize and Tiger's words. Could have called THAT weeks ago.

go team usa

Team USA snowboarder, Scott Lago, won the bronze metal in the halfpipe the other day. Well he threw on a Team USA t-shirt, grabbed his newly earned metal, and headed out to some bar in Canananandaland. Well, THAT move was bound to draw him some attention, or least some ladies!

Turns out his was photoed putting his metal around his waist and allowing some women to bite it!!!! hahahaha, classy! Well he's a snowboarder for god sake, what did you expect? Needless to say I don't think the USA organizers liked their athletes wearing their bronze balls near their other balls.....Here is the pic that is causing all the controversy (PS, I like those $2 sweatpants he is wearing too):

comments?

So Prince William was photoed doing this......comments?



Blindfolded archery????

Who's the target? The point???

music of the moment

Lykke Li is a Swedish indie rock singer and songwriter who I've been following for awhile now. She's worked with Kanye and King of Leon, and I hear is a great live performer. Her debut album has a number of good songs on it, including this one:

hot dogs for everyone

Well last week, whilest I was in DC, there was another meat emergency and tonight I heard about it on the nightly news. Turns out hot dogs are killing the children/youth of america. Hot dogs are the perfect shape to get stuck in a child's throat and therefore are a hazard to our national health.

It has been suggested that hot dog packages should have a warning label on them, similar as small toys and parts do for children. So your hot dog packages would say something like "contains small parts that may cause choking." The pediatrics researchers would like the meat industry to re-engineer hot dogs so that they do not get stuck in people's throats.

I hate to state the obvious here, but can't you CHEW the hot dog first??? Otherwise the choking defense would be a problem for Popsicles or bananas too! Perhaps parents should be watching their children while eating, or monitoring them to make sure they are appropriately chewing their food. I don't think this is a food problem, instead it is a parenting problem or a personal problem....

The meat industry is always a great scapegoat!

the tallest dog

The Guinness World Book of records announced the worlds tallest dog standing at a wicked 3 feet 7 inches on all 4s!!! Can you believe that. I guess if the dog stands up on two legs it would be taller than me. Holy balls, that is tall. Think about how much that dog eats....no, no, no think about how much that dog poops!!! Of course it is a great dane, ain't no schnauzer!

the greatest love

Sooo last night was a legendary HH with good food (thank dad for the BBQed pork) and booze, and much laughter. I enjoyed the game Dirty Minds whilest all my friends gave me strange looks. Topics of conversation included constipation, low/highs of the week, and lesbians in sport psychology. And at some point all the women in the room spontaneously broke out into a chorus of "the Greatest Love of All" by none other than Whitney Houston. While the men cringed in disgust, we belted out a good verse or two inbetween bouts of laughter. Our amazing singing even got the dogs all hot and bothered, and Cam violated me in his excitement (what else is new?--not a day goes by in my life where someone doesn't try to dry hump me).

This one is for all my girls:



I too decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow (kind of hard to do considering I'm a giant). Just so you know, if I fail or if I succeed, at least I'll know that I truly bellllllllieeeeeeeeeeved.

quote of the day

The quote of the day came from my Jilly Bean on her going to a couple church services since Christmas:

"Yeah I'm practically a Nun now....I'm holy"

Then she dropped the f-bomb in the next sentence.

Love it. That's my girl.

Can't wait for your visit this May again.....and can't wait to piss Brian off together. Good times.

music of the moment

Here is an old skool jame I heard on the way home from HH last night. It was definitely past my bedtime and I was jamming in the plastic pinto. This takes me back to the good days, and I could sing this entire song by heart like 15 years later:

new VW

I enjoyed the new Vampire Weekend video that has some guest appearances by Jake G., Lil John, and Joe Jonas. Crap whoever would have thought that group would be together! VW has one of the top 10 selling albums right now.

tiger's apology

PANAMA!!!

OK OK now shut the hell up, we got some 80's rock....everyone shout it together "PANAMA"

more reasons

that I heart Taylor Swift:

things I learned

Things I learned today from working in my sister apartment in DC:

1. Betty is officially moved in which mean the boxes are gone and she opens her bedroom windows to the sidewalk. This means I should walk around barely clothed after showering--learned this the hard way :)
2. I go through tons of dishes a day, which is problematic because I'm afraid to touch the tiny dishwasher.
3. Betty gets old calls from odd places across the country throughout the day.
4. I can be taught how to operate a DVR and TV.
5. 24/7 internet rocks.
6. The goal of working away from the office is that I'm more focused without distractions. But that is wishful thinking when I'm still linked to my email, skype, and my phone. Damn.
7. Vampire Weekend and Phoenix were excellent (as helga said) "toe tapping" workday jams.
8. Meat emergencies can happen at all hours of any day.
   

falling off the leno bandwagon

So Leno's musical sidekick, Kevin Eubanks, announced that he is leaving the Late Show to pursue "other opportunities." This is another to fall off the Leno bandwagon after all the NBC/Leno shenanigans the last couple months.

I mean the musicians for these types of shows just have to smile and laugh mostly, then perhaps play about 10-15 seconds of introduction music for a guest, etc. I could probably do that. Yes I have a great smile (thanks to years of painful braces), don't have that annoying of a laugh, and could probably get a few bars out on my old school recorder. Hire me!

I wonder how this Leno move will shake down. I hope his ratings continue to be shit. I've always been a Dave fan and Conan (my big bird) and Craig (good european beer drinker). Down with Leno and his big chin.